We’re gearing up for another fun-filled KellerFest. This year it’s Aliens vs Axes with KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, REMOTE CONTROL, TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL, and SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (featuring our KellerFest Kween: Tara Buckman!)
Mystery Movie: SING SING
We were both pleasantly surprised by last night’s Mystery Movie, SING SING. Not one that I was anticipating, but I walked away really loving it. Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men, including a wary newcomer […]
Credit At Last For Female Screenwriter Airbrushed From Hollywood History
To screenwriters in the 1950s, she was a major power player, fighting for pay rises and striking rights. To the Hollywood studio heads, she was “the meanest bitch in town”. Now, a new book aims to restore Mary C McCall Jr’s reputation as one of the film industry’s most important figures, a trailblazer who was […]
The Glorious Beginnings of the Delightfully Absurd “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse”
“I never set out to do a big educational show. We’re trying to expose children to as much creativity as we can muster in a half-hour, to be entertaining and to transmit some subliminal messages like ‘nonconformity isn’t bad.’” There’s never been a show like it, and it’s unlikely there ever will be again, which […]
The History of Drive-in Movie Theaters
Fun little article from the New York Film Academy on the history of drive-in movie theaters. Definitely some new stops to add to the map. Though there were drive-ins as early as the 1910s, the first patented drive-in was opened on June 6, 1933 by Richard Hollingshead in New Jersey. He created it as a […]