All you need to know about Rocko's Modern Life

To celebrate the release of Rocko's Modern Life on DVD (which are only available at Amazon.com here and here), as well as the 15th anniversary of the show, here some links to stuff that will show you everything you'd ever want to learn about the show:

Creator Joe Murray's own site's entry on Rocko:
http://www.joemurraystudio.com/tv/rocko.shtml

An interview with Joe Murray:
http://www.title14.com/rocko/contributors/murray.html

A little bit of trivia on the show:
http://www.title14.com/rocko/unknowns/

Joe Murray reveals a stressful event that occured just before Rocko started production:
http://joemurraystudio.com/blog/?p=135

Some more info and links can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocko%27s_Modern_Life

A Gaggle of Gremlins

Here's a slew of articles from Starlog Magazine about about Gremlins 2: The New Batch, starting with one that gives theories on the origins of the Gremlins:




And here's an overview on the film (from Starlog #154, May 1990):

Here's an interview with writer Charlie Haas (from Starlog #157, August 1990):

An interview with legendary actor Christopher Lee (from Starlog #158, September 1990):

And an interview with producer Mike Finnell (from Starlog Yearbook Vol. 7, 1990):

Xtro at 25

A quarter of a century ago, an unusual, low-budget, British horror movie called "Xtro" was released to some minor success. It was one of the early films made (or in this case, partially funded) by New Line Cinema (the studio that produced or distributed such varied films as Pink Flamingos, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Evil Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Hairspray, the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, the Mask, the Austin Powers series, and the Lord of the Rings films). Attempts were made to ban Xtro during the Video Nasties era in the 1980s, dispite that Xtro had been rated and approved by the British Board of Film Classification.
Two sequels were made, "Xtro II: The Second Encounter" and "Xtro 3: Watch the Skies", neither of which have anything to the original, or each other, except that they all involve some sort of alien creatures and were all directed by Harry Bromley Davenport. Davenport has plans for a fourth Xtro movie in the near future.
To celebrate, here's an article from Fangoria about Xtro and other New Line productions, such as "Alone in the Dark" (not be confused with the video game of the same name and its film adaptations):

As a bonus, here's another Xtro article from Twilight Zone Magazine:

20 years of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

This year marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most important films in the history of animation, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". To celebrate, here are some articles about this seminal film (all but two are from Starlog), starting with a look at the film's effects:

Here's a review of the film by Harry McCracken in the defunct animation fan magazine Animato:

And here's an article on the making of the film in Newsweek:

And here's an interview with actress Joanna Cassidy, who played Dolores:

And here's and interview with musical composer Alan Silvestri:

Here's an overview of the film:

And finally, here's an interview with director Robert Zemeckis:

Also, check out this article:http://johnpannozzi.blogspot.com/2008/03/censorship-of-who-framed-roger-rabbit.html