Tony Stark, the millionaire playboy, as incarnated by bad boy actor Robert Downey, roars into theaters today, with the kind of adrenalin rush Stark gets from racing his shiny new Audi A8 down the Pacific Coast Highway from his super-cool cliffside mansion. As the first of this summer’s big comic book adaptations, Iron Man is …
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Here, from the vast CFQ archives are Vincent Price’s “Thoughts about the horror films that made him famous.” It’s a piece I wrote for the fabulous double issue of Cinefantastique, from January, 1989 on the career of “Horror’s crown prince,” Mr. Vincent Price. Of course, earlier today, Steve B. posted the sad news about the …
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Given the apparent lack of faith Dreamworks felt about the critical reaction they might get for The Ruins, they decided not to screen the movie for the press until 10:00 p.m. on Thursday night, thus making (what they presumably felt would be mostly bad reviews), impossible to appear in Friday morning’s newspapers. Perhaps they were …
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The new issue of Video Watchdog (#138) due out today features a long round table discussion between three top genre directors: Roger Corman, Daniel Haller and Joe Dante, with myself acting as moderator. The idea behind this get together was to talk in some detail about Corman’s work with Richard Matheson for Visions of Death, …
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One of the great joys about writing for Cinefantastique, was to find that actors like Elijah Wood and directors like Peter Jackson actually enjoyed talking to you! It was thanks to the very good reputation CFQ enjoyed in the biz. So we never had very much difficulty in convincing most fantasy filmmakers to speak with …
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There’s a feeling that Doug Liman is constantly pursing the truth. On this film, everything outside of the teleportation had to feel completely real to him. In doing so, he demanded the most of everyone working with him. —Hayden Christensen Given all the worn out genre retreads Hollywood turns out these days, it’s nice to …
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Ray Harryhausen’s epic s-f fantasy film, EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS saw him destroy the White House and other sacred American monuments in Washington, D.C. during those long and dreary McCarthy era-years. It has been re-issued and restored in a colorized version on Columbia DVD, just in time to remind us that our own McCarthy …
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