Good movies tend to have solid taglines. Bad movies almost always have questionable taglines. Coincidence?
Taglines may not be the most important component of a film’s advertising, but having a good one can be beneficial. A good tagline should be something that is memorable, catchy, informative of the films’ plot or tone, and unique. Consider the tagline from Alien, “In space no one will hear you scream,” or Jurassic Park, “An adventure 65 million years in the making.” At other times, movie taglines have been famous quotes from the film. Examples are “One ring to rule them all,” from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, or “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy,” from The Shining. Simply put, having a solid movie tagline is worth the effort.
This is a look at a few films where the effort was clearly lacking or misplaced. Sometimes they are trying too hard.
Taglines may not be the most important component of a film’s advertising, but having a good one can be beneficial. A good tagline should be something that is memorable, catchy, informative of the films’ plot or tone, and unique. Consider the tagline from Alien, “In space no one will hear you scream,” or Jurassic Park, “An adventure 65 million years in the making.” At other times, movie taglines have been famous quotes from the film. Examples are “One ring to rule them all,” from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, or “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy,” from The Shining. Simply put, having a solid movie tagline is worth the effort.
This is a look at a few films where the effort was clearly lacking or misplaced. Sometimes they are trying too hard.
- 11/22/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
[[tmz:video id="0_5jrzukju"]] The Weeknd doesn't seem to be experiencing any post-breakup blues ... in fact, it looks like he's having a damn good time being a single guy. Abel was out Monday night in a Toronto nightclub at a launch party for 21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin's new album, "Without Warning" -- and he was openly smiling and grinding up on a mystery girl on the dance floor. We're told The Weeknd doesn't have a new gf...
- 10/31/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
When you play the game of thrones, you learn to expect the unexpected. But even so, the previous season of Game of Thrones did something totally unprecedented in the history of HBO's blockbuster show: It got less complicated from start to finish, not more.
Yes, we are nearing the endgame, which means a whole lot of major players got knocked off the board last year. Now the unholy trinity of King in the North Jon Snow, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms Cersei Lannister and Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen are...
Yes, we are nearing the endgame, which means a whole lot of major players got knocked off the board last year. Now the unholy trinity of King in the North Jon Snow, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms Cersei Lannister and Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen are...
- 7/5/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Zombies, werewolves, and serial killing social media stars will descend upon Miami this August for the third annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival. Taking place August 11th–17th, the Florida film fest's first wave of programming includes Another Wolfcop, Tragedy Girls, It Stains the Sands Red, Better Watch Out, and more.
Press Release: Miami, Fl – Popcorn Frights Film Festival, Florida’s largest and most respected genre film event, announces its first wave of programming for its third annual celebration of genre-twisting cinema, occurring August 11 through 17, 2017, at Miami's landmark O Cinema Wynwood theater.
"We're thrilled to bring the best in horror and genre filmmaking to South Florida audiences for our third annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival. We scoured the globe for the most audacious and spine-tingling films and this first wave selection just gives a small taste of all the exciting things to come,” said Igor Shteyrenberg & Marc Ferman, Co-Founders & Co-Directors of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival.
Press Release: Miami, Fl – Popcorn Frights Film Festival, Florida’s largest and most respected genre film event, announces its first wave of programming for its third annual celebration of genre-twisting cinema, occurring August 11 through 17, 2017, at Miami's landmark O Cinema Wynwood theater.
"We're thrilled to bring the best in horror and genre filmmaking to South Florida audiences for our third annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival. We scoured the globe for the most audacious and spine-tingling films and this first wave selection just gives a small taste of all the exciting things to come,” said Igor Shteyrenberg & Marc Ferman, Co-Founders & Co-Directors of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival.
- 6/14/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
He promised that he'd be back, and Space Goat Productions is making good on the T-800's promise with their official board game based on James Cameron's The Terminator, which is now available to pre-order. In today's Horror Highlights, we're also giving Daily Dead readers the chance to win a Camera Obscura soundtrack on vinyl, and we have details on Breaking Glass Pictures acquiring North American rights to Rift and information on how Scream Factory will be celebrating their fifth anniversary.
The Terminator: The Official Board Game: Press Release: "(June 14th, 2017 - Bellingham, Wa) - Space Goat Productions has launched pre-orders for The Terminator™: The Official Board Game, based off of the iconic 1984 film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pre-orders will be available via Backerkit and will give consumers access to exclusive discounts for 30 days.
The original Terminator Kickstarter made almost 200% of its goal,...
The Terminator: The Official Board Game: Press Release: "(June 14th, 2017 - Bellingham, Wa) - Space Goat Productions has launched pre-orders for The Terminator™: The Official Board Game, based off of the iconic 1984 film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pre-orders will be available via Backerkit and will give consumers access to exclusive discounts for 30 days.
The original Terminator Kickstarter made almost 200% of its goal,...
- 6/13/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Jenelle Evans‘ father was only in her life for a brief period of time during her childhood, but she still considered herself to be “daddy’s little girl.”
Come July 25, Evans, 25, who has long had a tense relationship with her mother, Barbara Evans, will open up about her estranged relationship with her father in her soon-to-be released memoir, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom.
“Robert Evans was only in my life for a little while. For that short and glorious time, I was daddy’s little girl,” Evans writes in Read Between the Lines, according to E!
Come July 25, Evans, 25, who has long had a tense relationship with her mother, Barbara Evans, will open up about her estranged relationship with her father in her soon-to-be released memoir, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom.
“Robert Evans was only in my life for a little while. For that short and glorious time, I was daddy’s little girl,” Evans writes in Read Between the Lines, according to E!
- 6/9/2017
- by Natalie Stone
- PEOPLE.com
The rematch between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is just one of many horror and sci-fi films available to watch on Comet TV in the month of June, and we have a new viewing list for you to check out in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes crowdfunding details for both the tabletop game Horror Boards and the comedy thriller You're So Dead!
Comet TV June Viewing Guide: "Only Airing On CometTV.com in June
You Don’T Need A Subscription To Watch These Great Movies…
They’Re Airing For Free On Comet!
The Prophecy (1995)
Friday June 9 at 8P/7C
Saturday June 10 at 8P/7C
Wednesday June 14 at 6P/5C
The Prophecy II (1998)
Saturday June 10 at 10P/9C
Thursday June 15 at 6P/5C
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)
Saturday June 10 at Midnight/11C
Friday June 16 at 6P/5C
Galaxina (1980)
Friday June 16 at 8P/7C...
Comet TV June Viewing Guide: "Only Airing On CometTV.com in June
You Don’T Need A Subscription To Watch These Great Movies…
They’Re Airing For Free On Comet!
The Prophecy (1995)
Friday June 9 at 8P/7C
Saturday June 10 at 8P/7C
Wednesday June 14 at 6P/5C
The Prophecy II (1998)
Saturday June 10 at 10P/9C
Thursday June 15 at 6P/5C
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)
Saturday June 10 at Midnight/11C
Friday June 16 at 6P/5C
Galaxina (1980)
Friday June 16 at 8P/7C...
- 6/7/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Without warning, context, or any kind of explanation, Josh Gad got the Dceu universe pretty excited when he inexplicably tweeted a photo of a very famous DC comic character: The Penguin. The image combined with the Dceu’s collective fan base also being fans of Gad, lead to rampant speculation that the actor may have taken a role as The Penguin for an upcoming movie. At the current time the idea is nothing more than rumor but that hasn’t stopped people from talking or even conjuring up images of Gad as Oswald Chesterfield Copperpot. One of the best artists when it
What Josh Gad Might Look Like as The Penguin in The Batman Movie...
What Josh Gad Might Look Like as The Penguin in The Batman Movie...
- 5/4/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Gemma Arterton shines in a big-hearted and witty drama about the making of a second world war propaganda film
London, 1940. Catrin (Gemma Arterton) is scurrying home through the blitzed streets at dusk. Without warning, she is sideswiped by a bomb blast. Blinking grit from her eyes, she stumbles into a pile of broken bodies. Her initial horror tips into laughter when she realises that they are shop mannequins. Then she notices that one of them is bleeding – a salesgirl lies amid the wreckage of the window display. While the dust and death is still clearing from the air, Catrin vomits from shock, silhouetted in a yawning archway.
The scene elegantly combines twin themes in this bracing second world war romance from Lone Scherfig. It captures the savage uncertainty of life during wartime; and, in a nod to the film’s movie industry backdrop, it deftly peels back layers of reality and artifice.
London, 1940. Catrin (Gemma Arterton) is scurrying home through the blitzed streets at dusk. Without warning, she is sideswiped by a bomb blast. Blinking grit from her eyes, she stumbles into a pile of broken bodies. Her initial horror tips into laughter when she realises that they are shop mannequins. Then she notices that one of them is bleeding – a salesgirl lies amid the wreckage of the window display. While the dust and death is still clearing from the air, Catrin vomits from shock, silhouetted in a yawning archway.
The scene elegantly combines twin themes in this bracing second world war romance from Lone Scherfig. It captures the savage uncertainty of life during wartime; and, in a nod to the film’s movie industry backdrop, it deftly peels back layers of reality and artifice.
- 4/23/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
I had no idea what to expect upon sitting down to Your Name and the first few minutes definitely had my head spinning. We’re ushered in via the voiceover narration of two high schoolers we’ve yet to properly meet in Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) and Taki (Ryûnosuke Kamiki). They speak about dreams as a rare comet shoots across the blue sky. It’s cryptic, beautiful, and utterly fascinating—a subdued tone easing us in before a kinetic collage of vignettes without context replaces it, a Radwimps rock anthem blaring about love. This shift to music video interlude proves jarringly abrupt; its culmination marked by Mitsuha awakening from slumber a wonderful splash into the deep-end of this anime’s high concept romantic fantasy.
My disorientation continued because this girl didn’t seem herself. Without warning, logic, or exposition beyond those opening lines of esoteric prose, we suddenly realize the person...
My disorientation continued because this girl didn’t seem herself. Without warning, logic, or exposition beyond those opening lines of esoteric prose, we suddenly realize the person...
- 4/5/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
This week sees another comic book adaptation arrive at movie theatres, while the Lego Batman and Logan are still pulling audiences in at the multiplex. Ah, but this film is not another superhero slugfest (we’ll have three more of those from Marvel Studios, and two from Warner/DC by the year’s end). No this comes from the “upper classes” of illustrated narratives, those “serious and somber” graphic novels (kind of a “highfalutin'” moniker). Several prestige flicks have been based on such books, like The History Of Violence and The Road To Perdition (both earned Oscar noms). The “graphic artist” (hey, I’ll bet he’d prefer cartoonist) behind this new film is no stranger to cinema. Matter of fact, this is his third feature-length movie adaptation. The first was my personal favorite flick of 2001, the quirky Ghost World (no ectoplasmic apparitions, but a teenage Scarlett Johansson). Five years...
- 3/24/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In today's Horror Highlights, we have a look at Comet TV's March viewing guide, release details for Quarries, info on Nitehawk Cinema's annual short film festival, the crowdfunding campaign for the sock-centric creature feature Crust (produced by Felissa Rose), details on the Terror Film Festival, and new stills from Anders Manor.
Comet TV's March Viewing Guide: "You Don’T Need A Subscription To Watch These Great Movies…
They’Re Airing For Free On Comet!
Cherry 2000 (1988)
Monday March 13 at 8/7C
Static (1986)
Monday March 13 at 10/9C
The Twonky (1953)
Tuesday March 14 at 10/9C
The Bat People (1974)
Tuesday March 14 at 8/7C
War Gods of the Deep (1965)
Wednesday March 15 at 8/7c
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987)
Wednesday March 15 at 10/9C
Encounter at Raven’s Gate (1990)
Thursday March 16 at 10/9C
The Lost Brigade (1993)
Thursday March 16 at 8/7C
The Beasts Within (1982)
Monday March 20 at 8/7C
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Monday March 20 at 10/9C
Troll 2...
Comet TV's March Viewing Guide: "You Don’T Need A Subscription To Watch These Great Movies…
They’Re Airing For Free On Comet!
Cherry 2000 (1988)
Monday March 13 at 8/7C
Static (1986)
Monday March 13 at 10/9C
The Twonky (1953)
Tuesday March 14 at 10/9C
The Bat People (1974)
Tuesday March 14 at 8/7C
War Gods of the Deep (1965)
Wednesday March 15 at 8/7c
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987)
Wednesday March 15 at 10/9C
Encounter at Raven’s Gate (1990)
Thursday March 16 at 10/9C
The Lost Brigade (1993)
Thursday March 16 at 8/7C
The Beasts Within (1982)
Monday March 20 at 8/7C
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Monday March 20 at 10/9C
Troll 2...
- 3/7/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Fans of Showtime’s Weeds series are in for a treat, because Mary-Louise Parker has joined the cast of Mr. Mercedes, the DirecTV series adaptation of Stephen King’s 2014 novel of the same name.
According to THR, Parker (R.I.P.D., Fried Green Tomatoes) will portray the recurring role of Janey Patterson, the younger sibling of the deceased Olivia Trelawney. Janey’s character plays a key role in helping an ex-detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) track down a relentless, boastful killer (played by Harry Treadaway, who replaced Anton Yelchin in the role after the actor’s tragic death).
In addition to Parker, Gleeson, and Treadaway, the Mr. Mercedes cast also features Holland Taylor, Kelly Lynch, and Jharrel Jerome.
Adapted for the screen by David E. Kelley and directed by Jack Bender, the (planned ten-episode) Mr. Mercedes series is slated to premiere this autumn on DirecTV, DirecTV Now, and the At&T U-verse.
According to THR, Parker (R.I.P.D., Fried Green Tomatoes) will portray the recurring role of Janey Patterson, the younger sibling of the deceased Olivia Trelawney. Janey’s character plays a key role in helping an ex-detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) track down a relentless, boastful killer (played by Harry Treadaway, who replaced Anton Yelchin in the role after the actor’s tragic death).
In addition to Parker, Gleeson, and Treadaway, the Mr. Mercedes cast also features Holland Taylor, Kelly Lynch, and Jharrel Jerome.
Adapted for the screen by David E. Kelley and directed by Jack Bender, the (planned ten-episode) Mr. Mercedes series is slated to premiere this autumn on DirecTV, DirecTV Now, and the At&T U-verse.
- 1/26/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Update 6:05 Pm: Without warning, NBC has blocked the livestream from their website. The stream has been replaced by a Twitter feed from NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Jimmy Fallon will host the 74th Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton tonight, and if you’d like to watch it but can’t get in front of a TV, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that NBC will livestream the ceremony on their website starting at 8 Pm Et. The bad news is that you will need to log in with your cable subscription, so cord-cutters are.
- 1/9/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Kendall Jenner‘s social media “detox” has ended after just seven days.
Last Sunday, Jenner, 21, deleted her Instagram account with no warning. And on Tuesday, the model opened up to Ellen DeGeneres about her reasons for going on a hiatus.
“I just wanted to detox,” Jenner told DeGeneres. “I just wanted a little bit of a break. I would wake up in the morning and look at it first thing, I would go to bed and it would be the last thing I looked at. I felt a little too dependent on it so I wanted to take a minute.
Last Sunday, Jenner, 21, deleted her Instagram account with no warning. And on Tuesday, the model opened up to Ellen DeGeneres about her reasons for going on a hiatus.
“I just wanted to detox,” Jenner told DeGeneres. “I just wanted a little bit of a break. I would wake up in the morning and look at it first thing, I would go to bed and it would be the last thing I looked at. I felt a little too dependent on it so I wanted to take a minute.
- 11/20/2016
- by Blake Bakkila
- PEOPLE.com
Dear America – please outsource all action films to Indonesia from here-on-out. How can you watch a movie like Headshot and be content with typical Us ground-and-pound generics? The Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel/Timo Tjahjanto) break more bones than a twenty-story fall, (assumably) spending most of their budget on limb-cracking practical effects that still can’t distract from such aggressive beauty. Iko Uwais makes Jason Bourne look like a punk bitch in this brilliantly bone-crunching symphony of destruction, proving both the Mo Brothers and Mr. Uwais to be as boldly badass as we hoped their latest genre assault would permit.
Uwais plays a man who calls himself Ishmael, only because he wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory or identification. In the room is a napping Dr. Ailin (Chelsea Islan), who’s shocked by the previously-comatose patient’s now lively demeanor. She immediately begins nursing the empty-minded Ishmael back to strength,...
Uwais plays a man who calls himself Ishmael, only because he wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory or identification. In the room is a napping Dr. Ailin (Chelsea Islan), who’s shocked by the previously-comatose patient’s now lively demeanor. She immediately begins nursing the empty-minded Ishmael back to strength,...
- 9/10/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Dirty cops were a movie vogue in 1954, and Edmond O'Brien scores as a real dastard in this overachieving United Artists thriller. Dreamboat starlet Marla English is the reason O'Brien's detective kills for cash, and then keeps killing to stay ahead of his colleagues. And all to buy a crummy house in the suburbs -- this man needs career counseling. Shield for Murder Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1954 / B&W / 1:75 widescreen / 82 min. / Street Date June 21, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Edmond O'Brien, Marla English, John Agar, Emile Meyer, Carolyn Jones, Claude Akins, Herbert Butterfield, Hugh Sanders, William Schallert, Robert Bray, Richard Deacon, David Hughes, Gregg Martell, Stafford Repp, Vito Scotti. Cinematography Gordon Avil Film Editor John F. Schreyer Original Music Paul Dunlap Written by Richard Alan Simmons, John C. Higgins from the novel by William P. McGivern <Produced by Aubrey Schenck, (Howard W. Koch) Directed by Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Here's the kind of '50s movie we love, an ambitious, modest crime picture that for its time had an edge. In the 1950s our country was as blind to the true extent of police corruption as it was to organized crime. Movies about bad cops adhered to the 'bad apple' concept: it's only crooked individuals that we need to watch out for, never the institutions around them. Thanks to films noir, crooked cops were no longer a film rarity, even though the Production Code made movies like The Asphalt Jungle insert compensatory scenes paying lip service to the status quo: an imperfect police force is better than none. United Artists in the 1950s helped star talent make the jump to independent production, with the prime success stories being Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. But the distribution company also funded proven producers capable of putting out smaller bread 'n' butter movies that could prosper if costs were kept down. Edward Small, Victor Saville, Levy-Gardner-Laven. Aubrey Schenck and Howard C. Koch produced as a team, and for 1954's Shield for Murder Koch co-directed, sharing credit with the film's star, Edmond O'Brien. The show is a smart production all the way, a modestly budgeted 'B' with 'A' ambitions. O'Brien was an industry go-getter trying to channel his considerable talent in new directions. His leading man days were fading but he was in demand for parts in major films like The Barefoot Contessa. The producers took care with their story too. Writers Richard Alan Simmons and John C. Higgins had solid crime movie credits. Author William P. McGivern wrote the novel behind Fritz Lang's The Big Heat as well as Rogue Cop and Odds Against Tomorrow. All of McGivern's stories involve crooked policemen or police corruption. Shield for Murder doesn't tiptoe around its subject matter. Dirty cop Detective Lt. Barney Nolan (O'Brien) kills a hoodlum in an alley to steal $25,000 of mob money. His precinct boss Captain Gunnarson (Emile Meyer) accepts Barney's version of events and the Asst. D.A. (William Schallert) takes the shooting as an open and shut case. Crime reporter Cabot (Herbert Butterfield) has his doubts, and lectures the squad room about the abuse of police power. Barney manages to placate mob boss Packy Reed (Hugh Sanders), but two hoods continue to shadow him. Barney's plan for the money was to buy a new house and escape the rat race with his girlfriend, nightclub cashier Patty Winters (Marla English). But a problem surfaces in the elderly deaf mute Ernst Sternmueller (David Hughes), a witness to the shooting. Barney realizes that his only way forward is to kill the old man before he can tell all to Det. Mark Brewster (John Agar), Barney's closest friend. Once again one of society's Good Guys takes a bite of the forbidden apple and tries to buck the system. Shield for Murder posits an logical but twisted course of action for a weary defender of the law who wants out. Barney long ago gave up trying to do anything about the crooks he can't touch. The fat cat Packy Reed makes the big money, and all Barney wants is his share. Barney's vision of The American Dream is just the middle-class ideal, the desirable Patty Winters and a modest tract home. He's picked it out - it sits partway up a hill in a new Los Angeles development, just finished and already furnished. Then the unexpected witness shows up and everything begins to unravel; Barney loses control one step at a time. He beats a mob thug (Claude Akins) half to death in front of witnesses. When his pal Mark Brewster figures out the truth, Barney has to use a lot of his money to arrange a getaway. More mob trouble leads to a shoot-out in a high school gym. The idea may have been for the star O'Brien to coach actors John Agar and Marla English to better performances. Agar is slightly more natural than usual, but still not very good. The gorgeous Ms. English remains sweet and inexpressive. After several unbilled bits, the woman often compared to Elizabeth Taylor was given "introducing" billing on the Shield for Murder billing block. Her best-known role would be as The She-Creature two years later, after which she dropped out to get married. Co-director O'Brien also allows Emile Meyer to go over the top in a scene or two. But the young Carolyn Jones is a standout as a blonde bargirl, more or less expanding on her small part as a human ashtray in the previous year's The Big Heat. Edmond O'Brien is occasionally a little to hyper, but he's excellent at showing stress as the trap closes around the overreaching Barney Nolan. Other United Artists budget crime pictures seem a little tight with the outdoors action -- Vice Squad, Witness to Murder, Without Warning -- but O'Brien and Koch's camera luxuriates in night shoots on the Los Angeles streets. This is one of those Blu-rays that Los Angelenos will want to freeze frame, to try to read the street signs. There is also little downtime wasted in sidebar plot detours. The gunfight in the school gym, next to an Olympic swimming pool, is an action highlight. The show has one enduring sequence. With the force closing in, Barney rushes back to the unfinished house he plans to buy, to recover the loot he's buried next to its foundation. Anybody who lived in Southern California in the '50s and '60s was aware of the massive suburban sprawl underway, a building boom that went on for decades. In 1953 the La Puente hills were so rural they barely served by roads; the movie The War of the Worlds considered it a good place to use a nuclear bomb against invading Martians. By 1975 the unending suburbs had spread from Los Angeles, almost all the way to Pomona. Barney dashes through a new housing development on terraced plots, boxy little houses separated from each other by only a few feet of dirt. There's no landscaping yet. Even in 1954 $25,000 wasn't that much money, so Barney Nolan has sold himself pretty cheaply. Two more latter-day crime pictures would end with ominous metaphors about the oblivion of The American Dream. In 1964's remake of The Killers the cash Lee Marvin kills for only buys him a patch of green lawn in a choice Hollywood Hills neighborhood. The L.A.P.D. puts Marvin out of his misery, and then closes in on another crooked detective in the aptly titled 1965 thriller The Money Trap. The final scene in that movie is priceless: his dreams smashed, crooked cop Glenn Ford sits by his designer swimming pool and waits to be arrested. Considering how well things worked out for Los Angeles police officers, Edmond O'Brien's Barney Nolan seems especially foolish. If Barney had stuck it out for a couple of years, the new deal for the L.A.P.D. would have been much better than a measly 25 grand. By 1958 he'd have his twenty years in. After a retirement beer bash he'd be out on the road pulling a shiny new boat to the Colorado River, like all the other hardworking cops and firemen enjoying their generous pensions. Policemen also had little trouble getting house loans. The joke was that an L.A.P.D. cop might go bad, but none of them could be bribed. O'Brien directed one more feature, took more TV work and settled into character parts for Jack Webb, Frank Tashlin, John Ford, John Frankenheimer and finally Sam Peckinpah in The Wild Bunch, where he was almost unrecognizable. Howard W. Koch slowed down as a director but became a busy producer, working with Frank Sinatra for several years. He eventually co-produced Airplane! The Kl Studio Classics Blu-ray of Shield for Murder is a good-looking B&W scan, framed at a confirmed-as-correct 1:75 aspect ratio. The picture is sharp and detailed, and the sound is in fine shape. The package art duplicates the film's original no-class sell: "Dame-Hungry Killer-Cop Runs Berserk! The first scene also contains one of the more frequently noticed camera flubs in film noir -- a really big boom shadow on a nighttime alley wall. Kino's presentation comes with trailers for this movie, Hidden Fear and He Ran All the Way. On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Shield for Murder Blu-ray rates: Movie: Good Video: Very Good Sound: Excellent Supplements: Trailers for Shield for Murder, Hidden Fear, He Ran All the Way Deaf and Hearing Impaired Friendly? N0; Subtitles: None Packaging: Keep case Reviewed: June 7, 2016 (5115murd)
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Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Here's the kind of '50s movie we love, an ambitious, modest crime picture that for its time had an edge. In the 1950s our country was as blind to the true extent of police corruption as it was to organized crime. Movies about bad cops adhered to the 'bad apple' concept: it's only crooked individuals that we need to watch out for, never the institutions around them. Thanks to films noir, crooked cops were no longer a film rarity, even though the Production Code made movies like The Asphalt Jungle insert compensatory scenes paying lip service to the status quo: an imperfect police force is better than none. United Artists in the 1950s helped star talent make the jump to independent production, with the prime success stories being Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. But the distribution company also funded proven producers capable of putting out smaller bread 'n' butter movies that could prosper if costs were kept down. Edward Small, Victor Saville, Levy-Gardner-Laven. Aubrey Schenck and Howard C. Koch produced as a team, and for 1954's Shield for Murder Koch co-directed, sharing credit with the film's star, Edmond O'Brien. The show is a smart production all the way, a modestly budgeted 'B' with 'A' ambitions. O'Brien was an industry go-getter trying to channel his considerable talent in new directions. His leading man days were fading but he was in demand for parts in major films like The Barefoot Contessa. The producers took care with their story too. Writers Richard Alan Simmons and John C. Higgins had solid crime movie credits. Author William P. McGivern wrote the novel behind Fritz Lang's The Big Heat as well as Rogue Cop and Odds Against Tomorrow. All of McGivern's stories involve crooked policemen or police corruption. Shield for Murder doesn't tiptoe around its subject matter. Dirty cop Detective Lt. Barney Nolan (O'Brien) kills a hoodlum in an alley to steal $25,000 of mob money. His precinct boss Captain Gunnarson (Emile Meyer) accepts Barney's version of events and the Asst. D.A. (William Schallert) takes the shooting as an open and shut case. Crime reporter Cabot (Herbert Butterfield) has his doubts, and lectures the squad room about the abuse of police power. Barney manages to placate mob boss Packy Reed (Hugh Sanders), but two hoods continue to shadow him. Barney's plan for the money was to buy a new house and escape the rat race with his girlfriend, nightclub cashier Patty Winters (Marla English). But a problem surfaces in the elderly deaf mute Ernst Sternmueller (David Hughes), a witness to the shooting. Barney realizes that his only way forward is to kill the old man before he can tell all to Det. Mark Brewster (John Agar), Barney's closest friend. Once again one of society's Good Guys takes a bite of the forbidden apple and tries to buck the system. Shield for Murder posits an logical but twisted course of action for a weary defender of the law who wants out. Barney long ago gave up trying to do anything about the crooks he can't touch. The fat cat Packy Reed makes the big money, and all Barney wants is his share. Barney's vision of The American Dream is just the middle-class ideal, the desirable Patty Winters and a modest tract home. He's picked it out - it sits partway up a hill in a new Los Angeles development, just finished and already furnished. Then the unexpected witness shows up and everything begins to unravel; Barney loses control one step at a time. He beats a mob thug (Claude Akins) half to death in front of witnesses. When his pal Mark Brewster figures out the truth, Barney has to use a lot of his money to arrange a getaway. More mob trouble leads to a shoot-out in a high school gym. The idea may have been for the star O'Brien to coach actors John Agar and Marla English to better performances. Agar is slightly more natural than usual, but still not very good. The gorgeous Ms. English remains sweet and inexpressive. After several unbilled bits, the woman often compared to Elizabeth Taylor was given "introducing" billing on the Shield for Murder billing block. Her best-known role would be as The She-Creature two years later, after which she dropped out to get married. Co-director O'Brien also allows Emile Meyer to go over the top in a scene or two. But the young Carolyn Jones is a standout as a blonde bargirl, more or less expanding on her small part as a human ashtray in the previous year's The Big Heat. Edmond O'Brien is occasionally a little to hyper, but he's excellent at showing stress as the trap closes around the overreaching Barney Nolan. Other United Artists budget crime pictures seem a little tight with the outdoors action -- Vice Squad, Witness to Murder, Without Warning -- but O'Brien and Koch's camera luxuriates in night shoots on the Los Angeles streets. This is one of those Blu-rays that Los Angelenos will want to freeze frame, to try to read the street signs. There is also little downtime wasted in sidebar plot detours. The gunfight in the school gym, next to an Olympic swimming pool, is an action highlight. The show has one enduring sequence. With the force closing in, Barney rushes back to the unfinished house he plans to buy, to recover the loot he's buried next to its foundation. Anybody who lived in Southern California in the '50s and '60s was aware of the massive suburban sprawl underway, a building boom that went on for decades. In 1953 the La Puente hills were so rural they barely served by roads; the movie The War of the Worlds considered it a good place to use a nuclear bomb against invading Martians. By 1975 the unending suburbs had spread from Los Angeles, almost all the way to Pomona. Barney dashes through a new housing development on terraced plots, boxy little houses separated from each other by only a few feet of dirt. There's no landscaping yet. Even in 1954 $25,000 wasn't that much money, so Barney Nolan has sold himself pretty cheaply. Two more latter-day crime pictures would end with ominous metaphors about the oblivion of The American Dream. In 1964's remake of The Killers the cash Lee Marvin kills for only buys him a patch of green lawn in a choice Hollywood Hills neighborhood. The L.A.P.D. puts Marvin out of his misery, and then closes in on another crooked detective in the aptly titled 1965 thriller The Money Trap. The final scene in that movie is priceless: his dreams smashed, crooked cop Glenn Ford sits by his designer swimming pool and waits to be arrested. Considering how well things worked out for Los Angeles police officers, Edmond O'Brien's Barney Nolan seems especially foolish. If Barney had stuck it out for a couple of years, the new deal for the L.A.P.D. would have been much better than a measly 25 grand. By 1958 he'd have his twenty years in. After a retirement beer bash he'd be out on the road pulling a shiny new boat to the Colorado River, like all the other hardworking cops and firemen enjoying their generous pensions. Policemen also had little trouble getting house loans. The joke was that an L.A.P.D. cop might go bad, but none of them could be bribed. O'Brien directed one more feature, took more TV work and settled into character parts for Jack Webb, Frank Tashlin, John Ford, John Frankenheimer and finally Sam Peckinpah in The Wild Bunch, where he was almost unrecognizable. Howard W. Koch slowed down as a director but became a busy producer, working with Frank Sinatra for several years. He eventually co-produced Airplane! The Kl Studio Classics Blu-ray of Shield for Murder is a good-looking B&W scan, framed at a confirmed-as-correct 1:75 aspect ratio. The picture is sharp and detailed, and the sound is in fine shape. The package art duplicates the film's original no-class sell: "Dame-Hungry Killer-Cop Runs Berserk! The first scene also contains one of the more frequently noticed camera flubs in film noir -- a really big boom shadow on a nighttime alley wall. Kino's presentation comes with trailers for this movie, Hidden Fear and He Ran All the Way. On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Shield for Murder Blu-ray rates: Movie: Good Video: Very Good Sound: Excellent Supplements: Trailers for Shield for Murder, Hidden Fear, He Ran All the Way Deaf and Hearing Impaired Friendly? N0; Subtitles: None Packaging: Keep case Reviewed: June 7, 2016 (5115murd)
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- 6/11/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
At&T’s Audience Network has given David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes a straight-to-series order, according to THR, and it has also been revealed that Anton Yelchin and Brendan Gleeson are set to star in the 10-episode series.
Yelchin (Green Room, 2011’s Fright Night) will play psychotic killer Brady Hartsfield, aka Mr. Mercedes, and Gleeson (Edge of Tomorrow, 28 Days Later) will portray Detective Bill Hodges, a man who emerges from retirement to try and put an end to Hartsfield’s reign of terror by any means necessary.
DirecTV and At&T Uverse will debut the 10-episode series in 2018. Based on King’s 2014 novel, the show will be executive produced by David E. Kelley (Boston Legal, The Practice) and Jack Bender (who also served as an executive producer on the TV adaptation of King’s Under the Dome). Kelley is also lined up be the...
Yelchin (Green Room, 2011’s Fright Night) will play psychotic killer Brady Hartsfield, aka Mr. Mercedes, and Gleeson (Edge of Tomorrow, 28 Days Later) will portray Detective Bill Hodges, a man who emerges from retirement to try and put an end to Hartsfield’s reign of terror by any means necessary.
DirecTV and At&T Uverse will debut the 10-episode series in 2018. Based on King’s 2014 novel, the show will be executive produced by David E. Kelley (Boston Legal, The Practice) and Jack Bender (who also served as an executive producer on the TV adaptation of King’s Under the Dome). Kelley is also lined up be the...
- 5/25/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
She’s known for being a powerful woman who’s always in control, and yet Pink turned to mush when she got a surprise visit from one of her celebrity crushes last night (May 23).
The “So What” songstress dropped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and wound up talking about an awkward run-in with Johnny Depp, during which she tried to play it cool while telling him about her song’ Just Like Fire” for his new film “Alice Through The Looking Glass.”
Without warning, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” stud strolled out onstage and greeted Pink with a hug and kiss, promptly causing her to blush. And as Depp made a quick exit, Pink exclaimed, “This is the worst day ever!” Check the clip!
The “So What” songstress dropped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and wound up talking about an awkward run-in with Johnny Depp, during which she tried to play it cool while telling him about her song’ Just Like Fire” for his new film “Alice Through The Looking Glass.”
Without warning, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” stud strolled out onstage and greeted Pink with a hug and kiss, promptly causing her to blush. And as Depp made a quick exit, Pink exclaimed, “This is the worst day ever!” Check the clip!
- 5/24/2016
- GossipCenter
Chicago – The “Canuck Girls” have hit town, and they brought a lively, passionate and super fun musical about relationships and the environment to CIMMFest! Toronto-based writer/musician/actor/director Jude Klassen created “Love in the Sixth,” and it plays out at the 2016 festival on Sunday, April 17th (3:45p) at the Logan Theatre in Chicago. Click here for complete details.
The film explores relationships, in the post modern mode of Woody Allen, plus has amazing song breaks in the style of Motown, Punk, The Beatles and even “Grease” (if Grease would have had a song called “F**king Love”). The cinematic freedom of Jude Klassen’s director influence is woven throughout the work, as she portrays a rocker Mom named Dani, who is raising a Hunger-Games-loving-environmentally-conscious 12 year-old named Kat (Mika Kay, in a memorable performance).
Dani’s relationship with Sid (T.C. Folkpunk) is complicated, and gets in the way of...
The film explores relationships, in the post modern mode of Woody Allen, plus has amazing song breaks in the style of Motown, Punk, The Beatles and even “Grease” (if Grease would have had a song called “F**king Love”). The cinematic freedom of Jude Klassen’s director influence is woven throughout the work, as she portrays a rocker Mom named Dani, who is raising a Hunger-Games-loving-environmentally-conscious 12 year-old named Kat (Mika Kay, in a memorable performance).
Dani’s relationship with Sid (T.C. Folkpunk) is complicated, and gets in the way of...
- 4/16/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Seven episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
No one knew what to expect from the first season of Daredevil. The first collaboration between Netflix and Marvel, it was an undeniably risky proposition from the outset, tasked with carving out a distinctive place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe under the constraints of a TV budget while also developing a complicated cast of characters over the course of 13 episodes (a much trickier process in terms of pacing than that faced by a two-hour film).
As it turned out, the risk largely paid off. Daredevil unfurled as a gritty and grounded excursion into a much seedier corner of the McU, bolstered by brutally realistic action (that hallway fight sequence, if slightly overhyped, was still a bruising, balletic joy) and one truly exceptional performance. As the mercurial yet dignified Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, Vincent D’Onofrio was nothing short of mesmerizing, breaking with Marvel tradition...
No one knew what to expect from the first season of Daredevil. The first collaboration between Netflix and Marvel, it was an undeniably risky proposition from the outset, tasked with carving out a distinctive place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe under the constraints of a TV budget while also developing a complicated cast of characters over the course of 13 episodes (a much trickier process in terms of pacing than that faced by a two-hour film).
As it turned out, the risk largely paid off. Daredevil unfurled as a gritty and grounded excursion into a much seedier corner of the McU, bolstered by brutally realistic action (that hallway fight sequence, if slightly overhyped, was still a bruising, balletic joy) and one truly exceptional performance. As the mercurial yet dignified Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, Vincent D’Onofrio was nothing short of mesmerizing, breaking with Marvel tradition...
- 3/14/2016
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
To celebrate the release of Alienate - on DVD 22nd February – we have a copy to giveaway!
Alienate is stacked from start to finish with thrilling suspense that will have you dusting off your copies of The X-Files to ask yourself the all time important question, do you believe? Blending the suspense of Monsters with the intelligent action assault of Independence Day, Alienate is a unique modern genre must-see that firmly places debut feature director Michael Shumway and his cast in the spotlight as ones to watch.
Alienate continues to explore exciting new territory for the genre! Check out our review here and order a copy today: http://bit.ly/Alienate
To win a copy of Alienate on DVD just answer the following question:
Which of the following films is also features an alien invasion of Earth? Is it:
a) Without Warning
b) Alien 3
c) Alienator
Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.
Alienate is stacked from start to finish with thrilling suspense that will have you dusting off your copies of The X-Files to ask yourself the all time important question, do you believe? Blending the suspense of Monsters with the intelligent action assault of Independence Day, Alienate is a unique modern genre must-see that firmly places debut feature director Michael Shumway and his cast in the spotlight as ones to watch.
Alienate continues to explore exciting new territory for the genre! Check out our review here and order a copy today: http://bit.ly/Alienate
To win a copy of Alienate on DVD just answer the following question:
Which of the following films is also features an alien invasion of Earth? Is it:
a) Without Warning
b) Alien 3
c) Alienator
Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.
- 2/17/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Plot:Without warning aliens invade the Earth and set about obliterating the human race. Among the few remaining is Cassie, once a normal teen but now a gun-toting survivor who must rescue her younger brother from a military base as he's trained to be a soldier on the front lines. Review: A gigantic spaceship sits in the sky ominously, a swirling behemoth that looks about 5x the size of Mount Rushmore.... Read More...
- 1/22/2016
- by Eric Walkuski
- JoBlo.com
Until 2008, the James Bond franchise was a lot like Groundhog Day: An infinite loop, every lap of which was superficially different but fundamentally the same. Over the course of 21 self-contained installments, six male leads and 46 years, audiences had grown accustomed to the idea that each subsequent movie would be less like a novelistic chapter than a new drawing on a recently shaken Etch a Sketch. Not until Memento would there be another leading man with such a terrible memory; when Bond's wife was assassinated in the closing moments of On Her Majesty's Secret Service,...
- 11/9/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The Midnight Swim features an almost entirely female cast and will arrive in theaters and VOD in the U.S. later this month. Also in this round-up: casting details for Lavender and an excerpt from the horror fantasy novel Into the Darkness.
The Midnight Swim: "Candy Factory Films is immensely proud to present The Midnight Swim, the haunting new dark drama from director Sarah Adina Smith in U.S. theaters and VOD nationwide on June 26th!
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. They find themselves unable to let go of their mother and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake."
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Lavender: The psychological thriller Lavender is set to finish filming on June 29th:
Press Release -- "Lavender,...
The Midnight Swim: "Candy Factory Films is immensely proud to present The Midnight Swim, the haunting new dark drama from director Sarah Adina Smith in U.S. theaters and VOD nationwide on June 26th!
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. They find themselves unable to let go of their mother and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake."
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Lavender: The psychological thriller Lavender is set to finish filming on June 29th:
Press Release -- "Lavender,...
- 6/9/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Journey
Thatgamecompany
Sony Computer Entertainment
PS3
Sometimes fantastic experiences can come from quick adventures. This is Journey in a nut shell. With a name like Journey you would expect the game to last an inordinate amount of time, but Journey isn’t concerned about artificially lengthening gameplay. It is more concerned with telling a simple story that will leave most players extremely satisfied with their brief playthough. Often times described as the definition of an art game, thatgamecompany has created a universal story that will hit everyone differently.
The gameplay of Journey consists of navigating a hooded figure through a vast desert, with the ultimate goal of reaching a far away mountain. Nothing is explained, but the game is very intuitive in showing exactly what it expects players’ to accomplish. Players are encouraged to simply move toward the light. While the joystick gives players control of the protagonist, the Sixaxis...
Thatgamecompany
Sony Computer Entertainment
PS3
Sometimes fantastic experiences can come from quick adventures. This is Journey in a nut shell. With a name like Journey you would expect the game to last an inordinate amount of time, but Journey isn’t concerned about artificially lengthening gameplay. It is more concerned with telling a simple story that will leave most players extremely satisfied with their brief playthough. Often times described as the definition of an art game, thatgamecompany has created a universal story that will hit everyone differently.
The gameplay of Journey consists of navigating a hooded figure through a vast desert, with the ultimate goal of reaching a far away mountain. Nothing is explained, but the game is very intuitive in showing exactly what it expects players’ to accomplish. Players are encouraged to simply move toward the light. While the joystick gives players control of the protagonist, the Sixaxis...
- 4/14/2015
- by Max Covill
- SoundOnSight
Elle L'Adore is a curious first feature from former actress Jeanne Henry. It wastes no time getting into the grisly proceedings of an accidental homicide, but after the groundwork is laid out, the film practically crawls to a halt.Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain) is a compulsive liar and an obsessed super fan of aging pop star Vincent Lacroix (Laurent Lafitte). She has been following his career and loyally attending gigs and television appearances for years, and he has some knowledge of her presence there. Without warning, the impetuous Vincent is involved in a fatal accident involving his crazed girlfriend. Instead of doing what nobody in film does, he concocts an almost ingenious plan to get rid of her body and avoid all suspicion. Unfortunately Vincent partners with Muriel...
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- 3/2/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Stephen King has teamed up with David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal) to adapt his novel Mr. Mercedes into a limited series. This is one of the few books King has written that I haven’t had a chance to read yet. The story centers on a psychopath who commits mass murder by driving his Mercedes into a crowd, and it follows a retired cop who makes it his mission to bring him to justice. Kelley had this to say in a statement:
“This is an amazing opportunity to adapt a script from material penned by one of the world’s most acclaimed and accomplished authors. ‘Mr. Mercedes’ is a great story that will translate beautifully to the screen if I don’t mess it up.”
This sounds like it could make for a fantastic series to watch. It will be directed by Jack Bender, who previously...
“This is an amazing opportunity to adapt a script from material penned by one of the world’s most acclaimed and accomplished authors. ‘Mr. Mercedes’ is a great story that will translate beautifully to the screen if I don’t mess it up.”
This sounds like it could make for a fantastic series to watch. It will be directed by Jack Bender, who previously...
- 1/17/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The master of horror, Stephen King, took a side-step into hard-boiled detective territory for last year’s Mr. Mercedes novel. While some of his dedicated followers – his constant readers – prefer his established genre, the vast majority are just as content with a brief escape into less terrifying waters. Ally McBeal creator David E. Kelley and Lost director Jack Bender can be roped into that latter category, as the pair are now collaborating on the adaptation for Sonar Entertainment.
Set up as a collaborative production between Sonar and Temple Hill Entertainment, Mr. Mercedes will be a limited series with an as-yet unknown amount of episodes. The story begins when a psychopath crashes a stolen Mercedes into a crowd queueing up outside a mall, killing many innocent people as a result. One of the town’s former officers steps in to investigate and forms a crime-solving gang with two unlikely friends.
It...
Set up as a collaborative production between Sonar and Temple Hill Entertainment, Mr. Mercedes will be a limited series with an as-yet unknown amount of episodes. The story begins when a psychopath crashes a stolen Mercedes into a crowd queueing up outside a mall, killing many innocent people as a result. One of the town’s former officers steps in to investigate and forms a crime-solving gang with two unlikely friends.
It...
- 1/13/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
In Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes, originally published last summer, retired cop Bill Hodges is haunted by an unsolved crime involving a killer who drove a car through a crowd of people and escaped. Now that same murderer is gearing up to wreak more death and destruction, and it’s up to Bill to stop him. Readers who couldn’t get enough of this storyline on the printed page can look forward to seeing it play out on the small screen, as it has been revealed that Mr. Mercedes is being developed as a limited TV series.
Deadline reports that Sonar Entertainment is moving forward on a limited TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes. David E. Kelley (Boston Legal, The Practice) is set to pen the script, with Jack Bender (Lost) lined up for the director’s chair. No other details are known at this time, but...
Deadline reports that Sonar Entertainment is moving forward on a limited TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes. David E. Kelley (Boston Legal, The Practice) is set to pen the script, with Jack Bender (Lost) lined up for the director’s chair. No other details are known at this time, but...
- 1/13/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Welcome to the latest installment of Trailer Park, our (semi) regular look at the latest trailers to hit the interwebs. This weeks line-up features a bevy of the latest movie trailers including: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Insurgent, Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno, Cinderella, Are You Here, Jurassic World and Home.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night At the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) leaves New York City for London, uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Insurgent
Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris’s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the...
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night At the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) leaves New York City for London, uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Insurgent
Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris’s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the...
- 11/27/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The brand new UK trailer for Warner Bros. UK epic live action sequel Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno has landed on our doormat, so of course it would rude not to share! Based on the popular manga series, written & illustrated by Watsuki Nobuhiro, Kenshin 2 was directed by Ohtomo Keishi, who directed the first Rurouni Kenshin film in 2012, and even better theres a third instalment, fittingly entitled ‘The Legend Ends’ still to come. RK2 opens in UK cinemas 28th November. Synopsis: Kenshin Himura (Takeru Satoh) is a legendary swordsman, a hero in the wars preceding the turbulent fall of Japan's Shogunate in the 19th century. Once feared as 'Battosai the Killer', with the arrival of the new Japanese age and nursing the pain of losing many of his companions he is now a lone wanderer, roaming the land seeking to be of service to those in need. Fate however, had taken...
- 11/25/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
We’re in the home stretch now, folks. Only two episodes remain. After the elves or whatever showed up last week to save the Earth from a deadly solar flare, Clara Oswald’s lies to Danny Pink finally caught up to her. Will she be able to keep him from leaving her? Does she even want to? Everyone take a deep breath, because we’re headed into “Dark Water.” ******** Never before has Clara — or perhaps any companion — sounded so similar to the Doctor. Ms. Oswald is on the phone with Danny but she’s telling him to shut up, shut up, shut up, despite the fact that he can’t get a word in edgewise. We can deduce that Danny was on his way over to get the explanation he deserved. But as we all know, sometimes it’s easier to talk when you can’t see the other person’s face.
- 11/2/2014
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
A video of a man spewing homophobic remarks and physically attacking a fellow traveler at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas went viral after it was posted on YouTube on Oct. 23.
Video Of Dallas Airport Brawl
The incident clearly began sometime before Andrew Kennedy, the man who recorded and uploaded the video, began filming. The video starts with the aggressor approaching the man in the pink shirt and swatting at the phone in his hand, appearing upset and not wanting to be filmed. The two exchange words, and it seems as if the man in pink informs the aggressor that there are cameras and a crowd watching. The man is not phased by this, and proceeds to flip off the crowd.
A man in a cowboy hat intervenes, and asks the man why he’s so upset, and that’s when the man begins to lose it. “Queers is what I’m upset about!
Video Of Dallas Airport Brawl
The incident clearly began sometime before Andrew Kennedy, the man who recorded and uploaded the video, began filming. The video starts with the aggressor approaching the man in the pink shirt and swatting at the phone in his hand, appearing upset and not wanting to be filmed. The two exchange words, and it seems as if the man in pink informs the aggressor that there are cameras and a crowd watching. The man is not phased by this, and proceeds to flip off the crowd.
A man in a cowboy hat intervenes, and asks the man why he’s so upset, and that’s when the man begins to lose it. “Queers is what I’m upset about!
- 10/27/2014
- Uinterview
When we last left the Doctor and Clara, the former had shown his willingness to sacrifice the one to save the majority while the latter had proved the Doctor isn’t the only one who lies. Determined to keep up her double life, Clara’s playing a dangerous game with both Twelve and Danny. But who was behind the computerized voice of Gus? Or does it even matter? Will “Flatline” continue the trend of the Monster-Of-The-Week (Motw) or will the threads of this season start to coalesce? Time to find out! ************ Either we’re in the 1970s or this balding hipster hasn’t updated his decor since then. He’s whispering into a corded wall phone — truly an archaic device — to the police. He knows who did “it” and they’re everywhere. Whoever “they” are prove the hipster’s paranoid delusions are true by instantly murdering him. Godspeed, sir. You make delightfully eccentric wallpaper.
- 10/19/2014
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
We haven't heard much on Rocksteady's massively anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight recently, but that's about to change. At Gamescom 2014, the developer debuted some brand-new footage for the game, set to hit PS4, Xbox One and PC early next year. The demo displayed the franchise's acclaimed combat system, some new Batmobile action and concluded with some highly impressive new tricks. Here's a highly detailed break-down, thanks to GamesRadar: The scene begins with police and Commissioner Gordon standing on a bridge outside the Ace Chemicals Plant. Batman arrives on the scene to hear that there is a skeleton crew inside, but they're not responding. Gordon suspects the Scarecrow is involved. Without warning, a helicopter appears and destroys the bridge outside the plant's main gate, restricting access. It circles and the cops flee. But Batman just calmly walks towards the chopper ad faces it. The camera cuts to the cockpit and we get...
- 8/14/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
"He took the to protect them from the darkest time in the history of this world." After cautioning against the first trailer for the new adaptation of the religious, rapture-centric book Left Behind starring Nicolas Cage, we can't help but do the same with the full theatrical trailer that has just been released. With melodrama heightened by the use of Civil Twilight's song "Letters from the Sky," this attempts to pull at the heartstrings, but still feels like nothing more than a TV movie from the 90s. Lea Thompson and Chad Michael Murray don't add anything to the proceedings, but we really didn't expect them to at all. Watch? Here's the new trailer for Vic Armstrong's Left Behind, originally from Yahoo: Left Behind is directed by Vic Armstrong and written by Jerry B. Jenkins, based on Tim Lahaye's novel of the same name. Without warning, millions of...
- 8/5/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The Weekend Watch is an open thread where you can share what you’ve recently watched, offer suggestions on movies and TV shows we should check out (or warnings about stuff to avoid) and discover queue-filling goodies from other Fsr readers. The comments section awaits. I’ll get the ball rolling with the movies/TV my eyeballs took in this weekend. It had been decades since I’d seen The Legend of Billie Jean, but the new Blu-ray (and its $5 price tag on Amazon) was too appealing to pass up. I expected it to feel even cheesier and more dated (obviously) than I recalled, and I was not disappointed. What I didn’t expect was to enjoy the damn thing so much. Yes it’s cheesy, dated and loaded with flat line delivery from glorified extras, but it’s also an underdog-fueled crowd-pleaser with a fine (albeit simple) message at its heart as well as a charismatic...
- 8/4/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
So, Scream Factory announced a whopping 10 titles while at Comic Con. Some of the titles announced were expected, and others were not. All of them will be awesome additions to their already-impressive arsenal of classic genre films. On their Facebook page today, Scream Factory issued an update for some of their future lineup. This includes the release date for some titles, and further information about some of the more popular releases this fall, such as the availability of Nightbreed Limited Edition, as well as the current status of Dog Soldiers. See below for details.
Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut – Limited Edition
Scream Factory acknowledged that they have been bombarded with questions about when fans could expect the pre-order of the set to go live on Amazon again. At the time of this posting, they had this to say:
- We’ve had a lot asked when Amazon will restart...
Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut – Limited Edition
Scream Factory acknowledged that they have been bombarded with questions about when fans could expect the pre-order of the set to go live on Amazon again. At the time of this posting, they had this to say:
- We’ve had a lot asked when Amazon will restart...
- 7/28/2014
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
Some really good announcements came from the Scream Factory panel tonight (also Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh). At any rate, come on in and read all about what you'll be plunking down to own in the upcoming months!
Coming from Scream Factory are:
Escape from New York (Collector's Edition)
Mad Max (Collector's Edition)
Dolls (Collector's Edition)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
New Years Evil (hooray!)
The Dark Half
Monkey Shines
Phantom of the Opera (1988)
Scarecrows
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
No word on release dates or special features yet, but we'll bring them to you as soon as we hear something.
Available exclusively at the event at the Shout/Scream booth (#4248), will be a limited edition blood red Scream Factory t-shirt as well as a button pack, both of which you can check out below (they're a bit blurry, but you'll get the idea). The company will also be selling copies of...
Coming from Scream Factory are:
Escape from New York (Collector's Edition)
Mad Max (Collector's Edition)
Dolls (Collector's Edition)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
New Years Evil (hooray!)
The Dark Half
Monkey Shines
Phantom of the Opera (1988)
Scarecrows
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
No word on release dates or special features yet, but we'll bring them to you as soon as we hear something.
Available exclusively at the event at the Shout/Scream booth (#4248), will be a limited edition blood red Scream Factory t-shirt as well as a button pack, both of which you can check out below (they're a bit blurry, but you'll get the idea). The company will also be selling copies of...
- 7/26/2014
- by Matt Serafini
- DreadCentral.com
We're less than two weeks away from the start of this year's San Diego Comic-Con, which officially kicks off July 24th. If you're like us, you've been excitedly wondering what the fine folks over at Scream Factory will be bringing to the event, and we've got all the info for you here!
In a press release sent out today, Shout Factory revealed their full lineup for this year's Sdcc with the Scream Factory offerings of course being of interest to us here on Dread. First up is a Friday night panel that takes you inside the company, exposing the inner workings of the genre powerhouse.
"An Inside Look at Shout! Factory, Shout! Kids and Scream Factory" takes place on Friday, July 25, at 7pm in Room 23Abc. Join Brian Ward (DVD Producer), Melissa Boag (VP, Kids & Family) and Jeff Nelson (Sr. Marketing Director) as they make special announcements and unveil exclusive...
In a press release sent out today, Shout Factory revealed their full lineup for this year's Sdcc with the Scream Factory offerings of course being of interest to us here on Dread. First up is a Friday night panel that takes you inside the company, exposing the inner workings of the genre powerhouse.
"An Inside Look at Shout! Factory, Shout! Kids and Scream Factory" takes place on Friday, July 25, at 7pm in Room 23Abc. Join Brian Ward (DVD Producer), Melissa Boag (VP, Kids & Family) and Jeff Nelson (Sr. Marketing Director) as they make special announcements and unveil exclusive...
- 7/14/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Earlier this week prolific horror author Stephen King revealed that his recently released Mr. Mercedes is Book #1 of a proposed trilogy, and now he's posted a letter to his fans with more about Finders Keepers, the second installment, plus a rather macabre list.
Here's the letter from StephenKing.com:
Dear Constant Reader,
Mr. Mercedes is the first volume of a projected trilogy concerning Bill Hodges, his friends… and his enemies. The second volume, Finders Keepers, is finished (in first draft, at least) and will be published in the first half of 2015, perhaps followed by a book of new stories in the fall (or not). Anyway, these three novels seem to revolve around the City Center Massacre that opens Mr. Mercedes. Because of that, I wanted to post a complete list of those killed and injured in Brady Hartsfield’s attack. Some of these unfortunates have other parts to play. As always,...
Here's the letter from StephenKing.com:
Dear Constant Reader,
Mr. Mercedes is the first volume of a projected trilogy concerning Bill Hodges, his friends… and his enemies. The second volume, Finders Keepers, is finished (in first draft, at least) and will be published in the first half of 2015, perhaps followed by a book of new stories in the fall (or not). Anyway, these three novels seem to revolve around the City Center Massacre that opens Mr. Mercedes. Because of that, I wanted to post a complete list of those killed and injured in Brady Hartsfield’s attack. Some of these unfortunates have other parts to play. As always,...
- 6/14/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Ah, what would we have to give to bring back “Mystery Science Theater 3000”? They would have a field day with the completely embarrassing “The Human Race,” an inept sci-fi film that seems like a throwback to incompetent straight-to-video cheapies of the 80's, the kind of time-wasters that would employ Robert Z'Dar and maybe an Estevez. The intro to this slab of tacky genre garbage is foggy, muddy, nearly monochrome, as the victims of the title event are forced to follow a single path to victory. Without warning, we see these strangers look to the sky, as an unseen voice transmits the rules of this “game” straight into their heads – you must get to the end of the path, or you will die. And if you're lapped twice, you are dead. Also, try not to walk onto the grass that surrounds this complex of an arbitrarily-chosen jail, school and home,...
- 6/14/2014
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
*Updated with more details from Stephen King* Retired cop Bill Hodges is haunted by an unsolved crime involving a killer who drove a Mercedes through a crowd of people and escaped. Now that same murderer is gearing up to wreak more death and destruction, and it’s up to Bill to stop him. Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King’s latest novel, is now available as a hardcover, audiobook, and ebook, and King recently revealed that two sequel novels are on the way.
The second book in the planned trilogy, set to be released sometime next year, will be titled Finders Keepers, and it will include the characters Hodges, Jerome, and Holly from Mr. Mercedes. Here’s what Stephen King shared with his followers on Twitter:
“Mr. Mercedes is the first novel in a projected trilogy. Hodges, Jerome, and Holly will return in Finders Keepers next year.”
*Update: Stephen King posted a...
The second book in the planned trilogy, set to be released sometime next year, will be titled Finders Keepers, and it will include the characters Hodges, Jerome, and Holly from Mr. Mercedes. Here’s what Stephen King shared with his followers on Twitter:
“Mr. Mercedes is the first novel in a projected trilogy. Hodges, Jerome, and Holly will return in Finders Keepers next year.”
*Update: Stephen King posted a...
- 6/13/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Did you snag a copy of Stephen King's latest, Mr. Mercedes, when it was released on June 3rd? If so, we'd love to hear your thoughts, especially now that we know it's Part 1 of a proposed trilogy with Part 2's title already announced!
King took to Twitter to reveal the news, including word that the second installment will be titled Finders Keepers.
We should be hearing more about that soon so stay tuned!
Mr. Mercedes is the first novel in a projected trilogy. Hodges, Jerome, and Holly will return in Finders Keepers next year.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 10, 2014
Mr. Mercedes Synopsis:
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up...
King took to Twitter to reveal the news, including word that the second installment will be titled Finders Keepers.
We should be hearing more about that soon so stay tuned!
Mr. Mercedes is the first novel in a projected trilogy. Hodges, Jerome, and Holly will return in Finders Keepers next year.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 10, 2014
Mr. Mercedes Synopsis:
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up...
- 6/11/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Mr. Mercedes is the name of Stephen King’s latest novel that centers around a killer who plows through a crowd in a stolen Mercedes and escapes. The novel is now available as a hardcover, audiobook, and ebook, but, if you’d like a preview before picking it up, we have an excerpt you can read right now.
Synopsis: “In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
In another part of town,...
Synopsis: “In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
In another part of town,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
A whole bunch of Scream Factory goodness was dropped into our inbox this morning, so let's forgo the usual chit-chat and cut right to the chase!
First up, the world's greatest distribution company announced on their Facebook page that they're bringing three titles to Blu-ray for the very first time this coming fall, kicking off with a double feature release of 1972's Tales from the Crypt and 1973's The Vault of Horror.
The two classic British anthology films will be housed together as a double feature on Blu-ray (both for the first time) and Vault will be presented in its uncut form.
Also announced was the 1985 grave robber thriller The Doctor and the Devils, which was produced by Mel Brooks and stars Timothy Dalton, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Rea, Jonathan Pryce…and even Twiggy!
No dates have been set in stone, but both discs will arrive sometime in the fall.
In the meantime,...
First up, the world's greatest distribution company announced on their Facebook page that they're bringing three titles to Blu-ray for the very first time this coming fall, kicking off with a double feature release of 1972's Tales from the Crypt and 1973's The Vault of Horror.
The two classic British anthology films will be housed together as a double feature on Blu-ray (both for the first time) and Vault will be presented in its uncut form.
Also announced was the 1985 grave robber thriller The Doctor and the Devils, which was produced by Mel Brooks and stars Timothy Dalton, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Rea, Jonathan Pryce…and even Twiggy!
No dates have been set in stone, but both discs will arrive sometime in the fall.
In the meantime,...
- 6/2/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
For horror fans, this summer really belongs to Scream Factory and their “Summer of Fear.” We’ve already told you that they’re giving more than a dozen titles a high-definition upgrade, but they’re not stopping there. It has just been announced that they have a number of special events planned, including live online screenings as part of their virtual drive-in experience:
“Crocodiles, rats, werewolves, cannibals and more terrors invade Scream Factory’s “Summer of Fear” DVD & Blu-ray line-up this season and the brand is celebrating their arrivals with a promotion this month that fans will die for!
The party began in May with the releases of Final Exam, Evilspeak, Nosferatu the Vampyre, The House in the Alley and Sleepaway Camp (Collector’s Edition) but the fun was just beginning… Eleven more terrifying films are coming this Summer including Ravenous (6/3), The Monkey’s Paw (6/17), The Final Terror (7/1), Lake Placid...
“Crocodiles, rats, werewolves, cannibals and more terrors invade Scream Factory’s “Summer of Fear” DVD & Blu-ray line-up this season and the brand is celebrating their arrivals with a promotion this month that fans will die for!
The party began in May with the releases of Final Exam, Evilspeak, Nosferatu the Vampyre, The House in the Alley and Sleepaway Camp (Collector’s Edition) but the fun was just beginning… Eleven more terrifying films are coming this Summer including Ravenous (6/3), The Monkey’s Paw (6/17), The Final Terror (7/1), Lake Placid...
- 6/2/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
We're just a couple of days away from the release of Stephen King's latest, Mr. Mercedes, which arrives on Tuesday, June 3rd. To celebrate, his publishers have released some promo and teaser videos - one of which stars our old pal Pennywise.
The ever-vigilant Lilja's Library brought the vids to our attention, and if you click the link to their site at the bottom of the page, they'll point you in the direction of more familiar faces introducing King's new book: Danny from The Shining and Carrie from, well, Carrie.
Before you watch the teasers, though, be sure check out King himself talking about the news story that inspired him to write the novel in the first place.
Synopsis:
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
The ever-vigilant Lilja's Library brought the vids to our attention, and if you click the link to their site at the bottom of the page, they'll point you in the direction of more familiar faces introducing King's new book: Danny from The Shining and Carrie from, well, Carrie.
Before you watch the teasers, though, be sure check out King himself talking about the news story that inspired him to write the novel in the first place.
Synopsis:
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
- 6/1/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye's classic tale of people left behind after the rapture is back on the screen with some new faces. No, this is not made for TV but will hit select theatres on October 3.
Besides Cage, the film stars Chad Michael Murray, Lea Thompson, Jordin Sparks, Cassi Thompson, Nicky Whelan, Quinton Aaron, and Martin Klebba and opens in theaters on October 3rd.
Synopsis:
Without warning, millions of people around the globe simply vanish. All that remains are their clothes and belongings... and an overwhelming sense of terror.
Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. And there is no one to help or provide answers. In an instant, the earth has been plunged into darkness. For Ray Steele, the pilot of a jumbo jet, i [Continued ...]...
Besides Cage, the film stars Chad Michael Murray, Lea Thompson, Jordin Sparks, Cassi Thompson, Nicky Whelan, Quinton Aaron, and Martin Klebba and opens in theaters on October 3rd.
Synopsis:
Without warning, millions of people around the globe simply vanish. All that remains are their clothes and belongings... and an overwhelming sense of terror.
Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. And there is no one to help or provide answers. In an instant, the earth has been plunged into darkness. For Ray Steele, the pilot of a jumbo jet, i [Continued ...]...
- 5/30/2014
- QuietEarth.us
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