News

This is it, kids. Halloween is here. This means it’s time to cram in every last bit of Halloween festivities and celebrations, and that naturally includes watching more Halloween set horror. By late October, chances are high that you’ve already exhausted the more familiar picks, like the Halloween or Night of the Demons franchises. So, this week’s horror streaming picks dig a little deeper to present some less obvious choices for your Halloween movie marathons.

Whether you’re in the mood for fun horror, deep cuts, recent faves or pretty much anything in between, these ten Halloween-set horror movies offer something for everyone.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Cemetery of Terror – AMC+, Shudder

Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most prominent horror feature is the American-influenced Don’t Panic (available on Shudder), but the Halloween-centric Cemetery of Terror offers the most fun.

The first week of October is officially here, so it’s full steam ahead on the Halloween season from here on out. This week’s streaming picks embrace spooky season festivities by centering on holiday-themed horror movies that feature Halloween parties as their slaying grounds.

Some of these horror movies bring the fun, while others aim to spike your adrenaline. But all use Halloween parties as a centerpiece for the horror that’s unleashed within.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Cemetery of Terror – AMC+, Shudder

Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most prominent horror feature is the American-influenced Don’t Panic (available on Shudder), but the Halloween-centric Cemetery of Terror offers the most fun. A trio of college kids decides to impress their ladies by stealing a body from a morgue for a Halloween prank and party in an abandoned house.

Writer and director Quentin Tarantino is an avid film fan who famously pays homage to his favorite genre films in his own work, but for "Inglourious Basterds," he drew from his own filmography as well.

While "Basterds" is clearly inspired by numerous war films and Nazi exploitation movies like "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS," Tarantino also loosely pulled from several of his previous films. In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Tarantino shared that he felt like "Inglourious Basterds" shared traits with his earlier films "True Romance," "Reservoir Dogs," and "Pulp Fiction." (Tarantino wrote the screenplay for "True Romance," which was directed by Tony Scott.) It's not surprising or unusual for a creative to draw from their earlier work, and Tarantino took some of the lessons learned from his past to make "Inglourious Basterds" the best it could be.

The director's sixth film is a tone-shifting historical drama that balances...

Happy Halloween month! It’s time to theme the horror watchlists accordingly. We’re jumping back to the ‘80s for some quintessential Halloween horror for the first week of October.

This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to 1980s horror movies set on or around Halloween, excluding the Halloween franchise.

Here’s where you can stream these five 1980s Halloween titles this week, from kitchen sink cult gems to made-for-tv chillers!

Cemetery of Terror – AMC+, Shudder, Tubi

Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most prominent horror feature is the American-influenced Don’t Panic (available on Shudder), but the Halloween-centric Cemetery of Terror offers the most fun. A trio of college kids decides to impress their ladies by stealing a body from a morgue for a Halloween prank and party in an abandoned house. It happens to be the body of a serial killer, and reading an incantation from a book revives it.

After viewing horror for decades (watch yer tongue), it just dawned on me how little truck international pictures – especially low budget horror – hold for purity of subgenre. Case in point: Mexico’s Cemetery of Terror (1985); a film set up as a Halloween clone, except Michael is a serial killer Satanist, and then it becomes a zombie film, and a kid’s flick that’s also really gory. All this, and Hugo Stiglitz to boot! They’re not wrong, of course; why have less genres when you can have more? It’s also stupidly fun.

Released in July Stateside with a homeland release the following December, Cemetery of Terror all but came and went, and I don’t even remember this thing in video stores.

But enough about VHS statistics from the ‘80s; let’s talk about this ultimately somewhat unique batfuckery of a film: As every horror should, we open...

Happy 2021, everyone! It’s been a few weeks, but we’re back with a brand-new edition of our weekly Blu-ray and DVD releases column to kick off this new year. And while we may not have a ton of titles headed home on Tuesday, we do have an excellent bunch of films all the same, including one of my favorite films of 2020, Love and Monsters, which hits various formats this week. Another film from last year that I really enjoyed was Brea Grant’s 12 Hour Shift, which hits both Blu-ray and DVD (and will be available On Demand) tomorrow, and if you have somehow never seen it, I highly recommend picking up the new Blu for Savage Streets, featuring Linda Blair.

Other releases for January 5th include Tintorera… Tiger Shark, From the Depths, Nina of the Woods, and Hacksaw.

12 Hour Shift

It's 1998, and over the course of one...

While the math is way off – there’s no more than one hundred, tops – The Night of a Thousand Cats (1972) offers 63 minutes (!) of outlandish fun, decadent behavior, and a proclivity towards the absurd. Just don’t expect a story from this Mexican release; it seems around thirty minutes were cut for the North American release, leaving behind a mess of the rest that is nevertheless very entertaining.

Released in Mexico in early August, Cats didn’t arrive stateside until November of ’74, where it came and went pretty quickly. Reviews were…well, what do you think? There still really hasn’t been a reconsideration of the film all these years later; it remains hanging out just below the surface of modern horror culture.

And by hanging out I mean mostly hiding from shame; Night has a couple moments where cats appear to be mishandled, and I’m pretty sure there weren...

For the last round of horror and sci-fi home media releases for the month of November, we have an eclectic array of titles coming home this week. Vinegar Syndrome is keeping busy with a handful of titles being released on Tuesday, including Deadly Games (aka Dial Code Santa Claus), Cemetery of Terror, Blood Games, Rest in Pieces, The Severed Arm, and Whodunit? (aka Island of Blood). Arrow Video has put together He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection, which exploitation fans will undoubtedly want to pick up, and if you missed it when it hit limited theaters earlier this year, now you can catch up with Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula.

Other releases for November 24th include Blood Craft, Lycanimator, Haunting of the Mary Celeste, and Tourist Trap: VHS Retro Big Box Collection.

Blood Games

It all started as a simple game of softball... When a women's...

Quentin Tarantino scenes are like songs.

The kinetic trade offs of expletives and pop culture references form a rhythm. The quotable monologues are the ear worm singalong choruses. The violence — that releases the swell of tension — is the guitar solo, the violin crescendo, when the beat drops. And every time Samuel L. Jackson says “motherf–ker,” that’s the crash of symbols, trumpet blasts, the “throw your hands up.”

Tarantino lays it all down over samples from his inspirations: Sergio Leone, Jean-Luc Godard, Sam Peckinpah and Brian De Palma, just to name a few.

His scenes are self-contained. They have playback value. And they’re just so catchy. So, it is only appropriate to compile Tarantino scenes like one would an album to properly encapsulate his oeuvre. Choosing one scene from each of his movies, here are Quentin Tarantino’s Greatest Hits.

Reservoir Dogs

“Intro Scene”

If you ever found...

The German star’s new directorial effort is the sequel to Class Reunion 1.0. Best known to international audiences for playing Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, German actor-filmmaker Til Schweiger, who in his native country enjoys superstardom status, finished shooting his new directorial effort last week. Entitled Class Reunion 2.0 - The Wedding, the new comedy is a sequel to his movie Class Reunion 1.0 - The Incredible Journey of the Silver Backs, which attracted more than 1.1 million viewers in 2018. As a reminder, Schweiger also directed last year’s box-office flop Head Full of Honey, an English-language remake of his German-language film of the same name from 2014. Class Reunion 2.0 will follow the main characters from Class Reunion 1.0 as they face a series of new challenges. Shortly after the class reunion, the lives of Thomas (Til Schweiger himself), Nils (Samuel Finzi) and Andreas (Milan Peschel),...

Welcome back to our ongoing From VHS to VOD column – our guide through the strange and obscure – the odd, unseen and unreleased (well unreleased on disc formats) films available on streaming and on-demand services.

Once again we’re taking a look at the obscure movies hitting Amazon Prime Video – available for streaming and/or purchase, some of which have been made available in the UK for the first time since VHS and a Lot that have been added to the service in their original uncut form! And yes, despite the recent reported cull of genre titles from Amazon Prime’s vaults there’s still a Huge amount of obscure films to watch right now without ever leaving the couch (feel free to sit around in your pants too if that’s how you roll).

Bermuda Triangle (1978)

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean...

Do you have a recurring nightmare? Mine is the oh-so passé “being chased”. It’s always the same; hunted relentlessly by an unknown assailant, helplessly fleeing from a certain doom. Of course, I wake up in a puddle of sweat, crying out for mommy, as one will do. The fear of cutthroat pursuit is at the center of Nightmare City (1980), Umberto Lenzi’s take on the then resurgent zombie sub-genre. And while you won’t wake up screaming after seeing it, you might end up covered in a sticky sweet glaze of Wtf. The Italians don’t make their horror in half measures; I’m pretty sure Nightmare City throws in the whole cup.

I should say, Italian/Spanish/Mexican. This co-co-production was released in Italy in December, toured around Europe for a couple of years, and then landed on North American soil late ’83 under the title City of the Walking Dead,...

Question. When is a zombie movie not a zombie movie? The answer in this case is when the director says so, and Umberto Lenzo is a great pains to point out that Nightmare City is absolutely not a zombie movie, despite what his friend Quentin Tarrantino keeps insisting, and that it is instead a film about people infected by radiation.

I have to admit that having originally seen Nightmare City back in the 1980s, I have always had fond memories of it being a zombie movie, but watching it again it’s clear that it has far more in common with George A Romero’s The Crazies and particularly the most significant film that it has influenced in recent years, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, who Lenzi states in a fascinating thirty minute interview ‘copied him, but everybody knows that’.

In fact, the nature of Lenzi’s infected, in that...

Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo, Stefania D’Amario, Mel Ferrer, Sara Franchetti, Manuel Zarzo | Written by Antonio Cesare Corti, Luis María Delgado | Directed by Umberto Lenzi

Zombies don’t run! …or something like that right? I never actually stick to that; I’m not one of the people who think that Romero wrote the rules about zombies. Nightmare City, which is being released by Arrow Video, is a batshit crazy zombie movie which may be the first instance of running zombies, all the way back in 1980, though I’m probably wrong about that…

When an airplane arrives at an airport full of bloodsucking zombies, the unstoppable force soon starts to invade the city. Dean (Hugo Stiglitz), a reporter who witnesses the original attack fights to find his wife Anna (Laura Trotter) at the hospital before the horde completely take over the city.

Reviewed by Kevin Scott

MoreHorror.com

Nymph (2014)

Written by: Marko Backovic, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic

Directed by: Milan Todorovic

Cast: Kristina Klebe (Kelly), Franco Nero (Niko), Natalie Burn (Lucy), Dragan Micanovic (Boban), Slobodan Stefanovic (Alex), Miodrag Krstovic (The Guardian), Sofija Rajovic (Yasmine)

As you can see from the very challenging names to spell in the cast, this film has an international flair. Some scenes were filmed in Montenegro and some in Serbia. As of this writing, this film is streaming on Netflix under the title “Killer Mermaid”. I tend to gravitate more towards “Nymph”, the films’ original title. It leaves a little more mystique and still lets the film hold on to that exotic flair I eluded to earlier.

If anyone remembers “She Creature”, it involved a killer mermaid as well. That’s the only other film that I know of that can be compared to this one. I liked it a lot,...

Before you enjoy Machete Kills (out on Blu-Ray this week), check out another piece of Mexican action cinema history... Chinango (2009) Director: Peter Van Lengen Stars: Marko Zaror, Hugo Stiglitz, Susana Gonzalez In order to "escape all the racism," a group of Chinese monks travel to Mexico, carrying with them the secrets of kung fu. And only one man with the "strength of the tiger" can harness the magical medallion of ass kicking. Billed as...

Beck is in the middle of a war with a very rich, very powerful German ... a German who claims Beck Destroyed his Malibu rental property ... and now, they're suing the crap out of each other, TMZ has learned. The German is Til Schweiger -- who besides playing Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz in "Inglourious Basterds," is one of the top filmmakers in Germany (we'd put a clip in the post, but they're all too violent). Here's what...

*Updated* Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City, also released under the title City of the Walking Dead, gets a Blu-ray release in December. The Italian horror movie was originally released in Europe in 1980, starring Hugo Stiglitz and Laura Trotter. Gore and nudity also feature quite heavily and not always mutually exclusive. Here are the details from Raro Video:

“TV news reporter Dean Miller waits at the airport for the arrival of a scientist that he is about to interview. There, an unmarked military plane makes an emergency landing. The plane doors open and dozens of zombies burst out stabbing and shooting military waiting outside. Miller tries to let the people know of this event, but General Murchison of Civil Defense will not allow it. Then, Miller tries to find his wife and escape from the blood-thirsty zombies that are all over the city.”

While planned for release in October, Nightmare City...

Odd List Ryan Lambie 4 Oct 2013 - 06:41

They're funny, they're sad, they're weird. Here are 50 famous last words from characters in the movies...

Please Note: There are potential spoilers ahead. Check the name of the film, and if you haven't seen it, don't read the entry!

As someone famous probably once said, “We’ve all gotta go sometime,” and if we’re going to die, we might as well do so with a witticism or a memorable line rather than a scream and a cry for mother. Which is the subject of this lengthy but far from definitive list: the memorable things movie characters have uttered shortly (not necessarily immediately) before they’re about to meet their maker.

Some of these last words are long, tear-jerking monologues. Others amount to little more than a word or two. But all of them, in our estimation, are worthy of mention, and one...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have a whopping 100 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new comedy “Instructions Not Included” with star and comedian Eugenio Derbez appearing in person to introduce the film!

“Instructions Not Included,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens on Aug. 30, 2013, also stars Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta, Daniel Raymont, Alessandra Rosaldo, Hugo Stiglitz and Sammy Pérez from director Eugenio Derbez and writers Guillermo Ríos and Leticia López Margalli. The film is being distributed to the U.S. by Pantelion Films, which is the first major Latino Hollywood film studio.

To win your free “Instructions Not Included” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points...

Blood Feast (The Night of 1000 Cats) is the creation of Mexican cult director René Cardona Jr., who is best known for making the movie that inspired Jaws, Tintorera. The Night of 1000 Cats, stars the debonair Hugo Stiglitz as the helicopter-flying killer playboy Hugo. His main occupation in life is to lure unsuspecting women back to his man lair by flying around and suggestively dropping a rope ladder out the side of the 'copter in the hope they’ll climb up.

Once these ladies are back at Hugo’s lair, they are treated to drinks from gigantic goblets, some bachelor-type play, sexy interludes, and finally a beheading. All of this takes planning and organization, none of which could be done without the Hugo’s trusty right hand man and our sidekick of the week, Dorgo. At this point I am sure you are wondering where the cats come in. Well, Hugo’s a collector of sorts,...

By Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

“Nightmare City” (1980)

Directed By: Umberto Lenzi

Written By: Piero Mignoli, Tony Corti, Jose Luis Delgado

Starring: Hugo Stiglitz (Dean Miller), Laura Trotter (Dr. Anna Miller), Maria Rosaria (Sheila), Francisco Rabal (Major Warren Holmes), Sonia Viviani (Cindy), Eduardo Fajardo (Dr. Kramer) Mel Ferrer (General Murchison).

I never knew mindless killing could occur with no actual plot but apparently it really can! It is fairly difficult to defend this movie unless the movie watcher really likes incoherent films. This movie was released under numerous titles as well such as “City of the Walking Dead” and its Italian label “Incubo Sulla Cittá Contaminata.” This movie is not very well known and I found out why, the hard way.

The apparent plot is a news reporter named Dean (Hugo Stiglitz) is going to interview a scientist at a European airport about a recent nuclear incident. A random plane lands...

Having skipped This Means War like someone was waiting to physically attack me in the theater, I know Til Schweiger from one place and one place only: Inglourious Basterds. Now, Hugo Stiglitz is a perfectly fine (and by “perfectly fine” I mean “the best possible”) memory marker for yours truly, but I was fond enough of what he did there to want some more. Being a close-minded American, little did I know that the guy does a lot more — writing, directing, and producing, namely.

Variety reports that Schweiger will be coming back to America with those credits in tow — probably in better form than War and New Year’s Eve, too — tackling a remake of his own German production, Schutzengel. The actor, Paul Maurice, and Stephen Butchard wrote the original script (that goes by the title of The Guardians in English), which follows “a psychologically troubled former elite soldier who rescues a teenage orphan,...

Til Schweiger played Hugo Stiglitz in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, a character that oozed so much coolness and aplomb that it's no wonder fans have expressed regret that he wasn't in the movie more.  Schweiger, a superstar in his native Germany, is currently filming a movie that he co-wrote, directs, and stars in called The Guardians (Schutzengel in German).  The movie's main role is played by Schweiger's daughter Luna, and "follows an orphan girl who witnesses a...

I’m clearly in the minority when it comes to the great director’s most recent film Inglourious Basterds. There have been many nights (usually involving beer) where my colleague Andy and I have delightfully debated the pros and cons of Tarantino‘s WWII opus. I regularly argue for the fact that the film was ruined by the use of such things as the “Hugo Stiglitz” Montage, the Samuel L. Jackson narrated celluloid fact speech, the arrows and names pointing to people in the finale, and the most unbearable for me, the completely out of left field use of David Bowie’s song from Cat People (“Putting Out The Fire”) towards the climax of the film. These are just a handful of numerous wrong moments for me in what could have been a great film. Now, it seems that the director might take up the idea of incorporating a song...

France's Cannes Film Festival has officially begun, and that means glamour, big premieres, gorgeous women in bikinis on yachts, and producers negotiating deals for oddball movies on said yachts.

One such cult-y sounding flick trying to come to life at the festival is a just-announced action-comedy starring none other than TV's Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland.

According to THR Sutherland will headline "Sleight of Hand," a caper film "which centers on a crew of small-time crooks in Paris who inadvertently end up possessing a rare gold coin belonging to a notorious French gangster."

If that doesn't sound wacky enough, wait 'til you meet the rest of the cast:

Gérard Depardieu ("Cyrano de Bergerac"), Til Schweiger (Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz in "Inglourious Basterds"), Thomas Jane ("The Punisher," "Hung"), Johnny Hallyday (the Elvis Presley of France!), Eric Cantona (Manchester United football star!), and Jon Lovitz (Jon Freakin' Lovitz! "Yeah! That's the ticket!").

Producing the film is Hannibal Classics,...

Very few films are perfect, in my eyes at least. Coen Brothers’ 2007 classic No Country For Old Men is a movie I constantly cite as being one where every single individual scene and performance would be impossible to improve upon in progressing the filmmaker’s intention within that genre. No Country, for example, is a film I have watched at length and found no flaws, nothing that dissatisfies me or that I think could be bettered. Stanley Kubrick’s early crime classic The Killing is another. But these are few and far between.

Of course that’s just my opinion and you guys might be able to come up with a list a mile long about what annoys you about either film and you are entitled to that (I’d love to see such a list however if you do feel that way). But 99.9% of every other movie I’ve seen,...

Do the movies that best represent modern German cinema have crossover appeal, or are they lost in translation?

Scanning overseas box office charts is like strolling the aisles of a foreign supermarket. The old familiar produce is still there and still prominent, although it sits cheek-by-jowl with local cuisine that can seem exotic, enticing or off-putting, depending on your predilections.

So yes, German audiences, like their British counterparts, are currently devouring The King's Speech, Rango, Black Swan and True Grit. They are also partial to films such as Der ganz grobe traum, Dschungelkind and Ya Sonra? The year's biggest hit, meanwhile, is Kokowääh, which has earned a phenomenal €26m (£22.5m) after just five weeks on general release.

So what is Kokowääh, and what makes it so good? A cursory investigation leaves me none the wiser. "Anybody who likes KeinOhrHasen or ZweiOhrKüeken will love Kokowääh," promises an enthusiastic user on IMDb.

Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen in The Three Musketeers

Photo: Summit Entertainment Summit has released two brand new images from Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers which will be released in 3D on October 14.

The film stars Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Matthew MacFadyen, Christoph Waltz, Mads Mikkelsen, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom, Til Schweiger and Juno Temple serves as a new an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 19th century novel set in the 17th century telling the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (Lerman) after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos (Macfadyen), Porthos (Stevenson) and Aramis (Evans), inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all." Mikkelsen stars as Rochefort and Waltz plays Cardinal Richelieu. Til Schweiger, whom you'll remember...

German actor Til Schweiger and Chelsea Handler have joined the cast of the Fox comedy "This Means War." According to Variety, the cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine.McG is directing with Robert Simonds, Jennifer Simpson, Will Smith and Witherspoon producing.The film centers on two spies (Hardy, Pine) who are lifelong friends until they both fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon). When they realize they are going after the same woman, an escalating battle ensues.Schweiger is best known to American audiences for his role as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."Handler is best known as the host of "Chelsea Lately" on E! Television Network.

If you.re not on board for the Mickey Rourke comeback tour, then there might be something wrong with you. Ever since Sin City back in .05 the man has been getting role after role and knocking every one of them out of the park, including his role in The Expendables, in which he is the only meathead doing any real acting. And the Rourke train shows no signs of slowing down, as the hulking actor has just signed on to join The Courier, a Jeffrey Dean Morgan vehicle about a tough courier (clever) tasked with delivering a briefcase to a baddie that can.t seem to be found, according to The Wrap. Of course, there.s plenty of obstacles in his way, of which Rourke may be one. Also appearing in the film is Til Schweiger, who you may all know better as the badass Nazi killer Hugo Stiglitz in...

If you have Netflix and are a horror fan in need of something to watch this Labor Day weekend, one look at this gargantuan list I compiled of the new terror titles Netflix has added for instant streaming in just the first three days of this month should keep you busy until Labor Day next year. You'll find something for everyone, from older titles to recent releases, famous to obscure, classic to not-so-classic, monsters to maniacs - you name it.

For the record, I considered compiling this list in alphabetical order or by year of the film's release, but then I realized I had already spent well over an hour just sorting through the massive catalogue of titles Netflix has now made available for instant streaming and realized Labor Day would be over by the time I finished arranging this list in any kind of order. Ready? Here you go.

By modern standards, Quentin Tarantino would be considered an auteur; a director whose films reflect that his personal creative vision. But what exactly is that vision, and how is it reflected in his work? One major observation that one can make about Tarantino’s films is that he often incorporates a number of references, many of which refer to cinema, specific films, or pop culture. His films are laced with this intertextuality were the relationship between texts (or films) is constantly being redefined. This method of pastiche is one way that he draws attention to the fact that his film is a constructed piece of fiction, or a “simulation.”

His rational behind this is heavily influenced by French theorist Jean Baudrillard’s notion of “hyperreality.” Hyperreality in this case refers to the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, as the two become blurred into one. Baudrillard argues that...

I'm going to be experimenting for a short while with having readers pick which DVD we cover here. Which new release I blog about will be up to you but how it's blogged we'll let my schedule decide. My schedule is an unkind mistress. She's very disorganized and thinks that there's 38 hours to each day and 8 days in a week. She also thinks blogging and sleeping are both wastes of time, inks in lots for staring off into space time, and has lately even been forcing me to only write inbetween actual money-making jobs. What's her problem, anyway?

Where were we? Last week you chose Fantastic Mr Fox so here we are.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

First thing I notice my third time through from the ungodly hour of midnight till 1:27 Am, is that when it starts I'm instantly in a good mood. Is it the banjos? I don't know from musical instruments.

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Recipients Theatrical Motion Pictures Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Jeff Bridges / Bad Blake - "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock / Leigh Anne Tuohy - "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros. Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Christoph Waltz / Col. Hans Landa - "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Mo’Nique / Mary - "Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures) Daniel BRÜHL / Fredrick Zoller August Diehl / Major Hellstrom Julie Dreyfus / Francesca Mondino Michael Fassbender / Lt. Archie Hicox Sylvester Groth / Joseph Goebbels Jacky Ido / Marcel Diane Kruger / Bridget von Hammersmark MÉLANIE Laurent / Shosanna Denis Menochet / Perrier Lapadite...

Even though Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds took it on the chin at the 2010 Golden Globes, the World War II revenge-fest came back strong at the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Saturday night.

Basterds nabbed the top prize for an acting ensemble along with another supporting role win by Christoph Waltz at the ceremony, which was held at the Shrine Exposition in Los Angeles.

Here were the results:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake – “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

George Clooney as Ryan Bingham – “Up in the Air” (Paramount Pictures)

Colin Firth as George Falconer – “A Single Man” (The Weinstein Company)

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela – “Invictus” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Jeremy Renner as Staff Sgt. William James – “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy – “The Blind Side...

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Winners

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges / Bad Blake - "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock / Leigh Anne Tuohy - "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Christoph Waltz / Col. Hans Landa - "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Mo'nique / Mary - "Precious: Based On The Novel .Push' By Sapphire" (Lionsgate)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)

Daniel BRÜHL / Fredrick Zoller

August Diehl / Major Hellstrom

Julie Dreyfus / Francesca Mondino

Michael Fassbender / Lt. Archie Hicox

Sylvester Groth / Joseph Goebbels

Jacky Ido / Marcel

Diane Kruger / Bridget Von Hammersmark

MÉLANIE Laurent / Shosanna

Denis Menochet / Perrier Lapedite

Mike Myers...

[Just when you thought the onslaught of Year End lists had come to an end here comes another.  We welcome Mitch Davis - head of International Programming at Montreal's Fantasia Festival and a very good friend to this site - with his year end wrap up.]

Ignore the grumpy naysayers who groan that 2009 was a weak year for world cinema. Nothing could be further from the truth.  Below are my top 11 picks, personal favourites among favourites (a top 30 list would have been unwieldy!). It bears mentioning that at the time of this writing, I've not yet seen The White Ribbon, Mother, Il Divo, Symbol, Vermillion Souls or Accident, to name but a few. In other words, this list, like all lists, is an incomplete snapshot.

11. In The Loop

If there was a funnier film this year, I must have missed it. Subversive, acerbic and gut-wrenchingly hilarious, like Dr Strangelove meets The Office. Incredible.

10. Drag Me To Hell

Sam Raimi's volume-eleven return to the genre is everything much of us had been hoping for: a grossout EC-comic rollercoaster that combines Grand Guignol horror, loopy wide-eyed humour and extreme physical trauma to make an epic of morbidly...

In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that I have never been the biggest Quentin Tarantino fan. Don't mistake me, I respect the guy, I admire his work, and I'm glad that he's in the world making movies -- but for reasons even I don't fully understand his movies have always left me a little cold, at least until I saw his WWII genre bender Inglourious Basterds (I know, I'm a little late to the game, but sometimes when movies are your job, you get very little time to watch them). There were so many scenes to choose from that could demonstrate just what it was about this movie that had me so hooked: Shosanna meeting her would-be murderer, Colonel Landa (*Christopher Waltz), the introduction to *Hans Stieglitz (Til Schweiger). But if forced to choose, I'm going to have to go with the scene in that little...

On Thursday December 17th, nominations were announced for the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards. Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air” walked away with three nominations including best actor for George Clooney, and best supporting actress for Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, both of whom sat down with MakingOf for an exclusive interview earlier this month.

“Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” and “Inglorious Basterds” also walked away with 3 nominations each.

Carey Mulligan received a best actress nomination for her performance in “An Education,” a role that she discusses in a recent interview with MakingOf. Adittionally, “An Education” was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which could mean potential awards for seven cast members including Dominic Cooper and Alfred Molina, who talked with MakingOf at September’s Toronto International Film Festival

Also receiving double nominations were “Invictus,” “Nine,” Katheryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,...

The Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood. Some of the noms, or lack of, that make you go, hmmmm. The surprise, but crazy Best Supporting Actress nomination for Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds, no Up In The Air nom for Best Ensemble, even though it saw three acting nominations, and nothing for Julianne Moore of A Single Man or Alfred Molina of An Education.

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Nominations

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges / Bad Blake – “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

George Clooney / Ryan Bingham – “Up In The Air” (Paramount Pictures)

Colin Firth / George Falconer – “A Single Man” (The Weinstein Company)

Morgan Freeman / Nelson Mandela – “Invictus” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Jeremy Renner / Staff Sgt. William James – “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

Outstanding...

The morning the Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for the 16th annual SAG awards. The actual ceremony will be held Saturday, January 23rd. There are a lot of gay-faves on the list of nominees.

For starters, Colin Firth picked up a nomination for A Single Man,and Sigourney Weaver is in the running for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries thanks to Prayers for Bobby.

Freshmen series Glee and Modern Family are competing against each other for Beest TV Comedy Ensemble.

And surprisingly (at least for me) the cast of True Blood is up for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

You can check out the full list of nominess after the break!

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges / Bad Blake - "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

George Clooney / Ryan Bingham...

Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) for both film and television categories were announced this morning. Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell announced the nominees at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.

The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct, and 6 p.m. Mt from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.Com live pre-show webcasts.

If you want to predict the acting categories for the Oscars, look no further than the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Voted by actors' peers, the SAG award has closely resembled the winners of the Oscars in the past few years.

For example, the SAG...

"Inglourious Basterds," "Precious" and "Up in the Air" led the list, with three nominations each, as the Screen Actors Guild unveiled noms for its 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Thursday morning.

"Basterds" and "Precious" were both nominated for outstanding performance by a motion picture cast -- SAG's equivalent of a best picture award -- along with "An Education," "The Hurt Locker" and the musical "Nine."

On the TV side, SAG also spread the love around, doling out three noms each to "30 Rock," "The Closer" and "Dexter."

"The Hurt Locker's" Jeremy Renner, who was overlooked when the Golden Globe Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, made the list of motion picture lead actor nominees along with Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart"), George Clooney ("Up in the Air"), Colin Firth ("A Single Man") and Morgan Freeman ("Invictus").

For lead motion picture actress, the nominees are Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side...

Even though it's made $100 million in the rest of the world and is based on a global bestseller, it took months for Swedish murder mystery "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" to find a U.S. distributor. The film was finally picked up earlier this month by Music Box Films, known for previously saving the French crowdpleaser "Tell No One" after other distributors passed in fear of poor returns.

In America, with few exceptions, the fact that a film is subtitled means it's destined for the arthouse. Populist entertainment -- action, romantic comedies, thrillers -- has struggled to find a place and an audience. Like most blockbusters, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is guaranteed a sequel -- it's adapted from the first installment of the "Millenium" trilogy, written before author Stieg Larsson passed away in 2004. As Anne Thompson reported, the only reason an American remake hasn't been set into...

If you've been here for some time you might recall that the Film Experience was once one of the main pushers of the phenom known as the blog-a-thon where multiple sites posted on a specific topic simultaneously. I hosted three of the largest blog-a-thons the web had ever seen at the time (Michelle Pfeiffer 2006, Vampires in Cinema 2006 and Action Heroines 2007) before collapsing from exhaustion / 'thon burnout... that happened pretty much everywhere since the sites that used to keep calendars of such events stopped keeping track, too.

The blog-a-thon has essentially been replaced by the film clubs which come in two forms: one site hosted discussions or formatted like old school 'thons with links to every site discussing the topic. The other 'thon replacement is the monthly event/tradition like, for example, StinkyLulu's awesome Supporting Actress Smackdown series which is about to hit its 34th installment. Wow. That's devotion.

Here are...

Interview by Staci Layne Wilson

Eli Roth is a cutie — he's got those dark-chocolate brown eyes and a sweet smile that could charm even the most hard-hearted Hannah. But Roth is also a complete, total and utter Basterd. He's best-known for making some of the most violent, grisly, and controversial horror movies of the 00's. His feature length horror films Hostel and Hostel II shocked the mainstream, as did his over-the-top fake movie trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double-dip (in his slasher-trailer Thanksgiving, Roth gives 'cheerleader splits' and 'stuffing the turkey' whole new meanings). He’s also gearing up make a feature-length version of Thanksgiving and a PG-13 creature-feature called Endangered Species.

So what's a nice boy like Eli doing in Tarantino's latest movie, Iglourious Basterds? Why, killing Nazis, of course! And not just killing them… he's beating, scalping, burning, and basically putting on the hurt in every way...

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ has come and gone, and it has kicked ass in theaters all over America. Today, we thought it would be nice to show you some of the posters the film inspired.

The one you see there at the top comes to us courtesy of Poster Wire and is designed by illustrator James Goodbridge. It’s actually a completed piece of artwork that was unused for the film, and, as beautiful as it is, I can’t imagine why it was passed over for the posters actually used. Luckily, as indicated by the interview on Poster Wire’s site, Goodbridge is still holding out hope that his illustration will be used somewhere down the road.

Next up are three poster designs brought to us by the fine people at Mondo Tees.

Fortunately, the three posters you see here are on sale over at Mondo Tees’ website.

Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer(s): Quentin Tarantino Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, B.J. Novak, Mike Myers, Samuel L. Jackson (narration) By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all about Inglourious Basterds, its insane opening breakfast table conversation, the performance of Christoph Waltz as an intimidating S.S. “Jew-Hunter” and Brad Pitt’s scarred and accented badass persona. For any that haven’t (and if you haven’t-where have you been?!?!) Inglourious follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers that are formed to humiliate, torture, and kill as many Nazis as humanly possible. Their goal is to have word of their existence and horrible exploits spread through the ranks of the Third Reich to the extent that the entire party shakes at their mention. Led by Brad Pitt’s Tennesse- born “Aldo the Apache”, the group is also comprised of “the...

Inglourious Basterds

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Til Schweiger, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger

Running Time: 2 hrs 40 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: August 21, 2009

Complete coverage of Inglourious Basterds Scorecard Review by Nick Allen – 9/10

Scorecard Review by Jeff Bayer – 10/10 (His first 10 of the year)

Top 7 Characters created by Quentin Tarantino

Interviews with Laurent, Roth, and Kruger

Interviews with Tarantino, Myers, Waltz, and Novak

Plot: A group of Jewish-American soldiers known as the “Inglourious Basterds” are making their way through Nazi occupied France, killing the Germans. But a German Colonel (Waltz) is out to get them, before they get him.

Who’s It For? You’ve got to be a fan of killing Nazis. And I’m not just talking about a bullet in the head, there’s scalping involved. Plus, the pace of this film is slow, and closing in on three hours. You’ve been...