Author: Erich Scholz

Sad to report that actress Adrienne Shelly has died. Police are still investigating what appears to be a suicide. Although the petite Shelly was hardly a household name, fans of Hal Hartley movies will recognize her. She was really great in the 2001 movie Revolution #9, a rarely seen indie film that also featured the…

The Fox Atomic site has raw footage from “28 Weeks Later,” the sequel to 2003’s worthy zombie flick, “28 Days Later.” This time around, Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is at the helm. Fresnadillo directed the intriguing fantasy-thriller “Intacto” which came out in limited release back in 2002. I wrote a review of it back…

You know you’ve made it big as an artist when your creation is appropriated for use as a cultural meme…copyright be damned. I was talking to somebody recently about how everybody these days knows the character Calvin from Bill Watterson‘s imaginative “Calvin and Hobbes” as that evil little kid who pisses on Chevy logos. Relatively…

Last year I wrote a tiny article for the Village Voice that exposed Michael Bay’s “The Island” — starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson — as a rip off of the 1978 sci-fi opus “Parts: The Clonus Horror.” Well, after I had a long talk with “Clonus” director Robert Fiveson, he decided to launch a…

How ya like me now? Yeah, baby, that’s genuine velour.

Salon.com has a new, super looooong interview (5 web pages) with superstar culture critic Camille Paglia. Camille takes on the Left, the Right, slams the media for creating a gay backlash with the Mark Foley “scandal” and generally goes against the grain…as usual. An entertaining read. How many sacred cows does she trample on? How…

36 years ago this week (October 29th, to be precise) saw the release of legendary director Billy Wilder‘s grandest production — The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. The movie, intended as a “road show” extravaganza costing the then princely sum of $10 million, turned out to be the director’s biggest flop, grossing only $1.5 million…

Busy couple of weeks. Got my car broken into AGAIN. This time they busted out the window and took my prescription sunglasses. Nice. Went to the State Fair of Texas twice…once as part of a work-mandated trip. Hey, they bought the tickets and gave me a shitload of coupons. Biggest disappointment: the much talked about…

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Picked up a copy of the new Easy Star All-Stars album, Radiodread, this weekend on a trip to Austin. The CD is a track-by-track, reggae version of Radiohead‘s OK Computer from the NYC crew who brought you Dub Side of the Moon — a track-by-track, reggae version of Pink Floyd‘s Dark Side of the Moon….