Insidious
July 12, 2011
Every so often a low budget horror film comes out and against all odds strikes a chord with mainstream audiences to become a breakout success. This happened with Halloween (1978), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and Paranormal Activity (2007). These films...
Scream 4 Coming to Blu-Ray and DVD October 4
July 11, 2011
ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT AND DIMENSION FILMS PRESENT THE NEWEST INSTALLMENT IN THE ACCLAIMED HORROR FRANCHISE SCREAM 4 ON BLU-RAY™/DVD COMBO PACK AND DVD Directed By Wes Craven And Starring David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts,...
Johnny Cool
July 11, 2011
Johnny Cool (1963) is a curious cinematic oddity, an offbeat footnote in Rat Pack lore. Produced by Peter Lawford and featuring fellow Rat Packers Sammy Davis Jr. (who also sings the swinging theme song), Joey Bishop, and Henry Silva as the title character,...
BloodRayne: The Third Reich: Unrated Director’s Cut
July 5, 2011
Loosely based on the video game series of the same name, BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2010) is the latest installment in the film franchise about the titular character who is half human and half vampire, hunting and killing bloodsuckers through the 1800’s...
Elektra Luxx
June 30, 2011
Elektra Luxx (2010) is the sequel to the 2009 film, Women in Trouble, which chronicled a day in the life of ten Los Angeles women with the focus on porn star Elektra Luxx (Gugino). Well, she and many of the characters from that film are back. Having found...
Park Row
June 29, 2011
Along with The Big Red One (1980), Park Row (1952) may be Sam Fuller’s most autobiographical film. It was a labor of love for the scrappy director who made it as a tribute to the journalists he knew as a newsboy in the 1920’s. By the time he was 17,...
Season of the Witch
June 27, 2011
Season of the Witch (2011) saw Nicolas Cage reunited with director Dominic Sena who he had previous collaborated with on the commercial hit, Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). Both men were hoping lightning would strike twice with this period action fantasy film...
Insignificance: Criterion Collection
June 24, 2011
Filmmaker Nicolas Roeg was still licking his wounds from his previous effort, Eureka (1983), a deeply personal project that he hoped would break through to the mainstream but was given a limited theatrical release from then struggling United Artists....
Laws of Gravity
June 23, 2011
Nick Gomez’s Laws of Gravity (1992) was part of an exciting crop of American independent films to come out in the early to mid-1990’s and arguably the best of the Mean Streets (1973) wannabes to be made. It also featured a cast of young, up and coming...
Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE | Exclusive Clip Premiere on WIRED.com!
June 22, 2011
On behalf of Fox Searchlight, we are delighted to announce the premiere of an Exclusive Clip from Terrence Malick’s critically acclaimed drama THE TREE OF LIFE, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, on WIRED.com’s UnderWire Blog today! Please...
