Out Now: The Christmas Bunny

It’s time to start thinking about Christmas, and that means an onslaught of holiday-themed movies over the next couple of months. The Christmas Bunny tells the story of Julia (Sophie Bolen) a lonely foster child who has moved in with a new family and is struggling to fit in. One day she comes across an injured bunny and nurses it back to health with the help of a woman known as The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson, aka Mrs. Brady from The Brady Bunch). Needless to say Julia becomes attached to the bunny as well as fiercely protective. Colby French and Madeline Vail co-star as Julia’s adopted parents. Films like this aren’t normally in my movie-watching wheelhouse, but it looks like a cute holiday tale that’ll entertain kids and possibly even teach them a thing or two.

The Christmas Bunny is currently available on DVD. You can visit the official site for more details on the movie and on bunny adoption as well if you’re looking to give something special to your kids this Christmas.

Watch a Clip from Carjacked

Carjacked stars Maria Bello as a single mom who must fight to free herself and her son from a bank robber on the run (Stephen Dorff) who has kidnapped them both.  John Bonito (The Marine) directs from a screenplay by Michael and Sherry Compton.  In this clip, Bello attempts to seek help in the few moments of privacy she has during a bathroom break.

Carjacked arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on November 22nd.

Mirrors 2 and Prowl Nominated for Reaper Awards

Straight-to-DVD sequel Mirrors 2 and bloodsucker-fest Prowl have been nominated for Reaper Awards in the Best Limited Release/Direct-to-Video Title category.  The Reaper Awards, entering their third year, celebrate the best in horror and thrillers on home video and are one of the few awards to have any sort of straight-to-DVD category.  The awards are presented by Home Media Magazine and DreadCentral.com.  Although Mirrors 2 came out in October of last year, it is still eligible since the awards draw their titles from August 2010 through July 31, 2011.  Mirrors and Prowl will take on limited releases Frozen, Black Death, and I Spit on Your Grave as well as motion comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8.

You can vote here, but do it by the 16th!

Awards are announced on October 24th.

Roberts for President

Eric Roberts plays the leader of the free world in First Dog, the story of a foster kid (John-Paul Howard) who finds a lost dog who turns out to belong to the Commander-in-Chief.  The film was written and directed by Bryan Michael Stoller, whose two previous films—Light Years Away and Miss Castaway and the Island Girls—also starred Roberts.  Eminent character actor Tiny Lister also stars, reuniting with his Dark Knight co-star—wait for it—Eric Roberts.

First Dog is available now.

The Entitled Videos: Trailer, Clips, Interviews

Kidnap thriller The Entitled arrives September 6th on DVD and Blu-ray.  In the film, down-on-their-luck twentysomethings (Kevin Zegers, Devon Bostick, Tatiana Maslany) abduct rich-and-priveleged twentysomethings (Laura Vandervoort, Dustin Milligan, John Bregar) in the hopes of extracting a hefty ransom from the abductees’ wealthy dads (Ray Liotta, Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie).

Anchor Bay has released a trailer, some clips, and a brief interview with Garber and writer/executive producer William Morrissey.  Enjoy!

Trailer

Clip #1

Clip #2

Interviews

Coming Soon: Sweatshop

Usually the only thing you have to worry about when throwing a rave in an abandoned warehouse is running out of X, but in Sweatshop—out on DVD September 13th—a larger concern is that dude in a welder’s mask running around smashing people to bits with a big-ass foundry hammer.  Sweatshop is the sophomore effort of writer/director Stacy Davidson, who co-writes here with Ted Geoghegan (Don’t Wake the Dead).  The film stars Ashley Kay and Brent Himes—who had smaller roles in Davidson’s debut, Domain of the Damned—as well as Peyton Wetzel (Psychic Experiment).  And if you’re wondering just how realistic the smashy-smashy is, the film took the Best Special Effects prize at the New York City Horror Film Fest.

Marley & Me Sequel Finally Gets Release Date

High-Def Digest reports that Marley & Me: The Puppy Years will be released August 16th on Blu-ray and DVD.  Here’s the catch.  It will only be available at Walmart and Sam’s Club.  No word on when that embargo will be lifted.  IMDb originally had—and still has—the release date for the Marley & Me prequel pegged as June 1st of this year, but the actual date has been difficult to nail down until now.  You can pre-order the film from Walmart.

Out This Week: Barely Legal

Barely Legal, The Asylum‘s latest take on the teen sex comedy, gender-reverses the premise of American Pie or, alternately, triples the premise of their own 18 Year Old Virgin.  Either way, it’s about three female friends who agree to lose their viriginity on their 18th birthday.  The film is written by veteran Asylum scribe Naomi L. Selfman (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus, #1 Cheerleader Camp, the aforementioned Virgin). 

Barely Legal arrives tomorrow on DVD.

Watch the Opening Scene of Super Hybrid

Anchor Bay has released the opening scene from their upcoming car-gone-mad horror flick Super Hybrid, available August 23rd on Blu-ray and DVD.  In the film, a shapeshifting monster automobile goes all tear-ass on humanity.  In the opening scene, we see it claim its first victims.  Super Hybrid stars Oded Fehr, Shannon Beckner, and Ryan Kennedy and is helmed by One Missed Call director Eric Vallette.

Watch the clip:

And while we’re at it, here’s the trailer:

Tekken Trailer Released

Though it’s been circulating the globe for a year or so, video game adaptation Tekken is finally coming to the States on Blu-ray and DVD on July 19th.  Anchor Bay has a released a trailer in which we see Jin Kazama (John Foo) swear vengeance against Heihachi Mishima (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa—whom you may remember as the main baddie in another tournament-style-video-game-turned-movie)  for the death of his mother, entering a fight-to-the-death tournament to get the job done.  Much ass-kicking ensues.

Tekken also stars Kelly Overton, Ian Anthony Dale, Darrin DeWitt Henson, Gary Daniels, Cung Le, Roger Huerta, Tamlyn Tomita, and Luke Goss—who’s on his way to winning this year’s Val Kilmer Award for straight-to-DVD ubiquity.

Here’s the trailer:

See stills from Tekken.

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