Universal Announces Blu-Ray Releases

Universal Studios, one of the studios who backed HDVD has announced their first releases for Blu-Ray DVD. The studio will release ‘Doomsday’ along with 40 other titles later this year.   Also on the slate for the holiday season are a bunch of the studio’s big summer releases including ‘The Incredible Hulk,’ ‘Hellboy II,’ ‘Mama …

Marvel & Norton in ‘Hulk’ Smash-Up

Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that actor and screenwriter Edward Norton clashed with Marvel Studios about the cut of their upcoming film and second take on the Hulk story. Norton has now agreed with Marvel, after offering up his own cut of the movie. Norton reportedly thinks that the Marvel cut will make a lot …

‘Poak Chop’ Saves Music

Finally someone has come along to undo the damage The Beatles and Stevie Wonder did to music. Sure we have all eaten pork chops and ham, but have we ever thought about shaking them. Pssh! You wish you had the genius to shake them. But you don’t. It takes a true virtuoso heshe to truly …

Affleck & Scott ‘Kind One’s’

Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce “The Kind One,” starring Casey Affleck. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of an amnesiac who finds himself working for a mobster. A murderous thug named “the Kind One,” Affleck’s character falls in love with the “Kind One’s” girlfriend. The film is also …

Motley Crue Announce a New Festival

Motley Crue put their hairspray soaked heads together and came up with an idea for a festival. This summer, the Crue, along with bands like Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Trapt and Nikki Sixx’s other band Sixx a.m., will hit the road in the cleverly titled “Cruefest.” Says Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx, “Well, we were looking …

Retro Review: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Having established their style and become a cohesive writing and performing group with the first few seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and their first feature film, ‘And Now For Something Completely Different,’ Monty Python set out to break new ground for themselves as a comedy troupe: a feature length film of completely original material. …

‘X-Files’ Sequel Has a Title!

Oh fudge. Chris Carter has released the official title for the upcoming X-Files sequel and it is….’X-Files: I Want to Believe.’ That sound you hear is probably the air escaping from my happiness balloon. Now I didn’t really think the first movie’s title, ‘X-Files: Fight the Future’ was particularly inspiring, but at least it had …