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Exclusive clips from DVD release of Killers

Matt Rosenberg — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:35:39 +0000

Led by Hollywood favorites Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl and also starring Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara, and Rob Riggle (The Hangover, The Daily Show), this action-packed film can be yours on September 7th via DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Download and On Demand!

Blu-Ray & DVD Special Features:

“Killer Chemistry: Behind the Scenes with the Killers’ Cast” featurette

Gag reel

Deleted / Alternate / Extended Scenes

Here are a couple of the many clips featured on the DVD.

Clip 1 – Elevator:
http://pr.mammothnyc.com/Killers/KillersEPKClipElevator.mov.zip
Clip 2 – Girlfriends:
http://pr.mammothnyc.com/Killers/KillersEPKClipGirlfriends.mov.zip
Clip 3 – Jen, I’m Back:
http://pr.mammothnyc.com/Killers/KillersEPKClipJenI’mBack.mov.zip
Clip 4 – Skeet Shooting
http://pr.mammothnyc.com/Killers/KillersEPKClipSkeetShooting.mov.zip
Clip 5 – Trust Circle
http://pr.mammothnyc.com/Killers/KillersEPKClipTrustCircle.mov.zip

Enjoy

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Snap Review of ‘Black Devil Doll’

Nick Ondras — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:00:09 +0000

I’m unsure quite when this movie was dumped onto DVD. IMDb says 2007; although I’m told it made its world premiere at the New Beverly Theater in Los Angeles in April and has since then played at numerous film festivals. I need to thank /Film writer Hunter Stephenson for turning me onto the movie. After seeing the balls-out insanity that was Black Devil Doll’s trailer I was really excited to check it out. After having finally tracked a copy down, I watched it when I was sick at home last week. Successfully viewing this movie in its entirety and letting it sit in my stomach for a few days, I can honestly say that I would rather have pneumonia than watch this movie again.

Supporting independent films is something I think everybody should do once in a while if not whenever you get a chance to. In fact, Black Devil Doll makes a joke at the beginning of not pirating indie flicks such as itself because it’s such a dying industry already. Jonathan Lewis isn’t a pioneer of individual filmography. Devil Doll is his directorial debut after acting in two movies that aren’t ringing any bells for me. However this is also a good thing. I can’t tell you how many movies I’ve seen without any big names attached that have impressed me, and even go on to be some of my favorite films of all time. With all this in mind, I eagerly popped this into the DVD player I have in my living room only to quickly shut it off. It wasn’t because its quality was bad (yet), it was because it starts off so crudely there’s no way I could have viewed it in daylight hours in a house populated by five other people. In this review I’ll try hard not to reveal any of the bits Black Devil Doll has in store for you, but I will tell you what makes it so bad.

Black Devil Doll is about a convicted African-American rapist who when executed in an electric chair is transported into the body of a ventriloquist dummy. Meanwhile a teenager Heather is bored one Saturday night, so she decides to play with an Ouija board. Believing this to be the reason of the rapist’s soul extortion, she falls in love with him. From then on, the movie divulges into a giant sex orgy between the two of them. And not once does Shawn Lewis and Mitch Mayes’s screenplay explain why repeatedly calling her a “bitch”, telling her to give him oral pleasure, and openly admitting that he did indeed violate fifteen (!) teen girls makes Heather fall in love with the doll. Although one could also argue that it doesn’t make any sense for an Ouija board to summon the deceased into a three-foot piece of wood. That’s reasonable. My problem, however, with Black Devil Doll lies not with its believability. Going into a movie as stupid as this I expected plot holes galore with a storyline that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. This isn’t supposed to be the most dynamic directing, the best screenwriting, or the most spectacular acting. What I did want from Black Devil Doll though was a cool premise (check) and a decent-enough execution, which is where it failed entirely.

Black Devil Doll mocks its X-rating (or whatever rating it got; the DVD says it doesn’t have one) before the film even starts, saying it was graded by an “all-white jury”. Had the movie stayed with that attitude throughout the rest of the movie, it could have been as fun a blacksploitation as Black Dynamite, which also came out in 2009. I don’t want to be the person who gets offended by this and calls it “dumb” without having a logical reason to back up that reasoning, but this movie is, however, extremely dumb. The dialogue is so forced it’s unbearable. Not once, not even twice, but seven times do I see this hand puppet ejaculate in graphic detail. It’s disgusting, that’s what I’m getting at. Black Devil Doll isn’t an exact genre film because it never mocks the main character’s ethnicity like blacksploitation movies usually do. Or we think they do. What makes those types of movies hysterical is the audacity of their stories, which is something that Black Dynamite fully understood and made a great spoof of without coming across as idiotic. Black Devil Doll evolves into something less than a movie.

The acting, like I previously said, is atrocious. Do I care too much about that, though? Not really, but when your consolidated “joke” is for the women to be so attractive it’s “hot” (I guess?) when we see them in the shower or getting a tan, or later even stabbed with a butchers knife. That sounds irrelevant but that’s what Lewis is trying to do here; it’s foolish! These girls are so slutty it’s unbearable. There are countless uncomfortable scenes in which Heather is penetrated by this black devil doll, none of which are remotely necessary. God, I almost threw up watching this pig eat two Big Macs and then in its conclusion rip her shirt open and show us everything. I don’t know who the hell this movie was made for but I guess it wasn’t me. This isn’t a horror movie, it’s not a comedy; it’s nothing. Black Devil Doll is pornography that tosses a little gore into the mix. I haven’t said this about a movie in a long time, but this is such a piece of crap that I hated it.

½ a star out of five stars.

Snap Review of Grizzly Man

Craig Kessler — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:30:01 +0000

Before Bear Grylls took over extreme survival programming on TV, there was Timothy Treadwell. A man with a passion for Grizzly Bears, he took it to the extremes when he decided to dedicate his life to studying these bears for 13 consecutive summers. In the end, he was mauled and eaten by the bears who he claimed to be protecting.

This is such an unusual story centered around an unusual man. He seems like a savior to nature but only ends up puzzling the viewer as you watch his videos and learn about his life and his past troubles. Was this man truly dedicated to nature and helping people learn about the bears. Or was he just a confused and troubled person looking for his own personal identity which he found in a character he created.

This has been a highly debated topic for years, banter away

The Map Reader trailer

Tribulation film

55 Days at Peking trailer

and share your opinions.

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Snap Review of The Express

Craig Kessler — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:09:50 +0000

This is my snap review of the DVD The Express. I watched this with my roommate and we were both pretty disappointed with the movie overall. Listen to the review, let me know what you though of the movie.

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Adaptation. trailer