This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Red Riding Trilogy, Harry Brown, And More

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Red Riding Trilogy, Harry Brown, And More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.RED RIDING TRILOGY"This is the North—we do what we want." The Red Riding trilogy is as ambitious a set of films as you’re likely to see, intertwining characters and events from three distinct stories (separated by date: 1974, 1980, 1983) that use the real-life Yorkshire Ripper case to explore tales of deep-seated provincial corruption....

July 27, 2025 · 5 min · 865 words · Michelle Garcia

Tron Legacy Viral: Flynn Lives Zero Hour Countdown Launched... Will A New Trailer Be Revealed On February 24th?

Tron Legacy Viral: Flynn Lives Zero Hour Countdown Launched… Will A New Trailer Be Revealed On February 24th? Walt Disney Pictures' viral marketing campaign forTron: Legacyis gearing up once again, with a new website and countdown clock unlocked. Will a new trailer be revealed on February 24th? Details after the jump. For those of you who don’t remember, in JulyI received a packagewhich included two arcade coinds that read “FLYNN’s ARCADE....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 317 words · Jeffrey Evans

TV Bits: 'Happy!', 'Game Of Thrones', 'Therapy Dog', 'One Day At A Time', 'The Last O.G.', 'Twilight Zone', 'Watchmen', 'Treadstone'

TV Bits: ‘Happy!’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Therapy Dog’, ‘One Day At A Time’, ‘The Last O.G.’, ‘Twilight Zone’, ‘Watchmen’, ‘Treadstone’ In this edition of TV bits: Syfy’s demented seriesHappy!is adding another weird character – voiced by none other than"Weird Al" Yankovic. The parody song artist will voice an animated character named Smoking Man Baby, described (viaTV Line) as “toxic masculinity in a diaper” and a “jealous, volatile baby blowhard with full tats and a cigarette always dangling from his mouth....

July 27, 2025 · 4 min · 735 words · James Stout

VOTD: Steven Spielberg Looks Back On 'Schindler's List' After 25 Years

VOTD: Steven Spielberg Looks Back On ‘Schindler’s List’ After 25 Years This year marks the 25th anniversary ofSchindler’s List, and the film is back in select theaters for a limited time starting today. It’s a milestone motion picture, earningSteven Spielberghis first Oscar for Best Director, not to mention taking home Best Picture. But more importantly, it’s probably the most harrowing and acclaimed depiction of the Holocaust that the big screen has ever seen....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 501 words · Veronica Horne

VOTD: The Cinematic Effect Of Long Takes Vs Editing

VOTD: The Cinematic Effect Of Long Takes Vs Editing Long takes are such a rarity in cinema it seems that we always have to point out when there’s an especially impressive shot in a film or television show without any cuts. Whether it’s a movie likeAlejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s Oscar-winningBirdmanorThe Revenantor areal superhero sequencelike in the first season ofDaredevil, you’re able to’t help but marvel at how these single takes are pulled off....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · Evan Powell

Warners Wants Brad Pitt For Time-Looping Video Game-Inspired 'All You Need Is Kill'?

Warners Wants Brad Pitt For Time-Looping Video Game-Inspired ‘All You Need Is Kill’? Is this theAkirasituation all over again? You might remember that a few months ago, when Warner Bros. was really trying to get the live-action version ofAkiragoing under the direction of Albert Hughes, there were a great many stories about how the studio wanted to cast the film. The primary thrust seemed to be that the teenage characters in the original manga and anime were going to be significantly older in the live-action version....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 585 words · Debra Friedman

'Ant-Man' Clip: Paul Rudd Tries Out The Whole Shrinking Thing

‘Ant-Man’ Clip: Paul Rudd Tries Out The Whole Shrinking Thing We’re used to Marvel men going big: they armor up, Hulk out, get super soldier-ized. So what happens when one goes really, really small? In a new clip fromAnt-Man, Marvel’s newest superhero finds out. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) takes the Ant-Man suit for a test run in his bathtub, with potentially disastrous results. Watch theAnt-Manclip after the jump. Marvel shared the newAnt-Manclip onYouTube....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Joshua Hayden

'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Sequel To Be Written By E.L. James' Husband

‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Sequel To Be Written By E.L. James' Husband Fifty Shades of Greymade crazy money at home and internationally, but that doesn’t mean the creation of a sequel is an easy task. There’s already source material, in the form of the novelFifty Shades Darker, byE.L. James. But the first film’s screenwriter and director, Kelly Marcel and Sam Taylor-Johnson, will not return for the second movie. Reportedly, that is in part due to clashes with James....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Jeff Woods

'Friday The 13th' Sequel May Investigate Jason's Immortality; Producer Offers Story And Budget Update

‘Friday The 13th’ Sequel May Investigate Jason’s Immortality; Producer Offers Story And Budget Update Today isFriday the 13thand you’re probably seen images of Jason Voorhees, the killer at the center of the crazy successfulFriday the 13thfranchise, all over social media. The last film in the series was released in 2009 and a sequel has been in works since then. It was originally supposed to come out early this year, and is now set for August 11, 2025....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 630 words · Juan Mcknight

'Legion' Season 2 Ordered By FX

‘Legion’ Season 2 Ordered By FX Only five episodes into season one and FX has already decided to renew showrunnerNoah Hawley’s (Fargo) adaptation ofLegion. The psychedelic comic book series is a breath of fresh air. Hawley’s show isn’t following any blatant formulas, and it goes in some unexpected, strange directions and continues tosurprise fans. Below, learn more about Legionseason 2. Season one ofLegionconcludes this month after an eight-episode run. The show, which is like a distant cousin toX-Men, is about David Haller (Dan Stevens), a man who’s been told his whole life he’s schizophrenic, but he’s actually a powerful mutant....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 504 words · Daniel Marquez

'Outlaw Johnny Black' Trailer Promotes Crowdfunding Campaign For The 'Black Dynamite' Sequel

‘Outlaw Johnny Black’ Trailer Promotes Crowdfunding Campaign For The ‘Black Dynamite’ Sequel Black Dynamite who?Michael Jai Whiteisnow Outlaw Johnny Black, the gun-slinging cowboy about to tear a new satirical hole in the Western movie. The Outlaw Johnny Blackis the semi-sequel to the cult comedy classicBlack Dynamite, a fantastic and uproariously funny satire of blaxpoitation movies. And now the firstOutlaw Johnny Blacktrailer promises that the movie is coming soon. Eventually With your help....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Richard Acosta

'Rio' Character Posters

‘Rio’ Character Posters If a film studio can’t bring in audiences to a slick-looking, 3D animated film starring animals with famous voices, they might as well hand over their keys. Making kids movies is like printing money; even the bad ones are usually successful in some way. That makes it tough to gauge just how big a role the marketing played in it. For example,on April 15Blue Sky is releasingRiodirected byCarlos Saldanha,who has doneIce Age, Robots, Ice Age: Meltdown,andIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaursfor the CG animation house....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · Cheyenne Stevens

'The BFG' Bombs: The Spielberg Brand Might Be Diluted But Don't Underestimate The Legendary Filmmaker

‘The BFG’ Bombs: The Spielberg Brand Might Be Diluted But Don’t Underestimate The Legendary Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’sThe BFGhit theaters this weekend and landed with a “gigantic” thud. The $140 millionRoald Dahladaptation earned a measly $19.6 million in its opening weekend, which is a huge disappointment anyway you look at it. Is Spielberg, credited for creating the summer blockbuster with 1975’sJaws, no longer the big box office draw that he once was?...

July 26, 2025 · 6 min · 1185 words · Lisa Juarez