Summary: Arriving on Earth to deploy a virus to kill on the inhabitants and ready it for colonization, General Bill Trius of the planet Hondo immediately gives up his mission upon discovering the concept of music. Eight years later he’s happily married with a daughter, and practicing folk music on the side, when a Hondoian assassin finally shows up ( Read more... )

No, seriously. Someone is rEmAsTErINg (pun very much intended) the infamous z-grade movie that almost broke Joel and the bots Manos, the Hands of Fate, after miraculously finding the original workprint in an ebay auction of 16mm films ( Read more... )

Stop motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died today at age 92.

These days, in an era where even the crappiest movie can have dazzling CGI special effects, it's hard to understand how amazing RH's carefully crafted, mostly one man stop motion effects must have appeared when they first came to the screen. After Star Wars premiered, his era of stop- ( Read more... )

So apparently Disney is pretty much giving up on original ideas altogether and just following the lead of its much more successful subsidiary Pixar. I wonder like Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars we might see further expansions in the franchise focusing on boats and tanks (with a cancelled video about the re-building of the Transcontinental Railroad ( Read more... )

Summary: A humble geology professor goes through his late uncle's paperwork and finds himself drawn into the man's investigation into the "Cult of Cthulhu", a world wide organization that worships the titular Old One, which sleeps in a lost city on the edge of the world.

Review: This is a brilliant bit of guerrilla film making of the sort that jblum ( Read more... )

Avatar the Last Airbender fans are... less than complimentary towards The Last Airbender live-action film.

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