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Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead. 

The story begins in Berlin, 1944. The Nazis are flanked on all fronts by the combined Allied forces, and defeat seems inevitable. In a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the war, Hitler and his team of evil scientists create a serum that resurrects their dead soldiers, creating an army of the dead even stronger than they were in life.

Ozi: Voice of the Forest and debuting the film’s first full-length scenes exclusively at the Annecy Animation Festival

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.

Britmania: The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture by Mark Voger

Remember when long-haired British rock ’n’ rollers made teenage girls swoon ― and their parents go crazy? Britmania plunges into the period when suddenly, America went wild for All Things British. This profusely illustrated full-color hardback, subtitled “The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture,” explores the movies (A Hard Day’s Night, Having a Wild Weekend), TV (The Ed Sullivan Show, Magical Mystery Tour), collectibles (toys, games, trading cards, lunch boxes), comics (real-life Brits in the DC and Marvel Universes) and, of course, the music!

Stunt Rock is an adrenaline-fueled cult classic that’s a death wish at 120 decibels

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.

Eraser: Reborn- The all-new action-packed film comes to digital, Blu-ray & DVD

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.

Sandbox World interview with multi-talented cartoonist Peter Sandmark of Slum Dog fame and more

I want to welcome cartoonist Peter Sandmark to Sandbox World. In my twenties, I fell in love with a weekly strip called Slum Dog by Peter Sandmark from the Montreal Mirror a weekly tabloid. The innocence of a local raggy old street dog captured my imagination. Recently, I wondered what happened to Slum Dog. I could not find much on the internet. I got to discover that Peter Sandmark is a multi-talented individual and is still cartooning. He now lives in British Columbia with his wife. He teaches on and off at the University of Victoria about his favorite passions comics and cinema.

Learn to draw cartoon characters and more using geometric shapes with Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square

All you need are basic drawing tools and shapes to cartoon! The book features dozens of drawing projects and step-by-step instructions perfect for beginning and aspiring artists, cartoonists, illustrators, pen and graphite artists, and many others. Learn to draw cartoon characters and more using geometric shapes with Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square by Margherita Cole.

Just finished reading American TV Comic Books 1940s-1980s by Peter Bosch from TwoMorrows

Comic book adaptations of television shows have been around since the beginning of the medium. Before that, there were a few comic books based on movies. Today comic book publishers gravitate to well-known brand names. Some of them at one time were television shows. American TV Comic Books 1940s-1980s by Peter Bosch celebrates the halcyon days of adaptions of television shows to comic book form.

Fanny: The Right To Rock

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.

Timex collaborates with Netflix’s Stranger Things on a new special edition Timex x Stranger Things collection

Timex, the #1 selling watch brand in the United States, is excited to announce the release of its newest special edition collection in collaboration with Netflix's Stranger Things. The Timex x Stranger Things collection brings together two cultural phenomena that will turn the watch world Upside Down, launched just in time for Season 4 of the sci-fi-horror drama to debut. Volume 1 of Stranger Things Season 4 premiered on May 27 and is currently streaming globally on Netflix, with Volume 2 launching on July 1, 2022. 

Quentin Tarantino’s book ‘Cinema Speculation’ is to land on Oct. 25

Quentin Tarantino's next book is a nonfiction dispatch from a lifelong movie fanatic. “Cinema Speculation,” to be published Oct. 25, will center on “The Getaway” and other films from the 1970s that influenced him during childhood. The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after the best-selling novelization of his movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Marvel Studios has acquired rights to use Stan Lee’s name, voice, likeness and signature in movies and television projects for 20 years

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 releases Carl Th. Dreyer’s VAMPYR

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.

Bono’s memoir, Surrender 40 Songs, One Story will be released on November 1, 2022

The title ‘SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story’ refers to the book’s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for ‘SURRENDER’ which will appear throughout the book. Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has Bon’s written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.

Meet artist Kieran Castaño who draws Ripley’s Believe It or Not! comic strip

Believe it or not, The "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" comic strip newspaper has been around since 1918. That is over 100 years of illustrated fun facts. In that time frame, many artists have contributed to the strip. Honestly, I did not know they were cranking out new material. A few months ago the strip added Orlando artist Kieran Castaño to the daily chore of educating us more cool educational tidbits.

Kino Lorber releases Miklós Jancsó 7-movie collection on Blu-ray

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.