Not that I care all that much about Clive Barker movies–some of the most patently confusing gratuitous bloodfeasts on the face of the earth–but what Lions Gate is doing to Midnight Meat Train is simply beyond the pale.
The word from Bloody-DIsgusting goes a little something like this:
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I love it when people get all up in a lather about ill-informed movie tidbits in the news. The fantasy that someone, unknowingly privy to secret information, could accidentally spill the beans to millions of fanboys, is exciting. Something similar recently happened with Aaron Eckhart re: the Batman franchise, and I’m guilty of getting sucked into the speculation. But this one? This one is just too much.
WARNING: Those who haven’t seen Casino Royale and still plan to - what the hell are you waiting for? There are spoilers in this post, so please read it at your own risk.
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When the Wii was first unveiled, every red-blooded boy immediately thought the same thing: STAR WARS GAME. You move the controller in your hand and the lightsaber moves on the screen. This is the thing the console was born to do, except it can’t actually do it.
As anyone who has tried some of the non-Wii Sports games knows, the Wiimote’s motion sensing can be awfully dodgy at times, not coming anywhere close to 1-to-1 movement. (Give the MonkeyBall frisbee minigame a try sometime for an exercise in frustration.) But now that Nintendo is introducing an add-on that supposedly improves the motion sensing, a third party company has put out a rather tantalizing video.
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Now, you might wonder, with an opening like that, what could I possibly be building up into? Okay, this one’ll kill you. Remember when I was screaming about Bruce Campbell’s wreck of a career and how desperately he and Sam Raimi both need to get back in and do Evil Dead 4?
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This is one of those really baffling things that pops up in entertainment news every now and then; most likely, it’s just a statement taken out of context that I am blowing way out proportion. But so far, I haven’t seen anyone questioning it, so I’m going to go nuts.
THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR “THE DARK KNIGHT.” MAJOR ONES. DON’T PROCEED IF YOU CARE ABOUT THAT SORT OF THING.
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Got a real treat this time around for you, folks, in the form of a webcomic you may not have recently heard of. One of the great themes of webcomics is geeks and their assorted paraphernalia, like movies, music, books and video games. Let’s face it, anyone who calls himself (or herself) a geek has a fascination with at least one item on that list, and probably more than one. Me, it’s all four in varying amounts. You should see my house sometime.
But anyway! This time around I’ve got JT from Between Failures talking to me in the Five Question Slot O’ Doom (I’m thinking about trademarking that. You know, like that old show Banzai and its Lady One Question or Mister Shake Hands Man) and he’s got some geektastic things to tell us about comic book conversion movies, pop culture in general, and the all-time best ever movie quote.
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Since I was just complaining recently about how vampires don’t seem to be quite the cultural staple that they used to be, I’m sort of interested in this recent development. It turns out that Last Blood, a webcomic that is not to be confused with the upcoming HBO series True Blood, is going to be turned into a movie. For reals.
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Last Blood isn’t the kind of webcomic that features lonely nerds and anthropomorphic iPods; it’s a serious affair with a zombie apocalypse and people with shotguns and…uh…I only got to page eleven, because you have to load each page on its own and it’s slow going. But the art is pretty awesome and the story looks like it’s building up to something cool.
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You wouldn’t think a writer for Playboy would be the guy calling for decorum and restraint in a trade show, but here were are.
The old E3 was a three-day migraine with a side order of Asperger’s Syndrome, which turns out is neither pretty nor pleasant. Plus, some of us were trying to get work done.
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I want you to know up front on this one that I am, almost, totally talking out of my ass on this one. I have very, VERY, little evidence to support this which is why I’m putting it forth as a guess.
I’m beginning to wonder if Repo! The Genetic Opera, Paris Hilton notwithstanding, is going to bypass theatres entirely and go straight to video. There are already some people who think that Repo! will get a tiny theatrical release and THEN go to video. This is very, very possible–and probably more likely than my own guess–but I’ve got one interesting bit of data that nudged me over into the “no theatrical release” category.
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If you’re like me, you occasionally find yourself in the mood to watch more than one movie. Everything sounds good. You’d like a nice dose of action, some horror, some car chases, a few Medieval adventures, maybe some Tolkien-style fantasy, and a little sci-fi to boot. What can you do to scratch that itch?
Apparently, that’s the question that director Neil Marshall was attempting to answer when he made Doomsday. I was sort of looking forward to it; although it was clearly a take on Escape from New York, I thought maybe Marshall would have something fun to add. After all, his previous effort, The Descent, was very good - I caught it on a double bill with Snakes on a Plane at my school’s second-run theater, and I can 
honestly say that it ended up being better than the main feature. I was surprised by some of the warm-hearted humor and character development that found its way into what was, essentially, a classic “trapped in a cave” horror movie. Not to mention that, unlike far too many “horror” movies nowadays, it was genuinely scary. Whether you’re afraid of the dark or the monsters who reside in it, The Descent will push your buttons.
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