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When "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was released to theaters in 2019, it was promoted as "The 9th Film by Quentin Tarantino." Technically, this is true. Though "Kill Bill" was split into two volumes due to its 247-minute runtime, it is one complete story. Still, there is one intriguing what-if that could bump Tarantino up into 10 completed features -- one that presaged his pop-culture cuisinart sensibility while displaying, in the crudest of forms, his formal daring.
The film is called "My Best Friend's Birthday," and only 36 minutes remain of what was once a 70-minute shoestring-budget indie comedy that, had Tarantino had been able to splice his footage into a coherent story, might've been able to land a competition slot at the Sundance Film Festival. Because, despite its ultra lo-fi aesthetic, it's got a hyper-referential swagger that plays like Jean-Luc Godard on a cocaine binge.
When "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was released to theaters in 2019, it was promoted as "The 9th Film by Quentin Tarantino." Technically, this is true. Though "Kill Bill" was split into two volumes due to its 247-minute runtime, it is one complete story. Still, there is one intriguing what-if that could bump Tarantino up into 10 completed features -- one that presaged his pop-culture cuisinart sensibility while displaying, in the crudest of forms, his formal daring.
The film is called "My Best Friend's Birthday," and only 36 minutes remain of what was once a 70-minute shoestring-budget indie comedy that, had Tarantino had been able to splice his footage into a coherent story, might've been able to land a competition slot at the Sundance Film Festival. Because, despite its ultra lo-fi aesthetic, it's got a hyper-referential swagger that plays like Jean-Luc Godard on a cocaine binge.
- 9/5/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
By Andrew J. Rausch
Lq Jones is a legend. He’s been in some of the greatest American films ever made, and his extensive filmography (consisting of well over 100 films) features a virtual Who’s Who of American American cinema. He made his film debut in the 1955 Raoul Walsh war picture Battle Cry, credited with his birth name Justus E. McQueen. The character he played was a young private named...Lq Jones. Soon, at the behest of the studio, the young actor changed his name to that of the character, and the rest is history.
Lq Jones isn’t a household name, and that’s a shame, because it deserves to be. Among knowledgeable cineastes he’s seen as a god among men, a gifted and accomplished performer. He’s one of those character actors people instantly recognize, as he’s been in films with the likes of Elvis Presley,...
Lq Jones is a legend. He’s been in some of the greatest American films ever made, and his extensive filmography (consisting of well over 100 films) features a virtual Who’s Who of American American cinema. He made his film debut in the 1955 Raoul Walsh war picture Battle Cry, credited with his birth name Justus E. McQueen. The character he played was a young private named...Lq Jones. Soon, at the behest of the studio, the young actor changed his name to that of the character, and the rest is history.
Lq Jones isn’t a household name, and that’s a shame, because it deserves to be. Among knowledgeable cineastes he’s seen as a god among men, a gifted and accomplished performer. He’s one of those character actors people instantly recognize, as he’s been in films with the likes of Elvis Presley,...
- 2/28/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
You can group the books about Stephen King into three basic categories. You’ve got the heavy hitters, the ones that look at King from a literary perspective (often these can feel impenetrable, but for the scholarly yet accessible work of people like Michael R. Collings). There are the pop studies, which make up the majority of the work on King – anything from Douglas Winter’s classic Art of Darkness, to Stephen King: The Nonfiction, by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks, to any of my own books on King. The pop studies can focus on a specific aspect of King’s career – King and comics, King movies, King on audio – or offer a sweeping overview, such as George Beahm’s gateway drug The Stephen King Companion. They’re generally quite readable, and allow fans to become more familiar with some of the intricacies of Stephen King’s life and work,...
- 10/29/2012
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
We’re back with another weekend edition of the Indie Spotlight. Today’s feature includes a new horror comic release from Monsterverse, a Cthulhu video game, a new Hershell Gordon Lewis book, and the latest indie horror movie news sent our way:
Flesh and Blood Volume 2: “Vampires! A Werewolf! And Baron Frankenstein collide in the second book of the award-winning graphic novel series from Monsterverse! Superbly written by Robert Tinnell. Illustrated with eerie elegance by Neil Vokes! Colored with a master’s passion by Matt Webb.
If you thought the first volume rocked the world of horror comic books and graphic novels, you will not be able to put down the second book which has more dark intrigue, heart-stopping action, epic adventure, sensual eroticism and shocking twists than ever before!
Plus two back-up features! Operation: Satan by Tinnell and artist Bob Hall and the new Frankenstein by Tinnell and Adrian Salmon.
Flesh and Blood Volume 2: “Vampires! A Werewolf! And Baron Frankenstein collide in the second book of the award-winning graphic novel series from Monsterverse! Superbly written by Robert Tinnell. Illustrated with eerie elegance by Neil Vokes! Colored with a master’s passion by Matt Webb.
If you thought the first volume rocked the world of horror comic books and graphic novels, you will not be able to put down the second book which has more dark intrigue, heart-stopping action, epic adventure, sensual eroticism and shocking twists than ever before!
Plus two back-up features! Operation: Satan by Tinnell and artist Bob Hall and the new Frankenstein by Tinnell and Adrian Salmon.
- 9/2/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Do you like dismembered ninjas? Do you like serial killing clowns? Do you like deranged cowboys? Then you are going to like Dahmer vs Gacy, which stars Brooke Lewis, Felissa Rose, and Lee Perkins in this 2010 horror release. Ford Austin is the director of the film and currently Dahmer vs Gacy is at the American Film Market with a new trailer available for fans. Check it out below.
Release Date: December 2010.
Director: Ford Austin.
Writer: Andrew J. Rausch, and Chris Watson.
Cast: Brooke Lewis, Felissa Rose, Lee Perkins, Art Lafleur, Randal Malone, Ethan Phillips, and Harland Williams.
Have a look at the trailer for Dahmer vs Gacy here:
For more info' on Ford Austin's projects visit the Angry Baby Monkey website here:
Angry Baby Monkey Productions
Stumble It!
Release Date: December 2010.
Director: Ford Austin.
Writer: Andrew J. Rausch, and Chris Watson.
Cast: Brooke Lewis, Felissa Rose, Lee Perkins, Art Lafleur, Randal Malone, Ethan Phillips, and Harland Williams.
Have a look at the trailer for Dahmer vs Gacy here:
For more info' on Ford Austin's projects visit the Angry Baby Monkey website here:
Angry Baby Monkey Productions
Stumble It!
- 11/6/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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