No sequel to Salò (that I know of). Thankfully no remakes from desperate, would-be extremist filmmakers, but an interesting project inspired by Salò is out there, if tough to come by. In 1997, career controversialist German film and theater director Christoph Schlingensief made 120 Days of Bottrop (a city in western Germany), or 120 Days of...

Is there a holiday I don't know about Today's DVD re-releases: Salò , Cannibal Holocaust , Cannibal Terror , and Delicatessen Salò and Cannibal Holocaust are two of the most reviled (and celebrated, depending) films in history, both often banned and found in most any controversial-films or extremist-braggadocio list, though Entertainment...

Taking a short hiatus. I've been asked to officiate the wedding of good friends, a couple The Apple fans who met at one of my annual Halloween horror-movie parties (/singles mixers, apparently). It's coming up in a couple of weeks, and I'd like to give preparation the better part of my attention. I'll leave you to your own devices to mull over...

On the topic of unlikely video game adaptations, look for an episodic game of Showtime's serial-killer-killer show Dexter to hit iPods and iPhones in the nearish future Since this is a portable-device-exclusive episodic video game adaptation of a TV show based on a series of novels, the announcement was naturally made at ComicCon

With the slo-moriffic Watchmen trailer out now and widely discussed, non-readers will be eager to miss the point further with the upcoming episodic video game prequel. It should be out around the time of the film (March 2009), available in increments on XBox Live, Playstation Network, and for PC. Looks like the game will let you partake of some...

While we're on the topic, and since this blog is in the habit of highlighting these things

Some pictures that didn't make the final draft of Batman Begins post, but which I felt like sharing. You can follow along with the original post, making substitutions as follows fig. 1, uncaring Batman fig. 2, absurd action figure fig. 3, comic-style Scarecrow fig. 4, poetic-license Arkham fig. 5, Gordon v. Flass fig. 6, creepy Batman fig. 1 ...

DON'T BE SCARED An underacted comic book film? Batman Begins is structured, at least for a while, around subtle, understated performances Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Linus Roache in a classy turn like Robert Burke with an imaginable interior. Roache's pleasant performance is more important than his screen time might suggest; as Thomas Wayne,...

Today we get Hellboy II: The Golden Army , which I'm not ashamed to say looks like a lot of fun. It's the second theatrical outing for HB, but the fourth Hellboy film - Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron , feature-length animated flicks, premiered on the Cartoon Network in 2006 and 2007 before hitting DVD. Both are on Netflix's instant-watch...