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Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Earl Boen, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley | Written by James Cameron, William Wisher Jr. | Directed by James Cameron

Twenty-six years after it blasted onto screens in the summer of 1991, James Cameron’s smash-hit Terminator sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day has been given an immaculate clean-up and 3D conversion treatment for this missed-it-by-a-year anniversary release. Supervised by Cameron himself, the newly tweaked 3D effects are reason enough to see the film again, but does it still hold up after all this time? The short answer is yes. Yes, it does.

The plot, in case you somehow needed reminding, picks up ten years after the events of 1984′s The Terminator, with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) locked up in an asylum, muttering about an imminent apocalypse, and future resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) still just a snarky ten...

[Editors Note: This article is presented in partnership with Netflix’s original film “First They Killed My Father” – now streaming on Netflix and in select theaters.]

“First They Killed My Father” producer Rithy Panh is arguably the most influential Cambodian director in history. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge who escaped to Thailand in 1979, Panh found his footing as a filmmaker while living in Paris before returning to his native country 10 years later. Over the past 27 years, his work has largely taken a biographical focus, as he confronts the trauma of his family’s struggles from a number of cinematic perspectives. Viewed in full, his filmography tells the modern story of the Cambodian people, from their struggles to survive against an oppressive regime to the reverberations of those experiences in modern times.

Panh has always taken a personal approach to his filmmaking. His first widely acclaimed project, 1994’s “Rice of People,” blends professional and amateur performers in the spare tale of an impoverished family attempting to make ends meet in a world still reeling from the horrors of the past.

Review by Matthew Turner

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Earl Boen, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley | Written by James Cameron, William Wisher Jr. | Directed by James Cameron

Twenty-six years after it blasted onto screens in the summer of 1991, James Cameron’s smash-hit Terminator sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day has been given an immaculate clean-up and 3D conversion treatment for this missed-it-by-a-year anniversary release. Supervised by Cameron himself, the newly tweaked 3D effects are reason enough to see the film on the big screen again, but does it still hold up after all this time? The short answer is yes. Yes, it does.

The plot, in case you somehow needed reminding, picks up ten years after the events of 1984′s The Terminator, with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) locked up in an asylum, muttering about an imminent apocalypse, and future resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) still...

“Preacher” Season 2 kicks off this coming Sunday night, followed by another episode on Monday; and to help you get ready for it, AMC has released a new video that lets us relive the tragic backstory of the Saint of… Continue Reading →

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Jon Bernthal sure knows how to kill people. From “The Walking Dead” to “Sicario” to Marvel‘s upcoming “The Punisher” series, there’s just something about Bernthal as an actor that suggests that he’s both capable of and inclined to beat you to within an inch of your life. And with “Pilgrimage,” his latest film, hitting the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend, it looks like we’ll soon have another ultra-violent Bernthal role to add to our canon.

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To celebrate the release of Preacher: Season One, which is available now on DVD and Blu-ray, we have a copy of the Blu-ray box set up for grabs courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment!

Based on the popular 1990s cult comic book series of the same name, the critically-acclaimed Preacher: Season One arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD October 17 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The darkly comedic, hard-hitting, supernatural thrill-ride follows Texas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Copper, TV’s “Agent Carter,” Captain America: The First Avenger) who, after a supernatural event at his church, is thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between. Along with his hell-raising ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga, World War Z, TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), and Irish vampire Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun, This is England, TV’s “Emmerdale”), Jesse embarks on a wild, dark journey of...

The debut season of Preacher is officially in the books, and if you’ve been waiting to binge watch the show or want to revisit Jesse Custer and friends, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has set an early October Blu-ray and DVD release date for the first season.

According to Blu-ray.com, Preacher Season 1 will be released on Blu-ray (plus Digital) and DVD on October 4th. In addition to all ten season one episodes, the Blu-ray will contain the following special features:

“Deleted & Extended Scenes “The Unfilmable Pilot” “The Stunts of Preacher” Gag Reel (Blu-ray exclusive) “Chainsaw Fight Breakdown” (Blu-ray exclusive) “Behind the Killing Machine: Saint of Killers” (Blu-ray exclusive)”

Synopsis (via Amazon): “Preacher” is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his...

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Preacher is one of my favorite series currently running on TV and it's going to be released on Blu-ray and DVD October 4.

The first season takes a while to get going, mostly because of character development but it really gets going. Lots of gore and is damned hilarious in spots. Very interesting characters as well. Can't wait for season 2. Read more about the upcoming release below.

From the Press Release

Based on the popular 1990s cult comic book series of the same name, the critically-acclaimed Preacher: Season One arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD October 4 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The darkly comedic, hard-hitting, supernatural thrill-ride follows Texas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper, TV’s “Agent Carter,” Captain America: The First Avenger) who, after a supernatural event at his church, is thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.

“In Order of Disappearance” premiered at the Berlin Film Festival back in 2014, and is finally now arriving to Us theaters this year. Directed by Norwegian filmmaker Hans Petter Moland, the dark comedy stars Stellan Skarsgård as Nils, an introverted and hard-working snow plow driver who receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Disbelieving of the official report, he soon uncovers that his son was killed by a drug cartel and begins his quest for revenge.

The movie was written by Kim Fupz Aakesonl and also stars Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakob Oftebro and Kristofer Hivju. Upon its premiere, “In Order of Disappearance” received positive reviews.

Read More: Berlin Review: Stellan Skarsgard Is a Killing Machine In Enjoyable Dark Comedy ‘In Order Of Disappearance’

IndieWire’s Eric Kohn wrote in his review that it “cleverly magnifies the way each man is trapped in the mazes of...

Welcome to March, the month that inevitably makes you say, “For the love of all that’s holy, why is this year flying by so quickly?!”

The good news is you can take all the time you want reading TVLine’s Quotes of the Week, a collection of the best retorts, zingers and one-liners from the last seven days of TV.

RelatedPerformer of the Week: Lady Gaga

This time around we’ve got some Beatles-esque bitchery on Empire, a reefer reference on Person of Interest, the bear necessities on New Girl, double doses of The Walking Dead and Agent Carter,...

After dramatic turns as a mermaid and an astronaut’s wife, JoAnna Garcia Swisher‘s new gig will bring her back to her comedic roots.

The Reba alum has joined a CBS multi-cam comedy pilot written by and starring comedian Tommy Johnagin, TVLine has learned.

Related Pilot Season ’15: Your Guide to This Fall’s (Possible) New Shows, Who’s In Them

Swisher will play Michelle, a successful pediatrician married to Johnagin’s character, Tommy. The pair have a daughter named Ashley.

The potential series, about a standup comic raising a family in the Midwest, will be co-written by Justin Halpern...

How’s this for super-meta casting: Helen Slater and Dean Cain have landed guest-starring roles on CBS’s Supergirl, TVLine has learned.

Slater, of course, played Kara on the big screen in 1984’s Supergirl, while Cain starred as the Man of Steel in ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. And both guest-starred on the WB/CW Superman drama Smallville, Slater in the role of Clark/Kal-El’s Krypton mom Lara, and Cain as the immortal Dr. Curtis Knox.

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Details on who the pair will be playing in the pilot are being...

I didn’t get a chance to address this in last week’s review, but let’s consider for a minute Eugene’s weak explanation of this “cure.” This is The Walking Dead, and as Rick reminded Carl and the audience this week, everything and everybody needs to be handled suspiciously. So last week, when Eugene was asked about his cure, he started with “You wouldn’t understand,” and went to “You wouldn’t have the resources to do anything with it,” before saying, “We’re going to fight ‘fire with fire,’ and adjust some superbugs slightly to kill the dead.”

Not helping the fact is that Eugene (and his portrayer Josh McDermitt) sort of reminds me of Danny McBride, thus making it even more unlikely that I can take what he has to say at face value, but the whether or not the survivors would follow Eugene to Washington...

(Teenage Hooker Concludes Trilogy... but is she a Killing Machine?) This month, the third and final film in the Mardock Scramble trilogy was released in the United Kingdom. As I have seen and reviewed the first two films (here and here), I felt obligated to check out the ending of this story as well. Like with the first film, the second film ended with a big cliffhanger, so I quickly plunked in the disc to see what happened next. And there was another reason to anticipate this title: the first two films were schizophrenic creations, trying to be trashy exploitation and poignant psychological drama at the same time. Does the trilogy still teeter uneasily on the brink of both, or does this third act plunge...

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It’s been a long time since Sylvester Stallone tackled a “serious” drama, but The Expendables star is set to give it another go with Reach Me, a movie which also stars Terry Crews, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane, Kevin Connolly, Kyra Sedgwick, Ryan Kwanten, Tom Berenger, Tom Sizemore, Cary Elwes and Nelly.

Comparisons have been made to Crash, though based on this trailer, Reach Me – which follows a group of troubled people who come together after reading a self-help book written by a mysterious author – looks more like a B-Movie version of that type of film which would be better suited being released straight to DVD!

Written and directed by John Herzfeld (2 Days in the Valley), you can check out the trailer for the Sylvester Stallone led release below. Reach Me is currently set to be released this October.

In related Sylvester Stallone news, the Rambo star has found his...

Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh has devoted his career to documenting the brutal horrors perpetrated on his homeland by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, which for four nightmarish years from 1975 to 1979 subjected the citizens under their control to forced migration from the cities, detention in labor caps and prisons, torture, starvation, and execution. This resulted in the deaths of around two million people and the near eradication of Cambodian culture and recorded history. Panh, in such powerful documentaries as S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012), tells the story of the victims of the Khmer Rouge and confronts the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Rithy Panh's latest film, The Missing Picture, which won the top...

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Film: "RoboCop"; Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jennifer Ehle, Jay Baruchel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Samuel L. Jackson; Director: Jose Padilha; Rating: **

The original Paul Verhoeven's "RoboCop" in 1987 was ahead of its times with its concept and presentation, while this one by Jose Padilha, literally and figuratively drags time.

A character-centric film of a half-man, half-machine enforcer of law, "RoboCop" delves in the transformation of a human being into an emotionless Robotic Killing Machine. The film portrays Robocop Alex Murphy's (Joel Kinnaman) attempt in cleaning up the city and then tuning his computerized memory on those who tried to.

Cambodian film-maker Rithy Panh produces a haunting evocation of the Pol Pot era with the aid of clay figures and newsreels

Rithy Panh is a film-maker, historian and survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide who has fashioned a vibrant career out of excavating the past. The Missing Picture follows on from his earlier films, Rice People and S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, in tackling the horrors of the Pol Pot era, although on this occasion the approach is so nakedly personal and so honeycombed with open-ended questions that it amounts to a bewitching form of self-therapy.

On the cusp of middle age, Panh has decided to re-enact his 1970s childhood with the aid of painted clay figurines. The effect is haunting; at once intimate and oddly distancing, a means of framing old traumas and thereby controlling the story. Panh shows us how the revolution falls like a black curtain on the land,...

Few horror movie killers can rank among the top tier slaughter stars we've all come to love, but damn it, they try. Well, guess what, kids? Another is on his way, and one thing is certain: He has the girth to muscle in!

From the Charlie's Farm Facebook page:

Since the 1970's the world has been seen the rise of some of the most iconic killers, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface). Australia has had its fair share of Amazing horror films from Patrick, Lake Mungo, Snow Town, Razorback, The Loved Ones, and of course the legend himself "Greg McLean" with Wolf Creek and now Wolf Creek 2 to name only a few.

The problem is Australia has never had a killer with the status of the American killers; Voorhees has had over 160 kills in his career and is hands down one of the most feared killers on the planet.

Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh has devoted his career to documenting the brutal horrors perpetrated on his homeland by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, who for four nightmarish years from 1975 to 1979 subjected the citizens under their control to forced migration from the cities, detention in labor caps and prisons, torture, starvation and execution. This resulted in the deaths of around two million people and the near eradication of Cambodian culture and recorded history. Panh, in such powerful documentaries as S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012), tells the story of the victims of the Khmer Rouge and confronts the perpetrators of crimes against humanity.Rithy Panh's latest film, The Missing Picture, which won the top prize...

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Yep, the title pretty much says it all. Zombie Shark. Is there really anything else you need to know about this flick to get you to watch it? Yeah we didn't think so. You have your marching orders. Have at it!

What happens if a zombie bites a shark? A Nasty Rotten Killing Machine is born, combining the destructive strength of a shark with the brainless voracity of a zombie... one who can attack outside the sea. For more information visit the official Zombie Shark Facebook page.

Synopsis

After a zombie apocalypse ravages the land, humans finally get the upper hand and win the war. The only problem? They now have dozens of zombie carcasses laying around. The residents of a small town off of the Atlantic coast have a bright idea... dump the infected but dormant zombies' bodies into the sea. Of course sharks come across the rotting flesh,...

Cast your mind back to June, when we had a sneak trailer for Tiburón Zombie aka. Zombie Shark, featuring a pretty girl sunning next to a bathtub with a zombie shark in it. Well, that was perhaps more of a fund-raising proof of concept than it was a real trailer, but it was successful and it got people's attention. So now we get a new trailer, with less bathtub but with more girls, more zombie, more shark, and definitely more exploitation.What happens if a zombie bites a shark? A Nasty Rotten Killing Machine is born, combining the destructive strength of a shark with the brainless voracity of a zombie. And who can attack outside the sea. "Zombie Shark: the attack of the zombie shark" is...

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Rithy Panh’s Un Certain Regard (Cannes ’13) winning docu that I recently had the chance to catch up with in Karlovy Vary (and personally think would make for a “perfect double bill with The Act of Killing“) will have waited a couple of months before finding a distrib home with the Strand Releasing folks. The Missing Picture get some fall festival screenings (Tiff would be a shoe-in stop) mileage prior to launching theatrically next spring.

Gist: For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia…On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing.

Strand Releasing has acquired Rithy Panh’s Un Certain Regard winner following its recent world premiere in Cannes.

The distributor plans an autumn festival release followed by theatrical roll-out in 2014.

The Missing Picture concerns Panh’s search for a “missing picture”, his recreated vision of the atrocities perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975-79. The filmmaker used clay figures interspersed with archival footage and spoken word in a personal retelling of the time.

Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing brokered the deal with Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Films Distribution.

“I have been selling foreign movies and documentaries for more than 20 years,” said Brigaud-Robert. “For me, Cambodian director Rithy Panh is one of the greatest contemporary documentary film makers.”

Panh’s previous films include the Duch, Master Of The Forges Of Hell and S21: The Khmer Killing Machine.

“[This] is the very first time that my own story becomes the subject of my film,” said Panh. “Or...

The Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced this year’s It Project line-up of 21 selections from 13 countries.

These include Greek filmmaker Costas Zapas’ Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey and Kei Ishikawa’s comic fantasy Baby, a Japan-Poland co-production.

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“Making the selection was a challenge this year with 141 project submissions - more than a 60% increase on last year,” says Naff managing director Thomas Nam.

Korean projects include Two Weddings And A Funeral director Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s period piece Secret Detective & Vampire; 2011 PiFan Audience Award winner Ji Ha Jean’s Re: Make; and Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine director Nam Ki-woong’s Capsule.

Director Dain Said is teaming with producer Nandita Solomon again on Malaysian mystery Interchange. Their previous film, Bunohan, sold to Universal Pictures for several territories including UK, France, and Australia before premiering at Toronto.

Other Asian projects include Paul Spurrier’s Thai...

Just a few weeks left now until the genre-hungry hoards descend on PiFan, Asia's annual fantastic film pilgrimage. On the industry side of things the Network of Asian Fantastic Films Naff (July 21-24), has revealed its 21 It Project participants. Whittled down from 141 entries hailing from 21 countries, this year's It crop showcases some of the best young and veteran genre talent from across Asia and the rest of the world.Looking at the 8 Korean projects in the mix we have the latest potential genre offering fom Ji Ha-jean, who took home two awards from PiFan in 2011 for his Bloody Fight in Iron-Rock Valley. He will be presenting the occult horror Re: Make. Nam Ki-woong, of Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine (2000) fame will be...

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Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web for you. Today you’ll find a life-size Ed-209 replica from Robocop; Marvel and DC’s finest created in WWE 13; a Pug dressed as Batman; and Marvel butt wipes. All that and more on this edition of Sr’s Geek Picks!

To kick things off today, WhatCulture has the 8 Greatest Ever Film Moments Featuring Pancakes.

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Mouse Of Steel

The hero we all need.

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For $25,000, You Can have Your Own Giant RoboCop Killing Machine

This is, as close as we can get in 2013 anyway, a real version of RoboCop’s famous Ed-209. It’s reportedly an actual Hollywood prop, ...

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The list of achievements for Aliens: Colonial Marines have made their way online and we have the entire list for you to check out. Unlike some achievement lists, this one is pretty much spoiler free, but does give you an idea of some of the locations you’ll play in and challenges you’ll be able to complete.

“Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around Lv-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew. They will have to fight to survive unspeakable horrors and their own anxieties as they chase down the truth behind a galaxy-spanning deception that places humanity at the mercy of the most murderous and deadly species in the universe. Aliens: Colonial Marines features authentic environments, such as the surface...

New April chick and killing machine arriving & more in this new Vampire Diaries season 4 spoiler tease. Recently, Alloy Entertainment revealed a couple, new, season 4 spoilers,involving new characters that will be arriving in Mystic Falls,and one of them could be the next big bad. Bigger than Klaus! First up, we have character April coming to Mystic Falls. She is described as being a Mystic Falls native and private school student that moves back into town after a family death, but she used to be close friends with Jeremy Gilbert,and has a lot of fond childhood memories of him and her hanging out. She also acts less intelligent than she actually is. Last,but definitely not least, we have character Connor, who is described as being a highly trained killing machine,and it's believed he could be the new villain that the CW teased in the official Season 4 press release.

(Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in New York City!) Remember Mamoru Oshii's first "Ghost in the Shell"? If not, chances are you will once you see "Mardock Scramble: First Compression". Set in a similar not-too-distant dystopian future where cyborgs walk among us and every little girl may turn out to be an indestructible killing machine, this film firmly establishes itself as sexy cyberpunk. And indeed, the lead character is a prostitute who gets killed, then resurrected as an ehm... indestructible killing machine. One that wears either skin-tight clothes or barely anything at all. Oo-er! And to be even more edgy, she is underage. Yes, we have lolicon titillation abound involving a gun-carrying minor. Not the nicest set of anime clichés to add to a cyberpunk...

There’s been some confusion surrounding The Bourne Legacy, which is neither a direct continuation of the storyline from previous Bourne movies, nor a reboot of the franchise. Instead, it’s a semi-spinoff that revolves around a different “programmed” Treadstone assassin – as played by Hawkeye from The Avengers (a.k.a. Oscar-nominee Jeremy Renner).

Bourne film series screenwriter Tony Gilroy is juggling both writing and directing duties on Bourne Legacy. His involvement with the new chapter in this popular action-thriller franchise – combined with the film’s respectable cast (more on that in a moment) – was enough to land this not-a-reboot installment a spot on our Most Anticipated Movies of 2012 list.

Renner stars in Bourne Legacy as “Aaron Cross,” a new highly-lethal government spook “whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the ...

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