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

Sleep Dealer film details and photos

Indie distributor Maya Entertainment will release the U.S./Mexico co-production Sleep Dealer, in U.S. theaters this April. The film uses sci-fi elements to deal with issues very relevant in modern society. Sleep Dealer takes place in a corporate controlled, militarized near future where the United States has successfully sealed its borders. Through American technology, we have ….

Release dates picked for arthouse favorites Ang Lee, Coen Brothers, Sam Mendes, Jim Jarmusch and more 2009 features

Focus Features has set release dates for movies by some big names in pop-arthouse cinema, including The Coen Brothers, Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch, along with a Tim Burton-produced animated fantasy simply titled 9, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Below are details I put together on Focus’ crop of features that will be gracing arthouse ….

Win copies of the original Uncut Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part 2 or Friday the 13th Part 3 Deluxe Editions on DVD

UPDATE (1/12): I have confirmed that we will be getting 2 of each part. That’s a total of SIX winners for this contest! I can just hear it now. That classic music…heek heek heek….hak hak hak, played on that low budget synthesizer. But it was great though. Friday the 13th changed horror forever, influences pop ….

American Teen DVD review

The Sundance favorite American Teen was recently released on DVD. The documentary introduces viewers to Hannah, Jake, Colin, Megan and Mitch, who are seniors at Warsaw Community High in Warsaw, Indiana. Most of the film’s stars act like they can’t wait to escape the town of their youth. American Teen simply isn’t compelling enough to ….

Win one of two copies of Complete Second Season of sexy and scandalous The Tudors on DVD: BUT ENTER QUICK!

On Tuesday, January 6th, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount released the sexy and scandalous historical series The Tudors: The Complete Second Season on DVD. It’s a great show….if you like sex, betrayal, high drama, debauchery and violence. That said, of course I was an early adopter of the now Showtime hit, which I hope gets ….

Into The Wild Blu-ray review

Who is Alexander Supertramp? He is a mythological figure who brought enlightenment to all he touched. Who is Alexander Supertramp? He walked among us and synthesized his pain into energy. Who is Alexander Supertramp? Christopher McCandless asked himself that same question everyday. The film Into the Wild is so amazingly brilliant, I was left asking ….

Top-grossing films and publisher success marks 2008 as Year of the Pulps

Pulp fiction is back as entertainment, according to box office and publishing reports. America’s fascination was evidenced with Hollywood’s three top-grossing films for 2008, Dark Knight, Iron Man, and Indiana Jones 4, garnering well over $2,000,000,000 worldwide and each based on pulp heroes. While in publishing, L. Ron Hubbard’s multi-genre pulp fiction series, Stories from ….

A Harry Potter dictionary

Characters Bagman, Ludo, Head of Magical Games and Sport, Quidditch player for England Binns, History of Magic Professor is a ghost and bores his students Black, Sirius (Padfoot), the prisoner of Azkaban, transforms into a black dog. He is Harry’s godfather and protector, falsely accused of murder Bloody Baron, Slytherin ghost, covered in silver bloodstains, ….

Facts about Troma’s Toxic Avenger franchise

The Toxic Avenger was created by Lloyd Kaufman in 1983 and has since become recognized worldwide as the definitive youth-oriented, “cult” monster hero. The Toxic Avenger’s name and likeness is recognized worldwide. The words “Toxic Avenger” have become part of the modern lexicon, used in New York Times Editorials, TV shows, rock song, and other ….

Favorite movies of all time

[poll id=”5″] As the Oscars get shined up this week and the world gets ready to honor the best movies of the past year, the question can also be asked, “What are the favorite movies of all time?” In at number one is the classic Civil War epic, Gone With the Wind. Number two is ….

The 100 Most Wanted Women on the net

[poll id=”6″] Recently Chickipedia.com, the world’s first wiki-based database of famous women, named the top 100 most searched for women on the site. Topping the list of this year’s most-searched women is Jessica Alba. Chickipedia receives over 1,000,000 unique visitors every month. It is entirely user-generated, making it the first female-only encyclopedia of the people, ….