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At the end of September, JoBlo Media and Octane Multimedia teamed up to launch a new YouTube channel named JoBlo TV, which hosts multiple feature films to watch for free throughout the week. The genres we’ll be focusing on at JoBlo TV are Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Thrillers – and the free movies we shared this week were packed with an action, along with a bit of drama and even a touch of the supernatural.

The movies were The City of Gold, Terra Nova, and The Rebels. Here’s some information on each of them:

An action adventure movie with a bit of the supernatural dropped in, The City of Gold was directed by Harry Locke IV from a script by Ronald A. Blum. Here’s the synopsis: An anguished media magnate, Jonathan Davenport, accompanies his estranged lover to the Peruvian Amazon in pursuit of a reclusive artist living in rebel occupation.

Chicago – It’s time to choose the Ten Scariest Donald Trump Tweets, excuse me, The 10 Best films of 2017 (got a lot on my mind). Selected by HollywoodChicago.com’s Patrick McDonald, the “Über Critic,” it is a list that celebrates redemptive spirit, love of the love and just all-out fun at the flickers.

In keeping with list-o-mania, and the need for fuller disclosure, here are the films – according to the Über – that came at 25th-11th (click highlighted titles for reviews/interviews)… 25th - Patti Cake$, 24th - Wonder Wheel/I Love You, Daddy, 23rd - Norman, 22nd - Novitiate, 21st - Free Fire, 20th - Coco, 19th - mother!, 18th - Beatriz at Dinner, 17th - Their Finest, 16th - Wonder Woman, 15th - Call Me By Your Name, 14th - Happy End, 13th - Bpm (Beats Per Minute), 12th - The Square, 11th - Beauty and the Beast.

As part of its Orbiter Year-Round Series, Other Worlds Austin SciFi Film Festival is thrilled to present the Texas premiere of the SciFi horror/comedy Dave Made A Maze on Wednesday, July 19 (7:30pm) at Flix Brewhouse. Producer John Charles Meyer will be in attendance and will do a Q&A after the screening. Co-Writer/Director, Bill Watterson’s …

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Chicago – Truly unique and creative micro-budget films are as rare as a sighting of Bigfoot these days, as so many people are picking up a camera to give it try. The production of “Dave Made a Maze” is a happy exception, a film that delivers the thrills and at the same time makes fun of them. Throw in hipsters-in-peril and homages to 1980s adventure films, and it’s easy to find the way through this fun movie.

The ‘Kubrick Room’ in ‘Dave Made a Maze

Photo credit: Gravitas Ventures

Dave (Nick Thune) is a stay-at-home slacker who never can finish his many creative endeavors, much to the chagrin of his working partner Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani). Coming back from a business trip, Annie discovers kid size cardboard fort structure in their living room, and Dave is inside it. In fact, he’s been inside it for three days, unable to...

The film will be released day-and-date on August 18.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Dave Made A Maze, the Slamdance audience award-winner for best narrative feature.

First-time director Bill Watterson’s offbeat comedy starring Nick Thune centres on an artist who builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.

The film, co-written by Steven Sears, also stars Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak, Stephanie Allynne, and Kirsten Vangsness.

“We wanted to re-imagine classic 80’s adventure films with a comedic edge and a higher body count,” Watterson said. “To reignite that tactile sense of wonder triggered by those films, we played in the sandbox of old-school practical effects – puppetry, miniatures, stop motion animation, and in-camera optical illusions.”

Gravitas Founder and CEO Nolan Gallagher said: “We’d never seen anything like Dave Made A Maze before. We were drawn...

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Hawaii Five-o" episode 2 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Lehu a Lehu" is Hawaiian for "Ashes To Ashes," and it turns out that we're going to see some highly intense and dramatic stuff go down as a criminal threatens to set off multiple explosives in Five-o's latest case, and more! In the new, 2nd episode press release: Five-0 Investigates When A Bomb Squad Is Attacked And The Culprit Threatens To Detonate Additional Explosives Unless An Arsonist Is Released From Prison, On "Hawaii Five-0." Press release number 2: Five-0 is going to investigate when a bomb squad is attacked and the culprit will threaten to detonate additional hidden explosive devices unless arsonist ,Jason Sinclair, is released from prison. Also, after Adam returns from the hospital, Kono will realize that they are being watched, and McGarrett is going to prepare to...

How bad is it for Bones‘ Booth? Will Once Upon a Time explain two vanishings? How will Arrow‘s Felicity react to a shocking return? Is Gotham expecting? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.

I’m desperate for some Bones scoop! Plz, give us something! —Claudia

Booth’s disappearance takes a very bloody turn in Episode 2. Elsewhere, a handsome new man enters the Jeffersonian to assist Angela (which immediately puts Hodgins on high alert), while Cam and Arastoo make a big decision about their relationship.

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Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Brionne Davis, Ed Fletcher, Jason Gurvitz, Daniel Knight, John Charles Meyer, Kyle Morris, Marc Anthony Samuel | Written and Directed by Micheal S. Ojeda

Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?

Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...

Stars: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Brionne Davis, Ed Fletcher, Jason Gurvitz, Daniel Knight, John Charles Meyer, Kyle Morris, Marc Anthony Samuel | Written and Directed by Micheal S. Ojeda

Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely?

Described as a more horrific take on The Crow, Savaged is actually more a supernatural take on I Spit on Your Grave (or The Last House of the Left) – complete with a tortured heroine,...

Raven Banner Entertainment is getting set to release their latest thriller, Savaged. This rape revenge tale is currently in post-production. Savaged focuses on Zoe's story. She is a young woman who tries to intervene in a brutal attack on two boys. She is thwarted, then assaulted and left for dead by a group of murderous rednecks. She is saved when a shaman performs an ancient ritual on her, which leaves her possessed by a Native American spirit. Director Michael S. Ojeda unleashes the bloody madness in the first trailer for Savaged, found below. Release Date: 2013. Director/writer: Michael S. Ojeda. Cast: Ronnie Gene Blevins, Rodney Rowland, Rick Mora, Marc Anthony Samuel, Kyle Morris, Willow Hale, John Charles Meyer, Tom Ardavany, Peter Sherayko, and Brionne Davis. The first teaser trailer for Savaged is here: The film's fan page is here: Savaged on Facebook Source: Savaged at Twitch Film  |  |  Advertise Here -.

At one time or another, we’ve all asked ourselves this one very crucial hypothetical question… “If I could have any one super power, what would it be?” For myself, it’s always been a toss up between invincibility or a Wolverine-like healing factor that’s off the charts. Then again, there’s something very intriguing about the powers of the mind. For Marvel comics fans, you understand the allure of Charles Xavier and Jean Grey, holding telepathic abilities with no rival, but with these great powers — no, I wasn’t going to say “comes great responsibility” — with these powers come a certain threat to one’s own sanity, in theory.

By now, you must be wondering why I’ve been rambling on about super heroes. To clarify, Affliction is not about super heroes… well, not in the traditional sense. This 15-minute short film, written and directed by Amir Masud,...

*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by producer John Charles Meyer.

Director/writer: Kenneth Cran.

The Millenium Bug is an indie film from Kenneth Cran that deals with hillbillies, the Y2K and giant creatures living underground. No, this is not a hybrid of The Hills Have Eyes and Tremors, but something a little different. Set on December 31st, 1999, the day before Y2K, The Millenium Bug deals with some of the fears that came with a computing programming problem that was more anti-climactic, than anything else. Unfortunately, this film has a problem or two involving a weakly and awkwardly developed story. However, Cran's production team makes up for some of these weaknesses with stunning visuals. The sets, models and creature effects are all delivered with no CGI and the result is impressive. After the credits roll, despite the film's drawbacks, The Millenium Bug left this reviewer with a satisfied feeling.

The Millennium Bug is any monster movie fans breath of fresh air! A movie with a fun story, crazy characters, a giant monster, with lots of blood, gore and dismemberments, all without the use of CGI. Plus this is an indie film people! I’d put it up against any studio monster movie, period! Godzilla meet The Millennium Bug!

Writer and director Kenneth Cran definitely has an imagination with a much welcomed monster movie for a new generation! The movie follows the Haskins, escaping the Y2K scare as they head into the mountains. They meet up with a crazy, mutated, inbred hillbilly family who are set on brining in new blood to the family to limit the deformities from years of inbreeding. What we get with this family, the Crawfords is grotesque looks with killer instincts and lots of humor, yes this movie has just the right hint of humor in it!

Title: The Millennium Bug Writer-director: Kenneth Cran Starring: John Charles Meyer, Jessica Simmons, Christine Haeberman, Jon Briddell, Ken McFarlane, Ginger Pullman A world premiere presentation at the just underway Dances With Films festival, ‘The Millennium Bug’ boasts a simple, streamlined concept, and features poster art that strongly echoes Sam Raimi’s ‘The Evil Dead’, so one could be forgiven for prematurely celebrating the birth into the genre world of a groovy, gory and blissfully self-aware new creature feature. Unfortunately, writer-director Kenneth Cran’s film, while admirably incorporating some low-tech elements, never has any fun with its zonkers conceit, and even touches let alone rises above the sum of its cliched parts. The...

At the end of 1999, people hid in fear of what could happen at nuclear power plants, because of the Y2K programming error. Nothing really happened back then, but now director Kenneth's Cran's film, The Millenium Bug, will show what can happen if you try to avoid the Y2K. Hillbillies will attack!

This first trailer for The Millenium Bug shows the Haskin family attempting to escape "Y2K hysteria" (Millenium). Instead, they wander into some crazed hillbillies, who then stumble into some larger-than-live monsters. The result is an independent horror fan's paradise. Watch the clip below, for the film, with a release date scheduled for late 2011. Thanks goes out to Quiet Earth and the Undead Backbrain, for providing the trailer.

The synopsis for The Millenium Bug is here:

"When the Haskin family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria in the isolated forests of the Sierra Diablos mountains, madness and terror find them there.

                                          

Here's another cool ass looking indie film that has  surfaced this morning! This new trailer for The Millennium Bug looks like another winner to me!  The movie is directed by Kenneth Cran and stars Jon Briddell, Adam Brooks, Christine Haeberman, Trek Loneman, Ken MacFarlane, John Charles Meyer, Ian Pfister, Ginger Pullman, Ben Seton, Jessica Simons, Sandi Steinberg, Benjamin Watts, and Dustin Yoder. No CGI here peeps, the filmmakers went old school with this one and it looks good! Its set to be released later this year!  Let us know what you think!

Synopsis:

When the Haskin family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria in the isolated forests of the Sierra Diablos mountains, madness and terror find them there. Abducted by a vicious hillbilly clan, the Haskins fight for survival, but neither they nor the hillbilly Crawfords can comprehend the monstrous nightmare about to erupt from the bowels of the earth.

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More Awakenings casting news: John Charles Meyer (pictured below) will guest star on the pilot.

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Keeping with tradition, Thailand is delivering a fantastic ghost story involving mutilation, torture, black magic, blood everywhere, you know, the usual.

Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest backed by Darko Productions. Goldthwait explains:

“There’s this middle aged guy and he’s at home watching a show like My Super Sweet 16.” Like any sane person forced to watch this televised horror,...

More casting news coming in for The CW's latest slice of undead fun, "Awakening". Get the details on who else will be dealing with the pesky zombie problem by reading on!

John Charles Meyer (pictured right; "CSI: NY") will be guest starring on the pilot episode of the new show, starring alongside the previously announced Brian Hallisay (Hostel: Part III), Titus Welliver ("Lost"), Meredith Hagner and Lucy Griffiths.

Awakening centers around two combative sisters (Meredith Hagner and Lucy Griffiths) who come of age amid the beginning of a zombie uprising. Word has it that the series follows thousands of zombies living "normal lives" among the living (also known as the "pre-dead"). The two worlds collide and cause war between the living and the dead.

David Von Ancken ("The Shield", "The Vampire Diaries", "Heroes", "Oz") will be at the helm of the pilot episode. More soon.

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Universal Networks International have announced the acquisition of a brand-new web series for the Syfy UK. Syfy.co.uk will stream the UK online premiere of Buried Alive, a 15 x 10 minute for-web drama distributed by Sony Pictures Television.

The suspense-filled series is set to unfold over a four week period, with new episodes posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 13:00 GMT. Followers will witness a race-against-time as brother and sister Travis (Jeff Blum) and Melanie (Brit Morgan) struggle to uncover the hidden location of five abducted students, buried alive with rapidly depleting air and no-one to hear their screams.

The series will be the UK’s first introduction to lead star Brit Morgan, who is set to become a familiar face after winning the role of ‘Debbie Pelt’ in the highly anticipated third season of True Blood. Her Buried Alive co-stars include Jeff Blum, Bram Hoover, Nikki McKenzie, Greyson Chadwick,...