Most cineastes born in the last three or four decades probably first saw Peter Cushing onscreen in George Lucas’ original Star Wars, playing Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin, a role that came at...

“That’s how it always begins. Very small.” This quote from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China opens Plague Town, the first book in author Dana Fredsti’s Ashley Parker series. Any cult-film b...

If opening weekend box-office numbers and the mostly favorable response from other critics are any indication, my own two-and-a-half star review of DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods is the minority op...

A blissful combination of pure movie fandom and artistic idiosyncrasy, the book The Great Showdowns comes from noted comic (Ballantine’s Flight) and videogame (Brutal Legend and Psychonauts) artist Sc...

In Edgar Wright’s foreword to Great Showdowns: The Return, he says prints by cartoonist Scott C. for Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World hang in his office. No doubt, given ti...

As a young reader exploring my rather limited elementary school library, my choices often rested on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth saga and short stories “to be read with the door locked” presented by ...

Small town sensibilities meet big time Hollywood ambitions in the book Jaws: Memories From Martha’s Vineyard, a unique perspective on the somewhat infamous behind-the-scenes story of Steven Spielberg’...