WonderCon@Home 2021: Rise Of The Latina Superheroes
Without having to travel to Anaheim, you can join in WonderCon today. Which also means with 50% less exhaustion, you can noodle around panels that […]
Articles by Derek McCaw
Flashback Friday: Preparing For Peter Capaldi
Back in 2013, we didn’t know how great the 12th Doctor would be. Well, we should have suspected, but when internet comedian Sam Bowers asked […]
Cinequest 2021: Maya Sanbar Illuminates Child Refugee Crisis With Footsteps On The Wind
Having experienced the trauma of being a refugee herself, filmmaker Maya Sanbar knows its effect on children globally — whether it be the result of […]
Cinequest 2021: Joel Souza, The Man Driving Crown Vic
A successful screenwriter working from Fremont, California, Joel Souza turned feature film director last year with Crown Vic, a gritty cop drama covering one night […]
What Fans Owe Zack Snyder
We owe nothing, really, and vice versa, because whether you liked Zack Snyder’s Justice League or not, the world has moved on. But Snyder’s impact on […]
Cinequest 2021: Six Minutes To Midnight
It’s two weeks before the start of World War II. As schoolgirls take their exercise on a British beach, one of their teachers finds himself […]
Cinequest 2021: Nicholas Woods Confronts Echoes Of Violence
Filmmaker Nicholas Woods makes his Cinequest debut with Echoes of Violence, a revenge thriller that turns the genre on its head. Few characters allow you to […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Video #586: Fanboy Planet’s Justice League
All Cinequest and no superheroes make fanboys maybe better rounded in our tastes, but antsy. So last night we assembled to discuss Zack Snyder’s Justice […]
Emerald Fennell Working Magic With Zatanna?
I thought about writing the headline backwards, but that would have been too irritating to search engines. Variety reports that writer/director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young […]
Cinequest 2021: Drive All Night
If you’ve walked in downtown San Jose by day, you might not have thought of it as a David Lynchian landscape. Maybe not even walking […]
Cinequest 2021: Talking Existence With hazart
Can you convince an AI to believe in an afterlife? That’s one of the intriguing questions posed by the writing/directing duo hazart in their new […]
Cinequest 2021: A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex. In documentarian Alex Liu’s mind, we don’t talk about it enough, or if we do, it’s not honestly enough. We may have […]
Cinequest 2021: A Hard Problem
“A memory is precious because it can be forgotten.” So memories get set in books, clothes, bric-a-brac, objects to sum up who a person was. […]
Cinequest 2021: Welcome To The Show
At a Cinequest years ago, I sat at a hotel bar with a director who specialized in interactive theater. He told me he thought it […]
Cinequest 2021: Alex Liu Offers A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex, honestly. In Alex Liu’s documentary A Sexplanation, he talks to people with different viewpoints, from religious conservatives to experts from the […]
Cinequest 2021: Everything In The End
Everything ends. That’s what gives it meaning. Or maybe it is all just meaningless. This may not be the year for you to contemplate that, […]
Two Cups Of Blood: Dracula Vs. King Arthur
“This is the cup of my blood; the new and everlasting covenant.” – Matthew, 26:28 Whether you are a Christian or not, you know the […]
Cinequest 2021: Peter Hsieh Couldn’t Sleep, So He Created Drive All Night
To some, Silicon Valley is already a wonderland. Playwright Peter Hsieh saw another side to it, and taking his own sleepless nights driving around the […]
Cinequest 2021: Echoes Of Violence
Sometimes it isn’t about bad things happening to good people. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people that are out of whack with how bad […]
Travel The United States Of Captain America
If Captain America represents all that is good about this country, couldn’t any American then be Captain America? This new series from Marvel will attempt to answer […]