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Entries by Dan Persons from 10/2010

Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

| Posted 10.02.2010

Can the director behind the stylized violence of 300 and Watchmen adapt to the animation medium? And what are the pitfalls is building a complete mythological world in a family-accessible film? Listen in and find out.

Cinefantastique Podcast: Let Me In

| Posted 10.04.2010

Can a disturbed young boy find true love with the vampire next door? Can Los Alamos, New Mexico afford more than one police officer? Can an American r...

Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: Hatchet II

| Posted 10.06.2010

How does writer-director Adam Green's sequel about a shockingly corporeal, hatchet-wielding ghost and the various, foolish mortals who are his victims stack up to his 2006 sleeper? Is it a cut above or a notch below?

Mighty Movie Podcast: Stephen Frears on 'Tamara Drewe' and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck on It's Kind of a Funny Story

| Posted 10.07.2010

Three filmmakers, two films, two comic views on how we humans strive, through all adversity, to find new ways to frak ourselves up. I know I promised ...

Cinefantastique Podcast: My Soul to Take

| Posted 10.13.2010

Writer-director Wes Craven returns to the horror genre with My Soul to Take and the Cinefantastique Podcast is there to examine the results.

Cinefantastique Podcast - New York Comic Con Special: Robot Chicken's Matt Senreich

| Posted 10.14.2010

So how about a break from the Fab Three ragging on the latest release? How about a few, carefree minutes with Matt Senreich, the twisted mastermind wh...

Cinefantastique Podcast: Suspiria

| Posted 10.18.2010

How does Argento's extremely stylized vision of violence and terror hold up decades later? Is there actually an underlying logic in the seemingly irrational goings-on in Suspiria?

Halloween Special: Scary Movie Remakes

| Posted 10.22.2010

Halloween's a-comin': Time to bar the door, darken the lights, wring out the cat and scare the holy crap out of you and your main squeeze with some ex...

Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: I Spit on Your Grave & Loving a Film, but Not Enough

| Posted 10.24.2010

In this ruminative episode of the Cinefantastique Post-Mortem, Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons are taken to task by a listener for ...

Cinefantastique Podcast: Hereafter With John W. Morehead & Gareth Edwards on Monsters

| Posted 10.25.2010

Is Hereafter another Oscar-worthy contender from the director of Unforgiven and Billion Dollar Baby, or does it disappoint?

Mighty Movie Podcast Special: Jeffrey Tambor and Thane Rosenbaum on ...And Justice for All

| Posted 10.27.2010

When you're offered the opportunity to talk with Jeffrey Tambor -- a.k.a Hank Kingsley, a.k.a. George Bluth Sr, a.k.a. Sid Garner for those who really...

Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: Best Movies about the Afterlife & Clint Eastwood: Filmmaker

| Posted 10.28.2010

Having laid Clint Eastwood's Hereafter to rest in this week's Cinefantastique Podcast, John W. Morehead, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodr...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Kerthy Fix on Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

| Posted 10.29.2010

A songwriter who can dream up lyrics like, "When we kiss, it feels like a flying saucer landing," can score those lyrics in any one of a thousand, inf...