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Sukiyaki Western Django
by Dan Persons
Takashi Miike goes all KILL BILL memory-dump on the spaghetti western with SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO. It’s like when THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN paid homage to Kurosawa paying homage to the western in THE SEVEN SAMURAI, but way crazier.
Outer Limits box set
The original black-and-white version of TV’S THE OUTER LIMITS has been released on DVD in various permutations. First it was (logically) divided into two volumes, one for Season One and a second for Season Two; then it was in explicably divided into three volumes (presumably because Season One was nearly twice as long as Season [...]
Supernatural thriller stirs Tsunami memories
VINYAN, a new film variously described as a “supernatural thriller” and a “tsunami horror film,” recently screened at the Venice Film Festival. Because the film’s jumping off point is a real-life 2004 tsunami, some have questioned whether the project is in good taste. French actress Emmanuelle Beart and British thespian Rufus Sewell star as a [...]
Carrie and Amityville on Blu-ray
MGM Home Entertainment will release the horror classic CARRIE and the sub-classic THE AMITYVILLE HORROR on Blu-ray just in time for the Halloween season this year, on October 7.
Based on Stephen King’s first published novel and directed by Brian DePalma (The Black Dahlia), CARRIE (1976) is a pulse-pounding thriller starring Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom) [...]
Cybersurfing: A lament for Stargate Atlantis
Over at the Los Angeles Times, David Tischman laments the demise of STARGATE: ATLANTIS, but sees hope in a spin-off series down the road:
THE Sci Fi Channel canceled “Stargate Atlantis” this month, less than halfway through its fifth season. And indeed, the episodes have been disappointing so far, with no new plot twists to enhance [...]
Cybersurfing: HR praises Ponyo
Hollywood Reporter reviews PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA, the latest anime film from Hayao Miyazaki (PRINCESS MONONOKE), which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Their bottom line assessment: “A superb work of Japanese fantasy from animation wizard Miyazaki that transcends age barriers.” The film is loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson [...]
News: Combs in Dunwich, not on Doorstep
Actor Jeffrey Combs (who earned an eternal place in horror history with his performance as as Herbert West in H. P. Lovecraft’s REANIMATOR) tells Fangoria that he has a “strong supporting role” in a remake of Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror,” but he will not be appearing THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP, the Lovecraft inspired film [...]
News: Rodriguez goes to Mars
Ain’t It Cool News follows up on trade paper reports that Robert Rodriguez has signed a deal to direct a film version of Edgar Rice Burrough’s novel Princess of Mars, scripted by Mark Protosevich:
First of all, am I allowed to say how happy I am that Robert is not writing this film? [...]
This time out, [...]
News: Trailers for “Ghost Town” and “Eagle Eye”
by Dan Persons
David Koepp directing Ricky Gervais in a romantic fantasy? Could be cool.
However, D.J. Caruso directing Shia LeBeouf in a crazy-ass, paranoid thriller? Could kick ass.
GHOST TOWN is out September 19. EAGLE EYE follows on September 26.
Movie Review: “Ashes of Time Redux”
by Dan Persons
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