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The American Manga Awards announced its 35 nominees across seven categories, ahead of the 2025 ceremony scheduled to take place on Aug 21 at the Japan Society in Manhattan.

This year’s ceremony is being held in conjunction with Anime NYC, which is expected to attract over 100,000 fans to the Jacob K. Javits Center from Aug 21-24, 2025.

Titles such as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, Ashita no Joe, and The Apothecary Diaries are among this year’s nominees, which span seven categories: Best New Manga, Best Continuing Series, Best One-Shot Manga, Best New Edition of Classic Manga, Best Translation, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.

The award aims to recognize and honor manga creators, stories, and the publishing professionals who bring them to readers in the US & Canada.

Here is the full list of the nominees:

Best New Manga

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Do you love a wacky horror comedy? We mean a really wacky horror comedy. If you answered with an enthusiastic ‘yes,’ we have a Guillermo del Toro-endorsed recommendation that may just be right up your alley. We’re talking about the oddball gore-fest Brain Damage. See directly below for the beloved filmmaker’s endorsement, which comes from a Tweet he sent out a few years back.

The Pacific Rim director is not kidding when he references the film’s twisted sensibilities. It’s about a psychedelic eel-esque monster that feeds on the lead character’s brain. And that’s really just scratching the surface.

The setup for this horror comedy goes as follows:

A young man called Brian discovers a disgusting parasite has attached itself to his brain stem. He becomes addicted to the hallucinogenic euphoria it produces, but in return, he must feed it human victims.

With that added narrative context,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

We’re presenting an Ib Technicolor print of Howard Hawks’ Hatari! this Friday and Sunday; Friday also brings Mad Max: Fury Road on 35mm and Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies); prints of John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan play on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

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The Sealed Soil begins playing in a new restoration (watch our trailer debut).

Museum of the Moving Image

Cassavetes’ Gloria plays Saturday and Sunday; Raiders of the Lost Ark and prints of Hooper and Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior screen in “See It Big: Stunts!“; Troma’s Curse of the Weredeer shows on Saturday, while films by Nadia Shahib are presented on Sunday.

IFC Center

Ran continues screening in a 40th-anniversary restoration; Before Sunrise and Goodfellas play daily; Children of Men, To Live and Die in L.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

IFC Center

Ran begins screening in a 40th-anniversary restoration; Goodfellas and Withnail and I play daily; Wanda screens Friday and Sunday, with Children of Men on the former day; To Live and Die in L.A., Brain Damage, In the Realm of the Senses, and Liquid Sky show late.

Roxy Cinema

Paranormal Activity plays on 35mm this Friday; Fail Safe and a 16mm print of Prime Cut show on Saturday; Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies) and Kore-eda’s After Life (with Kiarostami’s short Solution) screen on Sunday.

Museum of the Moving Image

Police Story and prints of The Great Waldo Pepper and Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior screen in “See It Big: Stunts!“; Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird plays on Saturday and Sunday with special guests.

Japan Society

The Mikio Naruse retrospective continues.

Film at Lincoln Center

A career-spanning Kira Muratova retrospective continues.

Drake says Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster hit “Not Like Us” crossed the line when it accused him of “one of the most vile behaviors imaginable” – being a criminal pedophile. Universal Music Group says Drake is the one who went too far when he sued his own label for defamation for distributing the Grammy-winning song.

“Plaintiff, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated. Instead of accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims to be,...

Poo on the porch.

After concluding January with with our first foray into the world of Frank Henenlotter in Brain Damage (listen) and revisiting Brian De Palma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie (listen), we’re entering February with a look at Tom Ford‘s Academy Award-nominated thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016).

In Nocturnal Animals, art gallery owner Susan (Amy Adams) receives a manuscript for a new novel written by her first husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). As she reads it, she begins to see the similarities between it and their former relationship, unaware that the book serves as Edward’s ultimate revenge against Susan for the unforgivable, marriage-ruining act that she committed all those years ago.

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Everything’s Coming Up Carrie!

January proved to be a busy, varied month on Horror Queers. We kicked off 2025 with a look at Sophia Takal’s examination of toxic friendships in Into the Dark: “New Year, New You” (listen), tackled Quentin Tarantino’s half of the Grindhouse double feature with Death Proof (listen), revisited George Waggner’s 1941 classic The Wolf Man (listen), then begged for Aylmer’s juice in Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage (listen).

To wrap up January, we’re taking Carrie White to prom in Brian De Palma‘s adaptation of Stephen King‘s debut novel, Carrie. The classic film about telekinesis follows timid, bullied Carrie (Sissy Spacek) struggling to fit in at high school and get out from under the thumb of her overbearing religious mother (Piper Laurie).

Unexpected kindness arrives courtesy of popular girl Sue Snell (Amy Irving), who volunteers her boyfriend Tommy (William Katt) to take Carrie to prom.

Roger Waters has announced a massive box set including studio and live versions of The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, his re-imagining of the legendary Pink Floyd album.

The comprehensive Super Deluxe Edition arrives March 14th and contains the studio recordings of The Dark Side of the Moon Redux on multiple formats including single LP vinyl, CD, and Blu-ray. Additionally, select songs — “Money,” “Time,” “Speak to Me,” “Breathe,” and “Us and Them” — have been pressed to separate standalone 10-inch vinyl at 45 Rpm for maximum fidelity.

The collection also includes live versions of The Dark Side of the Moon Redux culled from Waters’ appearances at The London Palladium on October 8th and 9th, 2023. These come on CD and vinyl, with the aforementioned Blu-Ray containing concert video as well as high-res 24-bit audio of the performances.

“All that is gone, all that’s to come?” said Waters of the box set via a press release.

Beg For My Juice

Trace and I have had another wild month on Horror Queers. We kicked off 2025 with a look at Sophia Takal’s examination of toxic friendships in Into the Dark: “New Year, New You” (listen), then crossed off Quentin Tarantino’s half of the Grindhouse double feature with a discussion of Death Proof (listen). After tackling George Waggner’s 1941 classic The Wolf Man (listen) to tie in to Leigh Whannell’s new film, we’re sucking the juice out of our very first Frank Henenlotter film with 1988’s Brain Damage.

In the film, Brian (Rick Hearst) discovers a parasite named Aylmer (voiced by John Zacherle) has attached itself to his brain stem. Brian becomes addicted to the psychedelic euphoria Aylmer’s blue “juice” gives him, but in return, the slug demands to be fed human victims.

As his (ex) girlfriend Barbara (Jennifer Lowry) and brother Mike (Gordon MacDonald...

Fog fetish.

After concluding 2024 with a look at toxic friendships in Into the Dark: “New Year, New You” (listen) and kicking off 2025 by concluding the Grindhouse double feature that we started last summer with a look at Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof (listen) we’re heading back to the world of Universal Monsters in George Waggner‘s 1941 classic The Wolf Man.

In The Wolf Man, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) returns to Wales to reconcile with his father (Claude Rains) after his brother’s death. While there, he puts the moves on Gwen (Evelyn Ankers), the shopkeeper of a nearby antique shop. The night after he purchases a silver walking cane from Gwen, Larry is attacked and bitten by a vicious wolf, which he then kills. Larry eventually learns that the wolf he killed was, in fact, a man (Bela Lugosi), and that Larry has now inherited a curse...

There are certain types of media that could have only come from one person. Something so specific and out there that only a beautiful, twisted mind like director Frank Henenlotter could have conjured it. Today, we’re talking about one of those movies. A movie that answered a question we’ve all asked at some point in our lives… ”What if Frankenstein were a hooker?” This is the story of what happened to Frankenhooker.

Director Frank Henenlotter hit the streets of New York City for his follow up to Brain Damage and Basket Case with a hankering for something different this time around. His newest film would stay in and around the horror genre of course but would lean further into the comedy aspect of his writing prowess. The idea of which came from an improvisation that took place at a pitch meeting for an entirely different film. According to Henenlotter,...

Eminem Reflects On Relationship With Mother (Photo Credit – YouTube/Facebook)

Eminem’s mother, Debbie Nelson, died of lung cancer. Since his major-label debut, The Slim Shady LP, Eminem has often spoken about his difficult upbringing and complicated feelings about his mother. He continued featuring his mother in his rap music over the years, which led to a few responses from Debbie Nelson herself, including legal action and a memoir.

Eminem was at his most caustic in “Cleaning Out My Closet.” However, he’d become more apologetic and conciliatory by the time of The Marshall Mathers LP2.

Read on to find out how Eminem’s love-hate relationship with his mother featured in his music.

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These days the horror genre is one of the only ways to get a thoughtful, original story made in Hollywood. But believe it or not, there were those who used to be ashamed to take part in the genre. Basket Case and Frankenhooker director Frank Henenlotter was never one of those people. He basked in it. And though it may not be his most famous film, the film we’re going to cover today might be his grossest, funnest, and most thought provoking of all them. Featuring heavy drug references, a phallic parasite, and a scene so twisted it made some of the crew walk off the set. This is what happened to Brain Damage.

Seasoned 80s horror fans and monster movie aficionados may look back at Basket Case as a decently known cult commodity. Not enough so at the time that its director, Frank Henenlotter was given a huge budget for his next production.

Before General Hospital‘s Rick Hearst ever starred in a daytime soap, he kicked off his career as the lead in a horror movie. Yes, before he was Scotty Banning on Days of Our Lives and Alan-Michael Spaulding on Guiding Light, he was Brian in a horror flick called Brain Damage. Brian and Brain — you see what they did there? Anyway, the movie was about a young man who wakes up to find that he has a disgusting little creature attached to his brain stem. Yikes.

Just Desserts

The 1988 film served as Hearst’s debut acting role. And last weekend, the Emmy-winning actor appeared at a horror convention in Houston, Texas, where he celebrated the cult classic about a talking parasite with fans. Hearst also celebrated the 35-year-old flick with cookies. Designed by @cakesbyjennifer210, the delicious dessert featured the actor’s face.

Hearst posted about the sweet, surreal situation on his Instagram account,...

Relax, relate, release. According to Variety, Netflix is developing a sequel series for the seminal sitcom A Different World. Details are scarce, but Variety says the project focuses on Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitney’s (Jasmine Guy) daughter. On the project’s ground floor is writer and executive producer Felicia Pride, whose impressive list of work includes Grey’s Anatomy and Queen Sugar. Debbie Allen, Mandy Summers, Tom Werner, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Reggie Bythewood join the effort as executive producers. Netflix will neither confirm nor deny the project’s status.

A Different World ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993 and revolved around a group of students at a historically Black university. The show focuses on their struggles and up-and-coming youths in a world trying to keep pace with their radical ideas and worldview. The show is a spinoff of The Cosby Show, with Lisa Bonet’s Denise Huxtable leading the cast.

The creature feature, at its most basic, is simply a horror movie in which a monster plays a prominent role as the primary antagonist; the term says it all. It’s the creature part that’s loose for interpretation, of course. A creature feature could be anything from carnivorous aliens from space to manmade monsters to genetically altered animals run amok.

This week’s streaming picks highlight creature features from the glorious age of practical effects: the ’80s. These five horror titles run the gamut in tone, style, and creature, showcasing just how nebulous and varied the creature feature can be. Whether you’re in the mood for quirky parasites with personality or lust that turns monstrous, these ’80s creature features go big on practical effects. Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Alligator – AMC+, freevee, Night Flight+, Peacock,...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, Classic Vinyl (Ch. 26) is counting down the mega-titles from the First Generation of Classic Rock — according to you, our listeners!

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Directions: Since freedom to cast your vote is an integral part of Independence Day, that’s what we need! Select your 25 favorite songs from the list below. It’s a randomized list so every voter will see it differently. You may vote once between now and June 30 at 11:59pm Et.

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To celebrate the release of Basket Case on Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray available from 29th April, we have a Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray to give away to a lucky winner!

The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter, 1982’s Basket Case is a riotous and blood-spattered “midnight movie” experience, now presented for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.

Duane Bradley seems like a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed creature who lives in a wicker basket. Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at a seedy hotel, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation.

Filmed on a shoestring budget against the backdrop of 1980s New York (where it played on the midnight movie circuit for over two-and-a-half years), Basket Case has clawed its way from...

Ah, the world of B-movies – a delightful realm where absurdity reigns supreme, and “so bad it’s good” is the highest form of praise. For those who relish in the unique charm of cult classics, Tubi stands as a beacon of cinematic oddities, offering an eclectic mix of films that are as entertaining as they are eccentric. Diving into this treasure trove, we’ve curated a list of the ten best B-movies on Tubi, where cult horror movies meet their match in sheer, unadulterated fun. From killer vegetables to demonic winds, this lineup is a testament to the creative (and sometimes bewildering) genius of filmmakers unbound by the conventions of mainstream cinema.

Navigating the sea of cult films on Tubi can be a daunting task, but fear not! Our meticulously compiled selection is your passport to a world where the peculiar becomes the norm, and the extraordinary is just another Tuesday.

Stars: Charlee Danielson, Anthony Sneed, Remedy, Tom Kohut, James Shell, Vivian Sanchez, R.A. The Rugged Man, Ginger Starr, J-Zone | Written and Directed by Frank Henenlotter

Director Frank Henenlotter is a cult horror legend. But after making the cult classics Basket Case, Brain Damage, Basket Case 2, Frankenhooker and finally, Basket Case 3, he disappeared. After 17 years in 2008, he returned and made another film, the black comedy (kinda) body horror Bad Biology. And now, almost another 17 years later again, Bad Biology is getting a 4K Uhd release from Severin Films.

Bad Biology, like the director’s previous work, is not a movie you’ll easily forget:

Driven by biological excess, a man and a woman search for sexual fulfilment, unaware of each other’s existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in a god awful love story.

That description only scratches the...

To celebrate the release of Bad Biology, on Special Edition 4K Uhd/Blu-Ray 26 February 2024, we are giving away a Special Edition 4K Uhd/Blu-Ray to 1 lucky winner!

After a 17-year break in filmmaking, splatter maestro Frank Henenlotter – writer/director of Frankenhooker, Brain Damage and The Basket Case Trilogy – returned with the most graphic, transgressive and jaw-droppingly depraved black comedy shocker of his career… Bad Biology.

Now this wickedly warped feature gets a re-birth from Severin Films in a Special Edition Box set, that includes the film in its newly restored version, scanned in 4K from the camera negative.This dual 4K Uhd and Blu-ray release comes complete with a slew of brand-new special features and gets its UK bow on 26 February 2024, and will also be released on standard edition Blu-ray.

Jennifer, played by singer Charlee Danielson, is a homicidal nymphomaniac who spontaneously births mutant babies, while in another part of...

Five Hollywood Celebs Who Were Bullied In School, Including Eminem & Henry Cavill ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Music artist Eminem, whose original name is Marshall Mathers, is an excellent rapper and an inspiration for many. He portrays a rowdy persona in his music videos but had his share of rough times in childhood. He was brutally bullied in his childhood and was often beaten up by his peers. Not only him there are many celebs who have faced bullying in their lives.

Marshall has won fifteen Grammy awards, an Oscar, eight MTV Video Music Awards, eleven Billboard Music Awards, ten Best Hip Hop awards, and more. Eminem was born in 1972 in Detroit, and his mother struggled with substance abuse, which made things tougher for the rapper. Keep scrolling for more.

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Pink Floyd have released a remaster of their magnum opus The Dark Side of the Moon, out now via Pink Floyd/Warner Music.

The polished-up edition of the album was originally released back in March with The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Box Set, but this is the first time that the standalone Dark Side remaster is available on its own. Pressed on vinyl, CD, and Blu-ray formats, the physical package comes equipped with postcards, stickers, and a 24-page booklet commemorating the record, which Consequence recently crowned one of the greatest albums of all time.

Notably, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side remaster arrives just a week after embattled ex-member Roger Waters shared The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, a track-by-track re-recording of the album on his own terms. He teased it with some — ahem — interesting versions of “Time” and “Money.”

Stream The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary Remaster) below.

Controversial artist Roger Waters is back with a controversial new release: a re-recording of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, made without the involvement of any of the other members of Pink Floyd. Listen to The Dark Side of the Moon Redux below via Apple Music or Spotify.

Beyond giving Waters the opportunity to one-up his estranged bandmates, re-recording one of the most famous albums of all time appeared to give the artist a chance to update its message for modern times, with a matured perspective. “The original Dark Side of the Moon feels in some ways like the lament of an elder being on the human condition,” Waters said in a statement. “But Dave [Gilmour], Rick [Wright], Nick [Mason], and I were so young when we made it, and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn’t stuck. That’s why I started...

Frank Henenlotter's 1988 cult classic Brain Damage is a wonderfully transgressive allegory with a wicked sense of humor that irreverently tackles both addiction and being in the closet. '80s horror was chockfull of films that explored taboo topics and the moral scruples of the time, from mainstream sequels like A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and the Friday the 13th to those on the margins of the genre such as Re-Animator and Videodrome. Just like in the 1950s, cinema in the 1980s responded to the repressed and conservative social mores of the time with some of the most boundary-pushing genre films that have since become classics.

Actor Sung Kang is most widely known for playing fan-favorite Han in the Fast & Furious franchise, among other roles outside of horror, including a voice role in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. That he chose gateway horror Shaky Shivers for his feature directorial debut might seem unconventional. However, after speaking with the filmmaker, the charming tale of friendship among zombies and cryptids quickly reveals itself as the perfect vehicle for his debut.

Shaky Shivers stars Brooke Markham (In the Dark) and VyVy Nguyen (The Sympathizer) as Lucy and Karen, best friends grappling with a potential werewolf curse. With snobby customers, zombies, cryptids, and more, the friends have their hands full this summer.

With Shaky Shivers releasing in theaters for one-night-only on September 21 from Fathom Events, Bloody Disgusting spoke with Kang about his first outing in the director’s seat; specifically, why the actor-turned-director chose this horror-comedy script.

If Pearl Jam’s surprise-filled setlist from the opening show of their 2023 tour didn’t already suggest a special run was incoming, they confirmed it on night two with a bust-out of Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” for the first time since 2010.

On Saturday, Pearl Jam hosted their second consecutive concert at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota and delivered the long-dormant cover mid-set. As Vedder began to play the song’s opening notes, he laughed and said offhandedly “I’m losing my mind,” but gathered himself up quite well to perform a haunting, solo rendition before leading into the band’s 2002 single, “I Am Mine.” Watch fan-captured footage of “Brain Damage” below.

Elsewhere in the set, the band dusted off 2006’s “Severed Hand” and 2009’s “Got Some,” both for the first time in five years. They also covered Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” and...

Spooky Season is still just a dream for many in the United States, as August heat locks in and September is only a faint hope. But as of the date of this writing, there are just 90 days to Halloween, which means it’s officially time to at least start pondering a costume.

If you need a little inspiration to truly get into the creepy spirit, Sling Freestream has a wide variety of titles that users can watch every day during their Halloween countdown. There’s no credit card or other payment information required to access the 400+ free streaming channels and 41,000 on-demand titles on Sling Freestream, and users can watch content from top horror repositories like Screambox, FilmRise, Alter Horror and many more.

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Roger Waters, would rather re-record old Pink Floyd music than reunite with the band’s surviving members for a new tour. As such, on October 6th he’ll release his solo re-recording of the band’s seminal 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Today, he’s previewing (Roger’s Version) with the album’s lead single, his version of “Money.”

Waters produced the LP, titled The Dark Side of the Moon Redux along with Gus Seyffert, and recorded the tracks with a studio band comprising Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson, Johnny Shepherd, and Jon Carin. Notably, the other members of Pink Floyd who helped to create the original, including David Gilmour and Nick Mason, do not appear on the recordings.

“The original Dark Side of the Moon feels in some ways like the lament of an elder being on the human condition,” Waters said in a statement. “But Dave,...

The Basket Case 3 episode of The Black Sheep was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Brandon Nally, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

One of the quintessential drive in kinda guys to me is Frank Henenlotter. Not only because of the anointing from the patron saint of Drive-ins himself, Joe Bob Briggs, but also just from a horror core memory. Long before I knew about the fabled 42nd Street in New York and all the magical movies that were shown there, I was introduced to Belial and his brother Duane on grainy VHS from Video Unlimited. That’s the magical part about being a horror fan. My brothers weren’t even particularly fond of the first movie, but knew it was an important piece of independent horror cinema. Shot for 35,000 and released in April of 1982, Basket Case is now enshrined in Moma,...

After more than three decades, Frank Henenlotter’s putrid parable for drug addiction hits harder than ever with tons of self-aware bite.

“Splatstick” is an exaggerated horror subgenre that explores grotesque gore that’s so over the top that it begins to border on the point of comedy. Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, and even more contemporary voices in horror like Sion Sono or Terrifier’s Damien Leone are names that are often associated with this bold, bloody genre. Frank Henenlotter is a pivotal name in splatstick low-budget indie horror whose work often goes overlooked, despite its decidedly more outlandish energy. Henenlotter’s greatest claim to fame is his Basket Case trilogy, but it’s Brain Damage that’s actually the deepest film in his oeuvre.

All of Henenlotter’s horror films have very obvious analogues and they aren’t especially deep in their subtext, but there’s still subtext all the same.

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was announced in 1973 at a press conference held at the London Planetarium, a spectral site which mirrored the album cover’s beam of light refracted through a triangle into a rainbow. Perhaps the iconic prismatic image provided the initial idea for fans to sync the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939) to the album’s rock soundscape.

The band’s history with movies is vast and varied. They scored films in the aftermath of the demise and departure of the band’s founder, Syd Barrett. The success of Dark Side of the Moon also helped the group become motion picture producers, investing in the 1975 comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Wall, directed by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldof, pushed boundaries and redefined a rock opera on film. And while the bassist/vocalist/songwriter Roger Waters didn’t let Stanley Kubrick...

Here's the backstory of Basket Case villain Belial explained. Basket Case is a 1982 horror movie by director Frank Henenlotter, who is known for mixing gore with pitch-black humor. Most of Henenlotter's work from the '80s like Brain Damage were shot in New York and made use of some of the city's grimier locations. Basket Case itself is easily Henenlotter's most famous - or infamous - movie and follows two brothers out for revenge.

Basket Case's concept - which seemingly helped inspire James Wan's Malignant twist - and its more controversial sequences helped give it a reputation among horror fans. While Henenlotter tried to get other kinds of movies made following its release, distributors kept demanding a sequel - despite the movie's fairly conclusive ending. Henenlotter gave in and shot both Basket Case 2 and Basket Case 3: The Progeny in quick succession. While the former is considered a worthy follow-up,...

Hello, everyone! Tomorrow brings us a new round of horror and sci-fi home media releases, and we’ve got a look at what you can expect from this week’s titles. If you’re a Halloween fan, then Tuesday is a big day for you because Halloween Kills will be arriving via multiple formats, and its release also includes an extended cut of the film as well. For all you science fiction enthusiasts out there, you’ll definitely want to pick up Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune to enjoy at home and Kino Lorber is showing some love to Dario Argento’s The Card Player this week as well.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for January 11th include Lantern’s Lane, Fisher, Premutos: The Fallen Angel, and Basket Case: Standard Special Edition.

Basket Case: Standard Special Edition

The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter, 1982’s Basket Case is a...

Pink Floyd will release a “restored and re-edited” edition of their Pulse concert film, which documented the band’s gargantuan Division Bell tour, next year. The film will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on Feb. 18.

The film documented the band’s Oct. 20, 1994 appearance at London’s Earl’s Court and features a full performance of The Dark Side of the Moon. The band’s core lineup for the concerts featured guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason.

The upgraded film previously featured in Pink Floyd’s...

The upcoming “Clone High” reboot is headed to HBO Max, which will also host a slew of new and returning adult animated television shows.

WarnerMedia announced HBO Max had ordered two seasons of “Clone High,” a third season of “Close Enough,” as well as two new original series titled “Velma” and “Fired on Mars” during a virtual panel at the Television Critics Association 2021 Winter Press Tour. The titles will significantly bulk up HBO Max’s slate of adult animated shows, which have become increasingly popular on streaming services in recent years.

The “Clone High” reboot has been expected. MTV announced that it was rebooting the cult hit comedy series in July 2020, though a distributor wasn’t announced at the time. The original show centered on a high school populated by famous historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and Gandhi and was lauded as one of the greatest...

Mindy Kaling is teaming up with HBO Max to develop an animated series about Velma from Scooby-Doo. The show has been given a straight-to-series order by the streamer along with multiple other adult animated series. Kaling is on board to executive produce the series in addition to providing the voice of Velma in the Scooby-Doo spinoff.

Although it's inspired by a popular children's cartoon series, Velma is described as an "adult-focused" animated comedy, suggesting the show will likely be developed for more mature Scooby-Doo fans. The series serves as an origin story of the "bespectacled and underappreciated brain in the Scooby gang," offering a look at the "complex and colorful past of one of Scooby-Doo's beloved mystery solvers."

Velma stems from an overall deal between Mindy Kaling and Warner Bros. TV to produce multiple original shows for the studio. Executive producing Velma alongside Kaling are longtime collaborator Charlie Grandy, 3 Arts' Howard Klein,...

HBO Max announced today series orders for three new adult animated series, including a two-season order for Clone High, a modern refresh of the hit series from Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence that was set at a high school for clones of historical figures.

The streamer has also handed out a ten-episode order for Warner Bros. Animation’s Velma, a new comedic origin story starring the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang, Velma Dinkley, voiced by executive producer Mindy Kaling.

The third pickup is for Fired on Mars, an existential workplace comedy set five minutes in the future, voiced by Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live).

“It is a tremendous privilege to build on the 100 year plus legacy of ‘cartoons’ at this company. We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of childhood hours spent watching Bugs outwit Elmer to the current slate of...

HBO Max has given a two-season order to a reboot of adult animated series “Clone High,” as well as a series order to a standalone series about “Scooby-Doo” character Velma Dinkley, who will be voiced by Mindy Kaling.

The announcements were part of a larger adult animation slate revealed by HBO Max on Wednesday. The streamer also picked up the series “Fired on Mars” starring Pete Davidson and a Season 2 and 3 renewal for Jg Quintel’s “Close Enough.” Season 2 of “Close Enough” will debut on Feb. 25 HBO Max has also confirmed the development of multiple projects, which are described in full below.

The “Clone High” reboot hails from original series creators Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence. Lord and Miller will write and executive produce the new series, with Lawrence executive producing. Erica Rivinoja, a writer on the original show, will serve as executive producer and showrunner. MTV Entertainment Studios will produce.

HBO Max is doubling down on adult animation, ordering three series and setting a bustling development slate.

The streamer has handed a two-season order to Clone High, the reboot of the classic MTV series with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, and ordered Scooby-Doo spinoff Velma with Mindy Kaling set as lead voice star and exec producer and Fired on Mars from Pete Davidson.

These projects are the latest to be ordered by HBO Max, which also has Harley Quinn, The Prince, Santa Inc., 10 Year Old Tom and The Boondocks. Last month, it also introduced a new landing page for animation.

Clone High, a reboot of the 2002 series set at a high school for clones of historical figures, comes from MTV Entertainment Studios. Lord and Miller are set as executive producers and writers, Lawrence is executive producer with Erica Rivinoja, who wrote on the original Clone High, named as showrunner.

Two years after John Ireland (“All the King’s Men”) became the first supporting Oscar nominee to deliver a longer performance than a lead nominee from the same film (Broderick Crawford) in 1949, Kim Hunter (“A Streetcar Named Desire”) did the same versus Marlon Brando. Since then, nine more Best Supporting Actress nominees have had higher screen time totals than a co-star nominated in a lead rce. Here is a look at each instance, in order from lowest screen time difference to highest.

1961: Mary Ure (“Sons and Lovers”) – 21 minutes, 4 seconds

0 minutes, 50 seconds over Trevor Howard

Although she is absent from nearly all of the first half of “Sons and Lovers,” Ure still manages to appear in over 20% of the film. Up to that point, less than half of all Best Supporting Actress-nominated performances had reached that mark. Howard’s performance, on the other hand, did not reach that percentage, but he received a lead nomination regardless.

There’s no shortage of amazing stuff in the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, the much anticipated new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel. While the film has been brought to the screen once before, in the hands of David Lynch (who infamously took his name off it in favor of the pseudonymous Alan Smithee), the beloved book has never been given a truly faithful adaptation.

From the looks of that trailer, that’s going to change in Villenueve’s capable hands. Here’s that trailer in case you haven’t seen it yet…

Now, about that mysterious chanting that then reveals itself as a song…

What you’re hearing is a brand new Hans Zimmer arrangement of Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” which is the final song on their famed Dark Side of the Moon album. “Eclipse” is almost never heard without its partner song, “Brain Damage...

Arrow Video is excited to announce the July slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including acclaimed undead comedy Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection, all twelve films starring mankind’s greatest defender: a fire-breathing mutant turtle.

An infectiously funny slice of modern Korean cinema where Train to Busan, The Quiet Family and Warm Bodies collide to create Zombie for Sale, a memorable rom-zom-com from debut director Lee Min-jae. For the first time ever, fans can trace the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.

Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection will be available July 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available July 1st include Creepshow 2,...

Arrow Video is excited to announce the July slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including acclaimed undead comedy Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection, all twelve films starring mankind's greatest defender: a fire-breathing mutant turtle.

An infectiously funny slice of modern Korean cinema where Train to Busan, The Quiet Family and Warm Bodies collide to create Zombie For Sale, a memorable rom-zom-com from debut director Lee Min-jae. For the first time ever, fans can trace the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the "friend of all children" in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.

Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection will be available July 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available July 1st include Creepshow 2,...

Roger Waters will release physical versions of his concert film Us + Them and its soundtrack this fall.

For now, he’s releasing a clip showcasing a suite of songs from Pink Floyd’s The Wall album, starting with a helicopter spotlight surveying the crowd during “The Happiest Days of Our Lives.” Children stand at the front of the stage dressed in orange jumpsuits and executioner masks like prisoners, and the lights go up for the transition into “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2.” About halfway through, the kids remove their...

Arrow Video is excited to announce the June rollout of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including the exclusive debut of Miguel Llans&#243's Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway. A hit on the international festival circuit, the film boasts an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, a mix of Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, Lynchian surrealism, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema.

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is available June 1st exclusively on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available June 1st include The Woman (UK/Us), Bloodtide (UK/Us), Dream Demon (UK/Us), White Fire (UK/Us) and The Stuff (Us). The Arrow Video Channel is available on Apple TV in the UK and Us, as well as on Amazon in the UK.

In Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway,...

We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, watch the short film The Mother of Beauty, check out the new red band trailer for Becky, and find out what's coming to the Arrow Video Channel:

The Mother Of Beauty Short Film: "In ‘The Mother of Beauty’ a single mother-to-be lives in isolation on the edge of the wilderness. She makes a living through her work with vulture culture: using the remains of dead animals to create art and memorialize the lives that once were. As she attempts to overcome the struggles of parenthood, the forces of life and death pull her in opposing directions, and she must find a way to reconcile the two before they tear her apart."

Director: Nick Meunier

Producer: J.W. Cole

Co-producer & Writer: Lonnie Nadler

Starring: Tristan Risk

Director Of Photography: Steven Hayes

Production Design: Rob Warren

Editor: Adam MacKay

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Becky Red Band Trailer: "Spunky and rebellious,...

“I dunno,” Caleb says. “The world looks a little like a nightmare, Dolores.”

“Change is messy,” Dolores replies. “Difficult.”

Take a look around, people. They’re both right!

Set in a chaotic, desperate world that’s a bit too close for comfort right now, Westworld‘s season finale (“Crisis Theory”) is based on the hope that Dolores can have her apocalyptic cake and eat a new-world utopia, too. Concerned with her and Caleb’s quest to upload the Solomon supercomputer’s plans for revolution into its successor Rehoboam — and with...

Violent delights may have violent ends, but Westworld’s enticements are in no danger of being cut off from their source, even after an aborted robo-apocalypse in the park of dreams turned it into a nightmare. Which is happy news for us, cowboy. Westworld Season 3 was confirmed early during the second season’s run. And now it’s here!

Westworld is adopting quite new look for season 3 with huge casting changes and a big setting migration. Here is everything we know about Westworld season 3.

Westworld Season 3 Return Date

Next up for Westworld season 3 is episode 8 (the finale) “Crisis Theory,” which will air on May 3 at 9 p.m. Et. Here is the synopsis per HBO:

Time to face the music.

And here is a teaser.

Westworld Season 3 Episode Guide Westworld Season 3 Episode 1: Parce Domine

Taking residence in neo-Los Angeles, Dolores develops a relationship with Caleb, and comes to learn...

Though it’s yet to launch in the UK and other parts of Europe, Disney+ has already proven itself to be a major player in North America – thanks in large part to its suite of digital content, which ranges from Marvel Studios to Star Wars and everything in between.

And much like its online peers, Disney+ is still to roll out a fresh wave of content for April 2020, beginning with Doctor Dolittle on April 1st – not to be confused with the recent remake starring McU mainstay Robert Downey Jr.

What’s more, April marks Earth Month, so you can expect plenty of eco-friendly documentaries to air via National Geographic. Indeed, it’s fair to say that the Disney+ lineup has fast become one of the most diverse on the market. From new episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars to age-old classics like Doctor Dolittle, there’s really something for everyone.