DAN PERSONS is a New York-based writer who first got bit by the Cinefantastique bug when he encountered the 1979 double issue devoted to the sci-fi classic FORBIDDEN PLANET. He contributed for many years to the magazine, first as a correspondent, then as an editor. 
Centuri-run!: Michael Fassbender gets a workout in CENTURION.
CENTURION tends to focus on the resilience side of human existance, what with swords, hatchets, and various other implements of death being wielded hither and yon and a small clutch of battle-scarred soldiers trying to survive their onslaughts. Based on the historical myth of a [...]
Jeff Bridges returns to the game grid, Harry Potter faces down some deathly hallows — whatever the hell those are — and Jacques Tati gets animated as CHRONIC RIFT producer/host John Drew and I pick up our discussion of the cinematic goodness that will be greeting us as the year raps up. And if TRON: [...]
In anticipation of my assuming the role of movie critic for THE CHRONIC RIFT — the legendary discussion show of all things science fiction, fantasy and horror that’s beginning its third year as a podcast — John Drew invited me on to discuss what genre fans should be looking forward to [...]
Y’know, people probably shouldn’t be this gleeful about issues of mortality, but in the cases of the movies being discussed in this episode, we’re kinda glad they are. This episode features interviews with Jean-Pierre Jeunet and George A. Romero, both of whom have previously addressed matters of life-and-death in their own, unique ways, and have [...]
Trolls? Goblins? Troblins? Fans of TROLL 2 get their gear on in BEST WORST MOVIE.
Have no doubt, I love bad movies. I still have fond memories of the first time I stumbled onto ROBOT MONSTER, back in the days when local broadcast television had afternoon movie shows, and one could serendipitously chance [...]
Between the utter cock-up that was NIGHTMARE 2 and Freddie’s eventual metamorphosis into the most beloved, happy-go-lucky trickster-child-murderer ever, Chuck Russell hit a kind of mid-point sweet spot with the energetic and imaginative NIGHTMARE 3: THE DREAM WARRIORS. As if watching the kids gang up to get their own back on Freddie wasn’t enough of [...]
Turn Your Head and Scream: The Inimitable Dieter Laser as Dr. Heiter in THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE
There are some films that you’re either for or agin, and wow, does THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE fit into that category. A vivid little bit of Grand Guignol wherein a couple of hapless tourists (Ashley C. Williams and [...]
A Staff Meeting Documented in WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY.
Diversity is what we’re all about here at MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST. Actually, what we’re all about these days is trying just to get the frakking show out in the midst of all the other stuff going on in our lives (hence the lateness this week), [...]
The Magic's in the Details: Aisling (voiced by Kristen Mooney) and Brendan (Evan McGuire) in THE SECRET OF KELLS
I’m not sure when I first heard of THE SECRET OF KELLS. Probably last year, likely through AICN, definitely way before it wound up on the Oscar nominee list for animated feature (and everybody started [...]
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of SHUTTER ISLAND
The embargo on the SHUTTER ISLAND press conference has lifted, so I’m putting it out for your entertainment and enrichment. However, I believe the embargo on criticism is still in place, so I can’t really set this up in the way that I’d like. You’re [...]
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Bad news: The multiplexes have been overtaken with the likes of JENNIFER’S BODY and TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN. Good news: with Netflix, Amazon, VOD and every other pipeline now pouring out content, you don’t have to settle for the big-budget brain farts. Much, much better stuff is out there, to wit (and in no [...]
So you go into this room at New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Tim Burton exhibit, and it’s like striking gold: the Jack Skellington figure is there, along with a choice selection of the replacement heads that were used to animate dialogue; there’s the creepy, completely covered baby Penguin wicker stroller from BATMAN RETURNS; you [...]
Not Yet Thomson (or is that Thompson?): Nick Frost in PIRATE RADIO
Okay, you could look at PIRATE RADIO (aka THE BOAT THAT ROCKED) as something of a fantasy, seeing as it deals with an historical phenomenon — how in the sixties U.K. broadcasters parked in boats outside the three mile limit gave rock-starved Britishers their [...]
