“An artist is forced by others to paint out his own free will.”  —Willem de Kooning “Censorship=Artistic Death” —Skinny Puppy The art of fear is both a potent weapon and a mighty revealer when placed in the right hands and minds. ...

If there is a redheaded stepchild of the creative arts, the music video format is it. Literature, music, theater, even the L’Enfant terrible that is cinema, all have their “respectable” champions and preservationists. Music video, on the other hand, has ...

“I like violence! I love violence! I hate the weak person that goes, “oh that image, it hurts me!” Why make pictures for them? They are blind.” -Alejandro Jodorowsky on Incredibly Strange Film Show In a world that has been ...

Cinematic surprises are the best kind of surprises. When I found out that the late Joseph W. Sarno, the erotic film pioneer behind 1964’s Sin in the Suburbs among many, many other titles, had also helmed a vampire film, I ...

Mood music is a phrase that evokes either sounds for some downtown lovin’ or something more in the vein of Jackie Gleason’s’ For Lovers Only. (Believe me, despite the title, there is a HUGE divide between the two categories, unless ...

Looking at the entirety of both the sports and creative worlds, few are more misunderstood and maligned than the world of professional wrestling. (Note that we’re saying “professional wrestling” and not “sports entertainment.” I’m sure Vince McMahon’s heart will go ...

When a work of art cuts and I mean, truly cuts deep, it is via that combination of human truth, a vivid aural and visual landscape that sweeps like no other, and figures that even the murkiest parts of your ...

The Halloween season is magical for its multitudes of possibilities. It’s hard to come up with a major holiday that gives such free reign to explore fear, surprise, and celebrate the thinning of the veil between the living and the ...

“An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue, An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo! An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ the moon is gray, An’ the lightnin’-bugs in dew is all squenched away,– You ...

The pantheon of rock vocalists that emerged in the 1970s is a mighty enough one to stage a production of Clash of the Titans solely built from these sonic deities. (Seriously, who wouldn’t want to hear and see Ian Gillan ...