Wild Boar Fever - Best of Franz-Albrecht
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Westworld 1x02 Promo "Chestnut" (HD)
Westworld 1x02 "Chestnut" - Maeve's emotions are tweaked by Elsie to prevent a recall; Lee floats his latest narrative to the staff; Bernard and Theresa investigate the extent of a host aberration; two guests arrive looking for different scenarios; the Man in Black enlists a condemned man to learn Westworld's darkest secretss.
Monday, 3 October 2016
Skateboarder lands Tony Hawk Video Game special tricks in real life
Skateboarder lands Tony Hawk Video Game special tricks in real life
New Clips from DreamWorks TROLLS + sing along to Justin Timberlake's CAN'T STOP THE FEELING
DreamWorks' TROLLS is a hair-raising comedy filled with unbelievable adventure and incredible music. Known for their crazy, colourful, and magical hair, Trolls are the happiest, most joyous creatures ever to burst into song. But their world of rainbows and cupcakes is changed forever, when their leader Poppy (Anna Kendrick,) must embark on a rescue mission that takes her far beyond the only world she’s ever known.
TROLLS stars Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, Gwen Stefani, Russell Brand, Ron Founts
DreamWorks TROLLS is released in cinemas from October 15 in 3D and 2D.
Aftermath (Syfy) "Family Values" Promo HD
The Copelands continue to search for their daughter while facing catastrophic solar flares, demons and beasts that they had thought were mythological, but now discover are terrifyingly real.
Designated Survivor 1x03 Sneak Peek "The Confession" (HD)
Designated Survivor 1x03 "The Confession" Sneak Peek - Elizabeth Vargas has some tough questions for President Tom Kirkman. How will he respond?
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Teaser Trailer
Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by an old rival, Captain Salazar, who along with his crew of ghost pirates has escaped from the Devil's Triangle, and is determined to kill every pirate at sea. Jack seeks the Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that grants its possessor total control over the seas, in order to defeat Salazar.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is in theaters May 2017 in 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D! Watch first look. #APiratesDeathForMe
Starring
Johnny Depp
Javier Bardem
Brenton Thwaites
Kaya Scodelario
Geoffrey Rush
Orlando Bloom
Competition: Win Long Way North on DVD
Synopsis:
The beautifully animated adventure tells the story of 15-year-old Russian aristocrat Sasha, who, when her explorer grandfather mysteriously goes missing on his latest expedition, embarks on an epic adventure to find him and his lost ship, the Davai.
Stunningly rendered in traditional hand-drawn 2D animation and winner of the coveted Annecy International Animation Festival's Audience Award, the film is the directorial debut from lauded animator Rémi Chayé, and was co-produced by French studio Sacrebleu Productions and acclaimed Danish animation company Norlum (Song of the Sea).
This DVD features both English and French language versions of the film.
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Long Way North [DVD] [2016]
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Sunday, 2 October 2016
How to kill an octopus kiwi style
How to kill an octopus New Zealand style with Josh James from Discovery Channels 'Dual Survival' and 'Kings Of The Wild'
Timeless (NBC) "Finally Here" Promo HD
When one of the world's most dangerous fugitives steals a state-of-the-art time machine, the U.S. government asks a history professor, Lucy Preston (Abigail Spencer), a soldier, Wyatt Logan (Matt Lanter), and a scientist, Rufus Carlin (Malcolm Barrett) to embark on the adventure of a lifetime and chase the criminal mastermind, Garcia Flynn (Goran Višnjic) to the Hindenburg disaster of 1937. While there, Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus each have to draw on expertise to save the present and protect the past-possibly at great personal cost. Can this unlikely trio stop Flynn and unveil the mystery behind it all before it's too late? Also starring Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey and Claudia Doumit. Guest starring Matt Frewer and Chad Rook.
Saturday, 1 October 2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Movie Review by Carleton Rutter
Cast: Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield, Allison Janney, Kim Dickens and Ella Purnell
What’s it all about?
When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrine’s Home for Perculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepens as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
What are my thoughts?
Based on Ransom Rigg’s young adult novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Tim Burton’s 20th feature length film. The 58 year old who hails from Burbank, California teams up once again with Eva Green, after their first collaboration on Dark Shadows (2012).
I’ve never been a die hard Burton fan. However, having said that when the director has knocked them out the park with such movies as Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994) and Sleepy Hollow (1999) I've had a blast. Of recent years his kettle has come somewhat off the boil. The trailer for Peregrine’s Children had me intrigued though so I decided to check it out.
I wish I hadn’t, Burton’s kettle is now no longer just off the boil – it’s stone cold.
The movie centres around Jacob a teenager living in 2016. He has a pretty boring existence with the sole exception of his relationship with his grandfather played effortlessly by Terence Stamp. Jacob grew up on the fantastical stories of his grandfather about a mysterious Miss Peregrine and her home with special residents. This leads Jacob to attempt to track her down and see if there is any truth to these wondrous stories.
The main issues I had with the movie are as follows. Firstly, the cast. Asa Butterfield as Jacob just can’t hold the movie by himself. He was as dry as toast. I’m sure given other material he’s a good actor, but here I’m afraid to say he was not. Eva Green as the titular character was nice eye candy (It is Eva Green after all) but I found her over clipped pronunciation of everything to grate on my nerves, and given the fact she headlines the film is not in it for most of the third act. Most of the heavy lifting acting wise was left to Ella Purnell as Emma Bloom one of the “Peculiar” children who did the best with what she had. Also this isn't strictly casting but I found I wasn’t particularly drawn to any of the special set of skills of any child. Finally for casting, this movie also served as another pay check for Samuel L Jackson, what started as a fairly decent villain descended into a laughably cartoonish bad guy. He goes from menacing to just playing it for laughs.
Another issue was the pacing. The first act which predominantly takes place in the present day is very slow and lasts forever, I can remember thinking – “Are we ever going to see this lady and her house or not?” Then when we do finally get to see the house and are introduced to it’s keeper and residents, Jacob is suddenly back in the present day with his bland Dad phoned in by Chris O'Dowd. Then Jacob is back in the 1940’s and so and so on. The time shifting was not at all well handled and didn't feel organic. As a result, the movie really dragged at just over 2 hours.
However, I was in no doubt from a visual point of view that I was watching a Burton movie, with some nice stylistic touches throughout. Although some CGI was a little dodgy. This is where the similarities with the afore mentioned Burton projects ends. The story in this movie swings from boring to just incomprehensible.
Finally my other issue with the movie is just how scary it is for a 12A. This movie for children is proper scary. When I arrived the trailers where in full swing with the likes of Trolls, Moana and Sing being shown, all fluffy animated movies. So the predominantly family based audience where sitting nicely, tucking into popcorn and that extra large coke when they are treated in the main feature to the likes of characters eating eyeballs, one character bringing nightmarish dolls to life (Think of Sid’s creations in the original Toy Story) with living hearts, and characters without eyes.
Now I know it’s a Burton movie, and that most of his movies have imbued a certain macabre horror element but I would expect that in films such as Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd, but a children’s movie that sits on top of a trailer like Trolls a film about a kids toy or Sing a movie about singing animals? It’s no wonder I saw a handful of families leave throughout the movie. From a parents point of view of course anyone attending this movie which is directed by Tim Burton of all directors with children under 12A should have done their research beforehand, but the movie has been miss-marketed though to target a general family audience.
So, alas September which has been such a strong month this year for movies ends on a sour note. If you are fan of Tim Burton, then sure add it to your catalogue and the same goes if you have read and enjoyed the novel it is based off. For the rest of us though, best leave this to see on the small screen, that way you’re kids have cushions to hide behind.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is now on general release in the UK.
Review by Carleton Rutter
http://www.moviemanuk.net
FILM NEWS (UK): Horror Channel FrightFest announces line-up for Halloween 2016 event
Horror Channel FrightFest unleashes a six-pack of cracking horror for their much-beloved Halloween event at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, on Saturday October 22nd. The 13-hour trauma marathon includes five UK premieres and the world premiere of Ross Noble’s directorial debut. Shocktoberfest is here!
First up is the UK premiere of BED OF THE DEAD, a crowd-pleasingly ghoulish orgy of sex and gore where four swingers become stuck on a haunted double bed plagued by terrifying hallucinations. Next in the panic-stricken line-up is the UK Premiere of DON’T HANG UP where an evening of prank calls puts two millennials in deadly peril when one recipient decides to fight back. After that comes the UK Premiere of COLD MOON, a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance from the dark imagination of Michael McDowell, esteemed writer of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare before Christmas.
Then it’s time for a proper Halloween trick or treat with the UK Premiere of FEAR, INC, about a sinister company promising to bring all your personal nightmares to life. At 8.30pm comes the UK Premiere of RUPTURE in which The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace is kidnapped and tortured to an extreme limit into another frightening realm altogether. Lastly, it’s the non-stop violent action movie currently wowing fantasy festivals all over the world, The Mo Brothers’ HEADSHOT starring Iko Uwais from The Raid franchise as an amnesiac trying to regain memories about his sadistic and extraordinary past.
Plus, we’ll be showing two fantastic shorts, the world premiere of Ross Noble’s nasty Halloween-set satire THE CATCHMENT, starring the comedy giant himself and Shauna Macdonald and DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?, an Xmas season shocker from, Canadian directors Justin McConnell & Serena Whitney. And of course there will be intros, Q & A’s, give-aways and a few special surprises…
Guests attending include RUPTURE director Stephen Shainberg, THE CATCHMENT director Ross Noble, DON’T HANG UP directors Damien Macé & Alexis Wajsbrot and COLD MOON producer Lee C. Rogers.
Alan Jones, co-director, said today: ““We just know you are going to love this hand-picked half-dozen of the latest and greatest chillers on the shock block. Horror, dread, terror and fantasy - it’s what we do best at FrightFest. So be very afraid and book now”.
Passes for the London event cost £45 and go on sale from noon on Saturday 1 October.
To book: https://princecharlescinema.com/frightfest-halloween-special
Passes can also be bought at the cinema
FULL LINE UP:
10.30: BED OF THE DEAD (UK Premiere)
Director: Jeff Maher. Cast: Colin Price, Alysa King, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Dennis Andres, George Krissa. Canada 2016. 88 mins.
Out celebrating a birthday, two couples decide to party in a foursome at a sex club. Finding all the fantasy dungeons booked they are offered the mysterious Room 18 and start getting down to orgy business on the antique bed. But Room 18 has a dark history, the bed is haunted and once between the sheets, you can’t leave the mattress or you die. Plagued with frightening hallucinations across multi-dimensions, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are all doomed. A race against time begins in a gloriously gruesome, gorgeous gore-fest from the LET HER OUT terror team.
Director: Ross Noble.
Cast: Ross Noble, Shauna Macdonald, Cariad Lloyd, Richard Herring, Suki Webster
UK 2016. 16 mins.
A couple move into a house to be in the catchment area of a good school for their unborn children. But there’s a catch…
13:00 DON’T HANG UP (UK Premiere)
Directors: Damien Macé & Alexis Wajsbrot. Cast: Sienna Guillory, Gregg Sulkin, Garrett Clayton, Parker Sawyers, Bella Dayne. UK 2016. 83 mins.
I saw what you did and I know who you are! Two teens devise ever more elaborate prank phone calls to share online for their eager followers into impersonal humiliation. But as their
involved practical jokes become increasingly nastier, it never occurs to them they might be playing a very dangerous game. So when a mysterious threatening stranger calls the home landline, they suddenly realize they may not be invincible. In fact, they may be in very real peril, as the caller reveals the violent extremes he’s willing to employ to extract retribution before they’re able to reveal his identity.
15:15 COLD MOON (UK Premiere)
Director: Griff Furst. Cast: Josh Stewart, Candy Clark, Christopher Lloyd, Frank Whaley, Robby Kay. USA 2016. 92 mins.
From Michael McDowell, writer of BEETLEJUICE and THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and STARVE director Griff Furst, a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance. Welcome to the sleepy southern town of Babylon where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another when fourteen-year-old Margaret is robbed of her innocent life and sunk in the black waters of the River Styx. The powerful killer thinks he’s beyond the reach of the law. But he’s not beyond the rules of Hell or the spectral nightmares determined to mete out the most shocking justice.
18:00 FEAR, INC.(UK Premiere)
Director: Vincent Masciale. Cast: Lucas Neff, Caitlin Stasey, Chris Marquette, Stephanie Drake, Abigail Breslin. USA 2016. 91 mins.
Nothing is ever scary enough for unemployed horror fanboy Joe. Completely underwhelmed by a haunted house attraction he visits with his girlfriend Lindsay one date night, a creepy stranger gives him a business card for the mysterious service ‘Fear, Inc.’, a company
promising to bring personal nightmares to life… for a price. Despite warnings about the corporation’s dubious reputation, Joe calls the next day – Halloween - and sets off a chain of terrifying events that echoes such classic horror cinema as SCREAM, SAW, THE SHINING and FRIDAY THE 13th. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bump-in-the-night ride!
PLUS….DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? (London Premiere)
Director: Justin McConnell & Serena Whitney. Cast: Caleigh Le Grand, Jorja Cadence, Adam Buller. Canada 2015. 14 mins.
It's the Christmas season, and Sloan is reluctanly helping her over-enthusiastic sister Jessica with the perfect party. But Sloan might have to do some kick-ass fighting to save the partygoers from a terrifying death...
20:30 RUPTURE (UK Premiere)
Director: Steven Shainberg. Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville, Kerry Bishé. Canada. 2016. 102 mins.
Single mother Renee Morgan is trying to keep her life together when she’s suddenly kidnapped by a mysterious organization and held against her will in a sinister facility. Her captors insist they’re just conducting medical research, but to Renee and her fellow prisoners it’s torture! But why are they pushing her to an extreme limit, way beyond being scared to death and into another frightening realm altogether? A surreally spooky sci-fi horror from SECRETARY/FUR director Steven Shainberg, AMERICAN SNIPER producer Andrew Lazar and starring brilliant Noomi Rapace, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and the millennial Sigourney Weaver in PROMETHEUS.
23:00 HEADSHOT (London Premiere)
Directors: Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto. Cast: Iko Uwais, Chelsea Islan, Sunny Pang, Very Tri Yulisman, Julie Estelle. Indonesia. 117 mins.
Never forget, never let go in another fast and furious violent action thriller from The Mo Bothers, directors of MACABRE, KILLERS, plus V/H/S/2 and THE ABCs OF DEATH segments. The indomitable Iko Uwais (THE RAID and its sequel star) plays Ishmael, a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. For Ishmael was a killing machine in his forgotten history and when his memories finally do return he is compelled to take on a vengeful drug lord’s henchmen.
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