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Helicopters fly into battle with the Transformers.

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox avoid evil Transformers in the desert.

Megan Fox confronts a small Transformer in this clip from TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, the sequel to 2007’s blockbuster hit.

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 [...]

Here is a newly released clip from BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE: Vampire-hunter Saya (Korean actress Gianna) battles winged demon atop a jeep wedged percariously over a ravine. If you enjoy over-the-top Fant-Asia-style martial arts, you will get a kick of out this sequence, which is one of the better scenes in the film.

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This was one of those relatively rare weekends when horror, fantasy, and science fiction did not dominated the box office, mostly because no new titles were released. The one Borderland genre item, YEAR ONE, made its debut in over North American 3000 theatres; the prehistoric comedy, which stars Jack Black and Michael Cera, earned an [...]

Hollywood Reporter informs us that TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, which opened in only a couple of major foreign markets last week, nevertheless managed to blast its way to the top of the overseas box office charts, earning nearly $20-million in Japan and England. The sequel outperformed the opening of the original TRANSFORMERS film in [...]

CNN.com has an article on YEAR ONE, including interviews with director Harold Ramis and stars Jack Black and Michael Cera. Notably, the article does a better job of representing the film that the advertising campaign did: journalist Doug Ganley addresses the irreverent approach to Biblical themes, which director and co-writer Ramis describes as an Old [...]

We’ll give Paramount the benefit of the doubt that they truly intended to end the FRIDAY THE 13TH series with young Tommy Jarvis chopping Jason Voorhees into a million pieces at the conclusion of FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER. Screenwriter Barry Cohen was given explicit instructions to make sure that the form of Jason’s [...]

So, you want to see Jack Black doing his familiar funny routine again? Or maybe you prefer a crude comedy filled with disgusting bathroom humor and repulsive sexual innuendo? How about a violent historical epic filled with brain-bashing, whipping, severed heads (implied rather than shown), and human sacrifice? Better yet, why not a scathing satire [...]

Over at one of our favorite horror review websites, And You Call Yourself a Scientist, Liz Kingsley provides a detailed write-up of Jorge Grau’s 1974 zombie opus, also known as THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE.
One of the areas in which Let Sleeping Corpses Lie proves a fitting participant in the world of the [...]

This trailer for the remake of 1983’s HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW suggests I KNOW WHA T YOU DID LAST SUMMER almost as much as the official source material, but that’s okay because HOUSE was a competent but not particularly outstanding example of ’80s slasher horror. Whatever the lineage, the new SORORITY ROW looks like a [...]