Mike Vanderbilt's posts

The supergroup that every long-haired, bespectacled record store clerk has been waiting for since they bought their…

Thirty years after the release of Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy, punk rockers are still fascinated by the heroin-addled…

With the financial success of Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens (and for the most part, a pass from fans),…

Nico—singer-songwriter, model, actress, German—will be getting the biopic treatment in Nico, 1988, focusing on the…

Pop culture is hitting critical mass, as a scripted comedy about the hyper-masculine soap opera that is sports…

It would appear that Bob Dylan doesn’t give a damn about winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. The…

Something Weird Video has been doing the dark lord’s work since 1990, distributing all the best (and worst)…

Just missing Halloween by a few days, a new 4k digital restoration of the one, the only, the original Night Of The…

There is a new documentary in the works about Mike Diana, an underground cartoonist who has the distinction of being…

American independent filmmaker Ted V. Mikels died yesterday at his home in Las Vegas after an unspecified “long…

Yacht Rock luminary Kenny Loggins is adapting his 1984 No. 1 hit song “Footloose” into a children’s book. But since…

Lucasfilm, a subsidiary of the Disney Empire, is hunting down and destroying the last of the Jedi Knights—but with…

A new barbecue joint in the Lone Star State is about as common as a vegan coffee shop in Portland, but a new…

Always eager to comment on the news of the day, Tim Heidecker has written and recorded a Bob Dylan-esque tune…

Chris Gaines’ alter ego Garth Brooks premiered his new single “Baby, Let’s Lay Down And Dance” yesterday, and, in a…

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Sam’s Town, The Killers have released a never-before-heard…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the symphony hall, Jaws will be unleashed this summer as a…

Tom Holland’s Child’s Play, the best killer doll movie not produced by Charles Band, is getting the special-edition…

Godzilla is back in his hometown of Tokyo, Japan. After a brief trip stateside to wreak havoc on San Francisco (only…

Something Weird Video reports Herschell Gordon Lewis, the director credited with inventing the “splatter” sub-genre…