We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes news on the latest episode of Ghost Trek, an announcement for William Pattison’s new novel, Psychotic State, DVD release details for The Colony, a clip from Hitchhiker Massacre, and much more:
Details on Psychotic State: “The plot of Psychotic State tells the story of David Coleman, a bipolar twenty-six year old man who is one of those people that the world likes to pick on. David is bullied and abused by everyone around him, including his adopted father. When David gets fired from his job after a run in with a couple bullies he loses his medical and stops taking his medication. This causes David to go into a psychotic state and in a twisted idea of justice he decides that it is time for him...
Details on Psychotic State: “The plot of Psychotic State tells the story of David Coleman, a bipolar twenty-six year old man who is one of those people that the world likes to pick on. David is bullied and abused by everyone around him, including his adopted father. When David gets fired from his job after a run in with a couple bullies he loses his medical and stops taking his medication. This causes David to go into a psychotic state and in a twisted idea of justice he decides that it is time for him...
- 10/13/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Spotted this on one of my fave online galleries Kiss My Black Ads - A short film titled As I Am, directed by Alan Spearman. Here's its synopsis: Chris Dean’s heart stopped when he was two. He died but he came back. When Chris was five, his father was murdered, riddled by more than 20 bullets in a gang shootout. At age 18, Chris gained national attention when he introduced President Barack Obama at his high school graduation. Chris is an observer and philosopher who has always had a few things to say about life from his vantage point in South Memphis. He and Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Alan Spearman walked the neighborhood for eight weeks observing and recording...
- 11/7/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Chloe Madeley skated to Alicia Keys’ Empire State Of Mind on tonight’s Dancing On Ice and we loved the return to grace and elegance for her and professional partner Michael Zenezini.
The only thing the star struggled with in training was her posture and to try and fix this, Chris Dean and Jayne Torville sent her to ballet classes.
It seemed to work, as Chloe looked beautiful as she performed on the live show. She started in a lift and quickly spun upside down, before putting her feet on the ice. The routine was romantic and slightly more slow paced than is usual for Madeley’s routines, however it was packed full of content and some of her lifts were truly spectacular. She really is beginning to snap at Laura Hamilton’s heels!
The judges scored Chloe 26.5, the highest score of the night to that point, and of course...
The only thing the star struggled with in training was her posture and to try and fix this, Chris Dean and Jayne Torville sent her to ballet classes.
It seemed to work, as Chloe looked beautiful as she performed on the live show. She started in a lift and quickly spun upside down, before putting her feet on the ice. The routine was romantic and slightly more slow paced than is usual for Madeley’s routines, however it was packed full of content and some of her lifts were truly spectacular. She really is beginning to snap at Laura Hamilton’s heels!
The judges scored Chloe 26.5, the highest score of the night to that point, and of course...
- 3/6/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Sam Attwater looked pretty….pretty awful…in pink on tonight’s Dancing On Ice.
The former Eastenders actor modelled an awful and cheap looking pink waistcoat for his routine with Canadian professional Brianne Delcourt on the ITV skating show.
Thankfully, the skating was better than the costume and as always the dynamic duo gave an almost perfect performance to ‘Crazy Love’. The five lifts all went without a hitch and though Sam was slightly more hesitant than usual, it was still a great and very elegant effort.
The judges awarded him 25.5, which wasn’t quite as high as last week, but Attwater claimed he was happy with the score because he said it had actually been the worst routine he has performed. We didn’t notice!
After the performance Jayne Torvill revealed that Sam and Brianne had actually changed the original routine that she and Chris Dean had first choreographed...
The former Eastenders actor modelled an awful and cheap looking pink waistcoat for his routine with Canadian professional Brianne Delcourt on the ITV skating show.
Thankfully, the skating was better than the costume and as always the dynamic duo gave an almost perfect performance to ‘Crazy Love’. The five lifts all went without a hitch and though Sam was slightly more hesitant than usual, it was still a great and very elegant effort.
The judges awarded him 25.5, which wasn’t quite as high as last week, but Attwater claimed he was happy with the score because he said it had actually been the worst routine he has performed. We didn’t notice!
After the performance Jayne Torvill revealed that Sam and Brianne had actually changed the original routine that she and Chris Dean had first choreographed...
- 3/6/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Denise Welch admitted tonight that she finds it ‘uplifting’ that the public are still voting for her, despite the fact that the judges can’t stop slating her.
However, she stood a better chance of getting some more positive feedback tonight, as Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean gave her a slow emotional number to skate to, knowing that that is the sort of performance she excels at.
This evening Denise and Matt skated to ‘Alone’ by Heart and were dressed in beautifully subtle lilac costumes.
The routine started well and the pair achieved great synchronicity during the beginning segment. However, as Denise got in and out of lifts it was a little ungraceful and there were a few wobbles as they duo got close to the end.
The judges gave the pair 15, which could be boosted to 30 if Team Laura wins later tonight and Robin Cousins gave her some positive...
However, she stood a better chance of getting some more positive feedback tonight, as Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean gave her a slow emotional number to skate to, knowing that that is the sort of performance she excels at.
This evening Denise and Matt skated to ‘Alone’ by Heart and were dressed in beautifully subtle lilac costumes.
The routine started well and the pair achieved great synchronicity during the beginning segment. However, as Denise got in and out of lifts it was a little ungraceful and there were a few wobbles as they duo got close to the end.
The judges gave the pair 15, which could be boosted to 30 if Team Laura wins later tonight and Robin Cousins gave her some positive...
- 3/6/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
View the original post Nadia Sawalha makes Dancing On Ice debut! on Unreality TV
Nadia Sawalha gave her first performance on dancing On Ice tonight.
During Vt of her training, Chris Dean admitted that he and the coaches had their work cut out with Nadia, as she didn’t even have command of the basics of skating. The former Eastenders star admitted that she is terrified by being on the ice and was less than pleased about being chosen to skate on week one’s show.
Tonight Nadia and British skating professional Mark Hanretty performed their routine to ‘Proud Mary.’ She acted well and showed great personality on the ice, but Nadia definitely has some work to do on her skating skills. It wasn’t as bad as we expected, but it was often much less than graceful.
Judges Comments:
Jason: 3 Nadia I wouldn’t say I’m entirely happy.
Nadia Sawalha gave her first performance on dancing On Ice tonight.
During Vt of her training, Chris Dean admitted that he and the coaches had their work cut out with Nadia, as she didn’t even have command of the basics of skating. The former Eastenders star admitted that she is terrified by being on the ice and was less than pleased about being chosen to skate on week one’s show.
Tonight Nadia and British skating professional Mark Hanretty performed their routine to ‘Proud Mary.’ She acted well and showed great personality on the ice, but Nadia definitely has some work to do on her skating skills. It wasn’t as bad as we expected, but it was often much less than graceful.
Judges Comments:
Jason: 3 Nadia I wouldn’t say I’m entirely happy.
- 1/9/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Dancing On Ice judge Robin Cousins looked a bit ambushed on This Morning today, when Phillip Schofield revealed that the internet forums and Twitter had been awash with angry fans, upset that he eliminated Danniella Westbrook last night.
Robin acts as head judge and last night had the deciding vote, when it came to choosing between Gary Lucy and Danniella.
“There was no contest,” Cousins told This Morning. “Gary was head and shoulders above all of them on basic skating skills… Gary’s skating skills were what took him through.
“Chris Dean spoke to me to in the corridor afterwards and he said, ‘I called it just as you did’.”
However, Cousins says that if Kieron Richardson had been in the skate off, he would have went home. He said:
“I think Kieron should probably have gone,” he added.
Related posts:Dancing On Ice 2010: Gary Lucy like ’skating valium...
Robin acts as head judge and last night had the deciding vote, when it came to choosing between Gary Lucy and Danniella.
“There was no contest,” Cousins told This Morning. “Gary was head and shoulders above all of them on basic skating skills… Gary’s skating skills were what took him through.
“Chris Dean spoke to me to in the corridor afterwards and he said, ‘I called it just as you did’.”
However, Cousins says that if Kieron Richardson had been in the skate off, he would have went home. He said:
“I think Kieron should probably have gone,” he added.
Related posts:Dancing On Ice 2010: Gary Lucy like ’skating valium...
- 3/22/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Robin Cousins has defended the Dancing On Ice judges' decision to vote off Danniella Westbrook. The head judge, who made the final decision to axe Westbrook and save actor Gary Lucy, claimed that from a "skating point of view" it was an easy decision. "There was no contest," Cousins told This Morning. "Gary was head and shoulders above all of them on basic skating skills... Gary's skating skills were what took him through. "Chris Dean spoke to me to in the corridor afterwards and he said, 'I called it just as you did'." However, (more)...
- 3/22/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Sharron Davies has become the latest celebrity to be voted off ITV’s Dancing On Ice.
This week Chris Dean and Jayne Torvill wanted Sharron to attack a more upbeat number but after a day of rehearsals she put her foot down and changed her song to the slower ‘Stay’ by Shakespeare Sister. We can’t help but wonder if Sharron’s decision not to follow Chris and Jayne’s advice, led to her eventual downfall on the show. Emma Bunton certainly wasn’t happy with her lack of drive.
Tonight the former Olympian swimmer found herself in the bottom two against Inbetweeners actress Emily Atack. In the skate off Emily skated to Alexandra Burke’s ‘Bad Boys’ and once again looked way too much like a good girl for it to be believable. However she didn’t stumble, or lose track of her routine so the judges unanimously saved...
This week Chris Dean and Jayne Torvill wanted Sharron to attack a more upbeat number but after a day of rehearsals she put her foot down and changed her song to the slower ‘Stay’ by Shakespeare Sister. We can’t help but wonder if Sharron’s decision not to follow Chris and Jayne’s advice, led to her eventual downfall on the show. Emma Bunton certainly wasn’t happy with her lack of drive.
Tonight the former Olympian swimmer found herself in the bottom two against Inbetweeners actress Emily Atack. In the skate off Emily skated to Alexandra Burke’s ‘Bad Boys’ and once again looked way too much like a good girl for it to be believable. However she didn’t stumble, or lose track of her routine so the judges unanimously saved...
- 2/21/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean have said that this year's Dancing On Ice will be a "close race". The former ice-skating champions, who mentor the 14 celebrities, also said that the contestants are determined to outdo the performances from previous series. "I think this year's cast are going to be different personalities, they are going to have different challenges and they are going to have different problems. But at the same time, I think they are going (more)...
- 1/8/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Screened
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Cross "Body Heat" with "No Way Out" and you wind up with "Out of Time", a slick crime melodrama with more style than substance. Director Carl Franklin certainly knows all the right moves in this genre, so even a less-than-stellar performance by Denzel Washington probably won't hurt the film's chances of becoming a medium-range success for MGM.
The locale of Florida's Gulf Coast and the way a love-starved man's sexual indiscretions lead him into a frame-up for murder suggest "Body Heat". But "No Way Out" (itself a remake of "The Big Clock") contributes the film's two key elements: a rapidly ticking clock and a cop desperate to solve a double murder when he knows all the clues point to him. Working from a tight script by first-time screenwriter Dave Collard, Franklin moves the story at a brisk pace as his often-in-motion camera captures the sultry sensuality of a backwater coastal town.
A noirish tale sets up small-town police chief Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington) for the fall as smoothly as a well-blended summer drink. Estranged from wife Alex (the striking Eva Mendes), who happens to be a police detective, Matt fools around with Ann Merai (Sanaa Lathan), whose nasty ex-football player husband Chris Dean Cain) has gotten wind of the affair. Matt then gets hit with two blows: His wife files for divorce, and Ann Merai learns she has terminal cancer.
Ann Merai's only long-shot hope is alternative therapy in Europe, which costs a fortune. But wait! There is that $1 million life insurance policy her husband bought a year ago. Maybe she can leverage that policy for quick cash. When this scheme fails, she changes the beneficiary to Matt, and in exchange he gives her stacks of drug money, which his office is holding for a trial years away. Then Ann Merai's house burns down that night in an arson fire, killing both her and her husband.
Alex is on the case the next morning. Matt realizes the evidence will all too quickly point to him. Frantic, Matt struggles to stay one step ahead of his enterprising wife to solve the murder before he finds himself in jail. Of course, logic would dictate that Matt should take his wife into his confidence
after all, she is still on friendly terms with him. But what fun would that be for viewers?
The film contains a number of well-orchestrated sequences where that one step shortens to a half-step, especially at a Miami hotel where Matt races to get to a suspicious character (Alex Carter) before his wife does, only to wind up hanging from a hotel balcony with the suspect.
Washington never appears to have gotten a handle on his character, though. Matt is a sleazy guy who doesn't just make a mistake or two but a whole series of them, all predicated on his own self-interest. Yet Washington tries to play Matt as a sympathetic innocent, which doesn't wash. A little of that "Training Day" evil cunning might have worked better.
Mendes, in her best role yet, gives her cop plenty of energy and femininity. John Billingsley is wonderful as a slacker medical examiner who becomes Matt's sidekick in crime and serves as the film's comic relief. Lathan and Cain hit just the right notes of guile and ardor.
Adding to the film's rich atmosphere are terrific Florida locations, Theo Van de Sande's elegant cinematography -- emphasizing voluptuous earth tones -- and Graeme Revell's rousing Latin jazz score.
OUT OF TIME
MGM
An Original Film/Monarch Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Carl Franklin
Screenwriter: Dave Collard
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Jesse B'Franklin
Executive producers: Kevin Reidy, Jon Berg, Damien Saccani, Alex Gartner
Director of photography: Theo Van de Sande
Production designer: Paul Peters
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: Sharen Davis
Editor: Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Cast:
Matt Lee Whitlock: Denzel Washington
Detective Alexandra Whitlock: Eva Mendes
Ann Merai: Sanaa Lathan
Chris: Dean Cain
Chae: John Billingsley
Tony: Robert Baker
Cabot: Alex Carter
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Cross "Body Heat" with "No Way Out" and you wind up with "Out of Time", a slick crime melodrama with more style than substance. Director Carl Franklin certainly knows all the right moves in this genre, so even a less-than-stellar performance by Denzel Washington probably won't hurt the film's chances of becoming a medium-range success for MGM.
The locale of Florida's Gulf Coast and the way a love-starved man's sexual indiscretions lead him into a frame-up for murder suggest "Body Heat". But "No Way Out" (itself a remake of "The Big Clock") contributes the film's two key elements: a rapidly ticking clock and a cop desperate to solve a double murder when he knows all the clues point to him. Working from a tight script by first-time screenwriter Dave Collard, Franklin moves the story at a brisk pace as his often-in-motion camera captures the sultry sensuality of a backwater coastal town.
A noirish tale sets up small-town police chief Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington) for the fall as smoothly as a well-blended summer drink. Estranged from wife Alex (the striking Eva Mendes), who happens to be a police detective, Matt fools around with Ann Merai (Sanaa Lathan), whose nasty ex-football player husband Chris Dean Cain) has gotten wind of the affair. Matt then gets hit with two blows: His wife files for divorce, and Ann Merai learns she has terminal cancer.
Ann Merai's only long-shot hope is alternative therapy in Europe, which costs a fortune. But wait! There is that $1 million life insurance policy her husband bought a year ago. Maybe she can leverage that policy for quick cash. When this scheme fails, she changes the beneficiary to Matt, and in exchange he gives her stacks of drug money, which his office is holding for a trial years away. Then Ann Merai's house burns down that night in an arson fire, killing both her and her husband.
Alex is on the case the next morning. Matt realizes the evidence will all too quickly point to him. Frantic, Matt struggles to stay one step ahead of his enterprising wife to solve the murder before he finds himself in jail. Of course, logic would dictate that Matt should take his wife into his confidence
after all, she is still on friendly terms with him. But what fun would that be for viewers?
The film contains a number of well-orchestrated sequences where that one step shortens to a half-step, especially at a Miami hotel where Matt races to get to a suspicious character (Alex Carter) before his wife does, only to wind up hanging from a hotel balcony with the suspect.
Washington never appears to have gotten a handle on his character, though. Matt is a sleazy guy who doesn't just make a mistake or two but a whole series of them, all predicated on his own self-interest. Yet Washington tries to play Matt as a sympathetic innocent, which doesn't wash. A little of that "Training Day" evil cunning might have worked better.
Mendes, in her best role yet, gives her cop plenty of energy and femininity. John Billingsley is wonderful as a slacker medical examiner who becomes Matt's sidekick in crime and serves as the film's comic relief. Lathan and Cain hit just the right notes of guile and ardor.
Adding to the film's rich atmosphere are terrific Florida locations, Theo Van de Sande's elegant cinematography -- emphasizing voluptuous earth tones -- and Graeme Revell's rousing Latin jazz score.
OUT OF TIME
MGM
An Original Film/Monarch Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Carl Franklin
Screenwriter: Dave Collard
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Jesse B'Franklin
Executive producers: Kevin Reidy, Jon Berg, Damien Saccani, Alex Gartner
Director of photography: Theo Van de Sande
Production designer: Paul Peters
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: Sharen Davis
Editor: Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Cast:
Matt Lee Whitlock: Denzel Washington
Detective Alexandra Whitlock: Eva Mendes
Ann Merai: Sanaa Lathan
Chris: Dean Cain
Chae: John Billingsley
Tony: Robert Baker
Cabot: Alex Carter
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 10/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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