May 08, 2008
In Japan, HOT FUZZ Gains an Extra Dimension of Cool
(via edgar wright)
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January 21, 2008
Let's Take that HELL RIDE Together
Movie one-sheets have been dismally unimaginative the past, let's say, decade. So when I see one that stands up and asserts itself in badassery, I take notice. HELL RIDE. Quentin Tarantino backed the movie. Larry Bishop wrote it. I'm ready to see it.
Bring it!
(via iwatchstuff )
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January 03, 2008
Best Movie Posters of 2007
Somehow I missed/never even heard of number 10 here:
scare me to celibacy then
10. Teeth
Not too many people saw this small release that played well at Sundance, but it certainly has an interesting premise: A girl’s vagina grows some teeth and starts terrorizing her lovers (and for that matter, her va-jay-jay doctor.) The poster doesn’t tell us that — it also doesn’t tell us that this movie is more of a horror movie than a comedy. But that’s what I loved most about it — sometimes deceptive is the right way to go.
The other 9 are after the fall.
(via ontd, official TEETH site)
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May 11, 2007
In Belarus, They Hand-Paint Hollywood Movies to Winful Effect
Also: For reasons unknown, SHALLOW HAL is called EVIL LOVE in Russia.
More movies after the hop.
(via ontd and englishrussia.com)
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April 13, 2007
Michael Dougherty Sends "Season's Greetings"
A neat little short via Michael Dougherty's(co-writer of X2: X-Men United and Superman Returns) MySpace.
And a teaser one sheet for TRICK OR TREAT:
(via ontd)
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February 27, 2007
HOSTEL 2 Poster Shows off Nipples and "Lovely" Violence
Recall this noise comparing what the MPAA found too offensive to run:
Now look at the what was shown at the New York Comic Con to the controlled masses:
I'm just making a mental reminder to see what poster gets released to the general public.
(ontd)
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December 07, 2006
PAPRIKA is Curiously Cool Looking
This ain't your mama's paprika. This here PAPRIKA will invade your headspace and cause fits of cool to shudder throughout your body.
Can dreams drive you crazy? Is the boundary between dream life and so-called real life permeable? Satoshi Kon has been making brilliant animations based on these and similar questions since "Perfect Blue," his 1998 feature debut about an idol singer whose life, inner as well as outer, is invaded by an obsessed fan.His latest and, he says, last investigation of this dream-vs.-reality theme is "Paprika," which premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival and has been selected as a possible nominee for an animation Oscar. I have no idea if his film will make it into the final five, but it is definitely different from not only the talking-animal, 3G animation for kiddies that is now standard in Hollywood, but also the manga-based, sci-fi fantasy that the Japanese animation industry exports in large quantities to the world.
True, it has SF elements, the main one being a gizmo called the DC Mini that looks like a futuristic hearing aid and can transmit the wearer's dreams -- think of an MP3 Web site that allows you to share dreams instead of tunes.
But instead of focusing on his hardware or spinning the usual good-vs.-evil SF story, Kon takes his audience on a wild, fantastic ride into a land of extreme dreaming, where primal desires and fears (absolute freedom, appropriation of one's identity by a malevolent Other) come to gaudy, phantasmagorical life.
I know it sounds like THE CELL. But this actually has a thought behind it. I'm sure of this(sight unseen) cause director Satoshi Kon did the amazing PERFECT BLUE, the mesmerizing MILLENIUM ACTRESS, and the flat out awesome PARANOIA AGENT.
That's 3 to 1 against CELL director Tarsem Singh.
All THE CELL did was show me J Lo smoking pot(points for the panty shot) and Vicnent D'Onofrio in weird hair. It got points for mentioning FANTASTIC PLANET but lost all off them when it turned into a 90 minute music video.
There's a one sheet under the cut.
(via ontd and anime luving YouTube and The Japan Times)
"excuse me, who are you?"
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October 22, 2006
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT Speculates Life Without Bush
Funny I haven't seen this advertised in many places:
Winner of the International Critics' Prize at the Toronto Film Festival," "DEATH OF A PRESIDENT" is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrously despicable and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The "documentary" combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews, presented in a respectful and dignified manner. Exciting and questioning, it refashions the event into a riveting story.
UPDATE: People who have seen this movie liked the heck out of it.
THE assassination of U.S. President George Bush has been warmly received, by movie audiences, at least.It was a popular attraction at last month's Toronto International Film Festival.
The audience applauded at the end and several more times during a question-and-answer session with the film-makers.
"I really liked it. It seemed very real. It was hard to believe the people were acting. I found myself mesmerised," said Linda Walsh, a real estate agent from California, who said she is not a Bush supporter.
"I'm always hoping when anything like this comes out that it will cause people that perhaps haven't thought about things to think about them," Walsh said. "About the war, about the Patriot Act, about our judicial system."
Director Gabriel Range told the crowd afterward that he does not believe Death of a President would incite anyone to attempt an assassination.
(via ontd and adelaide now)
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October 13, 2006
And on the Thirteenth Day, there was Vincent Price
I thought I was getting a bunch of podcasts of Edgar Allan Poe stories via Senses Working Overtime. I thought wrong cause every file I grabbed was unusable.
At least there are pretty pictures.
Still, they are doing a 31 Days of Halloween bit that might have other usable Halloween downloadables.
(via senses working overtime)
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October 10, 2006
"The Prestige" is Like Trippy, Man!
(via iwatchstuff)
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October 02, 2006
KITT got a Makeover and a Movie
This is a possible one sheet for the new Knight Rider 2008 movie. I say possible cause the ONTD poster, isntdaveone, isn't sure and I sure as heck ain't sure. There are too many good photoshoppers out in this here world.
"knight will fall"... wth?
All I can say is they better include a Bonnie-like chick and not that blonde bimbo that popped up in the later episodes.
And keep this fool's cameo to bare minimum.
(via ONTD)
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June 30, 2006
Visual Candy for the Summer Movie Soul
A wiley movie one sheet artist thought it a neat idea to make a skull out of posed ladies. A wiley-er ONTD reader noticed that the idea was nicked from Salvador Dali.
I'm partial to the original Dali. And that's not just cause Dali had the prescence of mind to make his gals naked.
Dali on the left, Descent on the right
And this one... the name is priceless:
mommy? why's there a new daddy every night?
Many more posters on ONTD after the jump.
(via ONTD)
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May 21, 2006
The MPAA Protects Your Children
The poster for 'The Road to Guantanamo' depicts a detainee hanging by his handcuffed wrists with a burlap bag over his head and blindfold over the bag, The Washington Post reported.
The documentary tells the story of three British men who were held at Guantanamo for more than two years before being released without ever being charged.
The poster was rejected one day after it was submitted to the MPAA, which attaches ratings to U.S. films.
A new poster, which got MPAA approval, shows only a pair of shackled hands and arms.
The film is due to open in U.S. theaters June 23.
The uncensored image definitely has more of an impact. I wonder where the MPAA's delicate sensibilities were for damn near any horror movie poster I've seen in the last 20 years?
(via oh no they didn't)
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May 16, 2006
Zombies make great pets
It's so "unique" that it could work.
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies carry the mail.
Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Terror spread across the land, until a collar was invented that made the zombies docile, even useful. A company was born: ZomCon. Thanks to their patented domestication collar, zombies became gardeners, milkmen, servants, even pets. ZomCon would like everyone to believe that they have the world under control - but do they?
Timmy Robinson doesn't think so. He thinks the world is "phony-baloney". An awkward loner, Timmy spends so much time in his room even his own parents don't notice him. So when Mom buys a zombie to help around the house, Timmy is surprised, and even curious, when the beast wants to play catch. When the zombie saves him from the local bullies, a true friendship is born, and Timmy names the zombie, "Fido".
But Fido's collar goes on the fritz, and the neighbors start paying the ultimate price. To complicate matters, ZomCon's notorious zombie-control specialist, Mr. Bottoms, has moved in across the street.
What begins as a small town story about a boy and his best friend, becomes a biting satire about our world, the price of fear, and the rewards of risking love. "Fido" will rip your heart out.
Reminds me of My Boyfriends Back. An earlier zombie/comedy flick with embedded with social commentary.
(via oh no they didn't)
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May 13, 2006
MOVIES: Little Miss Sunshine
This could be the most brilliant movie I haven't seen. It's filled with actors I think are awesome and some whose awesomeness are yet to be determined.
» trailer
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April 24, 2006
Wolfman's got Nards!
It was nostalgia geek-explosion. A special reunion screening of the funner than it shoulda been 80s movie The Monster Squad sold out in Austin, TX. On Easter weekend no less.
I loved that movie back then. I love the damn thing now. Good fun popcorn goodness, it was.
» Ain't it Cool director/cast write-up and DVD info
l-r: Andre Gower(Sean, The Squad leader); Ashley Bank(Phoebe the Feeb, Sean's littler sister); and Ryan Lambert(Rudy, the "cool kid"); The Monster Squad one-sheet
Inside the Ain't It Cool link you'll find info on why The Monster Squad and Night of the Creeps hasn't made it to DVD yet. The short of it is, if you want to get the suckers pushed into production, you have to shower the execs with physical proof of your fan presence. Physical proof of want equals proof of money being spent in their eyes. On that note:
» Snail Mail deluge this address to get Monster Squad on DVD:
Mr. Sumner M. Redstone
Viacom
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
» Snail Mail deluge this address to get Night of the Creeps on DVD:
Mr. Michael Lynton
Mr. Bob Osher
Sony Pictures Entertainment
10202 West Washingtopn Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
(via oh no they didn't)
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March 28, 2006
MOVIES: Lucky Number Slevin
Here's a flick that caught my attention. It looks cool-ish. This is based solely on the trailer viewing.
My wallet hopes I'm not wrong.
art of the gun
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March 24, 2006
SoaP: Parody themes and logos
I may be feeding the cult of Snakes on a Plane, but what the hell.
The logo:
The song(reasons why not to see SoaP):
DC Lugi - SoaP song
(via geekdrome forums & entertainment weekly & Snakes on a Blog)
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March 01, 2006
MOVIES: Unknown White Male
I can't decide if this fellow has been damned or blessed.
Sometime between 8pm on July 1st and 7am on July 3rd, 2003, Doug Bruce lost himself. That morning, riding alone on a New York subway headed towards Coney Island, he could not remember his name, where he worked, who his friends were, how much money he had in his bank account. He was without his identity.
UNKNOWN WHITE MALE is the true story of how Bruce, a successful former stockbroker, struggles to learn who he was and who he will become. The documentary, produced, directed and edited by Bruce’s longtime friend, Rupert Murray, chronicles this profound journey.
Two MRIs, two CAT scans, 26 blood tests and an army of psychiatrists cannot properly diagnose what turns out to be the rarest and most startling form of memory loss: retrograde amnesia. Was Bruce the victim of a robbery resulting in a slight head injury or the effects of a small cyst on his pituitary gland? Or perhaps is Bruce subconsciously reacting to the death of his mother a few years before? It is a testament to Murray’s smooth but honest narrative that the film asks all the right questions even if many of the answers remain elusive.
Murray empathetically walks us through Bruce’s quest. He assembles dozens of childhood photos, decades of home videos, extensive interviews with family members, friends, ex-girlfriends, psychiatrists, neurologists, and philosophers—and the touching participation of Bruce himself.
We watch how he reconstructs a life for himself by retaining what he admires about his former self while casting off what—and whom—he dislikes. It is at once a nightmare and a dream come true: a chance at rebirth.
there is a TRAILER of course.
(via indiewire)
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February 14, 2006
Happy Daiz and Arthur Dent will get my movie money
In the spirit of that despicable greeting card induced "holiday" I give you Confetti's trailer and one sheet:
To be honest, the trailer doesn't particualrly grab me. The main reason I want to see it is Jessica Stevenson. That woman is funny. The kind of funny that greets you with a grin then sneaks round the corner and waits to bash you in the back of the head with hilarity type funny. Savvy viewers will remember her as Shaun's doppleganger friend in Shaun of the Dead.
Cheeky lads and lasses know her from the "you should find, watch and praise me for introducing you to such an awesome British comedy" Spaced.
Oh and Martin Freeman from the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide and the original British comedy The Office is in there too.
Deeper digging revealed to me that the dialogue was completely improvised. Much like Waiting for Guffman.
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January 16, 2006
Ultraviolet must always equal vampires
I swear it must cause there has to be a billion movies out there that involve that name and has a vampire in it. IMDB calims there are only four, but they've been wrong before too many times to count.
I wasn't impressed with the idea of UltraViolet at first. I mean, how many times has the vampire-as-infection idea been done anyway? Then I noticed that it has the same director/writer(Kurt Wimmer) that did Equilibrium. UV will probably get my theatre money just for that fact.
Is funny but Milla looks more the Aeon Flux part than Charlize Theron. Probably woulda did a better job at it too.
IMNSHO.
(via 7d and dunc!)
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December 19, 2005
Foreign One-Sheets kick mondo ass
I absofucking love this site of movies and foreign one-sheets.
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December 15, 2005
MOVIE: "First Descent"
Whenever I get the hell up outta the southeast I'm taking up snowboarding. It's been decided.
(via my myspace )
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December 05, 2005
The X3 Teaser
Released earlier today. Which means it's been out for ages going by internet time.
The trailer aims to please and strikes true.
Now if only they can follow through.
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November 17, 2005
Metropolis poster sells for $690,000!
Some Californian bought the classic German 1920s film "Metropolis" poster for $690,000.
CLASSIC!
The art deco poster is one of only four known copies in existence. The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Berlin's Film Museum have one each while another is in a private collection.
I really love that poster. Elegant. Classic. Simple design. And kinda futuristic.
(via ain't it cool)
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MOVIES: V for Vendetta the Movie Goes Retro
This is turning into one-sheet week.
Hmmm.
One-Sheet Week.
Full image after the jump(ain't it cool).
The first teaser poster lives here.
(via cbr who didn't get the exclusive but should have)
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November 15, 2005
Nic Cage as Ghost Rider
I can see Nic Cage playing Johnny Cage far easier than I could him flying about as Superman.
Dunc! re-reminded me about the Ghost Rider movie that's in the works, here's a teaser poster from San Diego:
I do have isssues with that bike design, but that's just me.
I never kept up with Ghost Rider in the comics. He did weave in and out of X-Men continuity so I was aware of his existence.
Some interesting choices for some of the other characters in the upcoming movie. Crazy Eyes himself is playing blackheart the demon.
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November 14, 2005
The Chumscrubber
What do you get when Billy Elliot, Trinity, The English Patient, that funny looking guy from Invasion(and countless other flicks), TV's C.J. Craig, and countless other character actors work together on the same movie?
A possibly interesting film called The Chumscrubber.
Is weird but jamie Bell has a better American accent than I do.
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October 02, 2005
Everything is Illuminated
I'd really like to see this:
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September 29, 2005
Reeker
Gearing up for All Hallow's Eve means scary stories, scary movies, and butt-loads of candy.
We'll start with upcoming scary movies and work from there.
see the Reeker
All reports and re-vamped website point to this one being worth your 10 bucks.
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September 07, 2005
Bed Dead and Breakfast
I'm going to con Dunc! into letting me watch his copy of this flick.
He always finds and buys movies that somehow slip below the radar. That tust be his mutant power.
Watch the trailer.
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August 18, 2005
MOVIES: The Baxter
Just heard Michael Showalter (The State, Stella)has a movie coming out called The Baxter.
Fucking genius idea on Showalter's part, I think. Is it going to be good? I'll just have to watch and find out.
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August 09, 2005
70s Spanish One Sheets
Another Flickr set leads me to 1970s Spanish adult movie posters . Posters like The Erotic Adventures of Don Quixote and my personal favorite The Perversions of Wanda. You know where you're at with a title like that.
(via boingboing)
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