Friday, January 4, 2008

More Movie Posters for Cloverfield?

2 new posters for the upcoming Cloverfield appeared on Horrormovies.ca. Unsure whether these are official or fan made, but I can't wait to see this baby on the big screen!

Matthew Fox-Entertainment Weekly Cover Boy (January 2008)

I thought Season 3 was the best yet and can't wait for Season 4 to start up on February 6th, 2008!

Brandon Routh-Not So Super

Cinematical reports that " Brandon Routh will be replaced in the stand-alone sequel by whomever is cast as Superman in the upcoming Justice League of America movie...Routh didn't connect with audiences, for whatever reason, and in the age of instant reboots there are no second chances. "

'Bond 22' Starts Shooting

Here is a first look at Daniel Craig reprising his role as secret agent 007 in 'Bond 22'. So far a name for the film as not been released, but November 7th, 2008 has been established as the tentative release date.

Britney: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

According to US Magazine:

"After Britney Spears defied court-mandated visitation hours Thursday night by refusing to turn over her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, police were called to her home and later a reportedly intoxicated Britney Spears was taken via ambulance to L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
As of 3:45 a.m PST Friday, Spears remained in the hospital under observation.



A hospital source tells Usmagazine.com that Spears has been designated a "special needs" patient, meaning "they have either overdosed or tried to commit suicide. So we go stay with these patients and monitor them constantly. We watch them so they don't hurt themselves and watch the people who come visit them to make sure they don't pass anything to them."

Us has learned that the pop star was due to turn over Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, Thursday at 7 p.m. Federline's bodyguard was supposed to pick them up, but Spears was defiant. She had been with the kids at her Beverly Hills home since noon Thursday, after being briefly deposed earlier in her ongoing custody dispute.

About ninety minutes after refusing to give up the kids, police arrived.

"There have been police sent to that residence," an LAPD officer told Us. "We don't know any more at this time, but apparently they've arrived."

Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, was seen leaving Spears' home around 9 p.m.

Spears' attorney, Sorrell Trope, who on Wednesday asked the court for permission to be relieved from his duties of representing Spears, tells Us, "In a normal case when someone shows up with a certified court order saying the kids need to be somewhere else, the police see to it that the order is obeyed. But that is in a normal case."

Spears had shown up for a custody deposition Thursday afternoon (after skipping two depositions in the past month) but left after about 45 minutes.

"She was cooperative," Kaplan said. "There has been no change in anything. It will be continued to another date, which I will not say at this time."

On Wednesday, Trope sought permission from the court to end his representation of the singer.
A source told Usmagazine.com. "[Trope's firm] couldn’t rein her in. No one can, and it's an embarrassment in front of the judge."

Spears, 26, lost shared custody of her sons in October.

Here's a timeline of updates on this developing story:
10:50 p.m.: The fire department arrives on the scene. LAPD Officer Jason Lee tells Us, "The officers are still there. They are trying to resolve this peacefully and legally, according to the court order. They've been there since 8 p.m. and it is in regards to Britney Spears’ custody battle."
11:05 p.m.: Paramedics take a gurney and a backboard into Spears' home.
11:25 p.m.: An ambulance pulls into Spears' driveway, parking behind her car.
11:50 p.m.: An ambulance carrying Spears and other emergency vehicles leave the scene; it's reported that Sean Preston and Jayden James are in Federline's custody.
12:40 a.m.: Spears arrives via ambulance at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Police had erected screens to shield her from waiting photographers; Federline and Spears pal Sam Lutfi soon arrive separately. Around time of mom's arrival, son Jayden carried into the emergency room by police officer while sucking on a pacifier.
1:10 a.m.: Jamie Spears, Britney's father, arrives at Cedars Sinai.
3:45 a.m.: Cedars source confirms that Spears remains under observation as a "special needs" patient".

Wow-I should have stayed up to watch this shit! Will Britney be the next Anna Nicole Smith?

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Jennifer Garner-Canadian Elle Cover Girl (January 2008)


Spotted: Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds was spotted in West Hollywood today riding around on his motorcycle.

Hungry Man - Vince Vaugh





Me like ice cream!

or

Me miss
Jennifer Aniston's nipple?

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)


My Review: I had my reservations for this film, especially after the crap fest that was Resident Evil: Apocalypse back in 2004. But I really dig zombie flicks and I'm a sucker for a hot chick movie lead that kicks ass, so of course I did get excited when I popped this baby into the DVD player. Extinction is a big improvement but far from perfect or even what a Resident Evil movie should be. Low on story/character development but high on striking visuals and butt whooping in all of it's forms, Extinction managed to drag the series back out of the trashcan. The basic plot of Extinction is as follows:
T-Virus escapes, contaminates world, world becomes desert. Most living creatures become zombies who prefer human meat on the menu. Some humans survive - good guys (Ali Larter, Oded Fehr, Ashanti) form convoys and keep moving, bad guys live underground in high-tech facilities. Good guys look for more good guys and scavenge for supplies, and of course kill zombies. Bad guys look for cure and kill clones and zombies. Evil scientist (Dr. Sam Isaacs) gets carried away with evil experiments and needs Milla Jovovich (Alice) to use her blood to make anti-virus. Alice wants to keep her blood, and links up with human convoy. Many deaths follow. Ending leaves huge opening for next movie, possibly in Tokyo.


The CGI for Resident Evil has once again improved on itself; Everything blends in seamlessly with the real-world environment and the stunts are much more grounded with reality. The kukhri knives are probably the coolest and deadliest weapon used in the film, and the actual sequences their featured in are amazing. I really dug the zombie crows scene especially when Ashanti's meaningless role ended. What the hell was the point in having her in the movie except to appeal to a certain demographic?

Plot holes were abound as well (where is Jill Valentine? what happened to her from RE2?) and so were a string of tired clichés that I could have done without. If I see the whole “I got bitten by a Zombie but won’t tell anyone until I turn and attack them” device one more time...Aghh!!



All in all, Resident Evil: Extinction was a better film than I anticipated and being the highest grossing installment in the series, I expect we will have yet another zombie flick on the horizon.

Movie Rating: 4/5

Great White Stalks Biologist in Africa

"Alone in his tiny plastic sea kayak, marine biologist Trey Snow had hoped to stealthily track a great white shark. But he had the shock of his life when he spotted a giant fin and realised it was he who was being stalked - by surely one of the most feared killers in the world. The magnificent creature initially dived to the seabed, inspecting the kayak from below, before rising menacingly to the surface. Luckily for Trey, the 13ft-long shark was more inquisitive than hungry...This incredible picture was taken by wildlife photographer Thomas Peschak - who had to tie himself to the high bridge of a nearby vessel and lean precariously over the ocean before he could get his shot." -published in Britain's Daily Mail today

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)