September 2012

Halloween Comes Early

I don’t want to be critical of the good people at Shout! Factory, but when it comes to their newest label, Scream Factory, all I can say is: it’s about damn time. While a number of superior start-up genre video labels have appeared over the past decade (Synapse, Code Red,...

Wild And Crazy Guys

Comedian, actor, author, banjo-player, Wild-And-Crazy-Guy— Steve Martin is as iconic a figure in American humor as anyone. With a cinematic range running from the broad (The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains) to the wry (Plains, Trains & Automobiles, L.A. Story) to the dramatic (The Spanish Prisoner, Shopgirl) to the...