Pontypool News

With the release of the movie Pirate Radio happening this week, and all of the crazy trailer footage of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Nighy and Nick Frost as loose cannon radio personalities in the swingin' 60s, we got to thinking about our favorite fictitious DJs in movie history, and decided to make a little list of them all.

DVD horror news #1: PONTYPOOL, HARD REVENGE MILLY, LOST SKELETON, etc. Friday, November 06, 2009 03:42 PM DVD & Blu-Ray a IFC Films and MPI Media Group gave Fango the first look at cover art for their DVD release of PONTYPOOL , the acclaimed and unusual zombie thriller starring Stephen McHattie.

Do It This Weekend, Part Deux: Star Wars In Concert, Pontypool , pig roast, In the Heights and more October 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm by Franki Weddington If you're already worn out on Halloween, check out our picks for non-ghoul-related weekend events.

The October Zombie-Thon 2009 - Day 29: Pontypool Posted by Trevor Snyder on 10.29.2009 Keeping quiet when zombies are around is always a good idea...but this time, it's a REALLY good idea.

They're the undead twin poles of current pop culture - zombies and vampires. Frankenstein's monster is ancient history, represented these days mainly by a Mel Brooks Broadway musical.

Pontypool is a compelling thriller that brings cannibal riots to small-town Canada, writes Philip French This film is not, as the title suggests, a Welsh comedy starring Rhys Ifans as a boozy, unemployed coalminer in Gwent.

Therese Raquin, Emile Zola's celebrated study of an unhappy marriage and a tragic affair, is the unlikely inspiration for this magnificent horror film.

Horror needs novelty: familiarity saps terror. Yet film-makers wheel out the same old zombies, slashers, ghosts and monsters time and again to shiver our jaded timbers.

Horror films, common wisdom has it, exist so that we can confront taboos, contemplate the horrors that we fear and yet strangely desire.

Animated storytelling reaches dizzy new heights in Pixar's 3D fairytale. 2. Katalin Varga British director Peter Strickland had to go to rural Transylvania to make his debut: the result is an atmospheric folk story-cum-road movie.

Terry Gilliam has always thrived on disaster. His career is a catalogue of calamity marked by productions that have fallen victim to runaway budgets and natural disasters.

Picks of the Day: Pontypool and Zombie Girl: The Movie A scene from Pontypool Two zombie-inflected pictures are highlights on this year's Indie Memphis line-up: The fictional thriller Pontypool and the documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie .

First there was Hard Core Logo. Now, 12 years after his mockumentary about a Canadian punk band wowed critics, Canadian director Bruce McDonald is about to bring you Hard Core Logo II: Still Hard.

I don't get why "Pontypool" never opened in commercial theaters, but I'm sure glad Oak Street Cinema is giving this smart, grisly zombie movie a shot.

Kerrie Long doesn't mind being an underdog. In fact, the director of the Edmonton International Film Festival, which gets underway Friday, is proud of the event's underdog status, sandwiched between higher-profile festivals in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

Having seen the excellent Pontypool at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year the news that a radio play with the same actors is available online for free is superb news, and it's true too, you can listen to the entire story online, for free.

Mike Myers a perfect fit for 'Basterds': Tarantino It's not the role you might expect Canadian actor Mike Myers to play.

Indonesian helmer Joko Anwar's "The Forbidden Door" nabbed the top prize at the Puchon Intl.

Your TV will get a work out this week, with two eye-popping cinematic extravaganzas: the director's cut of Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and Henry Selick's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.

Scenes of a Broken, Social kind Bruce McDonald, centre, watches as members of Broken Social Scene perform a free concert at Torontoa s Harbourfront Centre, which was filmed for McDonalda s new movie.