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INKHEART is a film you may not have heard much about because it was rather unceremoniously released into theaters in January, 2009.  Even if you’ve heard about it, the odds are mighty high that you missed its brief theatrical engagement—which managed to eke out only $17,303,424 at the domestic box-office.  Well, you wouldn’t be alone; [...]

Universal Studios Hollywood officially premiered the newest attraction on its famous theme park tour, a live stage musical titled THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: A RAGING, ROCKIN SHOW. This twenty-five minute show condenses the plot from the 1954 classic, starring Richard Carlson and Julie Adams, adding a bunch of songs and dialogue heavy with [...]

Criterion’s Blue-ray and DVD edition of Alain Resnais’ LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is now out, right on the heels of the 87-year old director’s latest film, WILD GRASS , which has received rave reviews at the recent Cannes film festival. Unfortunately, given the sad state of foreign film exhibition in America, it seems probable that like most of Resnais’ last eight films, WILD GRASS will not even be distributed to American cinemas! Luckily, Kino Video has recently put four of the missing Resnais films out on DVD. With that in mind, we offer some notes on selected Resnais films with themes that relate to cinefantastique.

Well, it seems as if Hollywood broke the bank with last week’s generous release of horror, fantasy, and science fiction titles on home video, leaving nothing for today. Except for a handful of direct-to-video titles, the only new cinefantastique is INKHEART, the Brendan Fraser film about the magic of reading that disappeared from theatres about [...]