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There’s something about monsters. Those drippy, growly, hairy freaks that challenge beauty standards and carry shrieking damsels to the depths. However, something strange happens in those depths where...
There’s something about monsters. Those drippy, growly, hairy freaks that challenge beauty standards and carry shrieking damsels to the depths. However, something strange happens in those depths where...
- 2/9/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Tyler Labine (New Amsterdam), Ella Rae Rappaport (Alone In Space), and Arvin Kananian (Triangle of Sadness) have signed on to star in Egghead Republic, the latest feature from Swedish directing duo Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja (Aniara).
Labine and Rappaport will play the two leads in the pic, which is currently shooting on the island of Gotland in Sweden. The main cast is rounded out by Arvin Kananian (Triangle of Sadness), Andrew Lowery, and Emma Creed.
Other main cast includes Gina Diwari, Andrew Lowery, Milan Dragisic (Äta Sova Dö), and producer Emma Creed in her first acting role.
Based in part on Kågerman’s experience working for Vice Magazine and the novel Die Gelehrtenrepublik by Arno Schmidt, the pic takes place in an alternative reality where the cold war did not end, and an atomic bomb has struck Soviet Kazakstan. A young...
Labine and Rappaport will play the two leads in the pic, which is currently shooting on the island of Gotland in Sweden. The main cast is rounded out by Arvin Kananian (Triangle of Sadness), Andrew Lowery, and Emma Creed.
Other main cast includes Gina Diwari, Andrew Lowery, Milan Dragisic (Äta Sova Dö), and producer Emma Creed in her first acting role.
Based in part on Kågerman’s experience working for Vice Magazine and the novel Die Gelehrtenrepublik by Arno Schmidt, the pic takes place in an alternative reality where the cold war did not end, and an atomic bomb has struck Soviet Kazakstan. A young...
- 5/19/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Spend enough time charting the corners of any subgenre and you’ll quickly discover that not all entries are created equal. Due to the sexually charged nature of Erotic Thrillers, a common mistake that Hollywood suits make is believing that so long as there’s an adequate amount of sex and skin, the mechanics of the plot and the characters don’t matter.
What’s wild about Richard Rush’s 1994 film Color of Night is that it both does and does not fall into this trap. There is sex, yes, and it is ridiculous, but the carnal relations are condensed into a single part of the film, leaving long stretches of the thriller without its accompanying eroticism. And while there are a few murders, the thrills are also spread out and tend to be fleeting.
Which begs the question: without the sex and without the thrills, what becomes of an Erotic Thriller?...
What’s wild about Richard Rush’s 1994 film Color of Night is that it both does and does not fall into this trap. There is sex, yes, and it is ridiculous, but the carnal relations are condensed into a single part of the film, leaving long stretches of the thriller without its accompanying eroticism. And while there are a few murders, the thrills are also spread out and tend to be fleeting.
Which begs the question: without the sex and without the thrills, what becomes of an Erotic Thriller?...
- 12/13/2022
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Johnny Dingle's passionate love doesn't die... even when he does. Johnny the zombie's (Andrew Lowery) journey to take Missy McCloud (Traci Lind) to the prom is getting a high-definition upgrade, as Mill Creek Entertainment will release 1993's My Boyfriend's Back on Blu-ray for the first time early next year.
According to Blu-ray.com, Mill Creek's My Boyfriend's Back Blu-ray is slated for a March 15th, 2016 release. In addition to Lowery and Lind, the dark romantic comedy also stars Edward Hermann, Mary Beth Hurt, and Cloris Leachman. The film marked early big screen appearances for Matthew Fox, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Matthew McConaughey. Bob Balaban directed from a screenplay by Dean Lorey.
No special features have been revealed yet, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further announcements. In the meantime, we have a look at the Blu-ray cover art as well as the film's official synopsis and trailer:
"Teenager...
According to Blu-ray.com, Mill Creek's My Boyfriend's Back Blu-ray is slated for a March 15th, 2016 release. In addition to Lowery and Lind, the dark romantic comedy also stars Edward Hermann, Mary Beth Hurt, and Cloris Leachman. The film marked early big screen appearances for Matthew Fox, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Matthew McConaughey. Bob Balaban directed from a screenplay by Dean Lorey.
No special features have been revealed yet, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further announcements. In the meantime, we have a look at the Blu-ray cover art as well as the film's official synopsis and trailer:
"Teenager...
- 12/17/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Nothing
Written by Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Canada, 2003
If Cube (1997) was writer-director Vincenzo Natali’s crack at a gruesome, Sartre/Kafka-tinged Twilight Zone episode, then his 2003 film Nothing is his take on the Theatre of the Absurd, a stripped-down character study about two losers interacting with little more than each other and the vast emptiness of the infinite. It’s as if Waiting for Godot‘s Vladimir and Estragon were farting around one day and discovered that they had the power to edit reality. It’s also a funny and ultimately warm film, the clear product of work made among friends. But as light and comic as it is, there’s plenty of pathos to go around; friendships falter when people change, making the world go away doesn’t help a lick, and even in a fantasy world where you can take yourself completely out of all systems,...
Written by Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Canada, 2003
If Cube (1997) was writer-director Vincenzo Natali’s crack at a gruesome, Sartre/Kafka-tinged Twilight Zone episode, then his 2003 film Nothing is his take on the Theatre of the Absurd, a stripped-down character study about two losers interacting with little more than each other and the vast emptiness of the infinite. It’s as if Waiting for Godot‘s Vladimir and Estragon were farting around one day and discovered that they had the power to edit reality. It’s also a funny and ultimately warm film, the clear product of work made among friends. But as light and comic as it is, there’s plenty of pathos to go around; friendships falter when people change, making the world go away doesn’t help a lick, and even in a fantasy world where you can take yourself completely out of all systems,...
- 4/24/2015
- by Derek Godin
- SoundOnSight
I wanted to honor the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but the man was such a damn good actor that he never really made any bad movies. This will have to do. My Boyfriend's Back (1993) Director: Bob Balaban Stars: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Phillip Seymour Hoffman A lovesick teen continues to stalk his wannabe girlfriend from the grave. My Boyfriend's Back is an interesting case. It falls in the categories of goofy and cheesy and weird, but knowingly so. It's clearly...
- 2/5/2014
- by Jason Adams
- JoBlo.com
With the release of Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies, I decided to compile a list of my favourite films that take a non-traditional approach to the living-dead canon. More specifically, they all blend romance and the undead. I can’t guarantee any of these films will make you believe in the power of love, nor that they will sidestep the idea of necrophilia, but each is charming in their own unique and twisted ways.
Note: It took me longer to decide what I should or shouldn’t include on the list, than to actually write the bloody thing. So in the end, I figured I should narrow down my choices to zombie movies about falling in love. Thus I am not including Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, nor Ed and His Dead Mother, since those films both deal with a boy’s love for his undead parent. I am also...
Note: It took me longer to decide what I should or shouldn’t include on the list, than to actually write the bloody thing. So in the end, I figured I should narrow down my choices to zombie movies about falling in love. Thus I am not including Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, nor Ed and His Dead Mother, since those films both deal with a boy’s love for his undead parent. I am also...
- 2/6/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Rank the week of September 13th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Thor
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #227
Win Percentage: 58%
Times Ranked: 18033
Top-20 Rankings: 90
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Chris Hemsworth • Natalie Portman • Anthony Hopkins • Jeremy Renner • Kat Dennings
Genres: Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
Rank This Movie
Conan O’Brien Can’T Stop
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5260
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 719
Top-20 Rankings: 5
Directed By: Rodman Flender
Starring: Conan O’Brien
Genres: Comedy • Documentary
Rank This Movie
Incendies
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #4296
Win Percentage: 51%
Times Ranked: 947
Top-20 Rankings: 8
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Lubna Azabal • Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin • Maxim Gaudette • Rémy Girard • Abdelghafour Elaaziz
Genres: Drama • Foreign Language Film
Rank This Movie
The Tempest
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #7784
Win Percentage: 37%
Times Ranked: 385
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Julie Taymor
Starring: Helen Mirren • Djimon Hounsou • Alfred Molina...
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #227
Win Percentage: 58%
Times Ranked: 18033
Top-20 Rankings: 90
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Chris Hemsworth • Natalie Portman • Anthony Hopkins • Jeremy Renner • Kat Dennings
Genres: Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
Rank This Movie
Conan O’Brien Can’T Stop
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5260
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 719
Top-20 Rankings: 5
Directed By: Rodman Flender
Starring: Conan O’Brien
Genres: Comedy • Documentary
Rank This Movie
Incendies
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #4296
Win Percentage: 51%
Times Ranked: 947
Top-20 Rankings: 8
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Lubna Azabal • Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin • Maxim Gaudette • Rémy Girard • Abdelghafour Elaaziz
Genres: Drama • Foreign Language Film
Rank This Movie
The Tempest
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #7784
Win Percentage: 37%
Times Ranked: 385
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Julie Taymor
Starring: Helen Mirren • Djimon Hounsou • Alfred Molina...
- 9/13/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
There are times where I just want to be entertained. Forget the blood. Forget the nudity. Forget the exploitation. No, nobody hacked my column. I’m still here. My wife is not a big horror fan, and she only watches them with me because she knows I am addicted to them. Once in a blue moon, I come across a title in my collection that is right up both of our alleys. I bring to you My Boyfriend’s Back, or what would happen if R.L. Stine wrote a Rom-Com.
As he did with Jason Goes to Hell, writer Dean Lorey opens up on his experiences on this 1993 horror-comedy that has a bigger fanbase than you might think.
The question I get asked most often (right after “where do you get your ideas?”) is “how did you break into the business?” For me, it started with a little zombie named Johnny Dingle.
As he did with Jason Goes to Hell, writer Dean Lorey opens up on his experiences on this 1993 horror-comedy that has a bigger fanbase than you might think.
The question I get asked most often (right after “where do you get your ideas?”) is “how did you break into the business?” For me, it started with a little zombie named Johnny Dingle.
- 5/20/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
As relationships go, they don't get much more mundane or artificial than those found in "Boys and Girls".
A talky, forced romantic comedy that attempts to retool a "When Harry Met Sally ..." take on sex and friendship for the college crowd, the picture shows few signs of life, despite the efforts of its energetic cast.
And though the presence of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jason
Biggs could initially draw young females, you know Miramax is sweating it when one of the funniest bits in the trailer involving
Biggs and a quartet of Victoria Secret's models is actually a closing credits outtake.
Prinze is Ryan, a compulsive, repressed engineering student who meets up with the impulsive, direct Jennifer Claire Forlani) in college after a couple of previous antagonistic encounters.
They certainly make for an unlikely pair. Ryan, who plans everything to within an inch of its life, likes building intricate bridges in his spare time. Free-spirited Latin major Jennifer squirms at the mere concept of commitment. When they cross paths at UC Berkeley, they're involved with other people, but you know they're destined to be together -- mainly because the movie wants them to be, rather than there being any palpable spark between them.
While writing partners Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller, a k a the Drews (Dennis Rodman's "Simon Sez"), obviously intended to deliver a hip dissertation on contemporary mating rituals, the game plays out more like Parcheesi than Twister. The story is continually covering the same old ground.
Although the leads try mightily, they're unable to scrape all of the bogus cut-and-paste dialogue off the page and make it sound authentic. Biggs and Amanda Detmer fare better as Ryan and Jennifer's respective roommates, injecting welcome comic energy into the drudgery.
Director Robert Iscove, who worked with Prinze on the successful "She's All That", matter-of-factly choreographs blocks of scenes as if he were governed by invisible commercial breaks.
In fact, there's a prevailing small-screen feel to the whole enterprise, despite worthy contributions from veteran cinematographer Ralf Bode ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "Saturday Night Fever") and costume designer April Ferry ("Maverick", "The Big Chill"). The soundtrack attempts to pick up the considerable slack by spinning proven hits (Apollo Four Forty's "Stop the Rock") and the obligatory Diane Warren ballad ("If I Don't Tell You Now").
BOYS AND GIRLS
Dimension Films
Punch 21
A film by Robert Iscove
Director: Robert Iscove
Producers: Jay Cohen, Lee Gottsegen,
Murray Schisgal
Screenwriters:
the Drews (Andrew Lowery, Andrew Miller)
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein, Jeremy Kramer,
Jill Sobel Messick
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Editor: Casey O. Rohrs
Costume designer: April Ferry
Music: Stewart Copeland
Music supervisors: Randy Spendlove,
Leslie Lewis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ryan: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Jennifer: Claire Forlani
Hunter: Jason Biggs
Amy: Amanda Detmer
Megan: Heather Donahue
Betty: Alyson Hannigan
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
A talky, forced romantic comedy that attempts to retool a "When Harry Met Sally ..." take on sex and friendship for the college crowd, the picture shows few signs of life, despite the efforts of its energetic cast.
And though the presence of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jason
Biggs could initially draw young females, you know Miramax is sweating it when one of the funniest bits in the trailer involving
Biggs and a quartet of Victoria Secret's models is actually a closing credits outtake.
Prinze is Ryan, a compulsive, repressed engineering student who meets up with the impulsive, direct Jennifer Claire Forlani) in college after a couple of previous antagonistic encounters.
They certainly make for an unlikely pair. Ryan, who plans everything to within an inch of its life, likes building intricate bridges in his spare time. Free-spirited Latin major Jennifer squirms at the mere concept of commitment. When they cross paths at UC Berkeley, they're involved with other people, but you know they're destined to be together -- mainly because the movie wants them to be, rather than there being any palpable spark between them.
While writing partners Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller, a k a the Drews (Dennis Rodman's "Simon Sez"), obviously intended to deliver a hip dissertation on contemporary mating rituals, the game plays out more like Parcheesi than Twister. The story is continually covering the same old ground.
Although the leads try mightily, they're unable to scrape all of the bogus cut-and-paste dialogue off the page and make it sound authentic. Biggs and Amanda Detmer fare better as Ryan and Jennifer's respective roommates, injecting welcome comic energy into the drudgery.
Director Robert Iscove, who worked with Prinze on the successful "She's All That", matter-of-factly choreographs blocks of scenes as if he were governed by invisible commercial breaks.
In fact, there's a prevailing small-screen feel to the whole enterprise, despite worthy contributions from veteran cinematographer Ralf Bode ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "Saturday Night Fever") and costume designer April Ferry ("Maverick", "The Big Chill"). The soundtrack attempts to pick up the considerable slack by spinning proven hits (Apollo Four Forty's "Stop the Rock") and the obligatory Diane Warren ballad ("If I Don't Tell You Now").
BOYS AND GIRLS
Dimension Films
Punch 21
A film by Robert Iscove
Director: Robert Iscove
Producers: Jay Cohen, Lee Gottsegen,
Murray Schisgal
Screenwriters:
the Drews (Andrew Lowery, Andrew Miller)
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein, Jeremy Kramer,
Jill Sobel Messick
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Editor: Casey O. Rohrs
Costume designer: April Ferry
Music: Stewart Copeland
Music supervisors: Randy Spendlove,
Leslie Lewis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ryan: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Jennifer: Claire Forlani
Hunter: Jason Biggs
Amy: Amanda Detmer
Megan: Heather Donahue
Betty: Alyson Hannigan
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 6/16/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Having held his own masterfully opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in 1997's "Double Team", thespian rebounder Dennis Rodman has above-the-title billing all to himself in "Simon Sez", a martial arts action-comedy that's as bad as it wants to be.
While Rodman ponders his next career move, this endlessly irritating, flat-footed clunker will do his resume no favors. To be fair, the filmmakers have seen fit to surround him with so many shrill, over-the-top characters and performances that he comes across as practically demure by comparison.
Simon sez, "Go swiftly to video".
Rodman is the Simon in question, a tough-guy operative with a yellow motorcycle who gets roped into a purported kidnapping case by a bumbling private investigator Nick (Dane Cook), a classmate of Simon During's their Interpol days.
It turns out the hostage in question (Natalia Cigliuti) not only is unaware of having been kidnapped, but she has no desire to return to her wealthy American executive father, preferring to remain with her French boyfriend (Filip Nicolic).
But the boyfriend's father (Henri Courseaux) happens to be a bagman for a diabolical arms dealer (Jerome Pradon) eager to get his hands on a valuable piece of computer software that falls into Simon's hands. Thus, the shenanigans ensue.
Under the novice direction of writer-producer Kevin Elders (the "Iron Eagle" movies), the picture doesn't lack energy, and some of the fight sequences are well-choreographed.
On the other hand, the plot-deprived, shtick-heavy script, credited to former actors Andrew Miller and Andrew Lowery, keeps rearing its ugly head.
As for Rodman, despite there being enough metal hooked into his face to fill a tackle box, his performance remains surprisingly wooden given his colorful on- and off-court persona.
It's still preferable to the intended comic-relief turns of his improvising cast mates. As his hyper partner in crime-fighting, muggy comedian Cook makes for the most annoying sidekick since Jar Jar Binks. And John Pinette and Ricky Harris quickly overstay their welcome as undercover, high-tech monks who make like a third-rate Abbott and Costello.
SIMON SEZ
Independent Artists
A Signature Films production
Director: Kevin Elders
Screenwriters: Andrew Miller & Andrew Lowery
Story: Moshe Diamant & Rudy Cohen
Producers: Moshe Diamant, Ringo Lam
Executive producers: Rudy Cohen, Dan Frisch, Kevin Jones
Director of photography: Avraham Karpick
Production designer: Damien Lanfranchi
Editor: Alain Jakubowicz
Music: Brian Tyler
Color/stereo
Cast:
Simon: Dennis Rodman
Nick: Dane Cook
Claire: Natalia Cigliuti
Michael: Filip Nicolic
Macro: John Pinette
Ashton: Jerome Pradon
Micro: Ricky Harris
Bernard: Henri Courseaux
The Dancer: Emma Sjoberg
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
While Rodman ponders his next career move, this endlessly irritating, flat-footed clunker will do his resume no favors. To be fair, the filmmakers have seen fit to surround him with so many shrill, over-the-top characters and performances that he comes across as practically demure by comparison.
Simon sez, "Go swiftly to video".
Rodman is the Simon in question, a tough-guy operative with a yellow motorcycle who gets roped into a purported kidnapping case by a bumbling private investigator Nick (Dane Cook), a classmate of Simon During's their Interpol days.
It turns out the hostage in question (Natalia Cigliuti) not only is unaware of having been kidnapped, but she has no desire to return to her wealthy American executive father, preferring to remain with her French boyfriend (Filip Nicolic).
But the boyfriend's father (Henri Courseaux) happens to be a bagman for a diabolical arms dealer (Jerome Pradon) eager to get his hands on a valuable piece of computer software that falls into Simon's hands. Thus, the shenanigans ensue.
Under the novice direction of writer-producer Kevin Elders (the "Iron Eagle" movies), the picture doesn't lack energy, and some of the fight sequences are well-choreographed.
On the other hand, the plot-deprived, shtick-heavy script, credited to former actors Andrew Miller and Andrew Lowery, keeps rearing its ugly head.
As for Rodman, despite there being enough metal hooked into his face to fill a tackle box, his performance remains surprisingly wooden given his colorful on- and off-court persona.
It's still preferable to the intended comic-relief turns of his improvising cast mates. As his hyper partner in crime-fighting, muggy comedian Cook makes for the most annoying sidekick since Jar Jar Binks. And John Pinette and Ricky Harris quickly overstay their welcome as undercover, high-tech monks who make like a third-rate Abbott and Costello.
SIMON SEZ
Independent Artists
A Signature Films production
Director: Kevin Elders
Screenwriters: Andrew Miller & Andrew Lowery
Story: Moshe Diamant & Rudy Cohen
Producers: Moshe Diamant, Ringo Lam
Executive producers: Rudy Cohen, Dan Frisch, Kevin Jones
Director of photography: Avraham Karpick
Production designer: Damien Lanfranchi
Editor: Alain Jakubowicz
Music: Brian Tyler
Color/stereo
Cast:
Simon: Dennis Rodman
Nick: Dane Cook
Claire: Natalia Cigliuti
Michael: Filip Nicolic
Macro: John Pinette
Ashton: Jerome Pradon
Micro: Ricky Harris
Bernard: Henri Courseaux
The Dancer: Emma Sjoberg
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 9/27/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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