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He sings, he fixes cars, and he takes punches better than De Niro’s Raging Bull. Elvis Presley excels in one of his few ’60s pictures that shows an interest in being a ‘real movie,’ a remake of a boxing saga with entertaining characters and fine direction from noir specialist Phil Karlson. Plus Charles Bronson, Lola Albright and Joan Blackman in standout roles.

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1962 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date August 14, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman, Charles Bronson, Robert Emhardt, Liam Redmond, Judson Pratt, Ned Glass, George Mitchell, Roy Roberts, Michael Dante, Richard Devon, Jeff Morris, Edward Asner, Frank Gerstle, Seamon Glass, Bert Remsen.

Cinematography: Burnett Guffey

Film Editor: Stuart Gilmore

Original Music: Jeff Alexander

Written by William Fay, Francis Wallace

Produced by David Weisbart

Directed by Phil Karlson

What, a good Elvis Presley picture?...

James O’Sicky really wants his best friend back.

If you find the lost pit bull mix, you’ll be rewarded with O’Sicky’s 2002 Chevy Silverado which has 243,000 miles on it.

According to CBS 47, who reported the story, the Florida man’s pup named Buddy Boy disappeared from his home on Wednesday after apparently jumping a fence. When calls to local animal shelters and door-to-door inquires turned up nothing, O’Sicky thought a reward posted on the Jacksonville Swip Swap Facebook page might bring the dog back.

“The truck is replaceable. The dog is not,” O’Sicky told CBS,...

Some films are built from Wtf moments. Case in point: I have finally seen The Mutilator (1984), an unnaturally entertaining hack ‘em up from a period when the dirt had all but covered the coffin of the overworked subgenre. And this film has more than its share of Wtf – in fact, it acts as a Viking funeral for slashers of the era, an absurd catalogue of tropes transmitted with an ‘80s sitcom aesthetic and just as eager to please. What a sight to behold.

Aka Fall Break (a name that will be seared onto your brain pan within the first 15 minutes, trust me), The Mutilator was filmed in North Carolina by local boy Buddy Cooper, who came into some money and decided to either make a movie or buy a winery. And old Buddy boy sure made the right choice – no wine could be sweeter (or more fragrant) than this glorious display of splatter cinema.

Holy cats my creeps, ol’ Xiii has been pulled in more die-rections lately than that peasant in Faces Of Death IV. Anyway, I’ve been a bit busy with some preternatural projects that will be revealed soon, but fortunately I’ve had the time to talk to some fiends whose creative output I really dig… like the subject of this here interview, horror punk icon Duane Beer of the hard hauntin’ gang o’ ghouls Blase DeBris!

Famous Monsters. Your sinister sonics gather together a monstrous myriad of influences includin’ the likes o’ sleaze rock, glam, punk, and of course horror rock. How would you describe Blase Debris to some random pinhead that hasn’t had the pleasure of hearin’ yer sound?Duane Beer. For those unfamiliar with our sound, I’d tell them to imagine Billy Idol meets Black Sabbath? Luckily for us, we’ve been able to develop the...

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine – romcoms used to be anything but bland

With this year's Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, Hollywood is attempting to get down and dirty with real people and real problems. But Us films are notoriously bad at this. I Give It a Year is a British comedy about falling out of love – not a romcom, more of a romp-incomp. But whatever happened to the simple idea of the innocently zany finding love?

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Being abnormal used to be normal. In movies such as The Apartment (1960), it was redemptive. Cc Baxter (Jack Lemmon) and Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) are outsiders who've missed the boat, careerwise and hopewise. She's wasting her time on a married man, while Baxter is caught in a sexual vortex established by his superiors, who have clandestine trysts in his apartment while "Buddy Boy" gets...

With British cop thriller Blitz out in cinemas today, we caught up with Aidan Gillen to talk about the film, and fighting Jason Statham...

An actor who’s often specialised in bringing flawed, unusual characters to the screen, including mayor Thomas Carcetti in The Wire and Stuart in Queer As Folk, Aidan Gillen may have found his most strange and unsettling role yet in the form of Blitz’s crazed murderer, Barry Weiss. A swaggering outsider with an affection for bright green shades and outlandish violence, Weiss is quite possibly the most memorable antagonist to appear on the big screen this year.

With Blitz out in UK cinemas today, we just had to find out how Gillen prepared for the role, what it was like to fight Jason Statham, and where he got that extraordinary pair of shades.

Did you base the character on anyone in particular? Weiss reminded me of Sid Vicious.

Though he's never had acting aspirations of his own, casting director Michael Testa feels a special kinship with actors. He loves the energy they bring into the audition room and the variety they bring to his job. "Each day's very different, and each day you meet a ton of actors," he says. "I guess I'm a blabbermouth. I like to talk to people." As a co-owner of Shaner/Testa Casting, he currently works on the CBS procedural "Cold Case" and the ABC Family dramedy "Make It or Break It." Other credits include the TV shows "Roswell" and "Moonlight," the films "Kiss the Bride" and "Moonlight Serenade," and more than 70 TV movies.Self-StarterI answered an ad in Variety a long time ago to be a casting intern at a TV production house. I was never an actor, I never wanted to be an actor, but I studied film for years and...