I like cinema from outside Hollywood, and I try not to bring too much of it to the Movie Blog, only when I think the movie really merits it, or the trailer, and with the case of Art of the Devil II, it certainly does. This trailer is gruesome, and … [Read More]
Title=Initial D on DVD
Score=5
Summary=A good movie that really centres around the drift racing scenes which are superbly filmed and put together, there’s also great use made of the DTS track during the racing. The extras aren’t that strong and more around the cars and the racing would have been much better, and in English too.
Yes, Hollywood latches onto another concept and it starts propogating like mad. We’ve just had the news of the Terminator TV Series, and now we’re getting word that David Cronenberg‘s Dead Ringers movie is going to be made into a TV series too. The BBC say that Cronenberg will co-produce … [Read More]
Kathy Cash is Johnny Cash’s daughter, and she’s supposedly angry at the movie portrayal of her mother and family life in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. She’s so unhappy that she walked out of the movie five times…did she keep going out the door and into another cinema? … [Read More]
You know top lists are about debate, there’s not a closure on them, and none of them are right and yet all of them are. Your list is right for you, mine for me, the Movie Blog’s for everyone. The fun is in debating and remembering some of those great … [Read More]
I’ve just witnessed two trailers that are poles apart but both equally as good. Chen Kaige‘s The Promise (Mo gik) and Kwak Kyeong-taek‘s Typhoon (Taepung). Both movies, if you hadn’t guessed, are from the eastern shores and are absolutely jam packed with goodness. Let’s take the trailer for Typhoon (13.3Mb … [Read More]
Thomson have just signed some major deals and look set to roll digital cinema out with Dreamworks, Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers, negotiations are ongoing with Twentieth Century Fox, New Line and the Weinstein’s. This means an initial rollout of around 5,000 screens in the US and Canada starting early … [Read More]
MGM, that’s another studio turned to Blu-Ray DVD over HD-DVD, and the more we hear the more it sounds like Blu-Ray is going to become the ultimate winner. You know what though, I wish they could just get together and sort themselves out and not let the Public suffer because … [Read More]
Wow, there’s enough for a fifth! Would you believe it? Here are some of the words and thoughts emailed to me from the readers of the Movie Blog, on issues all about Movies. Let it be known that anything else is usually scrapped, including all those pictures of naked ladies … [Read More]
Miles Chapman, the writer of Roadhouse 2, has just emailed me with some on the set information from the movie. First off, I should say that although I wrote the original draft of the script, I had been told it had been revised a few times and that I shouldn’t … [Read More]
Title=Freaked on DVD
Score=7
Summary=A bizarre, absurd and funny movie. The DVD offering is packed with extras including an audio commentary and a full movie rehearsal, both very interesting to watch. The comedy is furious and off the wall, and a surprise to see from Alex Winter. Great performances from Randy Quaid and Keanu Reeves.
The first official Superman Returns trailer will be showing in front of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! The good folks over at Digital Theater give us this: In one week’s time, the first official Superman Returns trailer will be released in theatres (and online). Comingsoon.net is reporting that … [Read More]