Queued Up Bryan Reesman May 29, 2019 Columns, Queued Up INTERNAL AFFAIRS Nearly 15 years ago, I asked Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry what advice he'd give to young rockers. He said to “keep the video camera going all the time” because they will want that footage ...
Queued Up: ‘Studio 54’; ‘Let the Corpses Tan’; ‘Stan & Ollie’; and much more! Bryan Reesman May 1, 2019 Columns, Queued Up DISCO DEVILS Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager has not talked much about his disco inferno days. Until now. Studio 54: The Documentary (2018) takes a look into the liberating lasciviousness and socially grou...
Queued Up: 100th Column featuring The Dirt, Aquaman, and much more! Bryan Reesman March 27, 2019 Columns, Queued Up This is the 100th column for Queued Up! Welcome to an expanded edition for this month! NETFLIX FIX: THE DIRT (2019) Unlike other rock biopics, the long-awaited adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s infamous memoir im...
Queued Up: First Man, Horror Express, Bohemian Rhapsody, Anna and the Apocalypse, Band vs. Brand Bryan Reesman February 27, 2019 Columns, Queued Up MOON MISSION In First Man (2018), Ryan Gosling puts his trademark stoicism to good use in the real-life story of Neil Armstrong and the astronauts who manned the Moon missions that lead to his landing on Ear...
Queued Up – “Bad Reputation,” “Halloween,” and more! Bryan Reesman January 30, 2019 Queued Up PUNK AT HEART 1Many people know Joan Jett as a former member of rowdy teen upstarts The Runaways who then rose to '80s solo stardom and became a rock icon. But her story runs deeper than that, and Bad Reputa...
The Umami Of Fantasy With Guillermo del Toro and Diego Luna Bryan Reesman December 26, 2018 Features, Interviews The new Netflix series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, which debuts on Dec. 21, is the second animated show from executive producer Guillermo del Toro, the man who directed such acclaimed films as Hellboy, Pan...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman December 26, 2018 Columns, Queued Up GROOVY GHOULIES As the fortunes of Hammer Films were beginning to wane, and their Gothic horror films were receiving strong competition from Amicus Productions and others, they rebooted their Dracula ...
Joe Bob Briggs: Thrivin’ With The Drive-In Bryan Reesman December 19, 2018 Features, Interviews Television host, columnist, and B-movie buff Joe Bob Briggs is legendary among many cult film aficionados, particularly Gen-Xers with a love for genre filmmaking. Briggs is John Bloom's witty, endearing ...
Queued Up – Holiday Gift Guide 2018: Part 2 Bryan Reesman December 5, 2018 Columns, Queued Up HERO WORSHIP Here are two high octane superhero films that benefit from propulsive action, witty wordplay, and charming characters, but they operate on different levels. One of the few...
Bill Morrison: We All Need The Yellow Submarine Bryan Reesman November 28, 2018 Features, Interviews 1 One of my favorite films of all time, the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine, is a charming product of the psychedelic late 1960s that still casts a magically trippy spell 50 years later. Admittedly,...
