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[DVD Review] Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
4 December 2009 6:00 PM, PST
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Thanksgiving is widely considered the marker for the acceptable time for families to start dragging their worn boxes marked “X-mas” in faded black ink down from the attic or up from the basement. Mom or dad tests the strands of colored lights in a wall socket before hanging them because. without fail, you have to buy another each year to replace a dead one. Then after you light up the tree, the family carefully unwraps the ornaments, each with a story to tell.
When I was a kid, it was somewhere in between testing for reusable twinkle light strands and unwrapping glass ornaments from 1978 when I would run to find our copy of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” by Dr. Seuss. The thin pages between the hardback binding were crinkled and folded because of the love given this story. I’d bring it downstairs and sit on the sofa next
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- Erin Burris
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – DVD
4 December 2009 7:11 AM, PST
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DVD Review
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Bill Hader
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: PG
Due Out: December 1, 2009
Plot: Ex-museum night guard Larry (Stiller) returns with his historical friends to stop an evil Egyptian pharaoh (Azaria) staying at the Smithsonian from taking over the world.
Who’S It For?: Kids who are in elementary school will be amused, but like a trip to any mediocre museum, they probably won’t remember it.
Movie:
The original film’s intent on education through entertainment drops the former in favor of slacking on the latter. Historical figures like Ivan the Terrible, Al Capone, Teddy Roosevelt, Sacagawea, Genghis Khan, and others, along with some famous art pieces, are turned into Saturday morning cartoon characters (and not the ones seen on PBS). We are given their quirks instead
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- Nick Allen
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Review: 'Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian' on Blu-ray
4 December 2009 6:58 AM, PST
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I admit to having missed Night at the Museum despite the recommendations of friends. As a result, sitting down to watch Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian
was a test to see if the sequel could be entertaining without knowing the ins and outs of the predecessor.
Thankfully, 20th Century-Fox sent over the Blu-ray disc, on sale this week, for review. The special edition has three discs: the film on Blu-ray with the usual assortment of extras, a disc with the film in Standard DVD and the now ubiquitous digital copy.
Overly, this is a mildly amusing film and does not make me miss the original in the slightest. The film tosses any sense of reality out the window from the get-go and expects you to be pulled along, not questioning the absurdities.
I did like how they recapped the first film via a conversation between
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- Robert Greenberger
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Beatty Hangs Onto "Dick Tracy"...
4 December 2009 5:58 AM, PST
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After years of inactivity, following his starring/directing turn in the 1990 Disney feature "Dick Tracy", actor/producer Warren 'Clyde Barrow' Beatty recently sued a unit of Tribune Co, to prevent Tribune from taking back film/TV rights to creator Chester Gould's newspaper comic strip detective character.
Budgeted at $47 million, "Dick Tracy" earned $103,738,726 domestic and $59,000,000 foreign for a worldwide box office of $162,738,726.
According to court documents, rights would revert to Tribune if "a certain period of time" lapsed without Beatty having produced another Dick Tracy movie, TV series or TV special.
Tribune sent Beatty a letter November 17, 2006, giving him two years to begin production on new "Dick Tracy" programing.
"Tribune asserted it still wanted to terminate Beatty's 'Tracy' Rights and effect a reversion, and purported to do so," the lawsuit said, with Beatty seeking a declaration that his work on a developing Dick Tracy documentary TV special precludes Tribune from
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- Michael Stevens
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Detour, Links Ahead
3 December 2009 3:11 AM, PST
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Nick's Flick Picks remembers moviegoing experiences this decade. A great angle on a 'decade in review', and as beautifully written as you'd expect
Dear Jesus appreciates the kids movies that weren't really for kids in 2009: Mary & Max, Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Film Doctor reasons why Fantastic Mr Fox is the coolest film
The Advocate famous TV mom Meredith Baxter (Family Ties) comes out
The Wrap on Invictus and The Lovely Bones
GreenCine Daily Overheard at the Gotham Awards
Cinema Styles has a wonderfully heartfelt piece on Boris Karloff and changing taste in actors as you age
Filmbo Judy Garland time. Wish I'd written this: "Is there no one running a marathon of her show today? What a waste of a TV schedule."
Mnpp remembers comeback-man Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal. Going back to the roots are we? Well, I suppose that's cheers but
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- NATHANIEL R
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Bloggin' With Boris Karloff
24 November 2009 10:32 AM, PST
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This past Monday, November 23 would have been the 122nd birthday of William Henry Pratt, the actor better known to the world at large as Boris Karloff. To commemorate the occasion Pierre Fournier has organized a Boris Karloff Blogathon over at his way cool Frankensteinia blog running all the way through November 26. He's lined up over 110 bloggers to share their thoughts on the guest of honor. He kicks it off with a message from Karloff's daughter Sara (who incidentally shares her father's birthday) and she is delighted that her father is being remembered this way. Fournier has also embedded some Youtube videos of Karloff's appearance on the TV show This Is Your Life. Posts will be continuously added through the week, but here's some of the stuff you can check out right now:
Deadlicious has posted a Karloff interview scanned from the pages of Castle of Frankenstein, one of
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- Matt Bradshaw
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Uncanny Birthday Suits
23 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST
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Celebrating cinematic folk, born on this day 11/23. Get out your kazoos.
Franco, Maxwell and Harpo. Half of the fun of building these posts
is these completely nonsensical groupings!
1859 Billy the Kid, outlaw. I've always thought it a mystery as to exactly why people routinely idolize characters whom they would never want to meet in real life. Murderers, criminals, thieves, (especially gangsters)... they all get the silver screen pedestal treatment. Billy has been portrayed dozens of times and Val Kilmer, Emilio Estevez, Kris Kristofferson, Buster Crabbe and Paul Newman have all done the job.
1888 Harpo Marx I'm embarrassed to say this but I can never remember which Marx Bros is which. When I watch 30s comedies, I almost always select a screwball romance.
1892 Erté artist over whom wee Nathaniel obsessed, wanting a whole animated movie to spring forth from his theatrical illustrations of ladies in elaborate headdresses and fab gowns.
1913 Michael Gough,
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- NATHANIEL R
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Image Entertainment has Thriller and a Killer for disc
18 November 2009 1:26 AM, PST
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Image Entertainment announced recently that it has acquired North American rights to the classic horror/suspense TV series Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff. The company plans a deluxe DVD boxed set for release in 2010.
Widely acknowledged as one of the great genre shows (Stephen King once called it the best in American TV history), Thriller ran from 1960-62 and featured, among its 67 episodes, adaptations of stories by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Psycho’s Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Robert E. Howard and others. Guest stars included William Shatner, John Carradine, Robert Vaughn, Leslie Nielsen, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ursula Andress and many more. The entire series will be remastered for the disc package, which will also include audio commentaries for many of the episodes, interviews and other extras currently being developed. Stay tuned for further details on the specific contents and release date.
Image also has Freeway Killer coming on DVD
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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Exclusive: More on the Plot of McTeigue's The Raven
13 November 2009
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Early this morning, ComingSoon.net/ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to talk to director James McTeigue ( V For Vendetta ) about his gory action-thriller Ninja Assassin . Being that the movie was shot well over a year ago, McTeigue is already well into development on his next project, called The Raven , which isn't in fact a literal adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story which spawned a classic bit of '60s horror which teamed Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff under the auspices of Roger Corman.
McTeigue told us a little more about the general plot of the movie which looks to start production sometime next year. "There's basically a serial killer loose in 1850's Baltimore and he's using Poe's stories as his methodology, so then he leaves clues at each
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Culture Warrior: Horror 1960
2 November 2009 9:34 AM, PST
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Although Halloween has come and gone, the Fsr universe of readers and contributors alike have hardly satiated their horror fix, so this week’s Culture Warrior presents three movies that were major game-changers for the genre.
1960 saw the horror film, and filmgoing at large, change dramatically and permanently. Long gone was the horror of the literary monster that characterized 1930s Universal classics personified by Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and the dawn of a new decade in turn also said goodbye to the 1950s B-movie creature features. In 1960 horror switched its gaze to a far more terrifying direction: inward. Horror now focused on the horrific capacities of the human being, on the grotesque monster potentially inside all of us. No longer would horror be relegated to B-movie status, instead enabled with the capacity, through depiction of psychological trauma and inner monstrosity, for a unique kind of profundity that other genres couldn’t even come close to. Three
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- Landon Palmer
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Monsterpalooza Guest List Begins Filling Up
2 November 2009
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Although it's still several months away, Monsterpalooza 2010 is already shaping up to be one of the must-hit events of the next year. Mark your calendars, the dates are April 9th-11th at the Marriott Burbank Convention Center in beautiful Burbank, California.
Appearing at the now annual event in April for the FX-laden convention will be Mr. Verne Langdon (Famous Monsters, Decca LP An Evening With Boris Karloff And His Friends), five-time Emmy Award-winning make-up artist Thomas R. Burman, FX artist Michael G. Westmore, Barney Burman of Proteus FX , Rob Burman of Sticks and Stones FX, FX artist Tony Gardner ( Michael Jackson's Thriller , Seed Of Chucky ), Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc., Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero of Knb Efx, Allan Trautman, Beverly
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Vampires Unite for Halloween in Sin City
1 November 2009 7:55 AM, PST
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"True Blood" stars Rutina Wesley and Sam Trammel hosted Veuve Clicquot's Yelloween party at Lavo at the Palazzo in Las Vegas, while "Twilight" vampires Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene threw their own spooky Yelloween Halloween bash at Tao at the Venetian.
Wesley, dressed as a pirate, and Trammel, wearing a wizard costume, dined on Italian dishes at Lavo before heading to their VIP table at Lavo nightclub.
See photos of celebrities dressing up for Halloween
Lutz,
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Fangoria Week in Review 10.24.2009
24 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness.
We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. We've got the Fango reviews of this week's big releases, a bunch of new interviews - and the news continued to flow about the biggest event in Fango history - the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, which invades Las Vegas on Halloween Weekend!
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Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors: Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nv - 10/30-11/01/2009
Tickets are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Blu-ray Review
22 October 2009 8:11 AM, PDT
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The Who.s down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, the Grinch however did not. He was green, scary, and sounded like Jim Carrey. The Sueussian rhyme sounded good some of the time, but it can.t beat the original with Boris Karloff. Erm, what rhymes with Boris Karloff? The basis kernel of the story is thus: The Grinch (Jim Carrey), who lives atop Mount Crumpit with his dog Max, hates Christmas, but the Who.s down in Whoville love it. Their vocal celebrations drive the nasty, green grouch nuts and this year he.s had enough. He decides to disguise himself as Santa Claus and on Christmas Eve stealthily stalk into town and burgle all of the Who.s ornamentation, gifts, and
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- Jeff Swindoll
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Hollywood's Scariest Characters!
21 October 2009 12:23 PM, PDT
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It's almost Halloween -- time to bust out the scariest horror flicks! Which villain freaked you out the most? "Extra" brings you Hollywood's Scariest Characters -- check 'em out... if you dare! Bwahahahahah!
Hollywood's Scariest Characters!Frankenstein
Frankenstein was the first reanimated movie monster, played by Boris Karloff. Shocking!
Michael Myers
This “Halloween” maniac murdered his sister when he was six. It only got worse.
Norman Bates
Norman Bates, played by Tony Perkins, made taking
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Group Fun
20 October 2009 3:50 PM, PDT
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If you've been here for some time you might recall that the Film Experience was once one of the main pushers of the phenom known as the blog-a-thon where multiple sites posted on a specific topic simultaneously. I hosted three of the largest blog-a-thons the web had ever seen at the time (Michelle Pfeiffer 2006, Vampires in Cinema 2006 and Action Heroines 2007) before collapsing from exhaustion / 'thon burnout... that happened pretty much everywhere since the sites that used to keep calendars of such events stopped keeping track, too.
The blog-a-thon has essentially been replaced by the film clubs which come in two forms: one site hosted discussions or formatted like old school 'thons with links to every site discussing the topic. The other 'thon replacement is the monthly event/tradition like, for example, StinkyLulu's awesome Supporting Actress Smackdown series which is about to hit its 34th installment. Wow. That's devotion.
Here are
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- NATHANIEL R
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Blu-Ray Review: Gaudy ‘Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ Lacks True Holiday Cheer
20 October 2009 2:57 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Just weeks before the opening weekend of Jim Carrey’s new “A Christmas Carol,” Universal has released a Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack of the nearly decade-old “Grinch” remake, featuring Carrey as the infamous Seussian Scrooge. The combination of Carrey’s star power and Theodor Geisel’s beloved source material assured the film’s massive box office success. But no matter how much dough it raked in, few family audiences actually seemed to like it. That’s because no one behind the camera had a clue about how to stretch this simple tale into a feature-length blockbuster.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
The original “Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas” was a half-hour cartoon first broadcast in 1966, featuring masterful narration from Boris Karloff, exuberantly funny animation from Chuck Jones, and classic songs written by Seuss and unforgettably performed by Thurl Ravenscroft. It remains one of the finest holiday films of all time,
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Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration (Book Review)
20 October 2009 1:50 AM, PDT
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Their names are synonymous with classic horror films. Together, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff presented an unbeatable tag team of terror. For over 25 years they dueled for horror superiority with films such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, White Zombie, The Bride Of Frankenstein, Mark Of The Vampire, and dozens of others. Film historian Greg Mank, the foremost expert on classic horror of the 1930s and 1940s, takes horror fans on an incredible journey through the lives of these two icons of the silver screen in Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration.
In a volume nearly 700 pages long, Mank looks at their films both individually and together, as well as their personal and private lives and relationships. Over the years Mank has conducted interviews with hundreds of personalities related to classic horror including many surviving stars, crewmembers, and the families of the stars. With Mank’s work,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tim Janson)
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Trick ’R Treat w/Michael Dougherty in NYC and more screening news
19 October 2009 3:13 PM, PDT
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It’s time for another update on horror-film screenings for the Halloween 2009 season and beyond; you can track back through our previous items starting here. The most exciting news is the addition of a very special show to the Scary Movies 3 series currently unspooling at New York City’s Lincoln Center: Trick ’R Treat with Michael Dougherty (pictured) in attendance!
The All Hallow’s anthology feature unspools at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, upper level) this Wednesday, October 21 at 8:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with Dougherty. Trust us: You want to see this one on the big screen. Full details on Scary Movies 3 can be found here. In addition, adventurous genre fans will want to check out Juraj Herz’s The Cremator when it shows as part of Lincoln Center’s The Ironic Curtain: Czech Cinema series on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. This black
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics: Bela Lugosi Disc
19 October 2009 12:52 AM, PDT
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Darby Jones, Bela Lugosi in Zombies on Broadway
Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics: Boris Karloff Disc
Matters do not improve much over on Bela Lugosi’s disc. Horror enthusiasts will likely experience a gargantuan case of buyer’s remorse during the first scenes of You’ll Find Out (1940). What they’ll find out is that this movie is a vehicle not for Bela Lugosi, but for comedian/bandleader Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge band, featuring Ginny Simms, Sully Mason and Ish Kabibble (who appears to have been the visual inspiration for Jim Carrey’s Lloyd character in Dumb and Dumber).
Kyser and company’s style of comedy has, shall we say, not aged well, but this is [...]
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