Actress Kristin Minter played Kevin’s older cousin Heather McCallister in the 1990 Christmas film ‘Home Alone’, but in the 33-years since it was released, she’s never watched the film in its entirety.
Kristin Minter, 58, played Heather McCallister in the 1990 film, an older cousin to Macauley Culkin’s Kevin, and she appears frequently in the first twenty minutes.
One of her biggest scenes is when she answers the door to Joe Pesci’s character, Harry Lime, who is pretending to be a policeman to scope out which houses will be empty over Christmas for him and his ‘Wet Bandits’ pal Marv to rob, reports mirror.co.uk.
Minter told the Daily Mail that the closest she got to watching the film was at a screening – but the sight of herself on the big screen made her feel nauseous.
She said: “I’ve actually only seen Home Alone – and I wouldn...
Kristin Minter, 58, played Heather McCallister in the 1990 film, an older cousin to Macauley Culkin’s Kevin, and she appears frequently in the first twenty minutes.
One of her biggest scenes is when she answers the door to Joe Pesci’s character, Harry Lime, who is pretending to be a policeman to scope out which houses will be empty over Christmas for him and his ‘Wet Bandits’ pal Marv to rob, reports mirror.co.uk.
Minter told the Daily Mail that the closest she got to watching the film was at a screening – but the sight of herself on the big screen made her feel nauseous.
She said: “I’ve actually only seen Home Alone – and I wouldn...
- 12/26/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Earlier this month, when Vanilla Ice announced via Twitter that he was boldly defying instructions to evacuate his Florida home in the face of Hurricane Matthew, it not only inspired what had to be the greatest (and possibly also the most depressing) tweet ever made by the Florida Democratic Party, but it also made one hope that it might really be a sneaky promo for an upcoming Weather Channel series wherein the rapper and reality TV star goes head to head with natural disasters.
Alas, "The Ice Storm" (or whatever...
Alas, "The Ice Storm" (or whatever...
- 10/18/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Tobias Jelinek, Danielle Chuchran, Keely Aloña, Kimberly Leemans, Eric Edwards, Simon Sorrells, Pelé Kizy, Brionne Davis, Derrick L. McMillon, Kristin Minter, Harry Shum Jr., Jen Oda | Written by Michael Hayes, Brian Lubocki | Directed by Tom Woodruff Jr.
Vine (Tobias Jelinek), a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl (Keely Aloña), the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
Fire City is… well, it’s hard to describe. It’s a mash of fantasy and horror so much to the point that I wouldn’t really be comfortable describing it as either. Story-wise, Fire City successfully builds its own little world and fills it with demons in a very short amount of time. As a viewer, I found it...
Vine (Tobias Jelinek), a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl (Keely Aloña), the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
Fire City is… well, it’s hard to describe. It’s a mash of fantasy and horror so much to the point that I wouldn’t really be comfortable describing it as either. Story-wise, Fire City successfully builds its own little world and fills it with demons in a very short amount of time. As a viewer, I found it...
- 12/15/2015
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
Set in a world where demons live among us, this exhilarating vitrine of effects and action sees a hard-boiled demon named Vine confronted with the ultimate choice between the salvation of his own kind and the life of an innocent human girl. Tobias Jelinek (Hocus Pocus), Danielle Chuchran (Saga : Curse of the Shadow), Glee’s Harry Shum Jr, and Kristin Minter (TVs E.R) star. The movie from Uncork’d Entertainment stars Danielle Chuchran, Harry Shum Jr., Kristin Minter, Mary-Margaret Humes, and Matt Winston. “Fire City: End of Days” lands on home video on October 6 on DVD and Digital Download.
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- 9/3/2015
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
The end of days is nigh in the new trailer for Fire City: End of Days, directed by Tom Woodruff Jr. Also: new programming announcements from the 2015 Mile High Horror Film Festival, release details for Aquarius Season 1 and zombie web comic When It's Over.
Fire City: End of Days: Press Release: "Burbank, CA - Academy Award Winning Creature and Character Effects Designer Tom Woodruff Jr. makes his highly-anticipated directorial debut with Fire City: End of Days, hitting DVD and Digital October 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Set in a world where demons live among us, this exhilarating vitrine of effects and action sees a hard-boiled demon named Vine confronted with the ultimate choice between the salvation of his own kind and the life of an innocent human girl. Tobias Jelinek (Hocus Pocus), Danielle Chuchran (Saga: Curse of the Shadow), Glee’s Harry Shum Jr, and Kristin Minter (TVs E.R) star.
Fire City: End of Days: Press Release: "Burbank, CA - Academy Award Winning Creature and Character Effects Designer Tom Woodruff Jr. makes his highly-anticipated directorial debut with Fire City: End of Days, hitting DVD and Digital October 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Set in a world where demons live among us, this exhilarating vitrine of effects and action sees a hard-boiled demon named Vine confronted with the ultimate choice between the salvation of his own kind and the life of an innocent human girl. Tobias Jelinek (Hocus Pocus), Danielle Chuchran (Saga: Curse of the Shadow), Glee’s Harry Shum Jr, and Kristin Minter (TVs E.R) star.
- 9/2/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
This year’s South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW 2015), which will run from March 13-21 in Austin, Texas, has unveiled the lineup for its beloved Midnighters section, which aims to showcase the best and brightest in genre filmmaking, from thriller to horror to science-fiction. Attendees will witness 11 titles including nine world premieres at Midnighters this year, with filmmakers like Karyn Kusama and Rodney Ascher in the mix.
SXSW’s senior programmer Jarod Neece commented on the Midnighters lineup, stating:
“Creepy, clever, engrossing, and frightening are just a few words that come to mind when I think about this year’s SXSW Midnighters lineup. These nine world premieres and two festival favorites are helmed by five first-time filmmakers and several SXSW alumni.”
Midnighters always introduces some fascinating genre pics, and whether there’s something here that will go on to Oculus-style success remains to be seen, but it’s...
SXSW’s senior programmer Jarod Neece commented on the Midnighters lineup, stating:
“Creepy, clever, engrossing, and frightening are just a few words that come to mind when I think about this year’s SXSW Midnighters lineup. These nine world premieres and two festival favorites are helmed by five first-time filmmakers and several SXSW alumni.”
Midnighters always introduces some fascinating genre pics, and whether there’s something here that will go on to Oculus-style success remains to be seen, but it’s...
- 2/11/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Following the recent announcement of their full film lineup that includes Trainwreck, Get Hard, and Spy, South by Southwest has revealed their lineup of Midnight movies and short films to screen during the festival. Chief among them is the Sundance 2015 hit Turbo Kid (read our review here) and the Sundance ’15 winner of the Short Film Prize World of Tomorrow. SXSW runs from March 13-21. View the full Midnighters and Shorts lineup below via the SXSW website.
****
Midnighters
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked. Fascinated by her beauty, they decide to become the last people to have sex with her. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbó. (World Premiere)
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden...
****
Midnighters
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked. Fascinated by her beauty, they decide to become the last people to have sex with her. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbó. (World Premiere)
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden...
- 2/10/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
SXSW’s Midnighters selections often give horror fans the first look at indie horror’s finest releases of the year and their 2015 lineup has just been announced, including nine movies that will be making their world premiere during the festival:
“Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious.
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked. Fascinated by her beauty, they decide to become the last people to have sex with her. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbó (World Premiere)
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden
New kid in town Brodie and bad-boy Zakk quickly bond over their mutual admiration of heavy metal. But when these two metal thrashing losers unwittingly summon malevolent forces,...
“Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious.
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked. Fascinated by her beauty, they decide to become the last people to have sex with her. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbó (World Premiere)
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden
New kid in town Brodie and bad-boy Zakk quickly bond over their mutual admiration of heavy metal. But when these two metal thrashing losers unwittingly summon malevolent forces,...
- 2/10/2015
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
SXSW top brass have unveiled the Midnighters section and the complete short film line-up at the festival, set to run in Texas from March 13-21.
This marks the second year of the section and the 2015 offerings comprise 11 genre films including nine world premieres.
“Creepy, clever, engrossing, and frightening are just a few words that come to mind when I think about this year’s SXSW Midnighters line-up,” said SXSW producer and senior programmer Jarod Neece.
“These nine world premieres and two Festival Favorites are helmed by five, first-time filmmakers and several SXSW alumni. We will be screening four films a night at midnight during all nine days of SXSW, and we can’t wait to unleash them on the SXSW audiences”
The Midnighters line-up appears below including synopses provided by the festival:
The Corpse Of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men...
This marks the second year of the section and the 2015 offerings comprise 11 genre films including nine world premieres.
“Creepy, clever, engrossing, and frightening are just a few words that come to mind when I think about this year’s SXSW Midnighters line-up,” said SXSW producer and senior programmer Jarod Neece.
“These nine world premieres and two Festival Favorites are helmed by five, first-time filmmakers and several SXSW alumni. We will be screening four films a night at midnight during all nine days of SXSW, and we can’t wait to unleash them on the SXSW audiences”
The Midnighters line-up appears below including synopses provided by the festival:
The Corpse Of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men...
- 2/10/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
What goes on tour stays on tour – unless it's caught on camera. With classic Beatles comedy A Hard Day's Night returning to UK cinemas on July 4, and Metallica's triumphant set at Glastonbury reminding us how far they've come from darker days, now feels like the time to look back on some of the movies that prove that maxim.
Below, we catalogue the craziest music movies ever made, helpfully divided into four distinct categories of weirdness.
Bad Behaviour
Beginning with its 70-something subject attacking the director with his walking stick, Beware Of Mr Baker (2012) introduces a man – ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker – so bellicose he's made the whole world his practice kit. Like Brick Top from Snatch with even greater anger-management issues, Baker is a bitter old codger who "communicates more through his drums than his words", according to his long-suffering daughter. He certainly doesn't mince the latter.
Mick Jagger is...
Below, we catalogue the craziest music movies ever made, helpfully divided into four distinct categories of weirdness.
Bad Behaviour
Beginning with its 70-something subject attacking the director with his walking stick, Beware Of Mr Baker (2012) introduces a man – ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker – so bellicose he's made the whole world his practice kit. Like Brick Top from Snatch with even greater anger-management issues, Baker is a bitter old codger who "communicates more through his drums than his words", according to his long-suffering daughter. He certainly doesn't mince the latter.
Mick Jagger is...
- 7/6/2014
- Digital Spy
Fire City: Interpreter of Signs is an upcoming demon fantasy thriller set against the noir backdrop of a shadowy atmospheric world, where demons live among humans who are blind to what they really are.
The story follows Atum Vine, a 700-year-old demon with an attitude. To the humans who live unwittingly alongside him in a derelict tenement building, Vine is just the drug dealer at the end of the hall. But to the demons also living on the floor, Vine is a procurer of human misery, which they need to survive.
After Vine’s flow of addicts shuts off unexpectedly and apparently for no reason, Vine consults Cornelia, an interpreter of signs. She is a fortune teller in the demon world and an enigma even Vine can’t quite figure out.
We got a chance to catch up with Danielle Chuchran, the young actress who plays Cornelia, during our recent set visit for the film.
The story follows Atum Vine, a 700-year-old demon with an attitude. To the humans who live unwittingly alongside him in a derelict tenement building, Vine is just the drug dealer at the end of the hall. But to the demons also living on the floor, Vine is a procurer of human misery, which they need to survive.
After Vine’s flow of addicts shuts off unexpectedly and apparently for no reason, Vine consults Cornelia, an interpreter of signs. She is a fortune teller in the demon world and an enigma even Vine can’t quite figure out.
We got a chance to catch up with Danielle Chuchran, the young actress who plays Cornelia, during our recent set visit for the film.
- 5/6/2014
- by Staci Layne Wilson
- DreadCentral.com
Okay By Me Productions has completed shooting on Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs. This film, from director Tom Woodruff Jr. (Aliens), is set in an alternate world, where demons hide in human form. The film stars Harry Shum Jr. (Step Up 3D), Mary-Margaret Humes, Danielle Chuchran and Kristin Minter. Fans of exceptional make-up effects and dark settings can take a look at the first trailer for Fire City here. For more on the story, Atum is an ancient demon. Atum gathers her power from the misery of humanity. But, when the humans begin to find happiness, Atum and her cohort lose their strength. These demons will have to try harder to upset the locals, or be run out of Fire City forever. The trailer for Fire City shows some of Woodruff's background in special effects. Woodruff has participated in over fourty films, in a specials effects capacity. Some of...
- 5/3/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The trailer for the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning special effects designer Tom Woodruff, Jr., a supernatural thriller called Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs, is finally here and the practical effects are nothing short of badass! Dig it!
The film centers around a fragile balance that exists between humankind and the demons who secretly live among them and the crisis for all when this balance is broken. Mary-Margaret Humes, Harry Shum Jr., Danielle Chuchran, Kristin Minter, Matt Winston, Eric Edwards, Tobias Jelinek, and Robert Peters star.
Shum plays an abusive alcoholic boyfriend who suddenly transforms into a caring and loving person, along with the rest of the humans in his seedy tenement building. Dependent on human misery for survival, the demons in the building begin to starve.
Writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign for the film in August 2013 and will go into production this month.
The film centers around a fragile balance that exists between humankind and the demons who secretly live among them and the crisis for all when this balance is broken. Mary-Margaret Humes, Harry Shum Jr., Danielle Chuchran, Kristin Minter, Matt Winston, Eric Edwards, Tobias Jelinek, and Robert Peters star.
Shum plays an abusive alcoholic boyfriend who suddenly transforms into a caring and loving person, along with the rest of the humans in his seedy tenement building. Dependent on human misery for survival, the demons in the building begin to starve.
Writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign for the film in August 2013 and will go into production this month.
- 5/2/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
We were lucky enough to get to play with demons on the set of Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs earlier this month while the complex “horror noir,” which is the brainchild of writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, was shooting.
It’s directed by F/X master Tom Woodruff, Jr., and stars Tobias Jelinek as Vine the Demon, who must square off with an even eviler Demoness, Cornelia (played by Danielle "Dani" Chuchran).
We had a chance to talk with the actors plus the director and his two right-hand practical effects guys (his son, David Woodruff, and Academy Award winner Dave Elsey), but in this installment you'll hear from the originators of Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs, Lubocki and Hayes.
Dread Central: So… what’s the Fire City story in this film? It's based on your body of shorts and other works set in this world, correct?
Brian Lubocki...
It’s directed by F/X master Tom Woodruff, Jr., and stars Tobias Jelinek as Vine the Demon, who must square off with an even eviler Demoness, Cornelia (played by Danielle "Dani" Chuchran).
We had a chance to talk with the actors plus the director and his two right-hand practical effects guys (his son, David Woodruff, and Academy Award winner Dave Elsey), but in this installment you'll hear from the originators of Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs, Lubocki and Hayes.
Dread Central: So… what’s the Fire City story in this film? It's based on your body of shorts and other works set in this world, correct?
Brian Lubocki...
- 4/14/2014
- by Staci Layne Wilson
- DreadCentral.com
Cool As Ice
Stars: Robert Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), Kristin Minter, John Haymes Newton, Candy Clark, Michael Gross | Written by David Stenn | Directed by David Kellogg
Alright stop, read this review and listen. Vanilla Ice is back, with a brand new DVD edition – of his one an only star vehicle Cool As Ice that is… Fresh off the back of Ice’s collaboration with Jedward and his appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Second Sight have released his epic 1991 movie on DVD for the very first time.
Cool As Ice sees bad boy rapper and biker Johnny (Vanilla Ice) ride into a small midwestern town and fall head over heels in love with sweet natured Catherine (Minter). However, like all good romances, their courtship is a rocky one. It transpires that Catherine’s parents, unbeknownst to her, are in the witness protection programme, and the criminals they put...
Stars: Robert Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), Kristin Minter, John Haymes Newton, Candy Clark, Michael Gross | Written by David Stenn | Directed by David Kellogg
Alright stop, read this review and listen. Vanilla Ice is back, with a brand new DVD edition – of his one an only star vehicle Cool As Ice that is… Fresh off the back of Ice’s collaboration with Jedward and his appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Second Sight have released his epic 1991 movie on DVD for the very first time.
Cool As Ice sees bad boy rapper and biker Johnny (Vanilla Ice) ride into a small midwestern town and fall head over heels in love with sweet natured Catherine (Minter). However, like all good romances, their courtship is a rocky one. It transpires that Catherine’s parents, unbeknownst to her, are in the witness protection programme, and the criminals they put...
- 9/8/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Panorama Entertainment
NEW YORK -- A sweet-natured drama in the ethnic mode that is lately proving such a popular indie trend, this debut feature written and directed by Melissa Martin is a slice of Italian-American cheese that may prove a bit hard for audiences to fully digest. Featuring such plot elements as an elderly woman dying of cancer, a lovable, learning-impaired lug and a couple who pretend to get married only to, surprise, actually fall in love, "The Bread, My Sweet" has apparently wowed them on the festival circuit and in Pittsburgh, where the film was shot, but anything resembling breakout potential is unlikely.
Scott Baio, whose role as television's Chachi has forever doomed him to trivia-game-answer status, delivers a highly effective and restrained performance as Dominic Pyzola, a young Italian-American who improbably divides his working time between serving as a ruthless acquisitions executive for a big corporation and baking biscotti in the family bakery that he also manages. His partners in the business are his brothers Pino (Shuler Hensley), whose mental deficiency doesn't prevent him from being a first-class baker, and Eddie (Billy Mott), a struggling actor.
The brothers' surrogate mother is their endearing upstairs neighbor Bella (theater and soap opera veteran Rosemary Prinz), who lives with her brusque, English-impaired husband Massimo (John Seitz). When Bella learns that she has but six months to live, she has one request for Dominic: reunite her with her estranged daughter Lucca (Kristin Minter), who left law school years ago for the Peace Corps. Not only does Dominic fulfill the request, he decides to go it one better. In order to make Bella truly happy before she dies, he'll pretend to marry Lucca, whose beauty and grace don't exactly make the task difficult.
If you're willing to swallow those formulaic plot machinations, you may reasonably enjoy this rough-hewn debut effort, which is far more effective in its quieter, dialogue-heavy moments than when it attempts more ambitious cinematic conceits. While the supporting players fall victim to their broadly conceived roles, Baio and Minter underplay charmingly, and actually manage to make us care about their characters despite their less than credible aspects.
NEW YORK -- A sweet-natured drama in the ethnic mode that is lately proving such a popular indie trend, this debut feature written and directed by Melissa Martin is a slice of Italian-American cheese that may prove a bit hard for audiences to fully digest. Featuring such plot elements as an elderly woman dying of cancer, a lovable, learning-impaired lug and a couple who pretend to get married only to, surprise, actually fall in love, "The Bread, My Sweet" has apparently wowed them on the festival circuit and in Pittsburgh, where the film was shot, but anything resembling breakout potential is unlikely.
Scott Baio, whose role as television's Chachi has forever doomed him to trivia-game-answer status, delivers a highly effective and restrained performance as Dominic Pyzola, a young Italian-American who improbably divides his working time between serving as a ruthless acquisitions executive for a big corporation and baking biscotti in the family bakery that he also manages. His partners in the business are his brothers Pino (Shuler Hensley), whose mental deficiency doesn't prevent him from being a first-class baker, and Eddie (Billy Mott), a struggling actor.
The brothers' surrogate mother is their endearing upstairs neighbor Bella (theater and soap opera veteran Rosemary Prinz), who lives with her brusque, English-impaired husband Massimo (John Seitz). When Bella learns that she has but six months to live, she has one request for Dominic: reunite her with her estranged daughter Lucca (Kristin Minter), who left law school years ago for the Peace Corps. Not only does Dominic fulfill the request, he decides to go it one better. In order to make Bella truly happy before she dies, he'll pretend to marry Lucca, whose beauty and grace don't exactly make the task difficult.
If you're willing to swallow those formulaic plot machinations, you may reasonably enjoy this rough-hewn debut effort, which is far more effective in its quieter, dialogue-heavy moments than when it attempts more ambitious cinematic conceits. While the supporting players fall victim to their broadly conceived roles, Baio and Minter underplay charmingly, and actually manage to make us care about their characters despite their less than credible aspects.
- 10/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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