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After all these years Ken Russell’s The Devils gets uncut release on Shudder

Posted 9 years ago

Ken Russell's epic 1971 historical drama horror film THE DEVILS has reached almost mythic status among cinephiles. It received an X-Rating upon release, and was severely cut down (from 117 minutes to 103 minutes), as well as being buried by Warner Bros. The...

A Dog’s Purpose pre-sales strong, despite controversy

Posted 9 years ago

A DOG'S PURPOSE seems destined for the Wal-Mart $5 bin, as its premise is so mauldin and schlocky, it's almost like a bad SIMPSONS spoof of these types of films. And there's obviously a dedicated audience for this kind of...

New HBO series The Young Pope starring Jude Law releases new trailer

Posted 10 years ago

  More than a little disappointed that YOUNG POPE isn't about a teenage Pope with sunglasses, a backwards hat, and EXXXTREME views on Catholic dogma, but damn, this looks good! Then again, it is HBO, home of GAME OF THRONES, SOPRANOS, and…VINYL? JOHN FROM CINCINATTI? Okay, maybe they're not...

C’mon, Hollywood: Why exactly did Oldboy bomb?

Posted 12 years ago

Remakes are always controversial no matter who’s attached to the project, the number of years it’s been since the original was released, how good the first one was, etc. With directors ranging from Justin Lin to Steven Spielberg, the OLDBOY...