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2009 | 2008
14 articles from 2009
Zoe Saldana's 'Avatar' Role Is Simply The Latest Of James Cameron's Powerful Leading Ladies
18 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
As Neytiri, the Na'vi warrior woman that forges a bond with paraplegic marine Jake Sully in "Avatar," Zoe Saldana is the latest actress to transform herself into a powerful heroine at the hands of director James Cameron.
In fact, if there's one thing that Cameron excels at — other than groundbreaking visual effects, awe-inspiring stories and epically orchestrated action sequences, of course — it's his development of strong female characters.
While Neytiri is certainly one such character, she is merely the latest in a long line of brilliantly crafted women in Cameron's films. Here are some of the others. (click the image above the text to check out our James Cameron Heroines flipbook gallery!)
Ellen Ripley
Although not created by Cameron, the filmmaker took Sigourney Weaver's character of Ellen Ripley to new heights in "Aliens," the action-packed sequel to Ridley Scott's claustrophobic thriller, "Alien." Ripley went from being the survivor »
- Josh Wigler
James Cameron: Closet Feminist
15 December 2009 1:33 PM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Little Girl Blue: Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in James Cameron's Avatar This is how “meet cute” happens in James Cameron’s Avatar: At night in a jungle on the alien moon Pandora, Jake Sully, a cocky Marine played by Sam Worthington, stumbles into a pack of snapping, six-legged predators called viperwolves. This jarhead is about to become a viperpuppy chew toy when a lithe huntress named Neytiri (Star Trek’s Zoe Salanda) intervenes. Luckily for Jake, Neytiri is handy with a bow and arrow. She’s also smart, bilingual, spiritual, great with animals, and—for a 10-foot-tall cyan-colored woman with a tail—a babe. Cameron has stuffed Avatar with enough futuristic battle scenes and fantastical creatures to rally hordes of 14-year-old boys to the box office when the film opens Dec. 18. But, as always in a Cameron film, the most interesting roles in Avatar belong to the women. »
31 Days of Horror: Near Dark
20 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Near Dark (1987) Synopsis: A cowboy (Adrian Pasdar) meets a pretty, young gal at the local saloon and discovers too late that her kiss includes a double-pronged love bite of vampiric proportions. Mae (Jenny Wright) and her blood-sucking vampire family (half the cast of Aliens) take Caleb for a ride in their Winnebago and try to make him one of them. But as any good cowboy would, Caleb fights his transformation and sets about rescuing the pale-skinned love of his life. The family isn't too keen on that idea of course and soon the small Texas town is awash in blood, burning flesh, and bar fights. Killer Scene: Speaking of bar fights... Caleb's introduction to the family's unique hobby occurs in a sleazy bar almost halfway into the movie. After insulting the bartender and patrons ("shit-kicker heaven"), the blood-letting begins with a waitress getting her throat slit. More deaths follow including a broken neck, shotgun »
- Rob Hunter
First Announced Screening at the Flashback Chicago Horror Weekend
9 October 2009 7:30 PM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
The Flashback Chicago Horror Weekend will kick off this celebration this year with several horror guests. The list of actors already announced include Rober Englund from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Lance Henriksen from Aliens and Bone Dry, Jenette Goldstein also from Aliens and Autopsy, and finally Thim Thomerson will attend from Near Dark and his most recent film Live Evil. Other guests are sure to be announced closer to the October 23 film festival start date, but for now check out the first announced feature film inside!
Location: 6810 N. Mannheim Rd., Rosemont, Illinois.
Screening: Live Evil from director Jay Woelfel is the first announced film for The Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Weekend, which will also be screened by Tim Thomerson himself who plays "The Priest" and central character in the film. An exact date will be announced once the offical screenings are announced by Tfwchw in the middle of October. »
- Michael Ross Allen
Kathryn Bigelow In-Person Tribute at American Cinematheque
20 May 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Action/Horror director Kathryn Bigelow is being given an entire weekend devoted to her films at The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California by the American Cinematheque June 5, 6, and 7 2009. Bigelow directed the vampire movie Near Dark and action flicks Point Break and K-19: The Widowmaker, and the sci-fi movie Strange Days. Her new action war film The Hurt Locker is premiering in Los Angeles on June 5th and she'll be in person, all weekend, for screenings of all her recent films.
Bigelow is one of the only women to ever direct big budget action movies in Hollywood and to be seen as a peer by her male counterparts like James Cameron, Michael Bay, and Ridley Scott...
Native Californian director Kathryn Bigelow began her artistic endeavors at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Whitney Museum Independent Study program, She later transferred into graduate work in filmmaking at Columbia University's School of the Arts. »
- Superheidi
Babes in Armor: Ten of our favorite action and fantasy movie heroines
20 May 2009 8:55 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
*Note: This post originally ran on May 22nd, 2008
We love our fantasy/sci-fi women ... ladies who can wield a sword or rocket launcher as well as any man, but do it so much more stylishly and, in some cases, in much less clothing! Here are ten women we definitely want on our side in the heat of battle.
Jane Fonda as "Barbarella"
in Barbarella
"Queen of the Galaxy" is a tough moniker to live up to, but if anyone can do it, Barbarella can. She has to deal with murderous children and their killer dolls, horny aliens, a blind (albeit hot) angel, and Anita Pallenberg as an eyepatch wearing assassin who Really wants to get to know her. Best of all, she shows us the proper way to strip in zero gravity, and you can see it Here, in one of the greatest (and mildly Nsfw) openings in film history. »
- snicks
DVD Review: 'After Dark Horrorfest III: 8 Films to Die For'
23 April 2009 8:58 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Lionsgate and After Dark Films’ recently released their third collection of “8 Films to Die For” and this year proved to be the most uninspiring octet to date. With fewer risks taken than the last two years and less extreme failures or successes, “After Dark Horrorfest III” is terrifyingly dull.
Overall DVD Rating: 2.0/5.0 What makes this year’s collection rather forgettable is the lack of extremes on either side of the rating spectrum. The first two years produced some truly excellent genre gems including “Borderland,” “The Hamiltons,” and “The Abandoned.” At the same time, movies like “Dead Lake,” “Undead,” and “Nightmare Man” should be buried in a deep hole and never see the light of day again.
I have to admit that I liked the variety in quality of the last two years more than this year, when nearly every film registered as forgettable more than good or bad. There was one notable standout, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Autopsy (2008) Review #2
27 March 2009 5:09 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Directed by Adam Gierasch
Written by Adam Geirasch, Jace Anderson, E.L. Katz
Featuring Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Jenette Goldstein, Robert Lasardo, Ashley Schneider
2008, Horrorfestonline.com
"Why I Loved Autopsy" by Paula Haifley
In the interest of full disclosure I will admit that I, like Heidi, am friends with the writers and director of Autopsy. She didn’t like it. I thought it was as fun as a barrel of serial killers. Here are ten reasons why you should give Autopsy a chance:...
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- Superheidi
Autopsy (2008) Review #1
27 March 2009 4:57 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Directed by Adam Gierasch
Written by Adam Geirasch, Jace Anderson, E.L. Katz
Featuring Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Jenette Goldstein, Robert Lasardo, Ashley Schneider
2008, www.Horrorfestonline.com
Now, I actually know the people who wrote this film, Adam and Jace. I like them. Especially Jace. But I really don’t like their film. At all. From the bad sets, the really awful nurse uniform, the cheesy, never-fully-explained plot, to the lack of cohesive narrative and any real scares (or actual autopsies of any kind) – I just didn’t like it. Autopsy is part of the Horrorfest After Dark 8 Films to Die For, out on DVD March 31st, and it seems like each year the films get worse and worse. Autopsy is the directorial debut from Adam Geirasch, who just wrapped a remake of Night of the Demons starring Tiffany Shepis and Bobby Sue Hall (For After Dark Horrorfest IV, »
- Superheidi
Face off: Near Dark Vs The Lost Boys
13 March 2009 10:08 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
When in discussion regarding the best vampire film of the 1980’s, it’s likely a slew of quality features will be mentioned. There’s a good reason for that: the 80’s saw the inception of quite a few impressive vampire pictures. Common titles to arise in this form of debate include To Die For, Fright Night, The Hunger, Lifeforce, Vampire’S Kiss and many, many others. In the end however, it always seems to come down to two seemingly clear-cut front-runners: The Lost Boys, and Near Dark. Attractive casts, and unique scenery clearly help to separate these two films from the majority of the pack, but the fanatic within me pushed me to really studythese two films, because after all: I too want to know what the best vampire film of the 1980’s truly was.
Behold, the fruits of my labor:
The tale of Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) Colton, »
Autopsy (Film Review)
15 January 2009 8:04 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Autopsy, part of this year’s After Dark Horrorfest, is a collection of wet ’n’ nasty gore scenes, a couple of genuine seat-jumpers and a few black laughs, in search of a storyline to stitch them together. In his first outing as director, Adam Gierasch proves to be an enthusiastic meatball surgeon, but the movie (which he wrote with regular partner Jace Anderson and E.L. Katz) coulda used a script doctor.
After we’re introduced, under the main titles, to a group of fun-lovin’ young people at Mardi Gras via their camcorder footage (a gambit mercifully dropped once the credits end), we next see them recovering from a car wreck on a dark road in the middle of nowhere. No sooner has the hospital-gowned late-night pedestrian who caused the accident, and wound up under their vehicle, proved to be not quite dead after all than an ambulance shows up out »
DVD Art For All The After Dark Horrorfest III "8 Films To Die For"!
12 January 2009 7:54 AM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Amazon has listed all the DVD artwork for all "8 Films To Die For" as part of After Dark's Horrorfest 3. All the following titles will be released on March 31st. Below you'll find a break down of each film, along with the cover art which will be linked to the Amazon link if you'd like to pre-order any of these. Enjoy!
Autopsy Synopsis:
A group of recent college grads is taking a final vacation together when an accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. An ambulance arrives and takes them to mercy hospital, an eerie, half empty place that harbors a chilling secret: a doctor conducting inhuman experiments on its helpless patients. Directed by Adam Gierasch. Written by Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson & E.L. Katz. Starring Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Robert Patrick, Jenette Goldstein, Robert Lasardo & Ashley Schneider.
The Butterfly Effect: Revelation Synopsis:
The latest entry in The Butterfly Effect »
Autopsy My Space Launches! Playing This Weekend As Part Of After Dark Horrorfest 3!
7 January 2009 1:18 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
An official My Space page for Adam Gierasch's directorial debut Autopsy has launched at www.myspace.com/autopsythemovie. Co-written by Gierasch with Jace Anderson & E.L. Katz, the flick will be playing in limited theatrical release This weekend as part of After Dark's Horrorfest 3! (Snuck up on us, didn't it?!)
Autopsy stars Ashley Schneider, Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Robert Patrick, Robert Lasardo and Jenette Goldstein. You can check out the Afterdark Horrorfest III trailer below, and you can see an exclusive trailer for Autopsy at Fangoria's website right Here! More details on the My Space page! Also visit www.horrorfestonline.com for more details on Horrorfest 3! Gierasch recently wrapped on Night Of The Demons, which is due for release later this year. More on that when we hear it!
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Exclusive first look: New Autopsy trailer!
6 January 2009 1:16 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
After Dark Films gave Fango an exclusive sneak peek at the latest trailer for Autopsy, one of the 8 Films to Die For in its 2009 Horrorfest. The frightful festival runs for a week at theaters nationwide starting this Friday, January 9.
The directorial debut of Adam Gierasch, who scripted it with his Mother Of Tears/Toolbox Murders writing partner Jace Anderson and Mortuary’s E.L. Katz, Autopsy is about a group of young people who get into an auto accident and wind up in a hospital of horrors (where the staff includes Terminator 2 veterans Robert Patrick and Jenette Goldstein, pictured below with Ashley Schneider). Check out the After Dark site linked above for theaters and other Horrorfest info, and see Fango #279, on sale now, for exclusive previews of Autopsy and others of the 8 Films.
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2009 | 2008
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