Astro Bot, one of the best games released in 2024, is getting a new snowy, holiday-themed level as part of a free update for the PlayStation 5 platformer. The wintery level will include some new bots to collect, and it (sadly) sounds like it might be the last bit of Astro Bot DLC we get.
Charles Bronson look-alike Robert Bronzi and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, who followed in the footsteps of Mr. T for the A-Team movie, star in the action thriller The Caretaker, which Deadline reports is now filming in Nevada. Also in the cast are Avaryana Rose (Bitter Souls), Daniel Baldwin (John Carpenter’s Vampires), Paul Logan (The Horde), wrestler Jacob “Madman Fulton” Southwick, Mark Justice (The Twisters), Brett Benowitz (Alabama Rose), Alex Trumble (The Search for Secret Santa), Leah Voysey (Terrifier 2), and newcomers Lane Griffith and Neva Leoncini. Deadline also got their hands on a pair of first-look images from the film, and those can be seen in this article.
The feature directorial debut of editor Fady Jeanbart, The Caretaker has a screenplay that was written by Joe Knetter (the upcoming George A. Romero-based zombie movie Twilight of the Dead) from a story by producer Jeff Miller. The film centers on the quiet, reclusive caretaker (Bronzi) of a ghost town tourist attraction closed for the offseason who has to protect a young woman (Rose) from violent killers intent on kidnapping and taking her to a ruthless crime boss (Baldwin). Jackson plays a loyal friend and sidekick to the caretaker.
Tareq Salah, Paul M. Gahng Jr., Ashvat Shivaram Shetty, Ronnie D. Lee, and Brandon Gibbs serve as executive producers, while Robert Savakinus is a co-producer. Dylan Matlock is a consulting producer. Paul Logan is also the fight coordinator on the project. Michael Su is the director of photography and Nancy Foster the production designer.
The Caretaker is coming our way from Millman Productions, Pyramax Productions, Babe Entertainment, Triple Origin Productions LLC, and Ron Lee Productions.
Robert Bronzi has previously starred in From Hell to the Wild West, Death Kiss, Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, Cry Havoc, Escape from Death Block 13, The Gardener, Exorcist Vengeance, and 12 to Midnight. I’m a Charles Bronson fan who wishes the guy was still around, and I’m on board to watch anything Bronzi has a role in.
Does The Caretaker sound interesting to you, and do you follow the career of Robert Bronzi? Let us know by leaving a comment below. Here are the first-look images to check out while you’re scrolling down:
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MachineGames’ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle takes you, as Indy, on a trip through the heart of the growing fascist movement in 1930s Europe. While you’re searching for clues in Indy’s main investigation, you’ll catch sight of a few dozen smaller, optional mysteries. But is it worth taking the time to check them…
MachineGames’ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle takes you, as Indy, on a trip through the heart of the growing fascist movement in 1930s Europe. While you’re searching for clues in Indy’s main investigation, you’ll catch sight of a few dozen smaller, optional mysteries. But is it worth taking the time to check them…
Back in 2009, the German-Australian sibling duo of Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig, a.k.a. The Spierig Brothers, brought us the sci-fi action horror vampire film Daybreakers – and now, the Australia-based company Umbrella Home Entertainment is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the film by giving it a 4K and Blu-ray collector’s edition release! Copies are available for purchase at THIS LINK.
The plot the Spierig Brothers crafted for Daybreakers has the following synopsis: Ten years after a plague turns most of the world’s population into vampires, a critical blood shortage causes panic and gruesome mutations among the reanimated. Edward, a vampire hematologist, tries to develop a blood substitute when he meets Lionel and Audrey, two fugitive humans who claim to have a possible cure. Edward casts his lot with them in the hope of perfecting the cure before it’s too late.
The film stars Ethan Hawke as Edward, Willem Dafoe as Lionel, and Claudia Karvan as Audrey. They’re joined in the cast by Sam Neill, Michael Dorman, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Jay Laga’aia, and Renai Caruso.
Only available from the Umbrella webstore, the Daybreakers Collector’s Edition includes: – Dolby Vision & Dolby Atmos 4K feature – A 100+ page hardback book with never before seen behind-the-scenes, experiences and art provided by director’s Michael and Peter Speirig – Original poster artwork rigid case and slipcase – 8 artcards – A3 reversible poster – Limited Edition Numbered release – Audio Commentary with Co-Directors Peter and Michael Spierig and Creature Designer Steve Boyle – “Making of Daybreakers” Feature-Length Documentary – NEW! Daybreakers Gag Reel – NEW! Animatics – NEW! On The Set of Daybreakers Featurette – NEW! Art Department and Lighting Tests – NEW! Makeup, Costume and Hair Tests – NEW! Makeup and Effects Tests – NEW! Daybreakers Stunt Department Featurette – Trailer
Are you a fan of Daybreakers, and will you be adding Umbrella’s 4K and Blu-ray collector’s edition release to your collection? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
I have always intended to get around to watching Daybreakers, since I’m a fan of several of the people who worked on it, but I still haven’t seen it, 15 years later. I should finally watch it one of these days.
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Earlier this year, Paramount and Miramax announced that they are reviving the Scary Movie horror parody series to bring a Scary Movie 6 to theatres sometime in 2025, with the Wayans Brothers back in creative control – and that announcement has inspired us to go back and revisit the earlier entries in the franchise. Now we’re up to the 2006 sequel Scary Movie 4, and you can hear all about it in the video embedded above.
Directed by David Zucker from a screenplay by Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams, and Pat Proft, Scary Movie 4 has the following synopsis: Dim-witted Cindy Campbell and her sex-crazed friend, Brenda, team up with cute-but-clueless Tom Ryan to save the world from a hostile alien invasion, with hints of War of the Worlds, Saw II, Million Dollar Baby and The Village.
The cast includes Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Leslie Nielsen, Bill Pullman, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Hart, Beau Mirchoff, Conchita Campbell, Molly Shannon, Michael Madsen, Chris Elliott, Carmen Electra, Cloris Leachman, Garrett Masuda, DeRay Davis, Henry Mah, Patrice O’Neal, Tomoko Sato, Kathryn Dobbs, Bryan Callen, Angelique Naude, Rorelee Tio, Allison Warren, Edward Moss, Champagne Powell, Dave Attell, John Reardon, Kimani Ray Smith, Dale Wolfe, Shaquille O’Neal, Dr. Phil McGraw, Simon Rex, Charlie Sheen, Debra Wilson, James Earl Jones, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson, Lil Jon, Fabolous, Chingy, Crystal Lowe, Bubba Sparxxx, Bone Crusher, YoungBloodZ, and Michael McDonald.
The Scary Movie 4 episode of Revisited was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Tyler Nichols, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
What do you think of Scary Movie 4, and how would you rank it against the other films in the franchise? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Two previous episodes of Revisited can be seen below. To see more of our shows, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals channel – and subscribe while you’re at it!
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t’s been a long road seeing wrestling superstar The Rock evolve into the brand entertainment tycoon Dwayne Johnson of today. The hulking star has released a new Christmas adventure movie in time for the holiday season with Red One. Now, it seems like Johnson’s everywhere and he’s ingrained in pop culture. But back in the early millennium, he was still crossing over into acting and while he already had some success out of the gate, there’s one movie that was seen as his true arrival to be cinema’s next action hero. In today’s episode, we talk The Rundown and how it held up after 21 years.
The Rundown feels like the last breath of the kinds of action movies that dominated the 80s and 90s. This is the era when every movie from stars, like Stallone or Schwarzenegger, would mainly highlight their ability to fight hordes of bad guys, and the plots would usually come secondary. The movies were sub-genres by way of their star power: i.e. – “This is a Stallone movie.” or “This is a Schwarzenegger movie.”
This would be The Rock’s second starring role and third overall feature film, but he was already pretty established. In the WWE’s Attitude Era in the late 90s, he and Stone Cold Steve Austin would be the two most popular wrestlers in the business. However, he would have a slightly higher edge on Austin as his charisma and showmanship had an appeal that could transcend the professional wrestling world. He proved this mostly when he hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live and showing that he had comedic chops and a range unseen by most wrestlers who attempted to cross over into acting by this time.
The Rock’s movie career would actually have some help getting ushered in as Vince McMahon lowkey started WWE Films, which later became WWE Studios. McMahon executive produced Rock’s films as the earliest in the line of movies that saw more wrestlers getting acting roles. However, The Rundown would stand apart in quality due to the direction of Peter Berg. Berg was coming off his feature directorial debut with the dark comedy Very Bad Things. While that movie was more grimy and mean-spirited, his instincts for making a more accessible action comedy managed to create the perfect vehicle for this budding movie star. As well as marking first entry in the “Dwayne Johnson Jungle Filmography.” One thing Berg did was to help elevate Rock by not having him do all the heavy lifting (no pun intended), and surrounding him with actors like Rosario Dawson and Christopher Walken. Then, Stifler himself, American Pie’s Seann William Scott, would co-star as the foil to annoy Rock’s character, Beck, in this odd couple, buddy comedy dynamic.
The plot is about as simple as gets. But it’s no detriment to the movie. Beck is a debt collector for a loan shark named William Walker and he’s been given one last assignment: to retrieve his son Travis from the town El Dorado in Brazil. Seems simple enough. The problem is, Travis is on the cusp of making a major archeological discovery. He found a piece of treasure called The Gato and he’s not leaving without it. Beck and Travis butt heads in their initial encounter and things get more complicated when Hatcher, played here by Christopher Walken, needs to keep Travis from leaving Brazil so he could take The Gato for himself. Beck fights off the opposition and manages to escape with Travis in tow… although, the next part is a sequence that even fans of the movie have to stretch their believability muscles on.
After the comically long fall down a cliff which should have at least left our main characters crippled, the movie basically becomes a jungle version of Midnight Run as Beck and Travis are at each other’s throats while trying to navigate the treacherous environment, all the while, they get hunted down by Hatcher and his small army.
What makes The Rundown enjoyable is not only the love-hate rapport from our two leads, but it’s mixed in with Beck’s fish out of water experience in Brazil as even all his muscles can’t save him from aggressively horny baboons, indigenous fruit with mind-altering side effects, or booby traps set by locals. Travis, who supposedly is somewhat acclimated to the jungle, isn’t even immune from these factors himself.
As mentioned earlier, this movie felt like a coming out party for The Rock as the next action hero. There’s even a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo by Arnold Schwarzenegger symbolically passing the torch to him in the beginning. When he appeared briefly in The Mummy Returns, The Rock was in an important role, but it didn’t require too much from him for his first time out. So, it didn’t sink or swim with him. He followed it up with the spin-off The Scorpion King and here is where we start to see the huge developments. No matter how you feel about the Scorpion King, there’s no question that Rock could only rely on his charisma for so much and you could sense he felt in over his head with his first starring role, which translated to some stiffness in his acting. In The Rundown, it felt like Rock did his homework, developed his character a bit more and he was head and shoulders above his first go-round. This time, he seemed more relaxed and his charisma became very complimentary to his performance.
Seann William Scott is a good contrast to Beck’s super seriousness as Travis injects a lot of manic energy into their scenes. Many were probably surprised to see him in a slightly more mature role than Stifler, but he still unleashes some of his zany comedic sensibilities when the time comes. Rosario Dawson makes a lot of her supporting role as Mariana. She is an unassuming bartender at first glance, then it’s revealed later that she is also the leader of a band of freedom fighters trying to overthrow Christopher Walken’s oppressive Hatcher. This is the era where Walken is starting to become a caricature of himself. This is not long after his famous “More cowbell” sketch from SNL and he’s definitely played for laughs as he delivers numerous funny lines in his signature dry way. Walken isn’t in a particularly meaty role, but he does get to switch from humorous to serious fairly often and it can remind viewers how good he can be at both.
Where the movie really shines thanks to Berg and the movie’s stunt team is in the creative action scenes. There’s nothing wholly revolutionary here, but what we get are some fun sequences that felt fresh and exciting. The movie starts off by subverting expectations and actually making The Rock look a bit like the underdog. When he needs to collect money from a nondescript football league quarterback (although they use XFL footage for the clips), Beck is all of a sudden pitted against the entire offensive line of the team. The kicker is Beck would rather not have to beat up on these guys since they have a legitimate shot of repeating this year.
Another great sequence comes in when Beck and Travis are deep in the jungle and are taken hostage by the freedom fighters. Ernie Reyes Jr. of The Last Dragon, Ninja Turtles and Surf Ninjas makes a memorable appearance as Manito, who is seemingly in charge of the freedom fighters. He’s incredibly jacked in this movie and Manito is amped to fight Beck, but while there’s a good size difference between the two, the movie subverts your expectations again by having Beck get his ass handed to him when Manito’s speed and agility go to work. Just watch how fast his punches and spin kicks are! And according to the commentary, the footage was not sped to make him look faster. The fight is taken up a notch when more soldiers get involved by swinging on vines and throwing him around onto trees. There are those devastating falls again.
What also set The Rock apart from other wrestlers was ability to adapt to the action scenes extremely well. While this movie also goes against the grain and downplays his physique, this was the era when he was muscular, but not monstrous. He was able to retain athleticism and some looseness that he didn’t look stiff or awkward during the fight scenes. He even moves quickly for a such a big guy.
The Rundown was well received by critics and audiences alike. Unfortunately, even with this movie’s relatively modest budget of $85 million, it wouldn’t be a hit with a worldwide gross of only $81 million. It ruled out any chances of a sequel, but as we now know, it did very little to stifle the movie career of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Peter Berg would also go on to have a successful directing career and even reunited with Johnson on their HBO show Ballers.
In the current time of overbloated budgets, overproduced visuals, underwritten scripts and too much lore to keep up with, The Rundown is worth a revisit to see a straight-forward, simple-concept, rock-em, sock-em good time. And luckily, there’s a new 4K Blu-ray release coming from Kino Lorber to see it in Ultra High-Def. Arnold told him to have fun and it looks like they did. They would even work in some inside joke references without overtly winking at the audience.
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Now that Yellowstone has come to an end, two characters that are now officially slated to continue are Rip and Beth. It wasn’t long ago that Cole Hauser stated that he hopes to spin the two off into their own show when he said, “You can go on forever about these two. There’s no walls when it comes to them, no limits. As long as Taylor wants to write something special, I know Kelly and I would be interested to do it.” According to Deadline, Hauser and Kelly Reilly have just signed deals to appear in a Rip and Beth spin-off just ahead of the Yellowstone‘s finale.
Even with this season featuring way less John Dutton, the Yellowstone finale is a big one that puts a close to five years with the Dutton clan. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the sixth and final episode of the season is being described as “a special season finale event and airs at 8 p.m. on Paramount Network.” And the series creator and writer, Taylor Sheridan, is sitting in the director’s chair himself for this super-sized episode. The finale airs on December 15 and is titled “Life Is A Promise.” The episode will run for one hour and 26 minutes and sports a logline that reads, “The fate of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is revealed.”
Our Alex Maidy really enjoyed season 5 part 2, as he says in his review, “The mid-season premiere was written by Taylor Sheridan, who manages the smaller, quieter elements that have always made Yellowstone intriguing to watch between murder scenes, backstabbing, and intrigue. For anyone who does not work on a ranch or in the wide expanses of America, there is a romantic element of cowboy life that Yellowstone beautifully displays. Taylor Sheridan also never lets us forget that the privilege of living the way most Americans do comes on the backs of men like Rip, Lloyd, and the others who work the Dutton Ranch.”
Yellowstone is coming to an end after a long, bumpy behind-the-scenes conflict with its star, Kevin Costner. Costner would finally address that he isn’t necessarily jumping at the chance to watch the final season, given that he’s heard about the fate of his character. Then he explained the mess that led to his departure, “I didn’t leave. I didn’t quit the show. Okay? I had made a contract to do all three [different projects]. There was a contract in place to do all three [projects]. And within about an eight-month period, two more different kind of contracts were being negotiated. Not at my request, but at their request to try to do things.” When higher-ups made timeframes complicated for his plans, Costner ultimately chose his passion project, Horizon.
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The moment you find yourself on a kill streak in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, slaying opposing forces with reckless abandon, tallying up kills to unlock a streak reward, is one of the greatest feelings in the competitive first-person shooter. You’re helping your team, sure. But who cares about them?! You’re about to…
The moment you find yourself on a kill streak in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, slaying opposing forces with reckless abandon, tallying up kills to unlock a streak reward, is one of the greatest feelings in the competitive first-person shooter. You’re helping your team, sure. But who cares about them?! You’re about to…