Some movies just don't seem to age, and "Blade Runner" is one of them. Aside from the fact that the film is one of the most influential sci-fi flicks in cinema history, thanks to the efforts of director Ridley Scott and his production designer Lawrence G. Paull, the 1982 classic remains one of the most stunningly realized films ever made. The immersive world of Scott's dystopian sci-fi gave the impression, as Christopher Nolan once put it, of a "whole world outside the frame of the scene." That's made even more impressive when you consider the production team had a limited VFX budget and constructed most of the sets and visual effects practically.
In other words, "Blade Runner" doesn't look a tad dated even more than 40 years after its debut. Alas, the same can't be said for the cast. The sad truth is that, despite Joe Russo celebrating the inevitable rise of...
In other words, "Blade Runner" doesn't look a tad dated even more than 40 years after its debut. Alas, the same can't be said for the cast. The sad truth is that, despite Joe Russo celebrating the inevitable rise of...
- 12/5/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
NCIS star Brian Dietzen may have just dropped a major clue about season 21 of the hit crime drama. There’s been a lot of buzz lately about whether or not NCIS is coming back, especially with the news that NCIS: LA is ending.
Luckily, Dietzen, aka Jimmy Palmer, accidentally teased the show’s future when he was recently asked about the possibility of him writing another episode. If his comments are anything to go by, it looks like NCIS is indeed coming back for more. That’s right, folks – it looks like we’re not done with everyone’s favorite procedural just yet!
‘NCIS’ star Brian Dietzen | Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic Brian Dietzen teases a major spoiler about the future of ‘NCIS’
NCIS fans have been a little worried about the show’s future after CBS canceled the spinoff, NCIS: LA. The series will not be returning following the end of...
Luckily, Dietzen, aka Jimmy Palmer, accidentally teased the show’s future when he was recently asked about the possibility of him writing another episode. If his comments are anything to go by, it looks like NCIS is indeed coming back for more. That’s right, folks – it looks like we’re not done with everyone’s favorite procedural just yet!
‘NCIS’ star Brian Dietzen | Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic Brian Dietzen teases a major spoiler about the future of ‘NCIS’
NCIS fans have been a little worried about the show’s future after CBS canceled the spinoff, NCIS: LA. The series will not be returning following the end of...
- 2/21/2023
- by Perry Carpenter
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
So far, Brian Dietzen (who plays Dr. Jimmy Palmer) has co-written two episodes of NCIS with Scott Williams and adding a third isn’t off the table. But, given that those two episodes came in Seasons 19 (“The Helpers”) and 20 (“Old Wounds”), there are quite a few characters he hasn’t gotten to write for yet, due to cast exits over the years, so for which would he like to do so? “I love so many of these characters. Obviously Gibbs [Mark Harmon], obviously Tony [Michael Weatherly], Ziva [Cote de Pablo], and Abby [Pauley Perrette]. All of these voices are just iconic,” Dietzen tells TV Insider. “So if any one of these were to come back, I would be ecstatic to write for any of them.” It’s hard for him to narrow it down to one, however, because there’s something he’d enjoy for all of them. “Writing for...
- 2/20/2023
- TV Insider
A pattern is developing when NCIS star Brian Dietzen and Scott Williams co-write an episode: It’s going to be an emotional one. Their first, Season 19’s “The Helpers,” saw Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Dietzen) and Kasie Hines (Diona Reasonover) poisoned — while his daughter was visiting him at work. Now, in the February 14 “Old Wounds,” Season 20 dives into Alden Parker’s (Gary Cole) history, with the agent having to deal with his emotions when a conman from his FBI past is the prime suspect in the murder of a navy officer transporting millions of dollars’ worth of opioids. Here, Dietzen previews the episode, talks Dr. Jimmy Palmer and Jessica Knight’s (Katrina Law) relationship, and more. Preview how the case challenges the team, especially Parker. Brian Dietzen: A long dormant and very personal case from Parker’s FBI days comes back and the team watches as it transforms Parker from a happy,...
- 2/13/2023
- TV Insider
It’s going to be two episodes in a row that Special Agent Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) is tasked with keeping an eye on a colleague’s daughter… and that’s not going to go as well in the next episode as it did when he watched over Dr. Jimmy Palmer’s (Brian Dietzen) daughter in “The Helpers.” In the promo for the March 7 episode, “First Steps,” Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) tasks Torres with a very important assignment: watching over his daughter, Kayla (Naomi Grace). As Torres sees it, he’s essentially “babysitting.” But that should be easy, right? After all, as Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) tells Kayla, “don’t expect anything too exciting on your first assignment.” It’s going to be “basic, simple,” Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) agrees. In other words,” boring,” Knight says. But that’s far from the truth, as they’re looking at ...
- 3/1/2022
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for NCIS Season 19, Episode 13 “The Helpers.”] NCIS both delivers the best episode of the season yet — one that’s very emotional, very personal for the team, and with very high stakes — and sets up a new, multi-episode arc, one with a nemesis who has proven just how dangerous he is. “The Helpers” opens up with a heartbreaking conversation between Dr. Jimmy Palmer and his late wife, Breena (Michelle Pierce). “This isn’t right,” he knows. “I want to be here, but it isn’t time for this yet, is it? It can’t be.” He’s right, and she tells him, “You need to move now so I know you’re alive. Open your eyes.” That’s when we see Palmer and forensic scientist Kasie Hines (Diona Reasonover) in really bad shape on the floor of her lab. So how did they get there? Read ...
- 3/1/2022
- TV Insider
The following contains spoilers from the Feb. 28 episode of CBS’ NCIS.
It was a little over a year ago when NCIS, with its first episode set during the pandemic, pulled a Linda Reagan on us and gradually revealed that Dr. Jimmy Palmer’s wife, Breena, had died of Covid.
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It was a little over a year ago when NCIS, with its first episode set during the pandemic, pulled a Linda Reagan on us and gradually revealed that Dr. Jimmy Palmer’s wife, Breena, had died of Covid.
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- 3/1/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
If there’s always been an underdog on “NCIS” throughout its 19 seasons, it’s been the nervous, happy-go-lucky guy in glasses down in autopsy played since mid-season-1 by Brian Dietzen, who’s long done a lot with less screen time than some of the characters who aren’t lab-bound.
“People were sleeping on Jimmy Palmer, man,” says fellow cast member Diona Reasonover, who, as Kasie Hines, has considerable interaction with him on the top-rated series. “He’s kind of the undercover sniper of people’s favorite characters. When they’re listing their favorite characters, he always ends up in those top three, always.”
It’s not strictly about lovability: After initially arguably undervaluing the Palmer character. “NCIS” might have actually given him as big a character arc as anyone’s had on the show. Says executive producer and writer Scott Williams, “When I got onto the show on season 9, he...
“People were sleeping on Jimmy Palmer, man,” says fellow cast member Diona Reasonover, who, as Kasie Hines, has considerable interaction with him on the top-rated series. “He’s kind of the undercover sniper of people’s favorite characters. When they’re listing their favorite characters, he always ends up in those top three, always.”
It’s not strictly about lovability: After initially arguably undervaluing the Palmer character. “NCIS” might have actually given him as big a character arc as anyone’s had on the show. Says executive producer and writer Scott Williams, “When I got onto the show on season 9, he...
- 2/28/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
NCIS The Helpers Plot Synopsis, Director, and Air Date — CBS‘ NCIS: Season 19, Episode 13: The Helpers plot synopsis, director, and air date have been released. Cast NCIS stars Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Maria Bello, Brian Dietzen, Diona Reasonover, Rocky Carroll, and David McCallum. CBS TV Series Group Press Release While Investigating The [...]
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- 2/22/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Shonna Tucker, “A Brother’s Love”
This country-soul lullaby from Alabama singer-songwriter-bassist Shonna Tucker is a touching ode to fraternal companionship and the type of trust that turns close friends into family. “I ain’t your mama,...
Shonna Tucker, “A Brother’s Love”
This country-soul lullaby from Alabama singer-songwriter-bassist Shonna Tucker is a touching ode to fraternal companionship and the type of trust that turns close friends into family. “I ain’t your mama,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
It’s an election year, which means that artists hitting the road in the coming months will either be weighing in on the presidential candidates’ policies or providing a sweet escape from the slings and arrows of politics. This spring will see the launch of the first Rage Against the Machine tour in years, as well as Kenny Chesney’s brilliantly titled Chillaxification Tour. No matter what concertgoers are looking for, though, the season has plenty to offer. Here are Rolling Stone’s picks for spring’s can’t-miss concerts.
- 3/3/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
NCIS Special Agent Nick Torres has a new lady friend — and she has a little (meaning: much bigger than expected!) surprise for him.
In this exclusive sneak peek from the seventh episode of Season 17 (airing Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS), Nick (played by Wilmer Valderrama) and his girlfriend Elena Devol (General Hospital‘s Lisa LoCicero) are patiently waiting for a table at a restaurant when they get to discussing Elena’s son “Ricky,” whom Nick has recently come to realize is much more of a Richard.
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In this exclusive sneak peek from the seventh episode of Season 17 (airing Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS), Nick (played by Wilmer Valderrama) and his girlfriend Elena Devol (General Hospital‘s Lisa LoCicero) are patiently waiting for a table at a restaurant when they get to discussing Elena’s son “Ricky,” whom Nick has recently come to realize is much more of a Richard.
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- 11/11/2019
- TVLine.com
Hulu has confirmed that several of its original series will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in October, including the first installment of the horror anthology “Into the Dark” as well as more of season 1 of the Sean Penn drama “The First.” And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites reality shows from other networks, including various editions of “Little Women” and “The Real Housewives.”
Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the Oscar-winning “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Raging Bull.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in October
Available October 1
Television
60 Days In – Complete Season 4
America’s Book of Secrets – Complete Season 1 & 2
American Pickers – Complete Season 18
Ancient Aliens – Complete Season 4
Bob’s Burgers – Season 9 Premiere
El Clon – Complete Season 1
Escaping Polygamy – Complete Season 3
Family Guy – Season 16 Premiere
Hoarders – Complete...
Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the Oscar-winning “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Raging Bull.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in October
Available October 1
Television
60 Days In – Complete Season 4
America’s Book of Secrets – Complete Season 1 & 2
American Pickers – Complete Season 18
Ancient Aliens – Complete Season 4
Bob’s Burgers – Season 9 Premiere
El Clon – Complete Season 1
Escaping Polygamy – Complete Season 3
Family Guy – Season 16 Premiere
Hoarders – Complete...
- 10/1/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Though Louis C.K.'s transgressions were widely considered the worst kept secret in the comedy world, to some, it really was a secret.
Stephen Colbert welcomed Samantha Bee to the stage at Njpac in Newark, New Jersey, on Dec. 6, where she was the special guest on Sad! A Happy Evening with Stephen Colbert & Samantha Bee, a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival.
During their hour-and-a-half-long chat, the longtime friends talked everything from dealing with politics (specifically President Donald Trump's tumultuous first-year in office) during their late night monologues -- Colbert hosts The Late Show on CBS while Bee is the face of Full Frontal on TBS -- as well as the seismic shift in culture surrounding sexual harassment since the Harvey Weinstein allegations came to light.
Colbert was supposed to have C.K. on his show the week the New York Times published its report on his sexual misconduct, and the 53-year-old comedian was planning on using an...
Stephen Colbert welcomed Samantha Bee to the stage at Njpac in Newark, New Jersey, on Dec. 6, where she was the special guest on Sad! A Happy Evening with Stephen Colbert & Samantha Bee, a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival.
During their hour-and-a-half-long chat, the longtime friends talked everything from dealing with politics (specifically President Donald Trump's tumultuous first-year in office) during their late night monologues -- Colbert hosts The Late Show on CBS while Bee is the face of Full Frontal on TBS -- as well as the seismic shift in culture surrounding sexual harassment since the Harvey Weinstein allegations came to light.
Colbert was supposed to have C.K. on his show the week the New York Times published its report on his sexual misconduct, and the 53-year-old comedian was planning on using an...
- 12/7/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
LeAnn Rimes celebrated her 35th birthday surrounded by family and friends on Saturday.
Rimes celebrated her belated birthday (she actually turned 35 on Aug. 28) with husband and actor Eddie Cibrian, 43, her mother Belinda (who was also celebrating her birthday over the weekend), and other close family and friends at the Tao in Los Angeles, a source tells People.
The two-time Grammy Award winner had edamame, shisito peppers and crispy rice tuna for appetizers before taking in the family-style entrees like satay of chilean sea bass, mandarin orange chicken, miso roasted black cod, crunchy spicy yellowtail roll, spicy tuna rice crispy and salmon avocado.
Rimes celebrated her belated birthday (she actually turned 35 on Aug. 28) with husband and actor Eddie Cibrian, 43, her mother Belinda (who was also celebrating her birthday over the weekend), and other close family and friends at the Tao in Los Angeles, a source tells People.
The two-time Grammy Award winner had edamame, shisito peppers and crispy rice tuna for appetizers before taking in the family-style entrees like satay of chilean sea bass, mandarin orange chicken, miso roasted black cod, crunchy spicy yellowtail roll, spicy tuna rice crispy and salmon avocado.
- 9/3/2017
- by Yvonne Juris
- PEOPLE.com
Ryan Tedder is opening up about his health — and OneRepublic‘s recent hiatus.
In a lengthy Facebook post, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter explained to fans why he and his band took a four-month break.
“I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, not sleeping, on meds, not happy, anxiety on a crippling level and it was triggered from sheer exhaustion,” wrote Tedder, 37, detailing the band’s nearly nonstop schedule since they formed a decade ago.
“I looked at a calendar, realized I had been gone 200 days of 2016 and still had three more weeks of being gone.,. From my family, my wife,...
In a lengthy Facebook post, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter explained to fans why he and his band took a four-month break.
“I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, not sleeping, on meds, not happy, anxiety on a crippling level and it was triggered from sheer exhaustion,” wrote Tedder, 37, detailing the band’s nearly nonstop schedule since they formed a decade ago.
“I looked at a calendar, realized I had been gone 200 days of 2016 and still had three more weeks of being gone.,. From my family, my wife,...
- 4/28/2017
- by Jeff Nelson
- PEOPLE.com
Catherine Pearson Jan 23, 2017
From School Of Rock and Enchanted through to Hail Caesar and Moana, we look at the unmissable musical numbers from modern movies...
The world has gone gaga for La La Land and it’s not difficult to see why. We love a good musical number. Sometimes there’s nothing more uplifting than a catchy tune with some fun choreography and other times music is the best, if only, way to depict a character's despair, fear or hope. Music taps into something very primal in us all and can often extract laughter and tears easier than two hours’ worth of dialogue.
Numerous classic musicals have graced the big screen since cinema began, but the 21st century alone has seen some fantastic songs in film. Some considered ‘musical films’ and others ‘films with music’, here are my top picks for this century’s best on-screen musical sequences.
School Of Rock...
From School Of Rock and Enchanted through to Hail Caesar and Moana, we look at the unmissable musical numbers from modern movies...
The world has gone gaga for La La Land and it’s not difficult to see why. We love a good musical number. Sometimes there’s nothing more uplifting than a catchy tune with some fun choreography and other times music is the best, if only, way to depict a character's despair, fear or hope. Music taps into something very primal in us all and can often extract laughter and tears easier than two hours’ worth of dialogue.
Numerous classic musicals have graced the big screen since cinema began, but the 21st century alone has seen some fantastic songs in film. Some considered ‘musical films’ and others ‘films with music’, here are my top picks for this century’s best on-screen musical sequences.
School Of Rock...
- 1/19/2017
- Den of Geek
Reviewed by Jesse Miller
MoreHorror.com
It’s called Motel Hello, a rather sunny and welcoming name, but this decrepit hotel is anything but sunny and welcoming. For one thing, the hotel is falling apart so much that the O in the hotel sign fades to reveal Motel Hell. At Motel Hell, the rooms are very much vacant but the owner has it deliberately switched to read No Vacancy.
Welcome to Motel Hell, a jet black comedy-horror that tells the story of Farmer Vincent (Ray Calhoun) and his famous smoked meats, the secret ingredient of which is the people he traps and hunts on a backwoods road late at night. From there, Vincent and his maniacal sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) take the victims and bury them up to their necks in their ‘secret garden’ where they will rupture their vocal chords so they can’t scream and feed them pig pellets so they fatten up.
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It’s called Motel Hello, a rather sunny and welcoming name, but this decrepit hotel is anything but sunny and welcoming. For one thing, the hotel is falling apart so much that the O in the hotel sign fades to reveal Motel Hell. At Motel Hell, the rooms are very much vacant but the owner has it deliberately switched to read No Vacancy.
Welcome to Motel Hell, a jet black comedy-horror that tells the story of Farmer Vincent (Ray Calhoun) and his famous smoked meats, the secret ingredient of which is the people he traps and hunts on a backwoods road late at night. From there, Vincent and his maniacal sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) take the victims and bury them up to their necks in their ‘secret garden’ where they will rupture their vocal chords so they can’t scream and feed them pig pellets so they fatten up.
- 9/28/2015
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Every year, Vulture sends out a team of L.A. reporters to monitor the scene at every glitzy Oscars pre-party, after-party, and party-party. Herewith, an epic timeline of the week leading up to and following Hollywood's biggest awards show.Tuesday, February 17: Bvlgari and Save the Children’s party and exhibition at Spago; Vanity Fair and Fiat celebrate Young Hollywood at No Vacancy 6:26 p.m.: Adrien Brody kicks off the week with an elliptical speech about everything from growing up in Queens, his mother's photography, anti-Semitism, and every movie he's ever made. Naomi Watts appears to roll her eyes. 7:10 p.m.: Camilla Belle is dazzling in her loaner necklace — a $100,000 diamond Serpenti she’s been coveting. “I don’t like snakes normally,” she admits, but it fits her Cleopatra obsession, and if Angelina Jolie bows out of playing the Egyptian queen, Belle might be game. 7:35 p.
- 2/23/2015
- by Kyle Buchanan,Diane Gordon,Kurt Orzeck,Jenny Peters,Valentina Valentini,Kara Warner,Soo Youn
- Vulture
The pre-Oscar fever has taken over Tinseltown and last night (February 17) a bevy of beautiful babes showed up at the No Vacancy venue in Los Angeles.
“Eye Candy” cutie Victoria Justice smiled for the cameras as she arrived at the Vanity Fair & Fiat Young Hollywood soiree, hosted by Krista Smith and James Corden.
Furthermore, Suki Waterhouse, Shay Mitchell, Emily Ratajkowski and Brooklyn Decker got all gussied up and hammed it up for the paparazzi before heading inside.
“Eye Candy” cutie Victoria Justice smiled for the cameras as she arrived at the Vanity Fair & Fiat Young Hollywood soiree, hosted by Krista Smith and James Corden.
Furthermore, Suki Waterhouse, Shay Mitchell, Emily Ratajkowski and Brooklyn Decker got all gussied up and hammed it up for the paparazzi before heading inside.
- 2/18/2015
- GossipCenter
This will be updated as the big weekend approaches. Tuesday, February 17 *Strong Start* Vanity Fair + Fiat Young Hollywood Celebration No Vacancy, 8 p.m. Mark and Jonnie Houston’s spot plays host to this Oscar week kickoff party for the second year in a row. The door is tight, but not as convoluted as the normal architectural sleight of hand. James Corden is scheduled to start his “Late Late Show” on CBS a month after the Oscars. Before that, he and Vf’s Hollywood face Krista Smith host this toast to young Hollywood talent in the cool spot. Fiat puts on this night,...
- 2/11/2015
- by Mikey Glazer
- The Wrap
We are only just on the cusp of October and you can already put the “No Vacancy” sign out on the Best Actor Oscar race. Sorry, no room. Don’t even think about jumping in. Every year of late, it seems the Actor race gets richer while the Actress contest actively searches for candidates. Remember how “sure things” Tom Hanks and Robert Redford didn’t even make the cut last year? Perhaps that is just a reflection of what juicy roles the industry is offering on either side of the gender divide.
Nevertheless, for 2014 it’s worse than ever and we have a serious glut of qualified Best Actor possibilities — just under 30 by my count, and even more seem to be trying to gain entry. This is the year the Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences really ought to amend the rules, just as...
Nevertheless, for 2014 it’s worse than ever and we have a serious glut of qualified Best Actor possibilities — just under 30 by my count, and even more seem to be trying to gain entry. This is the year the Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences really ought to amend the rules, just as...
- 9/28/2014
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline
To kick off the month of July, there are a ton of genre Blu-ray and DVD releases coming out that should get you through the long holiday weekend if barbecues and fireworks aren’t necessarily your thing.
Not only will Cannibal Holocaust finally be getting its due in high definition this week, but Scream Factory is also bringing us The Final Terror and Sony is releasing the stellar indie horror flick Afflicted to DVD and Blu-ray as well. And if you’re a horror geek who can’t get enough of Echo Bridges’ multi-title releases, well then you’ll want to check out a few more of their collections which will be arriving this week too. Also, for those of you Twilight Zone fans out there, Image Entertainment has put together a great collection of the series’ most beloved episodes for you to enjoy in honor of the upcoming 55th anniversary of the show.
Not only will Cannibal Holocaust finally be getting its due in high definition this week, but Scream Factory is also bringing us The Final Terror and Sony is releasing the stellar indie horror flick Afflicted to DVD and Blu-ray as well. And if you’re a horror geek who can’t get enough of Echo Bridges’ multi-title releases, well then you’ll want to check out a few more of their collections which will be arriving this week too. Also, for those of you Twilight Zone fans out there, Image Entertainment has put together a great collection of the series’ most beloved episodes for you to enjoy in honor of the upcoming 55th anniversary of the show.
- 6/30/2014
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
★★☆☆☆ Like many a low-budget American indie horror, director Chris Stokes' The Helpers (2012) has followed a fairly conventional distribution trajectory. It managed a limited release in its home market of the Us, gained a coveted spot at Film4's FrightFest last November, and now makes a quiet straight-to-dvd appearance here, jostling for attention in a relentlessly over-saturated genre. The plot, as you might well guess, follows a rather familiar trajectory too. A car, loaded to the brim with drunk and horny twentysomethings on their way to Las Vegas, breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, miles away from civilisation.
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- 1/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a very light week this week, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, January 21st 2013.
Pick Of The Week
American Mary (DVD/Blu-ray)
One of the year’s most horrific highlights, American Mary tells the story of broke student Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle) who grows disenchanted with medical school and the doctors she once idolised. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the gruesome world of underground surgeries but soon finds they leave more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele… Smart, sexy, funny and utterly gorgeous to look at, American Mary features a standout lead performance from horror icon Katherine (Ginger Snaps) Isabelle,...
Pick Of The Week
American Mary (DVD/Blu-ray)
One of the year’s most horrific highlights, American Mary tells the story of broke student Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle) who grows disenchanted with medical school and the doctors she once idolised. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the gruesome world of underground surgeries but soon finds they leave more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele… Smart, sexy, funny and utterly gorgeous to look at, American Mary features a standout lead performance from horror icon Katherine (Ginger Snaps) Isabelle,...
- 1/21/2013
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The Helpers
Stars: Kristen Quintrall, Denyce Lawton, Christopher Jones, JoJo Wright, Rachel Sterling, Black Thomas, Dustin Harnish, Cameron Diskin, Braxton Davis | Directed by Chris Stokes
Music producer-turned-film director Chris Stokes (You Got Served) turns his hands to horror with The Helpers. And whilst his early work featured a number of rappers and singers he has produced and worked with, this is his first movie Not to follow that format. This time round Stokes takes a bunch of relative unknowns (the majority of whom are credited with small roles in TV fare) and casts them in a movie that blends traditional filmmaking with that most risible of genres – the found-footage film.
The Helpers follows a group of seven friends who are headed on a road trip to Las Vegas, but along the way they get a flat tyre. Leaving the women behind, the men then go off in pursuit of help...
Stars: Kristen Quintrall, Denyce Lawton, Christopher Jones, JoJo Wright, Rachel Sterling, Black Thomas, Dustin Harnish, Cameron Diskin, Braxton Davis | Directed by Chris Stokes
Music producer-turned-film director Chris Stokes (You Got Served) turns his hands to horror with The Helpers. And whilst his early work featured a number of rappers and singers he has produced and worked with, this is his first movie Not to follow that format. This time round Stokes takes a bunch of relative unknowns (the majority of whom are credited with small roles in TV fare) and casts them in a movie that blends traditional filmmaking with that most risible of genres – the found-footage film.
The Helpers follows a group of seven friends who are headed on a road trip to Las Vegas, but along the way they get a flat tyre. Leaving the women behind, the men then go off in pursuit of help...
- 1/12/2013
- by Phil
- Nerdly
You’re in for a killer treat this January as gruesome horror The Helpers comes to DVD on 21st January 2013, courtesy of Koch Media.
Based on true events, The Helpers is a bloody, brutal horror film about seven friends from Sacramento, California, who head out on a documented road trip to Las Vegas. Their trip takes a very unexpected turn for the worse when their back tires mysteriously blow out. Leaving the women behind, the men then go off in pursuit of help and find a local rest stop with some very friendly owners. As the group is reunited, they decide to spend the night in their motel – but wake in their rooms to a new kind of gruesome and bloody terror.
Directed by Chris Stokes (You Got Served) and starring a hot young cast including Christopher Jones (Big Momma’s House 2), JoJo Wright (Bring It On: All or Nothing...
Based on true events, The Helpers is a bloody, brutal horror film about seven friends from Sacramento, California, who head out on a documented road trip to Las Vegas. Their trip takes a very unexpected turn for the worse when their back tires mysteriously blow out. Leaving the women behind, the men then go off in pursuit of help and find a local rest stop with some very friendly owners. As the group is reunited, they decide to spend the night in their motel – but wake in their rooms to a new kind of gruesome and bloody terror.
Directed by Chris Stokes (You Got Served) and starring a hot young cast including Christopher Jones (Big Momma’s House 2), JoJo Wright (Bring It On: All or Nothing...
- 1/7/2013
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Not content with dishing out just one of the premier events on every horror fan’s calendar year after year, the guys behind the Film4 FrightFest also run the Halloween All-Nighter – and we’ve got this year’s lineup right here for you, if you have the stamina to last it out!
From the Press Release:
The FrightFest Halloween All-nighter returns to the Vue in London’s Leicester Square on Saturday, October 27 for another helping of choice shock-around-the-clock horror. And this year horror fans around the country can join in the fearful fun as, on Saturday, November 3, the event travels to the Picturehouse Cambridge, the Empires in Sunderland and Newcastle, and The Watershed Bristol.
Here's the London line-up:
6.30pm - Excision (UK Premiere)
Alienated and mentally unhinged teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of high school, pleasing her demanding mother and losing her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life,...
From the Press Release:
The FrightFest Halloween All-nighter returns to the Vue in London’s Leicester Square on Saturday, October 27 for another helping of choice shock-around-the-clock horror. And this year horror fans around the country can join in the fearful fun as, on Saturday, November 3, the event travels to the Picturehouse Cambridge, the Empires in Sunderland and Newcastle, and The Watershed Bristol.
Here's the London line-up:
6.30pm - Excision (UK Premiere)
Alienated and mentally unhinged teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of high school, pleasing her demanding mother and losing her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life,...
- 10/3/2012
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the helpers of “The Helpers” aren’t actually helpful. I could be wrong, of course, but I’m willing to risk it. The more important point is that “The Helpers” is, from what I can tell, a Found Footage slasher movie directed by Chris Stokes, the genius who gave us “You Got Served” and the sure-to-be American classic, “Battlefield America”, which is “You Got Served” with tykes. Leave it to the mastermind behind “You Got Served” to take advantage of the cheapo Found Footage genre and put his own spin on it. And of course by “spin” I mean . If the killers don’t start “battling” with funky dance moves, I’m gonna be real disappointed. Seven friends on a road trip to Las Vegas break down near a rest-stop motel, where they encounter a seemingly helpful group of people.
- 7/13/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Chris Stokes' ('You Got Served') new torture horror flick 'The Helpers' certainly appears to be quite the mixing pot of horror films and themes past and present. The new teaser trailer for the movie has showed up and does feature what seems to be quite the heavily influenced style. Still it may just be cut of the trailer, we shall see when it sees its release. The film stars the gorgeous Kristen Quintrall (below) along with Denyce Lawton, Christopher Jones, JoJo Wright, Rachel Sterling, Black Thomas, Dustin Harnish, Cameron Diskin and Braxton Davis. If you're fans of overly long and way too detailed plot synopses then you're going to love this one below! The trailer can be viewed below also....
- 1/17/2012
- Horror Asylum
Is the world ready for a torture porn movie from the director of You Got Served? No, it’s not called You Got Sawed. The title is The Helpers. Sadly, it’s not about African-American maids in Mississippi in the 1960’s getting revenge against their racist white employers by going all Jigsaw on them.
Kristen Quintrall (Wolvezbayne), Denyce Lawton (“House of Payne”), Christopher Jones (You Got Served, JoJo Wright (Bring it On: All or Nothing, and former “The Man Show” juggy dancer Rachel Sterling star in Chris Stokes' (You Got Served, House Party 4) upcoming The Helpers.
Here’s a plot synopsis that by the third paragraph goes from merely summarizing the story to spoiling major plot twists. Read at your own peril.
Seven friends, three couples (Claire, Todd, Jordan, Brandy, Ryan, and Anna) and their tag-along buddy Phil from Sacramento, California, all decide to go on a trip to Las Vegas.
Kristen Quintrall (Wolvezbayne), Denyce Lawton (“House of Payne”), Christopher Jones (You Got Served, JoJo Wright (Bring it On: All or Nothing, and former “The Man Show” juggy dancer Rachel Sterling star in Chris Stokes' (You Got Served, House Party 4) upcoming The Helpers.
Here’s a plot synopsis that by the third paragraph goes from merely summarizing the story to spoiling major plot twists. Read at your own peril.
Seven friends, three couples (Claire, Todd, Jordan, Brandy, Ryan, and Anna) and their tag-along buddy Phil from Sacramento, California, all decide to go on a trip to Las Vegas.
- 1/17/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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