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RoboCop 2 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

RoboCop 2 will protect the innocent on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sequel has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.

Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) directs from a script by comic book legend Frank Miller and Walon Green (Eraser). Peter Weller returns to star with Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon.

Special features include: commentaries by CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon and the RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians; Corporate Wars: The Making of RoboCop 2; Machine Parts: The FX of RoboCop 2; Ocp Declassified; and more.

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Hey, "Elementary" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 2 of this final season 7. Now that it's officially in the history books, it's time to see what will be taking place in the next, new episode 3 next week. The wonderful folks over at CBS did serve up a press release for episode 3. So, that's what we'll be working with in this spoiler session. To get things started, CBS' press release filled us in on what the title is for episode 3. It's labeled, "The Price Of Admission." That is definitely a phrase I've heard before. It sounds like episode 3 will feature some pretty interesting scenes as Homes tries to make his way back into the United States. Watson helps out with a murder investigation and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Holmes situation. It turns out that Holmes will not only try to get back into the United States,...

Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com

Death Machine (1994)

Written by: Stephen Norrington

Directed by: Stephen Norrington

Cast: Ely Pouget (Hayden Cale), William Hopkins (John Carpenter), John Sharian (Sam Raimi), Martin McDougall (Yutani), Richard Brake (Scott Ridley), Brad Dourif (Jack Dante)

The early to mid-nineties were an interesting time in horror. To coin a very familiar phrase, “It was the best of times, and the worst of times.” I’ll go with the bad stuff first. Nothing much was happening at the popular theatres in the vein of any quality horror, but on the bright side, we did get some small theatrical release and direct to video gems on VHS. At this point VHS was an established format. The novelty had worn off, but all of these really unique movies that would have never been seen, found a home on the rental shelves. I’ve seen some great ones that still are personal favorites,...

Atlantic Theater Company presents the New York premiere of Harper Regan, by Oliver Award winner Simon Stephens, starring an ensemble cast featuring Vandit Bhatt, Christopher Innvar, Mahira Kakkar, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Gareth Saxe, Peter Scanavino, John Sharian and Stephen Tyrone Williams, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.Harper Regan officially opened last night, October 10 and plays a limited engagement through Sunday, October 28 Off-Broadway at Atlantics main stage Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street. Check out photos from opening night below...

Jason Bateman has signed on for two indie projects - "Disconnect" at Liddell Entertainment and "The Longest Week" at Far Hills Pictures says Variety.

Henry Alex Rubin's ensemble drama "Disconnect" deals with characters who are affected, and in some cases destroyed, by the Internet and other forms of modern communication. Alexander Skarsgård, Frank Grillo, Colin Ford, Michael Nyqvist, and John Sharian also star.

In 'Week', Jason Bateman plays an affluent and aimless young man living in his parent's prestigious Manhattan hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited and in love. Peter Glanz directs from his own screenplay.

Bateman will shoot both projects back-to-back between October and November.

Actor Jason Bateman has signed on for two indie projects, Liddell Entertainment's Disconnect and Far Hills Pictures' The Longest Week.

Disconnect stars Alexander Skarsg&#229rd, Frank Grillo, Colin Ford, Michael Nyqvist, and John Sharian, who all portray characters affected in serious ways by the Internet. Jason Bateman plays the father of Colin Ford's character. Henry Alex Rubin directs Disconnect from a screenplay by Andrew Stern.

The Longest Week centers on Jason Bateman's character, who spends a week in his parents' luxury Manhattan hotel, which creates chaos in his life. Olivia Wilde also stars in The Longest Week. Peter Glanz will direct The Longest Week from his own screenplay.

It is said that Jason Bateman will shoot both projects back-to-back between October and November.

Disconnect comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Frank Grillo, Colin Ford, Michael Nyqvist, John Sharian, Jason Bateman. The film is directed by Henry Alex Rubin.

A blind man in an 'out of order' public toilet hears a girl being attacked and backs further into the toilet, making a noise. He tells him he's blind and begs for his life. The attacker calls him worthless and won't shoot him. The blind man heads straight for the police and lo and behold said police turns out to be Horatio (David Caruso). Who just happened to be nearby. Horatio runs to find the van taking off with the girl inside. The blind man knew the police were there as he heard the clicks from the sirens. Ben (Jonathan Keltz) describes the scene to Ryan (Jonathan Togo) and Natalia (Eva Larue) both given the dirty jobs of analyzing the toilet. That was left to Walter (Omar Miller) in last season's In Plane Sight episode. This time Ryan has to do it after he blatently refused last time. Ryan whispers...

“Guilty Pleasures” just about sums them up, but if you happen to be a fan of the output of director Brian Yuzna and producer Julio Fernandez’s now retired Fantastic Factory label, then count yourself in luck as Arrow Video will be releasing a four-film set in the UK on April 18th entitled – you guessed it – Fantastic Factory Presents!

From the Press Release:

From Arrow Video comes an essential collection of four of the biggest hit features from the Fantastic Factory, the specialist horror, sci-fi and fantasy genre label created by cult writer, director and producer Brian Yuzna (Beneath Still Waters; Bride Of Re-Animator; Society) and Spanish producer Julio Fernandez (Rec; Perfume; The Machinist).

This exclusive four-disc box set includes Brian Yuzna’s Beyond Re-Animator and Faust: Love Of The Damned, along with Arachnid, directed by Jack Sholder (A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge), and Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt,...

All you DVD collecting horror fanatics out there have probably noticed some of the awesome releases that have been coming out of the UK’s Arrow Video as of late. They do an amazing job packaging their discs, windowed slip covers, allowing you to choose which of the multiple artworks to display on your shelf, posters, and several discs to hold all the fantastic extras. They know what we collectors want, and they provide.

Now Arrow is releasing their first several film box set, and it is, brace yourself… all Fantastic Factory titles.

The Fantastic Factory was a branch of Filmax founded in 2000 in Barcelona by filmmakers Brian Yuzna and Julio Fernández. The purpose of the studio was to make modestly budgeted genre films in English for an international audience, to have more opportunities to work with genre favorites like Screaming Mad George and Jeffrey Combs, and, of course, to...

Christian Bale gives a tour-de-force performance in this sleep deprived thriller. Not only that but he starved himself to take on the skeletal, emaciated role and the results are shocking. Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) has chronic insomnia and hasn.t slept in a year. He works as a machinist and his insomnia has caused him to become an emaciated skeletal figure. This doesn.t set well with his co-workers and they.re suspicious of his weight loss and strange behavior. Things go from bad to worse when he.s distracted by an unfamiliar man named Ivan (John Sharian) and his co-worker Miller (Michael Ironside) loses his arm in one of the machines. No one at the machine shop knows...

Chicago – Paramount Home Video is unleashing waves of catalog titles this month. It started with the comedy wave last Tuesday and continues with a diverse slate of action films this week.

Like the comedy set, the films have very little in common other than their genre (and even that is a bit sketchy with “The Machinist” bearing little resemblance to “Paycheck”). The highlights of the wave are clearly “3 Days of the Condor,” “The Machinist,” and “Changing Lanes” with “Enemy at the Gates” certainly having enough visual power to warrant a look in HD. “Paycheck”? Good luck with that one.

All five titles were released on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009.

“3 Days of the Condor”

Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “In Sydney Pollack’s critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies…and his so-called allies.

While we still wait for a Us DVD release date from Dimension Extreme, Tom Shankland's Waz (trailer) continues to get released across the world. Today a new international poster was discovered for the film, which stars Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters and John Sharian. Read on to take a look and cross your fingers that Dimension gives a date soon.

Paramount Classics has snapped up distribution rights from Filmax International to Brad Anderson's Sundance Film Festival selection The Machinist, starring Christian Bale. The speciality division has aquired rights to the pic in North America, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. It is planning a late-2004 release. The film, which also recently screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, stars Bale as factory machinist Trevor Reznik, who has not slept in a year. His lack of sleep has led to a deterioration in his physical and mental health, and he struggles to come to terms with his breakdown. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Ironside, Aitana Sanchez Gijon and John Sharian also star in the Julio Fernandez-produced film. "We are extremely proud to be working with Brad, a director of incredible vision," Paramount Classics co-presidents Ruth Vitale and David Dinerstein said. "His film is powerfully unique and evocative. Bale's work is equally impressive." Bale notably lost 65 lbs. for the part. Filmax president Carlos Fernandez and Filmax senior vp sales and co-productions Antonia Nava served as executive producers. The rights deal was negotiated by John Sloss with Endeavor.

This review was written for the festival screening of "Calendar Girls".

In 1997's "The Full Monty", it was a bunch of down-and-out lads in the urban blight of Sheffield who danced naked because they were unemployed. In "Calendar Girls", it's a group of middle-aged ladies who get their kit off in beautiful rural Yorkshire.

Far from the ranks of the unemployed, they're industrious members of the Women's Institute. These doughty women of a certain age pose in the nude not because they're broke, but to raise money for leukemia research. It's a real-life story adapted into a grown-up comedy that is warm, winning and sexy. Call it "The Full Auntie".

With a rich mix of characters, emotions and reactions that all couples will recognize, and a clever nod to the younger generation, "Calendar Girls" has universal wit and wisdom that should make it a crowd-pleaser everywhere. The film opens here Sept. 5 and in North America on Dec. 19.

The aunts, mothers, wives and widows who make up the "Calendar Girls" are played by a roster of fine British performers who, along with the actors who play the long-suffering men in their lives, combine for an enchanting ensemble performance. Helen Mirren (Chris) and Julie Walters (Annie) play the best-pal ringleaders of the more spirited members of the Women's Institute in the picturesque village of Knapely on the Yorkshire dales. Easygoing Chris is not past submitting a ready-made cake from Marks & Spencer in the baking competition at the annual fete, but sober Annie usually provides the brakes for her wilder schemes. When Annie's husband dies of leukemia, however, Chris' notion of a WI nude calendar captures her imagination.

The real-life calendar ladies did end up becoming famous, going on "The Tonight Show"and raising thousands for charity, and the film follows all of that. But the rest is fiction, and clever stuff it is. Producers Nick Barton and Suzanne Mackie, writers Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth and director Nigel Cole have combined to develop a fable rooted in character and firm plot development.

In many ways, "Calendar Girls" is a better movie than "The Full Monty" because it doesn't just take a moment in time and freeze it the way the earlier movie did. For the lads in Sheffield, nothing much was going to change after they stripped off, whereas you have the sense that things will never be quite the same in the village of Knapely -- and for the better.

It's a triumph that there is nothing sniggering or preachy in a film that deals with breaching conventions of decorum and explores how the bonds of marriage and friendship can be tested by acts of freedom and encounters with fame.

The gags will mostly travel well, though only British viewers will truly appreciate a line delivered by one of the husbands over breakfast when he looks up from the country's most hidebound and illiberal newspaper: "You're nude in the Telegraph, dear."

Mirren and Walters play against type very well, with the "Gosford Park" star shedding her often dour screen presence for a lighthearted and captivating performance and the animated star of "Educating Rita" showing a calmer more complex side. They will each be in the running when awards season comes around.

Penelope Wilton is also standout as a devoted wife who discovers that her husband is having an affair, and John Alderton is excellent in the small but crucial role of Annie's dying husband.

Cinematographer Ashley Rowe captures both the beauty and aching loneliness of the Yorkshire countryside and lights the Southern California sequences to heighten the glare of sudden and transitory fame. Patrick Doyle's typically melodic score cannily plays to the landscape of the ladies' minds rather than the cliche of their rural English environment.

CALENDAR GIRLS

Buena Vista Pictures

Touchstone Pictures presents a Harbour Pictures production

Credits:

Director: Nigel Cole

Screenwriters: Juliette Towhidi, Tim Firth

Producers: Nick Barton, Suzanne Mackie

Music: Patrick Doyle

Editor: Michael Parker

Director of photography: Ashley Rowe

Production designer: Martin Childs

Costume designer: Frances Tempest

Cast:

Chris: Helen Mirren

Annie: Julie Walters

Ruth: Penelope Wilton

Jessie: Annette Crosbie

Celia: Celia Imrie

Cora: Linda Bassett

Kathy: Georgie Glen

May: Angela Curran

Trudy: Rosalind March

Rod: Ciaran Hinds

John: John Alderton

Lawrence: Philip Glenister

Jem: John-Paul McLeod

Marie: Geraldine James

Gaz: Marc Pickering

Eddie: George Costigan

Richard: Graham Crowden

Frank: John Fortune

Danny: John Sharian...