Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula combines the rough and tumble world of 1930′s era gangster movies with the gothic atmosphere of a classic horror film. When a robbery goes bad and one of their companions is shot, Bonnie & Clyde (portrayed by Los Angeles-based actors Tiffany Shepis and Trent Haaga) are forced to seek help at the mansion of the crazed Dr. Loveless. But Loveless has a secret. Deep in his cellar, the recently revived Dracula awaits.
It’s a demented and brutally grotesque little gem about two of the world’s most notorious criminals meeting pop culture’s most notorious force of evil, and they’re among familiar company. Director Timothy Fields leads a cast of veritable cult heavyweights in to what is easily one of the most pleasing horror hybrids I’ve seen this year.
Set in 1933, the film idly alternates between the down-on-their-luck gangsters (Troma vets Tiffany Shepis and Trent Haaga) and Dr. Loveless (Allen Lowman), who peers at his captive Dracula (Russell Friend) out of a hole in a gunnysack atop his head. The doctor’s mentally disabled assistant (Jennifer Friend) seems to be the pic’s smartest character, but that isn’t saying much, as Bonnie and Clyde are reduced to machine-gunning a young couple to death and exchanging childishly lewd come-ons. The brief finale recapitulates horror- and gangster-movie cliches without adding anything new.
While YellowBrickRoad isn’t a bad movie, it’s a movie that has no overt reason for being. There’s nothing artistic about it. There’s nothing innovative about it. There’s nothing especially scary about it. However, it works on some levels. It is reasonably suspenseful at first and co-writer/directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton know how to convey shock and horror (the death scenes are quite good, made all the more unsettling after the characters have been allowed to develop). There’s some haunting use of 40s style music and some unsettling editing techniques which evoke an essence of unreality and Oz-like surreality, but the cinematography, color and composition aren’t quite up to the ambition of the project. After awhile even the characterizations cease to matter.
This methodically paced horror show doesn’t rely on gore or spooky nighttime-woods “gotcha!’’ gags. Nearly the entire film takes place in the daytime, and the first dead body doesn’t appear until minute 45. Unexplained phenomena, like 1940s jazz music floating on the midsummer wind, begin to drive the hikers mad (and possibly the audience as well). While every no-budget horror movie since “The Blair Witch Project’’ seems to integrate character-shot video footage — this one included — the filmmakers also toss black-and-white stills into the mix, a clever way to increase the heebie-jeebies.
In the end, YellowBrickRoad is just another pathway for people who go into the woods, go crazy, and get killed.
International megastar Donnie Yen reprises his iconic role as the real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man in this martial arts spectacular. After escaping the Japanese occupation of his hometown of Fo Shan, China, Ip Man and his family have arrived in Hong Kong, which is living under the iron fist of British colonial rule. Ip wants to support his family by opening up a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of Hong Kong martial arts masters, led by Hung Chun-nam (the legendary Sammo Hung), refuses to allow Ip to teach until he proves himself – and prove himself he does, in an intense series of fights against the masters showcasing a dazzling variety of martial arts styles, culminating in a highly anticipated brawl between Ip and Hung atop a rickety table.
But even after gaining the respect of the masters, Ip’s troubles are far from over. Hong Kong under British rule is a world of corruption, and when a Western-style boxer named Taylor “Twister” Milos comes to town to entertain the British upper-class, and insults both Chinese martial arts and the native citizens in a horrifically violent way, Ip must step up and fight for the honor of both his kung fu and the Chinese people. Forced by honor to enter a brutal “King of the Ring” boxing match against Twister, it’s East versus West in an amazing, knock-down drag-out fight to the finish, the likes of which have never been seen on-screen before.
Based on the life of Bruce Lee’s martial arts teacher, Ip Man — played with a quick smile and flying fists by Donnie Yen — this sequel to “Ip Man” picks up after the title character has fled his mainland Chinese home for Hong Kong (a flight repeated in helpful flashback). There, with his wife and son, Ip Man sets up his humble home and labors to open a martial arts academy, a place where true believers can perfect the ancient physical art of Wing Chun.
International megastar Donnie Yen reprises his iconic role as the real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man in these martial arts spectacular. After escaping the Japanese occupation of his hometown of Fo Shan, China, Ip Man and his family have arrived in Hong Kong, which is living under the iron fist of British colonial rule. Ip wants to support his family by opening up a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of Hong Kong martial arts masters, led by Hung Chun-nam (the legendary Sammo Hung), refuses to allow Ip to teach until he proves himself – and prove himself he does, in an intense series of fights against the masters showcasing a dazzling variety of martial arts styles, culminating in a highly anticipated brawl between Ip and Hung atop a rickety table. But even after gaining the respect of the masters, Ip’s troubles are far from over. Hong Kong under British rule is a world of corruption, and when a Western-style boxer named Taylor “Twister” Milos comes to town to entertain the British upper-class, and insults both Chinese martial arts and the native citizens in a horrifically violent way, Ip must step up and fight for the honor of both his kung fu and the Chinese people.
Ip Man 2 doesn’t revolve around the title characters forging that historic relationship, but around his opening a Wing Chun school soon after his family’s escape to Hong Kong from Communist China. Still, establishing that business enterprise was easier said than done, given his lack of local street cred, at least until he kicked the butt of a local thug.
If you are looking for great plumbing services but you actually don’t know who is to contact, then you probably want PEX tubing.
Let us define what PEX is. It is polyethylene derivative – PEX, also known as XLPE is cross-linked polyethylene. Among the different copper manifolds services, this one has great advantages.
The terms PEX pipe and PEX tube have been used interchangeably, however some manufacturers distinguish between the two by manufacturing to different inside/outside diameters. However, the two terms have different benefits. As PEX pipe may be manufactured to IPS-ID sizes with varying thickness to meet pressure requirements, PEX tube on the other hand may be manufactured to CTS-OD sizes, commonly with a standard thickness of SDR-9.
If one has tool kits, then he may find that the following are the advantages of PEX plumbing:
a. PEX tube is manufactured by extrusion, and shipped and stored on spools and this leads to several advantages, including lower shipping and handling costs due to decreased weight and improved storage options.
b. PEX plumbing installations require fewer fittings than rigid piping.
c. Attaching PEX tube to fittings does not require soldering, and so eliminates the health hazards.
d. PEX resists the scale build-up common with copper pipe, and does not pit or corrode when exposed to acidic water.
In the high-concept romantic comedy No Strings Attached, the woman who wants lots of sex with zero emotional commitment isn’t portrayed as a slut, which is a nice change. She does, however, come off as a head case. Emma (Natalie Portman), a brainy medical resident, has a highly satisfying quickie with an old summer-camp acquaintance, Adam (Ashton Kutcher), and, flush with pleasure, proposes they “use each other” physically. After accepting her terms (no breakfast together, no flowers, etc.), Adam promptly tries to take their relationship to the next level, which drives Emma crazy for the good reason that … well … there is no good reason. Although the snappy script is by a woman, Elizabeth Meriwether, and the standard gender roles are reversed (the female is the brusque professional, the male the clingy sex object), the movie never makes the case for Emma’s point of view. 
No Strings Attached isn’t much of a movie, but consider this: Portman’s playing a role that might have gone to such rom-com divas as Drew Barrymore, Katherine Heigl or Jennifer Aniston. If you see the movie, think about what it might have been had any of those actresses taken Portman’s place. Proving her an able enough comic actress, Portman holds the movie together as it zips through a variety of situations that are designed to delay the inevitable union of on-again/off-again lovers.
Martial arts legend Tony Jaa writes, directs, produces and stars in ONG BAK 3, the third and final installment in one of the most beloved action series of all time. Picking up at the cliffhanger ending where Ong Bak 2 leaves off, Jaa ramps up the epic supernatural elements of the previous film, while still maintaining the trademark bone-crunching action that the series is known for. This time he must face his ultimate enemy: a fierce supernatural warrior named “Demon Crow,” played by fellow martial arts sensation Dan Chupong (Dynamite Warrior). Eagerly anticipated by martial arts aficionados for some time, the match up of Jaa and Chupong is explosive.
It picks up the largely incoherent story of the rebel prince Tien battling evil lords and demons in some mythical pocket of Thai history, is actually less bloody than its predecessor. This is because of a long middle section in which a battered Tien goes through a kind of karmic Buddhist spa cure that involves encasing his comatose body in mud. Unfortunately, Mr. Jaa — who wrote and directed the film with Panna Rittikrai — has no strengths as an actor or director except for the staging and execution of elaborate fight scenes. It’s always fun to watch him spinning through the air and bouncing off elephants, but everything else about the movie will have you wishing it were your turn for reincarnation.
In 2nd-Century Britain, two men – master and slave – venture beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest that will push them beyond the boundaries of loyalty and betrayal, friendship and hatred, deceit and heroism…The Roman epic adventure The Eagle is directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Duncan Kenworthy. Jeremy Brock has adapted the scr eenplay from Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic novel The Eagle of the Ninth. In 140 AD, the Roman Empire extends all the way to Britain – though its grasp is incomplete, as the rebellious tribes of Caledonia (today’s Scotland) hold sway in the far North. Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum) arrives in Britain, determined to restore the tarnished reputation of his father, Flavius Aquila. It was 20 years earlier that Rome’s 5,000-strong Ninth Legion, under the command of Flavius and carrying their golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth, marched north into Caledonia. They never returned; Legion and Eagle simply vanished into the mists. Angered, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall to seal off the territory; Hadrian’s Wall became the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire – the edge of the known world. Driven to become a brilliant soldier and now given command of a small fort in the southwest, Marcus bravely leads his troops during a siege.
Supremely capable documentary director Kevin Macdonald (“Touching the Void” and the Oscar-winning “One Day in September”) shares blame, as does Jeremy Brock’s script.
Even Donald Sutherland as Marcus’ uncle can’t quite make us care. Bell fares better, delivering the same sort of blather, only with more soul.
Based on late British writer Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 tale, “The Eagle of the Ninth,” the movie has ideas — about honor and shame, fathers and sons, master and slave — but no music in its words.
There is, however a nicely atmospheric score.
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One of the greatest innovations today when it comes to gadgets is the iTunes. At the opening of its annual developers’ conference, Apple announced iCloud — its new online storage and syncing service for music, photos, files and software. Although not all of its features are available immediately, one part — “iTunes in the Cloud Beta” — is, if you’ve updated to iTunes 10.3.1.
The iTunes does sync to the computer but the change is that now you don’t have to physically connect anything. When you buy a song on, say, your iPhone, you can set it up so that the song will automatically appear on your iTunes library on your Mac at home, your iPad and your PC running iTunes at work. You don’t have to go through the rigamarole of syncing just to get Music Store purchases from one device to another.
On a PC or Mac, go to iTunes, then to the “Purchased” section, found in the lefthand column. Click on that and then look in the lower-right corner for “Download Previous Purchases.” The new window has two views —”All” and “Not In My Library” — and you can toggle between them using the buttons in the upper right of the window. Anything you’ve already purchased on another device (the music you have on your work PC, or your iPhone, say) will be visible with a small cloud icon next to it. Click on the cloud, and the track will begin downloading immediately.
