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Make Your Short Film Script a Reality with ‘The Pitch’
www.enterthepitch.com is offering aspiring auteurs of all ages the opportunity to see their short film provided professional production support worth in excess of £25,000 – not to mention a trip a Hollywood. Continue reading
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Tagged films / movies, indie cinema, screenwriting, short films
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Rubber DVD Review
2010
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Stephen Spinella, Roxanne Mesquida, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Ethan Cohn, Charley Koontz, Tara O’Brien
A bespectacled man stands by a dozen or so wooden chairs on a desolate highway. A police car approaches, knocking down the chairs as though they formed a driving course, and halts. A lawman climbs from out of … read more
Posted in Movie Reviews
Tagged films / movies, Horror Movies, Independent Cinema, metafiction
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Michael Jai White at Black Dynamite Comic Panel
Where: Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 90046
When: Monday, April 4th
6:30 PM Screening
8:00 PM LIVE Podcast
9:00 PM Comic Book Signing and Live Music
Chris Hardwick will lead a panel that includes Michael Jai White (“Black Dynamite”, co-writer), Byron Minns (“Bullhorn”, co-writer), Scott Sanders (director, co-writer), Brian Ash (comic author, writer for The Boondocks) to … read more
Posted in Press Releases
Tagged blaxploitation, comic books, films / movies, kung fu movies
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Black Dynamite Explodes in Your Face
First issue of the BLACK DYNAMITE Comic Book to release April 2011
Press Release: Ape Entertainment, in partnership with Ars Nova, is proud to announce the release of the original 48 page one-shot Black Dynamite: Slave Island, inspired by the major motion picture Black Dynamite.
“Between the streets, Vietnam and the C.I.A., Black Dynamite thought he had seen it … read more
The Door (Die Tür) DVD Review
2009
Director: Anno Saul
Script: Jan Berger
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Heike, Makatsch
Following on from such curiosities as The Box and The Bothersome Man, German thriller The Door fits into a science fiction subgenre perhaps best described as “could have been a Twilight Zone episode.” It’s a dark and inventive “what if?” fantasy tale, based the novel … read more
Caged (Captifs) DVD Review
2010
Director: Yann Gozlan
Script: Yann Gozlan, Guillaume Lemans
Cast: Zoé Felix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh
Organ trafficking gets the Texas Chainsaw treatment in this Gallic horror, which sees a group of humanitarians captured in Eastern Europe and kindly alleviated of their burdensome components.
While this premise may sound like the set up for another torture-porn endurance test, director Yann … read more
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Tagged films / movies, French cinema, Horror Movies, world cinema
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The Man Who Fell to Earth DVD Review
1976
Director: Nicholas Roeg
Script: Paul Mayersberg
Cast: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry
Nicholas Roeg’s deceptively elaborate tale of an extraterrestrial striving to bring water to his drought-inflicted homeworld is by far his most ponderous. A film as imaginative as it is indulgent, The Man Who Fell to Earth presents Roeg’s visual poetry at its most chronologically … read more
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Tagged 70s cinema, classic cinema, David Bowie, films / movies
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Special UK Screenings for Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber
Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber has generated a fair bit of media attention recently, much of which is undeniably down to the movie’s plot — a sentient car tire, named Robert, goes on a killing spree.
This highly stylish trailer alone is enough to make it the cinematic oddity you just have to see for yourself:
Rubber may have straight-to-DVD written all … read more
Zonad DVD Review
2009
Written and directed by: John Carney, Kieran Carney
Cast: Simon Delaney, David Pearse, Janice Byrne
Extraterrestrial invaders battle for the quaint town of Ballymoran in this low budget Irish comedy. Only, Zonad and his archnemesis Bonad aren’t aliens but two escaped lunatics – unlike “prot” in K-Pax, there’s no question as to whether these unlikely champions are anything … read more
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Tagged films / movies, Independent Cinema, Irish Cinema, science fiction
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First Image of Captain America’s Red Skull
Entertainment Weekly has posted the first image of Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull – actually, an image of Weaving sans hideous makeup debuted several months ago, but that’s not quite the same – and he looks every bit the part.
Perhaps the two surprises here (albeit minor ones) are just how sci-fi influenced the costume design is (definitely reminiscent … read more
Posted in Comic Movie News
Tagged Avengers, Captain America, films / movies, Marvel Comics, superhero movies
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