A brand new TV spot for The Dark Knight Rises focuses on the lighter moments in the film, and also reveals that Reno 911! star Thomas Lennon -- yes, Lt. Dangle himself -- is in the film. Check it out:
The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20.
A few months back Shout! Factory unveiled their latest brand, Scream Factory. The new label is dedicated to vintage cult horror from the '70s, '80s and '90s. Their first two releases will be Halloween II and Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which make their premiere on Blu-ray and DVD September 18, 2012.
Now, Scream Factory sets its sights on another Jamie Lee Curtis thriller, Terror Train, as well as The Funhouse, from director Tobe Hooper. Like Halloween II and III, both discs will receive Collector's Editions, featuring loads of bonus material as well as remastered audio and video.
Terror Train will feature a 1080p high definition transfer (1.85:1 aspect ratio) with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Please note that this release is a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. No separate DVD will be released for this film. Fans can expect the following bonus features (preliminary confirmed lineup):
Suggested retail is $29.93. Just like the Halloween Collector's Editions, if you pre-order your copy direct from Shout! Factory's website, you'll receive an exclusive 18”x24” poster featuring the newly commissioned artwork! Less than 500 have been made, so these are only available while supplies last.
The Funhouse will feature a 1080p high definition transfer (2.35:1 aspect ratio) with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on Blu-ray. The DVD (a separate release) will boast an anamorphic transfer with 5.1 audio. Extras will include the following (preliminary confirmed lineup):
Suggested retail for the Blu-ray is $29.93 and $16.50 for the DVD. Fans who pre-order the Blu-ray or DVD directly from ShoutFactory.com will receive an exclusive 18”x24” poster featuring the newly commissioned artwork! Less than 500 have been made, so these are only available while supplies last.
Be on the lookout for more updates, news and reviews regarding all Scream Factory titles. We hear word from Shout! that John Carpenter's They Live will be hitting Blu-ray and DVD next, on November 6, 2012. Stay tuned for more!
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Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, co-creator of American Dad! and The Cleveland Show is heading to London next week to show off his brand new movie Ted and we're giving you the chance to see it before anyone else for free. Seth will be in attendance at the screening and will hosting a Q&A before the film where you'll be able to ask the writer/director/actor anything you want.
Ted tells the story of John Bennett, played by Mark Wahlberg whose best friend is his childhood teddy bear Ted (voiced by McFarlane) a lewd, crude, loser, and also stars Mila Kunis. If you want to see the film we called "hands down, the best comedy of the year so far" a whole month before it hits UK cinemas on August 1st, simply follow the link below and apply for your free tickets for the screening taking place on Thursday July 5th in Central London.
https://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/263845
Tickets are strictly limited and are available on a 'first come, first served' basis. You will have to sign up for a SeeFilmFirst account to be able to claim your tickets. Ted is a 15-rated film and you may be required to provide ID by the cinema. No travel or transport costs incurred attending the free screening is included.
EVERYONE attending must download their ticket and bring it with them on the night of the event or you will be refused entry.
Sure, we already knew that the Ratchet & Clank HD Collection was coming to PS3 later this year, but now, Sony has revealed a brand-new Ratchet & Clank game set to come to PlayStation 3.
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault was announced this morning by Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price. “Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault is a fun-sized Ratchet adventure which will be available for download exclusively on the PlayStation Store. We’ve returned to the series’ classic feel, camera, controls and weapons, while innovating and giving you a whole new way to play. Even better, the addition of online features means you can experience Full Frontal Assault with your friends.”
Full Frontal Assault marks the 11th entry into the Ratchet & Clank series. It’s the fifth Ratchet & Clank game on PlayStation 3 (not counting the HD Collection) and the second downloadable entry that will be available via the PlayStation Network. It’s due out later in 2012.
With a few notable exceptions, video games – even the ones that brand themselves as "horror" – aren't that scary. This is also true, by and large, of movies, books, you name it. It's hard to scare people, to really scare them; just as hard as it is to make them laugh or cry. So, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Alan Wake's American Nightmare, much like the game it expands upon (Alan Wake), isn't frightening in the slightest. What come as a shocker, however, is the fact that it's so damn fun.
Presenting itself as an episode of a Twilight Zone-esque television show called "Night Springs," complete with a Rod Serling soundalike narrator, Alan Wake's American Nightmare sees the titular hero facing off against an evil manifestation of himself, called Mr. Scratch. Scratch has taken up residence in a small Arizona town, and has turned most of the population into zombie-like hostiles called "the taken." Much of Alan Wake's American Nightmare's gameplay involves dealing with the taken, who attack Wake at regular intervals. The taken are usually protected by a cloak of shadows, which must be "burned" away using Wake's flashlight beam before he can then employ firearms to permanently put them on the other side of the dirt. Dodging enemy melee attacks is a heavily emphasized element of the gameplay: successfully doing it both slows down time and lets Wake get some distance from bad guys.
At first, this dodge-and-shoot, third-person zombie bashing is a pretty cool mechanic, as the variety of conventional and light-based weapons (i.e., flares, flashbangs) and the game's first three maps provide a solid initial challenge (along with a decent, if rather pathetically Stephen King-wannabe-ish storyline). But things start to lose their luster when you play those first three maps a second time, immediately after completing them. And then, after completing those, you play them a third time. Sure, Alan Wake's American Nightmare truncates them a bit and saves you some time, but you're still playing the same maps, fighting basically the same enemies, and finding the same equipment, three damn times in a row. Even if the story weren't told through the clumsy mechanic of finding lost journal entries, it would still wear thinner than a politician's veneer of trustworthiness after two complete repetitions of the same stuff.
And the same is true of the gameplay, at least in the story mode. There are only so many times you can dodge the same arc of electricity, or fight the same zombified fireman, before you start to ask yourself if your leisure time couldn't be better spent watching your hard drive defragment. But, weirdly, I did keep on doing it. And I kept coming back again, and again. There's something bizarrely enthralling about Alan Wake's American Nightmare – something that drew me in, despite its on-paper shortcomings.
Part of the reason for this is that the game's simple, third-person shooter mechanic is surprisingly fun to play with. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the game's Arcade Mode. Here, Wake is pitted for 10 minutes against waves of increasingly difficult zombies (or one continuous wave if you play in Nightmare difficulty), on small maps strewn with items and ammo that you can collect between waves -- or during, if you're a true badass. Points are earned for enemies killed, and streaks of killings build up your score multiplier, as does successfully dodging enemy attacks. Like the Survival Mode in Resident Evil 5 (although it lacks that game's co-operative multiplayer), something about Alan Wake's American Nightmare's Arcade Mode keeps you coming back for more, to see if you can't surpass your score and kick even more ass in ten minutes. Because weapons are unlocked in Arcade Mode by collecting more journal entries in Story Mode, you're encouraged to play both, and online leaderboards are there so you can compare your abilities with others' as you get better and better.
