Lampoon Just won’t Quit

Created on August 26th, 2008 by Mikey B

National Lampoon, you know, those guys that brought us some of the funniest films ever including ‘Animal House’ and ‘Christmas Vacation’ have really been digging a whole for themselves. I’m not sure if they’ve become too big for their britches, cough Lionsgate cough, but they’ve been distributing some real crap with their name attached. I’m looking at you ‘Cattle Call’. Here comes news, from the Hollywood Reporter of course, that there’s another film coming out for us to skip over entitled, ‘National Lampoon’s The Legend of Awesomest Maximus’. Now, I don’t know if it makes a difference that this is a “National Lampoon’s” title and not a “National Lampoon presents” film, but either way, I’d say their hey-days are gone. Read on for info on the upcoming comedy adventure.

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Harrelson versus Zombies

Created on August 26th, 2008 by Mikey B

Guess what? Guess what? You’ll never guess in a million years what we have coming up in the crap-shoot that is the Hollywood film machine. Give up? Another zombie movie? That’s right. Just as the mainstream flavor of 28 Weeks Later wore off like 5 minute old gum, and we haven’t had any particularly entertaining indie zombie film in a long time(well, ‘Zombie Strippers was pretty good, but that’s because it was so bad it was really funny, and before that I was shocked by how much I loved ‘Dead and Breakfast’), we get another pack of gum. So, toss those wrappers away, because the streets will be littered with the buggers in the upcoming, ‘Zombieland’. Read on for more info about this generically-titled ‘Shaun of the Dead’-sounding entry into one of my favorite genres.

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Elfman scores big for ‘The Wolfman’

Created on August 25th, 2008 by Mikey B

Looks like another key player has been added to the remake/re-imagining of Universal’s own ‘The Wolfman’. The guys over at Ain’t It Cool News posted that they received a call from Universal to announce the big news on their site (I want Universal to call me and tell me secrets). Anyway. The big guy himself, Danny Elfman will be delivering the goods for the upcoming film starring Benicio Del Toro. Read on for some more info.

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Astin, Weston and Foster are ‘Demoted’

Created on August 25th, 2008 by Mikey B

A trio of actors: Sean Astin, Celia Weston and Sara Foster have been added to star alone-side Michael Vartan and David Cross in the upcoming indie comedy flick, ‘Demoted’. Sounds good to me. I love David Cross, the mad makes everything in he’s in better than it should have been, and I’ll be damned if he wasn’t great as the never-nude in ‘Arrested Development’. Sean Astin, while no gigantic star has always been a solid performer, and carries his characters well. Anyway, read on to see what ‘Demoted’ is all about.

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Midnight Meat Train - LA Screening

Created on August 25th, 2008 by Mikey B

UPDATE

I was lucky enough to catch an LA premiere of Midnight Meat Train (thanks very much for the hook-up Morbid) at the Nuart Theater. Let me say that pulling up 15 minutes before the show the line was already around the side of the building and I had to park over 5 blocks from the main road. Shady. Read on for a little info on the night, and my super-short review.

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Son of Rambow (2007) DVD - KamuiX

Created on August 24th, 2008 by KamuiX

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Growing up in the 80’s, I was certainly a product of the video age. I was one of those “weird” kids that would rather spend the summer off from school going back-and-forth to the local mom-and-pop video store renting movies than go out and play in the backyard. Similarly during the school year, I’d rather come home and pop in a movie than play a sport or stay after school helping with an art program. I was also very much into writing up imaginative stories and wondering what they would be like if I had the ability to turn them into a film. So in that respect, I can definitely relate to Son of Rambow. What I can’t relate to however is growing up without being able to watch TV or movies, and only having my imagination to keep me company. I can only imagine then, once exposed to the stuff, how I would react. Son of Rambow nails that sense of discovery down pretty well.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) DVD

Created on August 24th, 2008 by Horrorholic

Note: this review was written by both Ianissimo and Horrorholic

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What can one really say about Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas that isn’t common knowledge? the market is still maddeningly saturated with merchandise fifteen years later and it has been re-released numerous times now. It’s become one of those movies you have to say is cool if you want people to think you’re cool and everyone in America has already seen it and agrees that it’s a cool movie. Most of those people can’t actually tell you who directed the film though (Hint: it’s not the guy who’s name is in the title).

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