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Kevin Smith's Clerks 3 trailer is out! The movie will get an official release on September 13.
Adventures of Captain Marvel chronicles the exploits of Captain Marvel, the world's mightiest mortal, as he combats the Scorpion.
Strap yourself in and get ready for your mind to take a trip to Strawberry Mansion by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley.
Umbrella Entertainment has a triple feature of invisibility movies. They are collecting together The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The Invisible Woman (1940), and Invisible Agent (1942). I have it in good authority that if you do not get a copy that they will disappear quite fast.
GCI Film has announced that its animated family feature, Ozi: Voice of the Forest, will be debuting its first scenes at the Annecy Animation Festival on June 15th in France, with a panel conversation featuring Executive Producer Rodrigo Blaas, the film's Director, Tim Harper, and the award-winning Animation team from Mikros Animation.
Take the thrill of insane stunts and the excitement of rock ’n’ roll, fuse them together and you get Stunt Rock! The madness starts when real-life Australian stuntman Grant Page (Mad Max) goes to L.A. and meets up with a theatrical rock band called Sorcery, and Page impresses the rockers so much with his daredevil antics that they hire him for their act.
The all-new original film, Eraser: Reborn, a reboot of the 1996 blockbuster, follows US Marshal Mason Pollard, a specialist in engineering the fake deaths of witnesses that need to leave no trace of their existence. In this clip from the action-packed film, Mason Pollard (played by Dominic Sherwood) fakes the death of Rina Kimura (played by Jacky Lai), a crime boss’ wife who’s decided to turn states evidence.
With Father's Day just around the corner, why not spoil him with both Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite and Charles Bronson's The Mechanic. This double barrel of Blu-ray movies includes extended features and goodies.
FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK is the untold story of the Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny. Fighting barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, Fanny's groundbreaking impact on music was written out of history.
As every comic fan knows, characters never die in comics. Now that has extended into reality. Marvel Studios has purchased the Stan Lee name and likeness to their brand for 20 years. Does this mean we will be getting more Stan Lee cameos in future movies? He was always a larger-than-life character.
Eureka Entertainment to release Carl Th. Dreyer’s VAMPYR, one of the finest and most enduringly mysterious of all horror films, is on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from a brand-new 2K restoration, unveiled for the film’s 90th anniversary. Available from 30 May 2022 as a part of The Masters of Cinema Series in a Limited Edition set of 3000 copies featuring a Hardbound Slipcase & 100-page Collector’s Booklet.
Screenwriter and director Miklós Jancsó (pronounced “yon-cho,” rhyming with “poncho”) was the creator of a unique film language centered around his mastery of the tracking shot. The first internationally recognized representative of modern Hungarian filmmaking, his extraordinary works examined oppressive authority and the mechanics of power. Kino Lorber is proud to present six of his classic features restored in 4K from their original camera negatives by the National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive.
WATERMAN chronicles the life of five-time Olympic medalist and Hawaiian surfing icon Duke Kahanamoku or “The Duke.” Widely considered the “father of modern surfing,” his success elevated the sport into the cultural phenomenon it is today. Narrated by Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game of Thrones, Dune)and directed by Isaac Halisama, the documentary explores his journey breaking racial barriers on the mainland and influencing surfing’s global spread as well as his life-saving achievements and the obstacles he conquered both within and outside the sporting world.
DC League of Super-Pets the animated movie should be a romp. It is scheduled to be released on July 29, 2022, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Adventure abounds with the backstories of the paperback collection of super-pet stories. Tails of the Super-Pets is a great catch-up before the animated movie. The animated feature boosts the motley cast including Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, Thomas Middleditch, Ben Schwartz, and Keanu Reeves. Marc Maron voices the dastardly Lex Luthor. I figured they would make him voice Streaky, the Super-Cat.
I can't believe that this franchise has seven films under its belt. Francis: The Talking Mule originated in the 1946 novel Francis by former U.S. Army Captain David Stern III, son of newspaper publisher J. David Stern. Now you can have the seven-film collection on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. The sixth movie of the series features Clint Eastwood's first credited role.
In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he’d honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. The Girl Can’t Help It bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers—including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent—who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, and John Turturro. They will be available for purchase on May 24.
Out this week is The Criterion Collection: Walker on Blu-ray. This movie not only has Joe Strummer as an actor but Strummer also composed the whole soundtrack. Inspired by the music of the area where the movie was shot, this is a fine film to add to your collection. It takes liberties as a timepiece movie to play with accuracy. An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th-century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua. All can be forgiven for a great little film.
Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other? The documentary features Judy Mills, Ashley C. Ford, Kelly Stacy, John Vanderslice, Kutmasta Kurt, Alyson Baker, Kelley Stoltz, Ben Blackwell, Billy Fields, Roz Lee, and Ashleyanne Krigbaum.
I recently heard an old podcast Stuff You Should Know titled How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work. I was treated to the origins of the Brothers Grimm's true stories. The Brothers Grimm stories have been around for such a long time that they have embedded themselves in Hollywood and pop culture more than ever since it was first published. Walt Disney sanitized most of the stories to stockpile their fortunes. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 fantasy film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal. The film was one of the highest-grossing films of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards. Several prominent actors—including Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Böhm, Jim Backus, Barbara Eden, and Buddy Hackett—are in the film.
Aquaman: King of Atlantis is a kaleidoscope of underwater adventure that will delight all ages. Finally, the King of the Seven-Seas is getting the respect that he deserves. Warner Bros. Animation has a winner with this new Aquaman offering. The animation is a delightful romp to view.
In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, “Midway”) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, “Game of Thrones”) believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.