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With the 2023 professional League of Legends season starting around the globe, talented gamers will be the focus of fans everywhere. These professional gamers are paid handsomely to compete, summating decades of gamer evolution and altering the perception of gamers playing on worn basement couches to performing on stage in the biggest venues worldwide. Indeed, coming in all shapes and sizes, old and young, gamers are a diversified bunch and the most ardent supporters of the genre.

Undoubtedly gaming can instill an imaginative, problem-solving tenacity that endures throughout a gamer's life. Indeed, avid gamers will often keep the gaming fires going indefinitely, sharing the joys of gaming with the next generation. Furthermore, through the shared love for gaming, gamers can connect on a cerebral level, strengthening bonds in a pixilated, digitized space and using memes to highlight gamers' many beloved comedic nuances.

Generational Gamers

Unlike previous generations, the 'first gamers' stand in a wholly unique place,...

Sparks is a phenomenal new period superhero movie co-directed by Christopher Folino and Todd Burrows. It stars Chase Williamson as the title hero, Ashley Bell, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey, William Katt and Clint Howard. It is currently playing in limited theatrical release — and is well worth seeing in the theater — and streaming on iTunes.

The Underground Film Journal’s Executive Editor, Mike Everleth, attended a special screening on March 16 during the movie’s opening weekend, at which filmmaker Folino and stars Bell, Katt and Howard were in attendance. The photo above and those in the gallery below were all taken at this event.

Folino previously solo directed the award-winning indie comedy Gamers, which the Journal was a fan and supporter of back in the day. (Gamers is also currently streaming on Amazon.)

As enjoyable as Gamers is, Sparks is a tremendous leap in content, style and execution. Based on the...

Here at Dread Central we love Ashley Bell, and any time word comes that she's in something genre-related, we get all bent up like Nell from The Last Exorcism in anticipation! That being said, her latest flick, Sparks, is getting ready to hit DVD, and we have an exclusive clip and more!

Directed by Christopher Folino (The Troll, Gamers) and Todd Burrows, Sparks stars Bell along with Chase Williamson (John Dies at the End), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), Clint Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), Jake Busey (Starship Troopers), and William Katt ("The Greatest American Hero").

Look for it on DVD and Digital Download on March 18, 2014, via Image Home Entertainment.

Synopsis

After a radioactive meteor strikes Earth, a genetically altered group, known as The Rochester 13, gain astonishing, superhuman powers. Ian Sparks (Williamson) doesn’t feel remotely super… but after his parents’ death, he throws himself into battle against the...

Image Entertainment, an Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje) brand, brings you Sparks, the origin of masked vigilante Ian Sparks, available on DVD and digital download March 18, 2014. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel, the film is directed by Christopher Folino (The Troll, Gamers) and Todd Burrows.

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Motion Picture Purgatory cartoonist Rick Trembles has moved from purgatory and into hell recently thanks to what appears to be a possible illegal eviction by his landlord. A Montreal news station covers the story and interviews Trembles who provides some damning evidence. The turmoil has left Trembles in a bad way, so if there’s any way anyone reading this can throw him some work, he’d appreciate it. Lastly, his latest strip is a review of 1968′s Canuxploitation thriller Playgirl Killer.Cinemascope gives the true history of the filmmaking via cell phone phenomenon, giving rightful appreciation to Aryan Kaganof’s boundary-breaking SMS Sugar Man.Heard that old Bad Lit friend Christopher Folino (Gamers) has a new movie in the works called Sparks. Actually, I think it’s nearing completion and you can get a preview of it at its official website. Based on a comic book co-written with William Katt...

Looking for a cheap laugh?

As the Video on Demand wars heats up, Amazon has started really ramping up their own online offerings. Yes, they still sell DVDs, but now they sell tons of movies that you can watch either on your computer monitor or download to a mobile device.

While, of course, Amazon is banking its VOD business on getting top Hollywood content, lots of smaller distributors are allowing their releases to be available on VOD in addition to selling DVDs on the site as well. Plus, Amazon’s longtime CreateSpace DVD on Demand business is also allowing for VOD, directly giving filmmakers some VOD power after they’ve been locked out of iTunes, Netflix and/or Hulu.

Renting feature length movies on Amazon usually runs about $1.99 to $2.99, so if you’re looking for a quick cheap laugh, these quirky, oddball little movies might satisfy your needs.

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