First it was finding Metropolis, a film thought to be truncated forever. Then John Ford movies are found. Now  The Palm Beach Post  is reporting the 1914 A Thief Catcher has been found in complete form. The film is important as it has a cameo from Charlie Chaplin reprising his role as a Keystone Cop. This marks the third unbilled Chaplian cameo found in film. A Theif Catcher will be shown at Slapsticon July 17th in Rosslyn VA.

A vault in New Zealand is being called a time capsule of Hollywood. This vault contains 75 movies, including Upstream by John Ford, that were thought to be lost to the ages. The collection includes films from 1898 through 1929. The best part is that 70% of the nitrate prints are complete and a majority of them have color tinting. Hollywood silent films were distributed worldwide and hundreds more could still be in archives across the globe.

We will find those one day, but for now we have 75 more films to dissect.

Young Actor/Writer/Musician/Chill Dude Miles Fisher has produced a cover of the classic Talking Heads song “This Must Be The Place” that is accompanied by a dead-on reenactment of key scenes from the 2000 Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho. This is a rather inspired choice. This song came off the 1984 pop masterpiece “Speaking in Tongues“. And as that song and its respective album are a perfect representation of 80’s new-wave, American Psycho is a perfect representation/satire of 80’s decadence and greed. But it’s also remarkable how much of an uncanny resemblance young Mr. Fisher bears to Christian Bale, star of American Psycho. So take a gander.

I know this has been popping up all over the place, but this trailer is interesting enough that even I, not the biggest Tim Burton fan in the world, am intrigued by this trailer.  I’m curious to see what everyone else thinks of it.

Yeah, it’s almost two weeks late.  Sorry everyone.  Technical difficulties don’t even BEGIN to explain the problems I’ve had with this one.  This episode, we talk about the gloriously surreal Barton Fink and we welcome Melissa to the show.  We’re quite happy to finally have a regular female perspective.

 

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Strictly speaking, not everything we post here is going to have to do with movies.  Sometimes, we just get the chance to talk with insanely cool people.  J.C. Hutchins is definitely one of those people.  A member of  the “new media authors” along with the likes of Tee Morris, Pip Ballentine, Scott Sigler, Seth Harwood and Mur Lafferty, they have all clawed their way into the mainstream press and publishing world.

I had a chance to speak with Hutch just last night and I wanted to make sure to post this in time for his release of Personal Effects:  Sword of Blood.  It’s a prequel to Dark Arts and…well, you should just listen to the interview.  We talk about his start as an author and podcaster along with his new book due out June 9th, Personal Effects:  Dark Art.

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Find out more about J.C. Hutchins in general

 

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This week, we bring in Stephanie to talk some Star Trek, get a cameo from Melissa and start our series on the Coens’ with Miller’s Crossing.

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We may as well start at the beginning.  Our first interview at StarFest was with Ethan Phillips and Robert Picardo.  The original plan was to interview them seperately, but we knew that getting them together would result in glorious chaos.  We weren’t wrong.

 

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Now I’ll admit, I have watched the most puzzling One Tree Hill television program that exists on the CW. What kept me watching was its pure baffling amount of “WTF” moments and melodramatic cheesyness. At times the show feels like it’s the best “spoof” of anything ever. It plays itself so straight-faced while the most absolutely ridiculous things are going on. From dramatic scenes set between two five-year olds to Chad Michael Moore/Murry’s Derek Zoolander-style of acting ; it feels almost like this generation’s Twin Peaks. Put this clip proves that it has hit a new all-time high.

We finally have everyone back together to talk about the week’s news.  This has been in RSS feed most of the week, but Dave forgot to post it.  Sorry.

 

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