Fucked up and over at the miserable old age of 70, Jim Thompson died at home in, of all places, Los Angeles-a town that promised golden dreams to an aging novelist who’s novel writing days were over. He got fucked ...

Before we begin, let me take you back to 1989. I was 13. It was the year of Tim Burton’s Batman, starring Michael Keaton. Comics were huge at the time. It was a great age to be a Marvel reader ...

It’s 1933 and it’s Texas. There’s this guy from Chicago. He’s part Jewish and grew up in a Polish neighborhood. He works at a gas station. His name is Nelson Algren, but who cares? Nobody knows who that is yet. ...

I love New York. No, I don’t mean the real New York, not the modern New York, but that legendary, dangerous, terrifying, otherworldly New York of the 1970s and early 1980s. I love the New York artists of Patti Smith, ...

I didn’t grow up on Westerns, despite how they were often shoved down my throat. I hated Roy Rogers and John Wayne. The idea of The Lone Ranger and Zorro was all right, but I preferred my masked vigilantes a ...

Bernard, a writer, arrives in a remote Italian town looking for a woman, Tilde,  he had a brief affair with. But upon arrival he learns that she had committed suicide. There is, of course, more to the story, as Bernard ...

There is a rich cinematic history of psychos in love, but few have made it on to a list of most controversial movies of all time. In 1994, Oliver Stone, working from a heavily rewritten Quentin Tarantino screenplay, unleashed a ...

“Giaco (Furino) and I really wanted to make a movie that clashes 80s’ punk movies and slashers, and has these outrageous characters in this heightened comic book world. However, we wanted to circle it all around this character study of ...

While I was processing the passing of the legendary Burt Reynolds, I was reminded of David Bowie’s passing. With either man, I can’t remember when I became a fan, they were just always there when I was growing up. I ...

On Friday the 13th, in October of 1307, King Philip IV ordered the simultaneous mass arrest of dozens of Knights Templar. The order had been formed in the 1100s to defend pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. Later, ...