Tower Block
Blu-ray | DVD
Directed by James Nunn, Ronnie Thompson
Written by James Moran
Starring Sheridan Smith, Jack O’Connell, Ralph Brown, Russell Tovey
Shout! Factory
Release Date: July 2, 2013

In Tower Block, it has been three months since a young teenager was beaten to death in a rundown apartment block building on the outskirts of London, with none of the few remaining tenants offering any eyewitness accounts to the police. Now, the apartment is set for demolition and the last of those tenants, who all live on the top floor, are refusing to vacate. And on this Saturday morning, that decision may cost them all their lives.

As the sun rises on the tower, an unknown assailant begins killing all the tenants with a high powered sniper rifle. Those that survive the first wave of attacks begin a series of desperate plans to get out of the building, however with each attempt they find that their attacker has anticipated that move and blocked their path, or worse. As the survivors’ numbers dwindle will they ever discover just who, and more importantly why, they have been targeted for extermination?

Haunted Horror, Vol. 1
Hardcover | Kindle Edition
Written by Various
Art by Various
Cover Warren Kremer
IDW Publishing
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Cover Price: $24.99

The world of pre-code comics, especially in the late 1940s and into the 1950s, was a wild, wild west of uncontrolled concepts and outlandish stories, and nowhere was this more evident than in the mother-disapproved horror comics. These comics were filled with ghastly tales, gory art, and a never-ending parade of chilling hosts from countless small publishers. The Haunted Horror series from IDW reprints a selection of these stories pulled from comics with such irresistible names as Weird Terror, This Magazine is Haunted, Worlds of Fear, and Web of Evil. Volume 1 here specifically collects the first three issues of Haunted Horror.

For those that may not be familiar this era’s horror comics outside of EC Comics, this is a lovingly put together collection that really showcases the range of macabre unleashed on the masses at the time and that EC in no way held the corner on the market. Featuring ghouls, ghosts, monsters, murder, mysticism, and revenge, there’s a new horror lurking behind the turn of each page.

The production troubled western Jane Got a Gun, which stars Natalie Portman as a frontier woman tormented by an outlaw gang, has received an official release date of August 29, 2014.

The film, which will be distributed by Relativity Media and The Weinstein Co., has had its share of issues including the departure of its original director Lynne Ramsay and the loss of several big cast names including Michael Fassbender, Jude Law, and Bradley Cooper.

Marvel officially announced this morning that Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass) and Elizabeth Olsen (Spike Lee’s Oldboy) will join the cast of The Avengers: Age of Ultron as the brother-sister duo Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

There have been longstanding rumors that Olsen was being eyed as the Scarlet Witch while Taylor-Johnson was previously confirmed for the role of Quicksilver. It’s great to see Marvel finally providing the official announcement for both of them.

Raze, a new movie from IFC Films and featuring Zoe Bell (Death Proof star and Kill Bill stuntwoman), has a new trailer out that puts the emphasis on the movie’s women-in-prison and tournament fight influences.

Check out here below the full trailer and poster, which further emphasizes the film’s sleazy grindhouse roots.