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20080527 Tuesday May 27, 2008

WIN! CLASSIC BFI TITLES ON DVD!

Cult, Comedy, Crime, Classics, the BFI has it all. To celebrate the release of four great titles on DVD this week we’ve got a giveaway to suit cinema lovers of all tastes…

 

 

 

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Caught on the Web!

Snuggle down in your office chair, stick in your headphones, a do a serious expression, and pretend you're concentrating on something vastly important - it's 'caught on the web' time. This month we've got a bit of a Ram-boner, so here are some not-so-classic music vids inspired by classic movie heroes. See posts below.


Caught On The Web: No Me Gusta La Guerra

A Spanish Rambo-a-like joins bikini clad women in Hollywood to do a song about how he doesn’t like war, (Euro-pop style).

 

 


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Caught On The Web: I Wanna Be Like Indiana Jones

A montage of Indy clips accompanies a bloke singing a crap but amusing song about how he wants to be like Indy.


Caught On The Web: Batman Theme

Surprisingly tuneful song about the Batster.

“I’m just a man, no super powers, spend my hours… on the computer…” Genius.

 

[Ed's note: This is insanely catchy. Beware]

 

 


Caught On The Web: Spy Me at Noon

Decent parody of the Bond theme tune with high production values and a slightly less silly title than Quantum of Solace.

 

 


20080520 Tuesday May 20, 2008

J-Horror Jumps The Shark (Again)

This week's random malevolent cursed object is...

HAIR EXTENSIONS:



EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS is a gripping Japanese horror, with a thrilling hirsute twist, starring Chaiki Kuriyama (Kill Bill, Battle Royale), that will be released on DVD on 14th July. A trip to the hairdressers will never be the same again.

What if hair extensions carried the grudge of the individual to which the hair originally belonged and took this anger out on the hair's new owner?

We're not sure, but it doesn't sound like the sort of thing a good scrub with some medicated Vosene wouldn't sort out.

Films about the following haunted objects also in the greenlight stage, probably: shoes*; condoms; chewing gum; AA batteries; washing machines; staplers; asthma inhalers; ATM machines; revolving doors; LEGO. And so on.

Then we'll have to sit through them all over again when they get remade by the Americans :(


*UPDATE: It would appear that someone has already done 'shoes':



We can't update this thing fast enough...

20080519 Monday May 19, 2008

Last House on the Left and Kermode Uncut

Mega-quiffed horrorphile and passionate movie mogul Mark Kermode launched his new BBC blog 'Kermode Uncut' last week at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/ and while perusing this we found this clip about the uncut release of Last House On The Left.

For anyone not mad for the horror this is Wes "Scream" Craven's debut feature - a particularly violent, unpleasantly realistic, exploitation flick, until now unavailable uncut to UK audiences. Back in February we reported on the banning of Murder Set Pieces (here) and although the issues weren't as straightforward as just taste and decency, whatever your feelings about horror movies, the politics of censorship is an ongoing debate. With Funny Games US coming to DVD on the 28 July - (a movie which openly questions and admonishes viewers for choosing to watch graphic violence on film) this topic is going to run and run. So: what do you think? Is it a good thing that we finally get the choice to watch a nasty, but still significant, piece of horror history? Or is it the job of the BBFC to protect people from this kind of fare? Or are you with Haneke - does it say something damning about you as an individual that you would choose to watch scenes of violence as a leisure activity?

Head on over the the forum and let's have a (non-violent) fight about it....


20080513 Tuesday May 13, 2008

WIN! PS I Love You On DVD!

Pass us a hanky, it's Hilary Swank(y) starring opposite Gerald Butler in new rom-com PS I Love You, released on DVD this week. We've got five copies to give away...

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Bread and Fish

I've just come back from interviewing Peter Howitt about his new film Dangerous Parking - he's the bloke who directed Sliding Doors and Laws Of Attraction. He also used to be Joey Boswell in '80s sitcom Bread. At the start of the interview I resisted the temptation to say "greetings" and perhaps as a direct result of that it went well: nice bloke, very passionate, lots to say, should make an interesting article when the movie comes to DVD in late September. However, he did reveal that when he first heard of Blu-ray he thought it was a fish...

Dangerous Parking hits cinemas on the 23rd May and to DVD (and fish?) on the 29th September.


Sith Lord avoids jail time

Drunk Darth Vader has obviously been busting out some sort of Jedi mind trick. After dressing up in a bin bag and attacking two founders of the 'Jedi' church in Holyhead with a crutch, Arwel Wynn Hughes has escaped with a suspended sentence. District Judge Andrew Straw let him off the hook for the attack in March this year, but his actions have aroused some suspicion among the Jedi council in North Wales. You know what they say, where there's an apprentice, there's always a master. You can watch the 'swede' of Return Of The Jedi here.

Aliens Invade The Capital

AVP 2: Requiem must have some kind of monster marketing spend behind it. We might not have given the movie the most glowing review but you've got to admire the innovation and imagination that's gone into some of these stunts. Four out of five for stunts, guys. So, following on the from the genius AVP penalty shoot out, here's the next instalment: Alien and Predator do London. We like the bit where they're fighting over the paper best.

AVP 2: Requiem is out now  DVD and Blu-ray (as if you didn't already know...)


20080512 Monday May 12, 2008

Office argument: The Terminator: Meaty Roborg?

What is the Terminator? Yeah, yeah, before you all say 'Cyborg', hold your horses, Mister. Because a Cyborg is a Cybernetic Organism and strictly speaking the Terminator can exist without his 'meat exterior' and so is not an organism. Or is he? We're not sure. We'd like to open it to the floor: the Terminator: Cyborg, Robot with a meat exterior, or 'Roborg'? You decide.

Oh, and we'll be doing an article about The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the next issue of DVD & Blu-ray Review including an interview with the lovely Lena Heady. So you see, we are actually working and not just chatting about rubbish...


20080508 Thursday May 08, 2008

Alien Vs Predator Penalty Shoot Out

Cardiff City Vs Portsmouth in the FA cup final - whatever next? Well, this - an Alien and a Predator settling scores the British way in a penatly shootout in this ad made by Fox and Sky which will air on Sky Pub during the kick off break of the final on the 17th. You can have a sneak peak below.

Next up: Freddy Krueger and Jason Voohees playing conkers...

Alien vs Predator penalty kick

Alien vs Predator 2: Requiem hits DVD and Blu-ray on the 12th May


Nazis In Space!

We thought it couldn't get better than Zombie Jesus. We thought wrong. Check out this little beaut, Iron Sky, that Mr Geary spyed on the interweb today. This really does look like the best movie ever...

 


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