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Posted May. 21, 2008,
George Romero's Diary of the Dead!
By Dennis Dermody
Finally out on DVD is George Romero's new meditation on his Living Dead films, Diary of the Dead, and it's pretty terrific. College film students shooting a horror movie get swept up in real terror when an epidemic of hungry corpses sweeps the nation and they head on the run recording the apocalypse for posterity. Romero is much smarter than your average zombie filmmaker. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead reflected the cultural and political landscape of their times.
Diary of the Dead is the Living Dead for the YouTube generation, and while the "hand held" business has become tiresome since Cloverfield, this film is actually about something rather than a simple stunt. My only quibble with the film is that I wish it was a tad scarier, which it certainly could have been, but there are so many other great things in it that I can't wait to watch it again anyway. Especially with the commentary by Romero, director of photography Adam Swica and editor Michael Doherty. Romero Rules!
Posted Apr. 22, 2008,
Eight Items or Less: Kvetching on the Hotel Chelsea Blog, Making Progress on Guns N' Roses Album and Watching Cloverfield on the TV
By Gary Pini
1. When the Hotel Chelsea's management changed hands recently, the hotel's blog started complaining about the takeover and the transformation to a dreaded "boutique hotel." Now they're even going after the planned, but unrelated, Atlantic City Chelsea: "I know hipsters have a reputation as airheads, but are any of them so stupid that they are going to confuse that piece of crap with the Chelsea Hotel? Maybe we can just stomp some chewing gum into their carpet or rub a wad in poster boy Paul Sevigny's hair."
2. Listen to Feist and the Constantine's cover version of the Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton/Bee Gees hit "Islands in the Stream" here.
3. Mega-manager Irving Azoff (Eagles, Neil Diamond, Van Halen etc.) recently started working with Guns N' Roses and may have finally made some headway for the release of Chinese Democracy.
4. According to Business Week, popular music website Pitchfork grosses around $5 million a year in ad revenue.
5. The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair takes place on Saturday, April 26. Running from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb, the free event features Abiodun (Last Poets), Dragons of Zynth, Stephanie Rooker and lots more.
6. The producer of Cloverfield tells the BBC that the film is better watched at home than in a theater. "The movie is like a videotape. It lives on your TV. In many ways it is supposed to be viewed on a monitor." So, can we have our money back?
Posted Jan. 3, 2008,
The Monster From Cloverfield!
By Dennis Dermody
Everyone's dying to find out what the monster attacking New York in Cloverfield looks like and here it is -- not to mention the crab creatures that pop out of it. This Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla opening in late January is the one movie I can't wait to see!
UPDATE: So, it turns out this is a fake monster. Instead of kvetching about it on the comments board, buy a ticket and see the real monster for yourself! - DD