The following blog post was guest-written by Frida volunteer and all-around cool guy Gabriel Neeb. “A couple weeks before we started shooting Rabid, he came up to us, and he had dreamed up The Brood over the weekend or something, and had written a treatment. And he basically came to us begging not to do […]
RetroPop Live! Halloween weekend show, October 16 & 17, just got even bigger! Today, RetroPop Media, Fearsome Figures, LiveXLive and The Frida Cinema announced that they have added the cast and crew from the 80’s cult classic film “Chopping Mall” to the ‘RetroPop Live! Halloween Drive-in Movie Double Feature” experience that kicks off the show, […]
Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster Tuesday, September 22nd at Tustin’s Mess Hall “Nature has a way sometimes of reminding man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up the terrible offsprings of our pride and carelessness, to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or […]
The following blog is the first in a series of “Spooky Season” movies that we will be discussing throughout the month of September and October: Poor, poor Mary Henry. She is not crazy. She is a perfectly sane, perfectly reasonable victim of tragedy. Perhaps the only survivor of a fatal car crash, Mary is naturally […]
I’m thinking that Charlie Kaufman and existential horror go hand-in-hand pretty easily. Perhaps his background in writing for sketch comedy before going into screenwriting would make that surprising to people. Or maybe not, considering you can find a particularly dark humor just below the surface of surreal dread that defines his work. Since Being John […]
It hardly bears saying that Hollywood has historically had a problem with diverse representation on the silver screen, especially with regard to Black artists. The recent push for better media representation, while pressing, is not new. From the inception of the American film industry, white filmmakers have had advantages over filmmakers of color, in front […]
Not one to be thwarted by the latest plague upon humankind, the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival has taken to the web for its 11th year of programming– and it has not only survived 2020, but has thrived on more than a few fronts. This “Streamin’ and Screamin’” edition of the eclectic genre festival was packed […]
As a child, I was fortunate to have all three movies from the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS. I watched them countless times to the point every scene was ingrained in my memory. Binging these movies was a staple of my childhood. The versions that I watched on these VHS tapes were also the […]
When the news came that Chadwick Boseman passed away it was met with complete shock and utter disbelief across the world. In interviews, he always appeared happy and outgoing, but little did we know that off camera his lifestyle was the complete opposite. The official reports have stated that he passed away due to a […]
Once upon a time, in a land far far away called Toronto, Canada, there lived a slacker named Scott Pilgrim. One day, he was given a mission: to defeat The League of Evil Exes. Why? He had to…if he wanted to go out with the girl of his dreams. Scott Pilgrim vs the World is […]