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After debating whether three animated films in one year is more than enough from DreamWorks Animation, the Cinefantastique podcast crew of Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski attack MONSTERS, the low-budget science fiction film getting a platform theatrical release to boost its VOD. Also on the menu: listener reaction to the on-going “LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT vs I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE” debate.

Clint Eastwood is one of the hardest working 80-year-old men on the planet, releasing a new film for nearly every year of the last decade, and collaborating on several others. Eastwood’s work ethic, multi-hyphenate status (director, actor, producer, composer), and choice of subject matter constantly raise the question, “What drove this man, this living legend, [...]

Take a journey into the HEREAFTER on this week’s edition of the Cinefantastique Podcast. Special guest John W. Morehead, of Theofantastique, joins Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski for an in-depth discussion of Clint Eastwood’s drama of people confronting the afterlife, scripted by Peter Morgan and starring Matt Damon. Is this another Oscar-worth contender [...]

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Warner Brothers Pictures releases the latest film from director Clint Eastwood, a supernatural thriller written by Peter Morgan, that focuses on three characters, affected by death, whose lives  gradually converge around their belief in what might exist in the herafter. Matt Damon, Cecil De France, and [...]

With THE INVASION opening this Friday (a remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, first filmed in 1956), I thought I would dip into the archives for a relevant tidbit. In July of 2005, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launched a tribute to late director Don Siegel with a screening of the [...]