Cinefantastique Online

Cinefantastique's Los Angeles Correspondent from 1987 to 1993 and West Coast Editor from 1993 to 1999. Currently the webmaster of Cinefantastique Online, I also run a website called Hollywood Gothique that covers Halloween Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema Events in the Los Angeles area.

You can keep track of Milton's Mayhem with the interactive features on the DRIVE ANGRY Blu-ray disc.

Looking for new horror, fantasy, and science fiction films on home video? Then look no farther than this week’s Cinefantastique Laserblast Podcast, in which Lawrence French, Dan Persons, and Steve Biodrowski run down the latest releases on DVD, Blu-ray, [...]

Death and Resurrection in SOLARIS (1972).
In this edition of Cinefantastique’s weekly round-up of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films on home video, Lawrence French, Dan Persons, and Steve Biodrowski gag and guffaw over new releases I AM NUMBER FOUR, GNOMEO & JULIET, and DEATH HUNTER: WEREWOLVES VS. VAMPIRES. If the new titles leave something to [...]

Cinefantastique’s Round Table Podcast – the podcast of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films – adjusts its schedule to make room for CFQ’s Spotlight Theatrical Podcast (Sunday/Monday) and the Laserblast Home Video Podcast (Tuesday). From now on, expect the Round Table to appear later in the week; also expect the Black Hole Ultra-Lounge to be [...]

This week’s line-up of home video releases offers a smorgasbord of choices for viewers looking for horror, fantasy, and science fiction films on DVD, Blu-ray, or Video on Demand: the Satanic horror of THE RITE; the ’70s science fiction of THE BIONIC WOMAN; the uncensored English-language version of Dario Argento’s blood-tinged gem, DEEP RED, on Blu-ray [...]

The Black Beauty from THE GREEN HORNET
This week’s slate of horror, fantasy, and science fiction releases is lead by the home video debut of THE GREEN HORNET, the comedic riff on the old masked crime-fighter tale. Lawrence French, Dan Persons, and Steve Biodrowski provide news, insights and reviews of this and other titles now available on [...]

In this week’s installment of the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast, Dan Persons and Steve Biodrowski render their opinions on the week’s top news stories and upcoming theatrical releases: Will Arnold Schwarzenegger be back as the Terminator? Is Joss Whedon’s upcoming THE AVENGERS worth anticipating? Do we really need to know Conan the Barbarian’s origin story? [...]

The Easter Bunny goes rogue? No, it's the killer rabbit from MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
This week’s episode of Cinefantastique’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge Podcast  dares to ask the question: Why has Hollywood – which has not qualms about exploiting Santa for scares – been so reluctant to do the same for the Easter Bunny? Dan [...]

Welcome to another episode of the Cinefantastique Laserblast Podcast, devoted to horror, fantasy, and science fiction films available on home video – Blu-ray, DVD, Video on Demand, etc. This week, the CFQ crew of Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski run down the latest batch of new titles hitting store shelves, including SOUTH PARK: [...]

This week’s edition of the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast – the Podcast of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Films – is a sad one, as Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski mourn the passing of Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith in DOCTOR WHO) and Michael Sarrazin (the monster in FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY). Also on the table for discussion: THE CROW remake runs into a legal dispute; Kate Beckinsale may – or may not – take the Sharon Stone role in husband Len Wiseman’s remake of TOTAL RECALL; and Dan Persons provides a capsule comment on the sci-fi geek comedy PAUL.

It’s time for another trip into the depths of the Black Hole – the Black Hole Ultra Lounge Podcast, that is, this time brought to you with all the excitement of D-Box motion simulation. So strap yourself in and get ready for a bumpy ride as Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski ruminate on [...]

BAMBI, now out in a Diamond Edition Blu-ray release.
What’s happening in the world of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction home video releases? Listen in and find out, as Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski run down the week’s new releases including a “Diamond Edition” Blu-ray release of the Walt Disney Picture’s classic, BAMBI, and [...]

In this week’s installment of the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski analyze the hot topics in the world of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films: Sony Pictures will finance and distribute the new James Bond Film; Barry Cooper may star in THE CROW; Peter Jackson films THE HOBBIT in [...]

Ultra-Lounge Podcast, that is. Join Cinefantastique correspondents Dan Persons, Lawrence French and Steve Biodrowski as they embark on the debut episode of this new podcast, spun off from the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast. This week’s prime topic is the Most Epic Failures in the History of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Films. We’re not talking about box office failure; we mean the best laid plans of mice and men that go horribly awry on screen. Was stopping the train really such a good idea in TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (ask the passengers – if you can find any alive!)? Was opening the Ark of the Covenant really such a good idea in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (ask the Nazis!)? And was creating an artificial being really such a good idea in THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and its sequels (ask the Baron!).