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The older I get the more I appreciate and connect with Werewolf of London. It is a movie that does not follow the established rules of werewolf movies because it was created in a time before those rules were written. Many, if not most, of the most notable and enduring films of the subgenre deal in externalizing the internal struggles of the young using the metaphor of the beast within. Most of these characters are breaking away from their parents and childhoods, seeking to make their own way in the world.

Though Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941) appears in the mature body of Lon Chaney, Jr., he is in many ways an angsty teenager tormented by the conflicting feelings of simultaneously falling in love for the first time while part of himself that he cannot control wishes to ravage her and tear her to shreds in the process. It...

The effort to restore neglected films doesn’t get more rewarding than this 4K rebirth of Lewis Milestone’s version of the acclaimed Somerset Maugham story. Loaned from MGM, Joan Crawford tries on the role of Sadie Thompson and holds her own opposite Walter Huston’s fire & brimstone preacher. It’s still a major achievement of the pre-Code era, an adult story that doesn’t water down its ‘dangerous’ themes: it’s exactly the kind of show that the censors didn’t want made.

Rain

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Mary Pickford Foundation / Vci

1932 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 94 + 76 min. / Street Date September 27, 2022 / Available from Mvd / 29.95

Starring: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr., William Gargan, Mary Shaw, Guy Kibbee, Kendall Lee, Beulah Bondi, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett.

Cinematography: Oliver Marsh

Art Director: Richard Day

Film Editor: W. Duncan Mansfield

Original Music: Alfred Newman

Screen adaptation by Maxwell Anderson from the play by John Colton,...

Stars: Tommy Nash, Aubrey Reynolds, Omar Gooding, Naina Michaud, Nicholas Turturro, Sara Stretton, John Colton, Lili Bordán | Written by Lizze Gordon | Directed by J. Jones

The “Escape Room” sub-genre of horror seems to be picking up a bit of pace the last few years, coinciding with the popularity of real-life escape rooms. Personally, I haven’t been to one in real-life and the handful of movies I have seen based on them have ranged in quality, without any being outstanding. Is there a great movie with this basic story? Well, perhaps it has already been made because two of my favourite horror movies in Saw (2004) and Cube (1997) are basically escape room movies before that became a thing. It’s very hard to show any originality with these types of films but these two classics show you can, does Escape: Puzzle of Fear follow suit?

I guess the main thing this movie has going for it,...

From director J.Jones, and starring Tommy Nash, Aubrey Reynolds, Omar Gooding (Barbershop), Naina Michaud, Nicholas Turturro (BlacKkKlansman), Sara Stretton, John Colton, and Lili Bordán, Escape: Puzzle of Fear follows hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake, a man with a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.

Written by Lizze Gordon (Coven), Escape: Puzzle of Fear premieres on DVD and On Demand August 18 from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the trailer, poster And images from the film below:...

Escape : Puzzle Of Fear will be available On Demand and DVD August 18. The movie stars Omar Gooding (“Barbershop”, “Deadwood”), Nicholas Turturro (BlackKKKlansman, “Blue Bloods” ), Tommy Nash (The Amityville Terror) and Aubrey Reynolds (“Snatchers”), and is directed by J. Jones. Check out the trailer:

Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results. From director J.Jones, and starring Tommy Nash, Aubrey Reynolds, Omar Gooding, Naina Michaud, Nicholas Turturro, Sara Stretton, John Colton, and Lili Bordán, Escape: Puzzle of Fear premieres on DVD and On Demand August 18 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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What could go wrong? Alfred Hitchcock directs Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten in a mysterious tale of marital intrigues and social bigotry in a land populated by ex-convicts. Bergman is the long-suffering wife and Jack Cardiff is behind the Technicolor camera, which swoops through several amazing unbroken moving camera master shots, one fully five minutes long. What could go wrong?

Under Capricorn

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Kl Studio Classics

1949 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 min. / Street Date June 19, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Denis O’Dea.

Cinematography: Jack Cardiff

Film Editor: A.S. Bates

Original Music: Richard Addinsell

Written by James Bridie adapted by Hume Cronyn from a play by John Colton & Margaret Linden, from a novel by Helen Simpson

Produced by Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Under Capricorn is Alfred Hitchcock’s sophomore try with his own TransAtlantic pictures, after servitude...

On Sunday, March 5th, the NCIS: Los Angeles TV show on CBS will pay tribute to its late star, Miguel Ferrer, who died of throat cancer on January 19, 2017. The son of Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer, Miguel was also a cousin of actor George Clooney. NCIS: Los Angeles also stars Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Linda Hunt, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Barrett Foa, and Renée Felice Smith.According to Variety, episode 8.16, "Old Tricks," will feature Ferrer singing a version of the Bob Dylan song “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.” Ferrer’s band, the Jenerators, accompanies him in the performance. Guest stars this week include Peter Cambor, Daniel J. Travanti, Martin Mull, Debra Jo Rupp, India De Beaufort, Marsha Thomason, Terryn Westbrook, Mike Erwin, Anzu Lawson, Connor Weil, John Colton, Jeronimo Spinx,...

Rihanna has continued her reign atop the UK singles chart with her Calvin Harris team-up 'We Found Love'. The Bajan singer scored a second Sunday at number one after posting a week-on-week sales increase of 20% to break the 100,000 barrier. Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera are relegated to the runner-up spot for a seventh consecutive week, while the band's frontman Adam Levine also makes an appearance one place behind on today's highest new entry 'Stereo Hearts' by Gym Class Heroes. Christina Perri's 'Jar Of Hearts' rises to four from last week's 12 following X Factor contestant Craig Colton's much-praised performance of the song, while the ITV competition's reigning champion Matt Cardle finishes at six with his Gary Barlow-penned first single proper (more)...

Rihanna has continued her reign atop the UK singles chart with her Calvin Harris team-up 'We Found Love'. The Bajan singer scored a second Sunday at number one after posting a week-on-week sales increase of 20% to break the 100,000 barrier. Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera are relegated to the runner-up spot for a seventh consecutive week, while the band's frontman Adam Levine also makes an appearance one place behind on today's highest new entry 'Stereo Hearts' by Gym Class Heroes. Christina Perri's 'Jar Of Hearts' rises to four from last week's 12 following X Factor contestant Craig Colton's much-praised performance of the song, while the ITV competition's reigning champion Matt Cardle finishes at six with his Gary Barlow-penned first single proper (more)...

Fans of Ewan McGregor, Kristen Stewart and James Van Der Beek (!) will be seeing double this spring, as arthouses and multiplexes host an array of indie films ranging from the travails of septuagenarian New Yorkers looking for love ("The Last New Yorker") to 13-year-old assassins on the hunt for their first kill ("Kick-Ass"). If real life is more your speed, there are new documentaries about reviving animation strips (the Disney doc "Waking Sleeping Beauty") and stripping down (the burlesque history "Behind the Burly Q"), while foreign wonders like the French crime epics "A Prophet" and "Mesrine" mix with Korean treasures "Mother" and "The Good, The Bad and The Weird."

But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...

Dreamkiller will be out in theatres in a limited fashion on February 19th. To help with the premiere 28Dla will be giving away two t-shirts to a randomly selected viewer who sends an e-mail to the link listed below. For those unfamiliar with the project, Dreamkiller involves overcoming one's fear. The story was pulled from Nazi experiments performed upon those unlucky enough to be part of the Holocaust. Finding positives in dark material Dreamkiller will have some specific theatre locations for the premiere at a later date. Enter the contest below.

A synopsis for Dreamkiller here:

"Two doctors embark on a research project to cure fear-ridden, phobic patients of all varieties. Just as fame and honor creep into the lives of Doctor Nicholas Nemet (Dario Deak), and Doctor Marvin Stalberg (John Colton), a series of murders occurs among cured patients which mirror the victims’ initial homicidal fears."

Director: Catherine C. Pirotta.

After it's theatrical premiere on Wednesday, January 13th at the Arclight in Hollywood, Director Catherine C. Pirotta's Dreamkiller will be getting a limited theatrical run. Starring Dario Deak with co-stars John Colton, Penny Drake, Kelly Chambers, Diandra Newlin and guest appearances by Tyrone Power Jr. and John Savage. Executive producers Stephane Mermet and Hollywood fixture Clyde Ware, also a co-writer, derived the idea for this psychological thriller from experiments conducted by Nazis during the Holocaust.

Two doctors embark on a research project to cure fear-ridden, phobic patients of all varieties. Just as fame and honor creep into the lives of Doctor Nicholas Nemet (Dario Deak), and Doctor Marvin Stalberg (John Colton), a series of murders occurs among cured patients which mirror the victims’ initial homicidal fears.

When police detectives become involved, the life of Nemet becomes engulfed by the outside investigation and his own desperate curiosity to resolve the events.

Director Catherine Pirotta's Dreamkiller will be released January 15th during a limited run in Los Angeles. Based on horrible experiments run by Nazi doctors in World War II, Dreamkiller stars John Colton, Penny Drake, Kelly Chambers, Diandra Newlin, Dario Deak and Tyron Power Jr. The film offers a positive message on dealing with common fears and how denial disempowers rather than empowers those experiencing phobias.Up-and-comer Dario states of the film: "I hope this reminds people that it is in our selves to overcome fear." Check this one out at the Arclight Hollywood Cinemas in Los Angeles on the 15th. For those not in the greater La' metropolitan area have a look at the synopsis and trailer for the film. A DVD release date is forthcoming.

A synopsis for Dreamkiller here:

"Two doctors embark on a research project to cure fear-ridden, phobic patients of all varieties. Just as fame...

Delaware Pictures sent us the official movie trailer for the upcoming thriller “Dreamkiller” by director Catherine Pirotta and starring Dario Deak with co-stars John Colton, Penny Drake, Kelly Chambers, Diandra Newlin and guest appearances by Tyrone Power Jr. and John Savage. Be sure to check out the official Dreamkiller website here. Synopsis: Dreamkiller is a psychological thriller that explores human fears and what they do to us. From the most common ones such as fear of heights (acrophobia) or the fear of the dark (Achluophobia) to the more subconscious fears that we rarely classify as such, such as the fear of Failure (Atychiphobia), fear of Criticism (Enosiophobia) or fear [...]...