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Iron Sky – review
44 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This black comedy, a co-production between Germany, Australia and Finland, centres on the notion of a Nazi colony established on the dark side of the moon in 1945 and planning a 2018 invasion of an America where Sarah Palin is president. Udo Kier brings a characteristic nastiness to the Nazi leader of the Fourth Reich, and the retro technology is amusing. But the jokes are spasmodic, as satirically weightless as playing golf on the moon.
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- Philip French
‘Iron Sky’: great idea, poor execution
15 hours ago | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Timo Vuorensola
Written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko
Finland/Germany/Australia, 2012
When you hear “Space Nazis,” certain episodes of Star Trek come into mind. A popular theme in works of science fiction, it is a phrase coined with the idea of Nazis settling on the Moon after their defeat in World War II, not to mention it being a popular conspiracy theory.
Iron Sky is the latest reimagining of this theory.
The film is set in 2018. James Washington (Christopher Kirkby), a black male model, is sent to the Moon in a bid to help the President (Stephanie Paul) be re-elected. He is captured by the Nazis, who have been based on the dark side of the moon since 1945, and subsequently becomes involved in their plan to invade and rule Earth.
Even before its release, Iron Sky faced controversy in the UK due to the distributor »
- Katie Wong
Invasion of the Space Nazis! Win Iron Sky on DVD
23 May 2012 8:26 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Over five years in production, the crowd-funded phenomenon Iron Sky arrives in the UK this week, with one day only theatrical screenings across the country on Wednesday May 23rd followed by a DVD release next Monday (May 28th), and to celebrate the release Flickering Myth have got our hands on five copies of the film to give away to our lucky readers.
Brought to life by Finnish Director Timo Vuorensola and producer Tero Kaukomaa, Iron Sky has garnered enormous support through various social media networks and online channels. During the five years of its production, over 10,000 fans participated in crowd funding and sourcing efforts. Such was the buzz created around Iron Sky that it attracted around 200 further investors who contributed over £500,000 towards production costs - raising the bar for community led filmmaking to new heights.
Read on for a synopsis, trailer and details of how to enter this competition...
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- flickeringmyth
Iron Sky Review
23 May 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Roll up, roll, up! For one day only (Wed) you can check out the Finnish/German/Australian sci-fi comedy Iron Sky on limited cinema screens before it’s unceremoniously dumped onto DVD the following week. The question remains, is the film is actually worth trekking out to the big screen to catch during that tiny release window?
The year is 2018 and two Us astronauts touch down on the moon. Unbeknownst to them, they are far from alone as the dark side of the moon is actually home to a legion of Nazis who fled the earth at the end of World War II to set up shop there. One of the surviving astronauts, a model (?) by the name of Washington, is taken captive and driven to a huge swastika–shaped mega fortress. Inside, he is introduced to a giant battleship which the Nazi finally manage to power through the use of Washington’s smartphone. »
- Adam Lowes
Iron Sky Review
23 May 2012 2:30 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Director: Timo Vuorensola
Cast: Götz Otto, Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Peta Sergeant, Udo Kier
Running time: 93 minutes
Certificate: 15
Synopsis: When Us astronauts discover a Nazi base of the Dark Side of the Moon, the Fourth Reich send Adler (Otto) and idealistic Renate (Dietze) back to Earth with hostage Washington (Kirby), a black astronaut sent into space as a PR stunt. As Adler plans the invasion, Renate learns the truth about her Aryan race…
The most surprising thing about Iron Sky is not the high concept goofiness, but the fact that it’s really good, and for the right reasons. Myself and my esteemed man-date for the evening, Sir Tom Fordy, didn’t know what tone to expect. But the opening sequence laid our fears to rest, as it features the least convincing space-suits since Marty McFly scared the bejesus out of his dad. Iron Sky is a knockabout yarn and revels in being so. »
- John Sharp
Review: Iron Sky
22 May 2012 4:23 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Review by LondonFilmFan
Stars: Christopher Kirby, Stephanie Paul, Julia Dietze, Götz Otto, Peta Sergeant, Udo Kier | Written by Michael Kalesniko | Directed by Timo Vuorensola
Moon Nazis are coming. Yes, that’s right; Nazis from the moon will be invading select UK cinemas from Wednesday 23rd May. That is the premise, at least, of Iron Sky, a partially fan-funded space-war b-movie that is every bit as absurd as it sounds. When the initial directorial choice, Terrence Malick, dropped out of the project over “creative differences” Finnish black metal singer Timo Vuorensola stepped in to take the reins. The outcome is a film as daft and factually questionable as the previous sentence, but enjoyable enough in its own silly way.
Though last summer Michael Bay theorised that the dark side of the moon concealed a gigantic transforming robot, Iron Sky reveals the far more obvious, logical truth: with their plans »
- Guest
Trailer and Posters Released From David Carradine’s Night of the Templar
21 May 2012 7:29 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
The new trailer and posters for the upcoming action comedy drama ‘Night Of The Templar,’ one of David Carradine’s last movies, have been released. The film, which also stars Norman Reedus, Paul Sampson, Udo Kier and Billy Drago, hit the Cannes Film Festival on May 13. ‘Night Of The Templar,’ which was directed by Paul Sampson, follows a Medieval Knight who is resurrected to fulfill his vow. He must bestow a blood-thirst vengeance upon the kindred spirits of those who betrayed him long ago. Over the course of one night, identities will be revealed, destinies will be met and a poetic justice of the macabre will be maniacally served. Check [ Read More ] »
- Karen Benardello
Enter the Theatre of the Bizarre to Get Your Thrills! A Movie Review
17 May 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
*full disclosure: a DVD screener of this film was provided by Image Entertainment. Directors: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini and Richard Stanley. Cast: Guilford Adams, Elissa Dowling, James Gill, Lindsay Goranson, Udo Kier, Tom Savini and Debbie Rochon. Moody and atmospheric, The Theatre Bizarre is an anthology collection of shorts that journeys through Jacobean style surrealist fringe theatre. This opening narrative may not have the same circus charm as Labyrinth in "Manie Manie" (aka "Neo Tokyo"), an animated product from Japan, but the similar approach is certainly noticeable. Both products convey a sense of unworldliness, and thankfully there is a segment that explores the world through the eyes of a young child, a girl. While the live-action does not have the budget to mimic the grandiose vision that the animated masterpiece offered, the shadow play and decayed sets of the stitching narrative certainly works to draw. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
Isabelle Fuhrman, Isabelle Huppert: Suspiria Remake
16 May 2012 2:59 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Hunger Games / Orphan‘s Isabelle Fuhrman to star in Suspiria. In David Gordon Green‘s remake of the Dario Argento horror classic, Fuhrman will play the old Jessica Harper role: an American student who discovers that her European boarding school is a coven of witches. Joining Fuhrman are Isabelle Huppert, Janet McTeer, Michael Nyqvist, and Antje Traue. According to Screen International, Wild Bunch is currently selling distribution rights at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off this evening. Also attached to Suspiria are costume designer Milena Canonero (Marie Antoinette, Carnage) and a couple of Green collaborators: production designer Richard A. Wright (The Sitter, Undertow) and cinematographer Tim Orr (Pineapple Express, Your Highness). David Gordon Green penned the screenplay with Christof Gebert, a sound mixer in several of Green’s films. Pure speculation: I’m assuming Isabelle Huppert will have the old Alida Valli role. If so, that’s brilliant casting, »
- Andre Soares
Three New One-Sheets March Forth for Night of the Templar
14 May 2012 11:55 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Three new bits of eye candy have come our way for one of David Carradine's final films, Night of the Templar. We can only hope that his career lives on via hologram as we dug him a lot more than Tupac. Check 'em out!
Written, directed and starring Paul Sampson, Night of the Templar stars an impressive cast including the aforementioned Carradine and "The Walking Dead"'s Norman Reedus along with film legends Udo Kier and Billy Drago.
Check out the official Night of the Templar website for a ton of info including dozens of production photos. We'll keep an eye on this one for you and let you know when we dig up some distro news.
Synopsis
A Medieval Knight resurrects to fulfill his vow and bestow a blood-thirst vengeance upon the kindred spirits of those who betrayed him long ago. In the course of one night, identities will be revealed, »
- Uncle Creepy
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
12 May 2012 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Shame; Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows; The Sitter
In their first feature film collaboration, Hunger, director Steve McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender explored the discovery of the soul via the obliteration of the body through the tale of Irish republican Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in the Maze prison in pursuit of an elusive political "truth". The duo return to this theme in Shame (2011, Momentum, 18), a nakedly non-erotic thriller in which Fassbender plays Brandon, a New York bachelor obsessed with self-destructive physical gratification. Starting life as an investigation of sex-addiction, the film once again finds McQueen and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt focusing in on the harsh corporeality of the human form which is sharply contrasted with the fluid possibilities of the transcendent personality.
"We're not bad people," Brandon's increasingly alienated yuppie is told by his equally fractured sister Sissy, played with alarmingly raw intensity by Carey Mulligan. "We »
- Mark Kermode
Iron Sky review
11 May 2012 5:23 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Iron Sky offers up an intriguing Nazis on the Moon concept, but can it live up to its batty premise? James finds out...
For the last few years there’s been something of a buzz building around the Finnish/German/Australian co-production, Iron Sky. Famously pitched to investors at Cannes in 2008 off the back of an impressive VFX demo reel, director Timo Vuorensola’s sci-fi comedy about Nazis on the Moon finally went into production in late 2010.
With the addition of cult movie icon Udo Kier to the cast and several strong early trailers, anticipation was high that the finished film just might deliver on its gloriously bonkers premise. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really happen and - despite its strong high concept - Iron Sky never seems entirely sure of what type of film it’s trying to be.
The plot (what there is of it) pivots around a manned »
Review: The Theatre Bizarre (DVD)
7 May 2012 9:18 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
In the tradition of movies like George Romero’s Creepshow, Trilogy of Terror and Asylum comes The Theatre Bizarre, a collection of six short films with plenty of blood to fling around, but sadly not much else. The film opens with a woman who enters an abandoned theater and encounters Udo Kier, playing an automaton host who introduces these six stories to an audience of just one.
Mother of Toads is the first story, presenting a nod to Lovecraft transplanted to France. Catriona MacColl plays a street vendor who entices a young man with the promise of getting his hands on a copy of the fabled Necronomicon. He takes the bait, leaving his girlfriend behind at their hotel and discovers too late that he must pay for his curiosity. The short seems to be inspired in part by the film The Maze, one of the first 3-D horror films that »
- Derek Botelho
Exclusive: Night of the Templar Poster
4 May 2012 8:16 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The stage is set for retribution as an eclectic group is lured to a secluded European Castle under the guise of a promised "fantasy weekend." And as they read from an obscure storybook, a nefarious tale of avarice is reenacted for their entertainment. However, they are unaware that they have been gathered for their own personal and befitting executions.
In the course of one night, identities will be revealed, destinies met and a poetic justice of the macabre will be maniacally served, as a merciless Knight resurrects after 700 years to fulfill his vow and bestow a blood-thirst reprisal upon his enemies' reanimated spirits.
They had their time... Now it's His! This is Night of the Templar, from actor, writer, and director Paul Sampson, a new blend of action, comedy, horror and mystery that is set to debut at Cannes on Sunday, May 13th. We have the exclusive poster for you to check out, »
- MovieWeb
Film News: Sci-Fi Spectacular 6 to Invade Chicago’s Portage Theater on April 28, 2012
24 April 2012 10:18 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Sci-fi film buffs in the Windy City are invited to attend an April marathon bursting with cinematic gems. “Sci-Fi Spectacular 6” kicks off at noon Saturday, April 28, at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave. It showcases over 14 hours of beloved features, shorts and rare trailers as they were originally intended to be experienced—on the big screen.
Two major highlights at this year’s event are key masterpieces in the career of Terry Gilliam. 1985’s “Brazil” creates an unforgettable portrait of a dystopian future both amusingly absurdist and unsettlingly provocative. Jonathan Pryce stars alongside Kim Greist, Ian Holm and Robert De Niro, while cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Norman Garwood provide unforgettable imagery. Equally mesmerizing is Gilliam’s 1995 thriller “12 Monkeys,” in which a grizzled convict (Bruce Willis) travels back in time to prevent a man-made virus from destroying the future. Brad Pitt’s Oscar-nominated turn as a crazed virus »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Headspace: The Director's Cut Heading to VOD on April 24th; DVD to Follow June 19th
23 April 2012 3:51 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Freestyle Digital Media has announced the debut of Headspace: The Director's Cut on cable and internet video on demand in North America on April 24th with a DVD/Blu-ray release following on June 19th.
From the Press Release:
Headspace, originally released theatrically in February, 2006, has been updated by director Andrew van den Houten and will actually run five minutes shorter than the original theatrical version. Scripted by Steve Klausner and William M. Miller from a story by Troy McCombs, the film was produced by van den Houten and Miller with Marius Kerdel executive producing.
When Alex (Christopher Denham) encounters a mysterious stranger, he begins to get smarter each day. It's not long before he realizes that his new intellect comes with deadly side effects. Headaches and visions plague him at every step. Soon savage, unexplainable murders are linked to him. Now it's a race against time as Alex discovers »
- The Woman In Black
'Headspace: Director's Cut' Set to Roll Out on Demand
19 April 2012 3:53 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By MoreHorror.com
Got to love the new age of internet and the growing popularity of on demand services.
Coming up on April 24th, Headspace: The Director’S Cut will be available in North America via cable and internet video on demand.
Check out the official details below and the trailer can be viewed under that.
From The Press Release:
Freestyle Digital Media announces the release of Headspace: The Director’S Cut on cable and internet video on demand in North America on April 24th. The film, originally released theatrically in February, 2006, has been updated by director Andrew van den Houten and will actually run five minutes shorter than the original theatrical version. Scripted by Steve Klausner and William M. Miller from a story by Troy McCombs, the film was produced by van den Houten and Miller, with Marius Kerdel executive producing.
When Alex (Christopher Denham) encounters a mysterious stranger, »
- admin
Keyhole Movie Review
17 April 2012 6:41 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: Keyhole Director: Guy Maddin Starring: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Louis Negin, Brooke Palsson, Udo Kier Canadian auteur Guy Maddin — he of the black-and-white art film — attempts to give genre a bit of a nominal spin in much the same way that Lars von Trier did last year with “Melancholia.” His stab at the cops-and-robbers template arrives in the form of ”Keyhole,” a kind of quarter-hearted siege/stand-off film cross-pollinated with psychological melodrama, and a heavy side of metaphorical import. The result, while characteristically full of some beautiful and evocative images, seems doggedly intent on achieving art status through obfuscation. Jason Patric stars as Ulysses, an on-the-lam criminal holed up with his gang inside [ Read More ] »
- bsimon
David Gordon Green-Directed Suspiria Remake is a Go
10 April 2012 12:09 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
David Gordon Green, who knocked one out of the park with “Pineapple Express” before striking out twice in a roll with “Your Highness” and “The Sitter”, and who has been attached to remake Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian supernatural thriller “Suspiria”, is officially a go. Green, who was originally attached the the remake way back in 2009, will direct the film from a script he co-wrote with Chris Gebert. The original followed Suzy, a young, nubile American ballet dancer (originally played by Jessica Harper) who travels to Europe to attend a world renowned dance academy, where a series of brutal murders take place and our heroine discovers that her school may, in fact, just be a front for something much more wicked. Heck, I could say that about all my schools, but I digress. The original also starred Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, and genre fave Udo Kier. Argento has said »
- Nix
News Shorts: April 10th 2012
10 April 2012 6:59 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Photos of Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel in Total Recall along with Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore in Lol.
Posters for Looper, Safe, The Cabin in the Woods, and Bel Ami.
Marvel.com will stream the World Premiere of "The Avengers" in Los Angeles on April 11th at 6:00 Pm Us-pt/9:00 Pm Us-et. You can watch the event at that time at YouTube.com/Marvel.
"'The Dark Knight Rises' has scored a PG-13 rating (just like its predecessors), in this case for "intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language"…" (full details)
"At one time a full scale U.S.S. Enterprise was under consideration for the Las Vegas downtown area back in the early 90's. The idea almost came to fruition until then Paramount chairman Stanley Jaffe squashed the idea…" (full details)
"Speaking of 'Trek' it seems the major restoration of the first season »
- Garth Franklin
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