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"Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee." - Rob Zombie  Since 2003, Gothic-metal performer Rob Zombie has turned his hand to a different form of creativity - writing and…

The US in the late 60s was a country torn apart by war, both in Vietnam and on the streets. The inevitable failure of the counterculture, along with the voices of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were extinguished through assassination,…

"This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time" - Tyler Durden One of the most misunderstood movies of the last 20 years is undoubtedly David Fincher's modern cult classic Fight Club. Yes, it's easy to linger on the violence, an…

Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction is the quintessential nineties cult flick. At the time, the world needed a movie such as this as much as Tarantino needed to make an artistic statement and create a hit. It remains relevant 25…

The highly anticipated Netflix release El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie has arrived and it is everything that it should be in two hours of dark laden entertainment. For fans of the original series it is a long overdue closure to one of the…

"Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture." - Ed Wood In 1988 director Tim Burton exploded onto cinema screens with the classic Beetlejuice. This was not his first outing but his first to reach wide acclaim,…

"Seeing that reminds me of my good friend Paul and the sadness I feel at his loss." - Robert Redford Fifty years has passed since George Roy Hill's (The World According to Garp) multi-award winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The…

When American Horror Story first aired in 2011, it was widely received with enthusiasm. For fans of the horror genre it became a must-watch event, cleverly mixing the gruesome and the supernatural with original plot twists. Plus…

The Who's 1972 double magnus opus Quadrophenia is often regarded as the pinnacle of both the band, and songwriter Pete Townshend's creativity. It's a recording that pushed forward with a concept, a la their 1969 masterpiece Tommy. However,…

The movie Blood Simple hits 35 this month, a multi-layered neo-noir thriller that was the launch pad for Joel and Ethan Coen. From there the Coen Brothers began their career of making the twisted into reality, and finding humor in the dark…