High Def Horror: Hammer Horror Meets Harryhausen Warner Archive and Trailers From Hell combine forces to sneak a peek at some exciting upcoming releases that will please fans
of Hammer films and the legendary Ray Harryhausen.
When you think
of Hammer films you think of sexy and erotic horror.
Many attributes of «The Vampire» were preceded by the classic attributes
of Hammer films and Italian horror films of the 1960s.
The campaign is a bit like Dracula in one
of those Hammer films... it will be dragged out in the light of day and crumble.
Not exact matches
You recall that the SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the exclusive state monopoly for radio and television, had the night before run an American Defense Department
film version
of their latest report on «Soviet Military Power,» with Secretary Casper Wineberger issuing dire warnings as animated
hammer - and - sickle emblems marched menacingly down the coast
of Africa.
But let me tell you, the most impressive thing to me about Rodgers»
film was that this guy, who is all
of 5» 6 and 205 pounds, liked to be the
hammer rather than the nail when it comes to contact.
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Hammer's new
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I did think there were scenes
of emotional import (I did care during Tony's re-watching his dad's old
films, amanohyo) and there were a handful
of funny moments that worked (
Hammer's «Ex-Wife»... yeah kinda figured that would happen, but hey there's a pill for that now!).
He has promoted two
films by appearing in music videos by the soundtrack's artists: Doc Brown in Huey Lewis & The News» «The Power
of Love», and as Fester Addams in MC
Hammer's «Addams Groove».
Both the
film and Nachtwey's photos
hammer home the grim reality
of the world's gutters and battlefields, and will make you question what «news» really is.
Sam Rockwell as Stark's business rival Justin
Hammer is also a lot
of fun and Rockwell clearly enjoys reprising the villainous nerd persona that he displayed in the original Charlie's Angels
film (complete with another geeky bad - guy dance routine).
2» pays homage to a variety
of genres — spaghetti Western,
film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to
hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.
Not to forget exploitative beginning the
film starting on the night
of her death
hammering the message that there is no return.
Wilson's Heart for Oculus Rift is an absolute amazing VR gaming experience that harkens in tone and style to the old style classic
films of Hollywood horror and the old
Hammer Horror
films.
The storytelling either lazes out something awful or tries much too hard,
hammering on and on with its themes, a couple
of which are very problematic, for although the aforementioned themes about misunderstanding people and trying to find a better path in life are reasonably worthy, there are underlining themes about the benefits
of taking advantage
of the vulnerable, and about running away from certain conflicts that are just about offensive, that is, when you look deep enough into this
film to spots its sorry intentions.
The
film purports to tell the story
of the figure skater Tonya Harding, and
of her role in the notorious
hammer attack on her main rival, Nancy Kerrigan, in the run - up to the 1994 Winter Olympics.
In both
films, Reynolds unleashes a logorrheic verbal torrent
of meta - references to other movies — so many, so unceasingly, that their net effect is to
hammer the fourth wall into a powdery dust.
As the
film opens we find Thor trapped in a cage, separated from his trusted
hammer Mjolnir and cracking wise with vague references to what he's been up to since we last saw him in Avengers: Age
of Ultron.
With the role
of Elizabeth in Curse
of Frankenstein (1957), Hazel became a fixture
of horror
films, spending most
of her time in the
Hammer and Corman talent pools.
Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Edgar Wright's follow - up to «Shaun
of the Dead» is a bigger, busier, slightly less focused ramble through small - town cop - movie clichés, but it might just be the better
film, benefiting from a script packed with smart one - liners and neat riffs on everything from
Hammer horror to cosy ITV dramas.
Instead, Dench could bask in a low - key night at the Ritz - Carlton Bacara Santa Barbara resort, with speeches from actors Armie
Hammer, Ali Fazal, Jeff Bridges and SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling, along with lots
of film clips.
Signifying his continuing climb to the top, «Lone Ranger» star Armie
Hammer has been selected to star alongside Tom Cruise in the
film version
of «The Man from U.N.C.L.E».
It works perfectly with the nature
of the
film and carries the essence
of Hammer very well.
The
film had stiff competition in the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards, running against Kelly Reichhart's sublime Wendy and Lucy and Lance
Hammer's powerful, contemplative Ballast, which speaks to the idiosyncratic brilliance
of Aronofsky and Rourke's collaboration.
But with Armie
Hammer's, the results are so distracting, he's basically a non-entity in the later parts
of the
film.
The movie is made by
Hammer, one
of the greatest horror
film companies
of all time.
A silly short
film called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's
Hammer brings SHIELD's Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) into the forefront as he takes down a hapless pair
of stick - up men.
British director Terence Fisher is best known for his work with
Hammer Films but before he started making movies for the studio that dripped blood, Fisher edited and co-directed a number
of films for Gainsborough Pictures.
In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired by the
Hammer horror
films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters
of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts
of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes
of frank eroticism.
Enter the world
of Hammer Horror with our exlusive interview with Aidan Gillen about his latest feature «Wake Wood» (in cinemas this Friday), the first
Hammer horror
film to be shot in Ireland.
But while the
film is indeed quite steamy as the romance between Timothee Chalamet's Elio and Armie
Hammer's Oliver blossoms, some have taken to criticizing the complete lack
of full frontal male nudity.
Though not as anticipated as some
of the bigger
films, we will see
Hammer undertaking a heavy Russian accent for which he studied over many months with a dialect coach.
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of beloved classic fairytale has exiled Snow White (Lily Collins) returning to the kingdom to wrest both the throne and a handsome prince (Armie
Hammer) from the clutches
of the evil queen (Julia Roberts) with the help
of seven dwarfs.
The
film follows a New Orleans bartender (
Hammer) whose life begins to unravel after a series
of disturbing and inexplicable events transpire when he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
James Ivory won the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name,» giving something
of a shoutout to his cast
of Timothée Chalamet, Armie
Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg by acknowledging that «a
film like this depends on a lot
of people, but first
of all it depends on the actors.»
The
film focuses a bit too much on Pitt's family after the inciting incident, as they mostly serve as symbols
of what Pitt's fighting for / avoiding with his adventures, but I suppose it
hammers home the idea
of Pitt's fear
of settling down.
Sadly,
Hammer functions only to look tall, square - jawed and noble, lusting chastely after his dead brother's wife and goofing off just enough to satisfy the
film's overall boringly postmodern air
of irony and self - reflexivity.
As 20th Century Fox's X-Men spin - off Deadpool gears up to go into production, T.J. Miller (Transformers: Age
of Extinction) has revealed on Twitter that his «comedic» role in the Ryan Reynolds - headlined movie is that
of Jack
Hammer, a.k.a. Weasel, who in comic book continuity (and presumably in the
film too) is Wade's tech expert and -LSB-...]
This barebones, arbitrarily assembled package
of Hammer Horror
films is redeemed by the gorgeous aural / visual restorations.
We got our first official still from Guy Ritchie's big screen take on the classic spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. earlier this week [see here], and now we have another image from the
film featuring the two leads Henry Cavill (Man
of Steel) and Armie
Hammer (The Lone Ranger)... Set against the backdrop
of -LSB-...]
If you listen carefully to these little bundles
of cornpone wisdom, in fact, they reveal every single secret
of the
film with the subtlety
of a ball - peen
hammer to the temple.
The
film manages to delve — with the subtlety
of a
hammer's flat head — into the topics
of life and what that means when you redefine God, and when you take a moment and further extrapolate pretty much discussing the idea
of Darwinism and any non deity theologized religion.
The sound design too deserves praise as the gunshots are given the deafening burst
of sound they deserve
hammering home the
film's dedication to authenticity.
He's been the picture
of charm during the Call Me By Your Name press tour, a seemingly unending traveling road show where
Hammer, his co-star Timothée Chalamet, and director Luca Guadagnino take turns relating disarming anecdotes about
filming that manage to both satiate the
film's rabid gay audience while stopping short
of pandering, all while credibly evincing a perpetual Kinsey 3 vibe.
The writer / director talks with Spinoff about the true events that inspired the feature, and the daunting task
of making a
Hammer horror
film.
Colin Hanks» wonderful documentary about the rise and fall
of Tower Records, All Things Must Pass, was released on disc last week, and so I wrote a full review
of the
film for
Hammer to Nail.
Based off the book «Tony and Susan» by Austin Wright, the
film features a dynamite cast featuring the likes
of Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie
Hammer, Karl Glusman, Andrea Riseborough, Laura Linney, and Michael Sheen.
That's
hammered home at the end
of the
film, which consists
of split - screen comparisons
of the original scenes from The Room next to the recreations from The Disaster Artist.