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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, ….

Details on The Thing prequel story line, plus a new casting call

A very detailed casting call for director Matthijs Van Heijningen’s (Red Rain) Thing prequel has been posted on SpoilerTV. The story line centers on a remote Antarctica outpost (presumably the Norwegian one that we last saw a dog being chased from by rifle-toting madmen in a helicopter), where an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath ….

Iron Man 2 to be released in IMAX

IMAX, Marvel Entertainment and Paramount Pictures today announced that Iron Man 2, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Robert Downey, Jr., will be released to digital IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s worldwide release on May 7, 2010. The film’s limited IMAX release will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The ….