​YouTube Premium has released the official trailer for Academy Award winner Jordan Peele’s sci-fi comedy series Weird City. The video offers a glimpse of the quirky antics that we should expect to see when the series debuts on February 13th. 

In a dystopian setting, the middle class has completely vanished dividing Weird City into two sections: Above the Line (The Haves), and Below the Line (The Have Nots). Presiding over the denizens of the city is the strange and mysterious Dr. Negari, who weaves all of our stories together. Each episode is a topic that pertains to present day life in America and the world: social media addiction, online dating, fitness obsession, etc.. WEIRD CITY captures the unease of modern urban living, in a bizarre and peculiar lens.

The series is consists of a star-studded ensemble which includes Dylan O’Brien (Maze Runner), Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Michael Cera (Juno), Rosario Dawson (Jane the Virgin), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Ed O’Neil (Modern Family), Hannah Simone (New Girl), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Malcolm Barrett (Timeless), Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Yvette Nicole Brown (The Lady and the Tramp), Trevor Jackson (Grown-ish), Auli’i Cravalho (Moana), Levar Burton (Star Trek), and Sara Gilbert (The Conners).

Weird City is written and co-created by Peele and former Key & Peele writer Charlie Sanders. The series will be set in the not-so-distant future metropolis of Weird. Even though it is on a futuristic setting, every story of the series is expected to reflect on the social issues of the present society, which could only be told through the elements of comedy and sci-fi. Later on, Peele also described the show as a “series of comedy driven twisted-ass science fiction stories that take place in a world close to ours but just a little bit off.”

Peele’s own production company, Monkeypaw Productions will be teaming up with Mosaic, Sonar Entertainment and Raskal Productions to produce the anthology series. Emmy-winning director Adam Bernstein (Scrubs, 30 rock, Breaking Bad) is set to direct the first two episodes. He will also serve as an executive producer alongside Peele, Sanders, Win Rosenfeld (Monkeypaw), Sam Hansen and Jimmy Miller (Mosaic) , Tom Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni (Sonar), Keith Raskin and Linda Morel (Raskal) and Jose Molina, who is also Weird City’s showrunner.

Severin Films presents ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK – The ultimate giallo shocker - now uncut in HD for the first time ever in America!


All the Colors of the Dark
1 Blu-ray disc and 1 CD disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $29.98
UPC:  663390002650
Catalog #:  SEV92650
Color, 95 minutes in English and Italian
Region All/0.  Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  1972
Director:  Sergio Martino
Cast:  George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov

All the Colors of the Dark
1 DVD disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $19.95
UPC:  663390002667
Catalog #:  SEV92667
Color, 95 minutes in English and Italian
Region All/0.  Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  1972
Director:  Sergio Martino
Cast:  George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov
 
 
Even by extreme ‘70s standards, it remains among the more notorious – and disturbing – thrillers in genre history. Now experience, “One of the most entertaining gialli you’ll ever see,” (10k Bullets) like you’ve never seen it before. The luscious Edwige Fenech (STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER) gives the performance of her career as a woman tormented by visions of satanic violence, hallucinatory horror, and psychosexual insanity. George Hilton (THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH), Ivan Rassimov (EATEN ALIVE) and Susan Scott (EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS) co-star in this EuroShock masterpiece from director Sergio Martino (TORSO) and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS) – with “Possibly one of the best horror scores of all time,” (Scream Magazine) by Bruno Nicolai – now featuring a new 4k scan from the original negative and throbbing with exclusive Special Features!
 
SPECIAL FEATURES:
They're Coming To Get You- Alternate US cut (88 mins.).
Color My Nightmare- Interview with Director Sergio Martino.
Last of The Mohicans- Interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi.
Giallo is the Color- Interviews with actor George Hilton and Italian horror expert Antonio Tentori.
Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, author of All the Colors of Sergio Martino.
Trailers.

​Severin Films presents ALL THE COLORS OF GIALLO – 3-disc collection featuring over 5½ hours of classic trailers, plus bonus cd of legendary giallo themes


All the Colors of Giallo
1 Blu-ray disc, 1 DVD disc, and 1 CD disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $34.98
UPC:  663390002636
Catalog #:  SEV92636
Color and B&W, 239 minutes in English and Italian
Region All.  Widescreen 1.78:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  2018
Directors:  Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci
 
‘Giallo’ is Italian for ‘yellow’, the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most intense, extreme and influential genres in movie history. In this unprecedented collection, experience the full chronological evolution of giallo with more than 100 rare and classic trailers from such masters as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Antonio Margheriti, Umberto Lenzi and many more. Then slip on black leather gloves and set the mood with a Bonus CD of legendary soundtrack music from composers that include Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani, and others, along with all-new featurettes that thrust even deeper into the genre. “But be warned,” says Gizmodo.com, “Once you start going down the blood-slicked giallo rabbit hole, you may become dangerously obsessed.”
 
SPECIAL FEATURES:
 
DISC 1- Blu-ray
All the Colors of Giallo- A new feature-length documentary by Federico Caddeo.
The Giallo Frames- Interview with John Martin, editor of The Giallo Pages.
Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, author of All the Colors of Sergio Martino.
 
DISC 2- DVD The Case of the Krimi.
Kriminal! - Trailer Compilation.
The Case Of The Krimi- Interview with film historian Marcus Stiglegger.
 
DISC 3- AUDIO CD
The Strange Sounds of the Bloodstained Films- Compiled by Alfonso Carillo of Rendezvous! from the archives of Beat Records. Remastered by Claudio Fuiano.

​Severin Films presents ECCO and THE FORBIDDEN – The most extreme mondo of them all, now scanned in 4k for the first time ever, plus mega-sleazy bonus mondo!


Ecco and The Forbidden
1 Blu-ray disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $29.98
UPC:  663390002469
Catalog #:  SEV92469
Color and B&W, Ecco 99 minutes, The Forbidden 65 minutes, in English
Region All.  Ecco: 2.35:1 / The Forbidden: 1.85:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  1965
Directors:  Ecco: Gianni Proia / The Forbidden: Benjamin Andrews, Lee Frost
Cast:  Ecco: George Sanders, Alexander, Maria Ansaldi / Forbidden: Baby Bubbles, Bob Cresse, Pat Hall

Ecco and The Forbidden
1 DVD disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $19.95
UPC:  663390002605
Catalog #:  SEV92605
Color and B&W, Ecco 99 minutes, The Forbidden 65 minutes, in English
Region 0.  Ecco: 2.35:1 / The Forbidden: 1.85:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  1965
Directors:  Ecco: Gianni Proia / The Forbidden: Benjamin Andrews, Lee Frost
Cast:  Ecco: George Sanders, Alexander, Maria Ansaldi / Forbidden: Baby Bubbles, Bob Cresse, Pat Hall
 
In 1963, nudie/roughie filmmakers Bob Cresse and Lee Frost (HOUSE ON BARE MOUNTAIN, LOVE CAMP 7) saw the U.S. grosses of MONDO CANE and quickly imported and adapted one of the most provocative and successful shockumentaries of the decade. Narrated by Academy Award® winner George Sanders (ALL ABOUT EVE) and featuring a legendary soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Oscar®-nominated for MONDO CANE’s ‘More’), ECCO explores a world of sadism, delinquency, roller derby, extreme piercing, appalling stereotypes and the infamous Lapland-women-castrating-reindeer-with-their- teeth sequence, now scanned in 4k from the original inter-negative. Bonus feature THE FORBIDDEN is Frost & Cresse’s rarely seen and totally insane 1966 fake Mondo, packed with staged scenes of Swiss lesbians, L.A. rapists, Parisian tarts and Nazi strippers, newly-transferred from the only known 35mm print in existence.
 
SPECIAL FEATURES:
The Bandit- Producer David Goldstein remembers Bob Cresse.
I Want More- Short Film
EccoTrailer

​Severin Films presents MONDO FREUDO and MONDO BIZARRO – The Cresse/Frost mondo classics now scanned in 4k for the first time ever!


Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro
1 Blu-ray disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $29.98
UPC:  663390002452
Catalog #:  SEV92452
Color, Mondo Freudo: 75 mins/ Mondo Bizzaro: 80 mins, in English
Region All.  Full Screen 1.33:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  1966
Directors:  Mondo Freudo: R.L. Frost / Mondo Bizarro: Lee Frost
Cast:  Mondo Freudo: Judy Adler, Carol Baughman, Terry Bryan / Mondo Bizarro: Claude Emmand, Bob Cresse, Lee Frost

Ecco and The Forbidden
1 DVD disc
Label:  Severin Films
Prebook:  1/1/19   Street:  1/29/19
MSRP:  $19.95
UPC:  663390002599
Catalog #:  SEV92599
Color, Mondo Freudo: 75 mins/ Mondo Bizzaro: 80 mins, in English
Region 0.  Full Screen 1.33:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Production year:  1966
Directors:  Mondo Freudo: R.L. Frost / Mondo Bizarro: Lee Frost
Cast:  Mondo Freudo: Judy Adler, Carol Baughman, Terry Bryan / Mondo Bizarro: Claude Emmand, Bob Cresse, Lee Frost
 
In 1966, the notorious producer/director/distributor team of Lee Frost and Bob Cresse (HOT SPUR, THE SCAVENGERS) combined the extremes of the Mondo genre with their own depraved aesthetic to create two shockumentaries that put Olympic International on the map and changed the face of exploitation forever. Cresse himself narrates MONDO FREUDO, “A world of sex and the strange & unusual laws that govern it.” Featuring Hollywood strippers, Tijuana hookers, London lesbians, Times Square Satanists and topless Watusi clubs. In MONDO BIZARRO, the team’s ‘hidden cameras’ go ‘beyond-the-beyond’ to expose Bahamian voodoo rites, Japanese massage parlors, Nazi theater, and an Arab sex slave auction that looks suspiciously like LA.’s Bronson Canyon. Both films have been scanned in 4k from the original Something Weird 35mm vault negatives.
 
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Audio Commentary with Johnny Legend and Eric Caidin.
The Cadaver Is Infinity: Bob Cresse, Lee Frost and the Birth of American Mondo- Interview with Chris Poggiali .
Mondo BizarroTrailer.
Mondo FreudoTrailer.

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Academy Award®-Winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) tells the provocative story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life, when he struggled to complete The Other Side Of The Wind. It's the untold chapter of one of the greatest careers in film history: defiant and unbowed. 
 
Now Streaming on Netflix.
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Universal’s R-rated “Halloween” refresh is headed for a major opening at the box-office. The David Gordon Green-directed film is eyeing an opening in the $57-65 million range in the U.S., though some analysts say it could hit $70 million.

That’s easily a record launch for the franchise – the 2007 reboot being the biggest previous opening with $26 million. In fact, the new “Halloween” could pass “Hannibal” ($58M) and “The Nun” ($53M) to nab the second best R-rated horror film opening of all time – behind only “IT” ($123M).

Shot for just $10 million, and scoring strong reviews, the film is already set to be hugely profitable – something Universal needs following the disappointing launch of “First Man” last weekend. The new “Halloween” will be released in twenty-one international territories this weekend.

Source: Variety

Rungano Nyoni‘s utterly captivating debut feature I Am Not a Witch centers on 8-year-old Shula (Maggie Mulubwa), a young Zambian girl who’s quickly accused of witchcraft after she shows up in a small village unannounced. A token trial follows; Shula is found guilty and sent to live in a barren, government-run witch camp, where she — like the other women interned there — is always tethered to a large, heavy spool of ribbon, to prevent her from flying off and (presumably) killing someone.

Once Shula decides to opt in on her new status as a witch — her other choice, according to those in charge, is to cut the ribbon and be turned into a goat — she’s embraced by the older women in the camp, who dote on her like a daughter/granddaughter. The affection and attention are nice, as is the status Shula earns when she’s taken to judge civil disputes and her decisions are taken seriously. But she must also face scorn, hostility, and disgust from the locals (and intrusive curiosity from visiting tourists), which ultimately outweigh the positive aspects of the witches’ community.

Viewed by Nyoni as a fairy tale, I Am Not a Witch nevertheless is based on the existence of actual witch camps in Africa; Nyoni, who was born in Zambia before moving to Wales as a young child, stayed in one in Ghana for a month that has been operating for more than 200 years. It’s clear that her research informed the film, which is richly observed and beautifully detailed.
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It’s also gorgeously filmed and full of realistic, lived-in performances, especially Mulubwa’s; her Shula is simultaneously defiant and vulnerable — every inch an old soul in a young body. I Am Not a Witch raises compelling questions about superstition and fear of “the other” and how they can lead to women being blamed for misfortune even in societies that value women and in many ways view them as equal to men. 

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Hulu has announced that its Stephen King anthology show Castle Rock will return for a second season. With its renewal, it will follow a brand-new storyline.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hulu says that Castle Rock is the streaming service’s most “most successful first-season original launch.” When exactly the show will return is yet to be announced.

Dustin Thomason, the show’s executive producer and writer, confirmed to THR that the show is, indeed, an anthology, which means that when the show does come back, it will do so with a new cast and storyline. He adds that it’ll take place in the same universe, true to the show’s impressionist feel:

“In terms of the anthology, each season is going to be its own self-contained story: beginning, middle and end. But I think that just as the books do, we want to surprise viewers with the ways in which the stories intersect. Just as the places the characters pop up in very unexpected ways throughout the books, that’s the kind of anthology that we would like to tell.”

Last October at New York Comic Con, the crew said that season 1 was designed to be a self-contained story, and any second season would “contain a completely new story and cast.”

The show is a bit of a mixtape of Stephen King tropes: the first season follows a nameless man (Bill Skarsgård), who mysteriously appears one day in an abandoned wing of Shawshank Prison, and the lawyer (André Holland) who returns home to try and unravel exactly what makes the town such a magnet for supernatural tragedy. Not only does it feature actors from previous King adaptations, like Skarsgård (Pennywise in the new Itmovies) and Sissy Spacek (Carrie in Carrie), it’s also brimming with Easter eggs for fans of his other books and films.
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King’s works are already set in a sprawling, connected universe (the town of Castle Rock is one of its focal points), so bringing familiar characters into the municipality for a new supernatural adventure is in keeping with both King’s written oeuvre and the show’s eclectic spin on it.

As reported by POLYGON, Mega Man: Fully Charged, the first animated series for the Blue Bomber since a two-season run from 1994-1995, is now fully available on Cartoon Network’s website. The first two episodes are free for anyone to view; the remaining eight require users to log in with valid credentials to a cable or satellite TV provider.

Cartoon Network gave a sneak preview of episode one, “Throwing Shade Part 1,” two weeks ago. In the series, Aki Light — a “regular, upbeat robot schoolboy,” — has the power to turn into Mega Man. He will take on the diabolical Sgt. Night and his Robot Masters with help from Rush the dog and others. The target demographic is school-age children, but nothing’s stopping older kids and kids-at-heart from tuning in.

Fire Man is the antagonist for the first two episodes, whose summaries say culminates with Mega Man adopting his abilities (naturally) to put him out.
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Mega Man: Fully Charged premieres after years of discussion and delay. Plans were first revealed for the show, by Man of Action Entertainment (Ben 10, Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble) back in 2015. It was originally due to premiere in 2017.

As reported by Screen Rant, Neill Blomkamp has confirmed his forthcoming sequel RoboCop Returns will be R-rated. The original RoboCop is a glorious mix of genres, being a sci-fi action movie with large doses of satire, horror and even religious allegory. Director Paul Verhoeven managed to balance all those tones perfectly, and in between the pitch black humor and lashings of bloodshed, he provided a story with great characters and real heart.

Sadly, none of the sequels lived up to the movie’s promise. RoboCop 2 upped the gory violence, but outside of some inspired moments, it proved to be a major disappointment. RoboCop 3 infamously turned to turn the character kid friendly and watered the satire and violence down for a PG-13 rating; it killed the movie series for 20 years. A PG-13 reboot starring Joel Kinnaman and Gary Oldman arrived in 2014, but despite a strong cast and director at the helm, it was a little too neat and clean around the edges to leave much of a mark, and a planned sequel never arrived.

Now it’s been confirmed director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) will take the reins on RoboCop Returns, which will serve as a direct sequel to the 1987 original whilst ignoring the other movies. The script will be based off an unused RoboCop 2 draft from writers Michael Miner and Ed Neumeier, which will be rewritten by Justin Rhodes (Terminator 6). The lack of an R-rating was a huge point of continuation with the most recent RoboCop movies, but in response to a tweet from games designer Cliff Bleszinski, Blomkamp has confirmed the movie won’t be compromising on gore.

This is a small but comforting step since the original RoboCop was fundamentally an adult property. On the surface, Blomkamp is a strong choice for the material, since he’s steeped in love for the genre and all of his previous projects have mixed satire with R-rated violence to some degree. The director has also been flexing his creative muscles with a series of impressive short films from his own production company Oats Studios, including bleak alien invasion story Rakka and monster movie Zygote.

The series could also use a movie that restores the reputation of the character after one too many disappointing sequels, and while there’s no word on casting yet, it would be nice to see original star Peter Weller come back for RoboCop Returns also. Alternate sequels seem to be the hot new property in Hollywood right now, with Halloween 2018 and Terminator 6 both ignoring the mistakes of previous sequels to tell new stories.

RoboCop Returns doesn’t currently have a release date, but we’ll update you as more information arrives.

This special edition bust depicting a zombie-like GG Allin post-death is the first of its kind by Aggronautix.

Based on a illustration by Lou Rusconi, sculpted by Arlen Pellitier, and detailed by Eddie Bradley, this figure is it is hand-painted and limited to just 1000 numbered units. 

Standing at seven inches tall and made of high quality resin, this bust of GG is sure to give you bad dreams and torment all those who come in contact with it! 

The first 100 pre-orders receive exclusive "Live Fast Die" pin!

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hillbilly, a new documentary film that explores the "hillbilly" stereotype and its role in America's current, heated cultural divide between rural and urban communities, is set to make its debut during the 17th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival on June 8th, 9:30 pm PT at the Roxie Theater, and a second showing on June 10th, 2:30 pm PT at the New People Cinema. To buy tickets for either of these showings, please click here.

Appalachia is no stranger to the complexity of media representation. hillbilly takes the viewer on a personal and political journey into the heart of Appalachia, exploring the role of media and culture in the creation of the iconic American "hillbilly," and examining the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of this infamous stereotype.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and and the National Endowment for the Arts, and filmed in California and across the South, hillbilly uncovers an unexpected community of artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, "Affrilachian" poets, and inter-sectional feminists---all unexpected voices emerging from this historically misunderstood region.

hillbilly is a timely and urgent exploration of how we see and think about poverty, southern, and rural identity in contemporary America, offering a call for dialogue between the historically divided populations of Urban and Rural, North and South.

Native Appalachian and Country music superstar Dolly Parton had this to say about the film’s release: “I'm happy to see somebody trying to cover us as we really are and not what some people think we are. It's wonderful the attention you've paid to so many areas that are so important to all of us. I'm proud to have been mentioned in the film a time or two.”

The film’s two directors Ashley York and Sally Rubin, both with Appalachian roots, made this film in order to offer the world a rich and varied point of view of this historically misunderstood region. On the film’s release, the two had this to say:

“We are so gratified to be finally releasing hillbilly, which represents the result of four and a half years of research, fundraising, production, and editing--and several decades of thinking about the issues in the film. Stereotypes about the South and the mountains are hurtful and divisive. We hope our film can ignite change around this issue.”

​Attending the screenings from the film's production team will be: Ashley York, Sally Rubin, Co-Directors/Producers; John Fee, Composer; Ben Caucci, Composer; Samantha Andre, Assistant Editor; Kayla Velloso, Associate Producer; Laurie Coyle, Story Consultant; and Ken Schneider, Additional Editor. 

To learn more about the film, its creators, funders, producers, and advisors please visit hillbillymovie.com or on the official Facebook page.