Black Sheep News

Monday, 2 November 2009, 2:54 pm Press Release: Torchlight Films Following their recent success with Taking the Waewae Express, Torchlight Films are launching into their new project – Hook, Line and Sinker.

Like most New Zealand kids in the early 80s, Oliver Driver was scared witless by the TV series Under the Mountain.

A new DirecTV commercial that places David Spade in a scene with Chris Farley from the movie "Tommy Boy" is causing some viewers to question whether the ad is in bad taste or not.

FILM FUND SEEKER: Director Bonnie Slater, a past winner of the 48-hour Film Fest, is now seeking funds to help bring a Manawatu play to the big screen later this year.

On Wednesday, April 11, Columbia Pictures released its latest comedy, Joe Dirt .

A Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release of a New Zealand Film Commission presentation, in association with NZ On Air, 120db Films, Index Films, Liberty Films, of an Index Films, Liberty Films production.

A Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release of a New Zealand Film Commission presentation, in association with NZ On Air, 120db Films, Index Films, Liberty Films, of an Index Films, Liberty Films production.

In 2006 New Zealand filmmaker Jonathan King wrote and directed a fun little horror/comedy called Black Sheep .

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've made no secret of my love of all things New Zealand, so it should come as no surprise that I jump on this trailer for Jonathan King's big screen adaptation of Maurice Gee's UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, which I'm told is known to every New Zealand child.

The Angel of Death has been hovering close to the rich and famous lately, taking from us some beloved entertainers.

And we thought he was a morning person. Beneath the makeup, that's Oliver Driver looking very grim as the evil Mr Wilberforce in newly released pictures from Under the Mountain , the film of Maurice Gee's kids sci-fi story about aliens hiding out under Rangitoto and the telepathic twins who take them on.

While watching the street protests in Iran these past two weeks -- turns out more votes were cast in 50 cities in the June 12 presidential election than the actual number of Iranians who live there -- I kept asking myself the same question.

HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL and THANATOSCHIZO will headline the Metal Horror Picture Show , a festival dedicated to horror movies and extreme music that will be held June 19-20 in Fundao, Portugal.

It's been fourteen years since Chris Farley made his leading-man debut in Tommy Boy , and in that time, dumbass comedies like it have decidedly gone out of fashion.

Thanks to last week's computer crash, and the overabundance of spotlight reviews, the rest of the list will be a lot shorter than usual.

Chris Farley's tragic, untimely death at age 33 sparked a newfound admiration of his talents, but loving eyes can't appreciate something as painfully unfunny as Black Sheep , the second and final pairing of Farley and David Spade.

MOTIVATION MAN: Peter Feeney as Beau Tyler, with a couple hoping to help themselves.