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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
27 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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Bloggers' Reviews: New Moon
7 December 2009 6:13 AM, PST
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We've given you guys enough time to watch, rewatch and form your opinions on the second movie in the ridiculously successful Twilight saga, New Moon, but what did the interweb's foremost cinematic minds think of it?
Our online buddies from Let's Go To The Movies, Battle Royale With Cheese and Hey U Guys tell us what they thought of the vampire/werewolf/human love triangle...
Let's Go To The Movies
The second installment of what is now known as The Twilight Saga opened yesterday across the world in cinemas, and with my local cinema having four shows sold out at 11am for the night-time showings this really is going to have some opening weekend taking across the UK. Reading mid-week that it has broken the records for most pre-ordered tickets for a movie...
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Battle Royale With Cheese
With the first Twilight film proving to be
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Takeshi Kitano Returns To His Yakuza Roots
2 December 2009 4:29 AM, PST
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Variety have reported that Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano, after a nine year break, is returning to the series of films that made him a star in the west. Not since Brother (2000) has Kitano picked up a gun and killed lots of people whilst remaining as cool as a cucumber. It is this zen-like approach that saw films such as Fireworks, Boiling Point and his masterpiece – Sonatine – praised by western film critics. He is a living legend in Japan.
Many people may remember Kitano has the no-nonsense school teacher in Battle Royale. Or even the Japanese television show – Takeshi’s Castle (if you’ve got Bravo).
Now Kitano is back! Starring in co-production between Warner Bros. and his own company. Entitled Outrage, the film is described as “a power struggle between two Tokyo gangsters.” What makes Kitano’s gangster pictures so special is not their horrendous and constant bloody-letting, its the quiet moments in between.
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- Martyn Conterio
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 12/01/2009
1 December 2009 12:18 AM, PST
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, December 1, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. With the Holiday Season in full-effect, the frights are on the light side, but that doesn't mean that Santa doesn't have something in his bag for you this week. In fact, there's some pretty damn good titles hitting the home market this week... if you don't own them already...
Check out the full list below!
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Deader Country
From the director and star of Dead Country comes the next tale of terror! Whilst wagging school, two teenagers stumble across a strange hybrid creature,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Bloggers' Reviews: 2012
24 November 2009 4:51 AM, PST
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Here at Screenrush, we're all about getting voices heard. So, in the first of a series of features, we're giving you the chance to find out what's on the collective minds of the greatest bloggers the information superhighway has to offer.
This week, our friends from Movie Reviews By Captain D, Battle Royale With Cheese and Heyuguys give their verdict on Roland Emmerich's disasterific new flick, 2012...
Movie Reviews By Captain D
After the silly but fun Independence Day and bloated climate warning epic wannabe The Day After Tomorrow, Robert Emerich is back trying to destroy the planet again. In 2012, he chooses, rather than spaced out aliens or freaky weather conditions, the effect of a gigantic solar flare on the earth's core.
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The end of the world - It is something that no one wants to come to pass in real
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Antm Cycle 13 Finale: And 'America's Next Top Model' Is... (Live Thoughts)
18 November 2009 8:28 AM, PST
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This is it!
The Battle Royale between Bloody Eyeball and Golden Tooth is upon us! Which tiny terror will emerge victorious tonight?
If you have no idea what I'm talking about... well, what are you doing here? I'm talking about Nicole and Laura, the final two under 5'-7''contestants on America's Next Top Model, of course! And we're about to find out who has gone through 12 weeks of Tyra-sponsored terror to win a contract with Wilhemina Models, a spread in Seventeen magazine, and a Covergirl campaign.
But first, it's the perfect time to look back on this cycle of the shorties. Relive the journeys for Nicole and Laura by checking out each week's photoshoot, and their final portfolios from the competition.
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DVD releases for Oct. 27 - Nov.3, 2009
3 November 2009 2:56 PM, PST
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Are you ready for a massive list of must-view DVD titles from the last two weeks? Good, let's go!
F. Javier Gutiérrez's apocalyptic Before the Fall (amazon), about a small town in the south of Spain that finds out they have 72 hours before a meteorite destroys the earth. Our Cali correspondent Hal got a chance to see the film and called it a "good exploration of how much we should protect innocence," and I can't wait to finally check it out.
Another film that's been around for a while, but is only now hitting DVD is Dead Air (amazon). About a douchey radio dj who has to deal with a virus outbreak, the film sounds a lot like Pontypool, but I imagine it is far more literal minded.
On the TV front we've got a couple sets worth looking at. The bloody, bestselling Afro Samurai: Complete Murder Sessions
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Adapt This: 'FreakAngels' By Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield
21 October 2009 2:32 PM, PDT
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The Story: "FreakAngels" by Warren Ellis (W) and Paul Duffield (A) - Avatar Press
What It's About: A group of super-powered misfits carve out their way in a flooded post-apocalyptic London that they helped destroy.
Personal issues and histories gradually complicate their situation as the story zooms out to show who and what lies beyond their urban fortress community of Whitechapel.
Why It Works: Post-apocalyptic landscapes have been all the rage for years now, but there has yet to be a definitive steampunk-styled future on the big screen that really combines ultra-imaginative prop design with a setting as bleak as "Children of Men" or "The Road." The story has the same underlying breed of mystery event that's behind "Heroes" with the young-adult rage issues that make the kids in "Lord of the Flies" or "Battle Royale" so vicious.
If crowds will flock to see vampire kids in "Twilight" and witch
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- Brian Warmoth
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Review: The Tournament
20 October 2009 11:11 AM, PDT
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The ideal action film contains more than just kick ass combat and carnage... it should also have a smart script and characters that make us care whether or not they survive or end up with a grenade shoved up their ass. But as with most ideals the films that accomplish all that can be counted on two or three hands. That short list would include flicks like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon (1 & 2), Terminator (1 & 2), and all three Bourne movies. The best we can hope for in most cases though is an extremely high degree of ridiculousness, one-note characters, and non-stop action scenes that shock and awe us into glee-filled submission. Welcome to The Tournament...
Every seven years thirty of the world's best assassins descend upon an unsuspecting small town and spend the next twenty-four hours trying to kill each other. The last hit-man (or hit-woman) standing receives a $10 million cash prize and the title of King Shit until
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- Rob Hunter
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Fight Scene From ‘The Tournament’ Kicks Ass For The Lord
18 October 2009 5:06 PM, PDT
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The Tournament is one of the year's best action movies. Yup, I said it.
It releases on Tuesday, and I'll have a full review up on the same day, but for now trust me when I say this is one very cool and bloody romp. Unbelievable and highly implausible sure, but filled with fantastic fights, gunplay, and bloody squib-filled bodies. Every seven years thirty of the best assassins in the world descend on a small town where they proceed to fight to the death for a giant cash prize. Each player is surgically embedded with a tracker and given a handheld Gps so they can see the other assassins. The town is wired with closed-circuit cameras, the phone lines are rerouted to prevent pesky interference from law enforcement, and a room filled with wealthy gamblers watches the whole thing on CCTV and places their bets on who will win this year's contest. It's
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- Rob Hunter
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Scream Fest 09: Review of The Tournament
18 October 2009 11:56 AM, PDT
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Year: 2009
Directors: Scott Mann
Writers: Jonathan Frank / Nick Rowntree / Gary Young
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 7.4 out of 10
Once every seven years, thirty of the world’s most deadly assassins gather together and fight for the grand prize of ten million dollars – there can be only one winner, only one survivor.
Normally this genre of Battle Royale-esque movie is set on an exotic island, or a mystic m’larkey temple, and here’s why I knew I was in for something different right from the start, The Tournament is set in no-m’larkey-at-all working class Middleborough, in the rainy North of England. Scott Mann’s action packed debut feature stars Robert Carlyle as a drunken priest mistaken for a hitman, and the beautiful Kelly Hu as a real hit woman. For a $12 million budget, you get a good bang for your buck. There are a
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Lists of Doom Xiii: Bubble of Bury Your Dead
23 May 2009 9:14 AM, PDT
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Alright Fango Fiends, it's time for another installment of Fangoria's Lists Of Doom - the column where we track down some of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) bands to get their thoughts on on the world of horror.
As a Memorial Day-weekend treat (and to celebrate "lucky 13" here on 'Lists), we caught up with Bubble, the bassist for Bury Your Dead, a band we've dug for a long time, and one we think you'll dig too. Their latest album, It's Nothing Personal arrives in-stores this Tuesday, so it seemed like a perfect time to talk some horror.
Bubble's List Of Doom:
1. Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992)
"That whole series of movies is legendary. Hellraiser is innovative and clever. So much imagination and a deep story line. So awesome!"
2. Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)
"Classic vs. Classic! Plus the end fight scene is unreal"
3. Dead Alive aka Braindead (1992)
"Lawnmower + zombies = fuck yeah !"
4. Army Of Darkness (1992)
"Shop smart.
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Ten Horror Movies You Should See Instead of "Friday the 13th"
16 February 2009 11:44 AM, PST
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I don't need to tell you how awful the Michael-Bay-produced remake of the 1980 slasher classic is going to be. (I haven't seen it yet myself, but c'mon.) So, this week, instead of shelling out 12 bucks to suffer through a third-rate remake of a second-rate horror film, devote your time to watching one of these infinitely more inspired movies.
Suspiria (1977)
It's been said thousands upon thousands of times before, but it's worth repeating: this is truly one of the most artful horror movies ever made. Seriously, watch the first 20 minutes and tell me if you've ever seen a death scene so beautifully choreographed.
The Fly (1986)
At the heart of this slightly campy deliberation on obsession is a tender love story, it just so happens to involve giant, mutated bug-human-hybrids and a teleportation experiment gone horribly wrong. (This one also demonstrates the rare instance
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