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Film synopses, TV show synopses, biographies, and celebrity interviews.

Blindness DVD review

Miramax Films released the scary and provocative what-if thriller Blindness on DVD last week. It is a story where characters remain nameless, and is eerily set in an unidentified stark metropolis where angry commuters start their moribund day engaged in multiple acts of road rage along gridlocked and congested streets. A young man (Yusuke Iseya) ….

Miracle at St. Anna Blu-ray review

Touchstone Home Entertainment recently released Spike Lee’s acclaimed epic war film Miracle at St. Anna, which looks at the lives of four African American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines during World War II. ‘Miracle’ opens in the late 1980s, as aging New York postal clerk Hector Negron (Laz Alonso) pulls out a pistol and puts ….

Check out the live action Blood: The Last Vampire teaser trailer

The teaser trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire is online, and it looks good, although the video quality could be better. For the uninitiated, Blood: The Last Vampire follows the story of vampire and demon hunter Saya, who is part of a covert government agency in post-WWII Japan. She goes undercover in a military school ….

Red-band trailer and new images from The Mutant Chronicles

Magnolia Pictures has released new images, along with a red-band version of the film trailer for Simon Hunter’s The Mutant Chronicles. Have Faith… The Mutant Chronicles is set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control the planet as they battle over the planet’s ….

Cult action icon Sonny Chiba’s directorial debut available on DVD for the first time

For the first time ever in the U.S., the 1990 Sonny Chiba-directed thriller Yellow Fang (Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi), has been released on DVD by Cinema Epoch. Based on a true story. In 1915, a mountain village in Japan was attacked by a giant bear, dubbed “Red Spot”, who terrorized the villagers for days, murdering the ….

Win a copy of Afro Ninja: Destiny on DVD featuring iconic martial artist Jim Kelly

On March 17, 2009, Lightyear Entertainment unleashes the power of the Afro Ninja: Destiny, on DVD. Inspired by the wildly popular, oft-imitated Afro Ninja YouTube video – with over 80 million views – this laugh-out-loud martial arts extravaganza, stars International Stuntman Award Winner Mark Hicks from Rush Hour 2, super cool 1970’s Karate legend Jim ….

Trailer for U.K. thriller Hush

The trailer for the U.K. thriller Hush has been popping up on a sites around the web, including QuietEarth, Movie-List and 24FPS, and it looks phenomenal. The film revolves around a tired and irritable couple, Zakes (Will Ash) and Beth (Christine Bottomley), who are driving home along the M1 motorway. When a white truck narrowly ….

Jeremy Renner discusses The Hurt Locker at New York Comic Con

Actor Jeremy Renner (28 Weeks Later, The Assassination of Jesse James) stopped by the Summit Entertainment film preview at New York Comic Con, to discuss his role in Kathryn Bigelow’s (Point Break, Blue Steel) Iraq war thriller The Hurt Locker. One aspect of the film that he made clear from the start, was that it ….

Film details for the psychological thriller Harvest Project

A filmmaker sent me this synopsis for an indie thriller called The Harvest Project, which recently completed production in Vancouver, B.C. It sounds interesting, and apparently premiered in Canada back in December and is now available on DVD here in the U.S. Here’s what he had to say about the movie. What if in order ….

New trailer and poster for Running Scared director’s new thriller Crossing Over

For those of you who don’t Know, Wayne Kramer is the amazingly talented young writer/director of The Cooler and Running Scared. Both films were spirited character studies of damaged souls attempting to redeem themselves, while surrounded by other severely damaged and broken souls. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to Kramer’s latest effort – Crossing ….

Behind-the-scenes featurette about AMC’s Prisoner remake – and FREE streaming episodes of the original U.K. series

A few sites have been posting this material, and I just had to share why I’m excited about it. AMC has been posting behind-the-scenes video interviews and clips about the making of its upcoming mini-series remake, based on the short-lived 1960s cult classic sci-fi TV series The Prisoner. James Caviezel stars at No. 6 (the ….

Check out this wild new video promo for Fox Friday’s Terminator and Dollhouse

El fuego your Friday! Sci Fi Wire posted this video that Fox TV released as a new promo video for its upcoming Friday-night lineup, which consists of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Joss Whedon’s new action thriller Dollhouse, that’s an homage to grindhouse movie trailers, complete with psychadelic color warps and out of sync ….