NBC Universal, Sierra Online and Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade are teaming up to deliver an original, high-definition Battlestar Galactica space combat game this fall. The game is based on the popular Sci Fi Channel show; it will also be available on Windows PC and will be digitally distributed, bypassing retail. The Hollywood Reporter says fans will be able to download the PC game at a number of Web sites, including Scifi....
Batwoman is a series featuring the titular character taking on many different villains throughout the show’s run. The show was recently canceled before the CW network was bought out, marking the third season as its last. Warner Bros. held nothing back when loading up the season with plenty of legacy villains. While most of these villains were new iterations of their respective characters, we would see plenty of chaos associated with the Bat-family’s rogues gallery....
Get ready for some South American combat on DVD this January. Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia will be released on DVD on January 6th. This brand new film will be priced at $26.98 SRP and a two-pack featuring this third film and the original Behind Enemy Lines will be priced at $34.98 SRP. The film stars Ken Anderson (WWE’s Mr. Kennedy), Joe Manganiello and Keith David. Colombia is in chaos, caught in a bitter war between its government and insurgent guerillas....
Though its conception is still argued and debated, there was no denying the strange phenomenon happening in American cinema around the turn of the early 1940s. The term, originally coined by French critic Nino Frank, was the outsider who observed what had been unraveling on the big screen. To define noir by its atmosphere and the list of clichés would be a disservice to the masterpieces that fit into its description, but, it’s a good place to start....
Paris has long had a reputation for being a haven for cinephiles the world over. On December 28, 1895, Paris would be home to the first-ever public film screening at the Grand Café. The film was the work of Louis and Auguste Lumiere, who invented a camera projector called a Cinematographe. The film was a series of shorts of everyday Parisian life. Shortly after the premiere, in 1896, the Lumiere brothers opened theaters throughout the city to showcase their work and hired camera operators worldwide to shoot new material....
It takes a lot for an actor to turn a supporting performance into an award-winning supporting performance. With that said, we have seen many supporting characters come along and completely steal the movie. Actors like Christoph Waltz have shown numerous times that they can create scene-stealing supporting performances; it takes sheer emotion and talent. Many times, a good supporting performance can skyrocket the career of an actor. At the same time, we constantly see big-named actors take on supporting roles....
June is approaching, and the new month is once again bringing us numerous TV series arriving to Netflix. Although the streaming platform has been gradually losing its subscribers, it still has a lot to bring to the table. Not only is the platform bringing movie classics such as The Amazing Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible movies, it’s also introducing new Netflix originals. Some of the most anticipated series to look forward to on Netflix in June are The Umbrella Academy, whose season 3 trailer released earlier in May, and the final season of the hit BBC series Peaky Blinders....
It seems that even Blu-Ray has its troubles as well. According to Wired, a class-acton lawsuit has been filed against Samsung, alledging that, since June 2006, they knowingly manufactured deficient Blu-Ray players and also neglected to provide new firmware updates for those players. The head plaintiff, Bob McGovern, said that he purchased a Samsung BD-P1200 player last summer, and said player was unable to play “numerous Blu-ray disc titles,” which he believes is due to “defective design and/or manufacture....
Weekend Box Office Zombieland - $25 million Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $16.7 million Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3D - $12.5 million The Invention of Lying - $7.35 million Surrogates - $7.34 million Capitalism: A Love Story - $4.85 million Whip It! - $4.85 million Fame - $4.7 million The Informant! - $3.8 million Love Happens - $2.7 million It took Woody Harrelson and his zombie-killing abilities to hold off a forecast of raining meatballs this weekend....
The star and author/executive producer talk about their new female-driven series Brooke Shields and Candace Bushnell have both made their strides in entertainment in different ways. Brooke we’ve known from all the way back to The Blue Lagoon and Candace has made a significant pop-culture impression with her novel Sex and the City that was turned into the popular HBO series. The two have joined forces with the new series Lipstick Jungle, also based off of a Bushnell novel, that premeieres on Thursday February 7 at 10 PM ET....
Premiering July 9th is Showtime’s new original drama series, Brotherhood. Amidst the weathered row houses and rust-barnacled tugboats framing the port city of Providence, Rhode Island, lies an Irish-American neighborhood known as “The Hill.” There, the old-world ways of street justice and loyalty still permeate through the tough blue-collar neighborhood. It is where the familial bonds of the Caffee brothers are constantly teetering above a moral abyss, something akin to the classic sibling fable of Cain and Abel....
The legendary actor talks about his new film, his experiences with the fans and future projects You don’t have to know what a “boomstick” is to know that Bruce Campbell has been a beloved figure in cult horror circles for decades. He has amassed a huge following over the years from his starring roles in films like The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Army Of Darkness, Bubba Ho-Tep and hordes of other films....
Disney has not only announced what movies they will be releasing on Blu-ray disc this fall, the company has also fired the first salvo in the looming format war between HD and Blu-ray. According to The Digital Bits, the following Blu-ray titles will hit stores on September 19, they are Dinosaur, Eight Below, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and The Great Raid. The second wave will hit stores October 17 and they will be Glory Road, The Haunted Mansion, Dark Water, Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Brothers Grimm....
The first reactions to director David Leitch’s action extravaganza, Bullet Train, have described the Brad Pitt-led movie as “funny,” “violent,” and “like John Woo got his hands on a Guy Ritchie script.” Sony Pictures shared the first 10 or so minutes of Bullet Train at the ongoing CinemaCon event, and it sounds like it gave the audience a real taste of the explosive lunacy to come… The footage from Bullet Train sounds like it set things up nicely, introducing a different sort of role for Hollywood leading man Brad Pitt and ending with Pitt in an exciting fistfight with Bad Bunny....
Computer screen films or “Screenlife” films, a name coined by director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, are a subcategory of found-footage movies that play out entirely through computer screens, webcams, phone screens, and other such electronic devices. The genre has existed ever since the internet came to be, but as technology grows more advanced and cameras and screens become more and more a part of our everyday lives, so too does the popularity of these Screenlife films....
Audiences love to see actors insert their own jokes into their movies or break the fourth wall. An even more satisfying feeling is when a character references the title of the movie at some point during the two hours of the film. Did the actors get extra pay for saying the title? A really cool high-five? If not, there definitely should be some sort of praise for getting it accomplished, especially when the title of the movie isn’t so easy to insert....
Fans have been waiting almost a year for the return of 24, television’s most addictive drama. On Sunday, November 23 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), the wait will be over as Fox presents a special two-hour prequel event. Shot on location in South Africa, Jack Bauer battles an international crisis, while here at home the nation prepares for a new president on inauguration day. Taking place just a few months before the new day dawns, the prequel will set the stage and raise the stakes for Season Seven....
“The best true-crime stories humanize people or situations that seem incomprehensible at first.” That’s what Nick Antosca told Gizmodo about his series The Act, his first TV switch from the horror genre he’d mastered in Channel Zero and Brand New Cherry Flavor. That quote applies doubly to his new limited series, A Friend of the Family, which contains decisions and situations which seem so incomprehensible on the surface that they’re almost laughable....
2022 has been a good year for horror, and it’s not even over yet. So far, one of the biggest genre films has been the critically acclaimed Ti West slasher X. The film stars Mia Goth (Emma, 2020), Jenna Ortega (Scream, 2022), Martin Henderson (Virgin River, 2019-), Brittany Snow (Someone Great, 2019), Owen Campbell (Body Brokers, 2021), Stephen Ure (Mortal Engines, 2018), and Scott Mescudi – otherwise known as Kid Cudi (Don’t Look Up, 2021)....
A desperate woman crumbling in an emotionally abusive relationship finds solace and strength on a respite with her best friends. Alice, Darling addresses important themes but fails as a complete narrative with significant pacing issues. Star Anna Kendrick captures the fraught paranoia, isolation, and dangerous physical decline of the subjugated. She’s in constant fear of upsetting a cruel partner who controls every aspect of her life. Alice, Darling loses focus with meandering subplots meant to be metaphors for the protagonist’s journey....
