https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQVs0xC_1N4 There seems to be a mild fascination between Hollywood, the occult and Central Park West. Wonder what that's about? The Central Park West settings in classics suchs as Ghostbusters and Rosemary's Baby are briefly reviewed in this short piece from Vanity Fair. via VF

It's been quite a summer. Murder has been legalized in the state of Florida. Bradley Manning has been found guilty and faces 100 years+ in prison for telling the truth and "Under the Dome" has been renewed for a second season. Quite a summer indeed, a cruel summer in fact. A "cruel cruel summer." Sometimes the ridiculousness of life stops being amusing and the parody of reality we dance through each and every day takes its toll. It beats down on us like a mid-summer's sun shining down on a half-consumed rocket pop left and forgotten on a picnic bench...

How much talent can one 22 minute segment of a 1-hour television anthology series contain? Check out this must-see episode of "The Twilight Zone" (the vastly underrated mid-80s reboot of the show) directed by Wes Craven and starring the likes of M. Emmett Walsh, the great Garrett Morris, the always classic Dan Hedaya (in what might be his most overlooked performance ever) and a pre-but-on-the-cusp-of-celebrity Morgan Freeman. The segment is entitled "Dealer's Choice" and it originally aired on the CBS network back in November of 1985. What we have going on here in this episode is a friendly game of...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETB83v42Zk Jay Z & Mark Romanek's project Picasso Baby, a short performance art film, will be debuting next week. The film will depict Jay Z performing his new track “Picasso Baby” while he interacts with a captive viewing audience in the intimate setting of an art gallery. New York's famed performance-based artist Marina Abramovic, whose own 2010 MoMA exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present which served as inspiration for the project will even appear. HBO has announced they’ll air the “Performance Art Film” this Friday August 2nd @ 11PM EST. (The network also aired Beyoncé’s self-directed documentary, Life Is...

It's official, Sylvester Stallone is set to reprise his signature character (sorry Rambo) Rocky Balboa yet again - this time in a supporting role. MGM has green lit the production on Creed (aka 'Rocky 7'). But on this occasion the film's central character will be the grandson of Carl Weathers' legendary Balboa-foe Apollo Creed with Rocky stepping in as his trainer. In this edition of the Rocky saga Stallone will be mostly hands-off in the process of the film's production. He won't be writing the screenplay and he won't be directing. He will simply by co-starring. Ryan Coogler is slated...

A Study of Legs - In 11 Parts | A Jim Helton film https://vimeo.com/23854824 For one month during the transition between winter and spring of 2009, Atsushi "Jima" Nishijima photographed legs walking the streets of Midtown Manhattan during his lunch break in this series of short movies. via TWBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yF5HFFcv8E Many have seen the early Ralph McQuarrie sketches of Boba Fett sporting an all-white helmet and armor design. What very few have ever had the opportunity to see is the original all-white Fett costume in action. A videotape was rolling to capture "proto Fett's" reveal to Lucas and company at the filmmaker's home on June 28, 1978. In the video we see sound designer Ben Burtt hosting the Boba Fett character design's unveiling. The character Boba Fett would be used later that year for the first time ever in Lucas' infamous Star Wars Holiday Special (if you haven't seen...

Chucky makes his return to the big screen. Prepare yourself.