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Warner Bros. will open Spike Jonze's love story “Her,” starring Joaquin Phoenix, on Nov. 20 in limited release in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto with other cities to follow.
Warner Bros. will open Spike Jonze's love story “Her,” starring Joaquin Phoenix, on Nov. 20 in limited release in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto with other cities to follow.
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It feels like it has been forever since I last did a review here. I finished one up at long last over at Top Horror Movies Club for The Bay. I got it started a while back actually, but didn't get it finished on the same day. I would pick...
It feels like it has been forever since I last did a review here. I finished one up at long last over at Top Horror Movies Club for The Bay. I got it started a while back actually, but didn't get it finished on the same day. I would pick it up again, get a few words in, but was never really able to just sit and write. My long streak to finish last month didn't really burn me out from writing, so I'm not sure why I was having trouble getting back into doing a review. Anyway, I had a couple of movies that came out of my instant watch queue, so I got those watched. I have a couple of more to get through for the same reason, so hopefully this will get me wanting to write again. First up was Jean Rollin's Lips Of Blood (1975).While at a party, Frédéric (Jean-Loup Philippe) sees a picture of an old run down castle. It triggers a memory of him as a young child finding a girl (Annie Belle) in that very castle. He gives her his toy and sleeps there in the castle with her. Leaving in the morning, he promises he will be back. Frédéric ditches his date while trying to find out more information about the picture, but no one seems to know anything about it. He talks to his mother, who is also at the party, and comes across as a bit of an ass to her. It seems that Frédéric as lost his childhood memories ever since his father passed away, so he is obsessed with this picture since it managed to trigger something for him. Eventually he finds the name of the person who took the photo, but she was paid off to not reveal the location. His search leads to some vampire woman following him around and helping him out from time to time, but why would vampires want to help him?Lips Of Blood seems to be one of Rollin's more popular films. It gets a slightly above average rating on IMDb, and gets mostly favored reviews elsewhere. While I liked it more than some of his other films I have watched, I still wasn't all that impressed with it. According to trivia, Rollin's based the main character off himself. Hopefully Jean never comes off the way Frédéric did at times. I mean Frédéric could get somewhat mean to someone when he felt they weren't paying enough attention to what he wanted to talk about. I haven't liked Rollin's films too much because I have always felt it was nudity/sex above all else with him in his films. While Lips Of Blood isn't that bad, it comes somewhat close. There are vampire woman running around nude, well...they are wearing clothes but they are of the see through type for some of them. Frédéric isn't a bad looking guy, but I had a hard time believe that every woman he seemingly comes across throws themselves at him. A good example of that is when he visits the woman who took the photo from the start of the film. I did find it funny that when the vampire women help him out, he runs away from them. I admit that I wouldn't want to hang with someone who would likely want to kill me for my blood, but I'm pretty sure I would be curious as to why they are helping me get out of locked rooms and killing other people who are trying to stop me. The film was just okay to me at best, but it got boring as well. I got tired of Frédéric running off each time things start to get a little interesting. I admit that the ending was too bad, and did surprise me slightly with the direction it took. I thought they needed to seriously rethink the very end of the film though.Lips Of Blood isn't a very gory film when it comes down to it. There is some blood, but nothing major to be found. Mostly from vampire bites of course, which people seem to die quickly from. Not that it is a special effect, but there is plenty of nudity to be found, even from our lead actor Jean-Loup Philippe. Speaking of Philippe, he did a pretty good job with the lead. Annie Belle also does a good job, even if she spends a lot of time just standing around.One of the things that really bugged me is when Frédéric finds a woman dead whom he is supposed to be meeting. I didn't know who she w
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If you tuned in for the recent season 4 finale of NBC and Sony’s quirky further education sitcom Community and found yourself eager to see more of the show, then you’re in luck, because there’s more on the way. Given th...
If you tuned in for the recent season 4 finale of NBC and Sony’s quirky further education sitcom Community and found yourself eager to see more of the show, then you’re in luck, because there’s more on the way. Given that Community has been on unsure ground ever since the mid-season 3 hiatus and the departure of showrunner Dan Harmon at the end of that season, quite a few people were surprised at the announcement that the show would return for a fifth season with at least 13 new episodes. Among the people who were expecting to hear that the show would be dropped – along with The New Normal, Up All Night and several other NBC shows – was star Ken Jeong, who plays former Spanish “professor” Ben Chang. Speaking to ...Click to continue reading Ken Jeong on Preparing Twitter For The End of ‘Community’
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.What the fuck is that shot all aboutin the new Man of Steel trailer?..
.What the fuck is that shot all aboutin the new Man of Steel trailer?..
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Two more bits of news coming out of the way exhaustive Cannes Film Market. Read on for the first details regarding the giallo The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears and the upcoming thriller The Last Showing. According to Screen Dai...
Two more bits of news coming out of the way exhaustive Cannes Film Market. Read on for the first details regarding the giallo The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears and the upcoming thriller The Last Showing. According to Screen Daily UK outfit Metrodome has pre-bought giallo-style thriller The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, pictured below, from Bac Films. Writer-directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s follow up to cult genre hit Amer, which Quentin Tarantino listed as among his favorite films of 2010, stars Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda and Sam Louwyck. “The surreal drama follows a husband who plunges into a world of nightmare and violence while searching for his missing wife.” They also report that Simon Crowe’s SC Films has picked up sales rights to The Philm Company’s thriller The Last Showing, “about a couple trapped in a cinema who are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.” Phil Hawkins writes, directs and produces, alongside producer Alexandra Baranska. Production is due for July 2013 on the project, which is casting. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Acquire things in the comments section below.
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Featurette for 42 takes a look at Rachel & Jackie Robinson's relationship. Filed Under: 42 Tags: Warner Bros. Pictures, Biopic, Drama, Sport, Featurette, Behind the Scenes, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre Ho...
Featurette for 42 takes a look at Rachel & Jackie Robinson's relationship. Filed Under: 42 Tags: Warner Bros. Pictures, Biopic, Drama, Sport, Featurette, Behind the Scenes, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre Holland
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Featurette for 42 takes a look at Jackie Robinson's superior baseball skills. Filed Under: 42 Tags: Warner Bros. Pictures, Biopic, Drama, Sport, Featurette, Behind the Scenes, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre...
Featurette for 42 takes a look at Jackie Robinson's superior baseball skills. Filed Under: 42 Tags: Warner Bros. Pictures, Biopic, Drama, Sport, Featurette, Behind the Scenes, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre Holland
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Zac Efron has signed on to star in "Narc," based on the true story of an All-American college student-turned-police informant.http://www.hitfix.com
Zac Efron has signed on to star in "Narc," based on the true story of an All-American college student-turned-police informant.http://www.hitfix.com
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"I have journeyed across an ocean of stars..."
"I have journeyed across an ocean of stars..."
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Featurette for 42 takes a look at Jackie Robinson's impact on civil rights. Filed Under: 42 Tags: Warner Bros. Pictures, Biopic, Drama, Sport, Featurette, Behind the Scenes, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre H...
Featurette for 42 takes a look at Jackie Robinson's impact on civil rights. Filed Under: 42 Tags: Warner Bros. Pictures, Biopic, Drama, Sport, Featurette, Behind the Scenes, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Andre Holland
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