Posted in: Podcasts by Gino Sassani on October 18th, 2018
Painless is out on DVD from Indican Pictures. 31 Nights Of Terror takes you behind the scenes with writer/director Jordan Horowitz. Joey Klein stars as a man who can't feel pain and Painless covers his desperate search for a cure. I had a nice talk with Jordan Horowitz about the film. he let me in on some nice inside stories. Now you can eavesdrop on the call and you won't even need any help from the NSA. Bang it here to listen to my chat with Jordan Horowitz.
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Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on October 16th, 2018
31 Nights Of Terror delivers yet another giveaway. Indican Pictures has given us a copy of their new horror film Painless. I'll be talking soon to the film's director and writer Jordan Horowitz. Please be sure to give it a listen when we post it. What would you do to end your own pain? That's the question this new horror film puts to the test. Enter to win a copy and find out the answer.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 15th, 2018
"All things change. This world is impermanent and deceiving. Many things are not what they seem. You will have many adventures here. And if we live, many stories to tell at the Great Hall. If we live."
When Vikings started five years ago, I found it to be quite an ambitious task for a network that usually featured documentaries and reality shows about odd jobs. I approached this one with some caution. Now I've thrown caution to the wind for these compelling characters. I was particularly drawn into the lead. Travis Fimmel was outstanding as the Viking leader Ragnor Lothbrook. When his character was killed off after three years, I suspected things would be winding down for this experiment. I could not have been more wrong. Alex Hogh Andersen plays Ivar, his crippled son, who rises to be more powerful and more brutal that Ragnor ever was. The actor shares many of Fimmel's characteristics, both in his physical look and the way he carries himself. It's one of the most perfect father-and-son casting pairs I've ever encountered. Because of Andersen, the show has been reborn, and there's still a lot of life in this series. The release of the first half of Season 5 is another strong contribution to your home entertainment library.
Posted in: The Reel World by Gino Sassani on October 14th, 2018
"That's one small step for (a) man. One giant leap for mankind."
July 20th, 1969. If you were alive and even somewhat old enough to be aware of your surroundings, you likely still remember that date. There are many such dates in history; unfortunately so many of them revolve around tragic events like 9-ll or the attack on Pearl Harbor. But on that night I was eight years old, and I know exactly where I was. I was watching Walter Cronkite on television as he brought us the first landing on the surface of the moon. Today that's a bittersweet memory. For an 8-year old boy it was a promise that has remained unfulfilled. If you had told that 8-year old who just saw humans walking on the moon that 50 years later we would have gone no further, he would have been dumbfounded. If you told him that not only would we go no further, but that we would stop going to the moon in just a few short years, he would have been devastated. I can only imagine what that first man on the moon thought about it all so many years later. The truth is that Neil Armstrong never traded on his celebrity. He kept mostly to himself for the rest of his life, and perhaps the only tragedy larger than our abandonment of the pursuit he risked his life for is that we know so little about the man whose name lives with the likes of Columbus. He's almost a forgotten hero. That's why First Man is such an important film that almost lives up to that legacy.
Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on October 14th, 2018
31 Nights Of Terror just keeps giving and giving. This time our buddies at Mill Creek offer you a Joan Crawford horror double feature. Get William Castle's Strait-Jacket and Berserk on Blu-ray. Crawford is known for her real-life mother/daughter issues and these films put a killer edge on mothers and daughters. It's all yours for the taking.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 12th, 2018
Dwayne Johnson appears to be a pretty busy guy. In addition to the HBO series Ballers about to enter its fourth season, Johnson puts out a couple or more films a year. We're not talking about small independent films, but rather huge, high-budget and big f/x films. Next year will see Jungle Cruise and Jumanji 2, following with San Andreas 2, Suicide Squad 2, Black Adam, and a remake of Big Trouble In Little China, all arriving in the next couple of years. This year saw Rampage, which comes to home video next week. It's a busy life for Dwayne Johnson, who appears to have dropped "The Rock" from his name. I sure hope it didn't hit anyone on the head. Now he's starring in Skyscraper, which shamelessly combines elements of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno. In Skyscraper, Johnson shows us that he's intent on hanging around for a while... this time from 220 stories high.
This time around Johnson plays Will Sawyer, who used to be a SWAT team member until his last mission turned on a bad call and left him badly burned and with a missing leg. Ten years later he's recovered from the burns and is married with two kids to the nurse who took care of him back when he was injured, played by Neve Campbell. He runs his own security company and is about to get the biggest break of his second life. Another injured member of his old team, Ben (Schreiber), works for a wealthy Hong Kong building designer and gets Will the coveted job of certifying the building’s security and safety protocols for the insurance underwriters. He's just about to finish the job when he discovers there might be some grudges from his bad call, and there are absolutely some grudges against billionaire builder Zhaoa Long Ji (Han), and some nasty players have used him to disable the fire suppressant system and set fire to the 96th floor. It's not just his honor at stake now. He's been framed as the culprit, and his family is still in the building.
Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on October 11th, 2018
31 Nights Of Terror is a time for giving. That means contests and goodies for you guys. This time Kino has given us a copy of an old classic staring Jaclyn Smith, Robert Mitchum, and James Franciscus. It's called Nightkill, and it's been remastered for HD. And now you can check it out for yourself.
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Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 9th, 2018
"Acting is a very face-forward type of job. It's in direct conflict to being someone who anonymously kills people. You want to have a hobby or something, you could take up painting. Hitler painted. John Wayne Gacy painted. It's a good solid hobby. Never got in the way of what they were doing. You wanna have to go out there and burn a guy and have him say 'Hey, there's the guy from the chicken commercial?' "
Not since Dexter have serial killers been so much fun. Barry Berkman isn't exactly a serial killer. He's a hit-man, but you get my meaning. The new HBO black comedy Barry is the kind of show where you find yourself laughing but then catch yourself thinking, "That's not really funny." Of course, it is funny. It amuses you. This just might be the politically-incorrect hit of the year. HBO is delivering all eight half-hour episodes on a single disc with the release of Barry: Season One on DVD.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 9th, 2018
"We gather here today to remind ourselves what happens to the enemies of Wonkru. It doesn't matter who you are, if you choose sides against us, if you divide us, if you defy us then you are not us. Before we give these traitors a second chance to be called brother, sister or seda, we pay tribute to those who have died, so that we may live."
And there have been a lot of those folks. The series title once referred to the 100 teens who were sent to the surface of Earth a hundred years after a nuclear war to find out if it was habitable once again. By the time we reach the end of Season 5, there will only be four members of the 100 remaining alive. The title might have lost its meaning by now, but this season will literally take us to a completely new world before it's finished. Fox brings you the complete fifth season of The 100, and the ride isn't quite over yet.
Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on October 9th, 2018
31 Nights Of Terror continues to roll with another giveaway. This time it's our old buddies at FOX that have given us a treat for our readers. They've given us a copy of American Horror Story: Cult on DVD for a lucky reader. It's the entire season on 3 DVD's and it's all up for grabs.
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