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DVD Releases: Nov. 3, 2009: See the Beast Within your Dark Mirror
2 November 2009 12:26 PM, PST
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It's a Foy-a-palooza this week with several releases that have his name all over them like Beast Within, Mutants (not the French film of the same name), Night Watcher, and Sand Serpents. Mixed in with those are the more promising sounding Dark Mirror and a four-pack of Hitchcock classics that includes Suspicion, Strangers on a Train, The Wrong Man, and I Confess.
In addition, at the end of the list you'll find nine films that are being re-released in "keepcase" versions. The cream of that crop is definitely the original House of Wax with Vincent Price and the still effective giant ant fright flick Them!.
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/03/2009
31 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, November 3, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
With Halloween behind us, the list of frights is a little light this week, but if you look hard enough you just may find a couple of gems.
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Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: from time immemorial, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved...
Bleach: Uncut Box Set Season 4, Part 1: The Bounty
The supernatural anime comes to DVD with more soul-sucking adventure.
Bloody Beach
One summer day, eight members of an internet chatters club,
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BFI Lff Review: Chloe
22 October 2009 1:37 PM, PDT
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Atom Egoyan’s remake of Anna Fontaine’s 2003 thriller Nathalie relocates the French thriller to a beautifully filmed Toronto and employs Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried as the eponymous escort in what can only be described as an ‘erotic thriller’ (I know…) that falls short of complete satisfaction.
The film is ostensibly a simple thriller of deception and suspicion as Julianne Moore’s Anna suspects her husband of sleeping his way across the country to his New York University. Their marriage is a series of pregnant pauses and disappointed remembrances of their early years before their son was born. Their troubles are evident however David shows a total reluctance to acknowledge them. Moore is always worth watching and can imbue even the most tired role with a weight and sensitivity, and in this film she carries a sadness with her that is tangible and affecting. If only the film could
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- Jon Lyus
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TV Review: ‘The Simpsons’ Scares Up Few Laughs With ‘Treehouse of Horror’
18 October 2009 12:11 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Even the most diehard fans of “The Simpsons,” a group of which I would proudly call myself a member, would admit that the last few seasons of the show have been disappointing at best and, at times, downright bad (especially the current season we’re in, which has produced fewer laughs than anything on Fox Sunday nights). The annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode has usually been a reliable standby, a bright spot even in weak seasons. If “Treehouse of Horror Xx” is the bright spot of this season, it’s going to be the worst in the history of the show.
Television Rating: 1.5/5.0
For years, starting around season twelve (and that may be generous), “Simpsons” fans like myself used to fall back on a crutch that went something like “Even sub-par “The Simpsons” is better than most TV.” Sure, we knew that the writing wasn’t nearly as clever
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What's your favorite tennis-related movie moment?
6 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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With All About Steve, Extract, and Gamer double-faulting with our critics, it looks like our best bet for high drama this weekend might be on the tennis courts at the U.S. Open in Flushing, Queens. Seriously, that Oudin-Sharapova match yesterday was just about the best girlfight I've seen since Sheree-Kim on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And that's saying a lot.
But as someone whose interest in televised athletics is generally limited to the speed-sewing on Project Runway, I find that watching the Open just makes me think back on my favorite tennis moments in movies. There’s the fateful net shot in Match Point, of course, and the romantic volleying in Wimbledon. And who could possibly forget the gut-wrenching suspense of the climactic match in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train? There are also plenty of great tennis moments in movies that don’t have anything to do with the sport.
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Mike Nichols Dives Into "Deep Water"
17 August 2009 3:29 PM, PDT
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Mike Nichols ("The Graduate", "The Birdcage") is set to direct a film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1957 novel "Deep Water" for Fox 2000 reports Variety.
The story follows a small town wealthy socialite Victor Van Allen, and his flirtatious wife who has had a string of lovers on the side. When one of her ex-lovers is murdered, the jealous Victor hints to her latest conquest he may have done it to ward him off.
As rumor of his nasty streak begins to spread, fiction and reality begin to converge and it's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.
Joe Penhall ("The Road") will adapt the script. Highsmith also penned the Tom Ripley novels and "Strangers On A Train" which Alfred Hitchcock famously adapted....
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Nichols in Deep
17 August 2009 6:36 AM, PDT
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Fox has tapped Mike Nichols to direct and Joe Penhall to write their film adaptation of the 1950's Patricia Highsmith novel, Deep Water. Highsmith also wrote Strangers On A Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, so you know the project will have a delicious amount of deceit and seduction.
This is especially true when you read the synopsis: “In "Deep Water," a couple in a loveless marriage hang on through an arrangement whereby the husband permits the wife to take lovers....
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Mike Nichols Wades Into Deep Water
17 August 2009 1:08 AM, PDT
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Fox 2000 have landed both a writer and a director for their adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel Deep Water, and they both come with sensational CVs.Picking up the pen (or maybe he's a word processor man; we have no idea) is Joe Penhall, who recently completed work on John Hillcoat's big screen version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. And behind the camera will sit Mike Nichols, whose illustrious credits are too numerous to mention, but include Closer, Primary Colours, Catch 22 and, of course, The Graduate.Highsmith is legendary in Hollywood circles, with more than 25 of her crime/psychological thrillers adapted for the screen, including the Tom Ripley novels (The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley's Game, The American Friend etc.), and the one that launched her career after it was picked up by a Mr A. Hitchcock, Strangers On A Train.Deep Water (not to be confused with the
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Nichols directs, Penhall scripts Deep Water
16 August 2009 10:26 PM, PDT
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Fox 2000 has hired the talents of Mike Nichols to direct Deep Water with Joe Penhall writing the screenplay. The film will be an adaptation of the 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name.
Variety reports that the story revolves around a couple who are in a loveless marriage. They hang on through an arrangement whereby
the husband permits the wife to take lovers. Suspense builds as those
lovers begin dying.
Highsmith is reponsible for the stories The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers On A Train. Penhall adapted Cormack McCarthy's The Road, which is due out next year. It stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.
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