Above: Mondo poster for The Graduate (Mike Nichols, USA, 1967); artist: Rory Kurtz; lettering: Jay Shaw.On my daily movie poster Tumblr I don’t make a habit of posting fan art or art prints—call them what you will—because I’m most interested in the intersection of commerce and art that is the theatrical movie poster. But I make an exception when something stands out, and nothing stood out last year quite like Rory Kurtz’s beautiful, elegant and unexpected Mondo illustration for The Graduate, which quite rightly racked up over 200 more likes than even its nearest competitor. But its nearest competitor was fan art too: a brilliant poster for Badlands by the insanely talented Adam Juresko, whose art poster for In the Mood for Love (featured in my Maggie Cheung article) was also in the top four. What makes art posters easy to like—beyond their extraordinary artistry...
- 1/7/2017
- MUBI
Well, horror fans, we have only a few releases on hand for November 29th. So this Tuesday, get ready for the Blu-ray and DVD arrival of Fede Alvarez’s latest excursion in terror, Don’t Breathe.
Vinegar Syndrome will also be releasing the kung-fu horror film Death Machines on home media this Tuesday, and Raro Video USA will unleash Umberto Lenzi's cannibal film Sacrifice! on Blu-ray as well.
It looks like the horror Blu-ray and DVD front picks back up again on December 6th, so be sure to keep an eye out for more titles next week.
Death Machines (Vinegar Syndrome, Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
Madame Lu has created three 'Death Machines', a trio of martial arts experts who have been injected with a special serum, turning them into mindless zombies, capable only of murder, at Lu's command. Tasked with eliminating her enemies,...
Vinegar Syndrome will also be releasing the kung-fu horror film Death Machines on home media this Tuesday, and Raro Video USA will unleash Umberto Lenzi's cannibal film Sacrifice! on Blu-ray as well.
It looks like the horror Blu-ray and DVD front picks back up again on December 6th, so be sure to keep an eye out for more titles next week.
Death Machines (Vinegar Syndrome, Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack)
Madame Lu has created three 'Death Machines', a trio of martial arts experts who have been injected with a special serum, turning them into mindless zombies, capable only of murder, at Lu's command. Tasked with eliminating her enemies,...
- 11/29/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
"In the movies, the only person safe in a phone booth is Superman."
Phone booths are on the verge of extinction, but over the years, they've found a place in cinema history. They will live on in the movies. Here's a fun video supercut of scenes that take place in phone booths.
The movies featured in the video include:
Anchorman
The Matrix
Duel
Vacancy
Repo Man
Death Machines
The Birds
Commando
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Phone Booth
Falling Down
Psycho III
Futurama
Rain Man
The Three Stooges in "Brideless Groom"
High Anxiety
Dumb & Dumber
Airplane...
Phone booths are on the verge of extinction, but over the years, they've found a place in cinema history. They will live on in the movies. Here's a fun video supercut of scenes that take place in phone booths.
The movies featured in the video include:
Anchorman
The Matrix
Duel
Vacancy
Repo Man
Death Machines
The Birds
Commando
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Phone Booth
Falling Down
Psycho III
Futurama
Rain Man
The Three Stooges in "Brideless Groom"
High Anxiety
Dumb & Dumber
Airplane...
- 6/2/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Waking up as a ghost, with no recollection of how you came to be one can really put a wrinkle in your plans for the evening, but such is the case of the main character in "Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective." Being dead may have its downsides, but Sissel comes with a handful of ghostly powers that he can use to figure out what happened to him as he plays the role of detective and lifesaver in Capcom's latest DS release, courtesy of the mind behind the "Ace Attorney" series, Shu Takumi.
The Basics
Armed only with his unexplained ghost powers, Sissel must navigate two worlds, the ghost world and the real world, to find out as much information as he can about himself, and his murder. Along the way, Sissel will find and help other fallen souls by using his ghost tricks to help them avert their premature deaths. Using...
The Basics
Armed only with his unexplained ghost powers, Sissel must navigate two worlds, the ghost world and the real world, to find out as much information as he can about himself, and his murder. Along the way, Sissel will find and help other fallen souls by using his ghost tricks to help them avert their premature deaths. Using...
- 1/11/2011
- by Jason Cipriano
- MTV Multiplayer
Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
8.00pm The Dead Zone (Horror Channel)
Johnny Smith had the perfect life, until he went into a coma for six years. When he awoke, he found his fiance married to another man and his son not knowing who he is. Even Johnny’s changed, one touch and he can see things. When Johnny is injured and infused with a blood product stemming from six different people, he begins having visions through the donors’ eyes and learns one of them will die unless he intervenes. Season Two, episode 5.
9.00pm Death Machines (The Unexplained Channel)
Cheesy 70s kung-fu actioner in which an evil oriental dragon lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins.
10.00pm 12 Rounds (Sky Movies...
8.00pm The Dead Zone (Horror Channel)
Johnny Smith had the perfect life, until he went into a coma for six years. When he awoke, he found his fiance married to another man and his son not knowing who he is. Even Johnny’s changed, one touch and he can see things. When Johnny is injured and infused with a blood product stemming from six different people, he begins having visions through the donors’ eyes and learns one of them will die unless he intervenes. Season Two, episode 5.
9.00pm Death Machines (The Unexplained Channel)
Cheesy 70s kung-fu actioner in which an evil oriental dragon lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins.
10.00pm 12 Rounds (Sky Movies...
- 5/29/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
7.00pm Tin Man (Movies24)
Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. Dg, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around, works as a waitress, and goes to school part time. Before she knows it she’s back in Oz (a.k.a. Outer Zone) and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia and her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitch, Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid, and, in the largest deviation, Wyatt Cain, a cowboy cop from Central City called a “tin man” because of his tin badge. Modern re-telling of the Wizard of Oz.
8.15pm Final Voyage (Movies4Men +1)
When a luxury cruise ship falls victim to modern day pirates,...
7.00pm Tin Man (Movies24)
Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. Dg, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around, works as a waitress, and goes to school part time. Before she knows it she’s back in Oz (a.k.a. Outer Zone) and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia and her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitch, Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid, and, in the largest deviation, Wyatt Cain, a cowboy cop from Central City called a “tin man” because of his tin badge. Modern re-telling of the Wizard of Oz.
8.15pm Final Voyage (Movies4Men +1)
When a luxury cruise ship falls victim to modern day pirates,...
- 4/3/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
8.00pm Drop Zone (Sky Movies Action & Thriller)
Us Marshal Pete Nessip and his brother Terry, also a Us Marshal are assigned to escort convicted computer hacker Earl Leedy to a top-security prison. But the commercial airliner Pete and Terry are on-board is hijacked by a group of terrorists led by renegade DEA agent Ty Moncrief who kidnaps Leedy and Terry is killed. Believing Leedy is dead, Pete is held responsible for the incident and is suspended. Pete sets out to track down the terrorists, and turns to help from professional skydiver Jesse Crossman.
9.00pm Jake 2.0 (CBS Action)
Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty) is Jake Foley, a very ordinary technician who becomes a superhero when a ‘computer virus’ infects him. Do not miss...
8.00pm Drop Zone (Sky Movies Action & Thriller)
Us Marshal Pete Nessip and his brother Terry, also a Us Marshal are assigned to escort convicted computer hacker Earl Leedy to a top-security prison. But the commercial airliner Pete and Terry are on-board is hijacked by a group of terrorists led by renegade DEA agent Ty Moncrief who kidnaps Leedy and Terry is killed. Believing Leedy is dead, Pete is held responsible for the incident and is suspended. Pete sets out to track down the terrorists, and turns to help from professional skydiver Jesse Crossman.
9.00pm Jake 2.0 (CBS Action)
Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty) is Jake Foley, a very ordinary technician who becomes a superhero when a ‘computer virus’ infects him. Do not miss...
- 3/31/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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