When I first saw the poster for The Shrine, a new serious-toned feature about the occult, it quickly earned a mental note. The poster's ominous imagery (as seen bel0w) perfectly tapped the exploration of a foreign-born religio-horror without giving anything away. And though I later discovered that the film is set in a fictional village…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD is a new column on /Film compiling all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry’s. BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT (Available as single-disc and 2-Disc Special Editions) What The Animatrix did for The Matrix, Gotham Knight does for Nolan’s…
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I've been excited about Carter Smith's big screen adaptation of Scott B. Smith's novel The Ruins since the project was first announced. The previous adaptation of a Smith novel, A Simple Plan directed by Sam Raimi, was an incredibly underrated character piece, and an even better thriller. The Ruins is more of a horror thriller…
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Bloody Disgusting has a snapshot of the new poster for Carter Smith's adaptation of Scott Smith's bestselling novel The Ruins (you can watch the previously released movie trailer here). As always, we cleaned the snapshot photo up in photoshop for your viewing pleasure. I'm really digging the one-sheet. The Ruins follows two American couples, just…
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In going along with Peter's "rant" about what constitutes a spoiler on the Internets, I'm not sure if the following quote from director Carter Smith about The Ruins is one or not. If you've read the book by Scott Smith, it's definitely not, and the info should please you. But if you haven't, you'll know…
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DreamWorks has released a movie trailer for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Scott Smith's bestselling novel The Ruins. Smith is of course the critically-acclaimed author and screenwriter of A Simple Plan. The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico , who become entangled…
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"The book of the summer. . . . No quietly building, Ruth Rendell-style suspense here; Smith intends to scare the bejabbers out of you, and succeeds. There are no chapters and no cutaways-The Ruins is your basic long scream of horror. It does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches in 1975.…
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I'm in LA La Land covering junkets, and the news is pretty thin, so I've decided to run with some of the interesting release date change announcements. First up is Vin Diesel's sci-fi film Babylon A.D. We mentioned this film last night because the teaser poster premiered at ShowEast. Mathieu Kassovitz's film was scheduled to…
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Mark Steven Johnson explains why Ghost Rider sucks so bad: "It was a hard R and bleak in my opinion, Johnson says of David Goyer's early script. "But then the studio says to you, 'I'm going to let you make your movie, your vision, but you've got to make sure it's a PG-13. We've got…
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