January 2021 – Page 6 – Movie Retakes

Hulu Unveils Palm Springs Commentary Cut With Stars, Director & Writer

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Hulu unveils Palm Springs commentary cut with stars, director & writer

In a rare move for a streaming platform debut, the Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti-led sci-fi rom com Palm Springs is getting a new cut at Hulu featuring commentary from the stars as well as director Max Barbakow and writer Andy Siara, according to Variety.

Back in the #PalmSprings loop, but this time with commentary #HuluFYC pic.twitter.com/b5O5ECucmz

— Hulu (@hulu) January 25, 2021

“As far as I know we’re the first,” Samberg said in a statement. “We realized that Palm Springs will always be on Hulu, which is great, but there are elements of the DVD experience that just don’t exist anymore. They were very amenable in talking about ways to get some fun stuff in there.”

When carefree Nyles (Samberg) and reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Milioti) have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, of each other.

Alongside Golden Globe winner Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, SNL), the film also stars Milioti (The Wolf of Wall Street), Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Meredith Hagner (Search Party), Camila Mendes (Riverdale), Tyler Hoechlin (Superman and Lois), and Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie).

The film is directed by Max Barbakow and written by Andy Siara. The film is produced by Andy Samberg, Becky Sloviter, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Dylan Sellers, and Chris Parker, and Gabby Revilla Lugo serves as executive producer. The film is produced by Limelight and Lonely Island Classics with Neon.

Both cuts of the acclaimed time-looping rom-com is now available to stream on Hulu!

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New to Stream: OVID’s February 2021 Movie Lineup

OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentaries and art-house films, has announced its February streaming lineup! OVID exclusives next month include Rogier Kappers’ Emmy nominated documentary Lomax the Songhunter, two films by Romanian director Radu Jude titled I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians and Aferim!, as well as Tsai Ming-liang’s Rebels of the Neon God, The Hole, and much more. You can learn more about these films and check out the full February slate below!

Monday, February 1st

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Lomax the Songhunter (2005)

Directed by Rogier Kappers; Icarus Films, Documentary

Netherlands

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) devoted his life to recording the world’s folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In Lomax the Songhunter, filmmaker Rogier Kappers follows the route that Lomax took across America and beyond its borders-traveling to remote villages in Spain and Italy, hearing memories and music from the farmers, shepherds, and weavers whose songs Lomax recorded decades earlier.

The film also tells Lomax’s story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, using archival recordings of music greats Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and gathering footage of the cotton fields, rock quarries, and prisons where Alan Lomax captured America’s quintessential music.

Tuesday, February 2nd

Ezra (2007)

Directed by Newton Aduaka; California Newsreel, Feature

Nigeria/France/Austria

Ezra stands out among other African films because it is a complex psychological study of a child soldier, not just about the trauma, healing, and reintegration into society, but also as a key for reconstructing these societies themselves. This drama was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema à Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa’s largest and most prestigious film event, and selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Karmen Gei (2001)

Directed by Joseph Gai Ramaka; California Newsreel, Feature

Senegal

Director Joseph Gaï Ramaka writes: “Carmen is a myth but what does Carmen represent today? Where do Carmen’s love and freedom stand at the onset of the 21st Century? Therein lies my film’s intent, a black Carmen, plunged in the magical and chaotic urbanity of an African city.”

Karmen Geï is the first African Carmen and, arguably, the first African filmed “musical.” Accordingly, Gaï Ramaka has completely replaced Bizet’s score and the usual staging with indigenous Senegalese music and choreography: Doudou N’Diaye Rose’s sabar drummers, Julien Jouga’s choir, El Hadj Ndiaye’s songs and Yandé Coudou Sène’s prophetic voice. Saxophonist David Murray’s contemporary jazz score runs like a thread of unfulfilled desire through the film.

Karmen Gei may convince viewers that this African ambience is what the Carmen legend, perhaps leading back through Andalusia to its African roots, has been waiting for all these years.

Wednesday, February 3rd

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

In the Last Days of the City (2016)

Directed by Tamer El Said; Big World Pictures, Feature

Egypt/Germany/Great Britain/United Arab Emirates

Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, United 93, Green Zone) as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness, and life in cities shaped by the shadows of war and adversity.

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Tahrir: Liberation Square (2011)

Directed by Stefano Savona; Icarus Films, Documentary

Egypt

Soon after the first reports came about the occupation of Tahrir Square, filmmaker Stefano Savona headed for Cairo, where he stayed, amidst the ever-growing masses in the Square, for weeks. His film introduces us to young Egyptians such as Elsayed, Noha, and Ahmed, spending all day and night talking, shouting, singing, finally expressing everything they were forbidden to say out loud until now.

Thursday, February 4th

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)

Directed by Bruno Dumont; KimStim, Feature

Canada

France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy.

One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc.

Friday, February 5th

OVID EXCLUSIVE

False Confessions (2016)

Directed by Luc Bondy; Big World Pictures, Feature

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Bulle Ogier

France

Luc Bondy’s final feature film as director draws talent from both stage and screen to bring Marivaux’s play into 21st century Paris. Isabelle Huppert commands the screen as Araminte, the wealthy widow who unwittingly hires the smitten Dorante (Garrel) as her accountant. Secrets and lies accumulate as Dorante and his accomplice, Araminte’s manservant Dubois (Yves Jacques), manipulate not only the good-hearted Araminte, but also her friend and confidante, Marton (Manon Combes).

Dorante, by turns pitiable and proficient, but always deferential to his social better, walks a fine line in his quest to arouse an equal desire in the object of his affections. Bulle Ogier delivers a memorable turn as Araminte’s mother, who suspects the young man’s intentions, but wants to push her daughter into the arms of an aged, hard-up Count (Jean-Pierre Malo). Filmed in part on-site at the Théâtre de l’Odéon, the film blurs the distinction between stage and screen, offering a new turn on this classic take on the psychology of love.

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Marie Curie (2016)

Directed by Marie Noëlle; Big World Pictures, Feature

Germany/France/Poland

Working alone after the premature death of her husband and colleague, physicist and chemist Marie Curie struggles for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th-century France.

Monday, February 8th

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008)

Directed by Kimberlee Bassford; Women Make Movies, Documentary

U.S.

In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was the driving force behind Title IX, the landmark legislation that transformed women’s opportunities in higher education and athletics.

Winning Girl (2014)

Directed by Kimberlee Bassford; Women Make Movies, Documentary

U.S.

From award-winning Hawaiian filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford (Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority) comes Winning Girl, an inspirational film that follows the four-year journey of Teshya Alo, a part-Polynesian, teenage judo, and wrestling phenomenon from Hawaii. Teshya is only 16 years old and 125 pounds, but on the judo and wrestling mats, she dominates women twice her age and pounds heavier!

Now Alo has her sights set on taking the Olympic gold at both the judo and wrestling world championships – and in doing so would be the first to accomplish that feat. Winning Girl tells the dynamic story of an elite athlete on her ascent, a girl facing the challenges of puberty and growing up with an entire family dedicated to a single dream. A great companion piece to any discussion on Title IX and gender.

Tuesday, February 9th

This is Nollywood (2007)

Directed by Franco Sacchi; California Newsreel, Documentary

Nigeria

First came Hollywood, then Bollywood, and now Nollywood — Nigeria’s booming film industry, which released two thousand features in 2006 alone. Where else can you shoot a full-length dramatic film for $10,000 in 7 days? Until recently, it was rarely known outside its own country. This is Nollywood explains why Nigerian video production is becoming recognized as a phenomenon with broad implications for the cultural and economic development of Africa. The most intimate and accurate portrait of the technical, economic, and social infrastructure of the industry.

Thunderbolt (2000)

Directed by Tunde Kelani; California Newsreel, Feature

Nigeria

A story from the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria combines melodrama and issues of ethnicity, gender, culture, and identity in post-colonial Africa.

Thunderbolt will come as a bolt out of the blue to most Americans, even aficionados of African cinema. The new Nigerian video industry is without doubt one of the most vibrant new developments in the world cinema today.

The first half of the film is in a sense a retelling of the Othello story – except the protagonists are not Abyssinian and Venetian but Yoruba and Ibo. In the second half of the film, a distinctly West African emphasis on the supernatural comes to the fore; curses and ritual cleansing take the place of psychological explanations.

Wednesday, February 10th

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Althusser: an Intellectual Adventure (2016)

Directed by Bruno Oliviero; Icarus Films, Documentary

France

Althusser: an Intellectual Adventure traces the development of Althusser’s thought, which influenced a who’s who of French philosophers, including Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. His most enduring contribution may be the concept of ideological state apparatuses: institutions and social structures including schools, churches, and families, that serve to reinforce the capitalist state.

The film also delves into Althusser’s little-understood struggles with the mental illness that would see him hospitalized numerous times throughout his life. In intimate letters to his wife, Helene Rytmann, and mistress, Franca Madonia, Althusser describes his treatment and mental states. As Yves Duroux says, in order to understand the man, one must look not only at his philosophy and relationship with the Communist Party, but to “his own madness” which in some ways linked the two.

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Foucault Against Himself (2014)

Directed by François Caillat; Icarus Films, Documentary

France

Divided into four chapters, Foucault Against Himself focuses on Foucault’s critique of psychiatry, his work on the history of sexuality, the growth of his radicalism arising from his research into the French penal system, the nature of knowledge and underlying structures of human behavior, and his immersion in American counter-cultural movements-in particular the resistance to current social structures that he found among sexual minority communities in San Francisco.

Thursday, February 11th

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)

Directed by Radu Jude; Big World Pictures, Feature

Romania/Germany/ Bulgaria/ France/Czech Republic

A young artist reconstructs a historical event from 1941, in which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.

OVID EXCLUSIVE

Aferim! (2015)

Directed by Radu Jude; Big World Pictures, Feature

Romania/Bulgaria/Czech Republic

Radu Jude’s third feature has been aptly compared to films as diverse as The Searchers, The Last Detail, and Pulp Fiction (the latter for its rambling, coarse, and endlessly entertaining dialogues), but the film is ultimately a moving parable about late-feudal Europe developed from historical documents and songs: its power structures and hierarchies, people’s ideas of themselves and others, interaction with minorities and the resulting conflicts. A Balkan Western in black-and-white that brings the cacophony of the times strikingly to life and explores the thematic arcs that stretch into the present.

Friday, February 12th

OVID EXCLUSIVE

Rebels of the Neon God (1992)

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang; Big World Pictures, Feature

Taiwan

Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature Rebels of the Neon God already includes a handful of elements familiar to fans of his subsequent work: a deceptively spare style often branded “minimalist”; actor Lee Kang-sheng as the silent and sullen Hsiao-kang; copious amounts of water, whether pouring from the sky or bubbling up from a clogged drain; and enough urban anomie to ensure that even the subtle humor in evidence is tinged with pathos.

The loosely structured plot involves Hsiao-kang, a despondent cram school student, who becomes obsessed with young petty thief Ah-tze, after Ah-tze smashes the rearview mirror of a taxi driven by Hsiao-kang’s father. Hsiao-kang stalks Ah-tze and his buddy Ah-ping as they hang out in the film’s iconic arcade (featuring a telling poster of James Dean on the wall) and other locales around Taipei, and ultimately takes his revenge.

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

The Hole (1998)

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang; Big World Pictures, Feature

Taiwan

Set just prior to the start of the 21st century, this vaguely futuristic story follows two residents of a quickly crumbling building who refuse to leave their homes in spite of a virus that has forced the evacuation of the area. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.

Wednesday, February 17th

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Colette (1951)

Directed by Yannick Bellon; Icarus Films, Documentary

France

French writer Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) was both a popular and literary sensation. Known simply as Colette, she scandalized French society with her three marriages and her career as a racy music-hall performer and mime artist. She was also one of the finest prose stylists of her era, and a legendary figure in Paris. Her work often explored the struggle between independent identity and passionate love, and asserted female sexuality in a male-dominated world.

Thursday, February 18th

I Was A Teenage Feminist (2005)

Directed by Therese Shechter; Women Make Movies, Documentary

Canada/US

Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today’s society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving, and very personal journey into the heart of feminism. Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Shechter talks with feminist superstars, rowdy frat boys, liberated Cosmo girls, and Radical Cheerleaders, all in her quest to find out whether feminism can still be a source of personal and political power.

Tokyo Idols (2017)

Directed by Kyoko Miyake; KimStim, Documentary

Japan

A fascinating exploration of Japan’s girl bands and their music, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hyper-modern societies.

Friday, February 19th

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street (2017)

Directed by Ruth Zylberman; Icarus Films, Documentary

France

209 Saint-Maur Street is a classic Haussmann building in the 10th arrondissement of Paris: Stone, built around a courtyard, shops on the bottom floor. In the first decades of the 20th century, it was home to some 300 working-class people, about a third of them Jewish.

And then came the Nazi occupation. Parents rounded up and deported. Children left on their own. Neighbors hiding Jewish kids under the blankets.

The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street is filmmaker Ruth Zylberman’s painstakingly researched reconstruction of life in the building before and during the Second World War. (At one point she wrote to every single person in France with a particular last name trying to find a resident of the building.) There’s the small grocer whose husband is deported and who loses her business when it is “Aryanized.” The deaf woman who eagerly writes down the names and locations of Jews so the Nazis can find them. The girl whose father hid Jews in the apartment and threatened to murder his collaborator son if anything should happen to them. And the Jewish children themselves, now elderly, many living abroad, who recall the rumors of roundups, the hiding, and the friends they played with. “I wonder if all of this was real,” one of them, the son of Polish immigrants, says.

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

A German Youth (2015)

Directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot; Big World Pictures, Documentary

France/Switzerland/Germany

A German Youth (Une Jeunesse Allemande) chronicles the political radicalization of some German youth in the late 1960s that gave birth to the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German revolutionary terrorist group founded notably by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, as well as the images generated by this story. The film is entirely produced by editing preexisting visual and sound archives and aims to question viewers on the significance of this revolutionary movement during its time, as well as its resonance for today’s society.

Tuesday, February 23rd

The Rest I Make Up (2018)

Directed by Michelle Memran; Women Make Movies, Documentary

Maria Irene Fornes was one of America’s greatest playwrights and most influential teachers, but many know her only as the ex-lover of writer and social critic Susan Sontag. The visionary Cuban-American dramatist constructed astonishing worlds onstage, writing over 40 plays and winning nine Obie Awards. At the vanguard of the nascent Off-Off Broadway experimental theater movement in NYC, Fornes is often referred to as American theater’s “Mother Avant-Garde.” When she gradually stops writing due to dementia, an unexpected friendship with filmmaker Michelle Memran reignites her spontaneous creative spirit and triggers a decade-long collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.

The duo travels from New York to Havana, Miami to Seattle, exploring the playwright’s remembered past and their shared present. Theater luminaries such as Edward Albee, Ellen Stewart, Lanford Wilson, and others weigh in on Fornes’s important contributions. What began as an accidental collaboration becomes a story of love, creativity, and connection that persists even in the face of forgetting.

Service: When Women Come Marching Home (2012)

Directed by Marcia Rock & Patricia Lee Stotter; Women Make Movies, Documentary

Women make up 15 percent of today’s military. That number is expected to double in 10 years. Service highlights the resourcefulness of seven amazing women who represent the first wave of mothers, daughters, and sisters returning home from the frontless wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. Portraying the courage of women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives, this powerful film describes the horrific traumas they have faced, the inadequate care they often receive on return, and the large and small accomplishments they work mightily to achieve.

The Heretics (2009)

Directed by Joan Braderman; Women Make Movies, Documentary

Tracing the influence of the Women’s Movement’s Second Wave on art and life, The Heretics is the exhilarating inside story of the New York feminist art collective that produced “Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics” (1977-92). In this feature-length documentary, cutting-edge video artist/writer/director Joan Braderman, who joined the group in 1975 as an aspiring filmmaker, charts the collective’s challenges to terms of gender and power and its history as a microcosm of the period’s broader transformations.

Thursday, February 25th

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Suspension (2019)

Directed by Simón Uribe; Icarus Films, Documentary

Colombia

A car and mini-bus meet on the highway connecting the cities of Mocoa and Pasto, in southern Colombia. The road, opened in 1944, is the main link between the two centers, but it’s not exactly a superhighway. In fact, it’s barely a highway at all. As the bus advances, the car backs up, seeking a place wide enough for the vehicles to pass each other.

For decades, Colombian authorities have talked of building a bypass, a road that will replace the one currently known as “the springboard of death.” With more than two dozen curves per mile, it may be the most dangerous stretch of road in the world. Shrines dot the route, marking the spots where so many have died. Landslides and washouts have killed dozens more.

Suspension brilliantly captures some of the absurdities and contradictions that come with the decades-long effort to try and build a road through this part of the Amazon—an effort one engineer calls “political madness.”

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Winter Nomads (2013)

Directed by Manuel von Sturler; Icarus Films, Documentary

Switzerland

Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss region, accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs, and eight hundred sheep.

An exceptional adventure is about to begin: They brave the cold and the bad weather day in and day out, with a canvas cover and animal skins as their only shelter at night. This saga reveals a tough and exacting profession requiring constant improvisation and unflinching attention to nature, the animals, and the cosmos.

Friday, February 26th

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Ága (2017)

Directed by Milko Lazarov; Big World Pictures, Feature

Bulgaria

In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth.

Nanook and Sedna’s traditional way of life starts changing – slowly, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes, and the ice has been melting earlier every year.

Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world – and to their daughter Ága, who left the icy tundra long ago due to a family feud.

When Sedna’s health deteriorates, Nanook decides to fulfill her wish. He embarks on a long journey in order to find Ága.

OVID EXCLUSIVE – SVOD Premiere

Viktoria (2014)

Directed by Maya Vitkova; Big World Pictures, Feature

Bulgaria/Romania

Maya Vitkova’s stunning debut feature Viktoria, which had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, follows three generations of women in the final years of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria and the early years of the transition to democracy. The film focuses on reluctant mother Boryana and her daughter, Viktoria, who, in one of the film’s surreal, magical touches is born without an umbilical cord. Though unwanted by her mother, Viktoria is named the country’s Baby of the Decade, and is showered with gifts and attention until the disintegration of the East Bloc.

Despite throwing their worlds off balance, the resulting political changes also allow for the possibility of reconciliation. Vitkova wrote, produced, and directed Viktoria, making it both personal and universal, and demonstrating a precocious command of all elements of the filmmaking process. Especially impressive is the film’s visual sensibility and its command of a range of shifting tones, from absurdist humor to political allegory to deeply moving familial drama.

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Paramount+ Promos Brings Star Trek, Beavis & Butthead, and More to Paramount Mountain

Paramount+ Promos Bring Star Trek, Beavis & Butthead, and More to Paramount Mountain

The first Paramount+ promo teasers for the upcoming rebranding of CBS All Access have been released, offering us a preview of the amount of content that subscribers will be getting. The video features Star Trek characters Spock and Captain Pike along with animated characters Dora and Beavis & Butthead as they begin their journey towards Paramount Mountain. Also featuring hosts James Corden, Gayle King and Jeff Probst, you can check out the videos below!

Roll call! @JeffProbst, @GayleKing, @JKCorden, and… @snooki?!
The journey to the peak of Paramount Mountain begins! #ParamountPlus https://t.co/8k6D3B1VpN pic.twitter.com/480MHopziN

— Paramount+ (@Paramount_Plus) January 25, 2021

On Paramount Mountain, a leader emerges… and she carries a talking map. Vámonos to the peak! #ParamountPlus https://t.co/8k6D3B1VpN pic.twitter.com/lVPKYFOwBt

— Paramount+ (@Paramount_Plus) January 25, 2021

Set to launch in the U.S. and Canada on March 4, Paramount+ will feature original content as well as shows from CBS and other broadcast networks such as MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount Network and Nickelodeon. Showtime, the sister streaming service to CBS All Access, will continue to operate separately from Paramount+. Some Showtime-branded originals will be ticketed for the new service and some form of bundling is likely down the line.

In addition, the company has also revealed the new slate of original series that are currently being in development under Paramount+. This includes: a new spy drama series titled Lioness which hails from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan: a miniseries titled The Offer which centers around the making of the iconic crime drama The Godfather; and iCarly revival series.

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish told Wall Street analysts last May that the streaming platform would be getting a rebranding that will also expand internationally over the next 12 months. After the quarterly earnings call, the service began its updating by adding over 100 films from the Paramount vault including the Star Trek franchise, The Godfather, Terms of Endearment and An Inconvenient Truth.

Other networks set to have programming debut on the platform include Smithsonian and the Paramount Network and a select number of specials and series from BET, which launched its own streaming service in September entitled BET+.

As of the end of March, CBS All Access and Showtime together had 13.5 million subscribers, which was a 50% increase from the same quarter last year, with general streaming revenue also rising 50% in the quarter to $471 million, estimated to stem from more viewers quarantining and looking for a variety of programming.

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Godzilla vs. Kong Trailer Pits Two Titans Against Each Other!

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Godzilla vs. Kong trailer pits two titans against each other!

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary have released the first trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong, the blockbuster sequel to Godzilla: King of the Monsters and third installment in the latter’s MonsterVerse franchise! Check out the trailer below!

Legends will collide. Watch the long-awaited official trailer for #GodzillaVsKong, coming to theaters and streaming exclusively on @HBOMax*.

*Available on @HBOMax in the US only, for 31 days, at no extra cost to subscribers. pic.twitter.com/ygUDjoXwT8

— Godzilla vs. Kong (@GodzillaVsKong) January 24, 2021

The epic action-adventure Godzilla vs. Kong will pit two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against one another — the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong — with humanity caught in the balance.

The film stars Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies, The Little Drummer Girl), Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), Rebecca Hall (Christine, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, Widows), Shun Oguri (Gintama), Eiza González (Baby Driver), Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist), and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2). Also starring in the highly-anticipated movie are Kyle Chandler (The Wolf of Wall Street, Manchester by the Sea) and Demián Bichir (The Nun, The Hateful Eight).

The fourth installment in Warner Bros.’ Pictures and Legendary’s Monsterverse is directed by Adam Wingard from a script written by Oscar nominee Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean, Deja Vu, Shrek). The film is being produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric McLeod, and Brian Rogers, with Kenji Okuhira, Yoshimitsu Banno, Jon Jashni and Thomas Tull serving as executive producers. Jay Ashenfelter, Jen Conroy and Tamara Kent are co-producers.

The most recent film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, hit theaters in summer 2019. It ended with Godzilla taking his rightful place as the ruler of all Titans. Unfortunately, the movie was a financial disappointment, grossing only $385.9 million against a budget estimated to be as high as $200 million.

Godzilla vs. Kong is set to arrive in theaters and on HBO Max on March 26, 2021.

What do you think of the Godzilla vs. Kong trailer? Let us know in the comments below!

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Paramount Delays A Quiet Place Part II To Fall 2021

Paramount delays A Quiet Place Part II to Fall 2021

On the heels of Sony Pictures and Disney making major shifts in their release schedule, Paramount Pictures is following suit as John Krasinski’s highly-anticipated horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II, one of the first films to see its release delayed due to the pandemic, has been pushed back from its last April date to September 17.

“We truly believe that there is no movie-viewing experience like the one enjoyed in theatres,” Paramount’s President of Domestic Distribution Chris Aronson, and President of International Theatrical Distribution Mark Viane, previously said in a statement. “We are committed to the theatrical experience and our exhibition partners, and want to stress that we are confident that, when the time comes, audiences everywhere will once again enjoy the singular joy of seeing Paramount films on the big screen.”

In A Quiet Place: Part II, following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

Emily Blunt is returning for A Quiet Place Part II alongside cast members Noah Jupe (Suburbicon, Wonder) and Millicent Simmonds (Wonderstruck), with John Krasinski set to write, and direct again. It was recently revealed in the film’s Super Bowl spot that Krasinski will reprise his role as Lee in the flashback scenes. Golden Globe nominee Cillian Murphy (Breakfast on Pluto) and Djimon Hounsou will also star in the sequel.

A Quiet Place was from a spec script by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck which was rewritten by Krasinski. It opened in theaters in April of 2018 and grossed over $334 million worldwide on a $17 million dollar budget.

A Quiet Place: Part II is produced by Krasinski and Michael Bay (Transformers) along with Bay’s Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (Ouija, The Purge, Texas Chainsaw Massacre). The sequel is executive produced by Allyson Seeger, Joann Perritano, Aaron Janus.

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PG: Psycho Goreman Review: A Bloody, Clever & Hilarious ’90s Throwback

Rating:

9/10

Cast:

Nita-Josee Hanna as Mimi

Owen Myre as Luke

Adam Brooks as Greg

Alexis Hancey as Susan

Kristen MacCulloch as Pandora

Anna Tierney as the voice of Pandora

Matthew Ninaber as Psycho Goreman (or “PG”)

Steven Vlahos as the voice of Psycho Goreman

Written and Directed by Steven Kostanski

Click here to rent or purchase PG: Psycho Goreman!

PG: Psycho Goreman Review:

When one turns on a film with a title as wild as PG: Psycho Goreman, expectations are directed in two paths: one of the worst and most graphic horror movies they’ve ever seen or the most outrageous genre spoof in the vein of The Final Girls. Thankfully, writer/director Steven Kostanski’s third solo directorial effort is the best of both worlds as it delivers loads of blood and guts but keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek as it spoofs a number of the most beloved genre efforts from the ’90s and the result is an absolute blast.

In PG: Psycho Goreman, siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.

To reflect and critique the story of a film such as this, which knows what it is and is purposely exploiting various tropes of its multiple genres, is hard to do as it’s easy enough to appreciate its embrace of a general formula to deliver its fun. Though it may slightly hamper the whole experience, as it generally proves predictable, there are a few subversions to the story that work well for the film, from double and triple crosses of alliances to offering an actually fleshed-out backstory for its titular villain-turned-antihero.

The film really shines in the mayhem that spawns from the arrival of the titular character, some of which initially proves chilling and brutal but slowly becomes hilarious and increasingly exciting from sequence to sequence. The casual willingness Mimi and Luke’s parents take to accepting PG into their lives and taking him around town feels like a great change of pace from similar movies of the past in which the children at the center of the story take slapstick-bordering steps to hide their alien friend and even brings a funny new dynamic to the family in the film, with the siblings’ parents’ marriage having more of its flaws exposed and offering a decent development with Alexis Hancey’s Susan, a more elevated change than other genre fare.

Taking PG around town to clothing stores for a makeover montage, grabbing ice cream and blowing up children who laugh at his terrifying face and terribly mutilating a local cop who attempts to kill him, resulting in melted-face zombie whose gun has melded into his hand, but is fully aware of his new existence and is unable to kill himself. The decision to utilize almost exclusively practical effects instead of an over-reliance on low-budget CGI is phenomenal, keeping the tone feeling grounded in the hyper-reality of the sci-fi and horror genres of the ’90s.

One of the best effects in the film proves to be that of a young child transformed into a horrible-looking walking brain unable to truly talk or emote outside of his eyes. It feels like the perfect combination of a wacky creation right out of John Hughes’ Weird Science or a villain from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with one of the Lovecraftian monstrosities Kostanski helmed bring to life in the wildly underrated 2016 gem The Void. It hits the right balance of a family-friendly monster that could give both adults and kids nightmares and shows some of the awesome imagination both Kostanski and his visual effects team put into developing the various creatures seen in the film.

PG: Psycho Goreman‘s only real flaws lie in some of the predictability in spoofing the genres and eras it does, but thanks to its nostalgic throwback tone, stellar practical effects and solid performances from its central cast, it’s an absolute bloody blast from start to finish.

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Waxwork Records Unveils Psycho Goreman Vinyl Soundtrack!

Waxwork Records unveils Psycho Goreman vinyl soundtrack!

With this week finally seeing the arrival of the bloody and hilarious ’90s throwback, Waxwork Records has unveiled a vinyl soundtrack edition of the Canadian sci-fi horror comedy PG: Psycho Goreman featuring the original music composed by Canadian trio Blitz//Berlin!

PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Blitz//Berlin is On Sale Now! Features 180 gram colored wax, new art by Vance Kelly, deluxe packaging, an art print, and more! Get the soundtrack to the craziest film of 2021! https://t.co/dYqMRUrqW5 pic.twitter.com/ByjmlA0zI3

— Waxwork Records (@waxworkrecords) January 22, 2021

Written and directed by Steven Kostanski, the film tells the story of a young sister and brother who unwittingly resurrect an ancient extraterrestrial overlord. The movie taps into late 80’s and early 90’s nostalgia by combining kid-friendly adventures and over the top practical effects. Goreman cleverly blends the horror and fantasy genres with a healthy dose of neon soaked visuals. The film is incredibly unique while remaining familiar with comparisons being drawn from such classics as Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Gate, the 1990’s live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, Power Rangers and Masters of the Universe.

Siblings Mimi (Nita-Josee Hanna) and Luke (Owen Myer) couldn’t be any closer. They spend nearly every waking moment together, getting muddy and playing their made-up game “Crazy Ball”. It probably helps that Mimi is bossy and domineering. The fearless tomboy steamrolls just about every family member with her assertive personality, especially dad, Greg (Astron-6 member Adam Brooks). During a particularly grueling game of Crazy Ball in the backyard, the siblings uncover a strange gem that awakens an evil intergalactic conqueror. The being, which the siblings dub PG: Psycho Goreman, is eager to assemble his former team of evildoers and continue their path of destruction, while the benevolent rulers that locked him away in the first place race to stop him once and for all.

The soundtrack by Blitz//Berlin is wild, thematic ride that features introduction narration, bombastic orchestral cues, lush synth-wave, 80’s inspired big-hair pop-rock power ballads, distorted guitars and enormous percussion.

Blitz//Berlin is a Canadian trio of composers based in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in Victoria BC, high school friends Martin Macphail, Dean Rode, and Tristan Tarr began their film composing career in Toronto, Canada in 2014. The group relocated to Los Angeles, California in 2018. They have composed the scores for the feature films The Void and Still/Born. Additionally, their trailer work includes Fifty Shades Darker, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and Bird Box.

The PG: Psycho Goreman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Blitz//Berlin comes as a deluxe vinyl release featuring 180 gram “PG For Short” colored vinyl(Translucent Blue with Electric Pink Splatter), new artwork by Vance Kelly, old style tip-on gatefold jackets and an art print.

PG: Psycho Goreman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Features:

The Complete Soundtrack by Blitz//Berln
180 Gram “PG for Short” Colored Vinyl (Trans Blue with Neon Pink Splatter)
New Art by Vance Kelly
Deluxe Packaging
Old Style Tip-On Gatefold Jackets with Matte Satin Coating
11″x11″ Art Print

The soundtrack, which retails for $27, is now available for pre-order on the Waxwork Records official site!

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New Universal Monsters Prints From Vice Press & Bottleneck Gallery

New Universal Monsters Prints From Vice Press Revealed

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New Universal Monster prints from Vice Press & Bottleneck Gallery

On Tuesday, January 26 Vice Press and Bottleneck Gallery will be launching a new series of limited edition Universal Monsters movie posters and art prints by British artist Greg Staples. Check them out in the gallery below!

Greg Staples is best known for his work on British comic 2000AD and artwork for Magic the Gathering and here is what he had to say on the release…

“For me the classic Universal Monster films have been engrained into me since I was a child, not only with their legendary visual design and makeup but because they are almost not of this world,” said Staples. “To me they are the purest form of escapism and something that simply couldn’t be made in this day and age. I decided to approach these illustrations a little differently by choosing to try to add a bit of realism, hopefully to capture a small part of their character so wonderfully portrayed by Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. This really was an honour.”

Working closely alongside Universal and the estate of Bela Lugosi, this officially licensed series kicks off with pieces for Dracula and Frankenstein and feature Greg’s amazing paintings that beautifully capture Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in their iconic roles. Both versions of the art are available in a regular edition movie poster in an edition of 195 priced £45 (around $61.50), and a variant edition art print in an edition of 175 and priced £50 (around $68.40). Both prints are 24×36 inches. There will also be smaller art prints available featuring Greg’s original paintings.

These releases will be available from both Vice-Press.com and BottleneckGallery.com at 12pm EST and ship worldwide!

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New to Stream: Acorn TV’s February 2021 Lineup!

New to Stream: Acorn TV's February 2021 Lineup!

New to Stream: Acorn TV’s February 2021 Lineup!

Acorn TV has announced its upcoming lineup for the month of February, including the third series of France’s top-rated procedural Balthazar about the suave forensic pathologist who helps make the dead speak to help solve Paris’ most disturbing crimes, The Circuit Series 1 and 2, and more. You can check out the full lineup below!

Monday, February 1

Just William

Based on the classic comedy classics by Richmal Crompton, this BBC series follows the exploits of mischievous 11-year-old William Brown (Daniel Roche, Outnumbered) and his band of adventurous “outlaws” in 1950s England. He reminds us of a time when the country really was the country – a time when children were as free as birds with nothing to feed on but their imaginations – a time when they could leave the house at breakfast and not come home until teatime. Called a “charming romp” by The Guardian, this BAFTA-winning drama is voiced by Martin Jarvis who worked on the classic “Just William” recordings. Also starring Rebecca Front (Humans), Daniel Ryan (Home Fires), Lily James (Cinderella), Caroline Quentin (Doc Martin), and Warren Clarke (Poldark). (4 EPS, 2010)

Monday, February 8

Balthazar, Series 3 (Acorn TV Exclusive, French, with English subtitles)

The suave, clever and slightly strange forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley, Messiah, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch) returns in this highly-viewed and acclaimed French mystery drama, where he helps make the dead speak like no one else to solve Paris’ most disturbing crimes. Compared favorably to Castle, The Mentalist, and Bones, this procedural picks up the action six months following the tragic consequences of his investigation into the murder of his wife, Lise, a dozen years ago. He and chief inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles, Le Secret d’Elise, VA Savoir) team up to tackle darker cases this season, including victims treated as guinea pigs by a mad scientist, an evil, psychopathic clown who kills randomly, and a mysterious island that hides many secrets. (8 EPS, 2020)

Love My Way, Series 1

This Australian primetime drama centers on a thirtysomething woman (Claudia Karvan, Spirited) who negotiates the web of contemporary relationships, while juggling the priorities of family obligations. From the producer of the Golden Globe-nominated On The Beach and internationally renowned TV series Police Rescue, this Logie Award-winning series is an exploration of the love that binds us, the relationships that define us and the dreams of grownups. Also starring Asher Keddie (The Cry) and Brendan Cowell (The Slap). (10 EPS, 2004-2005)

Muse of Fire: A Shakespearean Road Movie

As schoolboys, Giles Terera and Dan Poole were made to feel that Shakespeare wasn’t for them – as actors, they now feel very differently. This documentary follows Dan and Giles over the course of four years on their extraordinary journey around the world trying to get to the heart of the greatest storyteller of all. Along the way, they meet acting royalty, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellan, Ewan McGregor, Ralph Fiennes, and Jude Law. (TV Movie, 2014)

Monday, February 15

The Circuit, Series 1 and 2

This riveting drama series follows a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and lawyers on a regular five-day 2000 kilometer round-trip to dispense justice to the remote communities of north Western Australia. It’s a tough gig for anyone, but for newly-hired Aboriginal lawyer Drew Ellis (Aaron Pedersen, Mystery Road) who had a white upbringing and has a white wife, it’s a rude awakening as he quickly comes to realise that one law for the black and white communities, does not always equal a fair go. More importantly, Drew begins to learn about himself, as he begins a journey of self-discovery, allowing him to finally acknowledge his heritage and the family he never knew. But at what cost? (12 EPS, 2007-2010)

The Real Prince Philip

This documentary celebrates the life and achievements of Prince Philip, emphasizing the role his military experiences played in his later achievements, and suggesting that his admirable ethos of “service” and “duty” was forged during his impressive Naval career. The film draws upon a rare interview with the Duke of Edinburgh on his Second World War experiences, archival footage from around the world and interviews with historians and royal experts about key moments in his life. (TV Movie, 2020)

Monday, February 22

Love My Way, Series 2

The Cry

The abduction of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young woman, Joanna, (Jenna Coleman, Victoria) as she and her partner, Alistair (Ewen Leslie, Sleeping Beauty) deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the white light of public scrutiny and in their private lives. The Cry, the 2019 AACTA Award winner for Best Miniseries, is a layered, taut, psychological thriller that will grip you from the start and keep you guessing along the way. (4 EPS, 2018)

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Diamond Select February Previews Include Deadpool, Star Wars & More!

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Diamond Select February previews include Deadpool, Star Wars & more!

As the month of February approaches and fans look for more unique gifts for their significant others, Diamond Select and Gentle Giant Ltd. has unveiled their lineup of previews of collectibles set to hit shelves next month, including Deadpool and Star Wars busts, Avatar: The Last Airbender diorama and more! The figures can be viewed in the gallery below!

Avatar: The Last Airbender Gallery Zuko PVC Diorama

Firebender Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation unleashes a fireball amid curling flames in this all-new Gallery Diorama! Made of high-quality PVC, this approximately 10-inch sculpture features detailed sculpting and paint applications and comes packaged in a full-color window box. Designed by Uriel Caton and sculpted by Salvador Gomes, the figure is set to retail for $49.99!

Invader Zim Series 1 Deluxe Action Figure Asst.

Dooooooom! Invader Zim has returned to invade the Earth again, this time as an all-new series of action figures from Diamond Select Toys! Each set of two 3-4” figures – Zim with Gir, Boy-Disguise Zim with Dib, and Dog-Disguise Gir with Gaz – includes multiple accessories and interchangeable parts. Each pair comes packaged in a full-color window box. Designed by David Forrest and sculpted by Paul Harding, the assortment retail for $24.99 each!

Legends in 3D Marvel GamerVerse Miles Morales 1/2 Scale Bust

Whether you call him Spider-Man, Spy-D or plain old Miles, Miles Morales is the star of the newest Marvel video game, and now he’s a Legend in 3D! This approximately 10-inch, 1/2 scale resin bust is based on his appearance in the video game, and features detailed sculpting and paint applications. Limited to only 1,000 pieces, it comes packaged in a full-color box with a certificate of authenticity. Designed by Joe Allard and sculpted by Rocco Tartamella, the figure is set to retail for $175!

Marvel Animated Style Gamora Statue

The deadliest woman in the Galaxy is now the cutest! With two knives on her hips, this approximately 5-inch resin statue is based on the variant cover artwork of Skottie Young and features detailed sculpting and paint applications. Limited to only 3,000 pieces, it comes packaged in a full-color box with a certificate of authenticity. Sculpted by Paul Harding, the statue retails for $49.99!

Marvel Comic Deadpool Bust

Deadpool has been cut in half before, but this time it’s for art’s sake! This 6-inch, approximately 1/7 scale bust depicts the Merc with a Mouth from the waist up, wielding a pair of katanas and featuring detailed sculpting and paint applications. Limited to 3,000 pieces, it comes packaged in a full-color box with a certificate of authenticity. Designed by Nelson Asencio and sculpted by Juan Pitluk, the bust retails for $69.99!

Marvel Gallery VS Wolverine PVC Statue

The Marvel Gallery line is the best there is at what it does, and this diorama of Wolverine is proof! Part of the new VS. line of Gallery Dioramas, this approximately 10-inch sculpture is made of high-quality PVC and features detailed sculpting and paint applications. It comes packaged in a full-color window box. Designed by Nelson Asencio and hand-sculpted by Jean St. Jean, the statue retails for $49.99!

Marvel Comic Premier Collection Lizard Statue

Death to humankind! Spider-Man’s cold-blooded foe The Lizard crouches on top of a sewer grate in this 1/7 scale, approximately 12-inch statue! Featuring detailed sculpting and paint applications, Dr. Curt Connors is limited to only 3,000 pieces and comes packaged in a full-color box with a certificate of authenticity. Designed by Caesar and sculpted by Alejandro Pereira, the statue retails for $200!

Nightmare Before Christmas Select Series 10 Action Figure Asst.

This is Halloween! Some of Halloween Town’s creepiest citizens come out of the woodwork for this series of Nightmare Before Christmas Select action figures! Mr. Hyde with Corpse Dad, Corpse Mom with Duck Gift, and Mrs. Claus with Choir Elf each feature multiple points of articulation and include various scary and/or festive accessories. They each come packaged in Select action figure packaging, with side panel artwork for shelf reference. Designed by Eamon O’Donoghue and sculpted by Cortes Studios, the assortment retails for $29.99 each!

Nightmare Before Christmas Select PX Creature and Cyclops Action Figures

The Creature is unleashed! The long-awaited Creature Under the Stairs from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is finally here, as a special Previews-exclusive Select action figure! Plus, the Creature comes with his fellow Halloween Town resident, the Cyclops! Each figure features detailed sculpting and paint applications, as well as multiple points of articulation and both come packaged in Select packaging. Designed by Eamon O’Donoghue and sculpted by Cortes Studios, the figures retail for $29.99!

Star Wars Milestones A New Hope Princess Leia 1/6 Scale Statue

Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan is held prisoner on the Death Star in this 1/6 scale statue from Gentle Giant Ltd! Wearing her classic white gown and resting on a cell bench, the princess awaits rescue in a scene straight out of Star Wars: A New Hope. Approximately 10 inches tall, this sculpture features detailed sculpting and paint applications, and is limited to only 1,000 pieces. It comes packaged in a full-color box with a certificate of authenticity. Designed and sculpted by Gentle Giant Ltd., the statue retails for $200!

Star Wars: Clone Wars Deluxe Commander Rex 1/6 Scale Mini-Bust

The clone commander who put the “Clone” in Clone Wars is now the latest 1/6 scale mini-bust from Gentle Giant Ltd.! Capturing Commander Rex in a realistic style, this bust includes interchangeable helmeted and unhelmeted heads and features detailed sculpting and paint applications. Limited to only 2,500 pieces, it comes packaged in a full-color box with a certificate of authenticity. Designed by Barry Bradfield and sculpted by Paul Harding, the mini-bust retails for $120!

Star Wars: Rebels Animated Grand Admiral Thrawn 1/7 Scale Mini-Bust

Rebels beware! From Star Wars: Rebels, Grand Admiral Thrawn is the latest animated mini-bust from Gentle Giant Ltd.! Captured in 1/7 scale and standing approximately 6 inches tall, this mini-bust features detailed sculpting and paint applications, and is limited to only 3,000 pieces. It comes packaged with a certificate of authenticity in a full-color window box. Designed by Barry Bradfield and sculpted by Paul Harding, the mini-bust retails for $60!