Max Ogan — or Maximus, as he likes to be called — is surrounded by giant monsters and giant robots in his Plaza District studio, Bomb Shelter, but he’s not running for cover or summoning twin fairies for help. It’s all part of his latest exhibition, Machines vs. Monsters: Final Wars, his tribute to kaiju, […]
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The Naked Jungle
Back in print through Warner Archive, the meat-and-taters adventure is based on Carl Stephenson’s classic short story “Leiningen Versus the Ants” of two decades prior. Heston is the clenched-jaw Leiningen, owner of a cocoa plantation in South America, and so lonely and away from civilization that he has to mail-order a wife, played by Parker. […]
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Lola Versus
Scheduled to open Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial, Lola Versus represents the first pure star vehicle for Gerwig, at least outside of the no-budget “mumblecore” world from which she began. Anyone who’s seen those pretentious, improv dramas — and I certainly don’t recommend you do — knows of their sexual […]