The Alamo Drafthouse continues to roll out fantastic posters for their Rolling Road Show presentations. This time it’s 80’s classic Pretty in Pink rendered by Jay Ryan. It’s an interesting choice for an image and not the most obvious one. Still a great piece.
The poster measures 20"X26" in size and as always goes for a measly 30 dollars.

I envy all you that get to go to these showings, me being stuck here half way around the world from Texas. But the most exciting Rolling Roadshow to date must be the Sergio Leone series that’s coming up. Imagine watching Eastwood kicking all sorts of ass on the big screen, in the actual area they filmed that particular film. And I can’t wait to see the posters they make for that.

The good folks at Mondotees are at it again with three new posters available for the public for upcoming screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse. One is a new version of Big Trouble in Little China by Tim Doyle, featuring the three Storm warriors. The second one is a poster for the upcoming Speed Racer screening created by Jesse Philips. Last but not least is a wonderful rendition of Audrey Hepburn by Diana Sudyka for Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
The Big Trouble and Speed Racer posters are glow in the dark so you might finally have some use for that blacklight in your room. Big Trouble comes in two versions but Speed and Breakfast only in one. Each poster is signed and numbered and as always extremely limited.
I can say, now that I am compulsively buying these pieces of art that they are utterly fantastic up close and personal. I can’t recommend these enough.
Click on the links to mondotees.com below to purchase these beauties or to browse their wonderful products.

For the last of their series of Sci-Fi film screening the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin Texas are showing the classic Ridley Scott cyber punk epic Blade Runner. As before they are offering a poster for sale for the occasion by Tyler Stout, famous for his John Carpenter series of posters which are very sought after. As before they are offering two versions of these, one glow in the dark and one regular.
There are only 140 of these bad boys for sale so act now if you want one because they go fast. 

We have talked about this before but we have never had a concrete date or even if it was true that a director’s cut of Alex Proyas‘ cult film Dark City was on its way. Writer David S. Goyer had talked about the new cut but nothing was set in stone regarding a release. But today I stumbled across an ad in Home Media Magazine online which confirms that the film is indeed on its way on to DVD and Blu Ray on the 29th of July. Yay!
So far no word on a theatrical re-release that many had hoped for but keep those fingers crossed and ready on the pre-order button when that arrives at your favorite online store.
Click here for the Home Media Magazine ad.

Not much to say really. The Alamo Drafthouse have decided to celebrate the release of Iron Man with a very very limited silk screen print by Jesse Phillips. Only 100 available and even less for the variant.
Go to mondotees RIGHT NOW...if you like this poster that is. 

The good folks at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin Texas are at it again with showings of classic genre movies and of course they got fantastic looking posters to go with them. Most notable is Tyler Stout’s The Thing poster, done in the same style as his sought after Big Trouble In Little China piece. Also up for sale is a Planet of the Apes poster by Todd Slater and The Car poster by Stainboy. As before the posters are all silk screened and extremely limited. The two posters I talked about last time sold out within 36 hours so act fast if you want a piece of this. The prints for The Thing and Apes come each with their own variant that is more limited than the regular version so they go for a slightly higher price.
This is a must for all fans of film and beautiful art so please check them out at mondotees.com.

For those who missed out on the 2001 poster I talked about last time and want one, you can go to artist Jay Ryan’s own website and order a copy.

**UPDATE** If you wanted that totally awesome King Kong poster that I talked about in the first poster alert but missed out I have good news. Burlesque Design are putting this bad boy up for sale at their website today at 2 pm CST. I don’t know for sure how many there will be but these went out fast the last time they were on sale so act quickly.

Isn’t this a beaut? Some of you might know this but I love movie posters. I love them so much I make them for a living (on the side really). There are a few things I love more than a striking movie poster with great graphics, color and texture. Right now I’m staring at Namoi Watts’ tear smeared face on the Funny Games remake in my movie poster light box I have on my wall, just beautiful stuff and one of the most striking designs in recent memory.
Anyway...I’m digressing. If you live in Austin Texas this is old news for you but for others out there this is a juicy tidbit. I know the Alamo Drafthouse mostly from reading AICN so I know that they have regular showings of classic films. What I didn’t know is that they make new posters for those showing. And not just some cheap crap using existing artwork. No they get graphic artist to make a brand spanking new poster and print them in very low numbers, to sell at the venue and at a place called Mondo Tees. Now I’ve only recently found out about this and today I saw that they are presenting two new silk screened posters, an inch short of a full one sheet size, for Kubrik’s 2001 and the classic King Kong. Both posters are insanely beautiful and a must for the fans of these films and fans of beautiful artwork.
Both posters are very limited so expect them to go fast, especially King Kong. SO GO NOW!!!
And while you are there check out the truly great looking Big Trouble in Little China poster by Tyler Stout, truly a work of art.
Upcoming screenings at the Alamo include The Thing, Bladerunner and Planet of the Apes so make sure you check back regularly to see what designs they have for those.

Well kiddies it’s time to get to the third and last batch of reviews for the Spanish horror TV series 6 Films To Keep You Awake. This time I will be looking at Enrique Urbizu´s Adivina quién soy (Guess who) and Paco Plaza’s Cuento de navidad (A Christmas Story). Now I have to admit that I was more anxious to see Plaza’s film, mainly because he’s the second half of the director duo responsible for the horror hit REC, the other being Jaume Balaguero who directed the stellar “To Let” in this series as well. Enrique Urbizu I had never heard about before but saw when I looked him up that he was one of the writers of Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate. Both films are hit and miss, one of them being almost nothing but misses but read on if you want to know which one that is. Muuuahahaha!

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In part two of the three part review series (sounds prestigious doesn’t it) for 6 Films To Keep You Awake horror series I will be talking about Narciso Ibáñez Serrador´s “La Culpa” (The Guilt) and Mateo Gil’s “Regreso a Moira” (Return to Moira).
Narciso Ibáñez is a name some of you fans of more obscure latin horror, having written and directed Who Can Kill a Child? and The House That Screamed. He was also part of the TV series “Historias para no dormir” (Stories to Keep You Awake) that this new series is a continuation of. So he´s the oldest cat of the bunch.
Mateo Gil is an accomplished writer in his home country and has written a good chunk of the better known genre productions from there. He has written almost all of Alejandro Amenábar´s films, Tesis, Abre los ojos, The Sea Inside and his latest Agora and he’s been trying his hands at directing since the last decade, but mostly shorts.
The two films I will be writing about are very different in both story, setting and quality so read on.

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We have talked a little about the Spanish TV series 6 Films to Keep You Awake in the past but we have heard little about the actual films themselves even though they came out on English friendly DVD some time ago.
The 6, hour long films were directed by a group of prominent Spanish horror directors, some more known than others internationally, and was produced by studio powerhouse Filmax.
Today I got my DVD box set in the mail, from xploitedcinema.com and promptly sat down to watch the first two, directed by the biggest names of the bunch, Alex De La Iglesias (Day of the Beast and the upcoming The Oxford Murders) and Jaume Balaguero (The Darkness and the much loved REC.) Two films with similar settings but very different stories. The set includes a trailer, on set footage and a making of for every film. The films are all subtitled but none of the extras are unfortunately.
Over the next few days I’ll try to get these films reviewed in the order they are in the box set so I won’t play favorites and start with the directors I know.
First up is Alex De La Iglesias´s La habitación del niño (The Baby’s Room), followed by Balaguero’s Para Entrar A Vivir (To Let).
Read on friends.

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Fans of nunsplotation and Ken Russel films rejoice! After years of speculations his landmark 1971 horror epic The Devils finally hits DVD in all its unrated glory.
Warner is releasing the (for now) barebones DVD on the 20th of May but fortunately it’s the uncut version that garnered all that controversy in the 70’s. The film revolves around Father Grandier (Reed) who controls a small town in pre-rennaisance France and has to deal with the accusations that he and his nuns are devil worshippers. To say that bodily waste hits the fan is putting it mildly.
I saw this film on VHS many years ago and was completely blown away with its imagery and the performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. It’s vile, disgusting, brutal as hell and looks fucking amazing. I’ve been waiting for this brilliant film to hit DVD and it looks like Warner finally grew a pair of balls and decided to release it after saying often that it would never release such filth. Hopefully the specs aren’t complete and we´ll get some interesting behind the scenes stuff with it. Hopefully this will also be released on Blu Ray because this is one of those films that truly deserves it.
The folks over at dvdactive.com got the scoop and a larger version of the DVD artwork.

*UPDATE*
It seems that Warner’s balls weren’t fully developed and have retreated back for some reason. In record time the DVD has been removed from its release schedule with no word on wether it will appear again. One wonders why.
If they are going to be pussies about this then they should do us all a favor and lease it to some of the smaller cult companies like Anchor Bay or better yet Criterion.
Damn it. Stuff like this really pisses me off.

Well this is very interesting. Seems like waaaay back in the day, 1946 to be exact, Walt Disney and Salvador Dali were hanging out, kicking back and decided to work on a film together for the hell of it. The film was titled Destino and combined Walt’s animation skills with Dali’s surreal visuals. For some reason the film was never finished, shelved and pretty much forgotten until Roy Disney discovered it in 2003 and began work to have it finished. The results will be released on DVD in November as a part of the Walt Disney Treasures releases. Dvdactive.com has the scoop and further info.

This sounds very interesting indeed. Disney’s stuff was pretty wild at that time and to throw a crazy personality like Dali in the mix is like throwing a Mentos in a bottle of diet Coke (erupting, sweet and all over the place).

It’s been a while since I wrote something about the Icelandic movie scene mostly because there hasn’t been allot going on and news are usually pretty few and far between. But since the last time some things have been rumbling a little and here are the highlights.

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I don’t know if George Lucas had anything to do with how quiet this release is but I found out today that much loved and equaly hated cult film Howard the Duck is coming out on “Fully uncut” DVD in UK, what ever that means. I loved this film as a child and never understood the hatred that the film got from viewers. Sure the Duck outfit was cheesy and I think had they gone the Roger Rabbit way of animating the main character in a live action environment the film would have been more appreciated. But one thing I absolutely love about this film is Jeffrey Jone’s performance and the kick ass monster design in the end. I don’t know how many times I drew that monster in my sketch pads as a kid. Lucas has never shown much love for the film as well and it’s been absent from any form of home video format since its VHS release many years back. Well now it seems that the good folks at Metrodome in the UK have snagged the rights and are releasing it on the 18th of this month. Bare bones from the looks of it but as it states on the cover, fully uncut. Apparently the UK censors found scenes involving condoms and Jone’s character charging up via a very long tongue in to a car lighter too much for the kiddies at that time.
I’m just glad I can watch this film again, in widescreen for the first time since I saw it in the theater. Bring it on!

As the most interesting ad campaign for a movie since ... well, ever, it got many many people talking about Cloverfield, the latest project from wunder kid JJ Abrams. What was it? Voltron? Nope. Godzilla? Nope. Cuthullu? No, no and no. Abrams is a frigging genius when it comes to hooking viewers to the screen but, as is apparent with his hit shows Alias and Lost he has the tendency to stretch an interesting premise to its thinnest. Cloverfield, however, doesn’t have a plot thick as a phonebook but still it manages to get soapy and at times feels like The OC vs Godzilla.

There be spoilers ahead plus a link to the picture of the monster so tread carefully if you don’t want to see it.

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