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Icons Exclusive Interview: Director Darren Lynn Bousman
11 May 2012 9:46 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
*Editor’s note: This interview originally appeared on Icons Of Fright’s sister site Massive Hysteria back in September of 2010. With this week’s DVD/Blu-Ray releases of both Mother’S Day and 11-11-11, we thought we’d present it again to the Icons audience completely unedited and uncut. Check it!
Considering director Darren Lynn Bousman’s impressive body of work, which spans over 3 Saw sequels, the crazy rock musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, an episode of NBC’s short lived Fear Itself TV series and the upcoming remake of Mother’S Day, it’s a surprise that we never got him in the hot seat for an extensive Icons Of Fright interview. So, with the launch of Massive Hysteria, we decided that he would make for the ideal interviewee to kick things off in style!
Bousman invited Mh over to his place for our career spanning lengthy chat, »
- Rob Galluzzo
New Hulk Mark Ruffalo is signed for 5 more Marvel movies
3 May 2012 7:43 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
One, if not the character that breaks out the most during Marvel's The Avengers movie is Bruce Banner and his alter-ego the Hulk. As played for the first time on-screen by Mark Ruffalo (Incredible Hulk TV star Lou Ferrigno provides the gruff voice of the greener version when he appears), the character gets to shine very brightly in several moments during The Avengers, which is pretty amazing considering that two Marvel Hulk movies have come out in the past 10 years.
But the luke-warm theatrical grosses of Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk and Louis Leterrier's 2008's The Incredible Hulk haven't really left audiences salivating for a third Hulk movie. Now that the early buzz is veyr favorable for both the use of the Hulk as an action piece in Avengers, as well as for Ruffalo's performance as gamma-irradiated scientist nerd Banner, could a new Hulk movie be a possibility for Marvel Studio's post-2013 movie schedule? »
- Patrick Sauriol
The Avengers: Joss Whedon On Harry Dean Stanton's Cameo; Why He Was Chosen For His Scene With Mark Ruffalo
3 May 2012 3:30 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
He may have made his name in some slightly more obscure/cult movies, but fans of cinema in general should be no stranger to Harry Dean Stanton. The 86 year old actor has appeared in such classics as Alien, Cool Hand Luke, Repo Man and Paris Texas to name but a few. And now he has a small, but very cool and funny cameo in Joss Whedon's The Avengers. Stanton plays a security guard who converses with Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) after his slightly greener, angrier alter ego crashes to Earth. It's a great scene, and was originally quite a bit longer but had to be trimmed down. In an interview with Badass Digest Whedon explains why this little one on one was necessary for the character of Bruce Banner, and why Stanton was the perfect man for the job.. I needed to get Banner from the horror of what »
Games of Thrones Cast Additions: Who's New?
27 March 2012 9:28 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
About a year ago at this time, no one had heard of Emilia Clarke or Jack Gleeson. Peter Dinklage was best known as that short children's author who attacked Will Ferrell in Elf.
Fast forward to 2012, following a wildly-acclaimed opening season of Game of Thrones, and most of these actors/actresses are household names. In the case of Dinklage, they're even Emmy Award winners.
With season two kicking off on April 1, who will be joining these GoT stars on the small screen every Sunday night? Who might even take the Emmy stage in September? Below, we profile a handful of new Game of Thrones cast members. You'll be getting to know their characters very well over the coming weeks...
Game of Thrones Trailer: Nowhere to Hide
Tom Wlaschiha (Jaqen H'Ghar) - German actor, has worked on stage in his native country and also as a voice actor for numerous film dubs and audio books. »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
Tna Impact! Wrestling – March 22nd Review
26 March 2012 2:07 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
This week, we had to get the fallout from Bobby Roode threatening the health of Dixie Carter after beating Sting at Victory Road. If only she’d used the ample time she had to get out of the ring to her advantage. And so Dixie joined us to open the show. Dixie made out like she was going to fire the champ, but Sting came out and claimed firing him was letting him off easy. Sting then said that his position as leader was just not working. So he said hes coming back as a wrestler to fight for Dixie and step down as General Manager. He did however promise that he had someone to take the company right to the top. Sting asked Dixie to let him give him the power to the Real Hulk Hogan. Dixie did her best to act conflicted. Later on in the show, in the main event slot, »
- Patrick Farren
Laura Prudom: 'Supernatural' Recap: The Winchesters Discover The Leviathan Master Plan (Or Do They?) In 'Out With The Old'
17 March 2012 6:26 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 7, Episode 16 of The CW's "Supernatural," "Out With The Old."
What initially appeared to be a typically humorous, filler episode of "Supernatural" actually gave us some big developments on the mythology side of the show, as one of the leviathans dropped their master plan (or at least their PR-friendly master plan) on Sam and Dean at the end of the episode. So what do these ancient, terrifying, people-eating monsters want to do now that they're out of their cage?
Cure cancer, apparently.
Yeah, I'm not buying it either, and I'm fairly sure there are easier ways to go about solving one of mankind's biggest problems than snacking on us and surreptitiously buying up obscure pieces of real estate to use as research labs. So, what's their real agenda? I'm wondering if paranoid Frank uncovered the truth and brought the wrath »
- Laura Prudom
Underground Film Links: March 4, 2012
4 March 2012 6:00 AM, PST | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
This Week’s Must Look At: The artist book Don’t Kill the Weatherman by Martha Colburn has an online photograph preview and it looks stunning! I love Martha’s animation, but it always moves so quickly that it’s tough to savor the actual art. But, now I can! The above borrowed image is from frames from the film Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical, the first Colburn film I ever saw way back in 2000. (If you go to the photo set, you can find details on how to purchase this limited edition.)Craig Baldwin has published issue #22 of Otherzine. You can read the whole thing here. But, two highlights are: An interview with Dominic Gagnon, who is seeking to save “censored” online videos; and curator Brenda Contreras reviews Sylvia Schedelbauer’s found footage film, Sounding Glass.This one’s for Canyon Cinema members only: But if you are one, »
- Mike Everleth
DVD Review: 'Repo Man' (Eureka's Masters of Cinema Blu-ray)
1 March 2012 4:23 AM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ Re-released on Blu-ray under Eureka's Masters of Cinema label, 1984 cult classic Repo Man is the debut film of actor, writer and director Alex Cox, and become a sleeper hit amongst sci-fi fans upon release thanks to its hugely entertaining mix of surreal humour and light satire, engaging everything from conspiracy theories to aliens. The film follows Otto (played with great comic dexterity by Emilio Estevez), a down-on-his-luck urban punk who has lost both his girlfriend and job in one day.
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- CineVue
Over/Under: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ vs. ‘Repo Man’
28 February 2012 9:26 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
John Huston’s 1941 detective tale The Maltese Falcon gets credit for a lot of things. Not the least of which is the launching of both Huston’s career and the career of its star, Humphrey Bogart. It also gets credit for beginning the longstanding and successful onscreen pairing of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, and heck, more often than not it’s pointed to as the beginning of the entire film noir movement of the 40s. That’s a lot of acclaim for a pretty simple mystery story about a salty detective named Sam Spade trying to find the whereabouts of a statue shaped like a bird. The late 70s and early 80s were a time when genre films were king. Not only were the titans of the industry, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, tearing up the box office with huge event franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones, but lots of other directors were getting in »
- Nathan Adams
Alex “Repo Man” Cox insists you pirate his movies (and other adventures in social networking)
27 February 2012 5:16 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday and today: • Pretty please... Can Someone Fix the Academy Awards? Please? Anyone? • This: "Now they want to have longer copyright periods because they say the young artists are relying on this money. The young artists never see any money because they sign away that money to big media corporations, like Universal and Viacom. We, the artists, lose all of our rights to these massive corporations, who then come down heavy on these kids for downloading films and music that we never see a penny from. It's complete bullshit. I want to encourage your audience to go and pirate a bunch of my stuff right away." Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed • You have not seen product placement until you have seen this... What is the Brand and What is Not? Stephen Colbert Discusses Wheat Thins • Totally fascinating read about »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Exclusive: Filmmaker Greg Beville Talks Blackstar Canyon
23 February 2012 4:17 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Dread Center and yours truly caught up with filmmaker Greg Beville this week to get the lowdown on Blackstar Canyon, an indie horror feature currently in pre-production which he wrote and will direct. Read on for the first details.
“We plan on shooting mid-summer 2012 in Newhall, California, on the Red Epic,” said Beville of the status of Blackstar Canyon, which is set to star Halloween series vet Danielle Harris as well as actors Brian Krause, Tiny Lister, Tippi Hedren (The Birds) and Belinda Balaski (The Howling). “The cinematographer will be Ricardo Gale (Touching Home),” Beville continued, “and Ty Mitchell ("Andy" in John Carpenter’s The Fog) will serve as camera operator.”
Having previously scripted the upcoming feature The Night Watch for Electric Cobalt Entertainment - the production house behind Blackstar Canyon - Beville described the latter as “a cross between Darabont’s The Mist and Repo Man, where hillbilly werewolves meet Hindu mythology. »
- Sean Decker
Supernatural Round Table: "Repo Man"
23 February 2012 6:27 AM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Supernatural played a few mind games on last Friday's "Repo Man," the final new episode of this CW favorite until March 16.
That makes Round Table panelists Carlissa Pavlica, Carla Day and Sean McKenna very sad. But now isn't the time to cry. It's the time to debate various topics from the latest episode, as the team does in the following Q&A...
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Lucifer's return: Good idea or played out idea?
Carissa: I can never get enough of Mark Pellegrino. He's the perfect demon inside your head. In a strange way, he keeps Sam on the straight path because he's so afraid of what might happen if he listens to him.
Carla: As much as I love Mark Pellegrino, At this point, I don't like Lucifer's return. It makes me terribly sad for Sam. Why did he return now? But, depending on how it plays out I easily could change my mind. »
- smckenna412@gmail.com (Sean McKenna)
CW's "Supernatural" and Being Repossessed Won't Do in "Repo Man:" A Television Review
23 February 2012 4:00 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
*spoiler alert.
Director: Thomas J. Wright.
Writer: Ben Edlund.
Mark Pellegrino certainly loves playing Lucifer in the series "Supernatural." In “Repo Man” he is back to treat viewers to his larger than life portrayal of the Devil. This time around, the gusto he puts into each appearance becomes far more memorable than the episode’s tale itself.
But for continuity trackers, this episode looks back at a job the Winchester boys did four years ago. Nora Havelock (Nicole Oliver), a white witch who helped lead the brothers to a possessed young man, Jeffrey (Russell Sams). The exorcism they conducted was seemingly successful, but when the episode moves back to the present, the job they did was not nicely wrapped up.
The adult Jeffrey had issues that no one was aware of. When he was possessed, he was able to become the murdering serial killer that he wanted to be. He »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
Blu-ray Review: Repo Man – Politicised, Satirical & Highly Quotable
20 February 2012 5:06 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
What is Repo Man all about? The enduring debut of Alex Cox, it’s a melting pot of bizarre ideas, philosophical musings and potent social commentary, yet it’s quite hard to define exactly what the abiding message is. There’s certainly fear of the bomb, echoes of government conspiracy and the Roswell cover-up, talk of revolution in Latin America (one of Cox’s major themes), and a few very funny pops at religion. But aside from bringing together these disparate elements from the fringes of American life, what does it have to say? Perhaps it’s a fairly nihilistic film. In it’s comic juxtaposition of so many contradictory moral and spiritual codes, perhaps it’s fair to say that Repo Man’s anarchic central philosophy is that nothing really matters.
All of its characters are, at their best, amoral and anti-social and it is »
- Robert Beames
What To Buy This Week: DVD and Blu-ray releases for February 20th 2012
20 February 2012 3:00 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Another week, another Monday. So it’s time for the rundown of DVDs and Blu-rays hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s another packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, February 20th 2012.
Pick Of The Week
Fright Night 3D (DVD/Blu-ray)
Meet the sexy new neighbour, Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell). He’s dangerously charming – and utterly lethal. That’s because he just happens to be a vampire, and out for blood…buckets of it. After high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) makes the connection between Jerry’s suspicious activity and a steadily rising body count, he vows to end the reign of terror next door. But he can’t do it alone. His only hope is Las Vegas magician/vampire-slayer Peter Vincent (David Tennant). Together, »
- Phil
Supernatural: “Repo Man” – Recap
18 February 2012 1:09 PM, PST | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
It has been a long time since Supernatural has been able to make me cringe, but it’s also been a long time since it’s been able to really surprise me. “Repo Man” opens up four years ago on a job we’ve never seen the Winchesters do, involving torturing a demon for information. They speak with the man the demon is possessing, Jeffrey, and receive his blessing to do whatever they need to do in order to get the demon to talk. This was the most brutal teaser I have seen in quite some time. Sam and Dean went crazy on this demon: cutting him, punching him, anything to get what they want. They send the demon back to Hell and take the barely alive Jeffrey to the hospital. It certainly set the tone for what turned out to be a pretty serious freaking episode. Not serious in the “oh my gosh, »
- Brody Gibson
Laura Prudom: Supernatural Recap: The Winchesters Must Face Their Past Mistakes in 'Repo Man'
18 February 2012 9:47 AM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 7, Episode 15 of The CW's Supernatural, entitled "Repo Man."
Whenever there's an A-grade episode of Supernatural these days, chances are that evil genius Ben Edlund is the man behind the magic. Sure, he's had a couple of clunkers since he joined the writing staff in Season 2, but overall, few scribes have a better grasp of Sam and Dean -- or crafting a well-paced and engaging hour of television -- than the "Angel" alum, which explains why "Repo Man" was one of the strongest episodes of the season to date.
Season 7 has been somewhat preoccupied with looking back to the Winchesters' roots, with the writers attempting a "stripped down, back-to-basics" approach -- more reminiscent of Season 1 -- with the brothers' story this year, utilizing various recurring themes and repeated setpieces to play on the audience's sense of nostalgia. That was demonstrated »
- Laura Prudom
TV Recap: 'Supernatural' Episode 715 - 'Repo Man'
18 February 2012 9:00 AM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Supernatural Episode 715 "Repo Man" Written By: Ben Edlund Directed By: Thomas J. Wright Original Airdate: 17 February 2012 In This Episode... Four years ago, Sam and Dean went to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where a demon had possessed a young man named Jeffrey and sent him on a killing spree. With the help of a local Wiccan named Nora, the Winchesters exorcised Jeffrey and things were quiet. For a bit. The boys return when a new batch of bodies with the same M.O. crop up. Sam and Dean track down Jeffrey, worried he has been re-possessed. He hasn't, but he hasn't exactly been living the good life. Since his possession and exorcism, he began drinking, lost »
Supernatural Review: Mind Games
17 February 2012 10:09 PM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
It's good Supernatural finally stepped back into the world of Sam's hallucinations this week.
Not only was it one of the major story arcs at the start of the season, but it's almost felt like it hasn't been as touched upon as of late. Sure, Dean and Sam have mentioned it, questioned it, and persisted that it has all been under control, but viewers haven't gotten to see the real problem it has been for Sam. We've simply had to take his word.
Which I guess is what Dean has had to do, so it's no wonder that he thinks that Sam has it pretty much handled. It makes sense to believe his brother.
Thankfully, "Repo Man" gave us Sam's view and, boy, was his mind raging with problems. Dean should definitely be worried.
Lucifer continued to be that irritating bug that flies around your head and yet you can't »
- smckenna412@gmail.com (Sean McKenna)
Supernatural Ep. 7.15, “Repo Man”: Bringing scary back
17 February 2012 9:08 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Supernatural Review, Season 7, Episode 15: “Repo Man”
Written by Ben Edlund
Directed by Thomas J. Wright
Airs Fridays at 9pm (Et) on the CW
This week, on Supernatural: Jeffrey plays with his puppy while Lucifer plays with Sam
This season, and last season, Supernatural has only found significant success with its comedic standalones. Certain character through-lines have been well executed, but on a whole, the series has been at its best when going for the laugh. This episode brings a welcome return to the Supernatural of yore, eschewing humor in favor of good, old-fashioned scares.
It’s telling that, to achieve this, writer Ben Edlund takes the characters (and audience) back to season 4, with an extended flashback sequence set during Sam and Dean’s search for Lillith. If any proof were needed that the Leviathans haven’t really worked, it’s this episode- a demon is more interesting and terrifying than they are. »
- Kate Kulzick
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