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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – DVD Review
6 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
I’d never been introduced to the Ice Age films until this most recent outing. Oh sure, I’d heard of them and was mildly interesting in seeing the first one, but for whatever reason I never got to it. The first did receive pretty decent reviews while the second was pretty much reviled by anyone under seven. Fox still thinks there’s an appeal (or they heard the term “Strike!”) and have decided to give us a third entry in the franchise.
And I’m sure the film will play well to kids, as well it should. It’s not exactly a terrible movie, but it’s not without it’s problems either. The biggest one in my opinion stems from how unnatural the actors seem to be at times. A couple of times I felt the actors were talking “at” each other rather than “to” each other. The »
- Philip Barrett
Paranormal Activity’s International Sales Company, Im Global, Rolls Out Theatrical Arm
5 November 2009 1:27 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The unprecedented success of Paranormal Activity has been beneficial for many people, but one could argue that Im Global is reaping the most rewards. Hot off the success of Oren Peli’s haunting flick, Im Global Home Entertainment has been forged to focus on lower budgeted theatrical fare.
Screen Daily reports that they’re kicking things off with Brad Anderson’s genre flick The Vanishing On 7th Street starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and John Leguizamo. Story details are under wraps, but we know its premise concerns the ensuing horrors following a mysterious blackout.
Im Global will be fielding offers from buyers at Afm this week on Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity follow-up, Area 51, which is expected to close a North American deal imminently. Paranormal Activity has grossed more than $85M in North America.
- MattFini
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Blu-Ray Review: Third ‘Ice Age’ Sticks to Frigid Formula
3 November 2009 1:08 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – When did “gentleness” first become “unhip” in children’s films? Practically every studio in America, with the exception of Pixar, feels the need to make their “all ages” entertainment as abrasive, dumb and crude as their escapism targeted at teens and simple-minded adults. What’s the difference between a picture like “G-Force” and “Transformers”? A handful of swears and a few excessive shots of Megan Fox’s midriff. Kids movies in America can get away with endless mean-spirited gags and bathroom humor, just as long as there’s a sticky moral tacked on to the end. The “Shrek” series flourished under this principle, and so does “Ice Age.”
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
Yet while DreamWorks has found financial success with multiple franchises (“Shrek,” “Madagascar,” “Kung Fu Panda”), Blue Sky Studios still insists on focusing most of its moviemaking efforts on the decade-old premise of prehistoric creatures riffing through an arctic wasteland. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Blu-ray Review
3 November 2009 2:36 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the third installment of the Ice Age franchise, and comes to Blu-ray (with DVD included) via directors Carlos Saldanda (director of the other Ice Ages and Robots) and Mike Thurmeier (also director of the other Ice Age movies and Robots) and writers Peter Ackerman and Michael Berg (writers of 2002.s Ice Age). A lot of fun for the kiddies, Ice Age 3 is voiced by return star talents to the franchise John Leguizamo (Sid), Queen Latifah (Ellie), and Dennis Leary (Diego). There are actually two stories going on: Scrat chasing the acorn and finding love and competition for his precious acorn along the way, and the mammoths Ellie (Latifah) and Manny.s »
- Dana Rae
MovieSet’s Alliance DVD Round-Up - Coraline, Ghosts of Girlfriends, Away We Go, Easy Virtue, 17 Again
30 October 2009 3:50 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
As winter approaches the days start getting shorter and the temperature keeps dropping which makes watching movies at home start to look like a better option than braving the cold weather to go out to the theater.
Lucky for you, Alliance has released a great selection of films that can entertain fans of any genre. Keep your eyes open for Coraline, Nothing Like the Holidays, Away We Go, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Easy Virtue, Sin Nombre and 17 Again.
Coraline DVD
If you’re looking for a good family film to watch over Halloween, then pick up Coraline on DVD or Blu-Ray to delight and frighten you in standard 2-D, or eye-popping 3-D. Coraline tells the story of a young girl who walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life.
On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to »
- Shannon
DVD Round Up, Oct. 30, 2009: ‘Sauna,’ ‘The Tournament,’ ‘The Butcher’
30 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Many editions of the DVD Round-Up have featured a different genre and focus for each title within it. This week seems a little more thematically linked as we have a trio of foreign horror films and a few more independent films than usual. Of course, there has to a holiday comedy to spice things up.
Consider this column informational with synopsis, tech specs, and special features info for titles that might go otherwise unnoticed, but if you’re looking for more critical opinion, we covered “Sauna” when it played at the EU Film Fest, “Medicine For Melancholy” when it was available on IFC Direct, and “Nothing Like the Holidays” when it played in theaters.
“P” and “The Tournament” were released on October 20th, 2009
“The Butcher,” “Medicine For Melancholy,” “Nothing Like the Holidays,” and “Sauna” were released on October 27th, 2009
Photo credit: Anchor Bay
Synopsis: “John Leguizamo (Ice Age, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Land of the Dead
29 October 2009 6:40 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Land of the Dead Directed by George A. Romero Although the fourth installment in George A. Romero's influential zombie series may not have the overall impact of the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead, 2004 entry Land of the Dead proves that after four nearly four decades, he's still got the undead touch. The horror maestro has come a long way since his seminal 1968 classic, and Land is a satisfyingly splatter feast of gore and new ideas. Witty, clever and action-packed, this time around Romero benefits from the backing of a major studio. Playing with bigger stars - Land is the first Dead picture with name actors - and a higher budget of about $15 million, the slick production values and larger scope allow the director to more fully express his violent visions. Romero has a gift for lacing carnage with social commentary, and here he creates a radical and rebellious »
- Ricky
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack – DVD Review
28 October 2009 3:21 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
DVD Review
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack
Directed by: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier
Cast: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg
Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins
Rating: PG
Due Out: October 27, 2009
Plot: Manny the mammoth, (Romano) Sid the megatherium, (Leguizamo) and Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Leary) are back for a third adventure that has them exploring through an underground world of dinosaurs. Along the way they meet Buckminster, (Pegg), a somewhat psychotic weasel who is set on taking down a giant beast named Rudy.
Who’S It For? Because they don’t likely have an adequate grasp on the idea of quality at a single digit age, kids will enjoy the breeziness of this movie. Parents will get a good nap in, possibly dreaming about watching an earlier Ice Age movie, or hell – or even more likely, a Pixar film.
Movie:
Fossil-aged gags and »
- Nick Allen
[DVD Review] Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
28 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It’s perfectly fair to ask if Ice Age’s introduction of dinosaurs shows an udder disdain for any sense of chronological integrity. The answer? Yes. Clearly that’s not the point. In fact, if you’re only now asking that question after making it through the second Ice Age movie it’s no wonder you think this series has any scientific bearing. Although, if you want to make a movie about prehistoric times without pissing off creationists and scientists what better strategy is there than ditching both sides and just going balls to the wall with nonsense? Oh, and dinosaurs. You gotta have dinosaurs. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, desperate for a new plot device, introduces a secret underground world where time stood still (and oddly temperate) allowing dinosaurs to go on living. In theaters we received a rather impressive 3D presentation, however, for Blu-ray it’s been »
- Lex Walker
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack - DVD Review
28 October 2009 7:38 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
.The third time is the charm. has worn just a tad, but it is still not a chilly adventure for our prehistoric pals. The major laughs still come from the silent Scrat as he finds a love interest and competition for that elusive acorn. Mammoths Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a little mammoth any day now. The neurotic Manny is busy baby-proofing the wild and Ellie can only roll her eyes at his neurosis. Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) is hoping to babysit the new addition, but Manny immediately tells him that.s out of the question. Sid decides to get a family of his own when he finds a trio of eggs »
- Jeff Swindoll
New On DVD This Week
27 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Night of the Creeps, the original Stargate, The Sam Fuller Collection, Orphan and the complete The Prisoner series starring and created by Patrick McGoohan (pictured above).
Check them out.
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan ~ Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer (DVD and Blu-ray)
42nd Street Forever 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition ~ Charlton Heston, Robert Englund (DVD)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ~ Ray Romano (DVD and Blu-ray)
Into Temptation ~ Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto (DVD and Blu-ray)
Messiah of Evil: The Second Coming ~ Michael Greer, »
- Joe Gillis
New on DVD: 'Ice Age III,' 'Orphan,' More
26 October 2009 4:48 PM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Orphan A family adopting a seemingly sweet young girl expects sugar and spice and everything nice, but instead gets a freak show of evil badness in pigtails that plays on their every insecurity and vulnerability to the breaking point. Until the inevitable "twist" and over-the-top ending, the movie smartly sticks to psychological suspense rather than gruesome bloodletting. Oh, and it's beautifully shot by Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah return for the third film in the franchise that's all about the kiddies, as much as it's for the kiddies. This time, woolly mammoths Manny and Ellie are expecting a Little Mammoth. Feeling left out, Sid the sloth finds some babies of his own--a...
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The Sandbox: Five Rules for Making a Decent Video Game Adaptation
23 October 2009 11:08 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
For the past 20 years or so, Hollywood has seemed intent on proving that video games aren't fit to be cinematic source material. How else to explain the dismal quality of the average game-to-film adaptation? But games and movies aren't inherently incompatible, provided that directors use some common sense when heading down that treacherous adaptation path. Here's my list of five guidelines that, if followed to the letter, should help future filmmakers succeed where so many before them have stumbled.
1. Costume changes are okay.
As with comics, video game heroes are often defined by their distinctive get-ups. And in certain instances -- like Lara Croft's snug spelunking short-shorts and T-shirt -- those outfits are capable of making a relatively easy transition to the silver screen. But the rest of the time, keeping a little too close to a game character's clothing makes it impossible to take the material seriously.
I mean, »
- Nick Schager
New "Ice Age" DVD Features Cool Special Features
23 October 2009 6:13 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
The newest of the "Ice Age" trilogy is coming to DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Set to be released on Oct. 27, "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" offers multiple packages courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Along with the standard single disc edition, the animated film, originally presented in 3D, will be available in a three disc Blu-ray combo pack or the two disc "Scrat Pack."
Enhanced by special features, the movie picks up where the second film "Ice Age: The Meltdown" left off with the lovable prehistoric creatures expanding their herd. Mammoths Manny (voice of Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby, leaving sabretooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary) and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) feeling left out. But all are in store for another adventure as they discover an underground world where dinosaurs are still alive. Returning to the voice cast are Seann William Scott and Josh Peck, »
Exclusive Video: New Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs DVD Clip
22 October 2009 11:21 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We have a brand new exclusive clip from the upcoming DVD Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 27. Click below for our exclusive DVD clip, which features the perilous path these characters have to take.
In the coolest Ice Age adventure yet, Manny and the herd discover a lost world of ferociously funny dinosaurs, including a cranky T. rex who's got a score to settle with Sid! Meanwhile, Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte, but is she trying to win his heart - or steal his acorn?
Special Features:
- Filmmaker Commentary
- Gone Nutty - Scrat's Missing Adventure "Scrat" short film (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- No Time For Nuts "Scrat" short film (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- The Sabre-Toothed Squirrel: Natures (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- Nutty Buddy (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- Scrat: From Head »
Brad Anderson to Adapt 'The Living and the Dead'
14 October 2009 11:23 AM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Brad Anderson (Machinist, Session 9), is looking to adapt the graphic novel The Living And The Dead for Solipsist Films, reports Mania. Robert Tinnell and Todd Livngston created the book that focuses on a monstrous character who engages in the nineteenth-century version of snuff theater, luring innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood. Anderson is currently at work on Vanishing on 7th Street with Hayden Christensen and John Leguizamo. You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son the perfect life. Only they don't know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito...More »
Screen Queens
12 October 2009 6:53 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Hi, Matt Canada here with a weekly column looking back at gay cinema classics. I think that alot of people, gay and straight alike, view gay films as formally, thematically, and socially ghettoised and sub par. It is my goal that this column will reflect the diversity, breadth, and quality of the gay canon. This body of films encompasses everything from those made by gay filmmakers dealing explicitly with gay issues (Milk); to gay authored films that are nominally straight stories, but are interpreted by many as allegorically commenting on Lavender themes (George Cukor's Rich and Famous); camp classics (Mommie Dearest); gay films authored by heterosexual directors, screenwriters and/or producers (Brokeback Mountain); and those "heterosexual films" that have always been appropriated by gay audiences as queer (All About Eve). With such a wide array of possible films to look at, this column will bring something unique to the table each weekend. »
- CanadaMatt
Behind The Ministers
28 September 2009 10:28 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Not much has been heard about indie thriller The Ministers, even though it looks pretty cool And it has Harvey Keitel doing what he does best. So here's a chance to catch up. The film from Empire helmer Franc. Reyes follows the quest of a lady cop played by the gorgeous Florencia Lozano who believes her father was gunned down by a pair or mysterious Boondock Saints-like vigilantes known as The Ministers, twin brothers who look like John Leguizamo. If that guy tends to get on your nerves,... »
- Tony Lang
Jude Law in drag and other fashion fun from Sally Potter
28 September 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Director Sally Potter (Orlando) is offering her latest film, Rage, free online in seven episodes at Babelgum starting today. The story follows a student filmmaker documenting the players in New York’s fashion world, who become rocked by a questionable death. The impressive cast includes Judi Dench as a fashion critic, Steve Buscemi as a photographer, Eddie Izzard as a mogul, Dianne Weist as a fashion house manager, and John Leguizamo as a bodyguard. Annoyingly gorgeous model-turned-actress Lily Cole plays a model with the ridiculous moniker of Lettuce Leaf, and she has episode one’s best line: “In order to be big, »
- Wendy Mitchell
Sleeper Spy Set For Screen
24 September 2009 11:20 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
It's a natural progression from teen fight movie Never Back Down to asssasination thriller, apparently, with the news that director Jeff Wadlow has signed on to Sleeper Spy, a new thriller for CBS Films.All we know about the film is that it centres on an assassination attempt on a political figure. We're going to go ahead and wildly speculate that it's more Shooter and less Day of the Jackal though, but what we're really secretly hoping is that it's a sequel to Never Back Down and the whole assassination attempt isn't through bombing or sharp-shooting but through the medium of mixed martial arts fighting.Anthony Jaswinski, who wrote the upcoming Vanishing on 7th Street (set to star Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo), wrote the script. »
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