Glenn McQuaid on I SELL THE DEAD – Horror Podcast Interview

Thank you, Glenn McQuaid, for letting us laugh at the desecration of holy ground again. Shot on a tight budget, with New York City — mostly Staten Island — standing in for the British Isles in the nineteenth century, I SELL THE DEAD has pretty much nothing going for it except a neat cast, plus …

Sophie Barthes on COLD SOULS – Fantasy Film Podcast Interview

Will the public option cover soul extractions? As if TOTAL RECALL and THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND weren’t warnings enough that technology should be employed prudently when messing with the human mind, now comes Sophie Barthes’ COLD SOULS, a comic fantasy in which getting your soul removed may do wonders for your acting …

Monika Treut on GHOSTED – Fantasy Podcast Interview

It’s turning out to be a pretty good year for unexpected international co-productions — check out the MMP ep on the superb Israeli/Australian stop-motion animated film $9.99 if you don’t believe me. Now Germany and Taiwan have joined forces, not for the exquisitely designed yet affordable home entertainment system you might expect, but for German …

Sarmiento & Harel on DEADGIRL – Horror Podcast Interview

Wow, midnight movies. I know they still happen, I just hadn’t recently heard of anyone basing a distribution pattern solely around the phenomenon. Nevertheless, the producers of DEADGIRL are rolling the dice on it, debuting their film at midnight this weekend (July 24 & 25, 2009), and dispatching the filmmakers and cast to screening cities …

Tommy Wirkola on DEAD SNOW – Horror Movie Podcast Interview

Listening to this episode, you might get the impression that I’m really hooked on the phrase, “zombie Nazis.” I am. I really am. Look at it this way: Two of my favorite film titles of all time belong to the Troma releases SURF NAZIS MUST DIE and CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIE TOWN (although, to pronounce …

Tatia Rosenthal on $9.99 – Fantasy Film Podcast Interview

What with all the “family-oriented” animation that we’re going to be saddled with over the next few months, Tatia Rosenthal’s debut stop-motion animated feature, $9.99, comes as a welcome change. Based on the stories of Etgar Keret — who for the indie film crowd is probably best known for writing the seed story that became …

Duncan Jones on Moon – Science Fiction Film Podcast Interview

Just for the record, I have nothing against Michael Bay as a matter of principle. I find some of his films fun, if almost always aggressively ADD. But particularly in the summer season, even under the best of conditions, one can begin to long for genre films that deliver a little something more than just …

Pontypool – Horror Film Podcast Interview

Flat-out, rip yer guts out, splatter the gore against the lens horror is just fine with me. I dug HOSTEL, liked Carpenter’s THE THING and, of course, HALLOWEEN. (All those teen-stalker and NIGHTMARE ripoffs, though, don’t really do it for me — too much winking at the audience.) PONTYPOOL takes a more subtle tack to …

Up (2009)

In which we consider how an increasingly formidable animation studio is like a certain, humble but beneficial insect, and I — inveterate cat person — confess to an irrational love for a non-existant, talking dog. Hey, whaddya want? It’s Friday. From MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST, a review of Disney/Pixar’s UP [serialposts]

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – Fantasy Film Podcast Review

Okay, here’s a bit of something new for CFQ: Whenever my internet series, MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST, covers a film that would be of interest to the Cinefantastique audience, I’ll be posting a link to the show. First up: My review of NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN.