Thanks to the lovely folks at Los Angeles Times Hero Complex, we were able to see some flicks that we consider classics: a John Carpenter double feature THEY LIVE and HALLOWEEN, and Roland Emmerich’s alien invasion blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY. A wonderful experience with interesting Q&As with both Carpenter and Emmerich, but it helps set perspective […]

Let Me In writer-director Matt Reeves will write and direct a feature for Universal based on John Carpenter’s They Live. That 1988 film was based on the Ray Nelson short story “Eight O’clock in the Morning” and hinged on one man’s sudden discovery that aliens walk among us. Carpenter’s film, which starred pro wrestler Roddy […]