Brain Dead and Loving it!

I haven’t been on here much in recent weeks. Summer is my busy season of year, working for two international festivals at the same time; the Just For Laughs Festival, and the Fantasia International Film Festival. From the latter, I can already tease that I have two interviews in the can to be published in these pages in the coming weeks; one with legendary director, film connoisseur and Monster Kid, Joe Dante (GREMLINS), and another one with emerging filmmaker Robert Krzykowski, who along with star Sam Elliott, will talk to us about the fascinatingly titled THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT. Summer is also a time we are invaded by clones. We are planning a night out at the theater, get your family or friends together and get to the multiplex, hungry for entertainment. And as you wait in line to buy your tickets, it strikes you; You are surrounded. Staring at you, pleading for your attention, the clones are watching your every moves. Movie posters of coming attr...

We live in a golden era for movie lovers; At any point, one can access a beloved movie by downloading it, streaming it, renting it or buying it. The entire History of cinema is literally at people’s fingertips. With a minimal amount of browsing either on your computer or on a television streaming service, literally thousands of movies can be accessed within minutes. And yet there are still moments when we’re going to complain ‘’there’s nothing good to watch’’. But there was a time when, not all that distant from now, if you wanted to experience a movie you loved, there were no ways to see it at any moment like now. Not on Youtube. Not as a torrent or on Netflix. Not a rental Blu-Ray or DVD. Not even on VHS. Before the eighties, when home video took hold of pop culture and invaded our homes, there were very few ways you could see your favourite film. Either you waited for it to play on TV, truncated, reformatted, censored and interrupted by commercials. Or you waited...