Red Riding Hood, from the director of Twilight, will be released on June 14th on Demand, for Download, and Blu-ray combo pack.

We are hosting a giveaway in conjunction with the release of the movie. I have two (2) prize packs to send your winners.

Prize Pack Content:

• Cable Cash (which is $5 off the winner’s cable or satellite bill)
• Canvas Roll-up Bag
• Tribal Wolf t-shirt

Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) directs a fantasy thriller that puts a haunting twist on the classic fairy tale. For years the villagers of Daggerhorn have maintained an uneasy truce with a werewolf – but the beast changes the stakes by killing the older sister of beautiful young Valerie (Amanda Seyfried). Promised in marriage to one man but in love with another, Valerie has her life dramatically affected yet again by the creature’s bloody actions. When a werewolf hunter warns that the beast takes human form by day and walks among them, panic sets in as the death toll rises. And Valerie learns she has a unique connection to the wolf that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait. Gary Oldman, Billie Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, Lukas Haas and Julie Christie also star.

To enter the giveaway, post your name and I will pick the winner June 24, 2011.

Remember: Watch it your way, On Demand, For Download and on Blu-ray combo pack.

Back in the eighties, there were a whole lot of Steven Spielberg movies coming out. They had a lot of common themes, especially kids working together to do unusual things or save people from unusual things. And Super 8, which just hit theaters today, is a lot like a taste of summer from long ago.

Super 8 follows a group of kids filming a movie on the titular media, when a surprise train wreck interrupts their filming. And this alone is big enough news for a group of misfits from Ohio, at least until they recover their camera from the surrounding wreckage and discover that what’s on the crashed train is actually bigger news than the train crash by itself. The crashed train contains something that the Air Force desperately wants to keep under wraps, and they’re willing to go to just about any lengths–including kidnapping, murder and arson–to keep their secret project a secret. The only problem is, the secret project isn’t interested in stay secret itself.

Like a strange intermingling of Cloverfield and The Goonies (which makes sense, given that this was produced by Steven Spielberg and written and directed by J.J. Abrams), all the good parts of both are brought into play here. We’ve got the marginally dysfunctional group of misfits (The Chubby Bossy Kid, The Smart Yet Spindly Nerd, The Kid Whose Mom Died, The Girl From The Bad Family, and of course, The Littlest Pyromaniac) who go off on the grand adventure to save their hometown from the evil government agency. And though these are cliches, they’re cliches for a reason, and here they’re executed masterfully and with just a touch of retro irony. Check out the sheriff’s reaction to the kid at the gas station who just got in one of those new Walk-mans, for just a hint of example.

Sure, it’s not all sunshine and lollipops. Some scenes are way too schmaltzy for their own good. Some of it, much like the characters themselves, is a bit awkward and unsure of itself. Some of the explanations were a bit lacking, like where this thing came from and what it’s doing here, but still, what was here was more than passable and a great way to spend a hot summer afternoon, of which we’ve had a few of those lately and it’s still technically late spring.

The Screenhead Ten Scale in turn believes that Super 8 is giving itself its own score, and agrees sufficiently to give this movie a super eight out of ten, because while it’s not the greatest thing I’ve seen recently, it’s good enough to make it very much worth seeing, and is definitely a lot better than some of what we’ve been sitting through lately.

“I live. I love. I slay…I am content.”

- Conan The Barbarian

The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this Summer. He is yummy looking! A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.

Deftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and thought provoking ideas of his iconic character, Conan the Barbarian stars Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman. The film is directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood.

The soundtrack to the trailer is wicked, totally techno.

Don’t forget to check out the new website!

“Come on Tom. Let’s finish it they way we started it, together.”

I am so looking forward to the midnight run. I hope to get seats in the IMAX 3D Theater. When the movie gets to the third act, I don’t know if I will be sad, knowing the franchise is ending, or so into the movie I don’t even think about it. Woe is me!

Guillermo del Toro name is all over this movie. He co-wrote and produced Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a horror film starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison, directed by Troy Nixey.

Based on the 1973 telefilm that del Toro believes is the scariest TV production ever made, the story follows Sally (Madison), a young girl who moves to Rhode Island to live with her father (Pearce) and his new girlfriend (Holmes) in the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the house, Sally starts to hear voices coming from creatures in the basement whose hidden agenda is to claim her as one of their own. Akin to del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark focuses on a young girl’s struggle against menacing and terrifying forces. FilmDistrict will release the film on August 26, 2011.

Witness an exorcism performed by legendary Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins) in The Rite.

Believe it or not, this movie is inspired by true events and is on the streets wherever DVDs are rented and sold. Screenhead worked with Warner Bros to help promote the thriller. We ran a giveaway for three lucky winners of a movie night package. It includes a free iTunes download of The Rite and a coupon for a large pizza from Papa John’s. We had a lot of interested readers in this giveaway but only three winners. Alas!

Here are our winners. Lynda E. says, “This kind of stuff scares the bejeebers out of me, but I’ll probably watch it anyway.”

Em Savidge says, “Love Papa John’s – and would love to win this movie – great prize combo (all it lacks is beer!)”

Dara Nix says, “We LOVE Papa John’s AND Anthony Hopkins in this house.”

So, thank you for offering your comments. It’s been a great giveaway.

This is what Lynda, Em and Dara won:

Papa John’s Pizza Card
iTunes gift card for the purchase of the movie.

Watch it your way: On Demand, For Download or on Blu-ray combo pack.

Inspired by true events, this supernatural thriller follows a seminary student (Colin O’Donoghue) sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the controversial practice and even his own faith.

Only when sent to apprentice with legendary Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who has performed thousand of exorcisms, does his armor of skepticism begin to fall. Drawn into a troubling case that seems to transcend even Father Lucas’s skill, the young seminarian glimpses a phenomenon science can’t explain or control – and an evil so violent and terrifying that it forces him to question everything he believes.  What do you believe!?

Screenhead held a giveaway for the DVD and Blu-Ray release of The Illusionist.  We picked the winner Insiya who says, “Count me in.”  We not only counted you in the giveaway, but you won  (1) copy of the DVD/Blu Ray Combo pack. Congratulations!

From the Director of the Oscar-nominated classic The Triplets of Belleville, a down-on-his-luck magician meets a young girl who is convinced his magic is real in this 2010 Academy Award nominated film.

The Illusionist is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. I strongly recommend you see this movie.

The movie is a heartwarming story of a magician while touring concert halls, theaters and pubs encounters a young girl at the start of her life’s journey. Alice is a teenage girl with all her capacity for childish wonder still intact. She plays at being a woman without realizing the day to stop pretending is fast approaching. She doesn’t know yet that she loves The Illusionist like she would a father; he already knows that he loves her as he would a daughter. Their destinies will collide, but nothing – not even magic or the power of illusion– can stop the voyage of discovery.

The animation is realistic and characterized perfectly for the film, pure artistic splendor.

This is raunchy, but it is funny. Lady Gaga is pure talent. I never looked at a “3-Way” this way before.

Directed by Steven Spielberg from producer Peter Jackson The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn trailer finally arrives. The movie stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook.

Written by Edgar Wright, Steven Moffat and Joe Cornish the movie is in 3D Motion Capture Film. Jamie Bell as Tintin is the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure with Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham.

The movie opens in theaters on December 23, 2011

So we’ve got something interesting from the folks out at Anchor Bay, who sent over a copy of Daydream Nation for us to review. And we’ve seen a whole lot of great stuff come out of Anchor Bay, and while this one is certainly one of the weirdest, it’s also

Daydream Nation is a strange sort of tale that follows Caroline Wexler, a seventeen year old girl who’s staring down the barrel of most every seventeen year old’s horror coming to life: to move from the city to a rural school in the middle of nowhere. And while things could be worse–turns out most of the kids at Caroline’s new school are perpetually stoned, and the world around her is somewhat preposterous. There’s an industrial fire burning almost perpetually outside of town, there’s a serial killer roaming around, and Caroline’s in the middle of a love triangle between a stoner and a teacher. Freaky? You bet. But Caroline’s first year is going to be a doozy.

Daydream Nation is a strange sort of movie; there isn’t much of an actual plot here so much as there is a series of interspersed concepts (almost daydreams, really) connecting to each other in something of a vague fashion. But at the same time, the stories are interesting, especially if you’ve been in high school recently, or know someone who has. The overmastering plotline featuring the love triangle only occasionally crops up, while the rest of the various proto-plotlines show up to fill in the holes.

It’s weird, but it’s different, and frankly, different is good, especially in an environment where More Of The Same so often rules the day. And the performances here are great–Kat Dennings is an absolute showstopper here, and she’s backed up more than ably.

This is not for people who like clear narratives, unless you’re willing to basically just sit back and have a story told to you, a story that you may only occasionally get, and a story that will wildly meander from point to point.

Daydream Nation is fun, but not any kind of really well-structured fun. This is Calvinball, if I can borrow a metaphor, not baseball. There will be times when this gets dark, and there will be times when this gets downright hilarious, and all of these things will mix together, and be not only strange, but very, very watchable.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Daydream Nation an eight out of ten for being strange, but for being so endearingly strange that it’s just as watchable as it is bizarre to watch. You probably haven’t seen a movie like Daydream Nation lately, and while that’s a good thing, it’s also a bad thing. We need more movies like this, and as such, you need to see this, if for no other reason than to support this kind of bizarre and entertaining experience with the greatest measure there is for a movie: dollars.