Wednesday, November 30, 2005

MIRRORMASK DVD NOTE

Neil Gaiman's blog mentions that lots of people have written to let him know that MirrorMask has, according to Amazon.com, a US release date of February 7, 2006.
Originally the date we'd seen mentioned was Jan.10th. Sometime soon, at any rate. If you didn't catch the limited release of this film - it's a Jim Henson Pictures fantasy by Gaiman and Dave McKean (of Sandman comics fame). The story revolving around Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), a 15-year-old girl who wishes she could, literally, run away from the circus and join real life. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. On her quest to return home, Helena searches for the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power, which is her only hope of escaping the Dark Lands. Directed by McKean.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

NOW: SUSPECT IS BEST

NOW Magazine, a weekly Toronto entertainment paper has proclaimed Supect Video as Hall of Famers for the best indie store.
Now's special Best Of Toronto edition has retired their annual Readers Poll.
"To recognize those favourites that topped our Readers Poll five times or more over the last 10 years, we are inducting the following people and places into our Readers Poll Hall of Fame. Congratulations!"

BEST INDIE VIDEO STORE - Suspect Video
BEST SPECIALTY VIDEO STORE - Suspect Video

So if you haven't seen us lately, why not drop in and check out our selection of movies, wacky toys, books and magazines.

Saturday, November 26, 2005

RUE MORGUE CINEMA FOUNDED


MoviesOnline.ca reports that Rod Gudino, founder of Toronto's own Rue Morgue Magazine and president of Marrs Media Inc., has announced he will be leaving his post as Editor-In-Chief this December, a post he has held for the past eight years. Gudino will be leaving the magazine to launch and develop Rue Morgue Cinema, the new wing in the company's expanding operations. He will be succeeded by former managing editor Jovanka Vuckovic. Best of luck Rod, make us some great stuff.

SF GRANDMASTER ELLISON GETS NEW FILM

In 1975 Harlan Ellison's prize-winning novella, Vic and Blood, was filmed as A BOY AND HIS DOG. He's written a few things since then and garnered a few more awards. In fact the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that Harlan Ellison will be named Grand Master at next year's Nebula Awards Weekend in Tempe, Arizona, May 4-7, 2006.

His work DREAM CORRIDOR is part of a recent co-production deal between Image Entertainment and Dark Horse to finance films. Seven projects are in production for the first slate of films including one helmed by John Landis and cult favorite Bruce Campbell, another starring Tom Sizemore and Edward James Olmos and the one written and hosted by Harlan Ellison, according to DVDexclusive.com

These are in various stages of production for either theatrical or DVD distribution and there are five others in development. Landis will direct Gone, a haunted house tale set to begin lensing in June. Ellison's project is the Twilight Zone-type
anthology Dream Corridor, on which preproduction is set for early 2006.

Campbell (Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) also will star as himself in My Name is Bruce, a comedy/horror film set to start rolling in January in which he is kidnapped from the set of a "B" horror movie and forced to play the role of his movie character.

Sizemore and Olmos will star in Splinter, about a cop on the skids who teams up with an idealistic young female cop to stop the murder of gang members.

Friday, November 25, 2005

ARISTOCRATS COMING IN JAN.

ThinkFilm will release "The Aristocrats" on DVD Jan.
24, reports Variety.com

The Disc will have two hours of bonus features, including extended versions of the central joke told by most of the comics, a making-of featurette, contest-winning amateur live-action and animated film versions of "Aristocrats" jokes, an "Aristocrats do The Aristocrats" highlight reel and commentary by co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza.

Also expected in January is The Corpse Bride DVD, to be released on January 31. Extras on this Tim Burton film include several behind the scenes featurettes with the cast and crew and a music only track. The box office take of this film has now reached over $80 million worldwide.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

ONE MINUTE OF FILM

Oooops, this has already started -The One Minute Film fest is on now and it's already 20 minutes after the hour. So you've missed about 20 films already.

The One Minute Film & Video Festival is a Toronto-based short film festival featuring works of exactly 1 minute in length, centered around a common theme. Held tonight, Nov. 24, 2005 - this is the third annual fest.

Details are on the image with this post or at their site.

If you're near the Bloor Cinema you may have time to catch a few of the 64 films that they're showing.

Friday, November 18, 2005

BUBBA HO-TEP IS A CULT FIGURE, REALLY!

Neca has released details of their Cult Classics series 3 for release in 2006. This will include the following action figures:

Flyboy Zombie from the original "Dawn of the Dead"
Bubba Ho-Tep from "Bubba Ho-Tep"
John McClane from "Die Hard"
T-800 Endo Skeleton from "T-2: Judgment Day"

You can bet we'll carry these when they're available. Right now though, you can find a great selection of cool toys and action figures for your holiday shopping at Suspect Video's store locations - like The Corpse Bride.
Some of the other toys that have recently arrived are the newest series of FAMILY GUY figures, SLASH (GnR) and four different ELVIS figures. And this just in...
THE BEATLES: McFarlane's new Animated Beatles boxed set has arrived, this set comes with the 4 band members and instruments, including full drum set, and also includes a green crocodile.

WATERLOO FESTIVAL FOR ANIMATED CINEMA BEGINS

Off to the west of Toronto, in the land that's home to Oktoberfest, is a film fest dedicated to animated films from around the world. The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema returns to Kitchener-Waterloo with the fifth edition of the unique animation film festival.

WFAC 2005 will be running November 17th-20th at the Princess Twin Cinemas in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
A partial film listing is: Alosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey (Alosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent), Fragile Machine, Frank and Wendy, Kumou no Mukou, Yakusoku no Bashou (A Place Promised in Our Early Days), Mind Game, NyĆ³cker! (The District), Strings, Terkel i Knibe(Terkel in Trouble). More info can be found online at the WFAC website at http://www.wfac.ca

Related Film News: AKIRA DIRECTOR OTOMO GOES LIVE

Anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo, director of AKIRA and STEAMBOY, has announced that his next project will be a live action film of the anime, MUSHISHI. Based on a horror manga MUSHISHI MASTER by Yuki Urushibara, the story is set in turn-of-the-century Japan about a guy who can see invisible life forms called Mushishi which give humans a hard time.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

TV SHOWS HIT THE WEB IN 2006

In what may be another bid for world domination, Pinky and The Brain are heading on to the web.

Variety.com reports that Warner Bros. and America Online have pacted to create the first-ever television outlet online. Set to launch in January, In2TV will make up to 14,000 episodes from more than 300 WB TV series available on-demand for free with advertising.

The article goes on to state that shows will be offered as part of six "channels" -- essentially categories to organize content -- at launch, including comedy, sci-fi and cartoons. Two more are expected to follow next year.

Series available in the first year of In2TV will include "Pinky and the Brain," "Lois and Clark," "Falcon Crest" and "Babylon 5." Narf.

WARREN ELLIS BLOGS ON X-mas PORN

Yes, Warren Ellis, who "writes comic books and graphic novels, videogames, animation, books, screenplays, tv and anything else he can steal money for" has a blog. I found this wacky comment about a new adult video on one of his more recent posts:

"I Ruin Both Christmas And Sex For You, With A Single Image"
Ellis' recent work includes the Zombie comic book BLACK GAS and the nifty DESOLATION JONES.

Monday, November 14, 2005

THE GOOD SIN CITY DVD - DEC. 13th

This is the Sin City version worth the wait.The complete, expanded and unrated version of the film with never-before-seen footage integrated directly into the feature by director Robert Rodriguez. This essential two-disc DVD is presented in
ultra-stylish packaging, with hours of all-new bonus materials supervised directly by Rodriguez showing how this unique film was brought to life. Plus the complete reprinted first issue of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novel The Hard Goodbye is included. This year's must-have gift for the holidays, Sin City Recut-Extended- Unrated is available on two-disc DVD on December 13th from Dimension Home Video.

In other film/comics news HELLBOY is a new animated TV series. Film Roman will be producing a hand-drawn HELLBOY direct-to-DVD feature and the series. The show's supervising director, Tad Stones, has launched an online Blog to update fans on the whole production, and stuff like his favorite colour.

Friday, November 11, 2005

KONG, THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD

Director Peter Jackson has helped produce bonus materials for the DVD debut of the 1933 original 'King Kong', which Warner Home Video releases on Nov. 22
While Jackson worked on his own theatrical remake he also worked on a new 2-hour/7-part documentary, RKO Production 601: The Making of Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World, that will be included on the 2-disc set.

Among other things, the documentary will include a segment on the infamous "spider pit" deleted scene (including a recreation of the lost footage). Other extras will include a documentary on director Merian C. Cooper, trailers for other films by Cooper, and audio commentary by legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, actress Terry Moore and special effects guru Ken Ralston.

Warner will release the classic in 3 versions: a two-disc special edition and a two-disc collector's edition packaged in a collectable tin and including a 20-page reproduction of the original souvenir program, postcard reproductions of the original one sheets,(with a mail-in offer for a reproduction of a vintage 27-by-41-inch movie poster) as well as a 4-disc box set featuring the "King Kong" special edition along with "The Son of Kong" and "Mighty Joe Young."
The DVD of "King Kong" was two years in the making and arrives just before Jackson's remake opens in theaters.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Gnaaarrrh ZOMBIES ON DVD !!


New on DVD this week - The Devil's Rejects.

Texas sheriff John Wydell (William Forsythe) seeks vengeance against his brother's creepy murderers in this Western-flavored sequel to Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses. Wydell enlists the aid of two vigilante brothers, and the posse heads out to the Firefly homestead to take down Otis, Baby, Tiny and Captain Spaulding once and for all. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Matthew McGrorey and Leslie Easterbrook co-star. Loaded with all sorts of amazing extras.

Can't get enough zombies in your life? Maybe you want one for your very own? Well here's your chance - MyPetZombies sells life-sized, incredibly gross latex zombie mannequins.

Or if that's too up close and you just want to look at them without them looking back you can try the very latest, hip magazine, Girls and Corpses. That's right, there really is a magazine for every interest out there! Now that their second issue is out they're even looking for models. Check out this ad on the website "Are you a gorgeous, sexy, wholesome looking beauty who dreams of being in Playboy? Good luck. Well, here's the next best thing! How about being in GIRLS and CORPSES MAGAZINE?! Just imagine yourself hugging a rotting hundred year old Corpse hunk!" Applicants have until March 2006 to send them photos.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

NEW FILM FEST DEBUTS IN TORONTO

Toronto is host to fantasy fans from around the world this weekend, (Nov. 4-6) as the Fantasy Worldwide International Film Festival launches its inaugural event.

The three-day festival, will showcase Moongirl and 30 other films from six continents at Toronto's Bloor Cinema (just a short walk from the Markham St. Suspect Video store) . The lineup includes feature-length films, documentaries, animation, shorts and "a kaleidoscope of talent," says festival founder Johanna Kern.

The festival brings under one roof Mythology, Mysticism, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Legend and Archetype - although no Horror (at least this year).