Gettin' Cinematic With It

Does The Hunger Games Deserve the Harry Potter and Twilight Treatment?

By Tana Velen Thu., Jul. 12 2012 at 8:37 AM
Categories: Cinema Stars, Gettin' Cinematic With It, Movie News, Off Topic
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Recently, Hollywood filmmakers are splitting up book-based movies faster than Scientology is splitting up marriages. Just yesterday, it was announced that Mockingjay, the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy, is going to be made into two separate films. Our response: Holy Twilight-copying-Harry-Potter hell!

It's no small wonder that Lionsgate has decided to do the ol' part-one and part-two deal with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. This is an easy way to double profits just when the cash cow is about to go dry. Just look at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts one and two. They made more than $2 billion worldwide. Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 made about $705,058,657 worldwide, and part two is expected to exceed that.

But that's just the money. No movie franchise is ever successful without the heart (the Star Wars prequels don't count; they had leftover heart from episodes IV, V, and VI to drive fans to theaters). So the real question is: What do the fans think?

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Beastie Boys Homage at Cinema Paradiso Features Classic Footage and Live Music

By Liz Tracy Mon., Jul. 9 2012 at 8:27 AM
Categories: Film Fanatic , Gettin' Cinematic With It
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Beastie Boys at the 1987 Grammys
County Grind's eulogy for Adam Yauch

"I quite vividly remember when Licensed to Ill came out," relates organizer of the Homage to the Beastie Boys at Cinema Paradiso Mark Pollack. "I was nine and got the cassette from Camelot Music in Coral Square Mall. I toted that thing everywhere in my Fisher-Price cassette player, no matter where I went, be it to eat with my parents or walking around the neighborhood, that thing was being played in its entirety. As dorky as I was at that time, that album was so cool!"

Dorky or not, Pollack clearly knew enduring, quality hip-hop when he heard it, even as a kid. The world recently mourned the passing of icon and Beastie Adam Yauch, AKA MCA. This loss likely inspired Blindspot Productions' decision to focus this month's musical "homage" on the Brooklyn trio.

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Subculture Presents Sincerely Yours, Marty McFly at The Classic Gateway Theater on July 14

By Lizzie Rae Fri., Jul. 6 2012 at 12:00 PM
Categories: DJ Mix, Dialed In, Gettin' Cinematic With It, Good Ideas
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Arriving in a DeLorean is optional.
Last month, we introduced you to Subculture, a company of community organizers and music enthusiasts led by Phillip Roffman. In our interview with Roffman, he expressed a desire to band together likeminded locals from various artistic scenes, and mount cross-disciplinary events. Now, the first of these is coming. Mark your calendars for Sincerely Yours, Marty McFly, which takes place on Saturday, July 14.

For the evening, Subculture is transforming the Classic Gateway Theater in Fort Lauderdale, a South Florida cultural staple, into the '80s. The evening centers around a double feature of iconic movies from that decade: the teen-angst anthem The Breakfast Club, and everyone's favorite time-traveling, freaky-friday-esque cult favorite, Back to the Future.

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Over the Weekend

Splatter-Rama! and Armageddon Man - Cinema Paradiso, Fort Lauderdale - June 24

By Lizzie Rae Mon., Jun. 25 2012 at 9:18 AM
Categories: Gettin' Cinematic With It, Over the Weekend
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Armageddon Man entertained us for a bit in between a little blood and some guts. 

The historic Cinema Paradiso movie house opened its doors to throngs of blood-thirsty horror buffs, freaks, and geeks for the first ever Splatter-Rama. This Sunday night monthly is hosted by Radio-Active Records and Blindspot Productions. And though this is a new event, the ghouls and ghosts of Fort Lauderdale turned out in full effect. There were beers aplenty, and everyone was hungry, hungry for brains, of course. The double feature opened with the 1963 B-movie classic Blood Feast. With adult bevvies and snacks in hand, these horror fans hunkered down in preparation for the best the worst can offer. 

Without giving too much away -- ya know, in case you're dying to catch this flick between now and say, never -- the "plot," or really the series of theatrically events presented by director and Godfather of Gore Herschell Gordon Lewis, revolves around the ancient Egyptian Goddess Ishtar's sacrificial "blood feast" (See what they did there? Blood Feast?). In it, a maniacal serial murderer and caterer, with killer eyebrows, terrorizes a retro-Miami neighborhood. 

Sexy young ladies are slaughtered by the dozens, showcasing all the blood, guts, and terrifying acting one could stomach. "Give yourself up to the goddess," Fuad Ramses chants as he flogs another unfortunate victim, and the rest, as they say, is pure movie magic.

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Blindspot Productions and Radio-Active Records Present Gore and Horror with Splatter-Rama at Cinema Paradiso

By Liz Tracy Thu., Jun. 21 2012 at 11:32 AM
Categories: Gettin' Cinematic With It
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Face eating is a crime. 
If you're such a baby that you still sleep with the lights on and even SpongeBob gives you nightmares, then you'd be like me, too frightened to go to Splatter-Rama. This double feature of horror and gore just might make you poop your scaredy-pants. The premiere screening of the monthly event is taking place Sunday at Cinema Paradiso, hosted by Blindspot Productions and Radio-Active Records. 

"I grew up on gory horror films in the '80s," says Mikey Ramirez of Radio-Active Records, admitting, "I was fascinated by the mechanics of special effects make-up, and at one point, I considered going to Joe Blasco's Make-Up Effects school to pursue a career in that field.

"I admired people like Tom Savini, Dick Smith, Rob Bottin and other make-up effects artists who made the impossible happen on the big screen, way before CGI and computer-generated effects dominated the market." One might call him a purist. "There is something timeless about the low-tech approach to these films that required hours of preparation, casting, moulds, karo syrup, etc. It was all in good fun."

Fun and ugly. This week, they're showing Blood Feast and The Return of the Living Dead, which will also be screened outside for the smokers. They've thought of everything, these guys. There's a movie swap during intermission, full liquor bar, and live entertainment from Armageddon Man, featuring ex-members of AC Cobra and The Groovenics. On the Slide food truck and Munch Cakes will provide horror themed menus. The invite on Facebook even says: "We are going to eat you." Too soon? Too soon. 

Ramirez shared with us a few of his favorite horror films. Get ready to taste some fear after the jump. 


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Did Rock of Ages Represent Los Angeles or South Florida? A Location Examination

By Liz Tracy Tue., Jun. 19 2012 at 2:59 PM
Categories: Gettin' Cinematic With It
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This was taken at the Rock of Ages premiere party that appropriately took place at Revolution Live. 

After spending two hours and three minutes of precious time watching Rock of Ages, the Broadway-sensation-turned-Tom-Cruise-biopic (of sorts), we came away with a few lasting impressions. For starters, Tom Cruise is clearly genetically composed of nightmares. He's frightening as Stacee Jaxx and as Tom Cruise. Next, Mary J. Blige is fierce and a goddess, even when appearing in a Tom Cruise film, and finally, South Florida is fantastic, even when we're supposed to pretend it's Los Angeles in the eighties. 

Now, every one in the tri-county area knows someone who was an extra in the scenes filmed at Revolution Live. But we wanted to look at the film by way of where instead of what or who. OK, so fine, Ocean Drive did all the leg work for us that didn't come naturally. We knew most of the spots featured, but that strip club, the Venus Room, no clue. Turns out it was the Castle Beach Club, according to OD, formerly the Hilton Playboy Club. Nicely appropriate. 


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Rock of Ages Movie Premiere Party at Revolution Live

By Liz Tracy Wed., May 30 2012 at 2:46 PM
Categories: Gettin' Cinematic With It, Heads Up
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Update: The film will not be screening at Revolution Live. Party only.

As you may have already read on County Grind, I'm like really famous. This is because I was an extra in the upcoming film Rock of Ages starring the ever obnoxious Tom Cruise, who appears with his top off in the movie. Jealous? I think so. When they filmed the movie's final scene at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, I was in the audience wearing a black "Rock of Ages" T-shirt, X-large, of course. Sure there were hundreds of us, but I know I'm gonna be the one that ends up on screen. This is how people become stars. Check my hands out in the trailer. My hands: Famous hands. That's all I have to say on that.

Since the film crew came to town and turned all of South Florida into its set (bitch), it's only fitting that we get to watch a preview of the movie first. Well, not first, per se. It's showing here on the day it actually hits all the movie houses in the US, but it's free, and there will be drink specials, so we'll take it as a Hollywood "thank you."


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Bosh Film Festival on Chris Bosh's Injury, a Heat Win, and New Discosoma Records Song for James Jones

By Liz Tracy Thu., May 17 2012 at 10:12 AM
Categories: Gettin' Cinematic With It, Local Music
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You may have heard of the Borscht Film Festival, but have you heard of the Bosh Film Festival? 

An offshoot of sorts from Borscht, the Bosh Film Festival is - as you can imagine - very important to the morale of South Florida's basketball fans right now. The Miami Heat are in the playoffs and Chris Bosh has a real bad bellyache. It's time to send him some good healing vibes, guys. One way the Bosh Film Festival is doing this is by commissioning Discosoma Records' act sleepwalking to create songs that will boost our team's morale. Their first tune honors Heat player and three-point shooter James Jones.

If you take a peek at the festival's website, you'll notice a wild world of Chris Bosh imaginations. The site was conceived and created by Bleeding Palm's Ronnie Rivera the Executive Necromage (whatever that means) and curator of the festival. We wanted to know more about the song, the festival, and their official take on Bosh's injury, so we connected with Chris Quinn, Minister of Jurassic Arts (a position created by Steven Spielberg?) to discuss. 

Are you confused yet? If so, you're in the proper mental place to fully understand the Bosh Film Festival.  


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