Monday, July 31, 2017

Atomic Blonde


... Played with a reserve as icy as the cubes she tosses into her many glasses of vodka (seriously, people drink and smoke in this movie like it’s Barfly), Lorraine herself comes in with only a few shreds of backstory and remains enigmatic throughout the film, which some might find off-putting but, hell, isn’t that how James Bond has operated for 26 movies?

Read the rest of the review at Vegas Seven...

Friday, July 21, 2017

Ted V. Mikels

"... That kind of dedication powered filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, who once said he’d like to be remembered as 'a hell of a filmmaker who did 28 hours a day, 10 days a week toward the making of films.' Mikels directed 25 movies over the course of five decades, from 1963’s Strike Me Deadly to 2015’s Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead..."


An appreciation of Ted V. Mikels for Vegas Seven.

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Pia Zadora

"And that year, I was often mentioned in the same sentence as Meryl Streep. People would say, ‘That Pia Zadora, she’s no Meryl Streep.’"


I interviewed the charming and hilarious Pia Zadora for Vegas Seven.