Near Dark News

Circle Cinema jumps on the vampire bandwagon for its October midnight movie with "Near Dark" showing this Friday and Saturday at the theater, 12 S. Lewis Ave.

Actor Lance Henriksen, star of "Aliens," is part of a "Near Dark" vampire reunion at this year's Flashback Weekend.

Starting at dusk on Oct. 24 and running through dawn on Oct. 25 , Horror 'Thon '09 comes to life at the Somerville Theatre, with one vampire film after another.

Anchor Bay will release Sands of Oblivion on Blu-ray Disc on 8 December. This Adam Baldwin thriller will arrive with a 1080p transfer, though audio specs and bonus features have yet to be formally announced.

Synopsis: A cowboy meets a pretty, young gal at the local saloon and discovers too late that her kiss includes a double-pronged love bite of vampiric proportions.

Breathe a sigh of relief, Near Dark fans! The upcoming Blu-ray release is not a bare bones affair.

Lionsgate is busy dropping more classic horror onto Blu-ray! This time they're hitting us with three more classics to get you going on your high-definition tangent, but be warned -- there could be a really nagging down along with this set of 1080 ups! DVD Active scored the art and specs for the following releases: Look for Frailty to hit Blu-ray on ...

Vampires are out of the closet. That's the disarming premise behind True Blood, the new undead drama from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball.

Let the award season begin! The 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood awards have announced that Director Kathryn Bigelow will be honored with the "Hollywood Director Award", Screenwriter Nora Ephron will be presented with the "Hollywood Screenwriter Award", Disney / Pixar's UP will get the "Hollywood Animation Award" and Scott Farrar , ...

Too often, action films are empty headed thrill-o-ramas, with mighty explosions and deftly choreographed fight sequences to thrill the senses but that also require checking your brain at the door.

I am - " Hercules!! Even the "Twilight" fanatics will be leery of "The Vampire Diaries," my pick for fall's worst new series.

MORE than 200 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. Many more have fallen in the dust of Iraq.Our soldiers continue to pay a heavy price for the War on Terror.

Adrenalised action filmmaking may seem like an exclusive boy's club, but Kathryn Bigelow has shown that she can handle big Hollywood productions just as well as her male peers.

William Skidelsky: Kathryn Bigelow, the movie director who made her name with Point Break, is back after a long fallow period and her latest movie is set to bring her fresh acclaim Kathryn Bigelow has a thing about climbing mountains.

What the intense "The Hurt Locker" does best is plop viewers smack in the middle of the Iraq War.

MPAA rating: R Running time: 2:11 Now showing at the Drexel, Gateway and Lennox 24 theaters The Hurt Locker is a serious war movie set in Iraq.

THE FORSAKEN Sunday, 19 July 2009 09:02 Michael Gingold Film Restored Archive Review, Originally Posted on 7/28/2001 Perhaps if I hadn't already seen NEAR DARK, and THE LOST BOYS, and FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, and John Carpenter's VAMPIRES, and THE HITCHER, I might have been a little more impressed by THE FORSAKEN , which appropriates bits and pieces ...

At the heart of bomb patrol terror, a void. There is one very good scene in Kathryn Bigelow's new film The Hurt Locker .

U.S. Army specialists hunt down and defuse bombs in "The Hurt Locker." "The Hurt Locker" has been declared the best movie yet about the war in Iraq, and more than one critic has compared it to "Full Metal Jacket." Consider me sold.

Yes, he smokes. I accept. I also accept the hand-held camerawork. We all have it-makes-sense-here exceptions.