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NYFF 2010 presents CLINT EASTWOOD’S ‘HEREAFTER’

At this years New York Film Festival, Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER project, due to be released on October 22nd, gets the honorary privilege to close out the event. Committee chair and program director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Richard Pena, said: “As so beautifully evident in ‘Hereafter,’ Clint Eastwood continues to make the most daring, provocative films in America. …

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Check out the ‘RESIDENT EVIL: AfterLife featurette

Before RESIDENT EVIL: AFTER LIFE hits theaters in September, here’s a 3 minute clip that takes you behind-the-scenes. RE-AL stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, and Wentworth Miller. In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the …

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Film Review: Arnold (1973)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: Karen Llewelyn is the new gold-digging bride of a corpse. She marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold’s wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways. REVIEW: A rare classic and somewhat of a cult film …

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Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season Awakens from the dead – August 31!

Contains all 22 Season One Episodes of the Hit CW Series Plus Over 8 Hours of Special Features, Including Four Brand-New Featurettes, Unaired Scenes, Gag Reel and Much More! Sink Your Teeth into the Blu-ray™ and DVD August 31, 2010 BURBANK, CA (June 3, 2010) – Two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for 17-year-old …

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CASTING NEWS FOR 5TH SEASON OF ‘DEXTER’

Entertainment Weekly has announced the star of Prison Break and Burn Notices, Chris Vance, will be coming on board to guest-star on at least three episodes of DEXTER Season 5. According to the magazine, Vance will play “Cole, a meticulous, physically fit, well-spoken personal aide to a famous businessman.” Chris will also join other notable new additions to the cast …

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Film Review: Man Bites Dog (1992)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A satirical look at how the media affects and promotes violence in modern society. Spoofing reality television, a fascinated documentary crew follows a charismatic yet unrepentant serial killer on his murder sprees. The crew attempts to objectively document the horror, but as the violence escalates, they ultimately get sucked into participating. Man Bites Dog won the …

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Jacques Tourneur

There were some good but usually fairly conventional fantasies produced by the commercial cinema in the forties. But in the middle of all this was one small oasis of the unusual: The low-budget low-key horror movies produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures between 1942 and 1945, and made by a small, fairly autonomous unit, saving money where possible …

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Book Review: A Host Of Shadows – Author Harry Shannon

A Host Of Shadows – Harry Shannon “Everyone carries a shadow,” wrote analyst Carl Jung, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” Few of us see the shadow with any clarity. Turn around for a peek, it slips away. Our violent, sexually tinged fantasies are indulged regularly in darkened theaters, …

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Fear

What is fear? We hear the word and already our heart starts pumping a bit faster, we can feel our sweat glands begin to open, our palms get sweaty and get that all too familiar gross clammy feeling. FEAR can be broken down into an acronym, False Evidence Appearing Real. This is something any and all motivation speakers will tell …

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