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Blu-ray Release Date: June 3, 2014

Price: Blu-ray $24.97

Studio: Shout! Factory

It’s a cannabilistic fest in 1999 horror movie Ravenous.

Guy Pearce (Lockout) stars in the independent film as Capt. Boyd, a disgraced war veteran who’s quietly sent to a remote fort inhabited by soldiers half-mad with boredom. Then a frozen stranger (Robert Carlyle, California Solo) arrives and tells them about a group of settlers who are trapped in a cave and forced to eat one another. When Boyd and soldiers go to help, they fall into a deadly ambush.

David Arquette (Black Limousine) and Jeffrey Jones (TV’s Deadwood) also star in the thriller, which was directed by Antonia Bird (Priest) and written by Ted Griffin (Tower Heist).

Critics panned Ravenous, which grossed $2 million when it was in theaters. But moviegoers like it much better. The film scored 40% with critics and 79% with moviegoers, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

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DVD Release Date: July 16, 2013

Price: DVD $29.98

Studio: Entertainment One

Tanit Phoenix lights up our candles as the sexy hostess of Femme Fatales.

Inspired by and styled in the tradition of pulp stories, film noir and graphic novels, Femme Fatales: Season 2 is a sexy Cinemax “After Dark” mystery-thriller anthology television series about powerful, sexy and dangerous women.

Broadcast in 2012, the half-hour program from creators Mark Altman (TV’s Castle) and Steve Kriozere (TV’s NCIS) features stories inspired by such noir classics as Double Indemnity classic thriller TV series like The Twilight Zone. In each of the 12 stand-alone episodes, women find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile. Every episode is introduced by a mysterious and sultry host Lilith (Tanit Phoenix, Death Race 2), and features different casts and storylines, some of which are intertwined as part of the series’ overall mythology.

Over the weekend, Dave Shelton — an award winning writer, cartoonist, and voice actor, with a varied resume that includes Everybody Loves Raymond, National Lampoon, Tweety And Sylvester and Against Type — and Tami Zorge hosted the world premiere of his pilot Professor Creepy’S Scream Party at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.

The “Garage TV” pilot, which was shot in only one day and edited in one more, is a live action variety show that is billed as a retro mash up of sixties kids shows, horror hosts, and dance shows. Picture the Hilarious House Of Frankenstein meets Vampira meets American Bandstand, with a Vincent Price-esque mad scientist as host. How does that not pique one’s interest?

The event is a testament to how hard work can pay off. The pilot process was described to me as a Living In Oblivion-esque experience, with financiers backing out, the lead actor...

Blu-ray, DVD, Digital & VOD Release Date: May 14, 2013

Price: DVD $Tba, Blu-ray $Tba

Studio: Indican Pictures

Independent film The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez is the last movie actor Ernest Borgnine (Johnny Guitar) made.

The 2012 comedy stars Borgnine as Rex Page, an old man living in the Rancho Park nursing home, bitter that he never became a true cowboy like the Mexican folk hero he once met, Victor Fernandez.

When he discovers Rancho Park is run by the villainous local businessman Mr. Walker and his evil henchman Dr. Dominguez, Rex decides to make his dream come true and save the home, earning the love and respect of his family and the staff.

Barry Corbin (No Country for Old Men) and Carla Ortiz (Black Limousine) also star in the unrated movie, which was written and directed by Elia Petridis (How Henri Came to Stay).

Borgnine died in July 2012 after a long career,...

DVD Release Date: Jan. 29, 2013

Price: DVD $29.98

Studio: Entertainment One

Tanit Phoenix serves as the sexy hostess of Femme Fatales.

Inspired by and styled in the tradition of pulp stories, film noir and graphic novels, Femme Fatales: Season 1 is a sexy Cinemax “After Dark” mystery-thriller anthology television series about powerful, sexy and dangerous women.

The half-hour program from creators Mark Altman (TV’s Castle) and Steve Kriozere (TV’s NCIS) features stories inspired by such noir classics as Double Indemnity classic thriller TV series like The Twilight Zone. In each of the 13 stand-alone episodes, women find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile. Every episode is introduced by a mysterious and sultry host Lilith (Tanit Phoenix, Death Race 2), and features different casts and storylines, some of which are intertwined as part of the series’ overall mythology.

Some of the...

Title: Black Limousine Directed by: Carl Colpaert Starring: David Arquette, Bijou Phillips, Vivica A. Fox, Tom Bower, Nicholas Bishop and Lin Shaye Running time: 101 minutes, Rated R Special Features: None Jack MacKenzie is a former award-winning film composer, and divorced father who is trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered life after an accident that claimed the life of one of his daughters, by getting a job as a limo driver in Hollywood. He struggles with his alcohol addiction while going to AA meetings and tries to inch his way back into the business by chatting up his clientele. Surrealism abounds! This film is amateurish and depressing  [ Read More ]...

For any twist to work, whether it’s in a drama or a thriller, the audience has to become invested enough so that they’re strapped in and seeing what the writer and director want them to see and not viewing the story from the outside. Black Limousine tries its best to draw you into its backseat, but the David Arquette drama just can’t deliver enough of a hook to make you want to go along for the ride. Arquette performs well enough, but there are just too many moments that reek of film school amateurism in the writing that rip you out of the story and make you ask, “Who talks like that? Even in La – who?” In its attempts to deliver some kind of high-minded point on commercialized storytelling, it takes the audience off-course and undermines the uncertainty of the protagonists eroding reality.

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From Anchor Bay Entertainment, actor David Arquette delivers an effectively twitchy performance for director Carl Colpaert, in the Hollywood-set 2010 drama "Black Limousine", available on DVD, July 10, 2012 :

"...'James MacKenzie' (Arquette). once a Hollywood film composer, has fallen on hard times. Having resorted to take a draining job as an La limo driver, just to make ends meet, he is a broken man, trying to put his life back together by picking up the pieces of a shattered family and career. Jack's split and sanity have been crushed by the loss of his first daughter and he has turned to alcohol to deal with the grief.

"Jack catches a break when he is assigned to drive A-List actor 'Thomas Bower'to the set of his latest film. On the set he starts up a sexually-charged relationship with 'Erica Long' (Bijou Phillips) a skanky model and singer struggling with demons of her own.

DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012

Price: DVD $22.98

Studio: Anchor Bay

The darkness at the end of the tunnel is David Arquette in Black Limousine.

David Arquette (Scream 4) and Bijou Phillips (Bully) star in the 2010 drama Black Limousine, tagged by its marketers as “a ghost story set in the city of dreams.”

Jack MacKenzie (Arquette), once a hot Hollywood composer, has fallen on hard times, a feeling fueled by alcoholism. Having resorted to taking a draining job as a limo driver just to make ends meet, Jack catches a break when he is assigned to drive A-List Actor Thomas Bower (Nicholas Bishop (TV’s Body of Proof) back-and-forth to the set of his latest film, during which time the two build a friendship of sorts. Bower appears interested and willing to help re-establish Jack, who also strikes up a sexually charged relationship with model-singer Erica Long (Phillips) who is struggling with her own problems.

Thora Birch, Christine Lahti, Brittany Snow and Michael Urie are cast Petunia, a dark indie comedy from Ash Christian. Also cast are David Rasche and newcomer Tobias Segal. Petunia starts filming next week with Ash Christian directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Theresa Bennett. Jordan Yale Levin (The Land of the Astronauts) produces Petunia alongside Birch and Christian. The story tells of an offbeat family of New Yorkers who are coming to terms with their own doubts about love and life. Stories are three brothers are intermingled, one of which has developed a sex addition...

Toronto -- Jeff Lipsky's family drama "Twelve Thirty" and Carl Colpaert's "The Land of the Astronauts," starring David Arquette as a once-hot composer driving a limo to make ends meet, have joined the official competition at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.

The American films will compete against 20 features and 16 shorts from 24 countries in the World Competition in Montreal, including two Canadian entries: Louis Belanger's "Route 132," which will open the festival on Aug. 26, and "Silence Lies," directed by Julie Hivon.

France is sending four competition titles to Montreal, including Jacques Doillon's "Three-Way Wedding," with three film from Japan, two from Germany, and Gianfrancesco Lazotti's "From the Waist On by" flying the flag for Italy.

In all, Montreal booked 430 films from 80 countries for its 34th edition, of which 113 features will be world or international premieres.

The festival has also scheduled tributes for actresses Nathalie Baye and Stefania Sandrelli,...