Capturing lightning in a bottle is not half as hard as folks make it out to be. You just have to find the right combination of brains, vision, full hearts, piss with the vinegar, money, stimulants of all sorts of ...

Tittering, tongues-a-wagging, gasping, pearl-clutching, moral horror, lewd titillation, minor amusement, and total disinterest are all just some of the key emotions that audiences, especially Western ones, have towards nudity. If you think outside any of the religious and societal constructs ...

When women make waves, always expect something powerful to happen. Along with that, also expect the knee-jerk barking dog-like refrain from the threatened to react. In Western culture, especially here in the US, there are few things more terrifying than ...

“I know you’ll refuse to be held down anymore! Don’t you let nothing, nothing stand in your way! I want y’all to listen, listen. Ain’t No Stopping Us Now.” – McFadden & Whitehead “We’re gonna fuck shit up!” – Sarah ...

Film preservation is a vital act that comes in many forms. The most obvious and important approach is restoring and preserving an actual film itself, but right behind it is something equally special and often overlooked. It is the act ...

When the idea of this series was first pitched, my brain initially locked up. Talking about a full-scale Freejack-montage of imagery overload type of lock-up. Isolating a key scene from cinema that had an especially potent effect erupted a flush ...

“Whole world is smokin’…can’t stop choking…it’s how you do me. My future’s burned to ashes, love’s gone out of fashion…it’s how you do me.” Being in a rock band has its perks, sure. The bright lights, the adulation, the writhing throngs ...

“I’ve come to tell you what I see. There are great darknesses. Farther than time itself. And beyond the darkness… a light that glows, changes…and in the center of the universe… the eye that sees us all.” -X: The Man ...

The folly of youth and the ashes of love…it all sounds quite lovely, right? Romeo and Juliet, the “27 Club,” drugs, self-destruction, etc, etc. Another synonym for all of this? Bullshit, horsepuckey, lies, lies, lies, and more lies. Don’t listen ...

The term grindhouse conjures up all sorts of images of glorious sleaze, harrowing vice, and lurid films beautifully reeking of sex and violence that permeated New York City’s pre-gentrified 42nd Street. But grindhouse cinema wasn’t just a dirty gem nestled ...