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Festival responds to Israeli culture minister demand that state funds be re-examined over line-up.

The Haifa International Film Festival (September 22-October 1) has responded to reports that Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev is calling for its state funding to be re-examined over films in its 34th edition line-up she deems could “harm Israel”.

In an official statement sent to Screen, the board of management said that both the pre-selection process and final selection decisions had been undertaken by different independent committees of selectors.

“The Festival’s management is not entitled to intervene in the decisions of the nominating committees for understandable reasons,...

Controversial right-wing politician Miri Regev calls for state funding to be axed over its programming choices.

Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev is calling for state funding of the Haifa International Film Festival (Haiff) to be re-appraised, raising objections about films in its upcoming 34th edition that she considers could “harm Israel”.

According to a letter obtained by Israeli media, Regev wrote to Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, demanding his ministry re-examine state funding for Haifa, saying it had broken the law by programming films that undermined “Israeli values and symbols”.

The festival, which opens on September 22 with Avi Nesher’s...

Get ready for the end of the world… again. Making his feature film directorial debut, Dean Devlin (writer/producer, “Independence Day”) brings audiences this fall the sci/fi suspense thriller Geostorm.

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world’s leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong—the system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything…and everyone along with it.

Warner Bros. Pictures has released a brand new trailer for the film.

Starring Gerard Butler (“Olympus Has Fallen,” “300”), Jim Sturgess (“Cloud Atlas”), Abbie Cornish (“Limitless”), Alexandra Maria Lara (“Rush”), Daniel Wu (“The Man with the Iron Fists,” “Warcraft: The Beginning”), Eugenio Derbez (“How to Be a Latin Lover...

Ryan Lambie Mar 28, 2017

Creepy sets, gore, a sweary Emile Hirsch and lots of gallows humour. We visited the set of indie horror, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe...

Nb: The following contains some saucy language and discussions that some may consider Not Safe For Work.

Half an hour out east on the Hammersmith & City Line, across a busy dual carriage way, just down from a branch of Tesco’s and tucked away in an old warehouse, about 200 people are making a horror film.

The warehouse interior is now, thanks to the ingenuity of production designer Matt Gant and a few dozen set builders, a basement mortuary in Virginia. There are long corridors. Low lighting that picks out the Victorian wallpaper but leaves corners shrouded in deep shadow. A junk-strewn room houses a man-sized furnace, something the production designer jokingly refers to as “the pizza oven”, but is actually a place where...

Last year, German distributor Cinespectral Films announced their plans to honor the Queen of Halloween with a limited edition, all-region Blu-ray of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988), and today they've released the full details and pre-order information for the anticipated home media release.

Limited to 3,000 overall items, the Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Blu-ray / DVD is available in three different cover art versions (limited to 1,000 apiece) and is slated for an April 24th release. Pre-orders are now open, and you can check out the full list of special features and cover art selections below. To learn more, visit Movie2Shop and Cinespectral Films.

Press Release: Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark Finally Busts Out In A Strictly Limited Collector’S Edition Blu-Ray Set On April 24th 2017! 3000 Copies Only!

Cinespectral Films proudly presents the 1988 cult comedy: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark for the first time ever on Blu-ray, in glorious all-new restored High Definition.

Daniel Espinosa’s “Life” will serve as the Closing Night Film at South by Southwest on March 19, the festival has announced. Starring an ensemble cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds and Hiroyuki Sanada, the sci-fi thriller is due in theaters the following week.

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“We are thrilled to close out the 2017 SXSW Film Festival with such a special film as Life,” said Janet Pierson, SXSW Director of Film. “Our audiences will love this taut space thriller’s twists and turns as well as its amazing cast.”

“I’m so honored that ‘Life’ has been chosen as the closing film at South by Southwest,” added Espinosa. “The people that flock to Austin each year are some of the most engaged and passionate fans of film out there and are the perfect audience to introduce our visceral sci-fi thriller.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson)

Charlie Kaufman, the writer behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, teams up with animator Duke Johnson to create a complex emotional drama starring lifelike puppets. The premise is riddled with existential dread of modern-day life, presented uniquely through Kaufman’s idiosyncratic point-of-view. For protagonist and self-help author Michael Stone (voiced soulfully by David Thewlis), everyone around him has the same voice (thanks to...

Families who cut open cadavers together stay together. That, at least, is the vibe given off by “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” a thriller starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as a team of father-son coroners whose latest corpse provides more questions than answers. Watch the film’s first teaser trailer below.

Read More: Tiff Rounds Out Slate With ‘Blair Witch,’ ‘Free Fire,’ ‘The Bad Batch’ and Many More

“The Autopsy of Jane Doe” marks the English-language debut of Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal, who previously directed “Trollhunter.” The minute-long ad doesn’t show Cox and Hirsch performing what are typically thought of as the standard duties of a mortician, but the two of them do seem rather afraid of whatever’s on the other side of the door they’ve barricaded themselves behind. (Spoiler: It’s probably Jane Doe).

Read More: Mads Mikkelsen Obeys ‘First Law,’ ‘Troll Hunter’ Director...

The Chicago International Film Festival 2016 announced its full lineup, and it includes Julia Ducournau's Raw, the previously announced 4K restoration of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Eyes of My Mother, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe, starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch.

Press Release: Chicago (September 13, 2016) ­ The Chicago International Film Festival today announces Opening and Closing Night selections, as well as the full slate of films included in the Festival’s U.S. Indies, Spotlight: Musicals and After Dark categories. Chicago will play host to gala screenings of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival as respective bookends to the 52nd Festival, opening on October 13th and closing on October 27th. A full list of these newly announced programs is below and at www.chicagofilmfestival.com. Tickets for these events and all film screenings go on sale September 21st for Cinema/Chicago members...

Hammer hits one out of the park with this 'ripping good' Sherlock Holmes tale, tilted heavily toward gothic mystery and horror. Peter Cushing and André Morell excel in heroic roles, while Christopher Lee doesn't have to play a monster, just a coward. Terence Fisher's directing skill is at its height. The Hound of the Baskervilles Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1959 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 86 min. / Ship Date June 14, 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, David Oxley, Francis De Wolff, Miles Malleson, Ewen Solon. Cinematography Jack Asher Production Designer Bernard Robinson Film Editor Alfred Cox Original Music James Bernard Written by Peter Bryan from the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle Produced by Michael Carreras & Anthony Hinds Directed by Terence Fisher

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In addition to their straight-up gothic horrors, Hammer films produced films in other genres, such as costume adventures and war pictures.

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Den Of Geek wheels in the big telly for a fond look back at pigeon crime Look And Read schools series, Geordie Racer…

“Spuggy and Plod weren’t runners. They just didn’t see the point”. And thus the hero of the BBC's Geordie Racer and his dog were endeared to a generation of biscuit-eating 1980s schoolchildren.

Part of the long-running Look And Read series of television programming for schools, Geordie Racer was written by The Bill’s Christopher Russell and first aired in 1988. Its ten episodes told a continuing crime story interspersed with factual spots about the North-East and appearances by Wordy, a floating Henry Hoover/Scrabble set who played songs about gerunds. Wordy was just part of Geordie Racer’s educational framing narrative though, Spuggy was its star.

Richard “Spuggy” Hilton was my kind of people. He wore a Star Trek: ToS t-shirt, had neat...

Deadpool, Michael Moore, and a few indies worth adding to your collection.Pick of the Week

Wildlike

What is it? Mackenzie (Ella Purnell) is a teen in crisis. Her father has died, and her mother’s addictions have forced her into rehab, so with no other resources she’s sent to stay with an uncle in Alaska for the summer. He shows her kindness, showers her with gifts, and sneaks into her bed at night to do unspeakable things. It may not be the first time, and she knows it won’t be the last, so when the opportunity arises she runs away. Her luck changes when she crosses paths with a hiker named Rene (Bruce Greenwood) in Denali. He wants nothing to do with her at first, but when the two of them end up on the same deserted trail in the park he quietly allows her to join his party of one. What...

'The Peanuts Movie': 2016 Best Original Score Oscar contender along with 111 other titles. Oscar 2016: Best Original Score contenders range from 'Mad Max: Fury Road' to 'The Peanuts Movie' Earlier this month (Dec. '15), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made public the list of 112 film scores eligible for the 2016 Oscar in the Best Original Score category. As found in the Academy's press release, “a Reminder List of works submitted in the Original Score category will be made available with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award.” The release adds that “to be eligible, the original score must be a substantial body of music that serves as original dramatic underscoring, and must...

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Another week, another wave of TV and movie news to dissect and discuss! This week we actually have more going on in the world of the small screen than in the silver screen as Tinsletown’s biggest networks are busy announcing their May upfronts; that is what new shows they’ll be picking up, renewing, and cancelling for the 2014-2015 season. ABC, NBC, Fox, The CW, and CBS have all chimed in, and we have a few exciting choices to talk about here.

We also have word about that Halo series that Steven Spielberg is producing, and updates on the future of Star Trek 3 now that Jj Abrams has taken a trip to the galaxy far, far away; and news about a Spring Breakers sequel that’s as surprising as the first film itself. Additionaly, we got word that Universal is having trouble bringing the Mummy franchise back...

A man has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder after allegedly shooting and killing rapper Doe B and college student Kimberle Johnson on Dec. 28.

Jason Quan McWilliams, 25, is being held without bond for the murder of rapper Doe B (real name Glenn Thomas), who died after being shot at Centennial Bar and Grill in Alabama.

Doe B’s Shooter Arrested

Jason surrendered to the police on Dec. 29 and is now being held in Montgomery County Detention Facility, according to police. He is being questioned in the killing of Doe B, 22, as well as Kimberle Johnson, a 22-year-old Troy University student.

Doe B - Let Me Find Out (Remix) ft. T.I., Juicy J

“The circumstances surrounding the shooting were initially unknown, but further investigation indicates that the shooting stemmed from an ongoing dispute between McWilliams and Thomas,” police said in a statement on Dec. 30.

The shooting that killed Doe B.

The 22-year-old rapper was shot and killed on Dec. 27, just as his career was beginning to take off. But now HollywoodLife.com has learned that this wasn’t the first time his life came close to ending.

Doe B died tragically in his hometown of Montgomery, Ala., in a horrific night club shoot out. But it turns out that Doe’s trademark eyepatch was not just for show, his eye had actually been wounded in a previous shooting, where he was shot in the face.

Doe B Was Shot In The Face In 2009

In a newly surfaced interview, Doe B talks about getting into a fight at another club and he was shot in the face.

“I was shot in 2009, I was 17, numerous altercations in the street,” he said. “It was an altercation as a teen, in the club. When I got hit I was thinking it was glass at first.

So heartbreaking. Slain rapper Doe B’s daughter Madison, 3, participated in a candlelight vigil for her father outside of Centennial Bar and Grill in Alabama, the exact spot where her father was shot and killed on Dec. 28.

Doe B‘s young daughter, Madison Thomas, 3, held up a single lit candle while participating in an emotional vigil held by dozens of supporters in her father’s honor. Mourners gathered outside of Centennial Bar and Grill in Montgomery, Ala. to place candles at the scene where the 22-year-old was gunned down on Dec. 28.

Doe B’s Daughter Madison Thomas Remembers Slain Rapper At Candlelight Vigil

Doe B’s little girl, Madison, appeared quiet and somber as she sat on the sidewalk at her father’s vigil, mere feet away from the spot he was shot.

Doe B --'Let Me Find Out'

The toddler could not possibly fully understand the tragic loss of her father,...

The sudden death of the 22-year-old rapper is sad enough, but examining his final actions on Twitter on Dec. 27 just further highlights the tragic fact that his career was only beginning to take off.

Doe B, a 22-year-old rapper who was shot and killed in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 27, was only just beginning to taste success — and nothing highlights that sad truth more than his last tweet before being gunned down.

Doe B’s Tragic Final Tweet

Things were going so well for Doe B, and he was feeling it. And on the same night he was shot and killed, he re-tweeted a very confident, very celebratory message:

Don’t ask me how I’m doing bitch I’m Great @Cbmdoeb

— BadGal Lexx❤ (@HotDayyummLexx_) December 28, 2013

The self-assured tone of Doe’s re-tweet really lets you get sense of his state of mind, and you can feel how bright his future was.

So sad. The up-and-coming rapper from Montgomery, Ala. was killed early in the morning on Dec. 28, dying from a reported gunshot wound. He was only 22 years old.

A violent shooting has tragically taken another young rapper. Doe B (real name Glenn Thomas), who was part of T.I.‘s hip-hop collective Hustle Gang, was unfortunately shot and killed after performing early in the morning on Dec. 28 in his hometown of Montgomery, Ala. He was just 22 years old.

Doe B: Rapper Shot & Killed

The fatal shooting reportedly occurred at Centennial Hill Bar and Grill, according to Rap-Up. Another woman, 21-year-old Kim Johnson, was also killed in the shooting, All Hip Hop reports.

Doe B - 'Let Me Find Out (Remix)'

T.I., who signed Doe B to his record label, broke the news with a sad, heartfelt post on Instagram:

Rip to my lil brother Doe B. We gon miss...

For Those in Peril and Screen Star of Tomorrow George Mackay picked up top awards.Scroll down for full list of winners

Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, did the double at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013 last night.

At a ceremony in Glasgow, honouring both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions, lead actor George Mackay picked up the coveted best actor/actress in film award.

The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, also won best film beating competition from documentary Fire in the Night and ganger feature The Wee Man.

However, both runners-up picked up separate awards with Fire In the Night winning best single documentary and The Wee Man picking up the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award, voted for by the public.

Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnon both collected the best director award for...

For Those in Peril and Screen Star of Tomorrow George Mackay picked up top awards.Scroll down for full list of winners

Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, did the double at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013 last night.

At a ceremony in Glasgow, honouring both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions, lead actor George Mackay picked up the coveted best actor/actress in film award.

The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, also won best film beating competition from documentary Fire in the Night and ganger feature The Wee Man.

However, both runners-up picked up separate awards with Fire In the Night winning best single documentary and The Wee Man picking up the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award, voted for by the public.

Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnon both collected the best director award for...

Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week:

"Monster's University"

What's It About? This prequel to the Disney-Pixar favorite "Monster's Inc." takes us back in time to when Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) weren't the best of friends. Before the two became big Scarers, they were freshman at Monster's University and quickly became competitive rivals.

Why We're In: Crystal's Mike and Goodman's Sully are undoubtedly one of the funniest and most beloved onscreen animated duos. Unlike most prequels, "Monster's University" is packed with fresh humor, fun and charming moments, and will keep the whole family entertained. The prequel was also ranked one of Moviefone's Best Movies of 2013 (So Far).

Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week:

"La Notte" (Criterion Collection)

What's It About? Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 classic, "La Notte," stars Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni as a deteriorating married couple. The two re-examine their relationship over the course of an evening,...

Genre: Horror | Drama

Original Broadcast Network: BBC America

Discs: 1

Run time: Approximately 180 minutes (3 episodes)

Release date: October 8, 2013

Creator/Writer: Dominic Mitchell

Director: Jonny Campbell

Synopsis:

In The Flesh, BBC America’s three-part series that Wired called “the thinking person’s Walking Dead,” is a unique take on a zombie apocalypse: what happens when humanity survives the uprising… and so do the zombies? When 18-year-old Kieren Walker (Luke Newberry, Anna Karenina, Quartet) committed suicide four years ago, his friends and family thought they’d never see him again – that is, until the dead began to rise. After a catastrophic war, imprisonment, and months of rehabilitation and medication, hoards of brain-craving undead have returned to a lucid state. The zombies, now known as Pds (Partially Deceased Syndrome) sufferers, are gradually being introduced back into a society that so recently fought them off for survival. For Kieren, returning home means confronting the community...

Michael Dougherty gave us something good to eat with his feature directorial debut, Trick 'r Treat. While several horror movies have been situated on or around the holiday of Halloween (John Carpenter's Halloween itself of course...

...plus a few using the razor blade in the apple trick like Night of the Demons or the costume as a disguise like House of 1000 Corpses), none ever quite used the notorious date to its full potential until Trick ‘r Treat debuted in 2008. Trick 'r Treat is an expertly sewn bit of witch stitchery, blending four freaky fables together like a creepy cloak of subterfuge and shock.

Exploiting the myriad of superstitions surrounding the holiday, we follow an eerie imp called Sam. He’s a diminutive demon, slight and about the height of a six-year-old child, but with a great, rounded pumpkin-shaped head that's draped with a burlap mask. Sam goes out every Halloween,...

Take a daytime TV star, an ex-soap actor, 10 extras and some potted palms to a quarry in Hertfordshire and what do you get? An award-winning Iraq war blockbuster, of course. Here's how the producers of A Landscape Of Lies conned millions out of the taxman

Paul Knight is not the sort of person you'd take for a fall guy. A youthful-looking but physically imposing 45-year-old, Knight makes no secret of his colourful past. "Let's just say my path up until my 30th birthday went in a certain direction," he says. As a youth, his record ran to car theft, shoplifting and breaking and entering; in "the bigger leagues", he was arrested several times but always managed to avoid prison. "I was only convicted for certain things, so I'm not going to admit to what they didn't catch me for." He hints that his godfather was Charlie Kray, and that his...

People are sometimes defined by a single instinctive gesture, made off the cuff. In the late 70s, I was recording a TV drama at London Weekend's headquarters on the South Bank in the bleak midwinter. We were working on a scene that required me to be in shirtsleeves.

Suddenly a voice announced over the loud speaker system: "Clear the building immediately!" It was a bomb-scare. Out we all trooped into a dank street on a freezing night. A large figure appeared behind me and draped something over my shoulders. It was Jim Goddard, the director, with a broad smile on his face – it was his coat. Perhaps his need was not as pressing as one of his actors in the middle of a recording that would be resumed asap – nevertheless the moment has stayed with me.

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Prolific television and film director whose output included the internationally successful 1983 drama Kennedy

Jim Goddard, who has died aged 77, was among the most prolific and distinguished television drama directors of his generation. Bleak and violent atmosphere and vivid characterisation were the hallmarks of his more than 200 distinctive works over the course of four decades. His Kennedy (1983) was shown simultaneously on Us network television, in the UK and Germany, and achieved the highest recorded viewing figures to that date for a televised drama.

Goddard's work included the 13-part drama Fox (1980), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983) and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982), the early Channel 4 version of the RSC production. The power and visual immediacy of his directorial style owed as much to arthouse film as it did to his abilities as a painter. Indeed, he never forsook painting, which he studied at the Slade in London, or his love of set design,...

Genre: Sci-Fi | Drama

Air Date/Time: Thursday-Saturday, June 6-8, 10/9c (three episodes), with a block rebroadcast Sunday afternoon, June 9 at 2/1c

Network: BBC America

Creator/Writer: Dominic Mitchell

Director: Jonny Campbell

Synopsis:

BBC America’s co-production, In The Flesh, tells a very human story…about the undead. The mini-series springs to life with the channel’s special broadcast event, premiering over three consecutive nights. Zombie teenager Kieren Walker isn’t comfortable in his ‘undead’ state. After months of re-habilitation and medication, the zombies, now known as Pds (Partially Deceased Syndrome) sufferers, are gradually being returned to their homes. When Kieran returns, he is forced to confront his family, the community that rejected him and the haunting flashbacks of what he did in his untreated state. BBC America’s special three-night premiere event of In The Flesh begins Thursday, June 6, 10:00pm Et/Pt.

Emily Bevan (The Thick of It), Steve Evets...

Last night, Edith Bowman played host to the British Academy Scotland Awards 2012, celebrating the year’s best and most promising talent in Scotland.

Previously known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations were announced last month, with Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share leading the pack, having taken home the Jury Prize at Cannes back in the spring.

The results have officially been announced, and Loach’s film didn’t disappoint, taking home the Best Writer award for Paul Laverty and Best Actor/Actress in the Film category for Paul Brannigan.

Zam Salim came away with the Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for his feature directorial debut, Up There, which was released in UK cinemas on Friday – if it’s playing in a theatre near you, this should definitely be encouragement enough to go and seek it out, if you haven’t done so already.

The great...

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15)

(Alison Klayman, 2012, Us) Ai Weiwei, Danqing Chen, Ying Gao. 91 mins

Art and activism merge in this fascinating inside portrait of China's best known artist, which conveys both the roots of Ai's provocations and the authorities' paranoid responses to them. He comes across as a fearless creator, a reluctant hero, a committed campaigner and a fallible human being, treading a perilous line between the adoring global art market and China's Kafkaesque state apparatus.

360 (15)

(Fernando Meirelles, 2011, UK/Aus/Fra/Bra) Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law. 110 mins

Suffering from a surfeit of international stars and locations, this join-the-dots drama zips between a series of emotional episodes without ever gaining much momentum.

The Dinosaur Project (12A)

(Sid Bennett, 2012, UK) Natasha Loring, Matt Kane, Peter Brooke. 83 mins

Chatty Brit explorers regret discovering a modern-day Lost World in the Congo in this low-budget cross between Monsters and Jurassic Park.

The Forgiveness Of Blood (12A)

(Joshua Marston,...

We’ve made it through another election season, and it was quite a nasty one ( at least here in Missouri ). After we’ve cleaned up all the mud that was slung and before it starts all over again for the big national elections ( with the conventions and debates ) let’s have a few laughs at the whole process. That’s just what The Campaign aims for. What’s interesting about this late Summer satire is that it brings together talents from several different comedy film camps ( much as The Expendables teamed up several action stars ). Helming the hysterics is Jay Roach, perhaps best known for Meet The Parents and its first sequel along with the Austin Powers trilogy ( he’s made two acclaimed real-life political films for HBO: ” Game Change” and ” Recount ” ). One of this film’s candidates is played by Will Farrell, a member of the media-dubbed” frat pack...

When long-term congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, a pair of ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district. Their man: naïve Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), director of the local Tourism Center. At first, Marty appears to be the unlikeliest possible choice but, with the help of his new benefactors’ support, a cutthroat campaign manager and his family’s political connections, he soon becomes a contender who gives the charismatic Cam plenty to worry about.

As Election Day closes in, the two are locked in a dead heat, with insults quickly escalating to injury until all they care about is burying each other, in this mud-slinging, back-stabbing, home-wrecking comedy from “Meet the Parents” director Jay Roach that takes today’s political circus to its logical next level. Because even when you think campaign ethics have hit rock bottom,...

Once upon a time.or maybe twice.there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland.

The Beatles. classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on June 5th in North America. The film.s songtrack album will be reissued on CD on the same date.

Currently out of print, the film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion Picture Services and Eque Inc. Due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film.s restored photochemical elements. This was all done by hand, frame by frame.

Bonus features for the Yellow Submarine DVD and Blu-ray include a short making-of documentary titled .Mod Odyssey. (Trt: 7:30), the film.s original theatrical trailer, audio commentary by producer John Coates...

Genre: Fantasy | Adventure

Air Date/Time: February 11, 9/8c

Network: Syfy

Writer: Cameron Larson

Director: Mark Sheppard

Cast: Gina Holden, Lochlyn Munro, J.D. Evermore, Caleb Michaelson, Edrick Browne, W. Morgan Sheppard, Susie Abromeit, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mark Sheppard

Synopsis:

Filmed on location in Louisiana, K2 Pictures and Leverage Entertainment present a cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel “The Mysterious Island”. The story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon! Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they aren’t alone… Faced with defending themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures, and an active volcano that’s ready to blow, they must find a way to survive and escape the island. Hope only comes when they encounter the island’s oldest resident,...

Above Suspicion on Acorn Media DVD

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March is going to be a marvelous month for fans of British TV as Acorn Media and Athena release something old, something new and something that has elements that people once regarded as being … well a little blue!

Out Acorn Media

Originally broadcast in 1978, Out is a Thames TV drama about a convict named Frank Ross (Tom Bell) who emerges from jail after serving an eight year stretch for his role in a heist. Out has elements that you find in shows such as The Sweeney, Minder and dare I even say Life on Mars only this show is rather more serious than those classics. Ross is a cold customer who is intent on finding the rat who caused his arrest.

In a life that could have stepped straight from the pages of his beloved Dickens, albeit a 20th century and queer version, Peter William Burton was a boy of humble Hackney origins, born as the Second World War staggered to a close, who by dint of an extraordinary passion for books blazed a fascinating trail. His father was homosexual. Common of many of his kind, then persecuted, he married as a means of disguise. Like father like son, but their shared sexuality gave them nothing in common. What it created was an unhappy backdrop for growing up, and a desire to leave home and school as soon as possible. When he read the eulogy at his father's funeral, he stated, "George Burton was an old bugger!" Most of those gathered assumed he was being affectionately ribald. He was in fact being bluntly truthful. It is a great shame that he...

A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a battle unlike any other when Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes makes its worldwide debut on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on December 13th. From the Oscar-winning® visual effects team that brought to life the worlds of Avatar and Lord of the Rings comes revolutionary new ground . a CGI ape that delivers a dramatic performance of unprecedented emotion and intelligence, and epic battles on which rest the upended destinies of man and primate.

Wamg has One special copy of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - DVD/Blu-ray/Digital Download Combo Pack to giveaway – just in time for Christmas!

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J.J. Abrams has found a new cast member for his highly anticipated Star Trek sequel. Variety reports that Alice Eve has been cast in a part that is believed to be new to the canon. The She’s Out of My League star beat out Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four) and Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) for the role. Paramount declined to comment on this news, but her deal is expected to be locked down soon. She will hopefully star opposite Benicio del Toro, who’s deal is also pending to play the role of the villain in the sequel. They will join most fo the cast from the first film, including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.

Abrams is directing based on the script by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof. The sequel will be produced by Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, and David Ellison...

"Roland Emmerich's Anonymous is a well-polished cowpat that will confuse and bore those who know nothing about Shakespeare and incense those who know almost anything," declares David Edelstein in New York. The film begins with Derek Jacobi announcing on a contemporary Broadway stage that the plays we attribute to Shakespeare are, in fact, the work of "Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, who could not, by virtue of his rank, have anything to do with the theater and so handed over his masterworks — many of which were not performed until well after his death — to a boobish actor named Will Shakespeare, who incidentally was the one who stabbed Christopher Marlowe in the eye. Less improbably, De Vere screwed Queen Elizabeth, as well as (accidentally) his own mum…. Apart from its ineptitude, Anonymous is peculiarly beside the point. Shakespeare's succession of masterpieces, near masterpieces, and thrilling misses is a...

I know the general rule in a polite society is "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." But somehow, I didn't think that applied to Anna Wintour. So why, when asked about Kanye West's fashion line, did she respond "Ask someone else."?

The feds are targeting marijuana dispensaries in California for a major raid, sending letters reminding them that federal law trumps state law legalizing medical use. I guess President Obama is giving up the stoner vote.

I wish this clip from the BBC's Bedlam was embeddable, because not only does it have out cutie Will Young, it also has a seriously long look at Theo James in just a towel.

When a straight ally says that if he were gay and joining a biker gang, he'd want to name it Hell's Anals or The Sodomites and The Mangols, do we get upset? I'll let...

Conan the Barbarian, Colombiana, Fright Night, and Final Destination 5 will be rounding the rest of the summer, but the last big blockbuster left in my opinion is Rupert Wyatt‘s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Opinions have generally been back-and-forth, but 20th Century has been pushing it as a technical marvel, with Weta Digital’s unprecedented work.

The trailers have ranged from impressive to a bit silly, but the first international press screenings have just let out and we have rounded up all the early impressions. Check them out below, partially thanks to BoM. James Franco stars alongside John Lithgow, Freida Pinto, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, and Andy Serkis in the blockbuster.

Update: Bleeding Cool has the first official review up. Check out an excerpt below:

The lead character of Rise is Caesar the chimpanzee, and it’s his evolution that drives the narrative changes, the action stepping up as he does.

Channel 4's Friday comedy night found more viewers than usual yesterday, according to the latest overnight data. Jimmy Carr's 8 Out of 10 Cats amused 1.52m (7.1%) at 9pm (+1: 282k) and Claudia Winkleman's King of... entertained 961k (4.5%) at 9.30pm (+1: 111k). A further 1.56m (8.4%) tuned in for Alan Carr's chatshow Chatty

Man at 10pm (+1: 176k), which featured Chris

Moyles, Eddie Izzard and Professor Brian Cox. Every primetime Channel 4 show rose week-on-week, as Come Dine with Me also held up between 8pm and 9pm, with 1.17m (5.5%) and an impressive 399k on timeshift. Behind the broadcaster in primetime this week, Channel 5's Danger: Diggers at Work, Castle and Law and Order grabbed respective audiences of 1.03m (4.8%), 1.28m (6%) and 1.09m (5.8%). Over on ITV1, Love Your Garden (more)...

Film director whose career took him from gritty television plays to Hollywood thrillers

People who talk wistfully of the "golden age of British television drama" are often accused of viewing the past through the rosy lens of nostalgia. But a clear-eyed examination of the era proves that such slots as the BBC's The Wednesday Play (1964-70) and Play for Today (1970-84) were unsurpassed as breeding grounds for talented directors such as John Mackenzie, who has died after a stroke aged 83. Like most of his contemporaries who gained their experience by working in television – Philip Saville, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Ken Loach, Mike Newell, Michael Apted and Mike Leigh – Mackenzie went on to make feature films, notably his superb London-based gangster picture, The Long Good Friday (1980).

The television background trained Mackenzie to work quickly on taut and realistic narratives, within a tight budget and on schedule. One of his first jobs was as...

"People who talk wistfully of the 'golden age of British television drama' are often accused of viewing the past through the rosy lens of nostalgia," writes Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. "But a clear-eyed examination of the era proves that such slots as the BBC's The Wednesday Play (1964-70) and Play for Today (1970-84) were unsurpassed as breeding grounds for talented directors such as John Mackenzie, who has died after a stroke aged 83. Like most of his contemporaries who gained their experience by working in television — Philip Saville, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Ken Loach, Mike Newell, Michael Apted and Mike Leigh — Mackenzie went on to make feature films, notably his superb London-based gangster picture, The Long Good Friday (1980)."

Paul Gallagher has posted a documentary on the making of The Long Good Friday at Dangerous Minds, preceded by a deeply appreciative introduction: "It started when producer Barry Hanson asked writer Barrie Keefe, one night,...

Get the latest updates on Osama bin Laden's death. Plus, earlier updates below.

Bin Laden's Young Wife Identified

Related story on The Daily Beast: Britain's Crush on Obama

By the time Osama bin Laden was killed, he was down to only one of his five wives:  Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, the youngest and his rumored favorite. By the time he moved into his Pakistan mansion, Bin Laden had divorced one of his wives and three others had moved to Syria, according to ABC News, but Amal had remained with him. She had been given to him as a gift when she was still a teenager, and eventually had three children with bin Laden-a daughter and two sons, who lived with them in the compound.

On the night of the raid, Amal was in the bedroom with Bin Laden, and apparently reacted with fury to the Navy SEALs who had come to kill her husband.

Civilisation

Blu-ray, 2 Entertain

Out on 9 May

Historian Kenneth Clark introduces this landmark documentary series with a quote from John Ruskin about how the key to understanding a great nation is to look at their deeds, words and art, the last being "the only trustworthy one".

So begins an epic voyage around the historical culture of western civilisation, taking in the greats such as Da Vinci, Mozart, Dante, Shakespeare, etc, working backwards from their art to discover how it was formed by their lives. Overseen by David Attenborough (when he was head of BBC2) and still as bright and informative as it was when first transmitted in 1969, Civilisation has yet to be bettered. Shot on film (the remastered Blu-ray looks stunning) and in colour (when most TV sets were still black and white), it's a precursor to many of the great shows from the golden era of factual TV such as Life On Earth,...

Thor (12A)

(Kenneth Branagh, 2011, Us) Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Kat Dennings, Idris Elba. 114 mins

Let the silly season commence with this expensive comic-book movie, which takes full advantage of its second-tier superhero, free casting rein and Asgard-sized budget to deliver some premium disposable spectacle. Hemsworth's beefy, impetuous thunder god is literally brought down to earth, where thanks to mortal hotties like Portman, he learns there's more to life than swinging a hammer around, but not much more.

Cedar Rapids (15)

(Miguel Arteta, 2011, Us) Ed Helms, John C Reilly, Anne Heche. 87 mins

The corruption of Helms's naive smalltown nerd via a debauched midwest insurance convention is as broadly amusing as you'd expect, striking a filthy-sweet tone somewhere between the Us Office and The Hangover.

Tracker (12A)

(Ian Sharp, 2010, Nz) Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Andy Anderson. 102 mins

Credit to Ray for straying off home turf, as a Boer veteran...

I know that there a lot of you out there that have a bad taste in your mouth due to Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes. Totally understandable, there is no hate in that. However, I can't help but get excited to see what Rupert Wyatt and the amazing cast can do with this film.

For those of you who are willing to take a chance with this film, Academy Award winning special effects house Weta are going to put on a livestream event. Aintitcool.com posted the whole press release and here it is for all of you to check out. Let us know what you think and enjoy!

Live From Weta: “Apes” Revealed!

Weta Digital To Host Livestream Event On Facebook

For Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Oscar®-Winning VFX House (Avatar, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy)

To Provide A Behind-the-scenes Look At The Magic Of Rendering,...

Well, folks, 2010 is officially in the can, and unlike 2009 horror movie fans took it in the can a lot less this year. Sure the last twelve months had its fair share of lows, but it also brought us a couple of new classics. As always we covered every single one of them mostly in great detail for you.

Now, with a fresh movie-watching start before us, we're taking our usual yearly look back at the good, the bad, the Wtf, and everything in between.

Don't just read along, though ... give us your lists in the comments section below. We wanna hear from you regarding what we nailed and what we dropped the ball on, so let the games begin!

Dig on our Best of and Worst of lists for 2010 by following the links below!

[The Buz]

[Thom Carnell]

[The Foywonder]

[Heather Wixson]

[Gareth Jones]

[MattFini]

[Nomad]

[The Woman in Black]

[Uncle Creepy]

[Andrew Kasch]

The Buz's Picks

As per usual I failed this year as a horror fan and a movie fan in general.

The combined resumes of the cast of Red is staggeringly impressive, and having Bruce Willis lead a crew not particularly known for lighter fare drives the feel and flavor of a film that might easily have had no ability to find footing. Yet another graphic novel translation, this one brings us an older collection of action heroes, branded Retired Extremely Dangerous, and the mix of “changing of the guard” and “distaste for the new guard,” gives us a broader landscape than most action-oriented bits of fun.

Frank Moses (Willis) is getting on in years, at least from a spy game perspective if no other, and the best he’s managed in the normal life department is a relationship over the phone with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), who he calls repeatedly at work just for the chance to chat. When a Black Ops squad shows up at his door, he’s suddenly...