The Garfield MovieImage: Dneg Animation
In this increasingly cynical age of recycled intellectual property, it’s probably not surprising that we would get a new cinematic adaptation of Garfield, especially given the original comic’s perpetual status as meme fodder for every online generation to rediscover. However, what’s most...
In this increasingly cynical age of recycled intellectual property, it’s probably not surprising that we would get a new cinematic adaptation of Garfield, especially given the original comic’s perpetual status as meme fodder for every online generation to rediscover. However, what’s most...
- 5/21/2024
- by Leigh Monson
- avclub.com
Since it seems that the big action blockbusters are taking over the multiplex far in advance of their usual Summertime occupancy, what’s out there for lovers of silent-movie style slapstick and Golden Age cartoon short lunacy (as in those “Tunes”)? Well, a recent “midnight movie” indie hit on the “film festival circuit” is now available to rent or buy via streaming. Oh, but that title might raise a few “red flags” on your business search engine when getting some info on it. Not to worry, since most rating boards would probably give it a “PG-13” rating, at most, due to some scatological humor and some sexy gymnastics for a few seconds. Ah, but let’s delve a bit more into the movie with the ‘eyebrow-raising’ moniker, the fantasy fable/farce concerning Hundreds Of Beavers.
Well, it does resemble a silent comedy from a hundred years ago just before we...
Well, it does resemble a silent comedy from a hundred years ago just before we...
- 4/15/2024
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s rare to find a game as overwhelming in its technical mastery as Japanese developer Vanillaware’s Unicorn Overlord. Not technical in the sense of production value (though the game is no slouch in that regard), but in its mechanical design. It’s a tactical RPG whose real-time battles you play from a top-down perspective and can be freely paused so you can issue commands. Those battles play out as brief side-on cutscenes with two units (squads consisting of one-to-six individual characters) launching attacks at each other in sequence, and they’re separated by overworld exploration and a smattering of dialogue-heavy story beats.
The closest precedent for the battle stages of Unicorn Overlord is Quest Corporation’s Ogre Battle series (the sister series/progenitor of Tactics Ogre), which, beginning in 1993, combined real-time strategy and then nascent tactical RPG elements in much the same way. One major distinction is that,...
The closest precedent for the battle stages of Unicorn Overlord is Quest Corporation’s Ogre Battle series (the sister series/progenitor of Tactics Ogre), which, beginning in 1993, combined real-time strategy and then nascent tactical RPG elements in much the same way. One major distinction is that,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Mitchell Demorest
- Slant Magazine
The episode of "The Twilight Zone" called "Once Upon a Time" is one of the show's attempts at comedy and, by most viewers' gauges, didn't really work. "Once Upon a Time" starred the silent film superstar and immortal filmmaker Buster Keaton as a sad sack janitor named Woodrow Mulligan living in a small middle-American town called Harmony in 1890. Mulligan hates the fancy-pants modern inventions like bicycles and resents that livestock roam the street. The 1890 sequences were filmed in the style of a silent movie with no dialogue, plinking piano music, and intertitles. Mulligan works for a mad scientist who has invented a time-travel helmet that can bring its wearer into the year 1961, but only for 30 minutes. Mulligan, desperate to see his hometown grown up, gives it a shot.
In the year 1961, now filmed with sound, Mulligan meets Rollo (Stanley Adams) a scientist who feels nostalgia for a simpler time, a...
In the year 1961, now filmed with sound, Mulligan meets Rollo (Stanley Adams) a scientist who feels nostalgia for a simpler time, a...
- 1/14/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Chicken Run: Dawn Of The NuggetPhoto: Aardman / Netflix
On paper, the original Chicken Run sounded more like the sort of film a character in a comedy movie might pitch: “It’s The Great Escape ... starring chickens!” For better or worse, Chicken Run committed to the bit, and as a result...
On paper, the original Chicken Run sounded more like the sort of film a character in a comedy movie might pitch: “It’s The Great Escape ... starring chickens!” For better or worse, Chicken Run committed to the bit, and as a result...
- 12/13/2023
- by Luke Y. Thompson
- avclub.com
This Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters (Part 2) review contains spoilers.
“In what way are you free?”
The first episode of Attack on Titan aired on April 7, 2013 and forever changed the anime landscape with its contemplative action story about man-eating monsters and the humble heroes who are determined to fight for freedom. Now, a decade later, this war between man and monster has finally reached its end and managed to accomplish something far more impossible than wiping out a world of monsters: it lived up to unbelievable expectations and gave audiences a perfect ending.
There is no shortage of popular, prolific anime, but Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan is a rare example of a series that’s confidently held its own with other television pop culture juggernauts like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Like these prestige dramas, Attack on Titan is a masterclass in world-building, character development, and...
“In what way are you free?”
The first episode of Attack on Titan aired on April 7, 2013 and forever changed the anime landscape with its contemplative action story about man-eating monsters and the humble heroes who are determined to fight for freedom. Now, a decade later, this war between man and monster has finally reached its end and managed to accomplish something far more impossible than wiping out a world of monsters: it lived up to unbelievable expectations and gave audiences a perfect ending.
There is no shortage of popular, prolific anime, but Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan is a rare example of a series that’s confidently held its own with other television pop culture juggernauts like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Like these prestige dramas, Attack on Titan is a masterclass in world-building, character development, and...
- 11/6/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Fans of science fiction have simultaneously seen something similar to Max’s new adult animated series Scavengers Reign and absolutely nothing like it before.
It’s a dichotomy that the show’s creative team leaned into when trying to create a world that houses a group of surviving crewmembers from the Demeter, a deep-space freighter ship damaged by a solar flare and stranded on a beautiful but terrifying planet. Separated and unaware the others have survived, each group — and in some cases a single individual — attempts to navigate and survive the hostile planet in hopes of eventual rescue.
Co-created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, the series, based on their 2016 short Scavengers, has been adapted into a 12-episode series by Green Street Pictures. It’s one of the latest examples of how networks and platforms are not only increasingly interested in animated titles that expand genre representation, but ones that have clear live-action impulses,...
It’s a dichotomy that the show’s creative team leaned into when trying to create a world that houses a group of surviving crewmembers from the Demeter, a deep-space freighter ship damaged by a solar flare and stranded on a beautiful but terrifying planet. Separated and unaware the others have survived, each group — and in some cases a single individual — attempts to navigate and survive the hostile planet in hopes of eventual rescue.
Co-created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, the series, based on their 2016 short Scavengers, has been adapted into a 12-episode series by Green Street Pictures. It’s one of the latest examples of how networks and platforms are not only increasingly interested in animated titles that expand genre representation, but ones that have clear live-action impulses,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For the most part, horror franchises tend to center around a singular entity like a masked slasher, recognizable monster, defiant survivor, or a specific location. And then there's the "Final Destination" franchise, a series of films that has continued to thrive without easily merchandised iconography or the same stable of characters returning each time that are instead connected by the premise that no matter who we are, where we're from, or what we do ... death is going to get us one way or another.
It's a morbid thought, sure, but one that has more basis in reality than men who just won't die, serial killer-possessed dolls, dream predators, Bdsm hell demons, rural cannibal families, torturous masterminds with a legion of acolytes, or supernatural entities. Death is coming for us all, and the only difference is when and how it's going to happen. As the mortician Bludworth (Tony Todd) explains in...
It's a morbid thought, sure, but one that has more basis in reality than men who just won't die, serial killer-possessed dolls, dream predators, Bdsm hell demons, rural cannibal families, torturous masterminds with a legion of acolytes, or supernatural entities. Death is coming for us all, and the only difference is when and how it's going to happen. As the mortician Bludworth (Tony Todd) explains in...
- 10/15/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
In an early scene in “Saw X,” John Kramer (Tobin Bell) offers a succinct summary of how he chooses to spend his free time: “I help people enact positive change in their lives.”
It’s a statement that would elicit some pushback from his victims, but it feels like a fair phrasing of his perspective. The man commonly known as Jigsaw is not a serial killer in any conventional sense of the word. While he’s probably responsible for more deaths, dismemberments, and general maimings than everyone reading this combined, he never holds the weapon himself. Instead he prefers to place his victims in elaborate DIY torture devices that force them to willingly inflict massive amounts of bodily harm on themselves in order to save their lives. If they fail to perform his tasks in the impossibly short time windows that he gives them, Jigsaw feels that they have nobody...
It’s a statement that would elicit some pushback from his victims, but it feels like a fair phrasing of his perspective. The man commonly known as Jigsaw is not a serial killer in any conventional sense of the word. While he’s probably responsible for more deaths, dismemberments, and general maimings than everyone reading this combined, he never holds the weapon himself. Instead he prefers to place his victims in elaborate DIY torture devices that force them to willingly inflict massive amounts of bodily harm on themselves in order to save their lives. If they fail to perform his tasks in the impossibly short time windows that he gives them, Jigsaw feels that they have nobody...
- 10/10/2023
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
When you think of Sundance movies, you usually think of quirky, optimistic or melodramatic coming-of-age stories. Films like “Manchester by the Sea,” “Coda” or “The Big Sick.” But the movie that spawned the most successful franchise from its Sundance debut is none of those things. In January 2004, Sundance audiences were knocked on their collective butts by “Saw,” an out-of-nowhere horror flick from two unknown Australian filmmakers.
Director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell’s “Saw” offered a deceptively simple premise of two desperate men chained together in an empty room with little idea of how they got there or how to get out.
Starring Cary Elwes and Danny Glover, Monica Potter and a pre-“Lost” Michael Emerson, “Saw” inspired a new wave of grindhouse horror, films that reveled in old-school gore and a certain Rube Goldberg mentality to the kills beyond just attractive teenagers being picked off one by one.
Director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell’s “Saw” offered a deceptively simple premise of two desperate men chained together in an empty room with little idea of how they got there or how to get out.
Starring Cary Elwes and Danny Glover, Monica Potter and a pre-“Lost” Michael Emerson, “Saw” inspired a new wave of grindhouse horror, films that reveled in old-school gore and a certain Rube Goldberg mentality to the kills beyond just attractive teenagers being picked off one by one.
- 9/29/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
The makers of the “Saw” movies probably thought they were clever when they killed the villain off back in “Saw III.” But over time it’s become clear that, although Jigsaw’s many apprentices worked hard to keep his legacy alive, John Kramer — the raspy-voiced horror icon played by Tobin Bell — was the beating heart of this series, and that heart stopped.
Jigsaw is back in “Saw X,” but he’s also still dead. The film is one long prequel, taking place at an indeterminate time before most of the previous installments. It’s a little confusing to see Kramer drawing up plans for deathtraps that, as we learn later in the movie, he has already invented and used, but it’s a lot less confusing than the timelines of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh films, which employed a dizzying flashback/flashforward/flashsideways structure that perhaps rivaled only “Last Year at Marienbad...
Jigsaw is back in “Saw X,” but he’s also still dead. The film is one long prequel, taking place at an indeterminate time before most of the previous installments. It’s a little confusing to see Kramer drawing up plans for deathtraps that, as we learn later in the movie, he has already invented and used, but it’s a lot less confusing than the timelines of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh films, which employed a dizzying flashback/flashforward/flashsideways structure that perhaps rivaled only “Last Year at Marienbad...
- 9/28/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
The “Saw” films have always been rightfully tagged as torture porn, but they come on as flesh-ripping morality plays. Each victim, strapped into his or her loopy-ingenious electro-medieval Rube Goldberg slicer-dicer-chopper-gouger, is being put through the agonies of the damned only because of some sin that he or she committed in the real world. The whole concept of sin, articulated this heavily, is more than a little corny, but there’s no denying that in the “Saw” movies the concept serves a canny purpose.
The most interesting idea in the “Saw” films, stated over and over by that wizened high priest of sick violence John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), is that he isn’t actually killing anyone. He’s just giving people choices. (Choose to have your fingers pulled out of their sockets…or die.) It’s an idea that links up to what’s going on in the audience.
The most interesting idea in the “Saw” films, stated over and over by that wizened high priest of sick violence John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), is that he isn’t actually killing anyone. He’s just giving people choices. (Choose to have your fingers pulled out of their sockets…or die.) It’s an idea that links up to what’s going on in the audience.
- 9/28/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Admit it, you kinda missed Jigsaw.
Sure, Spiral, the most recent entry in the hugely successful Saw horror film franchise, had Chris Rock in the cast. But a copycat killer just doesn’t compare to the original, John Kramer, played so indelibly by Tobin Bell in every other film in the series. Fans of these twisted torture porn films (whose names should probably be registered with local authorities) will be happy to hear that Bell is back in the 10th and newest entry, imaginatively titled Saw X, and that he has more screen time than ever before. That’s what not being dead anymore will do for a character.
To explain for those unfamiliar with the franchise, Bell’s character John Kramer, who was nicknamed Jigsaw for grisly reasons which need not be explained here, died at the end of Saw 3. But that didn’t keep the films’ producers...
Sure, Spiral, the most recent entry in the hugely successful Saw horror film franchise, had Chris Rock in the cast. But a copycat killer just doesn’t compare to the original, John Kramer, played so indelibly by Tobin Bell in every other film in the series. Fans of these twisted torture porn films (whose names should probably be registered with local authorities) will be happy to hear that Bell is back in the 10th and newest entry, imaginatively titled Saw X, and that he has more screen time than ever before. That’s what not being dead anymore will do for a character.
To explain for those unfamiliar with the franchise, Bell’s character John Kramer, who was nicknamed Jigsaw for grisly reasons which need not be explained here, died at the end of Saw 3. But that didn’t keep the films’ producers...
- 9/28/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you’re a person with simmering rage directed at the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma for their alleged contributions to the opioid epidemic, chronicles like Hulu’s Dopesick and Netflix’s Painkiller face a major stumbling block when it comes to delivering resolution: When one side of the ledger has hundreds of thousands of deaths and the other has a few settlements and some bankruptcy filings, reality can be a real bummer. No such restrictions confine Mike Flanagan in his latest spooky-season Netflix limited series.
Half creative writing project tied to a freshman seminar on Edgar Allan Poe, half horror-filled karmic catharsis, Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher is a bluntly entertaining exercise. It’s easily the most specifically topical of Flanagan’s Netflix minis, fueled by an often palpable anger. But that anger frequently gets in the way of the thematic richness that gave The Haunting of Hill House,...
Half creative writing project tied to a freshman seminar on Edgar Allan Poe, half horror-filled karmic catharsis, Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher is a bluntly entertaining exercise. It’s easily the most specifically topical of Flanagan’s Netflix minis, fueled by an often palpable anger. But that anger frequently gets in the way of the thematic richness that gave The Haunting of Hill House,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Trap House is a horror thriller film directed by Nicholas Humphries with a screenplay by Jordan Robinson. The thriller follows a detective trapped in a house equipped with all kinds of sadistic gadgets to maim and dismember uninvited guests. So, if you loved Trap House here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Escape Room (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Sony Pictures
Synopsis: An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive.
Hostel (Hulu Add-On & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Presented by Quentin Tarantino...
Escape Room (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Sony Pictures
Synopsis: An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive.
Hostel (Hulu Add-On & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Presented by Quentin Tarantino...
- 9/6/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Origins is a recurring series that gives artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release. Today, Old Crow Medicine Show dig into their new collaboration with Mavis Staples, “One Drop.”
Old Crow Medicine Show have shared “One Drop,” the latest single from their upcoming album, Jubilee. The spiritually rich, uplifting tune features legendary R&b and gospel singer Mavis Staples, who vocalist Ketch Secor credits as lifting the band’s sound to new heights.
“This is the latest in our canon of ‘songs of a spiritual persuasion,’ and, I think, one of our best, due in no small part to the presence of a legend of gospel music and more, the great Mavis Staples,” Secor explains. “Mavis epitomizes a life in roots music, and Old Crow can only hope that the next 25 years will bring us, like she is, closer to the true vine.”
The joyous,...
Old Crow Medicine Show have shared “One Drop,” the latest single from their upcoming album, Jubilee. The spiritually rich, uplifting tune features legendary R&b and gospel singer Mavis Staples, who vocalist Ketch Secor credits as lifting the band’s sound to new heights.
“This is the latest in our canon of ‘songs of a spiritual persuasion,’ and, I think, one of our best, due in no small part to the presence of a legend of gospel music and more, the great Mavis Staples,” Secor explains. “Mavis epitomizes a life in roots music, and Old Crow can only hope that the next 25 years will bring us, like she is, closer to the true vine.”
The joyous,...
- 8/22/2023
- by Jonah Krueger
- Consequence - Music
2023 has produced quite a few excellent games, but few have wowed quite like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and was shaping up to be a shoo-in for “Game of the Year.” But then came Baldur’s Gate 3. Not only is this game an amazing experience, but it blew past even its developer’s wildest expectations and started setting records that it continues to beat.
Suddenly, Tears of the Kingdom had serious competition, and now gamers everywhere are arguing over which title deserves to be crowned. Even though we (and many others) will also eventually weigh in on that debate, I frankly think this discussion is starting to showcase the worst aspects of the Game of the Year concept and not the celebration that title is intended to be.
It goes without saying that every year brings us many excellent games.
Suddenly, Tears of the Kingdom had serious competition, and now gamers everywhere are arguing over which title deserves to be crowned. Even though we (and many others) will also eventually weigh in on that debate, I frankly think this discussion is starting to showcase the worst aspects of the Game of the Year concept and not the celebration that title is intended to be.
It goes without saying that every year brings us many excellent games.
- 8/17/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
In the opening paragraphs of his 2004 novel After Dark, Murakami Haruki likens urban Tokyo to a living, breathing organism. “To the rhythm of its pulsing, all parts of the body flicker and flare up and squirm.” The book, which spans one night, is narrated in the first-person plural by an unnamed, unseen, nigh-omniscient figure, and each of its chapters opens with a header denoting times between 11:56 p.m. and 6:52 a.m. In this brief window, several seemingly disparate characters become entangled, drawn together by some mysterious combination of circumstance and fate. This being Murakami, there are cats.
Those familiar with Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective—originally released on the Nintendo DS in 2010, now remastered for modern hardware—will detect some similarities, many of which are likely intentional. The game, as with the rest of designer-writer-director Takumi Shu’s work, is an eclectic amalgam of literary and cinematic influences, rewritten and rearranged to necessitate interactivity.
Those familiar with Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective—originally released on the Nintendo DS in 2010, now remastered for modern hardware—will detect some similarities, many of which are likely intentional. The game, as with the rest of designer-writer-director Takumi Shu’s work, is an eclectic amalgam of literary and cinematic influences, rewritten and rearranged to necessitate interactivity.
- 7/14/2023
- by Cole Kronman
- Slant Magazine
Patrick Wilson makes his directorial debut with a labored legacy sequel that should hopefully close the door on the long-running franchise
Now in its fifth installment across more than a decade with The Red Door, the Insidious franchise boasts an impressive longevity, albeit in a way more damning than damned. The big horror series prolong their popularity on the strength of a monster or a narrative device, but the Insidious pictures have yielded four windfalls over $100m despite a lack of any distinctive features. The unifying premise for hit factory Blumhouse’s reliable yet reliably uninteresting moneymaker dares viewers to wonder “what if there was a creepy thing that jumped out at you, then disappeared?” The closest it gets to a recurring mascot is a Darth Maul-looking phantom alternately referred to by fans as The Man With Fire in His Face, Lipstick-Face Demon, The Red-Faced Demon, or Sixtass, and in any case,...
Now in its fifth installment across more than a decade with The Red Door, the Insidious franchise boasts an impressive longevity, albeit in a way more damning than damned. The big horror series prolong their popularity on the strength of a monster or a narrative device, but the Insidious pictures have yielded four windfalls over $100m despite a lack of any distinctive features. The unifying premise for hit factory Blumhouse’s reliable yet reliably uninteresting moneymaker dares viewers to wonder “what if there was a creepy thing that jumped out at you, then disappeared?” The closest it gets to a recurring mascot is a Darth Maul-looking phantom alternately referred to by fans as The Man With Fire in His Face, Lipstick-Face Demon, The Red-Faced Demon, or Sixtass, and in any case,...
- 7/7/2023
- by Charles Bramesco
- The Guardian - Film News
Once again claiming a centerpiece slot at the Annecy Animation Festival, this year’s Netflix’s animation showcase teased upcoming title “Leo” with an intro from Adam Sandler, drew buzz for series like “Blue Eye Samurai” with a stirring display, and offered an extended behind the scenes peak at “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” with the creative team in tow.
Taking the stage to a warm welcome, Aardman co-founder Peter Lord, producer Leyla Hobart and the film’s director Sam Fell world premiered 12 minutes of fowl footage and shared technical details about a long-awaited sequel set to hatch on December 15 – the same end-of-year perch where Netflix placed “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
“Dawn of the Nugget” picks up twelve (screen) years after the first film, and in the intervening decade Ginger and Rocky (now voiced by Thandiwe Newton and Zachary Levi) have had Molly (Bella Ramsey). We meet the...
Taking the stage to a warm welcome, Aardman co-founder Peter Lord, producer Leyla Hobart and the film’s director Sam Fell world premiered 12 minutes of fowl footage and shared technical details about a long-awaited sequel set to hatch on December 15 – the same end-of-year perch where Netflix placed “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
“Dawn of the Nugget” picks up twelve (screen) years after the first film, and in the intervening decade Ginger and Rocky (now voiced by Thandiwe Newton and Zachary Levi) have had Molly (Bella Ramsey). We meet the...
- 6/14/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
I love movies more than just about anything else in the world, but if anything is going to rank higher on my personal hierarchy of needs, it's the promise of free stuff. The economy is in shambles and my rent just went up, so needless to say, I am all about anything that doesn't come with a price tag. We here at /Film have been preaching the gospel of Pluto TV, the free ad-supported streaming television (Fast) provider with thousands of titles in their library and specialized channels of constantly running programming, for years.
If you long for the days of turning on the TV in the middle of the afternoon on a Sunday and watching whatever it is the cable programming gods decided for you, this is the closest thing to capturing that feeling. Want to watch a horror movie? There's a channel for that. Hoping to check out...
If you long for the days of turning on the TV in the middle of the afternoon on a Sunday and watching whatever it is the cable programming gods decided for you, this is the closest thing to capturing that feeling. Want to watch a horror movie? There's a channel for that. Hoping to check out...
- 6/2/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Elon Musk says Twitter “has a shot” at being cashflow positive next quarter, even as the social media network contends with site breakages and reports of advertisers leaving the platform.
In an interview at a Morgan Stanley investor conference Tuesday, the billionaire, who took over as Twitter CEO in October 2022, after acquiring the company for $44 billion, talked about Twitter’s admittedly bumpy trajectory in the past several months, as well as his ultimate plans for the social media network.
“The reason I did the Twitter acquisition was not because I thought this would be some lucrative goldmine. In fact, it has been arduous and difficult and being dumped on every day, well that’s not the most fun thing in the world. But if we do not have a strong foundation of free speech, I fear for the future of our civilization,” Musk said.
(Morgan Stanley advised Musk on the...
In an interview at a Morgan Stanley investor conference Tuesday, the billionaire, who took over as Twitter CEO in October 2022, after acquiring the company for $44 billion, talked about Twitter’s admittedly bumpy trajectory in the past several months, as well as his ultimate plans for the social media network.
“The reason I did the Twitter acquisition was not because I thought this would be some lucrative goldmine. In fact, it has been arduous and difficult and being dumped on every day, well that’s not the most fun thing in the world. But if we do not have a strong foundation of free speech, I fear for the future of our civilization,” Musk said.
(Morgan Stanley advised Musk on the...
- 3/7/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Sole Survivor"
Where You Can Stream It: Shudder
The Pitch: Among the five installments (soon to be six) of the celebrated "Final Destination" franchise, one maxim sits at the core of every elaborate death contained therein, summed up by Tony Todd's Bludworth: "In death, there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes." When someone escapes death -- say, a plane crash that kills everyone else on board -- the resident Reaper figure of the franchise explains that near-death experiences are something like bugs in a system that, in the end, always gets their man. Death as an active enforcer was a hit concept for these movies, but "Sole Survivor" was playing in the same sandbox decades ago.
The Movie: "Sole Survivor"
Where You Can Stream It: Shudder
The Pitch: Among the five installments (soon to be six) of the celebrated "Final Destination" franchise, one maxim sits at the core of every elaborate death contained therein, summed up by Tony Todd's Bludworth: "In death, there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes." When someone escapes death -- say, a plane crash that kills everyone else on board -- the resident Reaper figure of the franchise explains that near-death experiences are something like bugs in a system that, in the end, always gets their man. Death as an active enforcer was a hit concept for these movies, but "Sole Survivor" was playing in the same sandbox decades ago.
- 2/1/2023
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
Seinfeld’s fascination with murder and death is the silly sitcom’s secret weapon that often goes overlooked.
”I could have killed you and nobody would have known.”
”I could have killed you and nobody would have known.”
Seinfeld is glibly described as a “show about nothing,” but it’s actually a comedy that obsesses over the minutiae of everyday life and what it means to exist, even when that existence can feel like pure anguish. For a sitcom that’s so obsessed with life, it’s perhaps only fitting to make murder the ultimate punchline. Any of these karmic encounters with the Grim Reaper will trigger “restrained jubilation” in even the blackest of souls.
Unexpected death is funny to Larry David because it’s the epitome of a Seinfeld-style joke where random elements dovetail together. It’s not just something that goes wrong and spirals out of control for the character,...
”I could have killed you and nobody would have known.”
”I could have killed you and nobody would have known.”
Seinfeld is glibly described as a “show about nothing,” but it’s actually a comedy that obsesses over the minutiae of everyday life and what it means to exist, even when that existence can feel like pure anguish. For a sitcom that’s so obsessed with life, it’s perhaps only fitting to make murder the ultimate punchline. Any of these karmic encounters with the Grim Reaper will trigger “restrained jubilation” in even the blackest of souls.
Unexpected death is funny to Larry David because it’s the epitome of a Seinfeld-style joke where random elements dovetail together. It’s not just something that goes wrong and spirals out of control for the character,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
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While this year’s animated feature contenders include three films that employ stop-motion animation — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Wendell & Wild — the animation technique that dates back to the mid-1800s received very little love in the category until 2005.
That’s when Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit became the first (and only) stop-motion animated film to win best animated feature (stop-motion shorts are a different story, with Were-Rabbit creator Nick Park alone garnering three Oscars, for 1989’s Creature Comforts, 1993’s The Wrong Trousers and 1995’s A Close Shave, the latter two also starring Wallace and Gromit). It’s also almost certainly the only “vegetarian horror film,” as Park described Were-Rabbit, to win any Oscars at all.
Wallace and Gromit’s adventures began in 1982 as a film-school graduation project, created with 2,200 pounds of...
While this year’s animated feature contenders include three films that employ stop-motion animation — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Wendell & Wild — the animation technique that dates back to the mid-1800s received very little love in the category until 2005.
That’s when Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit became the first (and only) stop-motion animated film to win best animated feature (stop-motion shorts are a different story, with Were-Rabbit creator Nick Park alone garnering three Oscars, for 1989’s Creature Comforts, 1993’s The Wrong Trousers and 1995’s A Close Shave, the latter two also starring Wallace and Gromit). It’s also almost certainly the only “vegetarian horror film,” as Park described Were-Rabbit, to win any Oscars at all.
Wallace and Gromit’s adventures began in 1982 as a film-school graduation project, created with 2,200 pounds of...
- 12/2/2022
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every family has their stable of Christmas movies that have to be watched during the month of December. New additions like "Spirited" starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell attempt to find a way into that annual rotation by updating "A Christmas Carol" and other holiday mainstays, which is a mild form of cheating as far as I'm concerned. Tried and true classics like "White Christmas" and "It's a Wonderful Life" may seem a little outdated, so take no shame in updating the Christmas movie list with "Love Actually" and "Die Hard", or even scarier entries like "Rare Exports" and "Krampus."
The big question for the new holiday action comedy "Violent Night" is whether or not an R-rated, butt-kicking Santa Claus (David Harbour) will end up being worthy of a re-watch each year. In any case, director Tommy Wirkola hopes that his version of a Christmas classic can deliver some crowd-pleasing...
The big question for the new holiday action comedy "Violent Night" is whether or not an R-rated, butt-kicking Santa Claus (David Harbour) will end up being worthy of a re-watch each year. In any case, director Tommy Wirkola hopes that his version of a Christmas classic can deliver some crowd-pleasing...
- 11/29/2022
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
This The White Lotus review contains spoilers.
The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 5
One of the tough things about starting a new show for the first time is having to constantly answer this question: what do these characters stand for? When it comes to The White Lotus, this is an even more arduous quest for knowledge. The anthology style gives us only a select few weeks to live in the skin of these fictional people, and the writers and actors bringing the story to life have to quickly, but purposefully fulfill their roles to create a show worth remembering.
As we begin the final episodes of the season, the lives of the Sicilian beachgoers and hotel-dwellers are starting to mix and mingle way more than at the beginning. Characters start to indirectly impact one another in ways they can’t conceive of, which is the perfect tipping point for what likely...
The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 5
One of the tough things about starting a new show for the first time is having to constantly answer this question: what do these characters stand for? When it comes to The White Lotus, this is an even more arduous quest for knowledge. The anthology style gives us only a select few weeks to live in the skin of these fictional people, and the writers and actors bringing the story to life have to quickly, but purposefully fulfill their roles to create a show worth remembering.
As we begin the final episodes of the season, the lives of the Sicilian beachgoers and hotel-dwellers are starting to mix and mingle way more than at the beginning. Characters start to indirectly impact one another in ways they can’t conceive of, which is the perfect tipping point for what likely...
- 11/28/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The PlayStation 2 is arguably the most influential console ever. Thanks in no small part to the surprising power of its DVD drive, the PS2 proved that gaming consoles could be used for so much more than just gaming. That multimedia power guaranteed that PS2s (and future consoles) were the centerpiece of entertainment centers in homes across the world. Of course, the PS2 also happened to support some of the very best games ever made.
The PS2 hardware represented a massive jump over its predecessor. For the first time, developers could create huge 3D environments that came closer than ever to approximating the real world. Such advancements made the console the launching pad for franchises like God of War and Ratchet and Clank, and it gave older series like Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy a new lease on life. With more than 4,000 titles released worldwide, narrowing down the absolute...
The PS2 hardware represented a massive jump over its predecessor. For the first time, developers could create huge 3D environments that came closer than ever to approximating the real world. Such advancements made the console the launching pad for franchises like God of War and Ratchet and Clank, and it gave older series like Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy a new lease on life. With more than 4,000 titles released worldwide, narrowing down the absolute...
- 11/25/2022
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
Nostalgic ’80s film fans can now own the very property where the “Truffle Shuffle” was first put out into the world.
The classic Victorian-style home where the gang from “The Goonies” plotted out their treasure hunt is up for sale.
From left to right, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Josh Brolin, Ke Huy Quand and Sean Astin standing on porch in a scene from the film 'The Goonies', 1985. — Warner Brothers via Getty Images
The Astoria, Ore., property was listed earlier this month by Jordan Miller of John L. Scott Real Estate for US1.65 million.
Cinephiles will be stoked to learn the home’s exterior remains very true to the 1985 film, although the window casings and door are now orange, not red. Also missing, somewhat disappointingly, is the Rube Goldberg machine that powered the home’s front gate and was featured in the movie’s opening scenes.
Nevertheless, the historic home, which was built in 1896, measures 1,935 sq.
The classic Victorian-style home where the gang from “The Goonies” plotted out their treasure hunt is up for sale.
From left to right, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Josh Brolin, Ke Huy Quand and Sean Astin standing on porch in a scene from the film 'The Goonies', 1985. — Warner Brothers via Getty Images
The Astoria, Ore., property was listed earlier this month by Jordan Miller of John L. Scott Real Estate for US1.65 million.
Cinephiles will be stoked to learn the home’s exterior remains very true to the 1985 film, although the window casings and door are now orange, not red. Also missing, somewhat disappointingly, is the Rube Goldberg machine that powered the home’s front gate and was featured in the movie’s opening scenes.
Nevertheless, the historic home, which was built in 1896, measures 1,935 sq.
- 11/24/2022
- by Alex Nino Gheciu
- ET Canada
2022 marked the tentative, occasionally unwise return of full physical attendance to the international convention circuit, with shows like the Penny Arcade Expo, Gamescom, the upcoming Dreamhack, and more.
Those shows, in turn, have turned into a series of showcases for the upcoming horror games of 2023, with big projects finally going public, new companies making their debut, and indie developers coming out of lockdown with something to show.
Here are some of the upcoming horror games we’ve seen on the con circuit this fall.
Dead Fury – Funder Games/Apogee Entertainment
I first saw Dead Fury last year, at Apogee’s booth at Pax West 2021, where it was barely more than a proof of concept. It’s an indie action/horror game from a New Zealand-based team where you’re meant to use traps, tricks, and the environment to even the odds against oncoming hordes of zombies; it’s deliberately meant...
Those shows, in turn, have turned into a series of showcases for the upcoming horror games of 2023, with big projects finally going public, new companies making their debut, and indie developers coming out of lockdown with something to show.
Here are some of the upcoming horror games we’ve seen on the con circuit this fall.
Dead Fury – Funder Games/Apogee Entertainment
I first saw Dead Fury last year, at Apogee’s booth at Pax West 2021, where it was barely more than a proof of concept. It’s an indie action/horror game from a New Zealand-based team where you’re meant to use traps, tricks, and the environment to even the odds against oncoming hordes of zombies; it’s deliberately meant...
- 11/11/2022
- by Thomas Wilde
- bloody-disgusting.com
Since launching a channel of its own in 2012, GoldieBlox has paid close attention to YouTube. The toy company has collaborated with a handful of notable creators, including Karina Garcia and Simone Giertz.
For its latest series, GoldieBlox is partnering with YouTube itself. It has teamed up with the platform’s YouTube Originals unit for The Eggventurers, an animated series that will use anthropomorphic eggs to convey scientific concepts to children.
In each episode, the titular Eggventurers use simple machines, problem-solving skills, and other scientific concepts to “crack” cases without cracking their shells. The series is aimed at preschool-age children and is designed to be light on words but big on fun. As seen in the show’s trailer, the heroic group of ova will assemble Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. With their pulleys, levers, and inclines, The Eggventurers can entertain their impressionable audience while simultaneously modeling the basic forces of physics.
For its latest series, GoldieBlox is partnering with YouTube itself. It has teamed up with the platform’s YouTube Originals unit for The Eggventurers, an animated series that will use anthropomorphic eggs to convey scientific concepts to children.
In each episode, the titular Eggventurers use simple machines, problem-solving skills, and other scientific concepts to “crack” cases without cracking their shells. The series is aimed at preschool-age children and is designed to be light on words but big on fun. As seen in the show’s trailer, the heroic group of ova will assemble Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. With their pulleys, levers, and inclines, The Eggventurers can entertain their impressionable audience while simultaneously modeling the basic forces of physics.
- 10/21/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Fans of people cheating death and Rube Goldberg machines get ready because we're eatin' goooooood tonight! Earlier today it was announced that the "Final Destination" franchise was getting a new installment, with the directors of 2018's "Freaks," Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, tapped to bring "Final Destination 6" to life.
The directing duo has a fascinating background, having co-directed the live-action "Kim Possible" movie for Disney Channel, with Lipovsky directing "Dead Rising: Watchtower" and "Leprechaun: Origins." The Disney connection seems weird until you realize Lipovsky got his start as a kid actor in plenty of family-friendly horror fare like "Goosebumps" and Disney's "So Weird," while also appearing in "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" (which is extremely exciting news for me and like ... six other people on the planet). Regardless, the two made something really special with the sci-fi horror film "Freaks," which put them on the radar of the New Line...
The directing duo has a fascinating background, having co-directed the live-action "Kim Possible" movie for Disney Channel, with Lipovsky directing "Dead Rising: Watchtower" and "Leprechaun: Origins." The Disney connection seems weird until you realize Lipovsky got his start as a kid actor in plenty of family-friendly horror fare like "Goosebumps" and Disney's "So Weird," while also appearing in "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" (which is extremely exciting news for me and like ... six other people on the planet). Regardless, the two made something really special with the sci-fi horror film "Freaks," which put them on the radar of the New Line...
- 9/24/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Sam Greenfield is the unluckiest person on Earth, and she has been since the day she was born. It’s bad enough that Sam’s biological parents left her at the Summerland Home for Girls shortly after she came into this world, and that she’s about to age out of the program after going a full 18 years without finding a forever home. But a more banal sort of calamity seems to follow Sam on a day-to-day basis, as well: This poor girl can’t make a sandwich without dropping a slice of bread on the floor jelly-side down, take a shower without knocking over a broom that locks her in the bathroom, or shoot a lip sync video with her “little sister” Hazel without the set crashing down on top of her. Rotten luck essentially follows Sam with the same Rube Goldberg-inspired relentlessness that Death stalks the teens of the “Final Destination” franchise,...
- 8/3/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
This article contains spoilers for the Final Destination movies
Olivia Castle (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) knows things are about to be bad. Despite her doctor’s kind assurances that her laser eye surgery is routine and harmless, despite the stuffed bear she clutches, Olivia cannot help but shudder. Strapped to a table, her head held still and her eyelids pulled open, Olivia only grows more agitated. In contrast, the doctor goes through the setup process in a patient monotone, calmly talking her through the process. So confident is he, that the doctor doesn’t even worry about stepping out for a moment, leaving Olivia temporarily unattended.
Of course, he doesn’t know what we know. After her life was saved by co-worker Sam Lawton (Nicholas D’Agosto), who convinced her and others to get off of a bus minutes before it was involved in a horrific accident, Olivia and her fellow survivors have been hunted by Death.
Olivia Castle (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) knows things are about to be bad. Despite her doctor’s kind assurances that her laser eye surgery is routine and harmless, despite the stuffed bear she clutches, Olivia cannot help but shudder. Strapped to a table, her head held still and her eyelids pulled open, Olivia only grows more agitated. In contrast, the doctor goes through the setup process in a patient monotone, calmly talking her through the process. So confident is he, that the doctor doesn’t even worry about stepping out for a moment, leaving Olivia temporarily unattended.
Of course, he doesn’t know what we know. After her life was saved by co-worker Sam Lawton (Nicholas D’Agosto), who convinced her and others to get off of a bus minutes before it was involved in a horrific accident, Olivia and her fellow survivors have been hunted by Death.
- 7/29/2022
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Nathan Fielder’s first show felt — in the manner of life — as if it could go anywhere. On his Comedy Central series “Nathan for You,” which aired from 2013 to 2017, Fielder, playing a version of himself in real-world settings, pitched small business owners on ludicrous plots to gin up money and attention, with an endlessly ascendant imagination belying his grave, awkward manner. Now, Fielder returns with “The Rehearsal,” an HBO series that will leave many viewers perplexed as to what happens next, moment to moment and for Fielder more generally. The closest comparison might be “Synecdoche, New York,” the 2008 Charlie Kaufman film that, like “The Rehearsal,” treats life as a performance that can be perfected. And, like Kaufman’s film, “The Rehearsal” has an anarchic heart throbbing beneath a rigorous exterior — meaning that even the viewer who feels the project losing its way can admire Fielder’s abilities to establish lines for himself,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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The trailer for Luck follows Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world. The first trailer dropped Wednesday and shows off the animated feature, which is from Apple Original Films and is the first produced by Skydance Animation.
Everything about Sam’s (voiced by Eva Noblezada) day goes wrong until she finds a lucky penny that turns things around — until she accidentally flushes it down the toilet. She realizes the lucky penny is connected to a mysterious black cat named Bob, voiced by Simon Pegg, whom she follows into the Land of Luck, which resembles a perfectly timed Rube Goldberg machine in which everything goes right — but humans are not allowed. At the bottom of the two-sided world is where all of the bad luck is sent.
“The tiniest amount of bad luck can shut down our entire operation,” warns the CEO of Good Luck,...
The trailer for Luck follows Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world. The first trailer dropped Wednesday and shows off the animated feature, which is from Apple Original Films and is the first produced by Skydance Animation.
Everything about Sam’s (voiced by Eva Noblezada) day goes wrong until she finds a lucky penny that turns things around — until she accidentally flushes it down the toilet. She realizes the lucky penny is connected to a mysterious black cat named Bob, voiced by Simon Pegg, whom she follows into the Land of Luck, which resembles a perfectly timed Rube Goldberg machine in which everything goes right — but humans are not allowed. At the bottom of the two-sided world is where all of the bad luck is sent.
“The tiniest amount of bad luck can shut down our entire operation,” warns the CEO of Good Luck,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Director Peggy Holmes led a presentation of new footage from Luck, the first animated feature from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation as part of their overall deal, Tuesday at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Slated to debut Aug. 5 on Apple TV+, the story follows Sam Greenfield, voiced by Eva Noblezada, who is described as unluckiest person in the world. In the first clip, everything about her morning goes wrong, including, her toast lands on the floor. In another clip, she follows a mysterious black cat, voiced by Simon Pegg, into the Land of Luck, which resembles a perfectly-timed Rube Goldberg machine in which everything goes right.
“Sam is super generous of heart; the unluckiest girl in the world goes after luck for someone else. And on that journey, Sam figures out that the worst bad luck she experienced in her life...
Director Peggy Holmes led a presentation of new footage from Luck, the first animated feature from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation as part of their overall deal, Tuesday at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Slated to debut Aug. 5 on Apple TV+, the story follows Sam Greenfield, voiced by Eva Noblezada, who is described as unluckiest person in the world. In the first clip, everything about her morning goes wrong, including, her toast lands on the floor. In another clip, she follows a mysterious black cat, voiced by Simon Pegg, into the Land of Luck, which resembles a perfectly-timed Rube Goldberg machine in which everything goes right.
“Sam is super generous of heart; the unluckiest girl in the world goes after luck for someone else. And on that journey, Sam figures out that the worst bad luck she experienced in her life...
- 6/14/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The "Final Destination" series, originally conceived by James Wong, Glen Morgan, and Jeffrey Reddick, ingeniously subverted slasher movie expectations. In a post-"Scream" horror landscape, the slasher subgenre was waning. The first "Final Destination," released in 2000, reimagined the slasher villain as not a masked maniac, but the specter of Death himself. Spurned after a group of attractive teens ostensibly cheat death, he tracks them down one by one, inciting grisly Rube Goldberg machinations to reclaim the souls that cheated him.
Those deaths ultimately defined the series, imbuing it with an all-too-real sense of slasher nihilism. Ordinary, everyday objects and circumstances were rendered deadly, and each subsequent entry...
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Those deaths ultimately defined the series, imbuing it with an all-too-real sense of slasher nihilism. Ordinary, everyday objects and circumstances were rendered deadly, and each subsequent entry...
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- 5/19/2022
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
YouTube earlier this year wound down most of its originals division, in a significant pullback on its investment in scripted and unscripted programming.
But it’s not totally out of the game: YouTube is continuing to bulk up its slate of kids and family originals, as part of its previously announced 100 million fund earmarked for kids, family and educational content.
YouTube announced the greenlight of four new projects: “Mindful Adventures of Unicorn Island,” an animated series from Lilly Singh set to premiere in 2023; “The Big Tiny Food Face-Off” from B17 Entertainment; “Buster’s Big Halloween” from Moonbug Entertainment; and music series “Jam Van.”
YouTube also announced the Season 2 renewal of popular preschool series “Tab Time,” starring Tabitha Brown, an actress, vegan foodie and mother — aka “America’s mom.” Tabitha (or “Ms. Tab” as the kids call her) taps into her skills as a cook, storyteller, mom and motivational leader, to...
But it’s not totally out of the game: YouTube is continuing to bulk up its slate of kids and family originals, as part of its previously announced 100 million fund earmarked for kids, family and educational content.
YouTube announced the greenlight of four new projects: “Mindful Adventures of Unicorn Island,” an animated series from Lilly Singh set to premiere in 2023; “The Big Tiny Food Face-Off” from B17 Entertainment; “Buster’s Big Halloween” from Moonbug Entertainment; and music series “Jam Van.”
YouTube also announced the Season 2 renewal of popular preschool series “Tab Time,” starring Tabitha Brown, an actress, vegan foodie and mother — aka “America’s mom.” Tabitha (or “Ms. Tab” as the kids call her) taps into her skills as a cook, storyteller, mom and motivational leader, to...
- 5/13/2022
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
The Abominable Dr. Phibes/Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1971, 1972 / 1.85 : 1 / 94, 89 Min.
Starring Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Terry Thomas
Written by James Whiton, William Goldstein, Robert Blees
Directed by Robert Fuest
Though he thrived in light comedies and upmarket melodramas, Vincent Price didn’t really find himself till he found Henry Jarrod, the high strung sculptor-turned psychopath in 1953’s House of Wax. The role reinvented the Jekyll/Hyde story and gave Price the key to his long-lasting persona; the well-mannered fiend and the unhinged romantic merged into one tormented soul. Ticket buyers were both moved and terrified by Jarrod and the box office receipts reflected their fascination. Price was happy to dish up more of the same and though he would occasionally play no nonsense villains like the unambiguously evil Matthew Hopkins of 1968’s Witchfinder General, the actor rarely strayed too far from his comfort zone.
There was...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1971, 1972 / 1.85 : 1 / 94, 89 Min.
Starring Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Terry Thomas
Written by James Whiton, William Goldstein, Robert Blees
Directed by Robert Fuest
Though he thrived in light comedies and upmarket melodramas, Vincent Price didn’t really find himself till he found Henry Jarrod, the high strung sculptor-turned psychopath in 1953’s House of Wax. The role reinvented the Jekyll/Hyde story and gave Price the key to his long-lasting persona; the well-mannered fiend and the unhinged romantic merged into one tormented soul. Ticket buyers were both moved and terrified by Jarrod and the box office receipts reflected their fascination. Price was happy to dish up more of the same and though he would occasionally play no nonsense villains like the unambiguously evil Matthew Hopkins of 1968’s Witchfinder General, the actor rarely strayed too far from his comfort zone.
There was...
- 5/3/2022
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Toppling dominos has been around for generations but it seems to have become more popular than ever before these days. However, does it make for good television? Will Fox viewers watch Domino Masters and keep coming back for more? Will the show be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.
A reality competition series, the Domino Masters TV show is hosted by Eric Stonestreet with Steve Price, Danica McKellar, and Vernon Davis serving as judges. The series features teams of domino enthusiasts facing off in a domino toppling and chain reaction tournament. Sixteen skilled teams compete against each other in ambitious domino-building challenges with the goal of being crowned the country's most talented domino topplers. In each episode, teams are given a bold theme and custom elements to incorporate into their Rube Goldberg-style topples. The pressure is on as one wrong move...
A reality competition series, the Domino Masters TV show is hosted by Eric Stonestreet with Steve Price, Danica McKellar, and Vernon Davis serving as judges. The series features teams of domino enthusiasts facing off in a domino toppling and chain reaction tournament. Sixteen skilled teams compete against each other in ambitious domino-building challenges with the goal of being crowned the country's most talented domino topplers. In each episode, teams are given a bold theme and custom elements to incorporate into their Rube Goldberg-style topples. The pressure is on as one wrong move...
- 3/10/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
“This is like camping—it’s intense,” says Domino Masters host Eric Stonestreet. Pun aside, he’s not joking. The goal in this tournament-style competition is for teams to design, build and set off elaborate chain reactions that tell a story (sports-themed on March 9), work when Stonestreet shouts, “It’s topple time!” and impress the judges. Ray Mickshaw/Fox The Modern Family Emmy winner fills us in. Plus, watch an exclusive sneak peek above of a full topple, narrated by Joe Buck, to see just what can be built using dominos. What did you love about this show? Eric Stonestreet: It’s this collision of fun and education, because there’s so much to learn about how everything works and then the fun of knocking it all down. We have people who have been doing this for 20 to 30 years. I ...
- 3/8/2022
- TV Insider
The Oscar-nominated film-maker behind Amélie has created a hit-and-miss comedy about a futuristic world and an android revolt
Machines might seem an antithetical thing to get sentimental about, but in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s view of them as imperfect, quirk-prone and funny, they’re pretty much human. The film-maker cobbles together off-kilter worlds where everything is mechanized yet nothing works properly, daily life turned into an absurd burlesque of glitches, miscommunications, system errors and sound-the-alarm snafus. In early-career triumphs like Delicatessen or The City of Lost Children, Jeunet assembled Rube Goldberg contraptions with such fastidious personal care that they couldn’t help but be imbued with the idiosyncrasies of their creator. Sometimes, he’ll apply this notion in a more figurative way to satirize the catch-22-clogged French bureaucracy, a giant engine seemingly built to malfunction. He gets in one or two such cracks with his latest film Bigbug, in which...
Machines might seem an antithetical thing to get sentimental about, but in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s view of them as imperfect, quirk-prone and funny, they’re pretty much human. The film-maker cobbles together off-kilter worlds where everything is mechanized yet nothing works properly, daily life turned into an absurd burlesque of glitches, miscommunications, system errors and sound-the-alarm snafus. In early-career triumphs like Delicatessen or The City of Lost Children, Jeunet assembled Rube Goldberg contraptions with such fastidious personal care that they couldn’t help but be imbued with the idiosyncrasies of their creator. Sometimes, he’ll apply this notion in a more figurative way to satirize the catch-22-clogged French bureaucracy, a giant engine seemingly built to malfunction. He gets in one or two such cracks with his latest film Bigbug, in which...
- 2/11/2022
- by Charles Bramesco
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert Blalack, a towering figure in the world of visual effects, died on Wednesday. His wife Caroline Charron-Blalack confirmed the news to Deadline. He was 73.
Blalack said he specialized in “solving the Visual Effects requirements of ‘can’t be done’ Motion Picture productions.” He proved the truth of that statement on his second film project, a 1977 space opera by the name of Star Wars.
At the age of 29, he designed and supervised the Star Wars VistaVision Composite Optical production pipeline, which allowed all the groundbreaking 365 VistaVision VFX shots in Star Wars. Much of what he created for the film was built on a (relative) shoestring. With a VFX budget of just $1.6 million for the film, Blalack made use of obsolete VistaVision optical composite equipment from Hollywood’s Golden Years that could be had for a song.
“My task was to scavenge the Hollywood junkyards for any VistaVision Composite Optical mechanics,...
Blalack said he specialized in “solving the Visual Effects requirements of ‘can’t be done’ Motion Picture productions.” He proved the truth of that statement on his second film project, a 1977 space opera by the name of Star Wars.
At the age of 29, he designed and supervised the Star Wars VistaVision Composite Optical production pipeline, which allowed all the groundbreaking 365 VistaVision VFX shots in Star Wars. Much of what he created for the film was built on a (relative) shoestring. With a VFX budget of just $1.6 million for the film, Blalack made use of obsolete VistaVision optical composite equipment from Hollywood’s Golden Years that could be had for a song.
“My task was to scavenge the Hollywood junkyards for any VistaVision Composite Optical mechanics,...
- 2/8/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Hmmm, is 2022 turning out to be a twenty-year anniversary celebration for several beloved film franchises? Could be. After all. the year started a tad early for the still-formidable box-office juggernaut, Spider-man: No Way Home, which arrived with two weeks left of the previous year, and about six months ahead of that first web-head feature’s 20th this May. And just last weekend Disney+ hosted the latest animated outing, The Ice Age Adventures Of Buck Wild, the sixth in the series that started two months before Spidey. Now, these flicks are pretty “family-friendly”.Not one entry in this series could ever be trimmed to meet anything but an “R” rating (many would say a “hard R”). So, heed that “black-screened-backed disclaimer/warning” for the sake of yourself and your loved ones (and anybody nearby) because those deranged daredevil doofuses as back in Jackass Forever.
Now, this is where I’d normally...
Now, this is where I’d normally...
- 2/4/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Scripted and unscripted favorites return to Fox in March. It all begins with the return of Animation Domination on February 27. Then, the seventh season of The Masked Singer and the new competition series Domino Masters premiere on March 9, followed by MasterChef Junior for its eight season on March 17. 9-1-1 takes over Mondays beginning on March 21, with the original returning after going on break in December and Lone Star moving to 9/8c. Plus, Name That Tune returns for its second season on March 29. Domino Masters, hosted by Eric Stonestreet, will see teams of domino enthusiasts facing off in an unbelievable domino toppling and chain reaction tournament. They will be given a bold theme and exciting custom elements to incorporate into their Rube Goldberg-style topples, but one wrong move could set off a chain reaction that knocks them out of the running. The judges include actress and New York Times...
- 1/26/2022
- TV Insider
” This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone. Did you hear me?”
Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Home Alone (1990) will be on the big screen when it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, Il at 7:00pm Tuesday December 14th. Tickets are only $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. Lobby opens at 6pm.
The 1990 comedy smash Home Alone was John Hughes’ last significant contribution to pop culture. Hughes’s script was his usual dose of upper/middle-class discomfort combined with a Rube Goldberg meets Ferris Bueller selection of traps and low-brow cunning that held together better than a movie set at Christmas had any right to. And its young hero — the courageous home commando Kevin McAllister, played...
Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Home Alone (1990) will be on the big screen when it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, Il at 7:00pm Tuesday December 14th. Tickets are only $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. Lobby opens at 6pm.
The 1990 comedy smash Home Alone was John Hughes’ last significant contribution to pop culture. Hughes’s script was his usual dose of upper/middle-class discomfort combined with a Rube Goldberg meets Ferris Bueller selection of traps and low-brow cunning that held together better than a movie set at Christmas had any right to. And its young hero — the courageous home commando Kevin McAllister, played...
- 12/8/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“America’s Funniest Home Videos” has vaulted past “Gunsmoke” and joined the rarefied ranks of “The Simpsons” on the list of primetime entertainment series that have amassed an astounding 700 episodes.
The milestone segment kicks off “Afv’s” 32nd season on ABC on Oct. 3. Getting there over the past year and a half was a heck of a journey for “Afv” veterans, who thought they’d seen it all when it comes to producing the beloved clip show.
The biggest jolt was the loss of the studio audience. The show’s competition and comedy elements lean heavily on the reaction of the “Afv” studio audience, as executive producers Vin Di Bona and Michele Nasraway explain.
“We did one show without an audience and we said, ‘Ok we really need to make a big pivot,’” Di Bona says. “We missed the laughter that is so affirming in our show.” Host Alfonso Ribeiro admits...
The milestone segment kicks off “Afv’s” 32nd season on ABC on Oct. 3. Getting there over the past year and a half was a heck of a journey for “Afv” veterans, who thought they’d seen it all when it comes to producing the beloved clip show.
The biggest jolt was the loss of the studio audience. The show’s competition and comedy elements lean heavily on the reaction of the “Afv” studio audience, as executive producers Vin Di Bona and Michele Nasraway explain.
“We did one show without an audience and we said, ‘Ok we really need to make a big pivot,’” Di Bona says. “We missed the laughter that is so affirming in our show.” Host Alfonso Ribeiro admits...
- 10/1/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Does Charlie Cox’s mysterious depature from attending Celebrity Fan Fest mean he’s going in to do reshoots for Spider-Man No Way Home?
“Charlie Cox had to cancel a convention appearance, and now our Spidey-senses are tingling. No really, we’re thinking he had to go film reshoots for Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. The rumor of Cox’s return to Daredevil himself, Matt Murdock, has been going around online, whether it be to help defend Peter Parker against the accusations made by Quentin Beck or working with fellow lawyer Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk.“
Read more at The Mary Sue
Rube Goldberg would be proud of these insanely creative Lego machines.
“There’s a peculiar subset of Lego fan that doesn’t spend their time building perfect replicas of iconic cars or elaborate brick-built model railroads. They instead create Great Ball Contraptions, or GBCs, for short:...
“Charlie Cox had to cancel a convention appearance, and now our Spidey-senses are tingling. No really, we’re thinking he had to go film reshoots for Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. The rumor of Cox’s return to Daredevil himself, Matt Murdock, has been going around online, whether it be to help defend Peter Parker against the accusations made by Quentin Beck or working with fellow lawyer Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk.“
Read more at The Mary Sue
Rube Goldberg would be proud of these insanely creative Lego machines.
“There’s a peculiar subset of Lego fan that doesn’t spend their time building perfect replicas of iconic cars or elaborate brick-built model railroads. They instead create Great Ball Contraptions, or GBCs, for short:...
- 7/22/2021
- by Lee Parham
- Den of Geek
It’s “Mouse Trap”! Fox is developing a physical reality-competition series based on the Hasbro board game Mouse Trap with studio Entertainment One (eOne), TheWrap has learned.
Per its official logline, “Mouse Trap” pits contestants against one another as they navigate larger-than-life obstacles recreated from the game. Through a series of demanding challenges requiring the utmost physical and mental endurance, each episode will culminate with its final round, with the last players standing working together to steal as much cheese as possible while risking capture by the iconic Mouse Trap. The more they steal, the more money they’ll win.
Executive producers on the potential series include Tara Long, Matt Walton, Matt Prichard and Mark Herwick.
One of the first mass-produced three-dimensional board games, Moue Trap was invented by Marvin Glass and launched by toy company Ideal in 1963 as a game for two to four players. During the game, players...
Per its official logline, “Mouse Trap” pits contestants against one another as they navigate larger-than-life obstacles recreated from the game. Through a series of demanding challenges requiring the utmost physical and mental endurance, each episode will culminate with its final round, with the last players standing working together to steal as much cheese as possible while risking capture by the iconic Mouse Trap. The more they steal, the more money they’ll win.
Executive producers on the potential series include Tara Long, Matt Walton, Matt Prichard and Mark Herwick.
One of the first mass-produced three-dimensional board games, Moue Trap was invented by Marvin Glass and launched by toy company Ideal in 1963 as a game for two to four players. During the game, players...
- 7/21/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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