Wednesday, January 2, 2008

January 2008 Horror Releases

Here is the list of DVD and Theatrical release dates for Horror/Sci-Fi/Thillers in January 2008

Released January 1st 2008:

DVD RELEASE: Resident Evil: Extinction: Milla Jovovich is back in the third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well, at least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert - or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew (Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Ashanti) will make a final stand against evil - with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.


DVD RELEASE: Solstice: From the director of The Blair Witch Project comes another frightening tale of the supernatural. Less than a year after losing her twin sister to suicide, Megan (Elisabeth Harnois, Point Pleasant) and her college-bound friends take one last road trip to the family home out on the Louisiana bayou. When a handsome local (Tyler Hoechlin, 7th Heaven) teaches them the Creole spell of the summer solstice, the group tries to resurrect the sister’s spirit – with deadly results. Also starring Shawn Ashmore (X-Men series), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love) and Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill), Solstice will scare you all the way to its shocking end.


Released January 4th 2008:




THEATRICAL RELEASE: One Missed Call: In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.






Released January 8th 2008:

DVD RELEASE: Dragon Wars: Meet Buraki, the vicious, 200-meter long Imoogi serpent from ancient Korea. His army includes giant lizards with missile launchers, flying dragons, soldiers bred for evil and mega-intelligent dinosaurs. Together, they will destroy Los Angeles and possibly the world unless reincarnated warriors Ethan and Sarah can outrun them and resurrect the Good Imoogi, Buraki's ancient nemesis. Dragon Wars reveals every last detail of Earth's greatest battle, a war you'll only believe when you see it for yourself.


DVD RELEASE: Joshua: The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.









DVD RELEASE: White Noise 2: Enter a terrifying new dimension in communication with the dead: The Near-Death Experience.What would you do if you could tell who was about to die? Would you try to save innocent lives? After barely escaping a near-death experience, Abe Dale (Nathan Fillion) discovers that he has been granted a mysterious ability. But using this dark gift means interfering with the natural order of life and death, a choice that comes with a heavy price. Also starring Katee Sackhoff, White Noise 2 explores an unthinkable and evil dimension in communication with the dead.





DVD RELEASE: Sunshine: The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun's natural state.





DVD RELEASE: Mammoth: On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater, Louisiana, locals exiting a retro-fitted theater excitedly watch as a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. No one realizes that the meteor is actually a spaceship containing a shape-shifting life form. In order to adapt to Earth's atmosphere, the life form latches on to the first organism it comes in contact with - a partially frozen Woolly Mammoth found in the historic exhibit for which the town is famous. As a series of uncanny disasters unfold, the town quickly finds itself overrun by the alien-possessed mammoth. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast to bring down the mighty mammoth, thus saving the town (and the world) in a wild adventure that blends the 50's alien-invasion flick, and the 70's revenge-of-nature opus into a marauding monster mash!


DVD RELEASE: Days of Darkness: In the film, The world is watching as a huge comet looms over the earth for days. News coverage leads people to believe that there is nothing to worry about and life goes on uninterrupted – until the comet falls from the sky and sets the planet ablaze. Not only is the planet burning, it is also being overrun by ruthless zombies.Trapped between flesh eating zombies and a firestorm, an unlikely group comes together to battle the uprising of the undead. In a story of ultimate survival, they know they must stay alive to save the fate of mankind.



DVD RELEASE: The Killing Floor: Horror novel agent David Lamont (Marc Blucas) moves into a lavish penthouse apartment to celebrate his new-found success. But as he settles in, mysterious events occur; violent and bloody crime scene photos taken in his apartment show up at the front door, videotapes of him sleeping arrive in his mail and the strange sensation that he is being followed haunt his every step. No longer able to work or sleep, paranoia distorts his mind and takes over his life, yet he refuses to move out. Obsessed with tracking down his stalker, David unravels, falling prey to a deadly game. The only question that remains is: How far will he go to end this real life horror story?


DVD RELEASE: Maneater: The hunter becomes the hunted when the forested shadows of the Appalachian Trail are stalked by a wild animal out of its element, hungry and born to ravage. After Sheriff Grady (Gary Busey) finds a dismembered body in the area, he quickly discovers a print near the scene that identifies the predator as a Bengal tiger. Six hundred pounds, twelve feet from nose to tail, it’s one of the most powerful cats on Earth. Now it’s loose—and there’s no man on the Appalachian Trail with the skill, or the courage, to take it down.







DVD RELEASE: Boogyman 2 centers on a young woman with a long-term phobia of the boogeyman, who voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fears. However, much to her horror, she discovers that some things are terrifying on purpose, and confronting her demons was not the best course of action.




Released January 15th 2008:


DVD RELEASE: It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first collaboration between special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and producer Charles H. Schneer back in 1955. Directed by Robert Gordon (Tarzan and The Jungle Boy), the newly colorized film, depicting a giant octopus attacking San Francisco.







DVD RELEASE: The Attic: About a month after Emma Callan and her family move into their seemingly picture-perfect Victorian home, Emma starts to have ghastly visions of a girl who appears to be her twin but is pure evil. Since no one else has seen this doppelganger, Emma is faced with two terrifying prospects: Either she s going insane or she s actually being haunted by a malevolent spirit determined to destroy anyone who dares delve into the dark mysteries of The Attic.





Released January 18th 2008:

THEATRICAL RELEASE: Cloverfield revolves around a monster attack in New York City as told from the point of view of a small group of people.








Released January 22nd 2008:


DVD RELEASE: SAW 4: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.



DVD RELEASE: When Evil Calls: Centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students at Willburn Hall their wildest desires. A-cup Alice wants bigger breasts, until her cup runneth over in an explosive mathematics class.
Hilary would give her right arm to lose weight – and the blades of a kitchen waste disposal unit oblige. One by one, Willburn’s students learn a lethal lesson: be careful what you wish for.


DVD RELEASE: Swamp Thing-The Series: When an attempt on Dr. Alec Holland’s life leaves him consumed by deadly chemicals and fire, the swamps of Louisiana transform him into a superhuman creature hell bent on ridding the swamp and the world of the evil that men do, beginning with his arch nemesis, Dr. Anton Arcane, the mad scientist responsible for Holland’s monstrous new incarnation as Swamp Thing. Includes all 22 episodes of the series




Released January 25th 2008:

THEATRICAL RELEASE: Untracable is about a secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, played by Best Actress Oscar nominee Diane Lane who gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders live on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies. Suspenseful, intense and action oriented, UNTRACEABLE also has a relevant and accurate message about todays society. Why are we drawn to "evil" in our media etc. Just look at the news or read a newspaper... it's all bad news and often murder, yet we are drawn to it and read about it. This film explores that but not in a preachy way but in a way that is both intense, entertaining and thought-provoking.

Released January 29th 2008:


DVD RELEASE: Lake Placid 2: Years after two 30 foot prehistoric crocodiles are captured and killed in Maine, the local sheriff teams up with an EPA agent, a female Fish and Wildlife agent and a big game hunter, to kill four blood-thirsty offspring of the original killer crocs.

I caught this piece of crap on the Sci-Fi channel when it originally aired. This movie sucks!!!


DVD RELEASE: Right At Your Door: When four dirty bombs detonate all over Los Angeles, a frantic husband desperately tries to get in touch with his wife. Unable to locate her, he seals up the family home to stop it from being contaminated by toxins in the air. But has he also just sealed his wife's fate to suffer the horrors outside?






DVD RELEASE: Black Mass was a truly satanic nightclub that existed for just over a year and which was banned from two venues before it even began. It opened its doors on the last Sunday of each month when its eclectic members would be treated to a range of performances that were sometimes bloody, often blasphemous, very sexual and occasionally dangerous but never dull. Performed by members of the all female collective known as the Satanic Sluts for the delectation of Satan each night was a true evocation of Hell.Shown here are edited highlights from each Black Mass, including scenes of crucifixion, defiled nuns, sacrifice, voodoo, cannibalism, Nazi Go Go dancers, vampirism, satanic cheerleaders and a real Black Mass!

Hot Boys in The City: Miami

Gossip Girl's Chase Crawford and Desperate Housewives' Shawn Pyfrom hang out in South Beach, Miami Florida yesterday night

Janet Jackson-Prestige Magazine Cover Girl (January 2008)





Thursday, December 27, 2007

2007: The Year of Britney

A Photo look-back at 2007: The Year that WAS Britney Spears!!

Shopping Britney "Hey Y'All-where are the Doritos"?


"Nervous" Britney

Peek-a-Boo Britney
Take charge Britney

Lollipops and the middle finger Britney

Halloween Britney


Starbucks Britney

Crazy Britney
Rehab Britney

Peek-a-Boo Britney (again)
"Cake makes me happy" Britney

Nascar Britney
"One for the Road" Britney
Proactiv Britney

Friday, December 21, 2007

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Posting will be light if non-existent till next week sometime. You should be spending time with your friends and family instead of being on the computer anyway!!
And now some holiday wisdom from Joan Crawford about Christmas presents:
Is that the present you like best?- Oh, yes!"
Then that's the present you can keep.
We'll take the rest to the orphans who don't have anything.
And tomorrowwe'll write our thank-you notes.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Janet Jackson- Feedback Single Cover


Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy (2006)

This is the 4th installment of the Monkeewrench Series
Started: 12/12/2007
Ended: 01/07/2008

Synopsis:
Minneapolis police detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth—are on hand for a snowman-building contest their department is sponsoring in a local park. The contest turns into a double murder investigation after the frozen bodies of two policemen turn up inside two of the snowmen. Meanwhile, computer expert and ace crime solver Grace MacBride, who has a loving relationship with Magozzi, and the rest of her high-powered Monkeewrench gang are called in for help when a rookie female sheriff in rural Dundas County runs across another murdered cop inside another snowman. Grace and company discover trouble on their Web searches through arcane chat rooms—and also find themselves in danger as the bizarre but believable plot unwinds.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


Characters:
Leo Magozzi: Detective for Minneapolis Homicide; well dressed and follows men's fashion; dating Grace MacBride; divorced (Heather=ex-wife)
Gino Rolseth: Detective for Minneapolis Homicide; fall guy for every charity gig the MPD sponsors, thanks to some anonymous donor who doubles the proceeds on the condition Gino participates; 5'9 and stocky; married (wife: Angela) with children; smart-mouthed and hard-nosed; hates Winter; has a blond brush cut
Helen Rolseth: Gino's 15 y/o daughter
Grace MacBride: Computer expert; runs Monkeewrench; dating Leo Magozzi; still paranoid after all these years from her attack; lives in a snug little house she converted into a fortress; keeps a derringer strapped to her ankle; mid-30's; her Monkeewrench crew locate a private chat thread that alludes to the snowmen murders; works on breaking through the many firewalls to trace the origin/identity of the chat participants
Charlie: Grace's dog
Harley Davidson: Monkeewrench member; leather-cladded biker; black beard; working on a children's spelling PC game, where the proceeds go to charity; the Monkeewrench HQ is located in his Summit Avenue mansion
Roadrunner: Monkeewrench member; 6'7 and gangly; always wears a colored Lycra bike suit;also working on the children's spelling PC game; locates a chat thread that alludes to the snowmen murders
Annie Belinsky: Monkeewrench member; extremely fat yet extremely beautiful
Tommy Deaton: DEAD: Cross-country skiing fanatic; cop in the 2nd precinct; best friend to Toby; found dead inside a snowman during the Winter Fest Snowman Sculpting Competition, sponsored by the MPD for kids; shot point-blank, up-close to the head; married to Mary; revealed to have been physically abusive to his wife
Toby Myerson: DEAD: Cross-country skiing fanatic; cop in the 2nd precinct; best friend to Tommy; found dead inside a snowman during the Winter Fest in Theodore Wirth Park; shot in the back of the neck-direct hit to the spine that paralyzed him instantly; was alive when the killer built the snowman around him; 27 y/o; just moved in with his elderly mother to care for her; would accompany Mary to the ER after Tommy would beat the shit out of her
Jimmy Grimm: Bureau of Criminal Apprehension CSU; 3 kids
Mary Deaton: Tommy's wife; face banged-up good with a bandage over her nose; states she just had her nose done for her birthday; revealed to be physically abused by her husband; after her father beat up Tommy, she vowed never to speak to her parents again until he apologized to her husband; in order to not attract attention, Mary would go only once to different ER's around the city after being abused
Bill Warner: Mary's father; around 6'0 with a gray brush cut; well-lined face and trim body; retired MPD; suspected in being involved with the double murder since the crime scene was so clean since he is an ex-cop; suspected to have been involved in a private chat conversation where someone told someone else to kill someone and hide the body in a snowman; this chat lead to a 4th murder in Pittsburgh where a body is discovered inside a snowman
Alice Warner: Mary's mother; almost as tall as her husband; elegant & very self-possessed; strong handshake & gaze; was sexually abused by her father when she was young until her mother (Emily) sent her to Bitterroot to be raised by her grandmother and great aunt; suspected to have been involved with the double murder
Steve Doyle: DEAD: Parole officer; late 30's; killed by Kurt Weinbeck via knife stab; revealed to be 3rd snowman corpse; apparently Kurt had seen the media coverage of the double murder in the park, so he setup Steve's murder to look like it was part of it
Kurt Weinbeck: DEAD: Multiple felon; beat his wife (who was 7 months pregnant) almost to death; newly released parolee; killed Steve Doyle; stole his file and now knows where is wife is hiding; after breaking into Bitterroot to seek revenge against his wife, is shot and killed by Laura

Julie Albright: Kurt's wife; changed back to her maiden name; is in hiding from Kurt; lives at Bitterroot with her daughter; has scars all over her face from her husband's attack
Gloria: Homicide receptionist; big, black and sharp-tongued; fastidious about her appearance and slavish to a wild style that is uniquely her own
Johnny McLaren: Homicide detective; red-headed and lean-framed; big weekend drinker; partnered with Tinker Lewis
Tinker Lewis: Homicide detective; soft-spoken and overall gentle person; sad brown eyes; partnered with Johnny McLaren; married to Janis
Janis Lewis: Tinker's wife; heart surgeon
Chief Malcherson: Chief of MPD; face like a droopy bloodhound; organized; well-dressed and well-spoken; respected; white hair
Iris Rikker: Newly elected sheriff of one of the largest rural counties in Minnesota (Dundas County); petite blond with large blue eyes; procrastinator; last year her ex-husband (Mark) left her less than a month after he moved her into a broken-down old farmhouse for some 19 y/0 slut; once a city girl and substitute English teacher; has a 15 y/o cat named Puck
Sheriff Burlardo: Ex-sheriff of Dundas county; accosted Iris in a supply closet on her 2nd night of dispatch and she slapped him; threatened Iris that she would never move from the dispatch desk so she threw her hat in the ring in the election race for sheriff; revealed that because he was going to pull Bitterroot's gun permits, everybody there voted against him in the local election
Lieutenant Sampson: Works for Sheriff Rikker, but not thrilled she is the new sheriff; dark hair and squinty dark eyes; eventually warms up to the sheriff and they develop a good partnership; has a sister that lives in Bitterroot who was abused by her ex-husband
Deputy Neville: Works for Sheriff Rikker; all baby fat and blue eyes
Margie Jensen: Night janitor; found the 3rd snowman out on the frozen lake in Dundas County
Detective Chalmers: 2nd Precinct; was with Tinker Lewis when they discovered the crime scene where Steve Doyle was attacked
Bill Stedman: Runs the halfway house; big man-more muscle than fat; shaved head; smokes
Dr. Anatanand Rambacham: Chief medical examiner; Magozzi thinks highly of him
Dr. Dreadlocks (Rowland): Medical examiner; has dreadlocks
Tommy Espinoza: MPD computer geek
Bitterroot: Corporation that hired Monkeewrench to create and install their security system; mainly produce cosmetics and organic materials; employees live on site; revealed to be all women who had been battered and abused; haven where woman could live without fear
Liz: Guard at Bitterroot's front gate
Maggie Holland: Manager of Bitterroot; age appears to be anywhere from 45-65 y/o; has a noticeable scar across her neck; attacked 15 years ago by her husband (Ron) with a crowbar
The Snowman: Drug dealer awaiting trial for 3 counts of attempted murder; turns out Deaton and Myerson were witnesses to testify against him;however he was in the Stillwater prison facility when the murders took place; his ex-cellmate was Kurt Weinbeck
Laura: Victim of abuse at the hand of her husband (Edgar); old and growing senile; founded Bitterroot 60 years ago with her sister (Ruth); her and Ruth killed Edgar and disposed of the body (buried him)
Ruth: DEAD: Laura's sister; helped Laura kill Edgar when they were younger; was pregnant with Emily at the time of murder
Edgar: DEAD: Laura's husband; abusive & hateful; kept both sisters virtual prisoners on the farm; would beat them and treat them like cattle; got Ruth pregnant
Emily: DEAD: Elderly woman that drops dead from cancer on her way out to the barn to kill her imprisoned husband (Lars); lived on a farm that Iris now lives at; after discovering her husband was molesting their daughter, she locked him up in the basement under the barn; eventually his bones are found by Iris and it is determined that he starved to death some time ago

My Review: I thought this was another great installment of the Monkeewrench series. Each book seems to focus on different past characters and I found this story an easy fun read with likable (and sometimes very funny) characters. I appreciate the humor in their writing, offsetting the serious subject of abuse with the completely inexperienced new Sheriff in Dundas County. I hope this writing team revisits Iris Rikker in future books as she was a great character. The writing was tight, dialogue crisp, and the characters were engaging. These stories are fast-paced and make you want the next book as soon as you've finished. The only negative aspects of "Snowblind" was that the actual killers were never really revealed. It was alluded to who may have committed the crimes, but then on the other hand-were they only accomplishes or even just innocent? Also the story became predictable and the ending was very uneventful and flat. I wanted some shock or a twist ending, but got nothing but what I had suspected since the early chapters. Overall I enjoyed this book and look forward to the next.

Book Score: 8.5/10

Gossip Girl - Two Hot, One NOT


One of These Things (Is Not Like The Others)
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!

-from Sesame Street, by Joe Raposo and Jon Stone

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Jamie Lynn Spears Knocked Up at 16


Britney's younger sister, Jamie Lynn, has announced she is pregnant. True? False? Do I care? Will Nickelodeon work this pregnancy into the show (Zoey 101), or will Jamie carry around big bags and big notebooks to hide her bump?
Wow-the cigarette butt does not fall far from the ashtray!