Tom von Logue Newth

Maya Deren's best-known achievement, her remarkable 1943 dream-poem Meshes of the Afternoon, was just the beginning of a too-brief career. Her output would extend from experiments in psychodrama, like Meshes and Witch's Cradle, a fascinating, barely edited collaboration with Marcel Duchamp made during Deren's short period in Hollywood; to highly......

In nearly 40 years of producing movies, Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment have become a much-loved staple of the low-budget exploitation market, knowing merchants of such grindhouse delicacies as Tromeo and Juliet (1996) and the Toxic Avenger franchise. Their latest title, Father's Day, is a lovingly ironic re-creation of such......