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6 October 2008 10:24 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

We have some superb news for My Hollywood News members. Following on from the success of our Igor contest, which ended last week, we now bring you news of another great competition. We are giving away two copies of director Uwe Boll's film Postal on DVD.

All that you guys have to do is either log in, or sign up before the close date, which is this coming Friday, October 10th. Existing and new users must log in, answer all of the profile questions, and have a profile pic in place to qualify. The first two names out of the hat after that date, will bag the discs. Good luck!

Prepare yourself for the hilarious, laugh-packed comedy Postal, the irreverent and outrageous film based on the popular video game. After a clueless slacker named the Postal Dude (Zack Ward) loses his job, he joins his shady Uncle Dave (Dave Foley

9 September 2008 2:16 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Aaron Hillis

Within all the symposiums, panels and debates trying to decipher what arts criticism is and will ultimately become in the Internet age, those artists and entertainers who are skewered by critics' ink are rarely discussed. Comedian-actor Jamie Kennedy ("Scream") has experienced the vitriol of opinionated haters for decidedly non-masterpieces like "Son of the Mask" and "Malibu's Most Wanted," but it has to be worse when it happens in the middle of a stand-up performance. Produced by Kennedy and directed by Michael Addis, "Heckler" is a deeply personal and often funny doc about the relationship between performers and their critics, right down to heated confrontations between Kennedy and his online eviscerators. The film features a surprising gamut of talking heads: comedians like Patton Oswalt and Kathy Griffin make sense, as do directors like George Lucas and Uwe Boll, but who would've suspected to hear from Christopher Hitchens, Larry Flynt

Aaron Hillis

28 August 2008 3:30 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

When a bad movie comes along, people in my particular business turn into giddy little children, hungry for the snack that is to come. We are ready to take in these epic failures of cinema, chew them up and spit them out with the movie review equivalent of drunk Uncle ...

Neil Miller

26 August 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

Today we have a couple copies of Postal Unrated on DVD to give away to you readers. So with that said this is your chance to enter and win! "Postal" is crude, raw, grossly funny and based on the popular videogame of the same name. The film also pushes the boundaries of good taste and all that is politically, morally and socially correct as if it were a live-action "South Park."Unemployed and frustrated, Dude (Zack Ward) is intent on finally making some money and running away from the hell hole that has become his life. In his feeble attempt to get back on track, he reluctantly joins his u...

26 August 2008 1:34 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

I have heard from multiple sources -- including three deities -- that Uwe Boll's latest film Postal isn't worth the time it takes to break through the Fort Knox DVD packaging that it comes in -- in you know the one, with the two little clippy things. But needless to ...

Neil Miller

20 August 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

A new Uwe Boll movie is reason to celebrate. Just on general principle alone. Because maybe, just maybe, this will be the movie that proves Uwe Boll is not an incompetent whipping boy, the way most movie fans and internet critics (yours truly included) peg him to be. Allow me to preface something here. Uwe Boll recently (well, last year, really) challenged several of these bashers to a boxing match, where Boll proceeded to kick their asses. Allegedly, upon coming to, several critics stated that they love Uwe Boll movies. I am not one of these critics (I'm in a different weight class, and I fig...

14 August 2008 12:56 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Take a look at the first official movie poster from the upcoming film ” BloodRayne II: Deliverance ” by director Uwe Boll ( Alone in the Dark II, BloodRayne 3, Postal ) and starring Natassia Malthe ( Skinwalkers ), Zack Ward and Chris Coppola. Synopsis: It’s a hundred years later, and the dhampir Rayne has arrived in the town of Deliverance, Montana where a group of vampire cowboys have emerged. Led by Billy the Kid, hell-bent on creating is own kingdom, he slaughters townspeople and rounds up children. He spares the life of Chicago Chronicle reported Newton Pyles. Rayne aligns herself with Pat Garret, a member of the long-thought-dead Brimstone society, a dishonest preacher, and a low life named Franson, [...]

Brian Corder

6 August 2008 11:47 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Today I opened my email and saw this message from a certain psycho: “Holy Dark Knight, Batman! The Postal movie DVD is coming out on August 26, run to your local Walmart and let the insanity begin!”-The Joker Turns out it was from Running with Scissors CEO Vince Desi; who, by the way, has a cameo in the movie, should you be unfortunate enough to not have seen it yet. I have no idea why he's impersonating Joker, but it got my attention. I guess.

30 June 2008 8:33 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Vivendi has officially announced the DVD release of Postal, which stars Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Larry Thomas, and Verne Troyer. DVD Active reports that the Uwe Boll directed film will be available to own on August 26th, and should retail at around $26.99. Extras will include a director commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes ("Raging Bull", "Verne Troyer as Indiana Jones"), and a free Postal 2 PC game. A Blu-ray release will also be available for $34.99 with identical features. Living on Social Security and unemployed, Dude desperately seeks employment, but instead finds a life of violent action and adventure when he teams up with his Uncle Dave, a financially strapped cult leader, in an effort to rip off an amusement park, only to find that the Taliban are trying the same heist simultaneously.

21 June 2008 5:56 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

A funny version of House of the Dead? Because Uwe Boll's original version of House of the Dead wasn't funny enough?

A few years ago I got an email from Uwe Boll out of the blue inviting me along with some other internet critics to join him up in Vancouver to help re-edit, re-write, re-film, etc. House of the Dead in order to create a brand new funny version of the film. Part of me was intrigued; the other part of me was concerned this might be his way to lure myself and some other web critics who had been highly critical of him into a Saw-esque trap. Fortunately, the latter was not the case. Unfortunately, for a wide variety of reasons, I was not able to take Dr. Boll up on his offer. My sole contribution to this noble endeavor being an idea for a potential sight gag

Foywonder

25 May 2008 7:13 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

“You know, you don’t have to do this. I know it’s out of the way and playing at an inconvenient hour. We can always cover it next week or on DVD. I’m giving you an out,” my editor Keith offered sympathetically, mercy in his eyes. I was officially being offered a reprieve. I didn’t have to travel to the farthest reaches of Northwest Chicago to see Uwe Boll’s Postal at the Portage, a beautiful old-time movie palace/revival house that doesn’t even play new movies on a regular basis. But the die had been cast a long time ago. You know the role friends, family, love, community, religion and public service collectively play in your life? That’s kind of the role bad movies play in my life. I was born into this. For me, seeing and writing about ridiculous movies isn’t just

23 May 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Uwe Boll remains on the critics' firing line with his latest film, Postal. Bill Stamets in the Chicago Sun-Times writes: "Accusing Postal of bad taste gives it too much credit. Shock calls for craft that Boll lacks." Writing in the New York Times, Nathan Lee calls the movie "infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max." In the Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen comments that Boll "creates such a bizarre, garish spectacle that it is almost tempting to give him credit for being something of a misunderstood artist after all. Almost, but not quite. Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point." Michael Harris in the Toronto Globe and Mail can barely disguise his contempt for the film. "This reviewer is not easy to offend, but is very easy to bore," he remarks. "And I was bored out of my tree for most of Boll's lamely conceived, cliché-ridden debacle."

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23 May 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The only film producer challenging Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a new release this weekend is the critically despised German director Uwe Boll, who has managed to find 17 theaters across the country to show his R-rated Postal. It's based on a video game about a man who "goes postal" and begins shooting everything and everyone in sight. The movie includes scenes of the the 9/11 hijackers crashing into the World Trade Center while discussing the virgins they're sure to win when they arrive in paradise. Another scene shows Osama bin Laden and George Bush holding hands as they walk into a mushroom cloud. When virtually every major theater chain, including AMC and Regal, the nation's two largest, turned it down, Boll distributed it himself, sometimes even renting theaters, but even many of the theaters that have agreed to show it are only doing so at odd hours. "We're running in Austin only at midnight at the Alamo. How are you going to do box office if you're not going to play five times a day?" Boll asked in an interview with MTVNews.com. In the New York area, the movie is only playing in out-of-the-way Brooklyn.

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22 May 2008 4:51 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Uwe Boll blames "political correctness" on the part of Us distribution chains for the scaled-down release of his upcoming movie. The much-maligned director had hoped to see Postal, a political black comedy, released in 1,500 theatres, but the film will only screen at 13-15 locations across the Us. Boll told The Hollywood Reporter: "This is for me very disappointing, to be honest. They don't like the political content. This is my personal feeling after trying for four or five weeks to get the distributors to book it. It's a ruthless comedy and makes jokes about 9/11 and all kinds of stuff, but at the same time I feel like it's my best-received movie so far." All of Boll's films, (more)

Simon Reynolds

19 May 2008 8:14 AM, PDT | From FantasticFest.com | See recent FantasticFest news

Fantastic Fest guest, pal of the Alamo and enemy of film critics everywhere, Uwe Boll has been given the honor of a lead story in last weekend's New York Times! Though the feature doesn't blindly praise all of the director's work, it does give him the rare opportunity to state his case in the major media, and explain why his title of "Worst Director of All Time" is a bit less than fair.

Read the article Here!

It also covers his most recent film Postal, which debuted to packed houses at Fantastic Fest 2007 and will be returning to the Alamo South Lamar This Friday to obliterate the boundaries of good taste. Get your tickets Here!

Congratulations, Uwe!

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19 May 2008 2:51 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

It's a battle of filmmaking titans this week, the kind of event that comes around once in a lifetime . Steven Spielberg and Uwe Boll will duke it out at the multiplexes. (Forgive us, but that might've been our only opportunity to ever get to put those two names in the same sentence.)

"The Children of Huang Shi"

Set during the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s, this sweeping historical epic comes from Roger Spottiswoode, the director behind both "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" and the narrative remake of "Shake Hands with the Devil." The first official co-production between Australia and China, the film tells the true story of Australian nurse (Radha Mitchell), who with the aid of a British journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), escorts 60 orphaned children 700 miles through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains to evade Japanese secret police. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" co-stars Michelle Yeoh

Neil Pedley

12 May 2008 8:08 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore

There are petitions just to stop him from making more films. Stride has offered to give away free gum if one million people sign. He's punched out the scrawnier of his critics in a boxing ring. He's the filmmaker the world loves to revile, and in honor of (or maybe just to warn you about) the upcoming "Postal," this week on the Ifc News podcast we discuss the career and films of Uwe Boll, and whether or not he's the contemporary Ed Wood.

Download now (MP3: 29:50 minutes, 27.3 Mb) Podcast feeds: [Xml] [iTunes]

[Photo: Uwe Boll plays himself in "Postal," Freestyle Releasing, 2007]

Alison Willmore

17 articles from 2008