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12 Action Movies Set During Christmas Season
24 December 2009 11:08 PM, PST
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Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving, peace and good will towards men. But in Hollywood, its also a time for death, destruction and nearly every form of mayhem. Throughout the 80's 90's and (soon to be history) 00's more and more action films seem to take place during “the most wonderful time of the year”. Whether it be a heist, monster invasion or assault by pirates, so much onscreen action occurs on this jolly day that it's a miracle ole Saint Nick isn't killed in the crossfire. Here are just a few action films where Christmas is actually the last thing on the minds of characters fighting for their lives.Batman Returns (1992) Set during the Christmas season where a tree lighting ceremony in Gotham City serves as a battleground for the struggle between Batman (Michael Keaton), The Penguin (Danny DeVito) and Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer). The film opens
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
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Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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Christmas TV movies have lost their special glitter | Jason Solomons
5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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A festive treat has become tired repeats or cartoons. Jason Solomons suggests it should now be a season for Fellini or Renoir
Forget about Christmas movies with snow and tinsel and grumpy fathers learning lessons. Those have their place, and no doubt we'll have our fill of them, good and bad, over the coming month, from Elf to Scrooged, from The Muppet Christmas Carol to Miracle on 34th Street.
What worries me is the lack of new classics. Growing up, my favourite Christmas movies were never the ones actually about Christmas. Rather, it was the season of Billy Wilder and Fred Astaire, a time for The Great Escape and The Towering Inferno, for The Poseidon Adventure and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In short, Christmas was when you learned about film, its rich history and capacity to thrill and unite.
It was when I watched films with my dad
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- Jason Solomons
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Geek Gossip: Thor, Superman, Rambo V
17 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Zachary Levi, star of Us comedy Chuck, has revealed he was cast in Kenneth Branagh's Thor movie.
Levi, 29, was set to play Fandral, one of The Warriors Three, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts when NBC ordered six additional episodes of Chuck.
According to USA Today, the actor had initially been asked to audition for the lead in Thor but declined, saying: "I'm tall and in pretty good shape, but I'm not big and girthy like that."
In the next season of Chuck, he will be joined by guest stars including Smallville's Kristin Kreuk and Superman Returns actor Brandon Routh.
While we're talking Superman Returns, a new campaign has emerged calling for an Extended Cut of the 2006 movie.
The organisers want all the deleted footage reinstated, including the $11million 'Return to Krypton' opening sequence. This featured the hero returning to the site of his homeworld
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- David Bentley
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Zombies Collapse in Iowa Cornfield
16 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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The filmmakers behind the indie zombie flick Collapse just contacted Fangoria with a few photos from their production which wrapped appropriately on Halloween. Co-directed by Jason Bolinger and "Insane" Mike Saunders (frequent collaborators on other indie fare such as The Bag Man and Lights, Camera, Kill), the film stars Chris Mulkey (of the recent werewolf pic Dark Moon Rising, Cloverfield, First Blood, and more) as Robert Morgan, a small-town farmer that finds himself fortifying his home to protect his family from a zombie outbreak.
Toby Sells (Zombieland, My Super Psycho Sweet 16) handled make-up FX for the zombies, which the producers tell Fango are of the "classic, slow" variety, while Sells gave them the more modern "freshly dead" look. Scream Queen Linnea Quigley makes an appearance in the film as well, alongside Karen Landry (Mulkey's real-life wife).
Check out the photos below, then hit up the film's Facebook page for a whopping 4500+ more.
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Stallone's 'Rambo 5' loses sci-fi twist
13 November 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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Sylvester Stallone has reportedly called off plans to take his Rambo series into the realm of science fiction. The 63-year-old earlier revealed that the next Rambo movie would feature John Rambo leading a squad into a secret military base to shut down a man-beast mutant "supersoldier" project gone wrong. The sci-fi plot was based on the novel Hunter by James Byron Higgins. Stallone owns the rights to the (more)
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Rambo 5 Returning to Old Plot and Its Senses
13 November 2009 2:27 AM, PST
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When Rambo 5 was first announced, it contained a plot where John Rambo heads into Mexico to rescue a kidnapped girl from human traffickers and drug lords. The story was in keeping with a typical Rambo movie, but then plans changed. Sylvester Stallone announced that the newly titled Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt would instead follow Rambo fighting a "feral beast" in what sounds like Rambo vs. Predator.
Luckily, it looks like Stallone has come to his senses. Stallone wrote to Stallonezone that Rambo 5 was returning to its original plotline and that the "feral beast" plot would be used in a separate, presumably worse movie.
To all the loyal SZoners out there,
I'm letting you know that Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead. Rambo himself will be heading over the border to a violent city where
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- Ryan Gowland
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Rambo V: A Savage Hunt Changes Direction
12 November 2009 8:20 AM, PST
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A few months ago, Sylvester Stallone revealed some story details for his upcoming action sequel, and now it seems the story has changed a bit. Sylvester Stallone reached out to Stallone Zone (via AICN) and he gave some updates on the story of Rambo V: A Savage Hunt.
I'm letting you know that Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead. Rambo himself will be heading over the border to a violent city where many young women have vanished
There will be blood.
Best,
Sly Stallone
The original update from September revealed that Stallone would be hunting down said "man/beasts" that were genetically created in a lab in the Pacific Northwest, not too far from where the original First Blood took place, but it seems that another character will take over those duties. We'll be sure
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Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead (DVD Review)
21 October 2009 9:39 AM, PDT
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Next time you get a hankerin’ for nasty cannibal chaos, pop in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. When you’re in the mood to watch a group of chained convicts argue and fight in the woods for the better part of 90 minutes, check out Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead (just out on DVD and Blu-ray from Fox). A very frustrating flick, this third installment of the popular series trades Turn 2’s madcap freakishness for machismo gibberish.
Wrong Turn 3 focuses on a stranded busload of jailbirds going up against “Three Finger” (Borislav Iliev), the only remaining mutant from the franchise’s warped hillbilly family.* What could’ve been a muscular, all-out war of Bad vs. Bad winds up being not much more than a gaggle of cookie-cutter characters walking through the forest, bitching and threatening each other in scene after scene. When the gore gags come, they’re typically accompanied
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Haberman)
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Antoine Fuqua Takes Prisoners
30 September 2009 12:31 AM, PDT
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One of the hottest spec scripts in the first quarter of this year was Aaron Guzikowski's Prisoners. It provoked a flurry of interest among production companies, directors and potential stars, until it eventually landed at Alcon, who seem to have got the gig by demonstrating they could get it into production quickly.Names like Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Bryan Singer were mentioned, but the slightly downsized project is now moving ahead with Training Day's Antoine Fuqua in negotiations to direct. He'll have to make his mind up quickly, since the project is being fast tracked to go before cameras at the very beginning of next year.The story involves a father taking the law into his own hands and kidnapping the man he believes to be responsible for the disappearance of his daughter and her best friend. THR says the script has drawn comparison to both Taken
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[DVD Review] Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
22 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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I’d say, like most of today’s slashers, Wrong Turn 2’s biggest fault is that it’s just a hair too long. Fortunately, the length seems justified given the respectable amount of hardcore in director Joe Lynch’s debut. From its opening scene, Lynch lets you know he means business. This is a dirty film that revels in getting under its viewers’ skin and marking its territory. A meaner, more vicious slasher film hasn’t appeared that I’ve seen in a long while. And rarely has one been more fun.
Despite featuring some of the downright nastiest gore effects in slasher history, Wrong Turn 2’s highlights all center around Henry Rollins. Rollins’ performance is somewhere between Rambo from First Blood and Rambo from John Rambo, teetering on the edge of complete superhumanism and spouting Bruce Campbell one-liners whenever he dispatches an ass-ugly inbred psycho. And man,
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- Saul Berenbaum
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Mirror/Mirror — “I’ll Give You a War You Won’t Believe”
13 September 2009 9:05 AM, PDT
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One week ago, news broke regarding the next entry in Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo franchise.
Rambo V: The Savage Hunt will divert the franchise into science fiction territory akin to Predator.
The official plot synopsis according to Aint it Cool News was loud and clear:
A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle…And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation…It’s a job that Rambo and his 22-year-old hunting partner, Beau Brady, can’t turn down, but they and a team of highly skilled Special Forces Kill Team [sic] discover that the prey is beyond their wildest imagination, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments…they’ll still have to confront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.
As far as I know, the only franchises to really change its genre
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Horror anthologies on the march
9 September 2009 3:55 PM, PDT
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With our favorite time of year just around the corner, Fango’s got news of a trio of literary terrors to keep you occupied throughout the fall. And if you’re partial to anthologies and short-story collections, get ready to rejoice.
First up, Running Press has just put out the third volume in its Dark Delicacies series, subtitled Haunted, and it looks to be their biggest yet. Edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Dark Delicacies III features 20 new works by the likes of genre legend Clive Barker, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, Masters Of Horror creator Mick Garris, Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva, 100 Feet’s Eric Red, veteran horror scribe Richard Christian Matheson, Fango contributor Axelle Carolyn, First Blood author David Morrell and many more, with a foreword by The Shining actor Steven Weber.
Also arriving this month is Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories On The 50th Anniversary, a
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Rambo to Start Hunting Horrors?
8 September 2009 1:48 AM, PDT
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We live in strange times. Sylvester Stallone wants to do another Rambo sequel. No surprise there. Now he's talking about making it PG-13, which is nearly impossible to fathom, especially after the all-out bloodbath that was last year's Rambo. But even more perplexing is that it looks to be heading into the direction of sci-fi action horror with John Rambo tracking a genetically engineered monster run amok. We're a long way removed from First Blood now.
Coming Soon scored the following synopsis for what is currently being titled Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, a Rambo sequel that would see the Vietnam vet recruited back into service to use his tracking skills to assist a Black Ops squad in pursuit of a marauding man-animal created by military scientists conducting genetic experiments involving human savagery.
"John Rambo could track anyone - or anything - on earth. Now the military desperately needs
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Stallone Says Rambo 5 Will Feature "Your Worst Nightmare"
7 September 2009 6:32 AM, PDT
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It was only announced in August that Sylvester Stallone would be returning to star in and direct the fifth installment in the Rambo franchise, so when Stallone recently revealed the plot had changed from rescuing a girl from human traffickers to preventing the creation of super-soldiers, the Internet buzzed with rumors and speculation about what this means for the future of the franchise.
So many comparisons to the plot of the 1992 action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Universal Soldier, were made that apparently even Stallone could feel the backlash because he picked up the phone to try to set the record straight. In a recent voice message, Stallone said:
It's not a Universal Soldier, it's not me fighting some super-soldier, it's actually a feral beast. It's a thing, it's this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage. It's before men became human. This is when they were still inhuman.
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Weekend Recap: 'Rambo,' 'Final Destination,' 'Clash of the Titans'
7 September 2009 5:48 AM, PDT
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We typically give you a rundown of the big weekend stories when you get back to work on Monday morning. That way, in case you missed a few headlines, they're all right in one place. However, most of you aren't at work today because it's Labor Day. However, we're suckers for consistency, so instead of putting off the recap until Tuesday, we'll just stay the course.
And make no mistake, there were some big headlines: Rambo is taking shape for a fifth time, The Final Desintation repeated as the nation's top movie, and we finally caught a glimpse of some footage from next year's Clash of the Titans. And as always, because we can't cover it all, we've got a round-up of some major stories from other places on the web.
The Final Destination is number one again
Looks like Tintin will give us another good score by the legendary
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The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Beards, Sequels and Gundam Weddings
6 September 2009 5:05 AM, PDT
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Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez, sitting on a tree... S-p-i-n-n-i-n-g. Back again with the best, worst and weirdest updates from the movie world, including director Oliver Stone's trip down to South of the Border, being buddy-buddies with controversial heads of state. That gave me an idea. How about a new Rambo movie where he rescues lefty filmmakers from mad dictators? What's that, you say? There's already a new Rambo movie in the works?
The Good
• After three months of gracing the Tokyo skyline with awesomeness, Japan's life-size Gundam statue was supposed to be dismantled as scheduled last Wednesday, but a nasty typhoon is delaying the deconstruction for a few days (Police should start looking if there aren't any otaku convention with a giant wind machine). A little over a week ago, a Japanese couple managed to celebrate the most epic wedding ever by getting married in front of the statue and in costume,
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- Arya Ponto
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Has ‘Rambo 5′ Nuked The Shark By Adding A Sci-Fi Plot?
5 September 2009 2:39 PM, PDT
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I know there are naysayers among you who think the headline above is redundant, who think Sylvester Stallone's Rambo series has been a joke since the first sequel. We can all agree that First Blood is a damn fine film and that the two sequels that followed are rubbish, but last year's Rambo? That movie kicked all kinds of ass, and it did so with bloody style and glee. It also made money which is why a fifth film in the franchise was predictably greenlit as well. Variety recently ran a story claiming that the film's plot centered around a kidnapping on the Us/Mexican border and John Rambo's mission to save the girl while killing truck-loads of drug lords and Mexicans. But now a new plot has surfaced, and it comes straight from the horse's mouth... see Stallone's Rocky nickname was "The Italian Stallion"... ah screw it, by way of Harry Knowles and AICN.
Harry
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Sylvester Stallone Brings Science Fiction to Rambo V: The Savage Hunt
5 September 2009 9:43 AM, PDT
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Sylvester Stallone recently dropped some new information about his upcoming fifth installment of the John Rambo series Rambo V: A Savage Hunt to AICN, the first item being the new title. He also said that the film will indeed take place in the United States, but that it will be structured differently from the sequels we've seen in the past.
According to Stallone himself, Rambo V: A Savage Hunt will take place in the Pacific Northwest, in the general area where First Blood took place. Rambo will come in contact with a secret U.S. Military instillation that is conducting Savagery experiments on soliders. Their plan is to create brilliant, instinctual killer soldiers that have no qualms about killing other men in combat. In Sly's conversation with AICN, he brought up the ancient Immortals, a group of children that were raised to kill since birth.
The story has
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