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Race to Witch Mountain – Blu-ray Review
Looking back on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s World of Wrestling Entertainment career is to marvel at one of the more successful vocational makeovers in modern film. While attempting to foist the remarkably charisma-free John Cena on a trusting world, the wrestling overlords would do well to realize that Johnson actually possesses something special, and that [...]
Rifftrax Excerpt: Plan 9 from Outer Space
Get a glimpse of what the Rifftrax crew can do with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Edward D. Wood’s legendarily bad sci-fi flick from the ’50s.
Rifftrax Live on August 20 with Plan 9 from Outer Space
Through the magic of Fathom, the entertainment divisoin of National CineMedia, Micheal J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett will be “appearing” in theatres around the country on August 20, as they provide a live Rifftrax accompaniment to Edward D. Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE – the film widely (if erroneously) regarded as the [...]
The Collector opens July 31 – Watch the Trailer
[ July 31, 2009; ] Freestyle Releasing unleashes this horror-thriller from Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the screenwriting team behind FEAST and the recent SAW sequels. If nothing else, the premise – a combo of crime-thriller and torture-porn – is certainly intriguing: a thief named Arkin (Josh Stewart) breaks into his employer’s house but finds that the inhabitants have been [...]
THIRST – Horror Film Interview with Park Chan-wook
Livin' It Up, Dead-Style: Song Kang-ho feasts in THIRST
Turns out in Park Chan-wook’s universe, revenge may be sweet, but blood is just plain tasty. In THIRST, a priest’s benevolent attempt to aid medical researchers turns around to bite him in the… well, let’s say neck, when a blood transfusion transforms him into a profoundly conflicted [...]
Monika Treut on GHOSTED – Fantasy Podcast Interview
Ting-Ting Hu (left) and Inga Busch explore loves both physical and spiritual in GHOSTED
It’s turning out to be a pretty good year for unexpected international co-productions — check out the MMP ep on the superb Israeli/Australian stop-motion animated film $9.99 if you don’t believe me. Now Germany and Taiwan have joined forces, not for the [...]
The Stepfather (2009) – Trailer
Get a glimpse of the 2009 remake and decide for yourself whether it can live up to the brilliant 1986 original.
Read more about The Stepfather (2009) by clicking the links below:
The Stepfather opens October 16
Laserblast: July 27 DVD & Blu-ray Releases
Battlestar Galactica 4.5, Torchwood Season 2, Dr. Who, Repulsion Criterion Collection, Dollhouse, The 10th Victim, Dragonball Evolution, Big Man Japan & more
Tuesday is a busy day for horror, fantasy, and science fiction titles on DVD and Blu-ray disc, with several exciting releases – some new and some classic. No doubt the big seller will be [...]
Repulsion (1965) – Horror Film Review
Although it cannot quite live up to its reputation, Polanski’s startling psychological horror film is a bona fide genre classic.
Back in the day when newspaper and magazine critics had some influence, Roman Polanski’s REPULSION was one of the few horror films (along with Alfred Hitchock’s PSYCHO) that earned any respect. Variety called it “a classy, [...]
G-Force – Animation Film Review
All right, G-FORCE is getting crucified by critics, but let’s try to look at it with a bit more objectivity, if we can. It’s true that it’s not a good film, but neither is it quite as tragic as you may have heard. Still, it should be pointed out that its releasing studio, Walt Disney [...]
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! – Feature Review
A characteristic, nuanced moment from the Ozploitation flick, TURKEY SHOOT
As if your Netflix queue wasn’t backlogged already. In the documentary NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, director Mark Hartley takes us on a delirious trip through the brief, fevered history of Ozploitation — Australian-bred exploitation films that haunted American grindhouses, video-rental stores and HBO from the early seventies [...]
Green Hornet: Seth Rogen at Comic Con
THE GREEN HORNET is not due out until July 9, 2010, but that didn’t stop Sony Pictures from unveiling the new Black Beauty at this year’s San Diego Comic Book Convention. In the video, Seth Rogen, who stars as debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid (alias The Green Hornet), has a few words to say about how [...]
District 9 – Second Trailer
Here is the second trailer to DISTRICT 9, Director Neil Blomkamp’s politcal allegory disguised as a science fiction film.
Read more about District 9 (2009) by clicking the links below:
District 9 opens August 14 – Watch the Trailer
District 9 – Science Fiction Film Review
