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Y’know, people probably shouldn’t be this gleeful about issues of mortality, but in the cases of the movies being discussed in this episode, we’re kinda glad they are. This episode features interviews with Jean-Pierre Jeunet and George A. Romero, both of whom have previously addressed matters of life-and-death in their own, unique ways, and have [...]

Trolls? Goblins? Troblins? Fans of TROLL 2 get their gear on in BEST WORST MOVIE.
Have no doubt, I love bad movies. I still have fond memories of the first time I stumbled onto ROBOT MONSTER, back in the days when local broadcast television had afternoon movie shows, and one could serendipitously chance [...]

Turn Your Head and Scream: The Inimitable Dieter Laser as Dr. Heiter in THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE
There are some films that you’re either for or agin, and wow, does THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE fit into that category. A vivid little bit of Grand Guignol wherein a couple of hapless tourists (Ashley C. Williams and [...]

[ May 7, 2010 to May 13, 2010. ] Godzilla fans in San Francisco have a rare opportunity to view their favorite radioactive reptile on the big screen, courtesy of this week-long celebration of kaiju eiga (that’s “monster movies” to you Occidentals out there). The event kicks off on Friday, May 7, with “TokyoScope Talk – War of the Giant Monsters,” a discussion among Otaku [...]

[ July 9, 2010; ] 20th Century Fox releases the latest installment in the PREDATOR franchise. Robert Rodriguez produced the film, with Nimrod Antal directing from a screenplay by Alex Litvak & Michael Finch, based on the concept by Jim and John Thomas. Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Adrien Brody, and Laurence Fishburne lead the cast of elite warriors and killers [...]

Mike Fleming at Deadline.com reports that Paramount Pictures is planning to remake 1987’s THE MONSTER SQUAD, with Rob Cohen (one of the producers on the original) hoping to direct this time out. Cohen will partner with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes (a virtual remake factory these days) to produce the film, which has yet to be [...]

Read more about Clash of the Titans (2010) by clicking the links below:

Titans clash with Gods
Titanic Clash of P3-13 Violence
Clash of the Titans theatrical release
Clash of the Titans trailer #1
Clash of the Titans clip: Medusa
Clash of the Titans clip: The Kraken
Clash of the Titans: Sam Worthington Video Interview
Clash of the Titans: Liam Neeson Video Interview
Clash of the [...]

Read more about Clash of the Titans (2010) by clicking the links below:

Titans clash with Gods
Titanic Clash of P3-13 Violence
Clash of the Titans theatrical release
Clash of the Titans trailer #2
Clash of the Titans clip: Medusa
Clash of the Titans clip: The Kraken
Clash of the Titans: Sam Worthington Video Interview
Clash of the Titans: Liam Neeson Video Interview
Clash of the [...]

Producer Robert Rodriguez introduces clips and behind the scenes footage from PREDATORS, the upcoming sequel to PREDATOR, direction by Nimrod Antal.

Writing for Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision department, Dan Carlson offers us a blog-y account of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival’s preview of PREDATORS, in Austin, Texas. Carlson’s take is that the new sequeldirected by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez, plays up the horror aspects while returning the franchise to its roots (i.e., [...]

[ April 2, 2010; ] Warner Brothers releases this elaborate remake of the 1981 original. The new version replaces Ray Harryhausen’s old stop-motion monsters with modern computer-generated imagery, and best of all – it’s in 3D!

BIG MAN JAPAN is built around a funny concept, vaguely akin to HANCOCK: its title character is a superhero who is a bit of a loser. Of course, being a Japanese superhero, he periodically grows to enormous size (courtesy of electricity applied to his nipples) and confronts monsters attacking urban areas around the country, often with [...]