CFN “reporter” and resident metalhead Neil T. Weakley recently caught up with the band Anvil at their movie premiere. Neil: How did director Sacha Gervasi go from being your roadie, to writing a Spielberg movie (“The Terminal”), to directing your movie? Anvil: We met Sacha when he was 15 years old and basically turned his…
DetailsI seem to remember a bunch of different Wolverine origin stories in the comics. So many alternate universe stories floated around, I don’t quite remember which was which anymore. I think I had moved off of most of my Marvel books by the time they came out. Yes, yes, I know, I’m a BAD…
DetailsThe first thing I thought when I heard about this movie was, “Holy shit! A documentary about Anvil?!” Yes, folks, I remember Anvil. I was a metalhead in high school and college, and once a metalhead, always a metalhead, right? Right! My response might not too unusual for the once die-hard metal…
DetailsPaul Rudd is making quite the name for himself as the go-to guy for comedies right now. I liked “Role Models”. It was pretty funny. But was “I Love You, Man” funny too? Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a man who has never really had a best friend, at least, not one that was a…
DetailsHi, folks. It’s me, Neil, back with yet another horror movie to casually dissect, dismember, and sort out all of its parts for you on the cold slab of critique. With “The Haunting in Connecticut” we get an extended family on hard times moving to a house across state lines because one member, Matt Campbell…
DetailsFinally. After so many years of rumors, being told it couldn’t be done, someone finally did it. The film “Watchmen” is a fairly monumental task. But, Zack Snyder, director of “300”, took the challenge. And you know what? He made it work. Is it perfect? No. But how could it be? With a combination of…
Details(Spoiler alert.) Oh look, yet another remake of a classic horror film, this time of an early Wes Craven. Well, get ready, because it won’t be the last. Word is out that “A Nightmare On Elm Street” is getting a make-over as well. Oh joy, oh rapture. Yes, that is sarcasm. “The Last House On…
DetailsWhy look everyone, it’s another Hollywood remake of an 80’s slasher classic. After the attempts of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Halloween”, it seems someone thought they should take a crack at “Friday the 13th”. Oh yeah, that somebody is Michael Bay. Is it any wonder that this movie is another Operation Fail? Not…
DetailsYou’d think a group of Star Wars fans on a road trip in 1998 from Ohio to the Lucas ranch in northern California to break in and steal an early viewing of “The Phantom Menace” might make a funny movie. With the right jokes and production, right? Yeah, you’d think. Well, it’s not a total…
DetailsHey, it’s indie spotlight time! This one is called “Never Say Macbeth”, directed by Christopher J. Prouty. The title refers to a superstition among theater performers that believe it is just about the worst thing you can do to say the name “Macbeth” in a theater. To do so brings horrible bad luck to…
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