Submission Deadline: July 15, 2013
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Hey everyone! It’s Nick from The Cinematic Katzenjammer. This is a reminder to get your submissions in for the Director’s Chair: Zack Snyder. Get them in as soon as you can. I have extended the deadline another week, as I have received very few submissions. Check back here for the announcement post for more details. Also, remember...
** Some news and changes to the MOTM/MOTM Champions this month. Read on for the skinny. **
Well, it’s been an up-and-down week or so for the MOTM Champions angle. Your Shepherd, Joel Burman, was the only one to throw his hat into the ring for July, so I was all set to kill Champions and go back to just having me select five random films and having you vote on them.
But then a funny...
Long before Peter Jackson became known for becoming J.R.R. Tolkien or remaking King Kong, he was that big, hairy fella from New Zealand known for grossout horror comedies. His third feature was 1992’s Dead Alive , a film that wasn’t received all that well two decades ago but is now seen as a cult classic. The gang from French Toast Sunday championed the film after barely losing out to American...
Submission Deadline: July 6, 2013
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Hey everyone! It’s Nick from The Cinematic Katzenjammer. I know it’s been forever since the last edition of The Director’s Chair, but the feature is finally back just in time for one of the year’s biggest films.
Along with any movie reviews you send in, concerning the director of the month, I...
It was one of the lower voted-upon MOTM polls we’ve had in a while, but it was so less tense. Dead Alive was pretty much staked out to a two-vote lead over The Incredibles from the start, and that’s exactly how it ended. Every time I looked at the results, that’s what it showed me. Weird. In the end, the Peter Jackson grossout took the vote, giving French Toast Sunday the win. As such, FTS becomes...
Feels like forever since we’ve had one of these, no?
A serial killer horror-comedy period piece…in the wrong hands, American Psycho might have been a nightmare all its own. But director Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol), who also adapted the screenplay of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel, delivered a pop culture postcard complete with one of the all-time great breakout roles in Christian Bale’s...