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Shameless Gets Shameless with Sexploit Triple-Feature

Mar 152012

You know those days when it seems like you just cannot get enough sleaze in your diet of dirt? Any exploitation and sleaze fan worth their weight in spent tissues knows nobody does sleaze like the UK’s Shameless Screen Entertainment and this upcoming release is no exception! Packed with three super-sexy, nasty Italian sexploitation films, the Shameless Sexploitation triple-feature release will ooze sex with the following films: LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS, SATAN’S BABY DOLL and THE BEAST IN SPACE!

Shameless Sexploitation will be released on DVD by Shameless Screen Entertainment on 23 April 2012. Details can be found below Continue reading »

Interview w/ Filmmaker Brett Pierce (DeadHeads)

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Feb 282012

Thanks for dropping by to check out the interview I did with one half of The Pierce Brothers filmmaking duo, Brett Pierce. Their film DEADHEADS is on its way to disc so Brett and I settled in for a few and informative interview. – Brian Harris

Wildside Cinema: The past few years have been good indeed to the zombie sub-genre and perhaps hundreds of films have been made and saw release. The painful truth though is that only a handful has really been enjoyable. What made you decide to throw your hat into the ring now that zombie cinema seems to be in a cooling-off period right now?

Brett Pierce: Honestly, when we started working on DEADHEADS things were not so crowded in the zombie genre. ZOMBIELAND was in the pipeline but outside of that we didn’t really know of much else we would be competing with down the line. What made us decide on doing DEADHEADS was we were Continue reading »

Staff Picks: Joachim Andersson 2/12

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Feb 222012

Monsters (2010) – Hands down the best movie I have seen in the last five years, there aren’t enough words in the English language to describe the feelings I have for this one. It isn’t even a proper movie, more of a journey through a landscape slowly transforming into something alien and speaking of alien, this is one of the more probable versions of what actually would happen if space creatures arrived on earth. Last but not least, the movie also has a totally awesome soundtrack that fits the movie like a glove and makes me all warm and fuzzy when I listen to it. A prequel and a sequel is in the works – I will be first in line. Frankly, I will kill to get in line ahead of all of you. Continue reading »

Film Review: Richard Powell’s Short Film ‘”Familiar”‘ (2012) Gives Voice to Insanity and a Shape to Pure Evil

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Feb 212012

John Dodd is living the normal, idyllic life of a hard-working American family man; two car garage, white picket fence, working wife and teenage daughter. Like most, they deal with everyday stress, but beneath the surface of John’s calm exterior though lies the seething soul of a man on the verge of collapse. Disgusted with his wife and her dinner plate conversations and fed up with the parasitic symbiosis of his offspring, an idea begins to form, a seed that promises to sprout into true freedom from a mundane existence. He doesn’t have to continue putting up with it all, there’s always another way.

When John’s wife informs him that she’s expecting, the fragile divide between sanity and the darkness of absolute insanity is shattered, leaving him with an unthinkable solution. As ideas begin taking hold, the voice within his head grows stronger, demanding he relinquish control Continue reading »

Staff Picks: Tony Strauss 2/12

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Feb 212012

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) – The film that introduced the world outside Europe to the cinematic genius of Peter Greenaway, and to the exquisite beauty of Helen Mirren’s fabulous body, this visually sumptuous tale of love, cruelty and revenge takes place over the course of one week at an exclusive restaurant that has been taken over by an oafish, loathsome gangster (a pre-Dumbledore Michael Gambon in a bad-guy role for the ages) who fancies himself a gourmet. Easily Greenaway’s most accessible film, this movie is a simultaneous delight for, and assault on, all the senses: it’ll make you hungry, horny, dazed, disgusted, delighted, and, ultimately, will quench your thirst for delicious revenge. Every single frame of this beautiful film could be blown up and hung on a gallery wall—it is a dark, multi-sensory, gluttonous delight. Continue reading »

Staff Picks: Brian Harris 2/12

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Feb 192012

Magic Cop (Qu mo jing cha – 1990) – When a big city crime is found connected to walking corpses and black magic, country cop Uncle Feng joins in the investigation. All clues point to a nefarious Chinese/Japanese black magic sect and only Uncle Feng’s amazing Taoist magic can hold back the tide of the walking undead! Oh shit, Magic Cop! Seriously what can I say about this film expect that it is insane, from beginning to end! Black magic, legendary actor Lam Ching-Ying, martial arts, HK slapstick, it’s all in there. I love this film and I promise you will too. Seek it out! Continue reading »

Film Review: Cage Returns in ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ (2011) and Once Again Fails to Kickstart Consumer’s Engines

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Feb 182012

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. These words echoed in my brain while watching Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as I went against my better judgment and gave the sequel a chance. The only enjoyment I had from the first Ghost Rider, was my friend turned to me in the theater and said, “Bennie, I’m getting sober, and this movie’s getting worse.” Sadly, with Spirit of Vengeance, I was embarking on the journey alone, with no one to share my pain.

Johnny Blaze (Nic Cage) has to save Danny (Fergus Riordan) from Roarke (Ciaran Hinds), who apparently is Satan or one of Satan’s helpers. That’s pretty much all I can tell you about the storyline because the film felt like one, giant Continue reading »

Film Review: Pine & Hardy Wage All-Out Mayhem in McG’s Action/Comedy ‘This Means War’ (2012)

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Feb 182012

Upon seeing the first teaser trailer three or four months ago, I have eagerly been anticipating This Means War. The idea of a spy vs. spy movie made me incredibly excited at the thought of the covert hijinks that could ensue, especially if it’s two spy’s fighting for one woman’s love. It’s something I hadn’t seen yet in a movie, and knew there would be some clever antics.

Tuck (Tom Hardy) and FDR (Chris Pine) are CIA Agents, and after an operation left multiple dead in Hong Kong, they’re benched for their excessive ways. Tuck decides he’d like to take this time and meet a woman since his ex wife won’t Continue reading »

Staff Picks: Bennie Woodell 2/12

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Feb 172012

Bucktown (1975) – Starring Fred Williamson and Pam Greer, this gem from the 70’s is about a man who comes back to his hometown after his brother is murdered and with the help of his friends, gets revenge. Afterwards, his friends become as corrupt as the police before, and he has to stop them himself. Continue reading »

Staff Picks: Jennifer Holderness 2/12

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Feb 172012

Sweatshop (2009) – This here is a right bit o’ fun, folks! I’m always thrilled with hammers of any kind but this hammer! This is an anvil hammer and it causes quite a bit of mayhem! Sweat Shop is fast and furious and the use of CG in here is really well done. I didn’t find it distracting. The actors look like people you would know and that’s refreshing. We’re not trying to identify with the OC for once in a slasher. Check out Jeremy Sumrall going all Resident Evil on his victims and see Sweat Shop, it’s gorehound appoved. Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘Agneepath’ (Path of Fire – 2012) Sets Bollywood Ablaze with a Smoldering Tale of Revenge

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Jan 302012

Bollywood has started 2012 with a vengeance, literally, with Agneepath, a remake of a 1990 film. It includes everything you would expect from Indian cinema; romance, action, elaborate dance sequences, and lush colors, only this film has so much more violence and heartache.

As a child, Vijay’s father tries to talk the townsfolk of a small island off the coast of Mumbai out of loaning their land to Kancha, who wants to grow coke in their salt fields. Kancha will stop at nothing to get the land, so he has a little girl raped and murdered and sets Vijay’s father up, leading to mob justice and the father’s death. Vijay and his mother move to Mumbai where he comes across Rauf Lala, Mumbai’s top drugs dealer and human trafficker and becomes a member Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘The Grey’ (2012) is a Masterful Thriller and a Snarling, Howling Good Time

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Jan 302012

What would you do, if you survived a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness during a blizzard? Would you have the know how and basic primal instincts on building fires and seeking shelter? Now throw into the mix a pack of vicious Timberwolves who know you and your party are injured, and are just waiting to pick you off one by one. Would you survive? The answer to these questions is answered very blatantly in Joe Carnahan’s new film, The Grew, starring Liam Neeson.

Ottway (Neeson) is a wolf hunter for an oil company who oversees the workers while they’re drilling in the Alaskan terrain. He makes sure they don’t get attacked, and is very good at his job. Upon returning home from an expedition, the crews plane goes down leaving a handful of survivors with Ottway taking charge and Continue reading »

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