With unfiltered attitude and a sly wink to the status quo, Defiant Digital is living up to its name. The production company’s shows — urban comedy such as Tops, Food Fightz, the raucous Cancel Court, and more (prank shows, talk shows, movie reviews) — are fresh and new, already drawing…

GREGORY’S DOUBLE FEATURES Presents HALLOWEEN HORRORS, Vol. 1, Entry 4: HAMMER TIME: DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966), FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967), THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974) Surprise! Triple Feature here! Thus this volume goes to ‘11’! Not sure why these three particular films are bundled into one…

GREGORY’S DOUBLE FEATURES Presents HALLOWEEN HORRORS, Vol. 1, Entry 3: FINE, GO INTO THE LIGHT, WHATEVER: POLTERGEIST II (1986), and POLTERGEIST III (1988) (Hey, what’s Wednesday, if not a bonus Tuesday?) Strip mining the ’80s, à la Stolen Things, or The Goldbricks, is a practice I find distasteful; having been…

GREGORY’S DOUBLE FEATURES Presents HALLOWEEN HORRORS, Vol. 1, Entry 2: POE US ANOTHER ONE: THE RAVEN (1963), and THE RAVEN (2012) The most faithful adaptation in the history of the arts, The Raven (1963) explores all the icy fear, desperate longing, and looming menace of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous…

Introduction Lucky for you, this isn’t brain surgery; during Halloweek, 2021, I’m serving up five generous helpings of Gregory’s Double Features, horror style! While that premise is self-explanatory, my method merits a brief overview. Focusing on cinematic works obscure, famous, and infamous, I’m simply going with stuff I either already…

American Night, the first feature from writer-director Alessio Della Valle, has just premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. A neo-noir thriller simmering then exploding within a corrupt New York art milieu, it stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Paz Vega, and Jeremy Piven. …

There’s a new love story in town, and it will move you. From writer-director Angel Kristi Williams and writer Felicia Pride, financed and co-produced by MACRO (Fences), comes Really Love, an apparently simple film about the vast complexities of the heart, and soul. Featuring breakout performances by Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (Hunter…

Making its world premiere this Sunday as part of the Outfest 2021 Film Festival in Los Angeles (and online, details below), Homebody mixes supernatural surprise with personal reflection to deliver unusual comedic portraiture. Defined as a genderqueer body-transfer fantasy, it concerns a nine-year-old boy (Tre Ryder) who’s so obsessed with…

To delve into difficult subject matter with grace and tenacity is not the only way to approach the arts, however it often yields the most fortifying results. Such is the case with The Rest of Us, the quietly impactful new feature film directed by heretofore documentarian — and wearer of…