I just heard about three hot micro travel trends and thought I’d share with you how they might be interpreted through genre-coloured glasses. Flashpacking This is backpacking with an electronic twist. Flashpackers travel on the cheap with all the electronic gadgets they use in their daily lives and traditional vacations, such as digital cameras, iPods, [...]
Iconic Production Designer Robert F. Boyle, a four-time Academy Award nominee for Art Direction for his work on North by Northwest, Gaily, Gaily, The Shootist and Fiddler on the Roof and recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 2008 for his work on these and more than 86 other motion pictures, died Sunday of natural causes [...]
Rock and Shock is an annual horror and music festival held in Worcester, Mass. Gina Migliozzi and Kevin Barbare created the event seven years ago because they saw that there was an overlapping audience between horror film fans and hard-rock lovers. Rock and Shock is a combination horror film festival and multi-act rock concert. This [...]
Written on July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Universal Studios HollywoodSM and Rob Zombie are partnering to recognize the nation’s top short-form filmmaking horror genre talent with the “Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie Film Competition.” If you think your short horror film has what it takes, enter in your scariest short film for a chance to win a premiere showing on Chiller [...]
Written on July 8, 2010 | Posted in
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If you’ll be in San Francisco on June 26, you might want to check out “A Nightmare to Remember” San Francisco Horror Film Fest. In fact, if you can get there early enough to be among the first 20 through the door, you’ll also get a goodie bag. The event takes place at 7pm at [...]
Written on June 7, 2010 | Posted in
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July has quite a few genre films to offer, so I think you’ll be able to get out of the heat quite often without having to see a film more than once. The trailers for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice look really cool and I’ve always found Nick Cage’s film to be fun, so I’m looking forward [...]
Written on April 21, 2010 | Posted in
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I could only find three genre films coming out in June … but that will be made up in July, when there will be a cornucopia of genre films. Also, June’s releases seem to be a bit more tame than the block busters so far and planned for the coming months. I guess June is [...]
Written on April 12, 2010 | Posted in
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When I created The Genre Traveler, one of my primary motivations was that there was no single resource for genre travel info available (and there still isn’t). Well, “because there wasn’t one” is also the inspiration for the Sci-Fi London Film Festival, now in its 9th year. “The festival started primarily because there wasn’t anywhere [...]
Written on April 2, 2010 | Posted in
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In May a couple of sequels, as well as a movie based on a video game will be released. From what the trailers show, the look like they’ll be a lot of fun to watch. And … hold onto your seats … George Romero is bringing us yet another film about the undead. Iron Man [...]
Written on March 31, 2010 | Posted in
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Yesterday, I listed the genre films that were in theaters as of March 2010. Now I’m moving into the future! Here are the genre films coming out next month. Clash of the Titans “Release the Kraken!” I just love that line … and in this remake of the 1981 film starring Harry Hamlin, Liam Neeson [...]
Written on March 30, 2010 | Posted in
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