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We've all seen it and more than likely at some point it made you jump... in honor of the feline misdirect in cinema here is a supercut of jump scares featuring cats

2013 Directed By William Brent Bell Starring AJ Cook, Sebastian Roché, and Vik Sahay | How do you breath life into a character that has been on screen over 100 times? Considering that werewolf films date back to 1935 and we've had roughly 119 different werewolf films in that 79 year period it would seem nearly impossible to have a new take on the material. Well, Bell has done that with his film Wer . He has taken incredibly worn over source material and flipped it on its fuzzy head. So, how did he do this? He made it a procedural. The film follows a young defense attorney (Cook) who is defending a man (Roche) accused of a double murder. At first it appears the family may have been killed by a large unknown animal but as the case continues it becomes clear that there is far more to this case. This being a werewolf film we all have an idea of where this might be heading but the approach to the material is so fresh that you are hesitant to think of it in conventional terms

If any of the following films have been hanging out in your queue (or my list as it's now called) for a while you only have until Saturday to watch them 101 Dalmatians (1996) American Psycho (2000) Apocalypse Now (1979) Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) Balibo (2009) The Big Chill (1983) Blown Away (1992) Bob the Builder (1999-2012) Breezy (1973) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) Broadcast News (1987) The Buddy Holly Story (1978) Bullet Proof Monk (2003) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Candyman (1992) Caveman (1981) Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie (1980) Cloak & Dagger (1984) The Conqueror Worm (1968) The Dogs of War (1980) Elvis ’56 (1987) The Escape Artist (1982) Footloose (1984) For a Few Dollars More (1965) Fire in Babylon (2010) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The Great Outdoors (1988) Hammett (1982) Hannibal (2001) He Said, She Said (1991) Heat Wave (2011) Iceman (1984) King Solomon’s Mines (1985)/Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) La Bamba

PROVOCATIVE PROFESSIONS TESTOSTERONE OVERLOAD BRING ON THE LAUGHS All Available 11/1 AWARD BUZZ... PAST AND FUTURE HEAD START ON THE HOLIDAYS HEROES THROUGH AND THROUGH Full List of new titles Avail 11/1 Artifact (2012) First known as an actor, Jared Leto has also found success in the music industry with his band 30 Seconds to Mars. This documentary follows the band as it makes the album "This is War" while battling recording giant EMI in a pivotal lawsuit. Babes In Toyland (1961) Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin Composer Victor Herbert's operetta comes delightfully to life in this 1961 fantasy starring Annette Funicello as Mary Contrary, whose fiancé, Tom Piper, (Tommy Sands), is abducted by a pair of goons. It seems that dastardly Mr. Barnaby (Ray Bolger) -- who covets Mary and her inheritance -- dispatched the thugs to get Tom out of the picture. Wh

I just tested this and it seems to play without needing to rent the film. Let me know if it doesn't work for you. 

2014 Directed By Joe Kramer This a great little short. I've never seen this take on the giant monster movie before. Give it a look and improve your weekend. 

This trailer has made Nightcrawler one of my most highly anticipated films of the year. Fortunately we'll only need to wait one more week.  NSFW

ABCs of Death 2 consists of 26 short films that each build toward different, creative and totally messed-up ways of killing off people. It's got zombies and wizards and assassins and killer hamburgers, and that's just naming a small, small handful of the insanity in store. But what do the minds behind the movies actually think are the best movie deaths of all time? What nightmares fueled their own imaginations? Well, wonder no more thanks to this supercut of the director's picks, which contains some very famous and also very obscure selections.

2009 Directed By Paul Solet Starring Jordan Ladd and Samantha Ferris Complications with birth have declined dramatically in the last century but they are still somewhat common. And yet the idea of a stillborn birth is so deeply tragic and saddening that most of us are clueless when it comes to even discussing the topic let alone dealing with it on any personal  or profound level. Simply put the subject is taboo. We all know it happens. It happens to all of us, in that it has happened to us or someone we know and yet still we don't talk about it. To take this premise as a starting point for a horror film is a stroke of genius. Madeline Matheson (Ladd) is given the worst news possible for an expectant mother , the news that all parents dread, that she has lost her unborn child. Her decision to carry the child to term is one that showed a remarkable level of commitment to this child and firmly establishes the type of parent she would make. Following the birth of her

2012 This is a music documentary looking at some of Ireland's DIY bands and culture over the last twenty years or so. It is a Dublin Community Television production and was made by the Community Of Independents collective that works with the channel. Featuring live footage and audio of various Irish artists as well as insightful interviews with some of the people that have been involved in the growth of this scene. A Joyful Slog from DCTV on Vimeo .

2012 Directed by Sandy Patch Taken from the films website Twice a week for over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador, to harvest glacial ice that covers the highest altitudes of this dormant volcano. In the past, up to forty ice merchants made the journey up the mountain to mine the ice; today, however, Baltazar works alone. Even his brothers, Gregorio and Juan, both raised as ice merchants, have retired from the mountain to find more steady work. The Last Ice Merchant tells a story of cultural change and indigenous lifestyle through the perspectives of three brothers who have dealt with change in different ways. I wanted to portray the characters as the dignified people that they are and to show the very human story of their circumstances — to make a movie that would portray the indigenous community positively for both an outside audience, and also for the community itself. I was first introduced to B

In this episode of War Machine vs. War Horse, the dog dies. This also is the premise for Keanu Reeves to go on a rampage of revenge in the new release JOHN WICK, as do we against cinema that portrays this act that is known to produce tears the world over. The two dog hating films we take to task are 2009's HACHI and 2012's FRANKENWEENIE. Thankfully the former has the very handsome Richard Gere, and the latter is a visual feast of a film even without the beauty of Gere.

2014 Directed By Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Remakes are a tricky thing to pull off. Do you honor the original? Update it and make it feel modern? How do you find that element that you think could have been improved upon and expand it? We all have examples of remakes that work and others that utterly fail. The latest incarnation of The Town That Dreaded Sundown falls somewhere in between. Its in no way a failure but I'm not really sure how well it works. The 2014 film exists in a world where the original 1975 film also exists. The inhabitants of a small Texas/Arkansas border town watch the original film annually and on the night of the annual screening killings that resemble the "Moonlight Murders" start up again. We are 37 years removed from the 1976 film and 65 years removed from the real events that inspired it. Is this a copycat murderer or has the boogeyman returned to Teaxarkana? It might sound somewhat convoluted but the film pulls off its complicated exposition

1962 Directed By Andrei Tarkovsky  Starring  Nikolay Burlyaev , Valentin Zubkov and Evgeniy Zharikov | It's the middle of WWII in Russia. Orphaned pre-teen Ivan Bondarev does reconnaissance work for the military. He is able to get through small cracks where adults could not, both because of his small physical size and the fact that no one would suspect a boy of doing such work. Despite his tough exterior, he often dreams about happy situations with his mother, who, along with his sister, was exterminated in a concentration camp. Those dreams usually end violently. After Ivan obtains some information concerning an advancing German troop, his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Gryaznov, wants to send him to military school as he believes the offensive is no place for a boy. Ivan vows to run away and join the partisans in their work if he is sent away. After an attempt to run away, Ivan is allowed to stay and continue his reconnaissance work during the offensive. Ivan&

1985 Directed by George A Romero Starring Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato and Richard Liberty Most people seem to go with Night of the Living Dead, some go with Dawn of the Dead but very few go with my personal favorite in Romero's of the Dead films, Day of the Dead. All three films have satirical elements that elevate them above the splatter fests that they are often reduced to, but this one has a trump card... Goblin. They provide the driving synth soundtrack to the film that gives it an other worldly quality that never really allows you to feel comfortable. Best known for there work with Dario Argento Goblin had a short but impressive career scoring some of the most iconic horror films of the 70's and 80's. Day of the Dead follows a group of survivors held up in an underground military facility located off the coast of what I assume is Florida. Very few of the characters in this film are believable but something about them is intriguing. I love the setting of the

2005 Directed By David Slade Starring Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page David Slade's film takes a clear stance on pedophilia, its bad don't do it, or else. Jeff (Patrick Wilson) is an attractive photographer who likes to spend his time in internet chat rooms looking for young girls. If you've seen the To Catch A Predator episodes of Dateline you know how many men like Jeff are out there. After striking up a friendship with Hayley (Ellen Page) she agrees to meet him at a coffee shop. A few minutes into the couples date (I guess that's the right word) Jeff makes it clear that he is uncomfortable in the cafe and would like to continue their meeting at his house.  This film is a revenge tale that is both bloody as hell and brilliantly acted. A rare combination. Most films as intense as this one tend to ignore the acting in favor of focusing on effects and gags.  While it feels very cinematic (camera work, editing) it also feels like a play. I mean that i

1959 Directed By Francois Truffaut Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud and Albert Remy This could easily be one of the most potent films about youth that I have ever seen. Supposedly based on Truffaut's own personal experiences, this is the story of a troubled young man who was never really given a chance. We are shown a trouble maker whose home life is terrible. Its not just the poverty but the lack of warmth and bleakness that fills our protagonists life that makes his at home experience so grim. When he acts out and runs head first into a life of crime we never hold him to task, instead we are left feeling empathy and understand why he makes the decisions he makes. Nothing in this film feels unnecessary or dispensable every shot is essential and pulls us in further. Unlike many films today this movie is tight and lean. We are shown a young man who is an after thought to most of the people in his life. While some people border on kind, it is readily apparent that no one in t

2012 Directed By Mark Christopher Covino Have you heard Death? Let me phrase that another way have you heard of three black teenagers from Detroit who were playing punk rock “two years before The Ramones?”  David, Dannis and Bobby Hackney formed a band in the early 1970’s that would eventually land on the name Death. They played fast, loud and with undeniable heart. After David saw The Who play in Detroit he knew how his band should sound. Friends and neighbors called it “white boy” music but David had been inspired and could not be discouraged when it came to his artistic vision. The same steadfast attitude applied to the bands’ name.  As you might imagine the name Death was a huge turnoff to record executives, producers, and pretty much everyone else. While by today’s standards the name Death probably wouldn’t cause anyone to bat an eye, by 1970’s standards it was dangerous. The name and music were ahead of their time. When you look back it might give you some