23
Jan
A new advanced treadmill-like floor invention from Disney could solve one of the biggest problems with VR: movement. But, it could also bring the world one step closer to making Star Trek-like holodecks a reality.
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23
Jan
A new advanced treadmill-like floor invention from Disney could solve one of the biggest problems with VR: movement. But, it could also bring the world one step closer to making Star Trek-like holodecks a reality.
23
Jan
A few months ago, the Shudder streaming service announced that they’ve renewed The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs for a supersized sixth season that is expected to get rolling sometime in March of 2024. But before that season begins, we’re getting another Joe Bob special! This one is called Joe Bob’s Very Violent Valentine and it will be airing live on Shudder TV and AMC+ TV (in the US and Canada) at 9pm ET on February 9th. The archive of the show will then be available to watch on Shudder as of February 11th.
Here’s the official description of Joe Bob’s Very Violent Valentine: Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl honor the lusty sting of Cupid’s arrow with a kinky double-feature featuring blood, sex, and the dark side of love.
Joe Bob said they’ll be showing “two movies that will scare your crotchless panties off“.
On The Last Drive-In, the world’s foremost drive-in movie critic hosts eclectic horror movies, talking about their merits, histories and significance to genre cinema.
Beyond Joe Bob’s Very Violent Valentine, we know the new season of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs will be taking a different approach from the weekly double features of previous seasons. Episodes will air every other Friday night, and Joe Bob will be presenting “single titles and surprises”. Single titles every other Friday is how Shudder intends to spread the episodes out over a longer period of the year. So it’s not quite what we’re used to, but more Joe Bob is always a wonderful thing. The legendary drive-in critic and movie host will be presenting more than thirty different films over the course of this season.
Deadline notes that The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, which was previously filmed in Texas and then New Jersey, is now set up at the Senoia, Georgia studios where the Walking Dead shows have been filmed, and this location gives Joe Bob access to a backlot for the first time.
Joe Bob provided the following statement: “As everyone knows, you should never invite me into your home, because I always show up. Shudder has graciously invited me to stick around for a sixth year, and I intend to use that kindness to haunt your phones, laptops and big-screen TVs with the most ghastly examples of perversity in the history of cinema. Plus a few old jokes and some celebrity guests who will still return our phone calls. Put it all together and it spells PARTAY.“
Courtney Thomasma of Shudder owner AMC Networks said, “We’re delighted to bring Joe Bob, Darcy and the rest of The Last Drive-In Team back for our biggest season yet of crazy, scary and crazy-scary movies and specials, with the most entertaining commentary on TV. Joe Bob will be hosting more movie nights than any previous season and we can’t wait to continue the Friday night party with our Shudder family.“
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs is produced by Matt Manjourides and Justin Martell and directed by Austin Jennings.
Are you a fan of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, and will you be tuning in for Joe Bob’s Very Violent Valentine? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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23
Jan
This March we receive the triumphant return of the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Her Majesty Princess Peach. Princess Peach: Showtime, the resilient monarch’s first headline game since 2005’s Super Princess Peach, is a stage-based action-adventure, as shown in new footage released by Nintendo today.
23
Jan
This March we receive the triumphant return of the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Her Majesty Princess Peach. Princess Peach: Showtime, the resilient monarch’s first headline game since 2005’s Super Princess Peach, is a stage-based action-adventure, as shown in new footage released by Nintendo today.
23
Jan
Freya Allan clearly hasn’t gotten her fill of working on material that involves magic and monsters with her role on the Netflix series The Witcher, as she also has the lead role in the new horror film Baghead, which is set to reach theatres in the UK this Friday, January 26th. With that release date swiftly approaching, a short clip from Baghead has made its way online, and you can check it out in the embed above. In this clip, we see Allan’s character checking out a creepy basement.
First announced four years ago, Baghead went into production in late 2021 and is a feature expansion of director Alberto Corredor’s 2017 short of the same name. Scripted by Christina Pamies and Bryce McGuire, the film has the following synopsis: After the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity residing in the pub’s basement. Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead. Two thousand in cash for two minutes with the creature is all it takes for desperate loved ones to ease their grief. Neil, who has lost his wife, is Iris’ first customer. Like her father, Iris is tempted to exploit the creature’s powers and help desperate people for a price. But she discovers breaking the two-minute rule can have terrifying consequences. Together with her best friend Katie, Iris must battle for control of Baghead & figure out how to destroy her, before she destroys them.
Allan plays Iris and is joined in the cast by Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Ruby Barker (Bridgerton), Ned Dennehy (Guns Akimbo), Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake), Julika Jenkins (Dark), and Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea).
Baghead was produced by The Picture Company’s Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona as part of their deal with Studiocanal. Vertigo’s Roy Lee, Alibi’s Jake Wagner, and Corredor’s short film collaborator Lorcan Reilly serve as executive producers. Ron Halpern, Shana Eddy, and Rachel Henchosberg oversaw the project for Studiocanal.
What did you think of the Baghead clip? Are you interested in this horror movie? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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23
Jan
The Last of Us Part II Remastered has a lot of behind-the-scenes content in its special features. It’s cool to get a glimpse into what could have been, such as the playable cut segments in the Lost Levels. However, on the other end of the spectrum, we also learn about how easily the game could have been a much worse,…
23
Jan
The Last of Us Part II Remastered has a lot of behind-the-scenes content in its special features. It’s cool to get a glimpse into what could have been, such as the playable cut segments in the Lost Levels. However, on the other end of the spectrum, we also learn about how easily the game could have been a much worse,…
23
Jan
Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer is slicing through the Oscars buzz today with a blade of wind and fire in its heart. The live-action adaptation of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s beloved animated series is one of 2024’s most anticipated projects, and fans are finally getting an extended look at the upcoming Netflix series. Borrowing familiar beats from Nickelodeon‘s animated presentation, Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer burns brightly with bold alterations to the material, distancing itself from the original and M. Night Shyamalan’s universally-panned live-action film.
Here’s the official description for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender:
“Water. Earth. Fire. Air. The four nations once lived in harmony, with the Avatar, master of all four elements, keeping peace between them. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked and wiped out the Air Nomads, the first step taken by the firebenders towards conquering the world,” reads the official description. “With the current incarnation of the Avatar yet to emerge, the world has lost hope. But like a light in the darkness, hope springs forth when Aang, a young Air Nomad — and the last of his kind — reawakens to take his rightful place as the next Avatar. Alongside his newfound friends Sokka and Katara, siblings and members of the Southern Water Tribe, Aang embarks on a fantastical, action-packed quest to save the world and fight back against the fearsome onslaught of Fire Lord Ozai. But with a driven Crown Prince Zuko determined to capture them, it won’t be an easy task. They’ll need the help of the many allies and colorful characters they meet along the way.”
Avatar: The Last Airbender stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko, Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as General Iroh, Ken Leung as Commander Zhao, and Elizabeth Yu as Princess Azula, among many others.
Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer presents an epic adventure in a world where the world’s sacred elements are misaligned. Prophecy dictates that only the Avatar can unite the warring nations, creating harmony among enemy factions. Unfortunately, the Avatar will face the Fire Nation, a sect of fire-wielding warlords determined to rule all territories with an iron fist. Aang and his friends Kitata and Sokka venture out into a world on the brink of collapse, hoping to defeat the Fire Nation and broker peace between the elements. The trailer includes plenty of nods to the animated series, including some shots lifted directly from the source material. How Netflix’s live-action adaptation will differ from Nickelodeon’s version remains to be seen, but we’re excited to find out.
What do you think about Netflix’s new Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer? Are you excited to watch the show? Let us know in the comments section below.
Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres exclusively on Netflix on February 22, 2024.
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23
Jan
PLOT: A nineties TV family finds their home invaded by Russian gangsters. The family’s useless patriarch, Bernie (Nick Frost), a devout Christian with long-suppressed psychotic tendencies, must unleash those urges to save his family.
REVIEW: It happens every year. There’s always at least one movie at Sundance every year that tests my commitment to sitting through pretty much everything I see. This, however, was a tough one. I haven’t had this much of a difficult time with a Sundance movie since The Greasy Strangler, with it being a grating, 85-minute joke that goes on at least 80 minutes too long. It’s a slog.
Directors Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil are trying to make a provocative midnight movie, with it opening on a nun being violently gunned down before transitioning to a videotaped nineties sitcom. It centers around the Christian family who – natch – are Christian, with their bozo dad as the helpless head of the household. As soon as the usually great Nick Frost started doing his southern-accented Christian schtick, I worried Krazy House would be bad – and I was right.
Everything about this film is a disaster right from the start. The pseudo-sitcom gimmick is unfunny and was done much better in the classic viral video Too Many Cooks. Frost is doing his best, but the material gives him nothing to work with, as the sitcom gimmick goes on for about forty minutes, while he spends at least another 20 minutes of the movie strung up on a cross (don’t ask) mugging with reaction shots to the chaos around him. Frost drops the accent and re-emerges as a more crazed, badass version of his character (which he seems much more comfortable playing) in the last ten minutes, but by then, the film has devolved into a hopeless satire with nary a laugh in sight.
It’s incredible how many talented people are wasted on this, with Alicia Silverstone deserving far better than Frost’s always-shrieking wife. She and Frost have never been this grating on screen. The movie is going for a bonkers, transgressive vibe, with Entourage star Kevin Connelly turning up late in the game as Jesus Christ himself (he’s actually not bad), with a scene where a man gets violated with a Jesus figurine included. But it’s all just crass exploitation without any substance. Indeed, there’s a place for crass exploitation, but it needs to be backed up by entertainment value. Krazy House is so abysmal that it almost became an endurance test. Frankly, the press screening I saw inspired many walkouts.
Indeed, one wonders why what might have made a moderately amusing short was given the feature-length treatment and how it ever got into Sundance in the first place. Writing such a negative review is shameful; I hoped this would be good. Nick Frost is a great guy, and he and Silverstone deserve much better material. Some folks might enjoy this as a weird midnight movie, but there are many better types of wannabe cult movies than this that never get a platform like Sundance to launch from. Seek those out instead.
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