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Ryan Lambie Nov 21, 2017

Heavily censored and released in the Us as Jj & Jeff, Kato & Ken was a very strange Japanese game. A new video explains all...

If you were interested in importing Japanese games in the late 80s, or if you're just into far-eastern retro games today, you may have stumbled on Kato-chan & Ken-chan - a platform game released for the PC Engine 30 years ago this month. Released in America as Jj & Jeff for the TurboGrafx-16 (the console's name on those shores), it quickly vanished without trace, largely because the system only sold in relatively small numbers.

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The game's legend has survived thanks to the web, however, partly because of its incredibly strange line of humour. While the American version was heavily censored, the Japanese Kato & Ken was infamous for its scatalogical humour,...

After being briefly referenced in an X-Men: Apocalypse deleted scene last year, a casting call for X-Men: Dark Phoenix surfaced in June that seemed to indicate the pop star mutant Dazzler is finally showing up in X-Men: Dark Phoenix. That role has been cast, with The Orville star Halston Sage coming aboard, although there has been no confirmation from the studio. The actress was rumored to be up for the role earlier this month, along with Suki Waterhouse, but if this report is to be believed, Halston Sage has come away with the role.

Omega Underground broke the news on this casting, although there has been some evidence hiding in plain sight, so to speak. Last month, the actress was spotted alongside several X-Men: Dark Phoenix cast members backstage at a Hans Zimmer concert in Montreal, where the film is being shot. Halston Sage was seen alongside Tye Sheridan (Cyclops...

Merck CEO Ken Frazier, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich have all resigned from President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council following the president’s response to the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Scott Paul, president of the Alliance of American Manufacturing, also announced his resignation on Tuesday.

Frazier resigned Monday morning from the council, a group of business leaders tapped to advise the president on “how best to promote job growth and get Americans back to work again.”

Frazier’s decision to step down from the council came after President Trump failed to immediately...

With just over six months left until it hits theaters, 20th Century Fox is finally unveiling a first look at their highly-anticipated remake of Murder on the Orient Express, with the first photos of the all-star ensemble cast. The entire cast has gathered to be featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, along with new shots of main characters such as director/star Kenneth Branagh as Agatha Christie's iconic detective Hercule Poirot, Johnny Depp's Edward Ratchett, Michelle Pfeiffer as Caroline Hubbard, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Biniamino Marquez, Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham, Leslie Odom Jr. as Doctor Arbuthnot, Olivia Colman as Hildegarde Schmidt, Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff, Penelope Cruz as Pilar Estravados, Sergei Polunin as Count Andrenyi and Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen. We also have individual character photos along with plenty of new details from director/star Kenneth Branagh and more.

Star Wars fans may recall that earlier this year,...

The Performer | Reese Witherspoon

The Show | Big Little Lies

The Episode | “Serious Mothering” (Feb. 26, 2017)

The Performance | Oh, how we’ve missed this Reese Witherspoon. The living and breathing firecracker from the Election/Legally Blonde era who would toggle from bitchy to emboldened to entitled to vulnerable in the span of seconds. The one who could deliver a well-crafted one-liner with Bette Davis-like precision before melting your heart with a simple glance.

Luckily, with HBO’s Big Little Lies, the Oscar winner has triumphantly returned to her darkly comedic wheelhouse, and that was especially so with Sunday’s second episode.

Two couples got their swerve on in this week’s Nashville. One was a foregone conclusion. The other was an abomination.

Yeah, you heard me, Layla. Abomination! I could maybe get behind your plan to seduce Juliette’s ex-husband if you… had an actual plan to seduce Juliette’s husband. But your to-do list seems like an endless loop of mope, sulk, stalk off and then glom onto Avery’s lips whenever they’re within smooching distance. Even worse: This trajectory seems to be working for you.

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Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.

Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)

An ecstatically original work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions. Amour Fou seamlessly blends together the paintings of Vermeer, the acting of Bresson, and the psychological undercurrents of a Dostoevsky novel. It is an intensely thrilling and often slyly comic work that manages to combine a passionately dispassionate love story of the highest order with a larger socio-historical examination of a new era of freedom, and the tragedy beset by...

The cast of "Community" has come a long way from where they were when the comedy premiered on NBC in 2009 to where they are now as "Community" begins its latest rebirth on Yahoo. Not to take anything away from the career arcs of Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi or Alison Brie, but Jim Rash's journey from comic day player perhaps best known for a resemblance to Moby to beloved supporting performer, Oscar-winning screenwriter and acclaimed indie director seems like the biggest leap. As the cast of "Community" has shifted in recent years, Rash's Dean Pelton has become increasingly central and as Rash's creative profile has grown, thanks to "The Descendants" and "The Way Way Back," he was able to write an episode in The Lost Dan Harmon-less Season. The sixth "Community" season begins on Tuesday (March 17) on Yahoo and Rash has been able to add TV directing to his...

Honoring the best in social media, the 2014 Shorty Awards nominees were announced on Monday (February 24).

On April 7th, winners will be celebrated at the New York Times Center in a live-streamed ceremony at ShortyAwards.com.

Among the nominees are Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, Chloe Moretz, One Direction, Justin Bieber, and Demi Lovato.

Honored for their web-based projects were Amy Poehler's "Smart Girls at the Party" Tumblr and Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" web series. Check out the nominees below.

#Actor

Aaron Paul, @aaronpaul_8

Joshua Malina, @JoshMalina

Orlando Jones, @TheOrlandoJones

Arthur Aguiar, @Aguiarthur

Shahrukh Khan, @iamsrk

Misha Collins, @mishacollins

Dylan O'Brien, @dylanobrien

#Actress

Felicia Day, @feliciaday

Lena Dunham, @lenadunham

Retta, @unfoRETTAble

Lua Blanco, @Lua_Blanco

Sophia Abrahão, @sophiaabrahao

Chloë Grace Moretz, @ChloeGMoretz

Miranda Cosgrove, @MirandaCosgrove

#Band

Fifth Harmony, @FifthHarmony

One Direction, @onedirection

Big Time Rush, @bigtimerush

The Script, @thescript

Tokio Hotel, @tokiohotel

5 Seconds of Summer, @5Sos

EMBLEM3, @EmblemThree

#Celebrity

Aaron Paul,...

Community comes back January 2, and in typical Community fashion, the latest teaser is a meta spoof of another show's teaser style. If you thought Mad Men's promos were maddeningly vague and impossible to parse — and they are, by design — then you will enjoy this equally informationless yet very intense Community promo. Letting Jeff be Don Draper seems sort of weak, though. We already know Abed does a killer Draper! We'll assume for these purposes that Troy is Ken Cosgrove, because who else at Sterling Cooper and Partners would care about staging a robot fight?...

In Bad Milo!, Ken Marino has a problem.  The stresses of his life and constant stomach issues manifest in the form of a pint-sized creature living inside of his intestines.  And when Ken's complications worsen, said creature introduces itself to the world by crawling out of his ass and destroying anyone who poses a threat.

The film - a ridiculous and hilarious tale - is the spawn of director and co-writer Jacob Vaughan, an assistant editor on Mark and Jay Duplass' Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives at Home and the editor of Black Rock.  And, thanks to his previous collaborations with the Duplass brothers, Bad Milo! was able to become a reality.

Tonight, the film is going to be screening at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and in our continuing coverage of the fest, we spoke to Vaughan about his creature feature debut which also stars Gillian Jacobs,...

Today sees the limited release of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem, which means we've reached part five of this five-part retrospective which began with Zombie's 2003 feature House of 1000 Corpses. I hope you've enjoyed this look back at Zombie's career as much as I enjoyed interviewing him and writing about it. If you haven't already, please give the previous installments in this series a look, I've included all the links at the bottom of this final post. The Lords of Salem Zombie's newest film is The Lords of Salem, an exceedingly moody slice of psychedelic blasphemy. Never one to make the same film twice, Zombie's latest opus represents an evolution toward more cerebral, yet equally visceral scares. Relying less on hulking or twisted degenerates to deliver the shocks, Lords has a decidedly feminine bent to its particular brand of creeping menace. It also is his first film to...

Cambridge, Mass. — Sean Penn remembers smelling dead bodies when he arrived in Haiti after the earthquake.

But now there's music in those same streets even as the country faces many years of rebuilding, the Academy Award-winning actor said Tuesday.

Penn said "extraordinary" changes have happened since the Jan. 12, 2010, natural disaster killed more than 300,000 people and left about 1.5 million homeless.

He also called the Haitian people resilient in his remarks in a forum at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

The actor is an ambassador-at-large for Haiti's president and CEO of aid group J/P Haitian Relief Organization, which started with a goal of bringing painkillers to earthquake victims. It became an agency that manages a camp for displaced people and works to resettle them. It also does other aid work such as clearing rubble, repairing damaged homes and running a community center and clinics.

Former Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis and Ken Keen,...

Two new biopics of the master of suspense depict him as a bully who abused his leading ladies. But where does the truth lie?

The appearance of two new films about Alfred Hitchcock, widely considered to be the greatest of Britain's filmmakers, is a reminder that there was a time when he was also considered lovable. His unmistakable profile, his deadpan, Droopy Dog style, and his sense of humour helped make Hitch a star as well as a director.

Then, in 1983, came Donald Spoto's biography, The Dark Side of Genius. Spoto revealed that Hitchcock had harassed actor Tippi Hedren on the set of 1963's The Birds to the point of physical and psychological collapse. During the filming of the followup, Marnie, Hedren claimed that he also "made an overt sexual proposition", and when she resisted "became threatening", saying he would ruin her career. He never forgave her for turning him down,...

Rob Zombie’s Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (review) made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and as soon as the credits rolled, fans couldn’t stop talking about the film that managed to raise more questions than answers!

The solid performances from Rob Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie as doomed DJ, Heidi and co-star Jeff Daniel Phillips (last seen getting butchered in Zombie’s Halloween 2) as follow DJ, Herman Whitey.

Dread Central was lucky enough to get an opportunity to talk to the affable stars about their roles, their own reactions about the premiere and if they themselves understood what Rob Zombie was setting out for in his ambitious and abstract horror film about the Salem witches.

It was a pleasant surprise to discover that Sheri Moon Zombie is nothing like the characters she plays onscreen and despite what horror fans may believe,...

As part of our new coverage for this season of rugby, we will be bringing you our Rugby Round-Up, analysing all the Aviva Premiership results from the previous weekend as well as seeing how we did with our predictions. As Always let us know your thoughts on all the matches in the comments below or on Twitter @Ballintouch

The new season got underway with some fascinating match-ups and some equally fascinating results. Some teams picked up where they left off last time while others seemed to take a step back. Read on for analysis of all six matches and see how Jeff Ball and Simon Humphries did on their predictions.

Exeter Chiefs 43- 6 Sale Sharks

Did you notice that few month gap since we were last season? That off-season thing? Exeter Chiefs certainly hadn’t as they picked up where they left off last time around, a powerful forward...

Christopher Nolan's "Inception" won the Hollywood Movie Award presented by Starz. 160,000 votes were cast via Yahoo! Movies. "Inception" beat other nominees such as .Alice in Wonderland,. .Despicable Me,. .The Expendables,. .How to Train Your Dragon,. .Inception,. .Iron Man 2,. .Salt,. .The Social Network,. .Shutter Island,. and .Toy Story 3..

Winners of the "Hollywood Discovery Awards were Tyler Langdon . favorite male actor and Ariel King . favorite female actor. The nominees for favorite male actor were: Eric Hulen, Tyler Langdon, Jose Morales, and Cameron Radice and the nominees for favorite female actor were: Zamara Jimenez, Sarah Joanou, Ariel King, Lauren Serrano, and Jessica Williams.

Here's the rest of the press release for the Hollywood Movie Awards. For more info, click here.

The winners of the festival.s film competition were announced Sunday night at the .Hollywood Discovery Awards® Presentation Ceremony at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. This year.s winners are: .Fort McCoy. by...

Hollywoodnews.com: The 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s “Hollywood Awards® Gala”ceremony was held last night before a standing-room-only audience of over 1,100 Hollywood Film Festival® attendees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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Leonardo DiCaprio - "Inception" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals - Grauman's Chinese Theatre - Hollywood, CA, USA

The festival and awards, presented by Starz, announced this year’s winner of the “Hollywood Movie Award” — Chrisopher Nolan’s “Inception” — which was chosen by the public voting online at the Yahoo! Movies website. The voting site received 20 million unique visitors and over 160,000 votes were cast. The nominees for the “Hollywood Movie Award” were: “Alice in Wonderland,” “Despicable Me,” “The Expendables,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Inception,” “Iron Man 2,” “Salt,” “The Social Network,” “Shutter Island,” and “Toy Story 3.” The festival and awards also announced winners of the “Hollywood Discovery Awards,...

The actor hated the attention-seeking celebrities in Haiti. Which is why, this week, he told Vanity Fair all about his time there

We end on a personal note today. A while back, word came through on the LiS hotline that Sean Penn was in Haiti (above, with Ban Ki-Moon) and had banned Twitter because he was so sick of attention-seeking visiting celebrities Twittering photos of themselves with cute little brown children (so thin!) instead of, you know, doing anything. LiS was extremely taken with this story: a celebrity working for charity who appeared more focused on the charity than the publicity potential? It's like encountering a Republican Us senator who has never visited www.hotrentboys.com.

So we asked if we could have more details and Sean's people, to use the medical term, "flipped out". Penn didn't want any media attention for his hard work in Haiti. As Groucho Marx feels about club membership rules,...

Six new character posters for Universal’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World have been revealed on Pilgrim director Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) Twitter feed in photographs taken at London Expo. The 6 posters give us a good look at Ramona Flowers’ 7 evil ex-boyfriends (one poster features both twins Ken and Kyle Katayanagi) who we first saw in the teaser trailer released a few months back. On that note, Wright has promised to release the first non-teaser trailer once the Pilgrim Facebook page get’s 100,000 “likes”, so if that’s something that interests you, click here. Hit the jump for the posters, what the posters mean for the film’s marketing and full synopsis of the film if you’re just tuning in.

The 6 posters reveal Ramona’s 7 evil exes: (in numerical order) Matthew Patel (Satya Bhabha), Lucas Lee (Chris Evans), Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh), Roxy Richter...