I wish I could unsee things. I was rummaging around Amazon.co.uk, to see if Straw Dogs had finally been released on Blu-ray after being delayed constantly, and me losing interest. Sure enough it had, and as much as I'd like to take an Amazon reviewer's (in the same class as IMDB.com user comments - "This film was totally gay!!!!") word for it, I preferred to find a more reliable review source to see what the disc was actually like. Hammered away at Google to see what would turn up, and was thrilled to see a remake lined up for production in 2011. Oh good.
There are a few reasons for cautious optimism, Alexander Skarsgard and James Wood appear in the cast list, while the director Rod Lurie has a reasonably good looking pedigree, and doesn't have any films with the words 'Alien vs' or 'Predator' in his work history. Unsurprisingly the synopsis has the movie being relocated to the deep south, which is where my interest wains and pessimism starts to mount again. Oh well, we shall see. Worryingly the 'Long Good Friday' remake has reappeared on schedules for 2011 too.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Blimey. I've been kinda busy, and so for a while nothing has been going on here. Expect that to change over the next few weeks, and today has already been a hive of activity with the uploading of all my latest Doctor Who art. I'm really going to try and get my teeth into Dadmancult.com and start filling up the reviews sections in the coming weeks and months.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
Time Flies
Blimey. I've been kinda busy, and so for a while nothing has been going on here. Expect that to change over the next few weeks, and today has already been a hive of activity with the uploading of all my latest Doctor Who art. I'm really going to try and get my teeth into Dadmancult.com and start filling up the reviews sections in the coming weeks and months.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
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