Archives for August, 2010
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This week we are overflowing with speakers as super fan Dwayne joins as does Tom from Geeks of Doom! We talk The Last Exorcism, Expendables 2, Fantastic Four reboots, Comic Book TV, and Scarlet Brian Michael Bendis’ new project!
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Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell
Anchor Bay has a stable of films they just seem to keep finding reasons to reissue in slightly updated form. Some examples are Halloween, Hellraiser, and the Evil Dead films. We get different boxes and some different bonuses features and on occasion new transfers of the films. Many critics have said that Anchor Bay has taken advantage of the rabid fan base for these films and those critics are probably right. The question is how is that different than most other distributors? I will say that there have been a fairly excessive number of versions of the Evil Dead series. This one however makes sense as it is a true upgrade in the audio and video presentation of this film. …continue reading
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Directed by Noboru Ishiguro
Featuring Voices by Katsuyuki Konishi, Daisuke Kishio and Takashi Kondo
Galaxy under constant military threat seeks one brave, apathetic main character to inspire long talks of rebellion. …continue reading
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Cult Epics brings us this new collection on of nunsploitation films. Nunsploitation is a subgenre of the overall exploitation genre. Nunsploitation is one of those subgenres that is really the most cult of this sort of cult cinema. It’s not that it’s just so edgy or racy; it’s just a little lesser known. …continue reading
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Directed by Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Robert Capron, Chloe Moretz, Zachary Gordon, Grayson Russell
“Zoo Wee Mama!”
Robert Capron as Rowley
I didn’t know what to expect from this film. Based on the popular children’s book series written by Jeff Kinney with the first book of the series published in 2007, the whole Wimpy Kid phenomena somehow passed by me entirely. Could it be that I am totally out of their demographic? Anyway, is The Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie any fun? Let’s explore, shall we? …continue reading
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Orland Park (IL) (August 24, 2010) – Dark Sky Films, a division ofMPI Media Group, announced today that in anticipation of the upcoming Halloween horror movie season, Adam Green’s HATCHET II will be distributed in theaters across the country beginning Oct 1. The film will be released without an MPAA rating, marking the widest release of an unrated genre film in more than 25 years. …continue reading
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Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Alex Maleev
Scarlet is as mad as hell, and she’s not going to take this anymore in this Bendis-Maleev creator-owned endeavor. …continue reading
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Directed by Wim Wenders
Starring: Gerry Bamman, Natassaja Kinski, Dennis Hopper, Udo Kier
If you ever wanted to immerse yourself in the work of Wim Wenders, this is the box set that will do it. If you are familiar with the work of this prolific German filmmaker, you are in for a treat. Most cinephiles are acquainted with his films Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas or The End of Violence, but those are just a few films in a huge body of work. Anchor Bay recently released The Wim Wenders Collection: Volume Two. …continue reading
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Created by Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Starring Mathew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Emilie de Raven, Dominic Monaghan, Elizabeth Mitchell
Watching bonus features of on TV show DVD’s that have been cancelled or simply finished their runs usually means looking at interviews with cast and crew that look back fondly on their experience. The one standout exception is the cast interview on the Firefly box set. The cast and crew of this series were truly attached to each other and the work so seeing it all end before it was time still effected them months after the show was done and many of them had already moved on to other projects. There are many tears in that interview. Viewing those features was a uniquely emotional experience until checking out LOST season six. …continue reading
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There’s a lot to cover in this week’s episode including Piranha 3D, a X-Men First Class news, a special discussion with The Film Talk’s Tony Youngblood about moving from physical media to digital film and TV, this week’s comics, and still more!
Directed by Tatsou Sato
Featuring Voices by Kana Ueda and Yuki Matsuoka
How much do you think overnight shipping from the afterlife costs? …continue reading
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Directed by Kim Chapiron
Starring Vincent Cassel, Oliver Bartelemy, Leila Bekhti, Roxane Mesquida
I am a big fan of Vincent Cassel. If the only performances you have seen of Cassel’s are his performances in Ocean’s Twelve or Derailed, you haven’t seen the best that this versatile French actor has to offer. After seeing Irreversible, I knew that Cassel’s was a name to watch in cinema. Tartan Films USA recently released Cassel’s newest film, Sheitan on DVD. …continue reading
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Starring: Andy Garci, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Ezra Miller, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin
Directed By: Raymond De Felitta
This is a movie about secrets. How secrets are like a balloon, each little supporting lie is just one more breath into the balloon, and how eventually every balloon goes boom and once that happens everybody left standing has to try to piece everything back together. Everybody in the Rizzo family is puffing away on their respective balloons until Tony, the needle, comes to live with them. …continue reading
In Japan the direct to DVD market is exploding and has been popular for quite some time. Here in the states until recently you’d only find low rate horror films and T&A on the direct to DVD shelves. That’s finally changing with many great films in the works to go direct to DVD and a ton of excellent animated films included. …continue reading
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If you are a fan of racing, this film is a must see. Docurama recently released The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid on DVD. …continue reading
