Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

MONSTERS, INC. is the 6th Pixar film to be released on Blu-Ray, and from the disc we were sent, the wait has been worth it. Following the example...

Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

Up 4-Disc Combo Pack

Continuing the unassailable winning streak for animation studio Pixar, last summer’s UP (2009) arrives on Blu-Ray this week in a package that makes an adjective...

Up 4-Disc Combo Pack

London After Midnight: Abertoir Horror Festival Review

We managed to survive our trip to Wales for the Abertoir Festival in spite of the all-consuming fog that threatened to swallow...

London After Midnight: Abertoir Horror Festival Review

Supernal Dreams: Roger Corman reflects on becoming an Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

At the age of 83, Roger Corman will finally receive his long overdue reward from Hollywood:...

Supernal Dreams: Roger Corman reflects on becoming an Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

2012 (2009)

Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich outdoes himself with his new special effects extravaganza. It is safe to assume that most people going to see Roland Emmerich’s...

2012 (2009)
Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

MONSTERS, INC. is the 6th Pixar film to be released on Blu-Ray, and from the disc we were sent, the wait has been worth it. Following the example of UP, the film comes in a four-disc set, including the feature and the extras from the previous DVD special edition housed on 2 BD discs, a third standard-def DVD of the film, and a fourth disc housing the digital copy.

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Supernal Dreams: Roger Corman reflects on becoming an Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

Supernal Dreams: Roger Corman reflects on becoming an Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

At the age of 83, Roger Corman will finally receive his long overdue reward from Hollywood: A golden Oscar statuette. Here are some of Corman’s thoughts about finally receiving an Oscar, as well as his comments on the many Oscar winning people he first discovered.

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London After Midnight - Day of the Undead Festival

London After Midnight – Day of the Undead Festival

One of many films screening at the 12-hour zombie-fest.
Wow! This one very nearly slipped through my net! DAY OF THE UNDEAD scheduled for 28th November 2009 in Phoenix Square, Leicester, England is a 12-hour Zombie-fest,  now in its third year. It promises Zombie films, make-up artists, computer games (with great prize for whoever kills the most virtual [...]

Other posts in Viewpoints

Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

MONSTERS, INC. is the 6th Pixar film to be released on Blu-Ray, and from the disc we were sent, the wait has been worth it. Following the example of UP, the film comes in a four-disc set, including the feature and the extras from the previous DVD special edition housed on 2 BD discs, a third standard-def DVD of the film, and a fourth disc housing the digital copy.

Other posts in DVD

The Lost Worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost Worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the most important works in the history of cinefantastique is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Although not as widely read as it deserves to be, the novel has had a huge impact that lives on to this day, thanks to the many science fiction film and television adaptations, beginning with the 1925 [...]

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Chiller-Eyegore Awards Red Carpet Interviews

2009 Winners include Rob Zombie, Tobin Bell, and Rick Baker
Every October, on the night they launch their theme park’s Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Studios conducts the Eyegore Awards, honoring filmmakers in the horror genre. For 2009, the awards presentation was re-named “Chiller-Eyegore Awards,” a bit of corporate synergy between the movie studio and NBC (both [...]

Horror Unleashed on home video with movie cash for Zombieland

Just in time for Halloween, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing over twenty titles under the banner “Horror Unleashed.” Although most of the films have been previously available on DVD or Blu-ray, the new releases include $10 in “movie cash,” which you can use to offset the cost of a ticket to see ZOMBIELAND when [...]

Paranormal Activity Limited Engagements

[ September 24, 2009 11:59 pm to September 26, 2009 11:59 pm. ] PARANORMAL ACTIVITY scared the proverbial unmentionable excremental waste material out of audiences when it screened at films festivals in 2007. The film made such a big impression that DreamWorks snatched up the rights early in 2008; unfortunately, their game plan was not to release the micro-budget horror movie but to remake it on a larger scale. [...]

Pandorum TV Spot #2

Here is a second television spot for PANDORUM, which opens on September 25. The mutants darting around in the darkness of the space ship suggest an interplanetary version of I AM LEGEND or THE DESCENT, but the film actually looks as if it might be a decent popcorn movie. Too bad it didn’t come out [...]

Pandroum opens September 25 – Watch the TV Spot

[ September 25, 2009; ] Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in this thriller about two astronauts whose awakening from hypersleep is complicated not only by amnesia (they cannot remember their identities or their mission) but also by the uncomfortable realization that they are not alone on their isolated spacecraft – and their other inhabitants are not human. What would a science fiction [...]

9 – The Complete Original Short Subject

The original short subject 9, on which the new feature film is based, is a cryptic little gem. Without the time to develop its premise fully into a dramatic story, writer-director Shane Acker instead presents an eerie vignette that throws us into a seemingly post-apocalyptic world. Without dialogue or exposition, Acker’s film leaves us to [...]

The Wolfman in 2010 – Watch the Trailer

Originally scheduled for release in November of this year, THE WOLFMAN has been pushed back to February 10, 2010. This remake of the 1941 classic – which turned Lon Chaney Jr into a horror star, features Benicio Del Toro in the title role, with Anthony Hopkins as his father (a father-son relationship almost as unlikely [...]

Nevermore: Artwork from Roger Corman’s Poe Films – Video

Starting in 1960 with THE HOUSE OF USHER, producer-director Roger Corman crafted a series of stylish horror films inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Although the screenplays (usually by Richard Matheson or Charles Beaumont) had to embellish the short stories in order to fill out the feature length running time, the production design and [...]

Grace opens August 14 – Watch the Trailer

Anchor Bay Entertainment gives a platform release to  writer-director Paul Solet grim exploration of the dark side of maternity. Jordan Ladd (GRINDHOUSE) stars as Grace, who opts to carry her stillborn child to term. Miraculous, the baby comes to life when born; unfortunately, it hungers for something other than mother’s milk.
GRACE was produced by Ingo Vollkammer, Cory [...]

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Edward Woodward - Obituary

Edward Woodward – Obituary

Edward Woodward (left) confronted by Christopher Lee (background) in THE WICKER MAN
79-year-old actor Edward Woodward – best known to genre fans for starring in the 1973 cult film THE WICKER MAN – died from pneumonia today at his home in Cornwall. He played a variety of roles in his career, earning good notices for a [...]

Paul Wendkos - Obituary

Paul Wendkos – Obituary

Director Paul Wendkos, who helmed several stylish made-for-television horror movies, died on Thursday from a lung infection, at the age of 84. The Reuters obituary being reprinted at various outlets (including ABC News) identifies Wendkos as the director of GIDGET (1959), starring Sandra Dee, but barely mentions his fine genre work.

London After Midnight - Day of the Undead Festival

London After Midnight – Day of the Undead Festival

One of many films screening at the 12-hour zombie-fest.
Wow! This one very nearly slipped through my net! DAY OF THE UNDEAD scheduled for 28th November 2009 in Phoenix Square, Leicester, England is a 12-hour Zombie-fest,  now in its third year. It promises Zombie films, make-up artists, computer games (with great prize for whoever kills the most virtual [...]

Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

Monsters, Inc. 4-Disc Combo Set

MONSTERS, INC. is the 6th Pixar film to be released on Blu-Ray, and from the disc we were sent, the wait has been worth it. Following the example of UP, the film comes in a four-disc set, including the feature and the extras from the previous DVD special edition housed on 2 BD discs, a third standard-def DVD of the film, and a fourth disc housing the digital copy.

Up 4-Disc Combo Pack

Up 4-Disc Combo Pack

Continuing the unassailable winning streak for animation studio Pixar, last summer’s UP (2009) arrives on Blu-Ray this week in a package that makes an adjective like ‘comprehensive’ seem inadequate. Those fortunate to have BD capability will be laid out flat by the image quality of this release.

London After Midnight: Abertoir Horror Festival Review

London After Midnight: Abertoir Horror Festival Review

We managed to survive our trip to Wales for the Abertoir Festival in spite of the all-consuming fog that threatened to swallow us up on what turned out to be a quite perilous journey home in the wee hours of Monday morning. As delighted as we were to return from Aberystwyth, and leave behind the [...]

Supernal Dreams: Roger Corman reflects on becoming an Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

Supernal Dreams: Roger Corman reflects on becoming an Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

At the age of 83, Roger Corman will finally receive his long overdue reward from Hollywood: A golden Oscar statuette. Here are some of Corman’s thoughts about finally receiving an Oscar, as well as his comments on the many Oscar winning people he first discovered.

PIRATE RADIO Part 1 - Podcast Interview

PIRATE RADIO Part 1 – Podcast Interview

Not Yet Thomson (or is that Thompson?): Nick Frost in PIRATE RADIO
Okay, you could look at PIRATE RADIO (aka THE BOAT THAT ROCKED) as something of a fantasy, seeing as it deals with an historical phenomenon — how in the sixties U.K. broadcasters parked in boats outside the three mile limit gave rock-starved Britishers their [...]

Astro Boy (2009)

Astro Boy (2009)

ASTRO BOY – the brainchild of respected artist and animator Osamu Tezuka – first appeared in Japanese manga (comic books) way back in 1951. Later, he found his way onto the television screens of at least forty different countries, in both black & white and color incarnations. It was these cartoons that helped lead the way for [...]

2012 (2009)

2012 (2009)

Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich outdoes himself with his new special effects extravaganza.

It is safe to assume that most people going to see Roland Emmerich’s spectacular new disaster movie, 2012, won’t be expecting a beautifully crafted script, nor will they be overly upset to find there is no great nuance to the performances from its [...]

A Christmas Carol (1938)

A Christmas Carol (1938)

This 1938 production is probably the first good film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Although slightly corn-ball and even treacly, it features lovely black-and-white photography and solid production values – artificial but appropriate for the story – all in the service of good-natured, uplifting entertainment, which should appeal to fans of old-fashioned Hollywood-style film-making.

Scrooge (1935)

Scrooge (1935)

This early sound adaptation of Charles Dickens’ immortal A Christmas Carol (1843) is slow in pace and static in execution, of interest to film historians and completists.

A Christmas Carol (1843)

A Christmas Carol (1843)

Jimy Carrey is far from the first actor to embody the cold-hearted old sinner conceived and created by author Charles Dickens in his 1843 novel. Dozens of actors have played variations of the role on stage, screen. But what of the source material? Charles Dickens original literary version of the story is a genuine classic in its own right that deserves to be read. In fact, it would probably be a better investment of your time and money if you were to pick up a copy of the novel instead of running out to see the new film.