Tag Archives: John Carpenter

529. Tomorrow Never Knows

Posted on May 24, 2023 by The Flickcast

It’s time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it’s Episode 529: Tomorrow Never Knows. On the show this week Chris and Joe get into all kinds of good trouble and discuss … Continue reading →

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526. The Flickcast GPT

Posted on May 3, 2023 by The Flickcast

It’s a new week and a brand new episode. That’s right, finally. The boys are back (or are they AI?). Either way it’s time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it’s … Continue reading →

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Monday Picks: ‘John Carpenter’s Escape From New York’

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is yet another John Carpenter classic. Kurt Russell stars as the first ever action hero of the 1980s in Escape From New York (1981). After success with Halloween and the horror classic The Fog, Carpenter’s next project … Continue reading →

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Monday Picks: John Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13’

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the John Carpenter exploitation classic Assault on Precinct 13 that stars Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, and Carpenter regular Charles Cyphers. Before Carpenter hit it big two years later in 1978 with the critically acclaimed financial … Continue reading →

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Late Monday Picks: John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is John Carpenter’s independent horror classic hit Halloween that held the record as the highest grossing independent film of all time. Halloween helped to usher in a new era of slasher films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. … Continue reading →

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Monday Picks: ‘John Carpenter’s: The Thing’

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Welcome to Monday Picks, a new weekly feature that examines a new movie every week from a wide array of different genres. In the spirit of the Halloween season, and being that the prequel opened this weekend, to kick us … Continue reading →

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Web Debate Show ‘GeekDown’ Weighs In on the Movie Reboot Fad

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Brett Noborikawa

Film remakes are something that we’ve all grown accustomed to over the years but with two major releases last week both being remakes, Footloose and The Thing, have we reached the breaking point? Is no film safe from a remake? … Continue reading →

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Film Review: ‘The Thing’

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Nat Almirall

Is it a sequel? A prequel? A remake? A premake? Yes. Director Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. (yes, that is a real name) takes a lot of inspiration and most of the story from John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, the only ostensible … Continue reading →

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