Moving Pictures
New to view: Not one but two new MacGuffin podcasts
Scarecrow Video is not only home to over 100,000 movies but also is the setting for the discerning film discourse of the MacGuffin Podcast. In the last two weeks, head MacGuffin podcaster Spencer and frequent guest John Portanova of Adler & Zenith fame have been chatting about everything from what drives you to buy a …
COUCH FEST is this SATURDAY!
Here at Scarecrow we believe that movies are a lot like food: you should watch a good variety, get them from a local source, and are best enjoyed with friends. It’s this same keeping-it-in-the-community spirit that drives this Saturday’s COUCH FEST film festival. Film fans around town will be opening their homes up for a …
Pick Of The Week on Monkey Goggles: Black Devil Doll From Hell
The folks over at Archie McPhee’s excellent blog Monkey Goggles (who made us dance a happy jig by including us on this list) post a weekly assortment of cool stuff aptly titled Things We Like. This week’s installment includes a film pick by our colleague Rhias. Follow the link to read all about the infamous …
New Releases for the week of October 13th
DRAG ME TO HELL—Here’s a review by our colleague Bryan Theiss:
After three big budget Spider-man movies in a row and his past as the director of The Evil Dead practically forgotten, the old Sam Raimi suddenly reappears with this crowd-pleasing and darkly humorous horror show. Trying to impress her boss at the bank, a young …
New to View: MacGuffin & Backroom Podcasts
The Sweet Sixteen edition of the MacGuffin Podcast is now available. Spencer and I adjourned to the orange chairs in the Western/War/Adventure section to discuss our viewing habits–how many movies we watch in any given week and how we decide what to see in the theater and what we can watit to see on DVD. …
Director Michael Harring on The Mountain, The River and The Road
Our former colleague and current filmmaker Michael Harring’s latest movie The Mountain, The River and The Road is opening the Local Sightings Film Festival this Friday, October 2nd at 7pm at Northwest Film Forum. We asked him to share his experiences making the film, and here is his wonderful response:
It’s so much easier to write …
A Guide To the Films of Don Coscarelli (in honor of Phantasm 2 on Region 1 DVD next week)
One common customer question over the years (and especially at our table at Crypticon) has been “When does Phantasm 2 come out on DVD?” Due to some clerical error or arcane rights issue Part 2 had been skipped over, the only one not on DVD in the U.S. We still have our VHS tape and …
Podcast catch up
Here are two recent installments of our favorite local movie podcasts for your afternoon viewing pleasure:
Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report interviews actor/director Peter Riegert (who you may recognize from Local Hero, Animal House, or as Dan Rydell’s dad from that one episode of Sports Night) about the relationship between actor and screenplay and his …
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