“Barb Wire”, the 1996 live-action superhero feature, based on the Dark Horse Comics title, directed by David Hogan, starring Pam Anderson as a slutty ‘mercenary’, that in real life inspired thousands of teenage strippers to get barbed wire tattoos on their arms, is being re-released in a new ‘SteelBook’ 4K Uhd restoration from the original camera negative, available May 21, 2024:
“… in 2017, during the ‘Second American Civil War’, ‘Barb Wire’ owns the ‘Hammerhead’, a nightclub in ‘Steel Harbor, noted as the last free city in a US ravaged by the war.
“She earns cash as a mercenary and bounty hunter, when ‘Chief of Police Willis’ raids her club. Willis's target is fugitive ‘Dr. Corrina Devonshire’, a former government scientist with information about a new bioweapon called ‘Red Ribbon’ being developed by her former superiors in the ‘Congressional Directorate’.
“The Congressional Council has tasked a Colonel with finding Dr. Devonshire so they...
“… in 2017, during the ‘Second American Civil War’, ‘Barb Wire’ owns the ‘Hammerhead’, a nightclub in ‘Steel Harbor, noted as the last free city in a US ravaged by the war.
“She earns cash as a mercenary and bounty hunter, when ‘Chief of Police Willis’ raids her club. Willis's target is fugitive ‘Dr. Corrina Devonshire’, a former government scientist with information about a new bioweapon called ‘Red Ribbon’ being developed by her former superiors in the ‘Congressional Directorate’.
“The Congressional Council has tasked a Colonel with finding Dr. Devonshire so they...
- 3/25/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
There is, a critic will argue, a great deal of value in finding and discussing the worst films of the year. All the films released in a given epoch are a reflection of the trends and ideas that produced them, and scoring the bottom of the barrel for the worst filmmaking, the worst ideas, and the most misguided thinking will provide a valuable analysis of where we are as a society. Worst-of lists are important and vital and should be written with enthusiasm. They also let critics blow off steam a little bit; we don't have the luxury to skip bad movies or avoid talking about the ones we hate. It's our job.
The Golden Raspberries, or the Razzies for short, however, lost sight of that value a while back. The annual Razzies announcement is usually a snarky affair that only serves to pick on the year's least popular blockbusters,...
The Golden Raspberries, or the Razzies for short, however, lost sight of that value a while back. The annual Razzies announcement is usually a snarky affair that only serves to pick on the year's least popular blockbusters,...
- 2/15/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Some apotheosis of film culture has been reached with Freddy Got Fingered‘s addition to the Criterion Channel. Three years after we interviewed Tom Green about his consummate film maudit, it’s appearing on the service’s Razzie-centered program that also includes the now-admired likes of Cruising, Heaven’s Gate, Querelle, and Ishtar; the still-due likes of Under the Cherry Moon; and the more-contested Gigli, Swept Away, and Nicolas Cage-led Wicker Man. In all cases it’s an opportunity to reconsider one of the lamest, thin-gruel entities in modern culture.
A Jane Russell retro features von Sternberg’s Macao, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Raoul Walsh’s The Tall Men and The Revolt of Mamie Stover; streaming premieres will be held for Yuen Woo-ping’s Dreadnaught, Claire Simon’s Our Body, Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil, the recently restored Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles, and The Passion of Rememberance.
A Jane Russell retro features von Sternberg’s Macao, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Raoul Walsh’s The Tall Men and The Revolt of Mamie Stover; streaming premieres will be held for Yuen Woo-ping’s Dreadnaught, Claire Simon’s Our Body, Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil, the recently restored Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles, and The Passion of Rememberance.
- 2/14/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Whether it’s superhero fatigue or something else, there’s no denying that the MCU and the DC Universe are falling on hard times. Secret Invasion set record lows for Marvel, as did the reviews for Ant-Man the Wasp: Quantumania, and The Flash stumbled to become the lowest money maker in Warner Bros. history.
But let’s get a little perspective, shall we? These movies aren’t great, but superhero movies are, on the whole, better than what came before the MCU launched in 2008. Throughout the 80s and 90s, superhero movies were almost embarrassed to be about superheroes, forcing Batman into a lame revenge plot for the 1989 film and refusing to let Frank Castle wear his death’s head logo in the Cannon Films direct-to-video release. With the embrace of the genre has come better effects, brighter costumes, and outrageous plots that better reflect the high stakes the genre demands.
But let’s get a little perspective, shall we? These movies aren’t great, but superhero movies are, on the whole, better than what came before the MCU launched in 2008. Throughout the 80s and 90s, superhero movies were almost embarrassed to be about superheroes, forcing Batman into a lame revenge plot for the 1989 film and refusing to let Frank Castle wear his death’s head logo in the Cannon Films direct-to-video release. With the embrace of the genre has come better effects, brighter costumes, and outrageous plots that better reflect the high stakes the genre demands.
- 8/23/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Take a look @ director David Hogan's 2014 science fiction TV movie "Zodiac: Signs Of The Apocalypse", available on DVD and Blu-ray April 26, 2016 from Anchor Bay Entertainment:
"...for university museum curator 'Kathryn Keen' (Emily Holmes), it seemed like the discovery of a lifetime...
"...when the university’s collection of antiquities received its latest acquisition: a 2,000 year old ivory carved astrology board.
"But what seemed a harmless paean to astrology is hiding something more powerful as strange things begin to happen on Earth and in the skies.
"A race against time has begun, to decipher the artifact’s secrets...while there’s still something left of Earth and humanity..."
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"...for university museum curator 'Kathryn Keen' (Emily Holmes), it seemed like the discovery of a lifetime...
"...when the university’s collection of antiquities received its latest acquisition: a 2,000 year old ivory carved astrology board.
"But what seemed a harmless paean to astrology is hiding something more powerful as strange things begin to happen on Earth and in the skies.
"A race against time has begun, to decipher the artifact’s secrets...while there’s still something left of Earth and humanity..."
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- 4/20/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Pamela Anderson headlined Barb Wire, an 18-certificate comic book movie from the 1990s. How does it hold up?
I like to write silly articles about terrible films, but I prefer to write silly articles that go on about how much I’ve enjoyed a film that most people wouldn’t bother with. Den of Geek will often send me odd films with rotten reputations and it’s always my hope that I’m going to get something like Chuck Norris’ Invasion U.S.A., which is kind of out there but also kind of brilliant. More often, though, I’ll end up with a Santa With Muscles or a Nick Fury: Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
When I read silly film look backs that other people have written around the internet, I’ll sometimes come away with the impression that the person has set out to trash an easy target.
I like to write silly articles about terrible films, but I prefer to write silly articles that go on about how much I’ve enjoyed a film that most people wouldn’t bother with. Den of Geek will often send me odd films with rotten reputations and it’s always my hope that I’m going to get something like Chuck Norris’ Invasion U.S.A., which is kind of out there but also kind of brilliant. More often, though, I’ll end up with a Santa With Muscles or a Nick Fury: Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
When I read silly film look backs that other people have written around the internet, I’ll sometimes come away with the impression that the person has set out to trash an easy target.
- 7/7/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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