King Kong piercing the forests of Skull Island and claiming a helpless and screaming Ann Darrow is one of the most thrilling moments in movie history. Served up live on stage at Maverick Theater — even with a bit of...
A cucumber. An eggplant. Four toothpicks stuck into the body of each. Sitting atop a shrine next to the ashes of grandma and grandpa, mounts of produce offer rides to and from the afterlife. This is the strongest memory my...
David Markland was expecting this summer to be a very different one. Even more different than last summer. But he’s quite happy to be wrong. In the first announcement, Markland wrote he was “almost as surprised and excited as you...
Witches Brew LA brings Les Carnaval de La Lune to the Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles on June 12. Put on your cosplay best, a themed face covering and get ready for a night of fun. Witches Brew LA...
Many idols in the goth subculture have risen and fallen as pop culture icons. Few have stood the test of time the way the blood-sucking seductress of the 1950s Maila Nurmi has. Portrayed on the silver screen as Vampira, Nurmi’s...
A diamond-eating jellyfish-like alien invades Earth. A supersonically fast pterosaur is woken up by nuclear radiation. An apelike monster fights a giant octopus in the middle of the ocean. Welcome to the world of Japanese film director and screenwriter, Ishirō...
The Boston Lyric Opera is doing something different with one of their latest productions. Maybe it’s because of the source material. A new production of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher almost demanded something out of...
It took five full days to prepare the final fight scene of The Hunt. Five days of mapping it out, making sure that the blocking and choreography worked. Five days of going over it with actors and stunt people to...
Stan Winston’s work is still seen on TV everyday. The monsters, robots and dinosaurs that run amok on cable are part of his legacy of pioneering special makeup effects. Stan would have turned 75 in April, but he remains with...
You come across a woman tending to her rose garden. Asking her questions, something seems off. The tension builds as the questions become more pointed. Finally, you ask the big one. “What do you know about Alice Wild?” You feel...
