Film studio The Asylum is trying to stay under the radar with their newest mockbuster, American Battleship. They changed the name to American Warships in response to a lawsuit by Universal Studios that claims they’re infringing on the official Battleship movie. The similarities don’t end there. American Warships also features alien invaders that can only be stopped by an old battleship turned museum. Unlike the Hollywood version though, this low

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) was slated to star both of the trilogy’s previous male leads, Dieter Laser (THC1) and Laurence R. Harvey (THC2), as well as creator Tom Six but much like the fictional creature, they couldn’t stomach being stuck together. Production has been delayed while Six Entertainment Company takes legal action against Laser for breach of contract. Six issued the following press release: Tom Six’s company will

Anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) made a very classy entrance on Conan this week. After giving an encore of his jazz flute solo, he announced some exclusive news in the most roundabout way possible. “I want to announce this to everyone here in the Americas, to our friends in Spain, Turkey, and the UK, including England, that as of 0900 mountain time, Paramount Pictures and myself, Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy,

Producer Michael Bay is taking the ‘Mutant’ outta Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). The upcoming movie will alter the origin of the anthropomorphic turtles, which mutated after they were exposed to radioactive ooze. “These turtles are from an alien race,” Bay revealed at a Nickelodeon press conference. Bay claims the change will make the movie more believable but a cynic might suspect it’s just so he can change the abbreviation

The Hunger Games is the biggest thing since the Twilight movies, and girls everywhere are dreaming of having their own emo love story. Now they can with The Hunger Games board game, where you “Collect clues about your secret admirer and find out how he’s planning to kill you.&#

All Alex wants for Christmas is for his parents to stop fighting. He asks them for a robot hoping that it will bring his family together instead it tears them apart, literally. This isn’t your typical killer robot story. It gets you to sympathize with the machine but not by humanizing it, rather by dehumanizing the human. At first Blinky acts as a surrogate parent, but the boy quickly grows

Last Halloween LAIKA, the animation studio behind Coraline, introduced us to their newest creepy kid ParaNorman with a spine tingling trailer set to the psychedelic song “Season of the Witch” by Donovan. In the new family friendly, but less groovy, trailer we learn more about Norman’s paranormal ability to see dead people including his Grandmother and other not-so-friendly ghosts. ParaNormal Release Date: August 17, 2012 Trailers below

Unwilling to leave good enough alone, George Lucas has once again “upgraded” Return of the Jedi for the Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (Episodes IV – VI) [Blu-ray] release due out Sept 16th. In the original, Darth Vader watched silently as the Emperor electrocute his son. However, in the new version he envokes Hayden Christensen and whines “Nooo…” Fans haven’t been this upset since the exorcizing of Sebastian Shaw’s ghost.

Memorial Day is supposed to be a time to remember our fallen service members but like most holidays it’s been commercialized, literally. A new trailer for the movie adaptation of the f-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-l hero Thor recommends Americans skip those boring Memorial services and “Spend this Memorial Day weekend with a real hero.” (video bottom) Are they suggesting soldiers aren’t real heroes? I’ve contacted Marvel comics and Viacom, the parent company of

That a single person can change history is a very dangerous idea so it’s not surprising that China is anti-time travel. The General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television is banning all time travel stories, calling them “disrespectful to history.” Chinahush.com translated the original story: “The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable. Many stories are

Realizing his own mortality, Lex Luthor decides it’s time to get serious about killing Superman. Ironically, he uses the very source of Superman’s powers to do it, exposing him to an overdose of solar radiation. Now literally exploding with power, Superman faces some us his greatest challenges yet as he tries to get his final affairs in order. Due to time constraints, the movie adaptation understandably cuts out most of

When the Griffin house loses power (yet again) the characters reluctantly perform another Star Wars parody. The opening crawl warns you to “lower your expectations” explaining that they “ran out of gas” after the first two movies but Fox forced them to make another. It’s not just self-deprecating humor, it’s also a subtle dig at Star Wars Episode VI itself. The rest of the movie isn’t so subtle. No one

Jackass 3D has broken all kinds of  records, not just for the biggest October opening, but also for being the first movie I’ve seen in the theater since Deep Blue Sea (1999) and the first 3D movie that didn’t need red and blue glasses. If ever there was a movie made for 3D, it’s Jackass. However, there’s a great introduction by the original jackasses, Beavis and Butthead, that masterfully lowers

Universal has pulled the trailer for The Dilemma after CNN’s Anderson Cooper went on The Ellen Degeneres Show to complained of it’s use of the word gay. “There was a preview of a movie, and in it, the actor said, ‘That’s so gay,’ and I was shocked that not only that they put it in the movie, but that they put that in the preview. They thought that it was

In a dystopic future where Obamacare didn’t pass, the United States has set up a seniors game preserve (and you thought death panels sounded bad) but when two friends learn of a magical land with free health care, they plan escape across the border. The Closer You Get To Canada is a black comedy that examines themes of patriotism, state security, and personal liberties. It premieres at this year’s Toronto