RIP Tartan Films

Variety reports that Tartan Films has gone out of business after more than 26 years.  Tartan were responsible for an eclectic range of DVD releases, and were responsible for bringing a wide variety of Japanese and Korean action and horror movies (including the works of Takashii Miike and Park Chan Wook) to a western audience, together with introducing a new generation to classic 70's horror and exploitation with it's 'Grindhouse' label.

This is a great loss for fans of genre and foreign cinema, and hopefully someone will step up to the plate and ensure that UK and USA audiences still have access to this material.

Saw V

Teaser poster for this years entry in the Saw series.  Whilst the first film was entertaining in a low budget, grimy way the sequels have become increasingly disappointing and convoluted.  Still they certainly bring in the money and I assume Lionsgate will keep churning them out as long as this is the case.

Source: Bloodydisgusting.com

Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army

New, presumably final trailer here.

Death Defying Acts

Awful poster for forthcoming romance / drama 'Death Defying Acts'. The film stars Guy Pearce as Harry Houdini and tells of his affair with a Scottish psychic, played by Michael Douglas's nurse, Catherine Zeta Jones.

The Dark Knight

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers has the first review of The Dark Knight

Death Race

New poster for the Death Race remake.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Hostel 3

Despite the disappointing box office for Hostel 2, talks are underway for a third
entry in the series. Eli Roth, director and writer of the first two films, is not involved.

Source: www.bloodydisgusting.com

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Poster for Keanu Reeve's sci fi remake.

The Dark Knight

Five new tv spots for the new Batman film are available here

Gotham Knight

Five minute clip from Gotham Knight, courtesy of www.mtv.com

Tyranosaurus Rex

Rob Zombie, hoping to claw back some respectability after his godawful Halloween remake, has unveiled a teaser poster for his next film, Tyranosaurus Rex, due in 2009. Little else is known about the movie, but the poster art certainly invokes 1980s exploitation cinema at it's best.

Source: Chud.com

RIP George Carlin

Although best known as a stand up comic, George Carlin, who has died aged 71, had a number of movie roles to his name. Perhaps best known to cinema goers as Rufus in Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Carlin was also a regular in Kevin Smith movies, notably as Cardinal Glick in Dogma and Ben Afflecks father in Jersey Girl.