Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
An essay celebration of renowned sci-fi artist Richard Powers and the surrealist wonder of the fFlar universe.
After the success of 'Raising Arizona', Joel and Ethan Coen were given the chance to do something a little more ambitious, with a budget of somewhere...
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
Chloe Maveal provides a comparative look into Judge Dredd as a predictor of unchecked contemporary police brutality.
"I came to it because of Ellroy. When I read ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I just got hooked on the characters, got caught up emotionally in their individual...
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect ...
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
As far back as I can remember, director Martin Scorsese has been synonymous with wiseguys, mooks, goombahs, and spin-on-a-dime funny-how guys delivering...
The story of filmmaker Phil Joanou’s breakthrough in the movie business is basically a pitch-perfect...
Howard Chaykin pries into the secrets behind the legendary art of Neal Adams
After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects such as Starsky and Hutch> and Police Story, Michael Mann ...
Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, featuring a story ...
Meanwhile, the mystique of ‘Apocalypse Now’ lives on. The Marine Corps invited me to Camp Pendleton to watch a demonstration of an aerial ...
A look into the subversive use of superhero imagery that infiltrates Jean-Michel Basquiat's art.
It’s said that a movie is made three times: once through a script, once on set, and finally in the…
Multiple award-winning science fiction author and genre scholar Adam Roberts breaks down his ultimate definition of "Science Fiction."
I had an illustration professor who said book publishers back in the day believed they could...
I didn't know that Ken Kelly was Frank Frazetta's nephew until I started researching his work in earnest a...
Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s entertainment president scribbled “MTV cops” ...
With today marking 30 amazing years of the Judge Dredd Megazine, it's time to look back and appreciate the never-were publications that made that possible.
If you were to compile a list of the most impressive and exhilarating car chases in the history of the motion pictures, it’s more than likely that one ...
In 1972 a neophyte Spanish media company created a rare platform for artists to explore classic genre imagery with a sophisticated cinematic sensibility.
During his film career that lasted from 1964 to 1985, Italian filmmaker Fernando Di Leo worked as a director...
A retrospective on the laid back and exceptionally classic art of Darwyn Cooke.
The 1980s were an intense decade for Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan. He had made his directorial debut in 1982...
English director, screenwriter and composer Mike Figgis made his directorial debut in 1988 with Stormy...
Many a movie has been based on prolific writer Stephen King's works of fiction. And while quite a few of...
Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays
Only the amazing reaction that that picture has gotten, because at the time I was dreadfully unhappy with the fact that I was going to be doing another ...
A boldly satisfying combination of chaotic line work and velvety paints, artist Simon Bisley has been reinventing comic art for decades.
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."
Confidently riding the waves generated by his highly successful satirical black comedy M*A*S*H, Robert Altman easily secured a directing job…
Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is just heightened melodrama.” Brian De Palma, director..
Avery Kaplan explores seven female genre fiction authors and their varying motivations for adopting a male pseudonym.
Few films permeate the gestalt consciousness like Star Wars (“I am your father”, “Use the Force”…
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
Before Warner Bros. decided to take a chance and hire him to make The Wild Bunch, the classic revisionist western that would completely revitalize his ...
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
As the final shot of Chris Marker’s iconic 'La Jetée' faded to black, screenwriter Janet Peoples turned to her husband and writing partner David ...
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?…
UN UOMO UN’AVVENTURA loosely translates as A MAN AN ADVENTURE. If we wanted to move past the literal, we might change...
With today marking 40 years of Cronenberg's iconic "Scanners", essayist Kim Winters takes a look at how it has aged in a contemporary digital atmosphere.
With pin up models donning the shortest version of the jolly red suit for over 100 years, it's time to ask some questions and offer a hearty thank you
NeoText discusses the impact and legacy of the late Heavy Metal artist and legendary creator Richard Corben
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
TELEPOD 1: STATHIS He watches Her, trembling and nerve-twitched, eyes darting, lips pulled back over protruding…
Writer and film critic Sean Witzke introduces readers to the glamorously unsettling world of the fashion horror genre.
“I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s my father’s nature, too..."
After the success of *The Exorcist,* director William Friedkin teamed up with *The Wild Bunch* screenwriter Walon Green for the groundbreaking *Sorcerer*
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
Tony Curtis had to fight really hard to get the role of Falco in Alexander Mackendrick's 'Sweet Smell of Success' …
A series of indelibly intricate and eerie paintings by Berni Wrightson, each inspired by the text of a classic Edgar Allan Poe tale
Sven Mikulec When it comes to filmmakers who are, among other things, distinguished for their strong and passionate connection…