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Stargate Universe 1.10 "Justice" Recap

5 December 2009 2:25 AM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Tonight's Sgu ended with a whimper of a shocker and the Rush vs. Young feud came to a head and bursted like a disgusting pimple. I will just get right to it.

The Set Up

After finding an other delicacy besides the slop the crew of the Destiny have been eating, it is revealed that Spencer has not reported for duty. Greer goes to Spencer's quarters to see what's up and finds Spencer's brains on the wall and Spencer dead on the bed.

Uh. Oh.

Greer phones in the death to Col. Young and Camile and when they get there, the arguing and finger pointing starts. Camile wants to know why Spencer even had access to a gun (hello, he's a military officer!!?!), but when Young declares that Spencer was trained to operate one, Camile states that Spencer was not stable and it could have been anyone else dead. Good point, »

- Mark O. Estes

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[DVD Review] Taking Chances

2 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

The feature debut from director Talmage Cooley - who by all accounts garnered great acclaim with an engaging documentary short about blind teenagers in a Buffalo ghetto - this terribly incoherent genre splicer is as badly thought out an idea as you will ever see on screen if you live to be a thousand. Purportedly a romantic comedy with a social message, it's painfully unfunny, incredibly patronizing, borderline misogynistic, and after boring you into a coma for the better part of two hours, gives up on its numerous flailing plot strands and freely admits via a final reel voiceover to not really being about anything at all.

Set in some random, economically depressed, Midwestern berg named Patriotville, geeky twenty-something Chase diligently curates the town's one-room historical museum, commemorating it as the site of some forgotten Civil War skirmish. Mostly this serves simply as an excuse to have him bike about »

- Neil Pedley

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Pat Seals of Flyleaf Shares His Top Ten Horror Films

9 November 2009 10:24 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

As we've mentioned previously, November 10th is the release date of the band Flyleaf's new CD, entitled Memento Mori, and to help celebrate the occasion, their bass player, Pat Seals, has taken time out of his hectic schedule to prepare for Dread Central readers a list of his Top Ten favorite horror films.

Nothing relieves the stress of the holidays -- or anything really -- like a good horror flick, and Pat certainly has prepared an eclectic catalog that shows he knows his shit about our genre.

Without further ado, here's Pat's list (click each image to see the full poster):

1. The Addiction (1995) - Dir. Abel Ferrara, Starring Lili Taylor

This is my favorite vampire movie. It is the best. The best. Morality and the darkness of human nature are the focus, and Lili Taylor's performance is brutal. Plus, Christopher Walken waltzes in for a philosophical cameo. The »

- The Woman In Black

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As Devil's Night Descends, Here Are Cinema's Greatest Satans

30 October 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Is it a widely known fact anymore that the evening before Halloween is called Devil's Night? I'm not sure of the history myself, but the term has its origins in 1930s Detroit, if Wikipedia is to be believed (I know, I know-- that's a big "if"). According to tradition, the night would be marked by youthful acts of vandalism and petty crime, though the transgressions increased in severity through the years, with arson unfortunately becoming a common practice through the 1970s and '80s. That all changed in the mid-'90s, when the city organized the volunteer-driven "Angel's Night" and started enforcing age-based curfews. Fans of "The Crow" -- currently in the midst of a week-long retrospective on MTV Splash Page -- are of course familiar with the term, as it factors heavily into that movie.

Grim associations aside, it's a cool name that lends itself well to this particular list feature. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Cinematical Seven: Good Actors in Bad Horror

27 October 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I'm sure Peter Sarsgaard didn't intend to make a horror movie that would provoke gales of unintentional laughter. Yet in a key, emotionally-wrought scene near the end of Orphan -- out on DVD today and, perversely enough, worth a rental -- that's exactly what happens; by that point, the film's determination to take itself way too seriously has worn down the viewer, and its lunatic premise collapses upon itself. Sarsgaard bravely goes down with the ship, as does Vera Farmiga, two talented actors that were better than their material.

How do good actors end up in bad movies? The same way some of us end up in jobs we hate: (1) It sounded better than it turned out; (2) Gotta pay the bills. Sometimes they liven up the movie (The Devil's Advocate wouldn't be nearly as much fun without Al Pacino's self-parodying scenery-chewing) and sometimes they look befuddled that they ended up »

- Peter Martin

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New Shyamalan Project Traps You in an Elevator. With Satan.

18 October 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

What is Devil? It's a new movie directed by the Dowdle Brothers (the skillful Quarantine) with a script by Brian Nelson (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy) from a story by M. Night Shyamalan (uh... well, you know). It is also the coolest high concept I've heard in a long time. The plot of the Shyamalan-produced project was tightly under wraps, but some online sleuthing by Slashfilm this weekend uncovered some hints, including possibly the greatest log line of all time.

The logline: "A group of people are trapped in an elevator, and one of them is the devil."

Right off the bat I should say that I have an almost irrational affection for movies that take Satan seriously as a walking, talking character. (As opposed to a tormenting spirit a la The Exorcist, which is also cool, but a whole different animal.) When The Devil's Advocate came out, I was obsessed with it for months. »

- Eugene Novikov

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What are Your Guilty Pleasure Movies, but Don't Like to Admit It?

14 October 2009 12:38 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I thought the response to my "Do You Ever Lie about the Movies You've Seen? " post was excellent, and on top of everything so many of you said, several new questions came as a result. One of them, offered by 'Steve Mott', asks the question in the headline: Do you have guilty pleasures you don't like to admit to?

Steve lists his guilty pleasure as 10 Things I Hate About You, a film I personally love and was just discussing recently with a friend when the topic of "Where the hell did Julia Stiles go?" came up. To that effect I also love Save the Last Dance and to answer the Stiles question before someone gets smart in the comments, yes, she has the Bourne films and wrote and directed a film starring Zooey Deschanel and has also been doing plenty of work on stage. Moving along...

Other personal »

- Brad Brevet

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Charlize Theron Insists She's Not An "Exhibitionist"

17 September 2009 1:27 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

Charlize Theron is not "an exhibitionist." The "Burning Plain" actress - who appears naked in the first scene of the movie, and has also stripped off in "Monster" and "The Devil's Advocate" - insists she only flashes flesh on film if it is integral to the storyline.

She explained: "I'm not some exhibitionist. I think people think I just love walking around naked."

"When you start making it about yourself, you stand in the way of doing your job. I have to sit in an editing room with the director and a bunch of execs, and if I had to sit there and think about myself and these men watching me, I think that would make me insecure. I'm just like every other girl out there. I would cringe."

The 34-year-old actress added making "The Burning Plain" - in which she stars as Sylvia, a woman who found out her »

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Theron Thrown Out Of America While Filming Devil's Advocate

15 September 2009 6:41 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Charlize Theron has revealed she was briefly kicked out of America as her career was taking off - because she was working illegally in Hollywood.

The South African-born actress became an American citizen in 2007 but initially outstayed her welcome in the States when she was struggling to find work after her breakthrough role in Two Days In The Valley.

As her work visa expired, Theron was still fighting for roles in Hollywood - and had just landed a role opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves in 2007 film The Devil's Advocate when immigration officials caught up with her.

She explains, "I had to hold out for two years after playing the femme fatale in Two Days In The Valley because people wanted me to play that role. I think there was a conscious effort on my part to hold back and I didn't work for two years and I waited and really fought for roles in The Devil's Advocate and The Yards, Cider House Rules.

"I went out on auditions and flew myself out (for movies) and almost went to prison and didn't wash my hair to break this idea of what people thought of me. I was deported when I was making Devil's Advocate, but that will be for my book one day." »

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Shouting Match: Best Horror Film of the Decade

31 August 2009 8:19 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

With Rob Zombie's Halloween II and the fourth installment in the Final Destination series out in theaters this weekend, Fsr's resident Devil's Advocate Josh Radde and guest Adam Sweeney decided not to debate between the two franchises, but rather: what is the best horror film of the decade? Shouting Match, heading up to the end of 2009, will occasionally jump into "decade-review mode" and determine what we thought shined in the first part of this bitchin' new century. Opening Statement (Josh) Over the past half century, certain horror films have carved out a niche in which they grew to the heights of their popularity. In the 60's we saw Mama's boy Norman Bates stab a lady in the shower. Spielberg made us think twice about jumping into the ocean in the 70's. The slasher genre hit its absolute apex with Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers in the 80's. Drew Barrymore was the first victim of the 90's horror »

- Josh Radde

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Theron stunned by African AIDS ignorance

20 August 2009 1:11 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Charlize Theron has expressed amazement at the lack of AIDS awareness in her native South Africa. The Devil's Advocate star, who was born and raised near Johannesburg, said that HIV-positive men in Africa believe that they will be cured of the disease if they have sex with a young virgin. According to WENN, the actress said: "You have huge HIV numbers and nobody is educated on how you get (more) »

- By Rebecca Davies

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Dr. Death Movie Expanded/Is Sacha Baron Cohen in danger?/Broken Social Scene movie/Rip Walter Cronkite

20 July 2009 7:47 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

New cast in Kervorkian film: The cast of the new film about the high profile doctor, Dr. Jack Kervorkian,  who fought "...to establish the right to die for terminally ill patients..." has announced an expansion of its cast.  The made-for-tv film is entitled "You Don't Know Jack," and it will be directed by Barry Levinson.  As announced "back in May" the title role will be filled by Al Pacino.  Recently, "Susan Sarandon and John Goodman have also joined..." I think this is some brilliant and solid casting.  Who can think of a better person to play Dr. Kervorkian than Pacino; who can play everything from intense caricatures of evil from a coke-fuelled gangster in "Scarface" to the Devil himself in "The Devil's Advocate."  He can also show incredible humanity like in "Scent of a Woman."  Both Sarandon and Goodman are solid actors who I feel are underrated talents.  As great »

- Drew Williamson

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 6/23/2009

29 June 2009 11:38 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

So you're curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving at retail today, June 30, 2009 in this weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions!

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com Black Christmas (2006, Bd) Black Torment (special edition): Redemption USA Dead By Dawn 2: The Return (special edition): New Blood The Devil's Advocate (Re-issue)

Entrails Of The Wicked (The Risen, Unknown; 2-disc rerelease): Srs Cinema Fear Girls: Volume 2

The Garbage Man (special edition): American Horrors/Indie-Pictures Golden Age Ghost Tales: Raunchy Tonk Header (special edition): Synapse Hide: Mti Hidden Floor

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer

Kaidan: Lionsgate Monster X Strikes Back: »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Shouting Match: Giant Robots Fighting; Two Men Arguing

27 June 2009 10:20 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Hey everybody. It's your Resident Devil's Advocate Josh Radde here. Usually every week an Fsr writer and myself duke it out over myriad topics, usually going hand-in-hand with the week's releases. However, this week's Shouting Match obviously had to be Bay-driven with the release of Transformers 2. And because of a host of reasons, I haven't seen this polarizing film yet. So, I turn the debate over to two skilled linguists and douche-nozzles, Adam Sweeney and Landon Palmer, to debate the merits of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with a word-count befitting of such an epic film. Opening Statement (Adam): Landon, How I loathe Michael Bay. Let me count the ways. I would like to say that you're a brave soul for applauding the latest piece of trash Michael Bay has put out, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but I've never been a good liar. I think it's more a case of trying to defend a »

- Josh Radde

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Fangoria’s Devilish Dads: Ten Satan as a Father Flicks

20 June 2009 9:37 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Sure, we all know about Satan. Ruler of hell, punisher of sinners, pitchforks, fire, and general all around big meanie. But Satan seems to have a soft spot when it comes to making babies. He is always trying to populate the world with little snot nosed brats of pure evil. As Fangoria salutes Father’s Day and horror film fathers, we give a nod to the most evil dad of them all.

Skip the love, forget the marriage, here comes Satan with a baby carriage…

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

Al Pacino (Satan) takes Keanu Reeves under his wing at a demonic law firm. Oh, big shock, the devil is a lawyer, and in a Star Wars-like twist he also turns out to Reeves’s daddy. Al Pacino: I’m your father and the devil. Who-hah! Keanu Reeves: You’re my father and the devil? Whoa!

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

A woman in »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Bekah McKendry)

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Shouting Match: Jack Black Must Be Stopped!

20 June 2009 3:28 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

With the release of Harold Ramis' Year One, Jack Black continues his stay as Hollywood's version of "Jack Black." In light of that, Fsr's resident Fat Guy at the Movies Kevin Carr and Resident Devil's Advocate Josh Radde ponder just how far they're willing to let Jack Black go before enough is enough. Opening Statement (Kevin) As an avid fan of puns and plays on words, I am proud to recognize that one word in the English language is integral as to why Jack Black must be stopped from making more films. The word, my friends, is Scat. Definition #1: “Jazz singing, with nonsense syllables.” [Ref.: Merriam-Webster] In virtually every movie this guy is in, he scats. It doesn’t matter if he’s playing a rocker, a Spanish monk, a caveman or a frickin’ fat panda. For some reason, Jack Black always manages to work in a scene with his skiddily-diddily-doing it. It »

- Josh Radde

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Michael Clayton's Tony Gilroy is Rewriting Red Dawn?!

18 June 2009 1:51 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Wow, I'm not sure I believe this news! Not that I don't believe Latino Review, but I'm just shocked that such an amazing screenwriter has been brought on board for this. According to Latino Review, Oscar nominated screenwriter Tony Gilroy has recently been hired to rewrite (or at least polish) Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore's original script for MGM's remake of Red Dawn. Earlier in the week we announced that that Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki would be starring in the remake and that Bourne Ultimatum second-unit director Dan Bradley would be directing. However, Gilroy's name is now the most exciting part of this. Gilroy most recently wrote and directed Michael Clayton and Duplicity. Before that, though, he worked on the screenplays for The Devil's Advocate, Armageddon, Proof of Life, and all three Bourne movies. Gilroy is one of my favorite screenwriters currently working. Even El Mayimbe says he's »

- Alex Billington

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Shouting Match: Denzel Washington vs. John Travolta – Face/Off!

13 June 2009 10:29 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

First things first. Apologies for no "Sm" last week. We were going to debate whether or not Will Ferrell still registered with audiences, but the weekend's box office receipts settled that debate for us. However, we're back to chomp our teeth into this week's release of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 - and whether or not Denzel Washington or John Travolta has had the better career. Adam Sweeney and Fsr Resident Devil's Advocate Josh Radde get awkwardly revealing in this debate. Opening Argument (Josh) Dear Fsr Readers, Mr. Sweeney is going to tell you about how Denzel Washington has had a better career than John Travolta, his co-star in the new Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 remake. Allow me to "8 Mile" his ass for a moment. He could tell you that Mr. Washington is a 2-time recipient of a golden statue known as "Oscar," and respectable force in the acting community. He may tell you that over the course of »

- Josh Radde

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Shouting Match: Is ‘Toy Story’ Overrated?

30 May 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

With Pixar's Up out this weekend we all got a well deserved gift - the teaser trailer for next summer's Toy Story 3. Like most Pixar teasers it didn't show us much in the way of actual plot, but it showed us all the characters we're familiar with back on screen together. However, this prompted one Fsr writer, Michelle Graham, to exclaim "What is the fuss about?" Resident Devil's Advocate Josh Radde defends Pixar's first film franchise. Opening Argument (Josh): Michelle, Word from your parole officer has it that you think Toy Story is overrated. I have two questions for you: 1. Are you joking? 2. What kind of crime did you commit so that I'd have to e-mail your parole officer just to get a hold of you? Now, we're talking about 1995's Toy Story, you know, Pixar's first feature starring Woody the cowboy and the popular Buzz Lightyear doll, voiced »

- FSR Staff

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Pacino Negotiating Dr. Death Biopic

26 May 2009 11:15 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

The Hollywood Reporter reports Al Pacino is in negotiations to join a biopic centering on the life of Dr. Jack Kevorkian with Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) set to direct for HBO Films. Adam Mazer, whose only previous screenplay was co-writing Breach, wrote the script, which is loosely based on "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia" by Neal Nicol. As I am sure most of you already know, Kevorkian, also known as Dr. Death, assisted in more than 150 cases of suicide and had beaten the state court system in Michigan numerous times, but was finally convicted after he willingly sent a videotape of himself euthanizing a terminally ill man to "60 Minutes." He was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 and is serving his sentence in a maximum-security prison in Michigan. The mistake I think this film is making »

- Brad Brevet

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