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Chilean TV series to premiere on U.S. cable net

Sorpresa, a fast-growing Spanish-language children’s net, will launch popular live-action Chilean teen TV series, Karku, for U.S. Hispanic tween and teen audiences on August 25 at 9 p.m. ET. The premiere is part of the network’s back-to-school celebration. Set in metropolitan Santiago, Chile, Karku is the first TV series for kids produced in Latin America ….

New photos from Appaloosa

I’ve posted a batch of new photos from Warner Bros. next western film, called Appaloosa, in the gallery. Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises), four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Pollock), Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger (Cold Mountain) and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) star in the Western Appaloosa, adapted from the Robert ….

Quantum of Solace release date swap

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony and MGM are moving Quantum of Solace back one week to a new release date of November 14, 2008. The switch has everything to do with Warners’ pushing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from its November 21st launch spot. Potter is now scheduled for next summer, on July ….

Night of the Demons remake synopsis and more Autopsy trailers

Director Adam Gierasch has been putting the finishing touches on his film Autopsy, and working on pre-production of the Night of the Demons remake. Bloody Disgusting got an early synopsis of the film, which revolves around a group of kids who go to a Halloween party, and end up taking on a group of demons, ….

R-rated trailer shows fate of boasting inmate in Death Race

You know that trailer for Death Race that ends with a dude boasting “You can burn me, you can shoot me, but you can’t kill me”? Well, the r-rated trailer for the movie shows you just what happens when you boast…And it’s funny as hell. The actor’s name is Robert LaSardo, and his familiar face ….

MMA fighter and indie film fight choreographer gets Olympic shot

The mixed martial arts sport of San Shou, which combines American Boxing, Chinese Kickboxing, and Mongolian Wrestling, has struggled for years to gain mainstream acceptance despite a large international following and the long-time support of MMA fighting icons such as Cung Le. Now, the sport has been given its greatest opportunity for exposure yet, the ….

Stargate gets a Universe

Stargate fans must just be ecstatic right now. First, the release of Stargate: Continuum at San Diego Comic-Con, which reunites the whole SG-1 crew, including Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Beau Bridges, Richard Dean Anderson and Don S. Davis – and, while Stargate: Atlantis will not renew as a series, and shift ….

The trailer for It’s Alive…again

While I’m busy transfering my old reviews over to the new web layout, the crew at Bloody Disgusting have unearthed a long-ass trailer for a remake of one of the scariest films from my subversive childhood. I didn’t see the film when it first hit theaters in 1974, but my older brother took me only ….

Hi-def versions of Wong Kar Wai film Ashes of Time Redux

Romance noir genius Wong Kar Wai goes back to his roots with Ashes of Time Redux, which follows a broken-hearted hit man who moves to the desert and finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. The auteur is re-editing and re-shaping his only martial arts film into the form he says was his ….

The Assassination of Richard Nixon film review

Year: 2004 A down-on-his-luck salesman formulates a plan to kill Richard Nixon by hijacking a plane and flying it into the White House. Sean Penn stars in this character drama inspired by a true-life incident. We all know that Nixon was not assassinated, but resigned in disgrace over Watergate. What many do not remember or ….

Beowulf and Grendel

Year: 2005 A 9th Century Anglo-Saxon poem brought to the big screen in 2006. In today’s MTV-dosed world, the subject matter might seem irrelevant. Which is really sad since friendship, loyalty and revenge are struggles we all face everyday. Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel is probably more relevant today than ever, and proves itself organically, ….

The Big Animal film review

DVD Release: 2000 The Big Animal is a charming and hilarious feat of Polish filmmaking. Director and co-star Jerzy Stuhr, has created a true gem, working from a script by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors Trilogy). I may be biased as an avid B&W fan, but it’s beautifully shot by cinematographer Pawel Edelman (an ….

Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One

Year: 2006 Blood and Oil, a new documentary from Inecom Entertainment, was utterly impressive. Director Marty Callaghan, whose previous work includes writing and producing a TV mini-series called The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History, clearly has a strong personal interest in his subject, and conveys a sense of immersive passion as he pursues the ….

Bride and Prejudice film review

Bride and Prejudice, a new film by the director of the hit Bend It Like Beckham, tries to speak to a global audience by refracting an iconic English novel through the realities of the Indian diaspora. The movie by director Gurinder Chadha takes novelist Jane Austen’s 1813 classic Pride and Prejudice and sets it in ….

Cocaine Cowboys film review

Year: 2006 Billy Corben’s exuberant documentary Cocaine Cowboys not only refrains from the type of overly preachy commentary that we usually see in drug-related documentaries, but it almost comically recounts the bloodbath that was Miami’s cocaine heyday, while delivering more solid reporting and facts than most of its predecessors. Part of the nirvana of the ….