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Surrogates Blu-ray review

Director Jonathan Mostow’s Surrogates examines the nature of technology-fed isolation and the inherent dangers that it breeds, including fabricated personas, anti-social behavior, and living a lie, which are admirable issues to take on. The problem with the film isn’t with its subject matter, but in the execution and believability that the movie lacks. Surrogates poses ….

Piranha 3D gets new release date and the first image of the killer fish

Dimension Film’s Piranha 3D will be opening wide on August 27, 2010, moved from its original spring release of April 16th. Piranha 3D, which is directed by Alexandre Aja, takes place in Lake Havasu, Arizona, where a tremor causes the lake’s floor to open, setting free scores of prehistoric piranhas. The remake stars Eli Roth, ….

Win one of 2 copies of the sci-fi action thriller Surrogates on DVD

On January 26th, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release Bruce Willis’ sci-fi action thriller Surrogates on DVD. To celebrate the release, FilmFetish is giving away two copies of the DVD edition of Surrogates to readers. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win this and all other contests, your eNews profile must be updated with ….

New photos released from sci-fi thriller Surrogates

Disney has released additional photos from Bruce Willis’ sci-fi thriller Surrogates. In Surrogates, people are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic “Surrogates”—sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It’s an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don’t exist. When the first murder in years jolts this ….

Mission Impossible 4 now has writers to go along with producers

Paramount and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have chosen Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the script for the newly revived Mission Impossible 4 project, according to Variety. Applebaum and Nemec spent four seasons with Abrams as co-exec producers of the spy show Alias, and will pen M:I 4 based on a story ….

Echelon Conspiracy Blu-ray review

Echelon Conspiracy’s premise is a rather interesting one, surrounding a cell phone that bestows upon its owner, sets of instructions for getting the most money possible in virtually any situation. Unfortunately, that’s about where the interest ends. After computer expert Max Peterson (Shane West) mysteriously receives a parcel containing the mystical phone, the plot takes ….

Win one of three copies of the spy thriller Echelon Conspiracy on DVD

On July 21st, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Echelon Conspiracy on DVD and Blu-ray. Featuring an all-star cast including Shane West (A Walk to Remember), Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and Martin Sheen (The Departed), the high-tech action-thriller weaves a tale of greed, intrigue and the price of national security. To ….

Bloody trailer and even bloodier trailer for action film noir Give ‘Em Hell Malone

This trailer for Give ‘Em Hell Malone, which may be appearing at the Cannes Marketplace in a few weeks according to FilmSchoolRejects, was posted on YouTube. The film was directed by Russell Mulcahy, who lensed the cult sci-fi classic Highlander, along with Ricochet, Resident Evil: Extinction, and a bunch of other action films. The movie ….

Robots from Jonathan Mostow’s sci-fi thriller Surrogates revealed at New York Comic Con

Disney previewed Pixar’s Up and the Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller the Surrogates at New York Comic Con, over the weekend. Up director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera walked the audience through three very extended clips from the new animated film, and explained the some of the technical challenges in creating the movie, including how ….

Pixar’s Up and Bruce Willis’ sci-fi thriller Surrogates sneak peeks at New York Comic-Con

Walt Disney Studios will present films from their 2009 slate, including Up and Surrogates, at New York Comic-Con, on Saturday, February 7, 2009, beginning at 2:30PM, in the IGN Theater at Javit’s Center. These previews are usually attended by cast members, however other than Up’s director Pete Docter, none were listed in the panel preview ….

Check out the full Echelon Conspiracy film trailer

The full trailer has been released for Echelon Conspiracy, the action thriller starring Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergey Gubanov and Martin Sheen. Echelon Conspiracy revolves around mysterious messages from a new cell phone that promise a young American engineer untold wealth, and giving it to him – for a price. He ….

R-rated trailer for Sex Drive

I watched a screening of Sex Drive a few nights ago and it was pretty scary how much I could relate to the central character Ian (played by Josh Zuckerman), who’s on a mission to meet the internet eye candy of his dreams, Ms. Tasty (Katrina Bowden). No matter where you’re from, how you grew ….