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Ridley Scott's ALIEN changed scifi-horror in 1979. Now, 33 years later, comes PROMETHEUS, Scott's sorta-prequel to ALIEN, opening June 8th in the U.S.
There's a variety of viral videos on YouTube (
Peter Weyland's TED Talk 2023 [3 minutes],
Happy Birthday, David [2-1/2 minutes], and
the movie trailer [2-1/2 minutes]).
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John W. Campbell's 1938 science fiction novella "Who Goes There?" has certainly spawned, or sprouted, a lot of sequels, spinoffs, and re-imaginings, usually called one THE THING or another. As well as imitators; there were episodes of DOCTOR WHO and X-FILES that were very THE THING-influenced.
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Duncan Jones directed the excellent 2009 science fiction movie
MOON.
His new movie is SOURCE CODE, another science fiction movie with Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, and Jeffrey Wright.
Here's the trailer:
Or
here.
Opens April 1st (No joke!).
Hatchet 2 is a sequel to an independant film from 2006 that saw the birth of America's newest horror icon; Victor Crowley.
Last night, Wednesday September 1st, the
Plaza Theater in Atlanta had a sneak preview screening of Machete, the Robert Rodriguez film that started as a fake trailer in Grindhouse and became a real film, starring Danny Trejo as, well, a tough hombre with a machete. Before the movie there was a Mariachi ...
Now that Predators has been in theaters for two weeks...
Warning, here be spoilers. Although I try to keep a few things mysterious. Still, avert your eyes if you wish to remain pure and untainted and unspoiled.
No kidding. Really. Spoilers. SPOILERS. Like ...
The Other Guys will have a 2nd city premiere on August 5th. You can vote on Facebook to make it in your city. If you happen to live in one of those 20 cities, that is:
Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Orlando, ...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a thriller starring Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time). It opens in theaters August 6.
You can view the first 5 minutes here:
Or you can watch ...
The Asylum is a film studio that makes "mockbusters", straight-to-DVD releases that often just happen to be of a similar title and general theme of a movie coming almost immediately to a theater near you. For example, The Day The Earth Stopped, timed with the release of the remake of The Day The Earth Stood ...
On Sunday, October 18th, starting at 3 PM, the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta will have a food drive to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank. 5 food cans or $5 will get you in. Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 3 PM, and Monty Python's Life of Brian ...
This Thursday, August 20th, various theaters across the U.S. are having a live broadcast of RiffTrax (The former MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 guys, Mike crew) doing PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. 8 PM ET.
Here's
more info on it with a list of theaters.
Every year around Labor Day the Starlight Six Drive-In in Atlanta has their Drive Invasion. Sunday, Sept. 6, this year. Bands start playing at 11 AM, and then after sunset the movies start. This year's movie lineup:
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (
Trailer on YouTube).
A SPECIAL SURPRISE PSYCHEDELIC WESTERN (I have strong suspicions what this is, ...
The third Ice Age movie opens in theaters on Wednesday, July 1st, but on Father's Day, Sunday June 21st, you can see the film in 330 theaters across the U.S., one day only.
Here's
a list of theaters where it'll be playing on Father's Day.
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Opening August 14th, Spread is an Ashton Kutcher comedy about a sexual grifter in Los Angeles who romances beautiful. rich, older women (such as Anne Heche) to support him in the lifestyle to which he's become accustomed.
Complications ensue when he falls for a waitress his own age (Margarita Levieva). As it turns ...
Look comes out on DVD today. It's a narrative filmed as if from the point of view of surveillance cameras. A bunch of interlocking stories (ala Crash, etc.), it follows characters as they're observed on camera in malls, parking lots, schools, traffic cams, elevators, the office, and so on.
DVD extras: Alternate ...
Monsters vs. Aliens spoofs a lot of 1950s monsters and alien invasion movies, but the main character Ginormica is a nod to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
I was thinking about all the movies where someone grows to enormous size. For the purposes of this list, I'm limiting it to ...
Sunday, February 22nd are the Oscars. On Saturday, February 21st, AMC theaters are running an all-day event, the 3rd Annual AMC Best Picture Showcase where you can see all 5 movies nominated for Best Picture for only $30 ($25 if you're an AMC MovieWatcher member). Plus a free large popcorn, ...
Seeing DEATH RACE (Reviewed
here on MFG) made me think about the car combat genre.
Those movies, usually but not always set in some post-apocalyptic future, where road rage has been made formal with automobiles equipped with weapons, or used as weapons.
The original DEATH RACE 2000 (
Amazon) with David Carradine, of course.
MAD MAX (...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s there were nearly 4000 Drive-In theaters in America; today only a handful per state are left.
Earlier this week here in Atlanta there was a screening for the new movie
HELL RIDE, Larry Bishop's homage to 1960s motorcycle movies (Produced by Quentin Tarantino, and in effect a third ...
HELL RIDE, Larry Bishop's homage to 1960s biker movies, is released this weekend (Produced by Quentin Tarantino, and in effect another GRINDHOUSE movie).
It made me curious which of those 1960s biker movies are available on DVD. This isn't a definitive list, but it's got a lot of the highlights.
American International Pictures ...
Some straight-to-DVD releases on Tuesday, July 29th: STARGATE - CONTINUUM (
Amazon), LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE (
Amazon), WARGAMES: THE DEAD CODE (
Amazon).
Also the theatrical movies DOOMSDAY (
MFG review) and HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY (
MFG review) are being released to DVD.
And on Tuesday, ...
The Superbowl is over, the seemingly endless chatter from the Monday morning quarterbacks has ended, so it's time to give away a movie!
We've added in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Vol. 5 so if you're a fan, jump right on that. Otherwise the rest of the
library is available for you to choose from. Same ...
This weeks selection is
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Of the ten Trek movies, Khan is at the top of my list without question. Several of the others were quite good, but none match the fun factor of Khan.
FYI, we don't particularly follow our "no spoilers" rule on these classic movie reviews, ...
I realize that this is the same title as last weeks Free Movie Monday, but that's because I'd gone through a time warp last week and was actually giving something away in the the future, which is now our present.. or something like that.
In any case, it's time to give something else away. Look through ...
Bond 22 has a real name, Quantum of Solace. Mmmm… yeah.
Locations for the new flick have been released as well with filming in Austria, Italy and South America (I guess the person who wrote up the release things South America is ...
In our continuing efforts to bring you more and better stuff, we proudly introduce "Classic Wednesday," where we take a classic Guy Movie from yesteryear and give our modern take on it. This weeks pick is the mega-blockbuster war movie,
Patton. If you've never seen it, you'll want to put it on ...
Yes, I used the "P" word. From the mysteriously tantalizing trailers to the obsessive pursuit of all the viral marketing material to the LOUD $41 million dollar noise made at the box office this past weekend, Cloverfield is now, officially, a phenomenon.
And you just KNOW the folks at Paramount are giddy about how well it's ...
It's a holiday for some folks, but not for us. Here the Free Movie Monday express just keeps on truckin!
New in the
prize library this week is
Fatal Contact, a good martial arts movie with a decent story but a crappy ending. Don't let the ending waive you off though, you aren't watching ...
Several new titles have been added to the
prize library, including a couple of brand new releases,
White Noise 2 and
The Ten.
The rules remain the same, but if the last couple of weeks is any indication then competition for this weekly giveaway is increasing. So, first to post saying what they ...
We've just released our list of the
Top 10 Guy Movies of 2007. This year we've also included trailers from each movie in addition to links to our original reviews. Give it a look and let us know what you think. We welcome vigorous debate in the
forum.
Attempting to take the sting out of the crappiest day of the week, it's Free Movie Monday!
Browse the
prize library and see if something catches your eye. If you see something you like, all you have to do to get it is be the first person to post a comment to this post saying ...
I can't remember what exact review did it, but back in 1998 we read something that Ebert wrote and got pissed off. It wasn't his opinion that was so bad (though I recall it did suck) but in his review he gave away key plot elements.. nothing annoys us more than a reviewer giving away ...
The year has come to a close, and we still have plenty of titles in the
prize library. Let's see if we can get one of them to go away today, shall we?
A few new titles have been added since last week, so go take a look and if you spot something you want ...
I don't expect many of you to be online today as only a fool would be sitting at the office typing on a computer... er... wait...
Anyway, for the few of us who are online today I present the Christmas Eve edition of Free Movie Monday! Nothing special about this one other than the fact that ...
I bet you thought I'd forgotten!
Nope, just keeping you on your toes.
The
Prize Library still has lots of stuff in it, so if you see something you want speak up! Be sure to check in several times this week.. tis the season for giving you know.
We had a chance to have a conversation with Adam Rifkin, the writer and director of the movie
Look, which hits theaters in some cities today and will open in more over the coming weeks. If you haven't read the review of LOOK yet, we all really loved this flick and it's a unique ...
It's the holiday season and the
library is bulging at the seams, so we're gonna do a few extra giveaways for you. (HO HO HO!)
The same 3 day rules apply regardless of what day the contest starts on. We have confidence in your abilities to figure out the details on your own.
Todays giveaway starts ...
Are you a fan of Johnny Knoxville and crew? Would you like to see more Jackass? Well, you won't have long to wait! On December 19th, Jackass 2.5 will be released... but not in theaters and not on DVD... at first. Yeah, they're doing something weird with this one. Bypassing ...
Yesterday Paramount released the first poster from the forthcoming Indiana Jones movie in the nations newspaper, USA Today. For those who don't subscribe to that heady publication, here's the poster in all its' glory (click image to embiggen.)
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When digging through the DVD closet to see what could be added to the Library, I ran across
Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes. If you're a fan of the show you're gonna love it, but otherwise you'll want to keep a barf bag handy just in case...
Heck, even fans might want to ...
The current writers strike may well be the first one where I've actually had sympathy for those on strike and none for the companies that have been shut down. It was pretty cut and dried in my oh-so humble opinion - the studios wanted to have their cake and eat it, too! But now it ...
Just in time for Christmas(!) comes the release of the Rob Zombie version of Halloween. OK, it's not coming out until the 18th, but they've put a
rather amusing flash game online for you to enjoy while you wait for the Unrated Special Editon DVD to hit the shelves.
The game ...
Michael Psenicska was paid $500 to give a driving lesson on film to
Borat, and he signed a legal release allowing the footage to be used. This was 2 1/2 years ago, and a year after Borat was released and went on to make a huge amount of money (over $300 million counting DVD ...
For the second week in a row, Disney 'Enchanted' moviegoers (yeah, I know that joke sucked; no need to email me about it) and they flocked to the theaters to the tune of $17 million to win this first weekend of December. In a deja-vu moment, the next two films maintained their previous positions ...
Once again it's Monday and we're here to do our part to make this day a little less sucky. The
Prize Library is now open (with a few new additions of course), so take a gander.. and if you see something you want, just be the first to make a comment to this post ...
Holidays are nice and all, but I hope I don't see turkey or dressing until Christmas day! Candied yams though, I could use more of those. Hot sugar cookies, those would be ok too.
The
prize-library is now open with two new additions, Ocean's Thirteen and Planet Earth! Reviews for both of these will be ...
"Bruce, can you hear me?"
"Listen, we like you, we always have (except perhaps for that Hudson Hawk thing, and even then if we've had enough to drink...) but doing a Die Hard movie without an R rating?"
"Seriously, what were you thinking? Still, we gave it a 4 stars, but keep in ...
I liked how it worked out last week, so let's repeat. I suspect this will be the case for quite awhile as the
prize library is getting rather large. Either that, or we need to have a woot-off style giveaway at some point.
Anyway, if you see something in the
prize library that you ...
Public response to the Hollywood hype for Beowolf was lukewarm at best. But even a mediocre opening was good for first place in this very slow beginning to the holiday movie season. The animated epic slogged through the rest of the dreck to post a ho-hum $28.1 million take at the till. Left in the dust ...
Are you in the mood for something big, green, and somewhat funny? Then today is your lucky day as
Shrek the Third hits the shelves (and fills up the end caps of ever Target and Best Buy in the country.) We didn't enjoy this nearly as much as the previous ...
Last week was interesting, so let's try yet another modification to the rules and see what happens.
The prize is your choice from the prize library, and to win all you have to do is post a comment to this post saying what you want.
Here's the catch:
If you've won in the last 60 days you cannot ...
The Top Ten grossing movies list from this past weekend holds no surprises save for maybe one. As expected, both American Gangster ($43+ million) and Bee Movie ($38 million) did quite well, but I was expecting the finishing order to be the other way around and by a fairly substantial margin due to the former's ...
Several new titles have been added to the
prize library, and the first person who replies to this post gets one of them free.
For those of you who haven't followed the ongoing FMM-ness in the forum, it's a no BS freebie. No shipping, nothing. You ask for it, you get it.. assuming you're the ...
We are LIVE! Beta time is OVER and the new site is large and in charge! Take a look around and see how you like it. If you see any broken links, missing pictures, or other problems, please leave us a comment here to let us know.
Just like how Christmas decorations in stores seem to go up earlier and earlier every year, 'Holiday' movie releases are creeping in earlier each year, too. To wit, the three major releases for today are being talked about as 'Holiday' movies even though we're seeing them nearly 3 weeks before ...
Saw IV dominated the box office in its opening weekend; no surprise there. It's a pretty bad movie but when has that ever stopped a studio from making bank with a 3rd rate sequel? In this case, it was to the tune of 32.1 million dollars. All alone in second place was the romantic comedy ...
It worked last week, so we're gonna do it again this time.. the winner will be able to choose one title from the
Prize Library. A couple new titles have been added since last week, and at least one more will be added before FMM actually starts.
Also, this may be the last week that ...
Well, a few films are opening today, but given that we're in one of the doldrum periods for the year, there's not really anything that is a must-see. If you're in the Halloween spirit and liked the previous installments, then Saw IV may be for you.Â
Your only other *real* choice ...
After several weeks of hashing out what would be the best way to move forward, we decided that switching over to WordPress made the most sense for many reasons.
First and foremost it provides you the reader a way to interact directly on the pages with the reviews in a format many of you will be ...
Not nearly as good as the original, but it still has it's moments. The Creeper is still cool as can be, but unfortunately there's no naked babes for him to slaughter.
From the review" We were also ticked at the waste of an R-rating. Sure, there were some dismemberments and such, and ...
We received the Twisted Terror Collection in the mail today. Most of the titles are old ones, so I'll be sure to watch with an eye for quality as well as content. Included titles are:
The Hand
Dr. Giggles
Someone's Watching Me
From Beyond the Grave
Deadly Friend
Eyes of a Stranger
Two of these flicks apparently unrated, so I'll try to ...
As promised, we're giving away 1408 this week to one lucky reader. Head to the forum and post in the thread if you want it, in the future the winner will be determined by postings here.
From the forum:
It comes out tomorrow.. but we have the DVD to give away today! OK, ...
Being action movie focused, we like The Rock more than most other sites and we like to see him as the star of the #1 movie in the land, but when a kid movie tops a good action flick in an opening weekend smackdown, our loyalties are tested. The Kingdom is a kick butt movie ...
This week we're giving away Helter-Skelter. It can't totally suck as JC gave it 3 stars, but I never saw it myself so I can't comment on the rating.
But hey, it's free, so if you want it just drop a note in the forum and it's yours.
Time for some rules to this little giveaway.. you ...
No shock around here that Resident Evil: Extinction got the top spot even though the movie sucks. We just hope the series will go extinct after this episode... but we doubt it.
Good Luck Chick.. er.. Chuck took the #2 spot. I like Dane Cook, but this looks much more like a rental than a $10 ...
