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Promo Poster for Robert Rodriguez’ MACHETE KILLS Starring Danny Trejo

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 9th, 2012 at 8:44 am

A promo poster for Robert Rodriguez‘ Machete sequel, Machete Kills, has popped up online.  Unfortunately, Machete was a massive disappointment and I’m wary of a sequel, which is part two in a planned trilogy; the finale will be Machete Kills Again.  Machete misunderstood what a gritty B-movie was supposed to be, gussied it up with movie stars, used a bloated storyline to accommodate all of them, and its biggest crime was making Machete (Danny Trejo) a supporting character in his own movie.  Hopefully, Machete Kills will be leaner and trust Trejo to carry the flick.  The plot has Machete tasked to “take down a madman cartel leader and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war across the planet with a weapon in space.”  So…space weapons and global war…that’s leaner, right?

Hit the jump to check out the promo poster.  Filming on Machete Kills is set to begin filming in April.

Robert Rodriguez Eyeing April Start Date for MACHETE KILLS; Danny Trejo in Talks to Return

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: February 6th, 2012 at 6:31 pm

While director Robert Rodriguez has been touting 2010’s Machete as the first in a planned trilogy for quite some time now, I wasn’t exactly holding my breath for the franchise to come to fruition. This past August, Rodriguez said he was waiting on scripts for both Sin City 2 and Machete 2, and now it looks like the latter is geared up and ready to go. Rodriguez is readying Machete Kills with producer Alexander Rodnyansky, and star Danny Trejo is currently in talks to wield his machete once again. Hit the jump for more, including the storyline for Machete Kills.

A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 3rd, 2011 at 9:01 pm

The Harold & Kumar franchise is a cult hit at its best.  The Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was a modest hit in theaters but it found a rich life as a word-of-mouth DVD hit.  Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay was an earned sequel, and while it wasn’t quite as good as the first, it was still enjoyable.  But there’s always a danger when good movies go Christmas.  Christmas has been done to death, it has rules, and it’s meticulously designed to engender warm feelings based on jingles and iconography.  A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas embraces not only Christmas movies but brilliantly combines it with the gimmick of 3D, and the result is a painfully funny R-rated X-mas flick that will be worth watching every holiday season.

25 New Images and 4 Set Photos from A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 18th, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Part of me feels like I’m one of the few people looking forward to another Harold & Kumar movie, but I don’t care.  The Harold & Kumar movies are delightfully madcap, feature a nice mix of gross-out humor and absurdity, and it looks like they’ve gone all out with A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.  Director Todd Strauss-Schulson seems to have acknowledged that 3D is a mostly-gimmicky technology and used it to augment the shenanigans of his lead characters.

New Line has released twenty-five new images along with four new set photos and I continue to remain jazzed to see the movie.  Hit the jump to check out the images.  A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas opens November 4th.

Eight Character Posters for A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 4th, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Eight character posters have gone online for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.  Nothing can ever come close to the NPH riding a unicorn teaser poster from Harold & Kumar 2, but there’s a Danny Trejo character banner in here that comes close.  It’s also one of the few that doesn’t have a pot-pun as the tagline.

Hit the jump to check out the posters.  The film stars John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés, Danneel Harris, Tom Lennon, Danny Trejo, Elias Koteas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Krumholtz, Patton Oswalt, and Neil Patrick Harris.  A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas opens November 4th.

TIFF 2011: VIOLET & DAISY Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 17th, 2011 at 8:52 pm

The concept of an adorable female assassin is nothing new.  I’m pretty sure that at least half of all anime is based on this premise.  The appeal is that you juxtapose wide-eyed innocence and blood-drenched experience.  However, it’s an idea that’s been done to near-death (see: anime, +50%) and I was curious to see how Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) would handle adorable-assassins in his directorial debut Violet & Daisy.  Fletcher has delivered a script was tons of potential for a fun action-comedy that doesn’t blow the genre apart but manages to do a solid job of staying playful and upbeat with the talented Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini selling the dramatic aspects of the story.  Unfortunately, Fletcher is constantly hamstrung by his lack of experience, budgetary constraints, and Alexis Bledel’s lackluster performance.

First Trailer for A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: August 10th, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Earlier today the first image from A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D was released, and now the first trailer for the fllm has hit the web. It’s pretty much everything you’d expect from a Harold & Kumar movie, but with Christmas. The story finds the duo trying to replace Harold’s father-in-law’s Christmas tree by day’s end, but you can probably surmise that all doesn’t go according to plan. While I didn’t find the second entry in the franchise as amusing as the first, hopefully the holiday setting of this one will punch things up. They look to be having fun with (and poking fun at) the 3D, and it appears that we’re in for a sure-to-be-great musical number. Speaking of awesome, Neil Patrick Harris looks to have a bit of an expanded role in the flick, which is very good news.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The movie stars Harris, John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés, Danneel Harris, Bobby Lee, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Danny Trejo, Amir Blumenfeld, David Burtka, Fred Melamed, and Richard Riehle. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D opens November 4^th.

International Trailer for SPY KIDS 4: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 31st, 2011 at 5:24 am

The trailer for Robert Rodriguez’ Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World has gone online.  The film stars Jessica Alba as Marissa Cortez Wilson, a retired spy who returns to the espionage alongside her two step children Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), the new “Spy Kids”, to defeat the evil Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven).  Antonio Banderas, Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega, and Daryl Sabara are all set to return and they’ll be joined by series newcomer Joel McHale.  Even though I enjoyed the first two Spy Kids films, this one looks like a challenge.   Bad guys getting hits with bags of vomit doesn’t exactly have the same charm as a Spy Kid having a watch that does everything but tell time.  I know these are movies for kids, but they used to be movies their parents could also enjoy and I’m not really seeing that in this international trailer.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World opens in 3D (I’m not sure why the trailer says “4D” unless all theaters magically got glasses-free 3D screens) on August 19th.

New Teaser Trailer for THE MUPPETS Parodies Trailer for THE HANGOVER PART II

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 26th, 2011 at 10:19 am

I liked the first teaser trailer for The Muppets because it took on the broad rom-com before making the reveal of The Muppets.  I’m a little less impressed with this new teaser trailer which is specifically parodying the teaser trailer for The Hangover Part II.  Maybe if this is part of a series where they make fun of the advertising for every summer movie, I can see these ads working.  If this just stands alone, then it’s a little too corny (although I love Danny Trejo’s line at the end).

Hit the jump to check out the new teaser trailer for “The Fuzzy Pack“.  The Muppets stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and Chris Cooper.  The film opens November 23rd.

Danny Trejo Joins Season Four of SONS OF ANARCHY

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: May 12th, 2011 at 10:41 am

We’ve already seen him kicking ass and riding motorcycles in Machete, but now Danny Trejo is taking his bad-ass attitude to FX’s drama series Sons of Anarchy. TV Line reports the Mexican actor will join the fourth season of the series as Romero “Romeo” Parada, a charismatic and (duh) dangerous former commando for the Mexican military who becomes a new associate of the Sons. Trejo also recently guest starred on an episode of Modern Family, but obviously this role will have him being a little more intimidating on the small screen. There’s likely plenty more news coming about the fourth season of Sons of Anarchy as we near its September premiere, so stay tuned.

Trailer for Zombified CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS Expansion CALL OF THE DEAD Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, George A. Romero and More

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: April 26th, 2011 at 3:38 pm

A trailer for Activision and Treyarch’s upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops expansion pack, Call of the Dead has been released. While it’s not exactly our usual news story, the level looks pretty damn cool. Inspired by zombie Godfather George A. Romero, the level features playable versions of Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Danny Trejo (Machete), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead) and Romero himself.

Hit the jump to check out Call of the Dead. The new map pack is set to become available for Xbox 360 users on May 3^rd.

Danny Trejo Exclusive Video Interview DEATH RACE 2; Plus Updates on SPY KIDS 4, MACHETE Sequels and HAROLD & KUMAR 3

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 19th, 2011 at 6:16 am

With Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2008 remake of Death Race having success at the worldwide box office and on home video, Universal decided to make a prequel and they’re releasing it this week under the banner of “DVD Originals from Universal Studios Home Entertainment Productions.”  While the remake starred Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, the prequel stars  Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Tanit Phoenix, and Danny Trejo.  The film is an origin story for the character of Frankenstein.

Anyway, I recently got to speak with most of the cast and after the jump you can watch my interview with Danny Trejo.  In Death Race 2, Trejo plays a Mexican Jew mechanic named Goldberg.  During the interview we talked about how he prepares as an actor, what films do people always want to talk to him about, was he upset he didn’t get to kick a lot of ass in Death Race 2, future projects like Spy Kids 4, Machete sequels and Harold and Kumar 3 (A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas), and a lot more.  Hit the jump to watch:

Ving Rhames Exclusive Video Interview DEATH RACE 2

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 18th, 2011 at 10:01 am

With Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2008 remake of Death Race having success at the worldwide box office and on home video, Universal decided to make a prequel and they’re releasing it this week under the banner of “DVD Originals from Universal Studios Home Entertainment Productions.”  While the remake starred Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, the prequel stars  Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Tanit Phoenix, and Danny Trejo.  The film is an origin story for the character of Frankenstein.

Anyway, I recently got to speak with most of the cast and after the jump you can watch my interview with Ving Rhames.  In Death Race 2, Rhames plays the head of a the media company that airs the race (he’s like a Rupert Murdock).  During the interview we talked about how he got ready for the movie, what kind of research he does, what films do people always want to talk to him about, the Blu-ray cover for the film, future projects like Dying to Live, and a lot more.  Hit the jump to watch:

MACHETE Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: January 18th, 2011 at 5:10 am

The film Grindhouse included a number of fake trailers for (mostly) awesome looking movies. At that time, Robert Rodriguez’s trailer for the then imaginary film “Machete” offered a lot of awesome images of asskickery, but what made it great was that it had Danny Trejo in a leading role. Trejo has been kicking around Hollywood for over twenty five years, starting as an extra and moving up to “that guy” status after turns in films like Desperado and Heat. 2010’s Machete then is Trejo’s first starring role as an ex-federale turned day-laborer hired by Michael Booth (Jeff Fahey) to kill Senator John McLaughlin (Robert De Niro). It turns out the shooting is a double cross, and Machete must then get revenge.

Joined by an all star and random cast of actors that range from Steven Seagal, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, the aforementioned De Niro and Fahey, Cheech Martin, Michelle Rodriguez, Don Johnson and Tom Savini, it’s a weird collision of actors all making a film that was born of a fake trailer. The results are mixed, but it’s hard to hate a film like this. My review of Machete on Blu-ray follows after the jump.

Luke Goss and Tanit Phoenix Exclusive Video Interview DEATH RACE 2

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 16th, 2011 at 10:05 pm

With Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2008 remake of Death Race having success at the worldwide box office and on home video, Universal decided to make a prequel (called Death Race 2) and they’re releasing it this week under the banner of “DVD Originals from Universal Studios Home Entertainment Productions.”  While the remake starred Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, the prequel stars Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Tanit Phoenix, and Danny Trejo.  The film is an origin story for the character of Frankenstein.

Anyway, I recently got to speak with most of the cast and after the jump you can watch my interview with Luke Goss and Tanit Phoenix. They talk about what it was like to film in South Africa, the stunts and the weapons, what’s the difference between the rated and unrated editions, their future projects, and a lot more:

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