We’re quite a number of months away from Halloween season and spooky, pensive and driving sounds that go along with it. But as we approach the hot Texas Summer (and 100 degrees this coming Wednesday!) we put our minds to cooler places. One of the best is the dark of a theater. Or a theater room. Either will do. One of the most enchanting parts of dark room entertainment is being enveloped by the soundscape, and we’re suckers for symphonic elegance and moody synthesizers. As such, today we have just what the doctor ordered by way of Lakeshore Records. Now let’s get this out of the way up front. These…
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Interview…Griff and Nathan Furst on ‘A Breed Apart’
From Lionsgate and The Furst Brothers comes a daytime horror film in the tradition of Cujo, Midsommar, Sharknado and Cheech and Chong’s Things Are Tough All Over. Their latest, A Breed Apart, is the spirit animal sequel to 2006’s The Breed. The team of Griff and Nathan Furst are writers/directors from a famous filmmaking household – one I can only assume their motto is “Family Furst“? Their father famously played ‘Flounder’ in Animal House, and was in The Dream Team with Michael Keaton (among many other projects in his decades long career), so cinema is certainly in their blood. We got to sit with them to talk about the absurd…
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Interview…Trenton Judson and Lizbeth Cazares on ‘Bad Bitch’
Speed and efficiency can be powerful tools when you’re trying to create something. Knowing your resources, staying in your lane, and finishing when promised all sound easy to do but take a lot of work to execute. Take for example a two-plus hour feature length film being shot in just seven days. Seven. Such is the case for Trenton McKay Judson‘s 2025 film. Shot in Mineola, TX, it is structured like a Western and Judson (who wrote, directs, and stars in the film) plays the town bully. The rub is that he and his goons have pissed off the wrong townie. But that should not be a surprise as the…
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Interview…Anthony J Agnello on Video Games, Soundtracks, Vinyl and Writing For the Love of It
The best part of running this site, contrary to what you may think, isn’t getting bucket list interviews. Nor is it getting to see movies way before they are released. Those are perks -which we do love – but what we strive for beyond that is value. To that point, what we value most is connecting with people about the things we love and having great conversations. Our most recent guest is a true renaissance man in that he’s been writing on the web since the renaissance. We say that in jest, but Anthony J. Agnello is an internet veteran who has made a career hammering out excellent material on…
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Interview…All Aboard the ‘Sunrise Express’ with Opus Science Collective
I don’t know what it is about electronic music, but a synthesizer just has a way of getting to my soul. As we’ve advanced our Bandcamp Interview Series, we’ve gotten to know quite a few artists whose style and sound are just so groovy. One of our dear favorites, and a friend of the site, is Opus Science Collective. The compositions that this British mastermind/one-man-band weaves are really quite special as they run the gamut from jazzy to ambient to vapor wave. Yet the key component bringing them all together are those silky, smooth synths. We’ve been a fan of his work and style as he likes to have some…
