The Flickcast

‘Four Lions’ Begins A Screening And Q & A Tour

Posted on October 26, 2010

Although we haven’t had a chance to see Four Lions yet, we have heard plenty of buzz about the film, and it has all been good. Now Drafthouse Films is sending the director, Chris Morris, on a screening and Q&A tour. The best part? It’s all open to the public.

Four Lions has received high praise on the festival circuit, including Sundance and South By Southwest. Chris Morris has been involved in comedy for over twenty years. He began his career as a BBC correspondant, and later specialized in media satires. This is his first feature film.

Synopsis: Chris Morris’ Four Lions is a funny, thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. And it understands human beings as innately ridiculous.

The film will make stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, and New York. For more information, visit the official Four Lions website. You can watch the embedded trailer after the jump. The film opens in limited release on November 5.

See ‘All Good Things’ A Month Before It Hits Theaters

Posted on October 26, 2010

More and more movie studios are using unconventional methods to distribute their movies, and it gives us a lot more options than we ever had before. It used to be that if you didn’t live on one of the coasts, or in a huge city, you could never catch an independent or arthouse film while it ran in theaters. You had to wait months and months for the film to be released on DVD.

Now, we are seeing more and more movies getting a “pre-theatrical release” via On Demand. You can choose an outlet, pay a minimal fee, and watch the movie in the comfort of your home.

Ryan Gosling’s latest film, All Good Things, will make it’s debut On Demand on November 5, a full month before it shows in theaters. The movie also stars Kirsten Dunst, Kristin Wiig, Frank Langella, and Philip Baker Hall.

Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans) directs and produces the film. Jarecki also produced this year’s Sundance hit Catfish.

Synopsis: Inspired by the most notorious missing persons case in New York history, All Good Things is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980’s.

You can watch the official trailer embedded after the jump. The movie will be available On Demand via Amazon, Play Station 3, ATT Uverse, Xbox 360, and more. For a complete list of available outlets, visit the Magnolia website.

Marvel Comics On Sale This Week

Posted on October 26, 2010

This week brings new ones from our friends at Marvel. Among the ones dropping this week that we are particularly excited about are Avengers #6, Captain America #611, Secret Warriors #21 and Ultimate Avengers 3 issue #3.

As they usually do, comics hit stores on Wednesday this week. So, head over early to your favorite comics shop for best selection.

Don’t know where your nearest comic shop is? Use this handy guide to find one.

Check out the list of comics you can get below.

Comics On-Sale:

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646 SPIDEY VS. VARIANT
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646 VAMPIRE VARIANT
ANITA BLAKE: CIRCUS OF THE DAMNED – THE CHARMER #5
AVENGERS & THE INFINITY GAUNTLET #3
AVENGERS #6
AVENGERS VS. PET AVENGERS #1
AVENGERS VS. PET AVENGERS #1 HARDMAN VARIANT
BLACK WIDOW #7
BLACK WIDOW #7 VAMPIRE VARIANT
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 VAMPIRE VARIANT
CAPTAIN AMERICA: PATRIOT #3
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #888

Get Your Zombie On With 3 Special Clips From ‘Community’

Posted on October 26, 2010

With a lot of hope from the fans, zombies are starting to break their way into the mainstream media. If AMC’s The Walking Dead hitting TV boxes across the country in about a week will have as much of an impact as their planning, then zombie fans have nothing to worry about.

As usual, here to play the advocate for all things nerdy and obscure to a network television audience, Community is getting in the Halloween spirit this Thursday night with a special zombie-themed episode. Here’s the breakdown.

Pierce (Chevy Chase) and a few other Greendale students ingest a biohazard substance at the school Halloween Party, causing them to exhibit flu-like symptoms and begin turning into zombies. It is up to the rest of the gang to save themselves and the school when Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) locks them in with the zombie-infected student body.

Awesome enough for you? We didn’t think so. Check out a few clips from the episode that set it all up after the jump, and be sure to catch Community this Thursday at 8pm ET.

Warner Bros. Buys Film All About The Fictional ACME Warehouse

Posted on October 26, 2010

Ever wonder how a company that makes purposefully faulty equipment that lands Wile E. Coyote in countless quagmires stays in business? Well, Warner Bros has the same question on their mind, as they just picked up a script for a film that will take place entirely in the ACME warehouse made famous by hundreds of Looney Tune cartoons.

The script comes from Dan and Kevin Hegeman, who’s previous work include Hotel Transylvania and Chris Columbus’ The Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom. They may not have a list of big credits under their belt, but they sure have moxie. Here’s the rundown from THR.

The Hageman brothers came up with the idea to build a feature film around the fictional ACME warehouse — the manufacturer of anything and everything used by many of the Looney Tunes characters, most fatefully Wile E. Coyote in his quest to catch the Road Runner. The writers brought their concept to producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee, who helped develop the project further.

‘Sphereplay’ Makes It Okay To Play With Your Balls

Posted on October 26, 2010

Everyone likes to have an interesting toy sitting in their cubicle. Sometimes you need it to help relax after tackling a difficult problem. Sometimes you need a good icebreaker for conversations with new coworkers. And sometimes you just want to play with your balls.

While 99 times out of 100, this would get you fired from a job, Sphereplay allows players to use a custom designed and weighted sphere that can roll and balance across a person’s entire body. What seems like a very basic concept ends up becoming incredibly addicting as each Sphere comes with a instructional DVD tearing 55 moves that can be done with the simple sphere.

Starting out with just rolling the sphere over your fingers, most coordinated people can quickly have it moving over their hands, up and down their arms and ever over their whole body. The company claims that enough time with Sphereplay will help improve coordination, dexterity and balance. From our time with it, that definitely seems to be the case but, a word of warning: Don’t try sphereplay at first next to an expensive computer or television as the sphere sometimes seems to have a mind of its own and will make its way from your hands.

Make sure to take a peek below at one of the Sphereplay experts showing us his moves from NYCC and check out www.sphereplay.com for information on getting your own!

It’s Good To Be Bad With 3 More Clips From ‘Megamind’

Posted on October 26, 2010

Yesterday, we brought you 3 awesomely hilarious clips from next weekend’s big animated release, Megamind, and if you didn’t think that was enough, we have 3 more for you.

We have more than enough faith in most things super hero these days, but when the film is opening against Skyline and Due Date, expect it to either blow everything out of the water, or get left behind in a race between Hangover fans and sci-fi fans.

Megamind has enough name credit behind itself to make a big enough splash, but fighting names like Robert Downey Jr. and a bunch of explosions, it may be a tough sell for November.

If you’re still teetering on which movie to spend your $10 on, check out some great new clips for the film after the jump, and be sure to make your decision by November 5th.

War Movie Mondays: ‘Apocalypse Now’

Posted on October 25, 2010

This week’s pick takes us back into the heart of darkness with Francis Ford Coppola’s riveting Vietnam classic Apocalypse Now (1979). The film was written by Coppola and John Milius, along with brilliant narration written by Michael Herr. The movie was based off of Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness about a man who is sent on a mission to kill a rogue ivory trader in the heart of nineteenth century Africa.

Coppola and Milius loved the story and decided to set the film during the Vietnam War. The film stars Martin Sheen (Captain Benjamin Willard), Marlon Brando (Col. Walter E. Kurtz), Dennis Hopper (Photo Journalist), Robert Duvall (Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore), Albert Hall (Chief), Frederic Forrest (Chef), Sam Bottoms (Lance Johnson), Laurence Fishburne (Mr. Clean), Harrison Ford (Col. Lucas), and G.D. Spradlin (Lt. Gen. Corman).

Apocalypse Now has always been considered the quintessential Vietnam war movie not only for the sheer scope of the film, but because the production was just as massive as the war itself. Coppola had raised over twelve million dollars (eight million of which through his own company American Zoetrope) through investors and outside sources to begin producing the film in late 1975 after the release of the highly anticipated The Godfather II.

Coppola’s two friends George Lucas and Steven Spielberg contacted their friend and fellow film maker John Milius to see if he would be willing to write a story that blended most of Conrad’s themes, and the horrors of the Vietnam conflict into one solid script. Milius had written a Vietnam story in the late sixties and had shelved the idea once his directing career had taken off. Coppola told Milius to “put everything you ever wanted in a war movie before into the script.” The result was an absolute masterpiece.

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