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5 March 2012 9:47 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

0:00 - Intro 3:30 - Headlines: Oscar Ratings Up Slightly from Last Year, Jason Segel Won’t Return for The Muppets Sequel, Lucy Liu to Play Watson in Elementary, Ed Helms Rumoured for Vacation Reboot 19:50 - Review: Project X 51:00 - Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin 1:19:15 - Trailer Trash: The Avengers, Piranha 3Dd, Frankenweenie, That's My Boy 1:32:22 - Other Stuff We Watched: The Color of Money, The Cable Guy, Beauty Day, Celebrity Apprentice, Wake In Fright, The Captains, Thrillkill, Sky Riders, Def-Con 4, Battle for Brooklyn, Fever Year, Juno, Blue Chips, Terri 2:10:30 - Junk Mail: Inconsistent Fonts, Life Events That Change Your Reaction to Movies, Good Scores to Bad Movies, Blu-ray Digibooks, Lost 2:29:55 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:34:00 - Outro

Film Junk Podcast Episode #360: Project X and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Filmjunk »

- Sean

6 February 2012 3:12 PM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

Rage

2010  USA  85min

Writer and Director: Chris Witherspoon

Starring:  Rick Crawford, Audrey Walker, Chris Witherspoon, Anna Lodej, and M.L. Maltz

Review by J Astro

Rage was handed to me for review with no cover art or explanation, just a plain white disc with red lettering in a clear plastic cover.  Within roughly the first ten minutes of watching it, it occurred to that I had actually heard of this movie before, having noticed a few reviews of it on various other individual blogs and sites in the past few weeks.  Rage has been getting some solid attention recently, and deservedly so, because it is a standout among indie horror efforts.  It’s by no means flawless or my new favorite movie of the year or anything, but it sure beats the hell out of most other “home grown” horror-thriller exploits.  And I was happy to go into it “blind »

- Justin

2 February 2012 8:09 AM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

The Woman In Black

2012   UK   95mins

Director:  James Watkins

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaràn Hinds, Janet McTeer, Misha Handley, and Liz White

Hammer Film Productions

Review by J Astro

Atmosphere, atmosphere, atmosphere.  That is the key to The Woman In Black, legendary English studio Hammer Film Productions’ first original big-screen venture in decades.  The Hammer brand, so infamous and beloved from the late Fifties and into the early Seventies for producing titillating tales of the macabre that helped to redefine classic monster icons and to introduce the fright genre en masse to the likes of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed and countless others has returned, after lying dormant for many years.  Upon being resurrected by its new backers, Hammer has recently had a hand in unleashing Let Me In on theater-goers, which was the English language remake of the popular Swedish vampire chiller Let The Right One In.  Hammer has »

- Justin

30 January 2012 6:00 PM, PST | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »

Woah, Upper East Siders: Sure, you always knew that Blair Waldorf’s wedding would be a decadent affair to remember, but not even the newly revealed Gossip Girl could have seen these twists coming. Yet while Blair’s disastrous nuptials were the highlight of Gossip Girl’s 100th episode extravaganza, the long-standing queen bee won’t be the only one drowning in the wake of tonight’s chaos.

EW attended a special screening of the episode in Los Angeles last week, where producers Stephanie Savage and Joshua Safran were on hand to answer reporters’ burning questions. One thing was made »

- Shaunna Murphy

30 January 2012 7:18 AM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

Born Of Earth

2008   USA   84mins

Director:  Tommy Brunswick

Starring: Daniel Baldwin, James Russo, Shannon Zeller, Jennifer Kincer, and Brad Dourif

Entertainment One

Review by J Astro

Here it is, the year 2012, and we’re just getting around to this monstrous offering from back in ’08… not because we’re lazy, but because, from what I understand, it’s only now getting distribution attention.  One could be forgiven for not exactly waiting with bated breath for this release.  I had never even heard of it before, honestly. And for good reason – it just ain’t that special.

My main issue with throwaway films like Born Of Earth is a matter of simple volume.  I honestly feel that too many movies get made nowadays “just because.”   The market is over-saturated with knock-offs and cheap copies.  Somebody gets themselves a fistful of cash and borrows a camera and decides to churn out some bare-bones semblance of horror flick. »

- Justin

23 January 2012 8:15 AM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

Def-con 4

1985  Canada  88min

Director: Paul Donovan, et al

Starring: Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Tim Choate, Kate Lynch, Kevin King, and Jeff Pustil

Hell Comes To Frogtown

1988  USA  86min

Director: Donald G. Jackson and R.J. Kizer

Starring: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, William Smith, Rory Calhoun, Cliff Bemis, Nicholas Worth, and Kristi Somers

Image Entertainment

Review by J Astro

Two cinematic blasts from Hollywood’s not-too-distant Cold War-inspired past are re-packaged together as a post-apocalyptic tag team on this two-for-one offering, which was made available by the folks at Image Entertainment just a few weeks ago (release date December 13, 2011).  Each feature on this single-sided disc comes with its own title screen, scene selections, and a theatrical trailer.  The DVD itself plays a few other vintage trailers (C.H.U.D., anyone?) before the main film selection menu.  Otherwise, it’s all a pretty bare bones affair.  But with mega-blockbusters like these, »

- Justin

6 items from 2012