Hollywood Gothique

Steve Biodrowski owns and operates Hollywood Gothique. Since graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema, Steve has worked as a film critic, script analyst, journalist, and interviewer. As a film journalist, his work has appeared in Movieline, Premiere, Le Cinephage (in France) and The Dark Side (in England). He served as the West Coast Editor of Cinefantastique magazine in the 1990s, then worked as the Vice President of Editorial Content at Fandom.com and, more recently, as the Executive Editor at Cinescape Online. He is currently the Managing Editor of Cinefantastique Online, the website incarnation of Cinefantastique magazine.

Sitting down to write a review of THE LAST EXORCISM PART II, I find myself somewhat in the position of the modern satirist, who finds the real world has become so ridiculous that there is little room to push the envelope even further for comic effect, rendering the concept of satire almost redundant. In my [...]

DARK SKIES proves once again (as if any proof were necessary) that Blumhouse Productions has codified its horror template to the point that their films are the cinematic equivalent of blues music: the lyrics may change, but the subject matter or tone; and regardless of the writers and performers, you will hear the same 12-bar [...]

Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90403 (323) 634-4878
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Description: The American Cinematheque double-bills David Lynch’s bizarre and horriffic film noir with ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, as part of their “MOTION PICTURESQUE: CINEMA AT ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL” series.
Date: January 18 at 7:30pm

Location: nationwide
Description: CBS Films releases sequel to the interesting but ultimately muddled 2010 film. Ed Gass Donnelly takes over the director’s chair from Daniel Stamm, working from a script he re-wrote from a draft by Damien Chazell, based on characters created by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland. Ashley Bell returns as Nell Sweetzer, the phony [...]

Location: nationwide
Description: Warner Brothers releases this fantasy film from Alcon Entertainment.Richard LaGravenese wrote and directed, based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The cast includes Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Alice Englert, and Alden Ehrenreich. The story follows Lena (Englert), a high school girl whose family is believed by the local [...]

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece screens at midnight.
Date: February 1, 2013

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: David Lynch’s brain-bendingly surreal film noir screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-03-15

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: John Carpenter’s 1982 film adaptation of John W. Campbell’s story “Who Goes There?” (previously filmed by producer Howard Hawks in 1941 as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD) screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-03-08

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: The comic book adaptation about a young man who must battle his girlfriend’s evil ex’s, screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-15

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Disappointing film version of Pink Floyd’s concept album screens at midnight
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-22

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Director Leox Carax’s surreal film screens at midnight (the crazy red-bearded “monster” from his episode of TOKYO re-appears).
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-08

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Don Coscarelli’s tongue-in-cheek horror film in which Elvis meets the undead, screens at midnight
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-01-18

Location: nationwide
Description: Paramount Pictures offers up this R-rated, action-oriented spin on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Tommy Wirkola (DEAD SNOW) directed from a script he co-wrote with Dante Harper. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the title characters, here portrayed as adult witch-hunters. Famke Janssen co-stars as the witch Muriel. Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, [...]