Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Adult Swim Emojis Are HERE!


Fans Can Now Share Adult Swim Themed Images, GIFs, Sounds, and Custom Bumps With New App

 

 

Adult Swim, a division of Turner, announced today a free to download keyboard app now available via iTunes andGoogle Play that features over 150 Adult Swim themed emoji characters from the network’s popular shows such as Rick and MortyThe Venture Bros.Robot ChickenThe Eric Andre Show, and more. 

 

Basic cable's #1 home with millennials for over a decade, the new Adult Swim Keyboard also features sharable soundboards and animated GIFs from the network’s colorful show characters. Known for their iconic “bumps” that run on-air, fans can also try their hand at creating their own with the new keyboard and sharing them with friends. How does it work? Check out this handy video

 




Monday, June 27, 2016

4K Restoration of PRIVATE PROPERTY starring Warren Oates opens this Friday, July 1


CINELICIOUS PICS PRESENTS
 
4K Digital Restoration  
of
 
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Starring Warren Oates (The Wild Bunch)

Anchoring The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Oates Retrospective, 
PRIVATE PROPERTY opens in NY this Friday, July 1
As previously announced, Cinelicious Pics will re-release in theaters (and on VOD and Blu-ray) this Summer its new 4k digital restoration of director Leslie Stevens' long-missing 1960 thriller PRIVATE PROPERTY, starring iconic American character actor Warren Oates (TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, THE WILD BUNCH) in his first significant screen role. A major rediscovery for noir and crime fans, PRIVATE PROPERTY had essentially vanished following a very brief release in the early 1960s -- until now. 

Click HERE to watch the trailer.

PRIVATE PROPERTY begins as two homicidal Southern California drifters (played to creepy, Peeping Tom perfection by Warren Oates and Corey Allen) wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Beverly Hills home of an unhappy housewife (Leslie Stevens' real-life spouse, Kate Manx). Shimmering with sexual tension and lensed in stunning B&W by master cameraman Ted McCord (THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADREEAST OF EDEN), PRIVATE PROPERTYis both an eerie, neo-Hitchcockian thriller and a savage critique of the hollowness of the Playboy-era American Dream. 

Warren Oates delivers his first great screen performance here as one of the murderous vagabonds, years before he emerged as one of the finest character actors of his generation; his bizarre, voyeuristic Lennie-and-George relationship with the underrated Corey Allen (James Dean's hot rod rival in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) is fueled by a barely-suppressed homoeroticism. Shot almost entirely in the Beverly Hills home where director Stevens and lead actress Manx lived at the time, PRIVATE PROPERTY is a simmering thriller tinged with deeply unnerving elements of autobiography--and all the voyeurism anyone could ask for. 

Three years ago David Marriott, now Cinelicious Pics' Director of Acquisitions, sat in on an early screening of UCLA Archive's initial preservation of PRIVATE PROPERTY (which, once completed, would go on to premiere at the UCLA Festival of Preservation in March of 2015). "I was completely bowled over by the film," Marriott recalls. "A sort of hothouse late-period film noir, PRIVATE PROPERTY is deeply bizarre and incredibly compelling. Considering the talent involved - director Stevens, cameraman Ted McCord, actor Warren Oates - it's very rare to rediscover a completely lost crime film like this."

Official Announce: Friday The 13th & Tales From The Darkside 9/6

Friday The 13th: The Complete Series 
Release Date: September 6

Micki Foster inherits an antique store from her Uncle Lewis, but this is no ordinary antique shop. Lewis made a deal with the devil -- in exchange for material wealth, he will sell cursed antiques. Micki, along with cousin Ryan and her partner, retired magician Jack, have the duty of recovering the antiques to be sealed in their basement, where the items can't cause more harm.


Tales From The Darkside: The Complete Series 
Release Date: September 6

This horror/fantasy anthology series follows in the vein of The Twilight Zone. Each week presents another standalone story of horror fantasy, and/or science fiction. Some episodes are gruesome, a few are of a lighter comedic style. Like many such shows, Tales... adapted the work of famous genre authors of the period such as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Clive Barker. Many episodes also featured veteran actors of the 40's and 50's that saw very little work in their later years. 

Saturday, June 25, 2016

What interests me?

Perception has always interested me. It is a running theme in my creative work outside of GenreOnline.net.

https://youtu.be/0GS2rxROcPo

Friday, June 24, 2016

Star Trek Into Darkness 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Review

Star Trek Into Darkness suffers from essentially telling a variation of the same story the first film told and then reinacts moments that made sense in the original cast member films, but in this alternate timeline feels like lazy writing that just relies too much on moments of reference from things in Star Trek lore just for the sake of it and not because it is important to the story. The film then delivers  out and out contrivances that quite literally include a cure for death. You can't make stuff like this up. Star Trek Into Darkness is not a horrible film. It has some fun moments, but if you think about what is going on too much you will owe your brain an apology.

On 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with HDR 2160p resolution, this disc doesn't disappoint. The presentation has sharp color contrasts and deep tones that impress. The new Dolby Atmos Soundtrack is enveloping and discrete too. I think upon comparison with the Blu-ray 3D DIsc set released in 2013, Star Trek Into Darkness actually offer more high definition bonus features in the included Blu-ray Discs and like the 4K BD release of Star Trek, a limited time redeemable coupon for either an iTunes digital copy or UltraViolet digital copy is included within the black UHD BD case.

Star Trek Into Darkness is available now retailers on and offline courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment.

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