Author: Mary Anne Butler

by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello folks and welcome back to another chilling edition of Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature.  Tonight, it’s time to play as we take a look at Curse of Chucky.  So, sharpen up your knives, snap your overalls, and let’s dive into the killer ginger doll fun. When I first turned on Curse of Chucky, I was ready for disappointment.  After all, every iconic killer franchise, with few exceptions, has been overplayed to the point where the killer is more comedy than terrifying.  As a kid, Child’s Play scared me. As an adult, Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky disappointed me.  So, I…

by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello folks and welcome back to another edition of Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature.  Tonight, we blast off to outer space as we get a little retro and dig up a gem called Event Horizon.  Fasten your seatbelts, cause this ride gets bumpy. This film centers around an experimental spacecraft that, after having been missing for seven years, mysteriously resurfaces.  A salvage crew is sent to retrieve the ship and investigate what happened to its crew and, in many ways, all hell breaks loose.  The movie features a stellar cast, including Laurence Fishburn, Sam Neil, and Jason Isaacs. Now that…

by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello again, folks, and welcome to  “Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature.”  Let me start off this review with a great quote:   “All Great Films, Without Exception, Contain An Important Element Of No Reason.” This quote was from the movie I’m about to review: Rubber. I’m going to start by telling you this: This movie is simultaneously brilliant and just awful.  But, here’s the kicker.  The movie itself knows this and tells you from the start that it’s in no way to be taken seriously.  And from the start, you have full permission to enjoy this movie unadulterated. I’ll get…

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer Recently, I was able to interview artist Peter Overstreet (a Bay Area native currently living in San Francisco where he plans to take over the world with an enlargement raygun and his evil parakeet minion, Gonzo) about his new ongoing event, the Comic Book Art Slam (fb page here https://www.facebook.com/CBASlam). Mab:  “Hey Peter!  Thanks for taking the time to speak with me today.  I understand you are the mind behind this Comic Book Art Slam in San Jose, CA (and also San Francisco, CA) I’ve been hearing so much about.  It’s described on the Facebook page as:…

by Jason Sparta, guest reviewer Hello folks and welcome back to Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature. Now, before I begin, let’s take a trip down horror memory lane at a director known for creating one of the most iconic characters in horror movie history, John Carpenter.  When you think of John Carpenter, what movies come to mind?  Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing, They Live, Vampires, and of course the iconic Halloween.  Being a so-called “Master Of Horror” John Carpenter seems to have a knack for the suspenseful and the entertaining. Then there’s The Ward.  This movie has the usual John Carpenter touch of…

by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature.  This time around I’m going to touch on a subject close to my heart: Werewolves.  I find the mythos of lycanthropy very fascinating, yet as far as media goes, I find only rare few werewolf movies that I find entertaining.  In my search I came across the 2010 remake of the classic The Wolfman. Now, I know this is more mainstream than my past reviews, but anyone who’s anyone who’s a horror fan should have seen the original Wolfman with the late, great Lon Chaney Jr.…

Shown at NYCC’s Cup. O Joe panel, a video with Neil Gaiman showed him talking about his love of the comic, and that Marvel will begin republishing the comic, which he will then conclude, starting in January. He calls it his favourite piece of his own writing as a young man. (reposting from various online sources) “The wait is over,” says Editor In Chief Axel Alonso. “Marvel will finally be bringing these timeless, ground-breaking stories to a whole new generation of reader.” “We’ve been working with the Miracleman artists to obtain original artwork or photostats in every instance possible, and…

by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello, folks, and welcome to the first (and hopefully not the last) edition of Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature.  Tonight’s selection: Stake Land. I watched this movie with the lowest of expectations.  Why?  Because lately, my faith in vampire movies has gone down the shitter.  In my lifetime, only three, count em, THREE vampires movies have entertained me: Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Gary Oldman, The Lost Boys with Kiefer Sutherland, and Daybreakers with Willem Dafoe.   Everything else vampire related has been too cliché to hold my interest or has just plain pissed me off to the point where I…

by Mary Anne Butler Reporter/Photographer  Today STARZ released an all new trailer of its hotly anticipated drama, “Black Sails,” as well as the first-ever trailer for the anticipated second season of “Da Vinci’s Demons” at New York Comic Con. “Black Sails” is a STARZ Original series from executive producer Michael Bay premiering on STARZ in January 2014. The second season of “Da Vinci’s Demons,” created by David S. Goyer (co-writer of The Dark Knight trilogy, screenwriter of Man of Steel) will return to STARZ in Spring 2014. The eight-episode first season of “Black Sails” centers on the tales of…

(post from alantig on http://www.imwan.com) Created by Brendon Small, the animated one-hour special, Metalocalpyse: the Doomstar Requiem – A Klok Opera, airs Sunday, October 27 at Midnight (ET/PT) on Adult Swim. This once-in-a-lifetime Dethklok experience includes special guests Jack Black, Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, and Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher. Watch a first look of the special here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qIaPGyxVeFU The original score from Metalocalpyse: the Doomstar Requiem – A Klok Opera will be released as a full-length album on October 29, 2013. And this isn’t just your average metal record— this is full blown musical featuring a fifty-piece orchestra. This full-length album…