If you’re a fan of horror anthology films like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt , you’ll probably be interested to hear that there is a new one in the works that is due to be released sometime next year. Genre movies composed of multiple short films used to happen a bit more frequently back in the ’70s and ’80s, but they have been all but dead lately… that is, until Michael Dougherty resurrected the idea with Trick ‘r Treat . Now director Adam Green ( Hatchet , Frozen ) is teaming up with Joe Lynch ( Wrong Turn 2 ), Adam Rifkin ( Detroit Rock City ) and Tim Sullivan ( 2001 Maniacs ) for a project called Chillerama . Read on…

Tyler Perry can do mediocre all by himself. Is Tyler Perry the male Oprah? While he hasn’t started a talk show (yet), the entrepreneurial playwright, actor, director, screenwriter and producer seems poised to give Ms. Winfrey a run for her literal money. Perhaps even more so than Winfrey, Perry has been able to tap into the cultural zeitgeist of the modern black American, in the process managing to rake in several hundreds of millions of dollars in box office receipts. If Perry’s most famous creation, the gun toting grandma Made … Video As dramatically dull as a lot …

Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Seldom has an artist roared back from semi-exile with the wide-grinned schadenfreude displayed by Robert Altman in his vitriolic 1992 comedy The Player . Unable to get studio support after the (relative) critical and financial failure of the 1980 Paramount-Disney co-production Popeye , the maverick filmmaker spent the 1980s working on a variety of modest projects–stage plays, their film and television adaptations, an HBO series, and so on. When Vincent and Theo proved

The Last Seven is a British film which features an empty London and seven lone survivors of some event, an event that none of them can remember, in fact none of them can remember anything before waking up in the deserted city. I’m just about to complete the review of the film, but I’ll let you know now that it’s an interesting story that is surprisingly well shot for a small British independent with some strong cinematography and a good mix of British acting talent. Now you can win a copy of the DVD through Filmstalker by answering

STARDUST (2007, Blu-ray released September 7, 2010 – MSRP $29.99) I’ve been waiting three years to see Stardust . After missing my chance to catch it in the theatre, I held out for an eventual release of the film on Blu-ray – a release I was beginning to feel might never come to pass. After all this time, years spent avoiding the film on DVD, HD-DVD and cable, I’ve…

Just when you thought Dwayne Johnson was getting back to doing more action-oriented movies for grown ups such as Faster and The Fast and the Furious 5 , he goes and signs on for something like this. I guess family films are where the money is, but it still seems more than a little embarrassing to be picking up Brendan Fraser’s sloppy seconds. When it was first announced that Fraser would not be returning for the sequel to the 3-D adventure film Journey to the Center of the Earth , a lot of people wondered how Josh Hutcherson could possibly carry the film on his own. Now we know that he won’t…

It’s no real wonder that Microsoft have announced to the world that there’s still work ongoing on a Halo film following a week when Blizzard announced that StarCraft was still on their radar and Irrational Games were announcing BioShock wasn’t dead. It’s especially current as Microsoft and Bungie are about to release Halo: Reach, the latest in the Halo range of games, so keeping alive a film version of the

So far three actresses has been rumored for the female lead in the upcoming fourth Mission: Impossible flick. Those has been Kristin Kreuk (TV’s Smallville , Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Paula Patton ( Precious ) and Lauren German ( Hostel: Part II ). Now Deadline has confirmed that Patton has come out as the victor and has gotten the role. Not much is known about her part, other than the fact that she’ll play a young operative who has to work together with Ethan Hunt, who, as usual, is being portrayed by the always excellent yet underrated Tom Cruise. In all honesty this is the first time I have ever heard of Patton, at least knowingly, since she’s also had top billings in…

The Yamaha S1067 is the latest universal Blu-ray player to be announced for Europe, although it will be released in other regions at a later date. To remind readers, a universal player will spin almost any disc you put in…

Two new Toshiba Blu-ray players were announced for the UK late last week, the standard BDX1100KB and the 3D-ready BDX3100KB. Starting with the BDX1100, Toshiba say it’s designed to be an ideal first Blu-ray player and contains all the features…

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. It’s that time again folks. The latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast is now online and ready to be heard, bringing us just one episode away from a miraculous 20 episode milestone! Can …

“Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.” CG killed the filmmaker. At least in the case of George Lucas. Watching THX 1138 , Lucas’s 1971 feature-length film debut, it’s clear that character and story were once far more important to the Maker than Gungan land wars and Kaminoan clone facilities. Lucas has always fancied himself a world-weaver, but a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, his worlds were more tangible, more evocative, more…

Is Season 13 a Lucky Strike? TV critics and pop-culture pundits have slagged The Simpsons in recent years—well, the past decade—for favoring out-of-left-field non sequiturs over character-driven stories, for never re-reaching the savage satirical highs of its first nine seasons, and, in short, for losing much of its banana-yellow luster. Newer, flashier, wackier shows, like The Family Guy and South Park , have since unseated The Simpsons from its animated satire throne, but I don’t think t … Video Season 13 marked the end of an era for The Simpsons , as it was the last full season to use traditional cell animation. However, while this season was shot on film, it was likely assembled using a standard definition digital intermediate, meaning that a true high definition presentation is out…

News has surfaced that rising star Jamie Bell ( Defiance ) is the latest actor to sign on to Summit Entertainment’s new crime thriller Man on a Ledge . He joins Sam Worthington, who will headline the film, playing a cop thrown in jail for a crime he didn’t commit (naturally). When he’s let out to attend his father’s funeral, he escapes and climbs onto the ledge of a…

Rent It THE MOVIE: Ajami , Israel’s official entry for the Oscars this past year, is an ambitious and often intriguing melding of Neorealism and the crime genre that impresses only slightly more than it frustrates. Co-directed, edited, and written by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, the film brings together an ensemble of first-time actors to create a portrait of life in the culturally diverse Ajami neighborhood in the city of Jaffa. Taking a cue from the jumbled population it’s meant to reflect, Ajami is constructed as a series of interlocking …