I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeremy Bernstein, writer of all kinds of things such as Leverage, Pretty in Pink, Dead Space 2, and now his new Thrillbent comic Santa Claus: Private Eye. If the name of the book caught your attention, you are definitely not alone. In our chat we touched on his new book, how it came about, and even talked some Dead Space to boot, so without further ado, here is our conversation:
Matt Mueller: I got to go through the first four chapters of Santa Claus: Private Eye. I really enjoyed it. Can you go into some detail of how the whole project and getting the artist, and the colorist etc. came about?
Jeremy Bernstein: A lot of it came through Thrillbent. You know, I had had the idea. I had been sitting on it for awhile, I worked with John Rodgers when I was on Leverage,...
Matt Mueller: I got to go through the first four chapters of Santa Claus: Private Eye. I really enjoyed it. Can you go into some detail of how the whole project and getting the artist, and the colorist etc. came about?
Jeremy Bernstein: A lot of it came through Thrillbent. You know, I had had the idea. I had been sitting on it for awhile, I worked with John Rodgers when I was on Leverage,...
- 11/4/2014
- by Matthew Mueller
- GeekTyrant
One would never imagine Santa Claus as…..a private eye.
From the mind of television/video game writer Jeremy Bernstein, he wrote a comic book series about a supernatural Santa Claus moonlighting as a detective in this film noir-inspired series.
Here’s the synopsis:
A modern day noir, in which a down-and-out Saint Nick spends the Other 364 days of the year holding his own in the lonely city, just another average jake trying to make ends meet. He’s traded the red and white suit for a trenchcoat and fedora, traded the North Pole for back alleys and rain-slicked streets. Instead of days filled with jolly elves and hand-made toys, it’s long, dark nights filled with gangster, guns, and femme fatales… and the nicer they look, the naughtier they are.
When the wealthy, widowed Julia Barton hires Nick to find out who murdered her husband, it could be the...
From the mind of television/video game writer Jeremy Bernstein, he wrote a comic book series about a supernatural Santa Claus moonlighting as a detective in this film noir-inspired series.
Here’s the synopsis:
A modern day noir, in which a down-and-out Saint Nick spends the Other 364 days of the year holding his own in the lonely city, just another average jake trying to make ends meet. He’s traded the red and white suit for a trenchcoat and fedora, traded the North Pole for back alleys and rain-slicked streets. Instead of days filled with jolly elves and hand-made toys, it’s long, dark nights filled with gangster, guns, and femme fatales… and the nicer they look, the naughtier they are.
When the wealthy, widowed Julia Barton hires Nick to find out who murdered her husband, it could be the...
- 10/21/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
To call the output, both realized and unmade, of Stanley Kubrick “vast” still somehow seems inexact, with every year since the filmmaker’s death in 1999 unearthing new scraps of information on discarded projects. And yet, as some of those ventures are now finding life in different forms (including an HBO miniseries of “Napoleon” with Baz Luhrmann in the mix to direct), it’s easy to forget the wry humor and personality of the man himself. Interviews with Kubrick are a rare occurrence, but now, through Kubrick’s love of chess, the stage was set for perhaps the most extensive and wide-ranging interview ever conducted with the director. It was a matter of mutual appreciation that led author and physicist Jeremy Bernstein to first meet Kubrick in 1965, when The New Yorker sent him to interview the then 37-year-old director. Bernstein wrote a positive piece in the magazine on science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke,...
- 12/16/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Check out this radical collection of illustrations for a show at the Gauntlet Gallery focusing on art inspired by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk.
The show is called "ReDiscovery", and it was put on to "celebrate the release of Daft Punk’s first album in eight years, Gauntlet Gallery will feature works by over 40 painters, sculptors, digital and screen print artists, each of whom has created an original work of art inspired by Daft Punk."
I've included a bunch pieces from the show below. A lot of them are extremely cool. Check 'em out!
Here's a not from the artist, Paul Shipper on the piece above:
I approached my piece as a promotional poster for the first single that was to be released from 'Random Access Memories' - 'Get Lucky' featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. I instantly loved this track and had it practically on repeat during...
The show is called "ReDiscovery", and it was put on to "celebrate the release of Daft Punk’s first album in eight years, Gauntlet Gallery will feature works by over 40 painters, sculptors, digital and screen print artists, each of whom has created an original work of art inspired by Daft Punk."
I've included a bunch pieces from the show below. A lot of them are extremely cool. Check 'em out!
Here's a not from the artist, Paul Shipper on the piece above:
I approached my piece as a promotional poster for the first single that was to be released from 'Random Access Memories' - 'Get Lucky' featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. I instantly loved this track and had it practically on repeat during...
- 5/22/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Our friends at Flavorwire shared a fascinating Stanley Kubrick interview over the weekend. It's hard to imagine the brilliant filmmaker failing English and not being accepted into college, but the director laughingly admits just that in a 1966 interview conducted by New Yorker writer Jeremy Bernstein. The normally private director was enticed to reveal several personal, telling stories over a game of chess. The two men would play between takes of Kubrick's sci-fi opus, 2001. As the tape recorder ran — which was Kubrick's suggestion, since he had a love of technology and gadgets — he shared stories about his early film works, his stint as a photographer at Look magazine, and all his landmark movies up until that point — including Paths of Glory, Lolita...
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- 6/11/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Our friends at Flavorwire shared a fascinating Stanley Kubrick interview over the weekend. It's hard to imagine the brilliant filmmaker failing English and not being accepted into college, but the director laughingly admits just that in a 1966 interview conducted by New Yorker writer Jeremy Bernstein. The normally private director was enticed to reveal several personal, telling stories over a game of chess. The two men would play between takes of Kubrick's sci-fi opus, 2001. As the tape recorder ran — which was Kubrick's suggestion, since he had a love of technology and gadgets — he shared stories about his early film works, his stint as a photographer at Look magazine, and all his landmark movies up until that point — including Paths of Glory, Lolita...
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- 6/11/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
I haven't seen a newsy item excite so many cinephiles in quite a while. Talking to Allocine, Ethan Hawke has let on that a followup to the delightfully Rohmeresque films he's made with Richard Linklater and Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, may be in the works. The Playlist's Simon Dang has the full video interview and has helpfully transcribed the money quote: "Well, I don't know what we're going to do but I know the three of us have been talking a lot in the last six months. All of three of us have been having similar feelings that we're ready to revisit those characters. There's nine years between the first two movies and, if we made the film next summer, it would be nine years again so we're really started thinking that would be a good thing to do. We're going to try write it this year.
- 11/23/2011
- MUBI
Seven films by Stanley Kubrick make up this new Blu-ray boxset, two new to the format and each one a challenging and intriguing work of art.
The quality of the films are not in doubt and if you found your way here then there’s a fair chance you know Kubrick’s work so I won’t waste your time on a cursory summary of each, instead I’ll give you an idea of my struggle with the new collection which comprises the later films in the director’s career: A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Lolita and Barry Lyndon.
It’s been an exhausting week and a half taking in the seven films and as many extras as I could manage; these are not films to have on in the background when other tasks are carried out. They demand (and reward) your complete attention.
The quality of the films are not in doubt and if you found your way here then there’s a fair chance you know Kubrick’s work so I won’t waste your time on a cursory summary of each, instead I’ll give you an idea of my struggle with the new collection which comprises the later films in the director’s career: A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Lolita and Barry Lyndon.
It’s been an exhausting week and a half taking in the seven films and as many extras as I could manage; these are not films to have on in the background when other tasks are carried out. They demand (and reward) your complete attention.
- 5/27/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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