• NEWS  • AWARDS  • IN THEATERS  • MOVIES  • TV SERIES  • BOX-OFFICE REPORT  • DVD & BLU-RAY •
• BLACK FRIDAY • REVIEWS  • SOUNDTRACKS  • MUSIC ALBUMS  • VIDEO GAMES  • WEEKLY SUMMARY •

Sunday, June 30, 2019

the-sinking-city-new-game-pc-ps4-xbox-one

Video Game Description: The Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of Horror. The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You're a private investigator, and you have to uncover the truth of what has possessed the city… and the minds of its inhabitants.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Survival Horror

Publisher: Bigben Interactive

Developer: Frogwares

Rating: M for Mature (Violence, Blood and Gore, Suggestive Themes)

Find out more about this video game after the jump.

war-and-peace-1966-new-on-dvd-and-blu-ray

Product Description: At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates of three souls—the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha—collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, director Sergei Bondarchuk conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power. As a statement of Soviet cinema’s might, War and Peace succeeded wildly, garnering the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and setting a new standard for epic moviemaking.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

the-believers-1987-new-on-blu-ray

Product Description: Recently widowed psychiatrist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) has just moved back to New York City with his young son, Chris (Harley Cross), in an attempt to start over after his wife's horrific accidental death. Cal takes an assignment helping the police with the investigation of a cult-like and bizarre ritualistic double murder. As Cal gets closer to the truth, he realizes that he and those close to him may be the target of supernatural and deadly forces, and that the enemy is closer than he knows.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-2001-new-on-bluray

Product Description: With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s life story through her music, an eclectic collection of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

birdy-1984-new-on-bluray

Product Description: Birdy (Matthew Modine) returns from the Vietnam War scarred from the horrific experiences of battle. He is so damaged by what he saw that he has shut himself off from reality completely, imaging that he is actually a bird. Birdy is confined to a mental hospital, where the doctors are at a loss as to how to treat him. In an attempt to help, Al (Nicolas Cage), his best friend from high school -- and who was also in Vietnam -- visits him every day to try and get through to him.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

Composer:
Ben Frost

Total Time:
40:50

Label:
Lakeshore Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple

Release Date
June 28, 2019

Find more about the soundtrack (previews, track list) after the jump.

Composer:
Steven Price

Total Time:
64:11

Label:
Filmtrax

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple

Release Date
June 28, 2019

Find more about the soundtrack (previews, track list) after the jump.

Composer:
Billy Jupp

Total Time:
56:12

Label:
Milan Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple

Release Date
June 21, 2019

Find more about the soundtrack (previews, track list) after the jump.

Saturday, June 29, 2019


Product Description: From the legendary director of The Pink Panther, Experiment in Terror, The Party and Victor Victoria. A man and a woman on opposite sides of the Cold War fall for each other in this romantic espionage drama from writer-director Blake Edwards, based on the best-selling novel by Evelyn Anthony (The Defector). Screen legend Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music) plays Judith Farrow, an assistant to the British Home Office who is vacationing in the Caribbean. Sparks fly when she meets Soviet military expert Feodor Sverdlov (Omar Sharif, Doctor Zhivago, Juggernaut), but when Judith’s superiors question his intentions, Judith must decide who to trust—and who to love. Two of the film's best features are the terrific color photography by the great Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia) and original musical score by celebrated maestro John Barry (Out of Africa). The stellar cast includes Anthony Quayle (The Guns of Navarone), Dan O’Herlihy (RoboCop), Sylvia Syms (Ice Cold in Alex) and Oskar Homolka (The Seven Year Itch).


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

Composer:
Kyle Dixon
Michael Stein

Total Time:
82:24

Label:
Lakeshore Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple

Release Date
June 28, 2019

Find more about the soundtrack (previews, track list) after the jump.

Composer:
Wilbert Roget II
Various Artists

Total Time:
103:28

Label:
WaterTower Music

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple

Release Date
June 28, 2019

Find more about the soundtrack (previews, track list) after the jump.

Artist:
The Raconteurs

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Time:
41:13

Record Label:
Third Man Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple

Release Date
June 21, 2019

Find out more about this album release after the jump.


in-theaters-annabelle-comes-home-yesterday-ophelia-euphoria

Nothing spells "summer" quite like an R-rated horror film. But when that film is part of "The Conjuring" universe, you can bet it's going to bring in a lot of money, so it makes sense to release it during the crowded summer season (although not very impressive, so far). "Annabelle Comes Home" is the latest Conjurverse spinoff sequel to hit theaters, and it brings back the original franchise team of Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.

The third installment in the "Annabelle" franchise brought in $3.5 million from Tuesday night previews, and a modest $7.2 million in its opening day on Wednesday from 3,603 theaters. It also scored a low "B-" from CinemaScore, which is a franchise low. The film is expected to gross around $16 million this weekend, which isn't even close to topping the charts as "Toy Story" is primed to lead the pack once again with over $60 million.

Another new wide release is the British Beatles-inspired rom-com "Yesterday" from acclaimed director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting", "127 Hours"). The film opened in 2,603 theaters and could end the weekend with around $12 million.

In limited release you should definitely check out the Shakespeare-inspired drama "Ophelia" starring Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts, and the 2017 drama "Euphoria" starring Alicia Vikander and Eva Green.

Synopses, details, critical/audience reception, trailers, and more after the jump.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Salma Hayek Eyed to Join Marvel's THE ETERNALS Movie
Oscar-nominated "Frida" and "Desperado" actress Salma Hayek might join the cast of Marvel's "The Eternals" based on Jack Kirby's 1976 comic book. Rumors say that the 52-years-old actress is in negotiations for a yet unknown role.

Directed by "The Rider" filmmaker Chloe Zhao, the film will focus on the titular race of ancient human beings with superpowers and the genetic potential to mentally manipulate limited quantities of cosmic energy, who were created a million years ago by the cosmic entities known as the Celestials. The story's protagonist is a female Eternal named Sersi.

The cast already includes Richard Madden as the male lead Ikaris, and Kumail Nanjiani and Ma Dong-seok in unspecified roles. Angelina Jolie is also reportedly in talks for the lead female role. The screenplay was written by Matthew and Ryan Firpo ("Ruin").

Hayek is also set to star in the sci-fi drama "Bliss" opposite Owen Wilson and Madeline Zima, the drama "Molly" starring Laura Linney and Elle Fanning, the sequel "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard" with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, and the comedy "Limited Partners" with Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish.







     RELATED POSTS :

new-trailers-charlies-angels-2019

Today we have new trailers for:
  • The upcoming "Charlie's Angels" reboot starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, newcomer Ella Balinska, Patrick Stewart and Elizabeth Banks. Banks also directed, co-wrote and produced the action comedy.
  • The historical war epic "Midway" from blockbuster helmer Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day"). The film's ensemble cast features Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid, Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein, Mandy Moore, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Jake Weber and Nick Jonas.
  • The British fact-based drama "Official Secrets" starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes and Rhys Ifans. The film is directed by South African filmmaker Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi").
  • The HBO feature film "Share" starring up-and-coming British actress Rhianne Barreto (Amazon's "Hanna"). The film marks the feature debut of writer/director Pippa Bianco, and it's based on her award-winning short of the same name.

Watch all the new trailers after the jump.

swinging-safari-movie-trailer-clip-featurette-images-and-posters

"Swinging Safari" is an Australian dramedy written and directed by Stephan Elliott ("The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"). The film is set in 1970s Australia and it follows the coming-of-age story of a teenager when a 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach. The cast features Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Radha Mitchell, Jesse Denyer, Darcey Wilson, Julian McMahon, Asher Keddie, Jeremy Sims and Jack Tompson.

The film opened in theaters on January 18, 2018 in Australia, and in select theaters in the U.S. on June 21, 2019.

Find out more about the movie after the jump.

das-boot-series-trailer-featurette-images-and-posters

"Das Boot" is a German TV series produced for Sky, based on the 1973 book of the same name by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, and its sequel "Die Festung". Created by Johannes W. Betz and Tony Saint, the show is also a sequel to Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 big screen adaptation of the novel, and it's set nine months after the film's setting of December 1941.

The plot focuses on the narratives of the upcoming Resistance in La Rochelle and the claustrophobic life aboard U-612. The cast features Rick Okon, Vicky Krieps, Robert Stadlober, Leonard Schleicher, James D'Arcy, Kevin McNally and Lizzy Caplan.

"Das Boot" premiered on November 23, 2018 on Sky, and on June 17, 2019 via Hulu.

Find out more about the series after the jump.

super-neptunia-rpg-new-game-pc-ps4-nintendo-switch

Video Game Description: A girl awakens in this world with no recollection of anything beyond her name, Neptune, and soon realizes she possesses great strength. With her newfound sense of heroism and a strange book known as Histoire in hand, she sets off on a journey to see if there might be more than this two-dimensional life!

Genre: RPG, Action

Publisher: Idea Factory International

Developer: Artisan Studios

Rating: T for Teen (Fantasy Violence, Language, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes )

Find out more about this video game after the jump.

double-face-1969-new-on-blu-ray

Product Description: In the post-war years, the proliferation of transnational European co-productions gave rise to a cross-pollination of genres, with the same films sold in different markets as belonging to different movements. Among these, Riccardo Freda (I vampiri, The Horrible Dr. Hichock)'s Double Face was marketed in West Germany as an Edgar Wallace 'krimi', while in Italy it was sold as a giallo in the tradition of Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace, combining elements from both genres for a unique and unforgettable viewing experience.

When wealthy businessman John Alexander (the legendary Klaus Kinski, giving an atypically restrained performance)'s unfaithful wife Helen (Margaret Lee, Circus of Fear) dies in a car crash, it initially looks like a freak accident. However, the plot thickens when evidence arises suggesting that the car was tampered with prior to the crash. And John's entire perception of reality is thrown into doubt when he discovers a recently-shot pornographic movie which appears to feature Helen – suggesting that she is in fact alive and playing an elaborate mind game on him…

Psychological, psychedelic, and at times just plain psychotic, Double Face stands as one of the most engaging and enjoyable films in Freda's lengthy and diverse career – a densely-plotted, visually-stunning giallo that evokes much of the same ambience of paranoia and decadence as such classics of the genre as One on Top of the Other and A Lizard in a Woman's Skin.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

incendiary-2008-new-on-dvd-and-blu-ray

Product Description: London is rocked by a shocking terrorist bombing in this dramatic thriller starring Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy, Brokeback Mountain) and Ewan McGregor, (Trainspotting, the Star Wars trilogy). Williams delivers a riveting and heart-felt performance as a young wife and mother who suffers a devastating loss in the attack...which occurs while she's meeting her secret lover (McGregor). Wracked with guilt and trying to piece her shattered life back together, she becomes embroiled in the police investigation of the attack - and discovers that the authorities will do anything to cover up the terrifying truth behind it..


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

cinderella-1950-new-on-blu-ray-signature-collection

Product Description: Everyone orders Cinderella around: her cruel stepmother, her awful stepsisters - even the big clock in the church tower tells her when to start another day of drudgery. But they can't stop her from dreaming, and Cinderella has faith that someday her wishes will come true. When an invitation to the royal ball arrives, Cinderella is sure her time has come - until her stepsisters, with the encouragement of Lady Tremaine, tear her gown to shreds. Just when Cinderella believes all is lost, her Fairy Godmother appears, and with a wave of her wand and 'Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo,' transforms an ordinary pumpkin into a magnificent coach and Cinderella's rags into a gorgeous gown, then sends her off to the Royal Ball. But Cinderella's enchanted evening must end when the spell is broken at midnight. It will take the help of her daring animal mice friends and a perfect fit into a glass slipper to create the ultimate fairy tale ending.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

furie-2019-new-on-dvd-and-blu-ray

Product Description: When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

Composer:
Zachary Dawes
Nick Sena

Total Time:
32:29

Label:
Lakeshore Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple

Release Date
June 21, 2019

Find more about the soundtrack (previews, track list) after the jump.

Artist:
Two Door Cinema Club

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Time:
47:24

Record Label:
Glassnote

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple

Release Date
June 21, 2019

Find out more about this album release after the jump.


Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Maisie Williams to Star in Sky Comedy TWO WEEKS TO LIVE
"Game of Thrones" star Maisie Williams is on board to lead the cast of the upcoming Sky original comedy series "Two Weeks to Live". The six-part show will be produced by Kudos, a television production company best known for "The Tunnel" and "Humans".

Written by Gaby Hull ("Cheat"), the story follows Kim Noakes (Williams), a strange young misfit who was just a little girl when her father died in murky circumstances. Following his death, her mother whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, she finds herself on the run from a murderous gangster and the police with a massive bag of stolen cash, and the survival techniques she has picked up from her upbringing will prove to be immensely useful.

Additional casting is underway and filming is expected to begin later this year.

Future Sky originals include the four-part miniseries "Catherine the Great" starring Helen Mirren; the comedy series "Intelligence" with David Schwimmer; the 10-episode comedy "Breeders" starring Martin Freeman; and the second season of "In the Long Run" with Idris Elba.







     RELATED POSTS :

new-trailers-the-current-war-the-good-liar-nekrotronic

Today we have new trailers for:
  • The historical drama "The Current War" based on the "War of the Currents", a battle of technology and ideas between Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult). The film is directed by "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and it's executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
  • The thriller "The Good Liar" from acclaimed director Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls", "Beauty and the Beast"). The film stars Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen.
  • The seventh and final season of the critically acclaimed streaming series "Orange Is the New Black".
  • The supernatural action comedy "Nekrotronic" starring Monica Bellucci ("Spectre"), Ben O'Toole ("Hacksaw Ridge") and David Wenham ("Lord of the Rings"). The film is directed by Kiah Roache-Turner ("Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead").
  • The darkly comic horror movie "Tone-Deaf" from cult filmmaker Richard Bates Jr. ("Excision", "Suburban Gothic"). The cast features Amanda Crew ("Silicon Valley") and Robert Patrick ("Terminator 2").
  • Netflix's upcoming Japanese original series "The Naked Director" starring Takayuki Yamada ("13 Assassins"), Koyuki ("The Last Samurai") and Jun Kunimura ("Kill Bill").

Watch all the new trailers after the jump.

the-detour-season-4-trailer-promos-images-and-poster

The fourth season of the comedy series "The Detour" has premiered on June 18, 2019 on TBS. Created by Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, the show follows the misadventures of a family on a vacation road trip that goes horribly wrong. In the new season, the Parker family travel around the world in search of Delilah (Ashley Gerasimovich), who has run away. The cast also includes Jason Jones, Natalie Zea, Liam Carroll and Daniella Pineda.

Find out more about the series after the jump.

the-command-kursk-2018-movie-trailers-clips-featurettes-images-and-posters

The submarine disaster drama "Kursk", also known as "The Command" in the U.S., is based on the true story of the Kursk submarine tragedy that happened in 2000, at the beginning of Putin's first presidential term. The film is directed by Thomas Vinterberg ("The Hunt") from a script by Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") based on Robert Moore's non-fiction book "A Time to Die". The cast includes Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow, Matthias Schweighöfer and Michael Nyqvist.

"Kursk" ("The Command") opened on November 7, 2018 in France and on June 21, 2019 in select theaters in the U.S.

Find out more about the movie after the jump.

steel-division-2-new-game-pc

Steel Division 2 Game Logo
Video Game Description: Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Genre: Strategy, Real-Time Strategy

Publisher: Eugen Systems

Developer: Eugen Systems

Find out more about this video game after the jump.

gone-to-earth-1950-new-on-dvd-and-blu-ray

Product Description: Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever she has problems, she turns to the book of spells and charms left to her by her gypsy mother.

Local squire Jack Reddin (David Farrar) sees Hazel and wants her, but she has already promised herself to the Baptist minister, Edward Marston (Cyril Cusack). A struggle for her body and soul ensues. Starring Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike, and Edward Chapman.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

lost-highway-1997-new-on-blu-ray

Product Description: Haunting sexuality, ricochet action and fleeting, murderous shadows await you on a journey that begins and ends on the Lost Highway. The successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks... The man in black who threatens to expose him... The young mechanic with links to a powerful mobster... The mobster’s moll, who knows what she wants and the people who can get it for her. These are the riders on the Lost Highway, trapped in their worlds of desire, destiny, and unknown destination, where the truth is always just a short way further down the road. Featuring an electrifying soundtrack and a star-studded cast including Bill Pullman (Malice), Patricia Arquette (True Romance), Robert Blake (Busting), Balthazar Getty (White Squall), Gary Busey (Silver Bullet), Richard Pryor (Blue Collar) and Robert Loggia (Prizzi’s Honor), Lost Highway is an extraordinary, sensual fever dream from legendary filmmaker David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks).


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

the-poison-rose-2019-new-on-dvd-and-blu-ray

Product Description: John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Famke Janssen, Ella Bleu Travolta, Robert Patrick, and Brendan Fraser lend their talents to this searing detective thriller. Travolta plays Carson Philips, a hard-drinking L.A. private eye who takes a case in his old hometown of Galveston, Texas. While searching for a missing woman, Philips must confront a crime boss (Freeman), a shady doctor (Fraser), a sexy club singer (Kat Graham), his former lover (Janssen) — and his own dark, disturbing past.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

the-aftermath-2019-new-on-dvd-and-blu-ray

Product Description: Set in 1946, this engrossing drama follows Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley), a British woman whose colonel husband (Jason Clarke) is charged with rebuilding war-ravaged Hamburg. When she joins him there during the bitter winter months, she learns they will be sharing their home with a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. Before long, the unusual arrangement intensifies political divides and stirs deep personal wounds. In this increasingly charged environment, enmity and grief give way to unexpected passion and betrayal.


Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

Artist:
Hot Chip

Genre:
Electronic

Total Time:
47:35

Record Label:
Domino Recording Co

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple

Release Date
June 21, 2019

Find out more about this album release after the jump.