I think we can all agree that some people go a little nuts with their house and roof decorations around the holiday season. Just watch that clip from How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey where they have the Gatling gun for lights. Enter Colby Powell. Powell and his family built a Millennium Falcon replica for their roof in anticipation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. This thing is so massive, they needed to use a crane to get it on the roof! You can check out the video below to watch him and his family build the decoration get it up on the roof. Also, if you’re curious, yes this is the same guy who built a Death Star for his home back in 2015.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes to theaters December 15, 2017.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes to theaters December 15, 2017.
- 12/16/2017
- by Tommy Wiliams
- GeekTyrant
“I ain’t no King. I ain’t nothing. I’m just some guy.”
Since his introduction last season Khary Payton’s King Ezekiel has been one of the most compelling characters on the show. His dual persona – charismatic King from another time and humble every-man – has always been entertaining to watch, partly thanks to Payton’s brilliant performance of the character, and this week’s episode explores the idea of Ezekiel’s identities competing further.
The episode opens with an intimate sequence focused on Ezekiel as a he prepares himself for the mission that unraveled (and is still unravelling) in the previous instalment. He washes himself, prepares those mighty-fine dreads of his and assembles his combat outfit before delivering yet another speech – we’re in at least one-per-episode territory now – but it’s, as ever, a charming performance from Payton.
A clever match cut takes us from Ezekiel being...
Since his introduction last season Khary Payton’s King Ezekiel has been one of the most compelling characters on the show. His dual persona – charismatic King from another time and humble every-man – has always been entertaining to watch, partly thanks to Payton’s brilliant performance of the character, and this week’s episode explores the idea of Ezekiel’s identities competing further.
The episode opens with an intimate sequence focused on Ezekiel as a he prepares himself for the mission that unraveled (and is still unravelling) in the previous instalment. He washes himself, prepares those mighty-fine dreads of his and assembles his combat outfit before delivering yet another speech – we’re in at least one-per-episode territory now – but it’s, as ever, a charming performance from Payton.
A clever match cut takes us from Ezekiel being...
- 11/20/2017
- by Luke Brookman
- The Cultural Post
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Rick and Morty” Season 3 finale, Episode 10, “The Rickchurian Mortydate.”]
When the logline for “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” the Season 3 finale of “Rick and Morty,” was released, there was plenty of speculation that what the president referenced in the episode description would be Evil Morty, the mastermind revealed at the end of “The Ricklantis Mixup.” A more mythology-obsessed show might have gone that route, building on the success of the season’s standout episode and threading together the C-137 timeline with the consequences of Rick and Morty’s actions in the broader multiverse.
That “Rick and Morty” instead said farewell to Season 3 with an unexpectedly self-contained musing on the nature of obligation and family doesn’t make the show any less ambitious. But it does indicate a show segueing briskly into its offseason, wrapping up some thematic loose ends in a way that didn’t outdo its Season 3 predecessors, but still gave viewers plenty to latch onto, visually and philosophically.
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When the logline for “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” the Season 3 finale of “Rick and Morty,” was released, there was plenty of speculation that what the president referenced in the episode description would be Evil Morty, the mastermind revealed at the end of “The Ricklantis Mixup.” A more mythology-obsessed show might have gone that route, building on the success of the season’s standout episode and threading together the C-137 timeline with the consequences of Rick and Morty’s actions in the broader multiverse.
That “Rick and Morty” instead said farewell to Season 3 with an unexpectedly self-contained musing on the nature of obligation and family doesn’t make the show any less ambitious. But it does indicate a show segueing briskly into its offseason, wrapping up some thematic loose ends in a way that didn’t outdo its Season 3 predecessors, but still gave viewers plenty to latch onto, visually and philosophically.
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- 10/2/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
On June 12, 1987, John McTiernan's Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of a special forces team that's dropped into the jungle on a rescue mission and comes face to face with an alien hunter who makes trophies out of men's spinal columns, hit theaters. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and his troops tote around a six-barrel Gatling gun in Predator, indicative of the firepower in this 20th Century Fox release.
Action buffs can unpack their flak jackets and dig in for this explosive, big-barrel production. Box-office prospects seem excellent for this well-made, old-style assault...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and his troops tote around a six-barrel Gatling gun in Predator, indicative of the firepower in this 20th Century Fox release.
Action buffs can unpack their flak jackets and dig in for this explosive, big-barrel production. Box-office prospects seem excellent for this well-made, old-style assault...
- 6/1/2017
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A review of tonight's Westworld coming up just as soon as I ride a train of explosives through scalping territory... "The hosts are the ones who are free. Free, here, under my control." -Ford A trompe l'oeil is an artistic illusion that makes a two-dimensional drawing appear to exist in three dimensions. The title would fit almost any episode of Westworld, where the human characters go back and forth on whether the hosts are in any way real, but particularly this one, where it's revealed that Bernard is a host who has been programmed to believe he's human, while occasionally doing nefarious things — like murdering Theresa — on Dr. Ford's behalf. Any show with this subject matter is going to inspire speculation about whether some — or even all — of the "humans" are in fact also robots, and Bernard always seemed the most likely suspect. The show dropped various clues — last week,...
- 11/14/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
You'll always be careful with knives after seeing the outrageous, impossibly gory violence of this brain-warping samurai series from the early 1970s. Tomisaburo Wakabayashi rolls his tiny tot Daigoro through feudal Japan, looking for trouble. There's simply been nothing like it: breathtakingly beautiful images aestheticize bloodletting as never before or since. Lone Wolf and Cub Sword of Vengeance, Baby Cart at the River Styx, Baby Cart to Hades, Baby Cart in Peril, Baby Cart in the Land of Demons, White Heaven in Hell + Shogun Assassin Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 841 1972-1974 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 630 + min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 8, 2016 / 99.95 Starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa. Written by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima Produced by Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara, Tomisaburo Wakayama Directed by Kenji Misumi, Buichi Saito, Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
In an unexpected move, Criterion has released one of the most influential Japanese film series of the 1970s,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
In an unexpected move, Criterion has released one of the most influential Japanese film series of the 1970s,...
- 11/7/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A review of tonight's Westworld coming up just as soon as I imagine I'm an evil genius hiding a relay... "I'd like to make some changes." -Maeve There's a remarkable scene midway through "The Adversary" where we get to see Delos headquarters through the eyes of Maeve, who has convinced Felix to let her see more than just the lab. At first, it's a horror show like the visit where she first became aware that there was more to her life than the park, as she sees more bloody robot corpses being hosed off by bored workers. But the higher up she goes, the more the things she sees begin to seem like miracles: people and animals and other forms of life being created artificially, but in a way so that, like Maeve herself, they're indistinguishable from the "real" thing. Yet this, too, is a nightmare, because we know to...
- 11/7/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Kirsten Howard Oct 6, 2016
The 1990 cult classic monster movie Tremors has spawned four sequels (with another on the way) but are they any good?
This article contains spoilers for the assorted Tremors movies.
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hates Tremors. In fact, while I was watching these sequels I ran a quick poll online asking people to choose their favourite 90s monster movie and Tremors won in an absolute landslide – leaving even the much-beloved Gremlins 2 in the dust.
The original cost a rather humble $11 million to make and made $5 million profit at the box office. Not a huge amount, but its subsequent popularity on home release and TV means that, 26 years later, we’ve just received word that a sixth instalment has gone into production. It seems the Tremors love is still very much alive and kicking (or should that be ‘squirming’?).
Kevin Bacon – who has at...
The 1990 cult classic monster movie Tremors has spawned four sequels (with another on the way) but are they any good?
This article contains spoilers for the assorted Tremors movies.
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hates Tremors. In fact, while I was watching these sequels I ran a quick poll online asking people to choose their favourite 90s monster movie and Tremors won in an absolute landslide – leaving even the much-beloved Gremlins 2 in the dust.
The original cost a rather humble $11 million to make and made $5 million profit at the box office. Not a huge amount, but its subsequent popularity on home release and TV means that, 26 years later, we’ve just received word that a sixth instalment has gone into production. It seems the Tremors love is still very much alive and kicking (or should that be ‘squirming’?).
Kevin Bacon – who has at...
- 9/29/2016
- Den of Geek
It's a new week, and we've got some new trailers for you to focus on what good things are headed your way. Check out new trailers for a highly anticipated Western remake, a positively buzzing sci-fi sequel and an adaptation of a hit crime novel below. The Magnificent Seven If you've had any doubts about this redo, they'll be over once you watch this international trailer with its introduction to each member of the titular septet and their signature character traits. Denzel Washington looks tough, Chris Pratt looks like a lot of fun, as does Vincent D'Onofrio as a "bear wearing people clothes," and the Gatling gun brings the big action. Now we just need a little more focus on the black hat of this Western, played by Peter Sarsgaard. The...
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- 7/19/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
The following recap, by the very definition of the word “recap,” contains monstrous spoilers from the Gotham Season 2 finale.
Strange days came to an end — though with stranger days perhaps to come — as Fox’s Gotham wrapped Season 2 on Monday night.
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With Bruce and Lucius (held captive by Nygma) and Jim Gordon all unaccounted for after infiltrating Arkham with the intent of finding Strange’s secret lab, acting captain Harvey Bullock sent in an extraction team — until “Gordon” (actually a hinky Clayface) met them at the gate to ward them off.
Strange days came to an end — though with stranger days perhaps to come — as Fox’s Gotham wrapped Season 2 on Monday night.
RelatedAsk Ausiello: Spoilers on Gotham Season 3 Villains and More
With Bruce and Lucius (held captive by Nygma) and Jim Gordon all unaccounted for after infiltrating Arkham with the intent of finding Strange’s secret lab, acting captain Harvey Bullock sent in an extraction team — until “Gordon” (actually a hinky Clayface) met them at the gate to ward them off.
- 5/24/2016
- TVLine.com
It’s almost the end of April, dear readers, and that means the start of the summer movie season is nearly upon us. This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the teaser trailer for director Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming remake of The Magnificent Seven.
Premise: With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from a motley crew of seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers, and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
My take: The Magnificent Seven (1960) is considered one of the all-time classics of the western genre, and...
Premise: With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from a motley crew of seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers, and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
My take: The Magnificent Seven (1960) is considered one of the all-time classics of the western genre, and...
- 4/28/2016
- by Timothy Monforton
- CinemaNerdz
Netflix has released a couple new promo posters for season two of Marvel's Daredevil that give us a better look at the costumes for Daredevil, The Punisher, and Elektra. The image above was officially released online, the other image below is a photo of a billboard showing off the three characters in different poses. In them, you can clearly see Punisher's signature skull logo, and he's looking pretty badass holding that Gatling gun below.
Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell’s Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take on a new adversary in Frank Castle and face an old flame – Elektra Natchios. Bigger problems emerge when Frank Castle, a man looking for vengeance, is reborn as The Punisher, a man who takes justice into his own hands in Matt’s neighborhood. Meanwhile, Matt must balance his duty...
Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell’s Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take on a new adversary in Frank Castle and face an old flame – Elektra Natchios. Bigger problems emerge when Frank Castle, a man looking for vengeance, is reborn as The Punisher, a man who takes justice into his own hands in Matt’s neighborhood. Meanwhile, Matt must balance his duty...
- 3/8/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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We continue our hunt for an overlooked Christmas classic in the DVD bargain bin. Our latest treat? Grumpy Cat...
Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever is a hard film to write about.
Without wishing to exaggerate its effect, it almost makes you feel like you need to unlearn everything you thought you knew about cinema in order to give it a reasonable assessment. I suppose I should start by saying it’s not a 'good film', but then value judgements feel futile in the (adorable and super-smooshy) face of Grumpy Cat. Besides, whatever insult you could level at this film’s content is redundant. Odds are it’s already been covered by the mega-meta self-loathing that oozes from every scene.
What makes it so compelling, though, is the simple fact that it exists. That you can buy it on DVD. That you didn’t just pass out...
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We continue our hunt for an overlooked Christmas classic in the DVD bargain bin. Our latest treat? Grumpy Cat...
Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever is a hard film to write about.
Without wishing to exaggerate its effect, it almost makes you feel like you need to unlearn everything you thought you knew about cinema in order to give it a reasonable assessment. I suppose I should start by saying it’s not a 'good film', but then value judgements feel futile in the (adorable and super-smooshy) face of Grumpy Cat. Besides, whatever insult you could level at this film’s content is redundant. Odds are it’s already been covered by the mega-meta self-loathing that oozes from every scene.
What makes it so compelling, though, is the simple fact that it exists. That you can buy it on DVD. That you didn’t just pass out...
- 12/5/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
The first annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival in South Florida kicks off on October 1st. Also: an excerpt from Ted Kosmatka's The Flicker Men and details on memorabilia auction from TNT's Falling Skies.
Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2015: Press Release: "Miami, Fl – Horror fans will soon rejoice as South Florida’s first and only genre film festival, the Popcorn Frights Film Festival, launches October 1-4, 2015 at the O Cinema Wynwood, premiering four acclaimed and highly anticipated international films, and an additional six shorts.
“We’re thrilled to present such an array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying, and hilarious films for our inaugural genre festival,” said Co-Founders and Co-Directors Igor Shteyrenberg and Marc Ferman. “We scoured the globe for the freshest and craziest films to present for our community of film lovers, and this first incredible selection of films just gives a small taste of the fun that will...
Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2015: Press Release: "Miami, Fl – Horror fans will soon rejoice as South Florida’s first and only genre film festival, the Popcorn Frights Film Festival, launches October 1-4, 2015 at the O Cinema Wynwood, premiering four acclaimed and highly anticipated international films, and an additional six shorts.
“We’re thrilled to present such an array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying, and hilarious films for our inaugural genre festival,” said Co-Founders and Co-Directors Igor Shteyrenberg and Marc Ferman. “We scoured the globe for the freshest and craziest films to present for our community of film lovers, and this first incredible selection of films just gives a small taste of the fun that will...
- 8/11/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Dwayne Johnson (also known as The Rock), one of the most charismatic and charming men to ever flex his biceps on the big screen, is returning for the next Fast and Furious movie, Screencrush reports. During a press conference for his upcoming film San Andreas (in which the mega-star fights nature, having run out of puny humans to thwart), Johnson said that Hobbes, the agent-turned-ass-kicking-criminal who helps Vin Diesel’s crew and at one point wields a Gatling gun, is a necessary part of the series; he will grace the eighth film, tentatively titled Furious 8, with his vein-popping muscles and deadpan delivery. “It can’t go on without Hobbes.”Johnson joined the franchise, one of the highest-grossing action series (Furious 7 is just $200,000 short of usurping The Avengers for third place on the all-time box office list), with the fifth installment, Furious 5, and has appeared in the subsequent two entries.
- 5/17/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
There's no getting around talking about this movie without mentioning the crowd I saw it with. This was a last minute addition to SXSW Film Festival this year, and by last minute, I mean they got the green light to show it the day of the screening. So, when people got word of this, they got, to put it mildly, a little crazy. Prior to the screening festival organizers introduced the movie, bringing out the likes of director James Wan and Tyrese Gibson, and it was like The Beatles stepping off the plane in New York City, except replace teenage girls with mostly fully grown men, 1,000 fans ready to devour whatever mayhem was put in front of them. It was both a sight I was glad to witness and one I was a little embarrassed to be in. Because, the thing is, I am not a big fan of the...
- 3/16/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
Part I. Anger, Suez and Archie Rice
“There they are,” George Devine told John Osborne, surveying The Entertainer‘s opening night audience. “All waiting for you…Same old pack of c***s, fashionable assholes. Just more of them than usual.” The Royal Court had arrived: no longer outcasts, they were London’s main attraction.
Look Back in Anger vindicated Devine’s model of a writer’s-based theater. Osborne’s success attracted a host of dramatists to Sloane Square. There’s Shelagh Delaney, whose A Taste of Honey featured a working-class girl pregnant from an interracial dalliance; Harold Pinter’s The Room, a bizarre “comedy of menace”; and John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, which aimed a Gatling gun at its audience. Devine encouraged them, however bold or experimental. “You always knew he was on the writer’s side,” Osborne said.
Peter O’Toole called the Royal Court actors “an...
“There they are,” George Devine told John Osborne, surveying The Entertainer‘s opening night audience. “All waiting for you…Same old pack of c***s, fashionable assholes. Just more of them than usual.” The Royal Court had arrived: no longer outcasts, they were London’s main attraction.
Look Back in Anger vindicated Devine’s model of a writer’s-based theater. Osborne’s success attracted a host of dramatists to Sloane Square. There’s Shelagh Delaney, whose A Taste of Honey featured a working-class girl pregnant from an interracial dalliance; Harold Pinter’s The Room, a bizarre “comedy of menace”; and John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, which aimed a Gatling gun at its audience. Devine encouraged them, however bold or experimental. “You always knew he was on the writer’s side,” Osborne said.
Peter O’Toole called the Royal Court actors “an...
- 3/13/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
Chappie is a nugget of an idea, a poorly developed "RoboCop meets Short Circuit" at best, with a story and characters so dumbed down it's almost amazing they were able to piece it together and call it a movie. It's supremely lacking in motivation or reason to exist, logic of any kind, and featuring a cast of characters I hesitate to even call "one note". To give these characters credit for anything beyond their ability to fill space on a screen would be to compare the Berlin Philharmonic to a two-year-old banging on a Playskool xylophone, and it's about as irritating as the latter for the bulk of its two hour duration. There is nothing redeeming about any one of the human characters and yet I can't tell if writer/director Neill Blomkamp (co-writing with Terri Tatchell) expects us to feel anything for any of them. I'm sure, on some level,...
- 3/5/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This story first appeared in the Sept. 19 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Craig Piligian's North Hollywood office could double as a prop house. There are several dozen mechanical banks lining his bookshelves, a suit of armor propped up in the hallway and, for dramatic effect, a Gatling gun pointed toward the door. Look closer and you'll find a few antique cameras, a model airplane and a couple of paintings he's almost certain are authentic Jackson Pollocks. The mix is as eclectic as the producer's Pilgrim Studios portfolio, which spans 40 unscripted shows on 22 networks, including Nat Geo's Wicked Tuna, Discovery's Fast
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- 9/11/2014
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You know her best for her role as Beatress Johnson in American Mary, but Tristan Risk has been a very busy girl lately, and she's about to break big. She sat down with Dread Central to talk about her work, past and future.
Little Miss Risk is a compelling performer, a staunch horror fan and a charismatic interviewee. She talked about her beginnings, her affinity for her beloved character Beatress and the loads of work she's done since. Risk is as witty as she is alluring and we're sure you'll enjoy reading her interview as much as we enjoyed speaking with her.
We started at the very beginning and asked Risky how she got started in the acting business. "I've been a performer all my life," Risk said. "That's everything from doing stage shows, school plays, musicals, things at my grandpa's church. I didn't go to the church, but still performed in the recitals.
Little Miss Risk is a compelling performer, a staunch horror fan and a charismatic interviewee. She talked about her beginnings, her affinity for her beloved character Beatress and the loads of work she's done since. Risk is as witty as she is alluring and we're sure you'll enjoy reading her interview as much as we enjoyed speaking with her.
We started at the very beginning and asked Risky how she got started in the acting business. "I've been a performer all my life," Risk said. "That's everything from doing stage shows, school plays, musicals, things at my grandpa's church. I didn't go to the church, but still performed in the recitals.
- 9/9/2014
- by Scott Hallam
- DreadCentral.com
Dear Danny,
I also rode the Tokyo Tribe rollercoaster, and my head hasn’t stopped spinning yet. Slamming together the most rabid excesses of the worlds of manga comics and hip-hop music, it’s a continuous blitzkrieg: Sono’s ne plus ultra of sheer brio, and, along with Godard’s Adieu au language, the festival’s most assaultive sensory experience so far. Its pinwheel neon hues, inflamed camera movements and acrobatic gangland mugging are straight-up dilations of Seijun Suzuki’s vintage gonzo pulp—indeed, the first time I ever heard Japanese rapping on screen was during a brief interlude in Suzuki’s mock-opera Princess Raccoon. I doubt even that veteran iconoclast, however, could have dreamed up the bit in Tokyo Tribe when the vile underworld kingpin (Riki Takeuchi), swollen like an obscene parade float, pulverizes a field of warring gangs with a Gatling gun held, of course, crotch-level. Such moments of absolute glee abound,...
I also rode the Tokyo Tribe rollercoaster, and my head hasn’t stopped spinning yet. Slamming together the most rabid excesses of the worlds of manga comics and hip-hop music, it’s a continuous blitzkrieg: Sono’s ne plus ultra of sheer brio, and, along with Godard’s Adieu au language, the festival’s most assaultive sensory experience so far. Its pinwheel neon hues, inflamed camera movements and acrobatic gangland mugging are straight-up dilations of Seijun Suzuki’s vintage gonzo pulp—indeed, the first time I ever heard Japanese rapping on screen was during a brief interlude in Suzuki’s mock-opera Princess Raccoon. I doubt even that veteran iconoclast, however, could have dreamed up the bit in Tokyo Tribe when the vile underworld kingpin (Riki Takeuchi), swollen like an obscene parade float, pulverizes a field of warring gangs with a Gatling gun held, of course, crotch-level. Such moments of absolute glee abound,...
- 9/9/2014
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
The purging continues as Universal delivers a sequel to a film few actually liked in the first place. But hey, it's cheap to make and they may be able to dupe just enough people into thinking The Purge: Anarchy will be any better than the first... it isn't. It's worse. The only way they might have made a better movie would have been to set the film the day after the last one, sorting through the pain, emotions and overall aftermath of all the killing, but that would require tact and thought rather than speed and simplicity, allowing them to churn out another one just over a year after the first hit the big screens. As a result, the annual Purge is once again upon us, sound the horn and prepare for tedium. In the year 2023 the "New Founding Fathers" of the United States of America once again invite the...
- 7/17/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Are you ready to Purge again? Universal and Blumhouse seem to think so, having set The Purge: Anarchy to open just one week after the box office juggernaut that will be Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. It will certainly be interesting to see which film is more successful – the scrappy action-thriller or the massive summer tentpole – but regardless, it seems clear that both of them are going to make boatloads of cash.
As part of the film’s extensive marketing campaign, three scary new clips from Anarchy have hit the web today, along with four new images. In the clips, including one Nsfw one courtesy of Shock Til You Drop, we see the film’s characters get kidnapped by nefarious military types for “Big Daddy’s personal purge,” debating whether they stand a better chance of survival alone or together, and evading a Gatling gun mounted on the back of a truck.
As part of the film’s extensive marketing campaign, three scary new clips from Anarchy have hit the web today, along with four new images. In the clips, including one Nsfw one courtesy of Shock Til You Drop, we see the film’s characters get kidnapped by nefarious military types for “Big Daddy’s personal purge,” debating whether they stand a better chance of survival alone or together, and evading a Gatling gun mounted on the back of a truck.
- 7/8/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
By Fred Blosser
In the Old West, small homesteaders run afoul of a big landowner who controls the local law and levies killer taxes on their ranches and farms. The homesteaders finally refuse to pay the taxes, and petition the governor for help. Meanwhile, expecting reprisal from the landowner’s hired guns, they build a makeshift fort for refuge. They also send for help from a mercenary who comes to their aid with his private army of four associates and a Gatling gun.
Just kidding about the Western setting. This is actually the plot of “Gonin No Shokin Kasegi,” also known as “The Fort of Death,” a 1969 Japanese chambara by Eiichi Kudo. Nevertheless, the similarities are there. The homesteaders are peasants, the landowner is their oppressive feudal lord, and the higher official they’ve petitioned is the emperor. It’s easy to squint and superimpose an Old West setting out of an American B movie,...
In the Old West, small homesteaders run afoul of a big landowner who controls the local law and levies killer taxes on their ranches and farms. The homesteaders finally refuse to pay the taxes, and petition the governor for help. Meanwhile, expecting reprisal from the landowner’s hired guns, they build a makeshift fort for refuge. They also send for help from a mercenary who comes to their aid with his private army of four associates and a Gatling gun.
Just kidding about the Western setting. This is actually the plot of “Gonin No Shokin Kasegi,” also known as “The Fort of Death,” a 1969 Japanese chambara by Eiichi Kudo. Nevertheless, the similarities are there. The homesteaders are peasants, the landowner is their oppressive feudal lord, and the higher official they’ve petitioned is the emperor. It’s easy to squint and superimpose an Old West setting out of an American B movie,...
- 6/25/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
I wanted to start off by saying how much I love seeing the amount of conversation in this space each week. I went back and looked and the 161 comments on last week's post was the tenth highest ever for a "What I Watched" piece, the highest being 258 last year on July 7. I'm starting to think about doing something similar for paid subscribers, but centering it on a specific topic or movie each week, though I am still toying with the best way to do it. For now, this seems to be doing quite well, keep up the chatter. Now, to business, this week I watched Werner Herzog's Cobra Verde, which I'll be reviewing soon enough, as well as X-Men: Days of Future Past (my review) and Filth (my review), but it didn't end there. HBO has been showing Fast & Furious 6 and Mission: Impossible on repeat as of late...
- 5/25/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
(Charles Pinion‘s Killbillies, which you’ll discover all about below, is one of the great unfinished underground movies. It’s complex, uncompleted production involved a multitude of talents, not least of which was Joey Ramone whose involvement got a write-up in the infamous Page Six gossip column. The scan of that article that you see here was provided to the Underground Film Journal by Killbillies co-producer and actress Marina Lutz. But, this is Charles’s story… and his on-set pictures. Click the article and all pictures to embiggen.)
Underground Film Journal: Ok, so Madball is done and you’re moving into another film project, Killbillies? What’s the story behind that?
Charles Pinion: Killbillies‘ basic notion came from my friend George Cavano, an artist/musician in Gainesville, Florida. (His piece, “A Violent Release of a Large Body of Water” plays over the opening titles of Red Spirit Lake.
Underground Film Journal: Ok, so Madball is done and you’re moving into another film project, Killbillies? What’s the story behind that?
Charles Pinion: Killbillies‘ basic notion came from my friend George Cavano, an artist/musician in Gainesville, Florida. (His piece, “A Violent Release of a Large Body of Water” plays over the opening titles of Red Spirit Lake.
- 5/9/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Warner Bros.
For a lot of people, the best and most exciting part of any comic book movie are the villains. And why not? Unlike the heroes, villains aren’t bound by rules, morals or obligation – they do whatever they want, when then they want to do it. And aside from usually being gifted with awesome abilities like super intelligence or super strength, comic book villains are almost aways of the eccentric kind. Whereas heroes have to play into the light, presenting themselves in a serious or stoic manner, a villain gets to play into the shadows: weird, quirky or just batsh*t crazy.
Since the early 2000s, cinema has gifted us with an elite smörgåsbord of brilliantly-realised villains, all of whom have been played memorably by a variety of talented actors: from Heath Ledger to Ben Kingsley, Kevin Spacey to Michael Shannon, these performers have relished the chance to...
For a lot of people, the best and most exciting part of any comic book movie are the villains. And why not? Unlike the heroes, villains aren’t bound by rules, morals or obligation – they do whatever they want, when then they want to do it. And aside from usually being gifted with awesome abilities like super intelligence or super strength, comic book villains are almost aways of the eccentric kind. Whereas heroes have to play into the light, presenting themselves in a serious or stoic manner, a villain gets to play into the shadows: weird, quirky or just batsh*t crazy.
Since the early 2000s, cinema has gifted us with an elite smörgåsbord of brilliantly-realised villains, all of whom have been played memorably by a variety of talented actors: from Heath Ledger to Ben Kingsley, Kevin Spacey to Michael Shannon, these performers have relished the chance to...
- 4/15/2014
- by WhatCulture
- Obsessed with Film
We all play games for different reasons, often letting that reason change with the wind. Some of us want to play through epic stories that force us on a journey of self discovery, while others want to rise up from meager beginnings and build incredible power before saving a world they had once rejected. We keep looking for games that make us feel something primordial deep down, allowing ourselves to connect with our characters in a way that stays with us for days after we power down for the last time. But sometimes, just sometimes, we want to blow the ever loving shit out of some giant bugs while flying through the air as a caricature of an anime girl with a jetpack. Earth Defense Force 2025 fills that latter niche perfectly.
Earth Defense Force 2025 is essentially the video game version of watching a Syfy movie at 2 am. Living underground for nearly a decade,...
Earth Defense Force 2025 is essentially the video game version of watching a Syfy movie at 2 am. Living underground for nearly a decade,...
- 3/6/2014
- by Chaz Neeler
- We Got This Covered
Neca has released an officially licensed George Washington action figure based on the Motorized Patriot enemy in Bioshock Infinite. If you like the awesomeness that this figure has to offer, it's available to purchase at ThinkGeek.
This figure of the Motorized Patriot contains over 20 points of articulation and is full of details that fans of BioShock will love. Comes with an interchangeable head, so you can choose the face for him to wear, a pepper mill Gatling gun, and 2 fabric flags of Columbia. With the flags in place, the Motorized Patriot stands about 12″ tall, but even without the 9″ figure still looms over his companions Elizabeth (6.5″) and the Boys of Silence (7″). Oh, and his pepper mill Gatling gun works.
This figure of the Motorized Patriot contains over 20 points of articulation and is full of details that fans of BioShock will love. Comes with an interchangeable head, so you can choose the face for him to wear, a pepper mill Gatling gun, and 2 fabric flags of Columbia. With the flags in place, the Motorized Patriot stands about 12″ tall, but even without the 9″ figure still looms over his companions Elizabeth (6.5″) and the Boys of Silence (7″). Oh, and his pepper mill Gatling gun works.
- 2/21/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Starfleet Weapons: Rifles, Dark Phasers & Gatling Gun Click Images To Enlarge Klingon: Gatling Gun, Bat'leth, Knife, Throwing Star, Phaser Transport Devices Starfleet Medical Devices Spock's Volcano Bomb Communicators & Warp Core Designs When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew. Star Trek Into Darkness was directed by J.J. Abrams ("Super 8"), from a screenplay written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
- 12/12/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
GTA V is now less than three short weeks away from being in our grubby hands, but Rockstar have seen fit to make the wait a little easier by releasing another trailer, referred to peculiarly by Rockstar as the “official” trailer (then what, exactly, have we been watching for the last two years?).
Though running only a minute in length and hardly providing us much more revealing information, we get to peruse some more tasty cut-scenes, and catch a glimpse at some of the game’s humourous dialogue, particularly as it pertains to the three protagonists, Michael, Trevor and Franklin.
What this mainly does is serve as a reminder, a handy summation of everything we’ve already seen; Trevor is absolutely nuts, Michael is despised by his family (his daughter refers to him as a “lonely, pathetic psychopath” – charming), Franklin wants to be legit, and you can cause a Hell...
Though running only a minute in length and hardly providing us much more revealing information, we get to peruse some more tasty cut-scenes, and catch a glimpse at some of the game’s humourous dialogue, particularly as it pertains to the three protagonists, Michael, Trevor and Franklin.
What this mainly does is serve as a reminder, a handy summation of everything we’ve already seen; Trevor is absolutely nuts, Michael is despised by his family (his daughter refers to him as a “lonely, pathetic psychopath” – charming), Franklin wants to be legit, and you can cause a Hell...
- 8/29/2013
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Clear your schedule of anything and everything for the next few weeks – Plants Vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time! is out now and remains as addictive, fun, entertaining and time-consuming as the first one. The flower defence game where you marshal your plants against endless hordes of zombies has several new features all of which make the game even more fun than it was the first time around.
Before I get into that, note that currently PVZ2 is only available on iOS devices – that means anyone without an Apple product that plays games will not be able to play PVZ2. PopCap/EA will of course be releasing this on other platforms later but for now it’s Apple only. Sorry, Android users!
The other main issue with the game, even before we talk about the game itself, is the pay-for-play feature that dogged pre-release chatter. Instead of paying for...
Before I get into that, note that currently PVZ2 is only available on iOS devices – that means anyone without an Apple product that plays games will not be able to play PVZ2. PopCap/EA will of course be releasing this on other platforms later but for now it’s Apple only. Sorry, Android users!
The other main issue with the game, even before we talk about the game itself, is the pay-for-play feature that dogged pre-release chatter. Instead of paying for...
- 8/28/2013
- by Noel Thorne
- Obsessed with Film
Whether it’s due to missed opportunities, bad choices, or unfortunate missteps, audiences are familiar with sequences that fail to live up to their potential. Memorable characters receive mishandled deaths, conflicts that are built up over several films don’t reach the climax fans expected, and sequences that could have been awesome just… aren’t. Sometimes, directors try too hard to achieve levels of awesomeness and end up overdoing it, and other times, they take the lazy way out. Whatever the reasons may be, terrible sequences are bound to happen, and each year audiences look back at what could have been.
This article will examine ten terrible sequences that should have been awesome. This is in no way a conclusive list of bad scenes, but instead examines 10 sequences from recent films that I feel are worth looking at in more detail.
Note: This article will contain minor to major spoilers for the films included within.
This article will examine ten terrible sequences that should have been awesome. This is in no way a conclusive list of bad scenes, but instead examines 10 sequences from recent films that I feel are worth looking at in more detail.
Note: This article will contain minor to major spoilers for the films included within.
- 8/7/2013
- by James Garcia
- Obsessed with Film
In the Metro: Last Light Faction Pack Dlc, you’ll find three brand new missions to play through, each told from the unique perspective of a brand new character from one of the game’s different factions. I started with the Reich character and found myself in a shooting gallery of sorts. I was trapped in a small outpost where enemies were blindly charging at me from down the corridor where I simply had the mission of mowing them all down. Using a brand new Gatling gun, a grenade launcher and a high powered sniper rifle, I sat back and took on the Red Army as they threw wave after wave of armored soldiers, snipers and even a tank at me.
It wasn’t offensively bad, but for a game like Metro where so much has been done in order to pull you into a breathing world, this was a...
It wasn’t offensively bad, but for a game like Metro where so much has been done in order to pull you into a breathing world, this was a...
- 7/22/2013
- by Chaz Neeler
- We Got This Covered
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