The latest edition of Dossier Fantastique offers a post-mortem of this year’s Oscar winners, including GRAVITY with seven awards – a rare feat for a science fiction film.Dan Persons rhapsodizes over Alfonso Cuaron’s win, and Lawrence French defends Spike Jonze Oscar for writing HER. Later, the Cinefantastique podcasting crew examines the latest home video releases, …
Read More “Dossier Fantastique 5-9-2: 2014 Oscars, Doctor Who & Redbox Streaming”
This week’s edition of the Dossier Fantastique podcast features an eruption of horror, fantasy and science fiction film titles in theatres and on home video, including POMPEII, HOLY GHOST PEOPLE, ALMOST HUMAN, and HAUNTER. Also, the Cinefantastique podcasting crew look at the week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases; Dan Persons assesses the Oscar-nominated animates short subjects, …
Read More “Dossier Fantastique 5-8: Pompeii, Holy Ghost People, Amost Human, Haunter, The Gorgon”
What’s in a name? Cinefantastique Online’s newly rechristened podcast seeks to answer that question. Formerly the Black Hole Ultra-Lounge, the weekly collection of all things wonderful relating to horror, fantasy, and science fiction cinema has morphed from loose repartee and laid-back commentary to a more structured show offering capsule commentary on news, theatrical films, recent …
Read More “Dossier Fantastique 5-7.2: Winter's Tale, The Returned, Walking Dead”
It’s another week’s worth of horror, fantasy, and science fiction film reviews at Cinefantastique’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge Podcast. In episode 5:4.2, Steve Biodrowski exorcises HERE COMES THE DEVIL, a Video on Demand opus from writer-director Adrián García Bogliano; Dan Persons stakes Dario Argento’s DRACULA, the Italian filmmaker’s eccentric variation on Bram Stokers immortal vampire; and …
Read More “Here Comes the Devil, Argento's Dracula, Comedy of Terrors: Podcast 5-4.2”
Fuses the grindhouse with the arthouse into an interesting but unsatisfying hybrid. Landscapes are scary. Their enormity makes us feel small. Their longevity mocks the brevity of our existence, reminding us that they were around before our birth and will continue after our death. They represent natural forces beyond our control, that shape our lives …
Read More “Here Comes the Devil (2012) review”
Volume 5, Number 3 of the Cinefantastique Black Hole Ultra-Lounge Podcast brings you the latest news and reviews of what’s happening in the world of horror, fantasy, and science fiction cinema. The intrepid CFQ podcasting team analyzes the 2014 nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including GRAVITY and HER; and eulogizes …
Read More “The Devil's Due, Oscar Noms & First Men in the Moon: Podcast 5:3.1”
The latest installment of Cinefantastique’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge Podcast muses on the casting of Zoe Saldana in ROSEMARY’S BABY; enthuses over the Blu-ray release of John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS; and battles against boredom in THE LEGEND OF HERCULES – the latest (though far from greatest) attempt to transform the demi-god of Greek mythology into …
Read More “The Legend of Hercules: Podcast 5-2.1”
Director Dennis Iliadis’ take-down of the PROJECT X brand of teen comedy wraps up in satisfyingly brutal fashion.
In Cinefantastique’s final Black Hole Ultra-Lounge Podcast of 2013, Dan Persons and Steve Biodrowski wrestle with the trailer for LEGEND OF HERCULES, travel to the end of Matt Smith’s time as the Doctor, examine the current slate of home video releases for Tuesday, December 31, and explore the public domain horrors of NIGHTMARE CASTLE (a.k.a. …
Read More “Podcast 4-49.2: Time of the Doctor, Laserblast & Nightmare Castle”
Cinefantastique’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge Podcast returns from the grave, offering a colorful cornucopia of horror, fantasy, and science fiction news and reviews. Correspondents Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski size up the new GODZILLA teaser trailer, examine the Oscar Academy’s finalists for Best Special Effects, and bid farewell to actor Peter O’Toole (most known …
Read More “Godzilla, Doctor Who, The Hobbit – CFQ Podcast 4:47.2”