Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I’ve been a Seth Damoose fan since I first saw his art. There’s a joy to everything Seth draws. I was extremely happy when Seth announced he was taking a few sketch commissions through the mail. I jumped on board with a request for Jack Carter and John Wick. As you can see, Seth came through like a champ.
You can see more of Seth Damoose’s art at his Facebook page, his Art of Damoose page, or follow him on Twitter.
Did you ever wonder which Hitchcock film you belong in? You can find out if you take the Which Hitchcock Film Do You Belong In quiz.
I love looking at Frank Miller’s Sin City prelims. You can see a larger version of this one as well as Miller’s finished page at The Bristol Board.
Glen Campbell has passed on. From his official website:
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell, at the age of 81, following his long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Glen is survived by his wife, Kim Campbell of Nashville, TN; their three children, Cal, Shannon and Ashley; his children from previous marriages, Debby, Kelli, Travis, Kane, and Dillon; ten grandchildren, great- and great-great-grandchildren; sisters Barbara, Sandra, and Jane; and brothers John Wallace “Shorty” and Gerald.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Glen Campbell Memorial Fund at BrightFocus Foundation through the CareLiving.org donation page.
I was and continue to be a Glen Campbell fan. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.
Frank Miller fans will enjoy Mike Fleming Jr.’s Deadline interview. Miller discusses Comic Con, the early days of comics, the Comics Code, his early days at Marvel, Sin City and more.
Me-TV had a post titled 14 TOP SECRET THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT ‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE’! Sadly the article is no longer available. Below are three of my favorites that it listed.
THE FAKE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SEEN ON THE SHOW WAS REFERRED TO AS “GELLERESE.”
Vaguely German, vaguely Romanian, a phony foreign language can be seen on signs in the show. The letters are peppered with accents, S’s are liberally replaced Z’s. So as not to offend any actual nationalities, the language was entirely made up, and the crew referred to the fictional tongue as “Gellerese” in tribute to the show’s creator.IN EARLY EPISODES, THE TAPE WOULD LITERALLY SELF-DESTRUCT.
Initially, the special effects crew applied a chemical to the tape to make it smoke and decompose. This was not only costly and tricky, it wasn’t quite as dramatic as they had hoped. Eventually, the crew resorted to piping smoke through the reel-to-reel player through a hidden hose. Yes, they were just blowing smoke, so to speak.THE SHOW SHARED A STUDIO AND SEVERAL ACTORS WITH ‘STAR TREK.’
Both Mission: Impossible and Star Trek were the work of Desilu Productions, the production house run by Lucille Ball. As both shows were of the same family, cast members could be seen in both productions. After Landau left the series following the third season, Leonard Nimoy filled his shoes (well, masks and wigs) as “Paris.” It was ironic, as Landau had previously turned down the role of Spock! William Shatner and George Takei can also be seen on M:I, as well as dozens of Star Trek guest stars like Ricardo Montalban, Joan Collins, Michael Ansara, Willian Schallert, Gary Lockwood, Lee Meriwether and more.
I used to watch this show with my grandfather and I had forgotten that Peter Graves didn’t star in the first season.
I love Jason LaTour’s cover for Southern Bastards #17. Is THAT Burt Reynolds or just a guy who looks like him? Either way, I’m in. Southern Bastards is one of the best comics being published these days.
Source: Jason Aaron.
Atomic Blonde has some of the best action sequences in movies. The long fight scene on the stairway appears to be done in one continuous take.
It wasn’t.
Chris O’Falt at IndieWire talked with Sam Hargrave (Atomic Blonde second-unit director and stunt coordinator) who choreographed and filmed the fight scene. ‘Atomic Blonde’: How They Turned One Amazing Action Scene Into a Seven-Minute Long Take is well worth a read.
Ian Nathan & Kim Newman and EmpireOnline present Clint Eastwood on Clint Eastwood. The interview is well worth a look as Eastwood discusses the making of all of his major hits and few of his minor ones as well.
Suburbicon written by the Cohen Brothers, directed by George Clooney and starring Matt Damon.
Jarrod Alberich aka The Yard Sale Artist created the Jack Carter piece above for me after I won a contest he was running (something he regularly does for his fans).
Jarrod calls himself The Yard Sale Artist because he uses only materials that he finds at yard sales, thrift stores, dumpsters and so on. This is my second piece by Jarrod and my guess is that there will be more to come!
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 21 Things We Learned from The Fate of the Furious Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
11. He has tons of footage that didn’t make the film simply of Johnson and Statham trying to one-up each other with insults. “I think something’s gonna come out of it,” he says, “we’ll see, but I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing a two-hander between Shaw and Hobbs.”
18. Letty’s (Michelle Rodriguez) fight scene at the Russian shipyard reminds Gray of the Patricia Arquette / James Gandolfini brawl in True Romance.
5. The script originally had Dom giving Raldo’s (Celestino Cornielle) keys to his cousin as the race dictated, but Gray suggested otherwise on the day of filming. “That’s what the old Dom would have done,” he says, “but I wanted to give the audience a more evolved Dom.”
Most George A. Romero and Night of the Living Dead fans have probably already ordered Nights of the Living Dead edited by Jonathon Maberry and George A. Romero. (I did!)
Nights of the Living Dead is a…
…a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak.
Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today’s most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal and Brenda Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!
The fact that Romero signed off on this anthology makes the stories part of the Night of the Living Dead canon.
Jonathon Maberry recently spoke to Derek Anderson at Daily Dead about how Nights of the Living Dead came together and his thrill at getting to work with George Romero. As an added bonus we get access to an excerpt from Maberry’s contribution to the anthology!
Thomas Boatwright puts his spin on Sly from Lords of Flatbush.
Over the years I’ve gotten several Stallone pieces from Thomas. Here is what has been posted so far… there are more to come.
If you’d like to see more of Thomas Boatwright’s art check out his blog and his DA site. Send him some love.
If you get commissions, you should consider a piece from Thomas. He keeps you totally in the loop on his progress, finishes his commissions on or ahead of schedule, has very reasonable prices, is a fantastic artist and always gives you more than you’re expecting! – Craig
Today we have a rare publicity shot of Lon Chaney, Jr. for The Wolfman courtesy of Retro Horror where you can see a larger version!
