THE DANMAN CAN

All Hallows' Eve descends on the Movie Matters podcast as co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie , accompanied by special guest Daniel Sardella (that's me), brave the terrors of three spine-tingling horror movies in the show's third annual Halloween special : Ti West 's THE INNKEEPERS , the horror anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE , and Richard Donner 's classic THE OMEN . This episode also features Movie Matters ' first ever competition, open to all listeners worldwide. Listen to the show for details on how to win a copy of one of the films covered in a previous episode… DOWNLOAD The music sampled in this episode is from THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Danny Elfman , THE INNKEEPERS by Jeff Grace , THE THEATRE BIZARRE by Pierre Marchand and THE OMEN by Jerry Goldsmith . Created by Lee Howard & Michael Mackenzie Edited by Michael Mackenzie Movie Matters Podcast

Vincent Malloy is seven years old He’s always polite and does what he’s told For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice But he wants to be just like Vincent Price He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie So he and his horrible zombie dog Could go searching for victims in the London fog His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go! Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe One night, while reading a gruesome tale He read a passage that made him turn pale Such horrible news he could not survive For his b...

Brick  (2005) is a decent film, but I can't lie—I was a bit let down. Mainly because I thought Looper   (2012) was excellent and Brick is so very highly regarded by many, in particular a number of friends of mine (who all have similar tastes in film). The performances are amateurish and the look is cheap (not necessarily a bad thing). But the film feels like a high school play crossed with a student film. Without trying to be insulting, I couldn't help but feel that this film appeals more to people who don't watch a lot of classic, "traditional" film noir. Me, I'll take Chinatown   (1974), Se7en   (1995), L.A. Confidential   (1997), Sin City   (2005) or Memento  (2000) when it comes to "neo noir". Who knows - maybe people who watch more sci-fi than me feel the same about Looper ? That one certainly has a lot of familiar elements, but mixes them up in a unique stew. And I suppose you could say the same about Brick , but it just didn't grab me...

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