With the winter sleet still lashing the windows outside a relaxing break in the sun sounds pretty good about now doesn’t it? Well, here at STS we care about you pasty Morlocks, and know that not all of you have a wealthy relative with some massive pile in the country you can escape to-which is why we’d like to invite you along to Soho’s Curzon Cinema this Friday, 22nd Jan, where some charming young people would love you to join them for a few days in the country.
In a house that’s alive.
And wants to eat you.
You guessed it – it’s Midnight Movies time again, and there’s something a bit special for you up-all-night Soho ghosts-the first and only showing of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s japanese freak out Hausu! Get down to Piccadilly this Friday, enjoy a cocktail from the generous folks at Jameson’s Cult Film Club, and get in with the in crowd (and the STS staff) as good looking young people fall down wells, get choked by plughole hair, and contend with a flying, blood vomiting portrait of a kitten-and then things get really weird…
This is the only chance to see this masterpiece of wackjobbery on the big screen, and with a chance to win a whole bunch of Eureka DVD goodies and a great party to boot, you’ll need a better excuse than ‘I was fighting off a killer lampshade’ to miss it!
I know I know, we’re supposed to only cover movies with explosions/Jason Statham causing explosions/William Shatner blowing up giant spiders. And you’re right…you’re right. Unfortunately some of us know real live members of the opposite sex, who make us wash on a semi-regular basis, and eat green things (Skittles don’t count apparently). And they also inflict this on us – lucky for you we’re a bastion of balanced, representative journalism eh? Best treat it as a public service – if you ever do manage to set up an internet date that doesn’t have a beard and get out of your parent’s basement to go on it -this’ll give you something to talk about won’t it?
Despite the very, very odd casting – Adrian Brody as an alien-fighting marine anyone? – Nimrod Antal’s new/old take on Predator looks to be shaping up nicely, with dedicated fan site AVPGalaxy getting hold of some tasty set pics that show the Arnie-Era jungle aesthetic very much in place. With glimpses of ‘Super-Predators’ sneaking onto the net – not to mention glimpses of cast members rammed onto giant wooden spikes – Predators could be just the reboot the multi-mandibled hunter killers need.
Repost from our video game obsessed compadres over at Electric Spectre
Hollywood has not learnt its lesson and we have yet another video game adaptation hitting the big screen in the form of Tekken. The King Of Iron Fist Tournament is hardly known for it’s great story – family at war, throw each other off cliffs, turn into devils and bond by throwing more people off cliffs. Check out the trailer above:
This time of year, everybody likes to take a break somewhere hot and sunny – although following a man who used to get naked and kill people, not to mention occasionally drinking their blood around a war-torn hellhole where families are often left with no choice but to bed down in used graves isn’t everyone’s ideal vacation – but doing this type of thing is what makes VICE magazine so gosh-darned hot, sexy, and interesting to know isn’t it?
2009 saw VICE founder Shane Smith and adventurous editor Andy Capper heading to Liberian capital Monrovia and hooking up with Joshua Blahyi – the aforementioned “General Butt Naked” , famous for running an army with a unique uniform: Shoes….and that’s it. As well as spending time in jails, brothels and heroin dens as they investigate the aftermath of 14 years of civil war – and incredibly, making the whole thing thoroughly entertaining!
Check out the trailer above – and look out for our full review soon.
