Cinema Psychos Movie Reviews

We take a break from the summer movie review grind and sit down with filmmaker, model, author, and friend; Johnny Daggers of DaggerVision Films. Johnny talks about his new film Blood on the Reel, a peek into the trials and tribulations of independent horror filmmakers. Johnny also gives us insight into his own personal filmmaking journey and where he sees it heading with feature films and a new novel.

Movie News! No movie news this week. Johnny Daggers Interview

Daggervision Beginnings

Brian and Johnny go way back as they were partners in Daggervision Films during the early days. The Cinema Psychos Show is what it is due to Daggervision Films Horror Talk Radio.

Blood on the Reel

The documentary shows what indie horror filmmakers have to go through to be successful. Without technology the documentary wouldn't exist. Johnny directed interviews with filmmakers all over the world through skype. The film is successful in making the audience empathize with the struggles and successes that indie filmmakers have to go through.

Follow your blood

Your passion will drive you to what you should do. Johnny brought up a good point how after soul searching he found that filmmaking was in his blood.

Noctambulist

New film similar to 1920's German expressionist films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.

Too much product- Not enough eyeballs

Even with services like Amazon Video Direct, Vimeo, etc. it is still hard for indie filmmakers to get the distribution necessary to be successful. Technology has made it easier to make a high quality film- iphones can shoot in 2k now. But that is creating an influx of too many films.

Cats like to screw with podcast interviews

Another cat incident happened during the podcast recording. This time it was Johnny's cat that decided to jump outside in the middle of the interview. Gotta love the kitties.

Blood on the Reel - Trailer

Check out Blood on the Reel available at amazon and other major retailers released through SGL Entertainment

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Happy Birthday America! In the spirit of the Fourth of July weekend, we are diving head first into the proverbial puke pile that is Independence Day: Resurgence. Some of the questions we try answer are how can a movie franchise go from having the best movie president (Bill Pulman) to having the absolute worst movie president (Sela Ward). Also, did the aliens finally renew their subscription to Norton Anti Virus or will pornography laced with computer viruses be the hero for earth once again. We'll find out today!!

Movie News!

Star Trek's Anton Yelchin passes away at 27 in freak auto accident.

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Movie makes zero sense

Supposedly peaceful society without war builds big intergalactic weapons of war Where was the resistance sphere alien 20 years ago during the first alien attack?

Missing memorable characters

ID4's major draw was an ensemble cast of memorable characters. Resurgence features majority of the characters phoning in performances for 2 hours. Vivica A. Fox was literally brought back to die.

CGI Overload

CGI is reminiscent of the Sci Fi Channel Original Movies produced by The Asylum. ID4 had a slow burn approach to the effects, no alien explosions until 40 mins in. Resurgence kicks it off right off the bat and leaves the audience feeling nothing.

Worst Movie President.....EVER!!

Sela Ward quite literally is the dumbest president ever. She ignores the advice from the one guy who destroyed the aliens the first time around and shoots a peaceful alien ship. Delays investigating the crashed ship instead to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the first alien attack.

No monument to Russell Case (Randy Quaid)

Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK!?!

Ending is terrible

Major explosion of the alien queen's ship is cut out. We get a shot of Jeff Goldblum instead.....Seriously, Fuck you Roland Emmerich. You had one job and that was to show explosions and you can't even do that right. President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) sacrifices himself for nothing as the queen survives the explosion of her ship. Ending promises the movie that we should have had. Why couldn't Independence Day: Resurgence be about taking the fight to the alien homeworld? Would have been much more interesting than this pile of garbage.

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Grab your sunscreen and beach blanket; Brian, John, and Elaine give you an overview of some of the potential stinkers and gems from the tentpoles of the summer blockbuster season.

Movie News!

No movie news this week.

SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW- 2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Release Date: June 3rd

Key Points

Good Points

Playing major fan service with the inclusion of classic Turtles characters: Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang from Dimension X. That's honestly the only half decent parts

"Meh" Points

It's a sequel to a movie nobody wanted More Michael Bay CGI fuckery with weird ass looking Turtles. More pandering to the nostalgia of Turtles past. Casey Jones is now a pretty boy played by Stephen Amell (still awesome as Green Arrow) rather than a crazy street person played by Elias Koteas.

Independence Day: Resurgence Release Date: June 24th

Key Points

Good Points

Finally delivering on a sequel to an amazing film after 20 years. Original cast is mostly back except for good point #3 No Will Smith--"He's dead Jim".

"Meh" Points

Prepare for CGI overload as the "present" in the ID4 universe is a weird hybrid between our world and Blade Runner. How is Brent Spiner alive in the movie when his character (Dr. Okum) was killed off in the first movie. Won't a computer virus just kill off the aliens again or have they finally upgraded their AVG Anti- Virus Software from the demo version. Liam Hemsworth.....yup that's a meh point right there.

Ghostbusters Release Date: July 15th

Key Points

Good Points

There are none.

SIN Points

This is the biggest example of the reboot that no one wanted. Where do you start in trying to explain how horrible this shit bomb truly will be. Biggest Sin- putting fantastic comedic actors like Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy in a bastardized version of one of the best comedies ever made. Sin 2- Director, Paul Feig feeding the misguided flames of uber feminists continual bullying of anyone who happens to think that this movie sucks.

Having an affection for the original 1984 film and seeing, based on trailers, how completely fucked up the film franchise you love has become DOES NOT make you a bigot or a misogynist and to push that narrative weakens the argument against real bigotry and misogyny by trivializing it

Sin 3- The ghost effects look like Scooby Doo rip offs.

The original Ghostbusters had ghosts that were made using practical effects and stop motion that looked truly terrifying. These new ghosts look like something out of a Joel Schumacher Batman movie.

Sin 4- Moving forward with this movie shortly after Harold Ramis passes away after he tried for 20 years to get a sequel made.

Suicide Squad Release Date: August 5th

Key Points

Good Points

Margot Robbie definitely channels the madness of Harley Quinn Trailer seems to mix the dark depressing nature of Batman v Superman with comedic elements.

"Meh" Points

Will this movie be too dark? Will Jared Leto's joker jump the proverbial shark and come across as ridiculous? Will Smith is in this unfortunately. Playing the Joker after Heath Ledger could be considered career suicide. Is it impossible to follow up that performance?

Sausage Party Release Date: August 11th

Brian, John and Elaine flex their secret mutant movie powers and tackle the latest entry into the ever expanding and ever confusing continuity X-Men film series with Bryan Singer's X-men Apocalypse. Does the film hold up to the caliber of Day's of Future Past or First Class? Or are we looking at the likes of a Last Stand or Wolverine: Origins? Strap in and find out.

Movie News!

Lucasfilm orders reshoots for Star Wars: Rogue One. Is the film in trouble?

X-Men Apocalypse - Key Points

Good Points

Very fun summer popcorn movie. Features a good amount of comic book source material (Dark Phoenix Saga/Age of Apocalypse). Lots of very pretty CGI (if you are into that sort of thing)

"Meh" Points

Not much joy in this movie as the characters are generally just going through the motions. Minimal 80's references as compared to Days of Future Past. Quicksilver's character arc sucks. He wastes a perfect moment to reveal to Magneto that he is his son when his entire motivation for the film was to tell him that he is his son. Apocalypse is wasted as a villain when compared to other media's interpretation (Age of Apocalypse and X-Men animated TV Show).

General X-Men Continuity Fuckery

Never revealed why Mystique was Striker at the end of Days of Future Past and how the real Striker got Wolverine. Apocalypse pretty much helps fix the glaring continuity problem from X-Men (2000) where Xavier mentions that Magneto helped build Cerebro. At the end of the film, Magneto and Jean Grey are seen rebuilding Xavier's mansion which includes Cerebro.

Notable Movies Referenced

TRAILER:

NEXT WEEK: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW!!!!!!!!!

Giving you guys a run down of some of the gems or turds coming to a multiplex this summer.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Independence Day: Resurgence Ghostbusters Sausage Party Swiss Army Man

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Every once in a while you encounter a movie that quite literally boggles the mind and brings forth emotions like anger, rage, and befuddlement. Tiptoes (2003) is one of those movies. The gang inducts this Oldman, McConaughey, Beckinsale stinker into The Pantheon of Utter Shit. We try to answer the big question of what bet did these award winning actors lose that forced them to star in this shit bomb. Movie News!

Michael Keaton rumored to star as "Vulture" in new Spider Man Reboot.

Tiptoes - Key Points

How did this movie get made?

Seriously, how in the hell did this movie 1. attain actors with very distinguished careers and 2. attain the funding for it. The studio tried to dress up this movie with a trailer that reframes it as a "Romantic Comedy" yet it still is a very unbalanced and offensive drama. This was one of the crap roles that Peter Dinklage referred to in a recent commencement address. Oh and you really can only watch this movie drunk to get past the plot holes the size of the grand canyon.

Actual lines of dialogue from the film

Rolfe: "Little People Shit." Carol: "So you had a circle jerk with a bunch of little people? I would have loved to see that." Steven: "I need new chromosomes!!" **Punches wall**

This is quite literally black face with little people

Gary Oldman is a fantastic actor but this portrayal of a little person is just down right offensive. It is extremely difficult to watch the performance and take anything Oldman says seriously due to the fact that he is pretending to be a little person. This is another example of white washing in Hollywood. Look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's and the modern film, Gods of Egypt; putting name recognition above character/story.

Notable Movies Referenced

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The gang straps in for an 8 bit barrage of utter shit in the form of movie adaptations of some of your most treasured video games; in particular Super Mario Bros. from 1993. We try to answers some of the most striking questions from the film like can you really trust the fungus and did this movie slowly kill Bob Hoskins. So grab your Powerglove (It's sooo bad!) and a mushroom or two as we dive into the world of horrible video game movies! Movie News!

The Neon Demon causes a stir of walkouts and boos at The Cannes Film Festival.

Super Mario Bros. - Key Points

Video Game Bonafides

John had a very typical upbringing going from the Nintendo NES, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Sega CD, etc. Elaine unfortunately lived a very video game deprived childhood and had to survive on the crumbs of computer games. Brian went from NES, to Genesis, and then to the monstrosity that was the 32X- the male enhancement drug for the Sega Genesis. Also, that fucking dog in Duck Hunt is the devil.

What's with the Dinosaur Obsession?

Super Mario Bros. dips into the trend in the early 90's of everything revolving around dinosaurs which seemed to climax around the release of Jurassic Park in the same year.

This film has absolutely nothing to do with the video game.

Aside from King Koopa stealing The Princess, the plot revolves around some meteorite that split the dimensions into our world and a dystopian dino obsessed world called Dinohatten and Koopa's desire to merge the dimensions using a piece of the meteorite.......still with me? This movie was so bad that Nintendo to this day refuses to license their games for movie adaptations. Bob Hoskins did not know that Mario was a video game character and he was injured multiple times on set.

He was electrocuted, broke a finger, and nearly drowned.

Trust the fungus--the real hero of the movie is a liquid latex looking fungus played by Lance Hendriksen of Pumpkinhead fame

Video game movies are extremely difficult to adapt to films.

The early games plots were simplistic button mashers which forced studios to create plots that ultimately had very little to do with the games themselves. Games nowadays have an easier time transitioning to film since the games themselves are now as fleshed out as most movies with complex characters and elaborate plots. Think of games like The Last of Us, LA Noir, and Uncharted.

Notable Movies Referenced

NEXT WEEK: We add one of the most offensive films on the planet to The Pantheon of Utter Shit- TipToes

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This week we take a short detour from our usual review-centric episodes and interview Cinematographer, Producer, and an all around great friend, Ryan Haggerty of Haggerty Media. Ryan will be discussing a new film premiering on June 1st called "Blood on the Leaves" that he has been involved with as well as his insights on the trials and tribulations that indie filmmakers go through to bring projects to life. Ryan Haggerty Interview- Key Points

We quite literally did have the worst slum lord of all time

Ryan and I lived in the worst basement apartment while we were in grad school. Complete with burst steam pipe, a giant hole in our laundry room, and fruit flies. "Dirt Grubs" do exist.

Working together as a team yields better results

Filmmaking by itself is a collaborative art. Working with others and retaining their input, along with revisions, yields only a stronger film in the end.

Everything starts with a great story

You have to have the best possible story to convince people to invest in your project. Fundraising relies on more than just creating a kickstater or indiegogo. You need to personally reach out to people through emails, phone calls, networking events, etc. Problems will occur down the line but it is important not to get bent out of shape and lose focus. Create an LLC for your film. It not only gives your film a professional feel to it, but it also makes accounting your funds and budgeting easier. Write your story for what you have.

If you have access to free locations, props, costumes, etc. write those into your story from the beginning. It will save you cash once production starts.

Distribution and marketing are a pain but are necessary

Look at starting with local small theaters/coffeehouses in the area your project was filmed at to tap into the community that helped make the film possible. Some theaters will allow you to rent outright or do a 50/50 split of the ticket sales. For larger distribution, it still serves to talk to sales agents and distributors, although there is a lot you can still do on your own. Regardless of your distribution strategy, marketing ties everything together and ultimately is responsible for getting people to your screening.

Notable Movies Referenced

If you are in the Pittsburgh area, be sure to check out the premiere of Blood on the Leaves at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont on June 1st. Tickets can be purchased online at ShowClix

Find more info about Ryan Haggerty and Blood on the Leaves:

Haggerty Media- Facebook - Twitter @haggertymedia Blood on the Leaves

botlmovie.com Twitter @BOTLmovie Facebook- BOTLmovie Instagram- BOTLmovie

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This week Brian, John, and Elaine tackle the gigantic rotting elephant in the room; REMAKES! We examine the new trend in the Hollywood remake factory; using nostalgia to attract both old and new audiences and how that quite literally is setup to crash and burn. Buckle up folks! It's gonna be a bumpy ride! Movie News!

AMC Theaters and the "Tweet Seat" Backlash

AMC Theaters dipped their toe into the idea of making a section of theaters open to texting and social media. Public backlash however was fierce as within 24 hours of the announcement, AMC Theaters walks back the idea and rededicated movie theaters as being "cell phone free" zones.

Remakes- Key Points

Hollywood is trying to Kill 2 Birds with 1 Stone

The current crop of remakes aims at trying to appease die hard fans of the original material while trying to cater to the the 18-24 crowd that has never been exposed to the original source material and ultimately cannot stomach complex plots with character development. They desire explosions with just enough plot to move to the next scene as that is what they are used to.

Wallstreet has Created a Risk Averse Filmmaking Atmosphere

Due to Hollywood utilizing funding from Wallstreet for a number of films, the atmosphere now relies heavily on utilizing remakes of popular films from the past as well as franchises as opposed to investing in original screenplays where there is a chance that returns will be low. This ultimately breeds a continued lack of originality in studio films.

Some Remakes are Good

You heard me right. Sometimes changing the source material benefits the film. Cinematic original films of books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hellraiser, and the original Total Recall prove that literary remakes aren't all that bad. Good remakes require a decent gap of time from the original to be success. They also must be original enough to differentiate themselves from the source material but still pay homage to the original.

Notable Movies Referenced

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We are jumping in our delorean, gunning it to 88mph, and traveling back to the year that gave us "The Rachel" hair cut and JNCO Jeans: 1995; to review the coming of age female dram-edy, Now and Then. We try to answers some of the more serious questions posed in the film such as, Can you get pregnant from french kissing? and is it ever a smart idea to jump into a storm drain in the middle of a storm? Movie News!

RIP: Prince

The music world lost another icon with the sudden death of Prince.

Now and Then Key Points

The "Stand by Me" for Women

While Stand by Me balances coming of age comedy with the serious subject matter of death and male identity, Now and Then attempts to replicate that motif with 4 preteen girls embarking on a summer of adventure and a quest for independence.

Touches on Complex Issues but Stops Short.

The narrative touches on complex issues such as love, divorce, death, and friendship but fails to push deeper into how these very complex issues effect the characters. This is disappointing in that actors like Thora Birch, Christina Ricci, Gabby Hoffmann, and Asleigh Aston Moore are the heart and soul of the film but are not pushed further per the material.

Grown up Versions of the Main Cast are a Waste of Time.

Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore, Rita Wilson, and Rosie O'Donnell offer nothing more than marquee filler as they only appear on screen for 2 scenes. The conflict between the grown up versions is never addressed. We never know why these very close friends drifted apart as they grew into adulthood.

An Exception to Most "Chick Flicks".

Where most "chick flicks" fall into the romance trap, Now and Then does a fantastic job of steering away from that and focusing on positive female relationships. The women in this film are independent, strong, and come into their own without resorting to only talking about men.

Notable Movies Referenced

Future Episode!- Tiptoes (2003)

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We're packing up the family camper and traveling to the humble hamlet of Nilbog! In our first entry of The Pantheon of Utter Shit, we examine the cinematic classic that is Troll 2. Brian, John and Elaine attempt to answer some of the most puzzling questions from this film; like why would goblins with sharp teeth need to convert humans to green veggie paste to eat them? And why would goblins be vegetarians to begin with?!! News in Movies!

Anti-Vaxx Documentary pulled from Tribeca

The Tribeca Film festival has decided to pull the controversial documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover up to Controversy after outrage from the public to its selection in the film festival.

Troll 2 Key Points

This movie is horrible---but the documentary is AMAZING!

If you are going to watch this film, be sure to watch the documentary about the film as a companion piece; Best Worst Movie.

Troll 1 Rip Off

This movie has absolutely no relation to the original Troll 1. Like Zombi 2 which capitalized on the italian cut of Dawn of the Dead (Zombi), Troll 2 is an entirely different movie with no plot threads from the original.

Oh you thought there were Trolls in Troll 2?

No Trolls, just druid, vegetarian, goblins. Oh and they can take the form of redneck hillbillies with herpes sores on their face.

B Movies and Popularity

Troll 2 and Plan 9 From Outer Space would be on the Scifi Channel with the likes of Sharknado if they were made today.

Notable Movies Referenced

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