BLUE MAG

Discover RiffTrax, a new project from Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (Tom Servo and Crow) featuring … wacky running commentary for bad movies! Only this time the target is a wide selection of more current movies rather than 60s-70s B movies, and it is served up on MP3 rather than in sillhouette. Sample the comedy.

Here’s a list of new and notable DVDs this week (3/27/07) that you might not of heard of or might of missed when they were in the theater.

Children of Men — Not nearly enough people saw this movie due to a massive publicity fuck up on the part of Universal. This is by far the best movie that came out last year which is saying a lot for a year that included “The Departed.” I urge everyone to check this film out and try to give it a second life on DVD (where most of the money is made anyway.) Extras include the featurette “The Possibility of Hope” with comments from several futurist scholars (27 min.), “‘Children of Men’ comments by Slavoj Zizek,” a philosopher and cultural critic (5 min.), “Under Attack” with a look at the film’s long takes (7 min.), “Theo and Julian” (4 min.), “Futuristic Design” (8 min.), “Visual Effects: Creating the Baby” (3 min.), and a deleted scenes reel (3 min.). Continue reading DVD Roundup

“They Came Back”

The recent news that CBS is going to launch an “hourlong zombie-themed hour” got me thinking about one of the more interesting forays into the zombie sub-genre, a French film called “They Came Back” released in 2004 the same year that brought us the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” and “Shaun of the Dead.”

Now, be warned, this isn’t your typical zombie movie. You won’t find any gore at all in the movie but if you are looking for a unique and different treatment of a familiar genre “They Came Back” is for you. Continue reading Obscure Films For Your Rental Queue