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This week, the hit thriller Black Swan — featuring Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winning performance — makes its TV debut, airing om Saturday, October 1, at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Cinemax.
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A feature-length version of the short film Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, starring Seth Rogan (Knocked Up) and Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder, Good Neighbors) as a pair of slacker roommates holed up in their apartment during, well, an apocalypse, is closer than ever to reality. And with Rogan claiming to MTV that he’s added Jonah Hill (Superbad), Danny McBride (Land of the Lost), Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine) and James Franco (127 Hours) to the cast, plus his declaration that he’s striving to make it a horror comedy, it appears more awesome than ever.
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A feature-length version of the short film Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, starring Seth Rogan (Knocked Up) and Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder, Good Neighbors) as a pair of slacker roommates holed up in their apartment during, well, an apocalypse, is closer than ever to reality. And with Rogan claiming to MTV that he’s added Jonah Hill (Superbad), Danny McBride (Land of the Lost), Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine) and James Franco (127 Hours) to the cast, plus his declaration that he’s striving to make it a horror comedy, it appears more awesome than ever.
Photo: Matt Carr/Getty Images
A feature-length version of the short film Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, starring Seth Rogan (Knocked Up) and Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder, Good Neighbors) as a pair of slacker roommates holed up in their apartment during, well, an apocalypse, is closer than ever to reality. And with Rogan claiming to MTV that he’s added Jonah Hill (Superbad), Danny McBride (Land of the Lost), Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine) and James Franco (127 Hours) to the cast, plus his declaration that he’s striving to make it a horror comedy, it appears more awesome than ever.
"My hands are HUGE!"
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After a notoriously unusual, albeit somewhat successful, city-by-city self-distribution effort, Kevin Smith's Red State -- about a religious hate group's violent endeavors -- finally gets a nationwide(ish) release this weekend (see theaters here) before hitting home video on October 18. Is it worth seeking out? Find out in my review of Red State.
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“My hands are HUGE!”
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After a notoriously unusual, albeit somewhat successful, city-by-city self-distribution effort, Kevin Smith’s Red State — about a religious hate group’s violent endeavors — finally gets a nationwide(ish) release this weekend (see theaters here) before hitting home video on October 18. Is it worth seeking out? Find out in my review of Red State.
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Aside from 2006’s confusingly titled Abominable, horror movies centered on the Bigfoot legend tend to be pretty terrible, and with that in mind, the newly released Savage is actually pretty good — though by any other standards, it’s an average, SyFy-level affair. But frankly, that’s better than can be said about many direct-to-video offerings. Read about it in my review of Savage.
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This week's new releases are headed by Red State (which opens in theaters one night only this weekend on September 25; see theater listing here), the German vampire film We Are the Night, plus After Dark Originals' 51, ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 and a deluxe Friday the 13th box set.
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2009’s Laid to Rest introduced one of the more memorable slasher villains in recent memory (not necessarily a high compliment, given the contenders) in ChromeSkull. Now, we have the inevitable sequel, which, like the masked killer himself, is more flash than substance. Read about it in my review of ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2.
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