Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy are one of the most revered teams in comics history. Although best known for their classic work on Master of Kung Fu, they also teamed on James Bond, Batman, Predator, Six from Serius and many other comic runs including Slash Maraud.
We Talk Comics loves Slash Maraud and got Moench and Gulacy back together to talk about it.
Here we have the poster and trailer for Cut Throat City. The poster is pretty generic but the trailer shows a bit more promise… especially the character played by Wesley Snipes.
How cool is this Bride of Frankenstein painting by Alex Ross? As cool as it is, this is still my favorite Alex Ross painting… but The Bride is a close second.
You can see more Universal Monster paintings by Alex Ross here and here thanks to Cool Comic Art.
TCM is running a Kirk Douglas Movie Marathon Tribute starting at 6am on March 5th. Here’s the schedule…
My favorites are Along the Great Divide at 12:15, immediately followed by Out of the Past and then Spartacus at 9:45.
Check out this trailer for Gangs of London. If you like crime and action films, you should like this!
I really like Alex Bodin’s bold poster for The Irishman. I think this is the first piece I’ve ever seen from Bodin, but I’ll be on the lookout for more.
Source: Alternative Movie Poster Movement.
Sly Stallone is attached to star in Little America which is set to star filming this summer.
Set in a dystopian future where America has become bankrupt and turned into a war zone, Sly will play a former Army Ranger hired by an Asian billionaire to find his daughter.
With the highly skilled sister of the missing woman along for the ride, Sly’s Ranger must navigate the dark underbelly of Little America, a walled-off city within a city in Hong Kong where many Americans have fled.
Rowan Athale will direct from his own screenplay. Michael Bay is set to serve as Executive Producer.
For more details check out Deadline.
Tony Stella created another great poster with his take on The Most Dangerous Game. You can see a bigger version at Stella’s Twitter.
First published in 1924, The Most Dangerous Game began life as an award-winning short story by Richard Connell. Over the years The Most Dangerous Game became required reading in schools across the nation. I was in 9th grade when I first read it. The Most Dangerous Game was the most popular of all our assigned reading assignments.
Over the years The Most Dangerous Game has been adapted for movies, television and even radio. Tony Stella’s poster is for the first movie adaption. Made in 1932, the adaptation starred Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong with the team of Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper behind the camera (Schoedsack and Cooper would go on to make King Kong the following year).
I highly recommend The Most Dangerous Game (both the short story, now in public domain, and the 1932 movie).
Herman Mudgett took the name Henry Howard Holmes when he moved to Chicago to begin work as a pharmacist. He took on the new identity because he was on the run from as a suspect in some unexplained murders. Rather than start a new uneventful life, Holmes instead continued his killing spree, which earned him the title of America’s First Serial Killer.
Holmes famously built a rooming house that has been called a Horror Hotel and Murder Castle. He hired workers and fired them after they completed sections of the building. This was so none but Holmes would know the layout and the horrors hiding within. There were secret passageways, spots to spy on unsuspecting guests and rooms designed for murder.
The year was 1893 and the World’s Fair was in Chicago. Rooms were at a premium and Holmes had new potential victims arriving daily. After he was caught Holmes confessed to 27 murders but some folks put the actual number closer to 200.
Cheish Merryweather at Listverse posted 10 Horrifying Facts About H. H. Holmes’ Hotel. If you’ve read this far, you’ll probably want to click over.
I also recommend The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. It’s an award-winning novel chock full about facts about you know who and his horror hotel.
Robert Conrad died today at age 84. Conrad best known for acting was also a singer, writer and director. Although he starred in feature films, it was Conrad’s television roles that made him a star. First with Hawaiian Eye, then his biggest hit, The Wild, Wild West and later The D.A., Black Sheep Squadron, A Man Called Sloane and High Mountain Rangers.
But it was The Wild, Wild West that Conrad’s fans loved the most. Perfectly cast as James West who partnered with Artemus Gordon (played by Ross Martin, also perfectly cast) as spies in the old west. The show ran for four seasons and was still doing well in the ratings when it was cancelled by CBS in an effort to reduce network violence. The Wild, Wild West was so popular in re-runs that two tv movies were made over a decade later.
Conrad was a member of the Stuntman’s Hall of Fame and winner of the Distinguished Service Award in Broadcasting.
On a personal note, the death of Robert Conrad is heartbreaking. I can’t tell you how many times I pretended to be James West as a kid or how many times I’ve watched each episode of The Wild, Wild West. It’s still set to be recorded daily on my dvr (and I own the complete series on dvd). A huge piece of my childhood died with him.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Robert Conrad’s family, friends and fans.
How about Steven Chorney’s poster for Bullitt! If you’d like to see a larger version, click over to Alternative Movie Poster Movement. If you’d like to check out more of Chorney’s art (and why wouldn’t you?) – click over to his site.
Kevin Conway, the multi-talented actor who appeared in movies, on television and the stage died Wednesday, February 5th of a heart attack.
I first became aware of Mr. Conway when I saw him in back-to-back Sylvester Stallone films. First up was FIST where Conway played Vince Doyle, a local mobster who provides Johnny Kovak (Stallone) with some “muscle” against the trucking company’s strike breakers. A few months later Conway and Stallone appeared together again, this time in Paradise Alley. Conway was a small town gangster but this time he and Stallone were adversaries.
What I didn’t know at the time was that Conway had already made appearances on Broadway, television and films! Conway was still acting in movies and television as well as doing voice work for commercials, trailers and documentaries up until his death at age 77. Some of Conway’s best known roles include his work in Mystic River, The Quick and the Dead, 13 Days and Gettysburg.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Kevin Conway’s family, friends and fans.
Here’s the poster and trailer for The Vast of Night. Looks interesting. I wish the poster had more of a UFO or unexplained vibe to it.
In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret reels of tape forgotten in a library, switchboards, crossed patchlines and an anonymous phone call lead Fay and Everett on a scavenger hunt toward the unknown.
Written by James Montague and Craig W. Sanger, directed by Andrew Patterson. The Vast Of Night is coming soon to theaters and Prime Video.
Here’s the teaser for Kingdom, Season 2 which premieres March 13th on Netflix.
The 2 Graves in the Desert has both a drive-in movie and pulp novel feel to it and that’s a good thing.
When Eric wakes up, tied and gagged in the trunk of a truck, it’s instantly clear he’s been kidnapped. However soon he discovers he’s accompanied by a young woman, Blake, another hostage. Neither can recall how they ended up in this dire situation, and together they desperately try and get any help they can. With no helping coming, and as things become more and more hopeless, it soon becomes fearfully apparent that there is more going on than it first seems. The two kidnappers have their own agenda, and it’s not a pleasant one… Starring Michael Madsen and William Baldwin, 2 Graves In The Desert is a cold thriller set on the blazing road to Las Vegas, provoking the ultimate question – is there any way the hostages can escape alive?
