Archive for March, 2008
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March 31, 2008
Ellen Datlow has announced that writer/editor Matthew Kressel will be a new co-host for the KGB Fantastic Fiction Reading Series. Kressel, publisher of Senses Five Press and Sybil’s Garage, is taking over for Gavin J. Grant as co-host of the monthly reading series at the famed KGB Bar in New York City.
Terry Bisson and Alice K. Turner started the reading series in the late 1990s, attempting to bring together mainstream writers with writers of speculative fiction in order to show, in Alice Turner’s words, “that at a certain level they were plowing exactly the same field.” In the spring of 2000 Ellen Datlow took over for Alice K. Turner and in August 2002 Gavin J. Grant, publisher of Small Beer Press, stepped in for Bisson when he moved to California.
For six years Gavin has co-hosted the series with Ellen. We wish to thank him for the bang up job he’s done, for the dedication he has shown to the authors and their work.
The KGB Fantastic Fiction readings-in addition to showcasing many of the major voices of the field-regularly bring together the members of New York City science fiction, fantasy, and horror communities where writers, editors, and readers can mingle and promote excellent fiction.
The readings (which are always free) are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 7 PM at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs). Upcoming readers include P. D. Cacek, Jack Ketchum, James Patrick Kelly, Cassandra Claire, Christopher Barzak, Jeff Somers, Stefan Merrill Block, JoSelle Vanderhooft, and John Kessel.
For a full schedule visit: KGB Fantastic Fiction Schedule
To subscribe to their mailing list: KGB Fantastic Fiction
To submit materials for consideration please send titles to:
Ellen Datlow, KGB readings
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436
and
Matthew Kressel
Senses Five Press
307 Madison St, Apt 3L
Hoboken, NJ 07030-1937
Tags: Ellen Datlow, Fantastic Fiction at KGB, Horror Events, Matthew Kressel
Ellen Datlow, Fantastic Fiction at KGB, Horror Events, Matthew Kressel
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March 31, 2008
Here is the theatrical trailer for the 2008 remake of BANGKOK DANGEROUS, directed by the Pang Brothers (who created the 1999 original) and starring Nicolas Cage.
- The newest actor to don the hockey mask has been named! Derek Mears, who was the Chameleon in THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 is currently dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s to make it all official.
- George W. Bush stops the dead from
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March 31, 2008
STEEP (2007)
If you will it, it is no dream. Over the past forty odd years, skiers have been pushing the limits of big mountain extreme skiing, expanding the boundaries of what was thought to be impossible, and running lines down slope inclines so sheer the mind boggles that they are able to keep their balance. Documentary filmmaker Mark Obenhaus takes a look at the evolution of extreme
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March 30, 2008
Novel
The Missing by Sarah Langan
First Novel
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Long Fiction
Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway by Gary Braunbeck
Short Fiction
“The Gentle Brush of Wings” by David Niall Wilson
Fiction Collection (Tie)
Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen
5 Stories by Peter Straub
Anthology
Five Strokes to Midnight, edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble
Nonfiction
THE CRYPTOPEDIA: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
Poetry Collection (Tie)
Being Full of Light, Insubstantial by Linda Addison
VECTORS: A Week in the Death of a Planet by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon
Lifetime Achievement Award
John Carpenter, Robert Weinberg
Richard Laymon President’s Award
Mark Worthen, Stephen Dorato, Christopher Fulbright
Tags: 2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners, Award News, HWA
2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners, Award News, HWA
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March 29, 2008
I’ll admit that the only reason I ordered this movie was because of the “choose your own movie” feature on the HD version. I watched the “regular” version last night because I was too tired to pick and choose how everyone could die. For being a sequel to a remake, this movie was decent.
The intro to this film was great. I loved how they tied the opening credits in with the “history…
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March 29, 2008
Paddy Breathnach’s Shrooms has been on the radar for some time. At first, I assumed it would be about Mushroom people, and there is still a large part of me that is disappointed that it was not. What the film is, it turns out, is a nice take on the slasher genre.
A mish-mash of young adults journey to Ireland to get a taste of the local magic mushrooms. Tara, our lead, is typically…
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March 29, 2008
First you have to decide what type of horror movie you like. If you are the type of fan who likes big names, special effects, beautiful written dialogue then this is not the movie for you. BUT if you are the type of person who likes a film that has none of the above this is brilliant. Take a company like Troma, throw in some stereotype characters, low brow humour, unique albiet…
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March 29, 2008
This movie had so much promise, but fell disappointingly short. The concept is great, and the philosophical questions posed by the premise were novel and intriguing, but all of these ideas were left frustratingly untouched in favor of horror homage and inexplicable plot twists I couldn’t make sense of. A strange affliction strikes all girls aged 15-17 worldwide experience a state of…
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March 29, 2008
First off, The Mist is amazing. In a movie filled to the brim with monsters, we realize that we are the scariest monsters of them all, mankind. The Mist will make your chest tighten your butthole pucker and have your eyes glued to your television, you can’t move, and only breathe when you must, all you can say is Oh. My. God. The Mist is full of special effects and loaded with action,…
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March 29, 2008
First of all if you are squeamish about violent sex scenes this is not the movie for you. The whole story is based around a female writer who decided to go to a remote area of the US to finish her writing project.It is here that she meets, wait for it, you guessed it REDNECKS who follow her to her cabin, chase her through the woods and then violently rape her and leave her for…
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