A pumped-up remake of the same-named 1984 vampire horror-comedy, “Fright Night” represents a well oiled machine of goosed senses that unfortunately has no clearly defined motivating purposes, even within genre confines of its own story. Fun and engaging performances carry the movie a great distance, but it eventually bogs down courtesy of loosely defined stakes (no pun intended) and poorly incentivized action. The story centers on Las Vegas high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), who lives with his single mom real estate agent, Jane (Toni Collette), and has successfully pivoted away from his geeky past enough to bag a popular girlfriend, Amy (Imogen Poots). Things get turned upside down…

Title: Carjacked Directed by: John Bonito Starring: Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff Running time: 89 minutes, Rated R, Available on standard DVD A single mother and her 8 year old son are kidnapped by an escaped bank robber who is trying to find a ride to his partner. The mousy ex wife of an abusive man must do what she can to protect her son and survive the night, riding in her beat up car with a dangerous sociopath. To summarize, this movie was boring and lame. Maria Bello’s character was so frustratingly idiotic, I wanted to punch her in the head for being stupid. Her character wants to protect…

Title: Immortals Directed By: Tarsem Singh Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, John Hurt, Joseph Morgan, Greg Bryk, Kellan Lutz, Isabel Lucas, Daniel Sharman There are so many pieces to the filmmaking puzzle; it’s really no wonder so many movies can’t pull it all together. With the visual king, Tarsem Singh, behind the lens, Immortals was basically guaranteed to be imagery eye candy and, sure enough, Singh delivers big time. If only he’d learn to put the same amount of time and energy into honing his script, Immortals could have given 300 a run for its money. Way back when, there was a brutal war…

In his new documentary “Sarah Palin: You Betcha!,” director Nick Broomfield indulges in some of his characteristically bumbling, nice-guy provocation, learning more about Palin’s background and hometown while engaging in what seemingly becomes an increasingly futile attempt to secure an interview with her. Fortunately for ShockYa, the British-born filmmaker isn’t as difficult to pin down as his most recent subject. We had a chance to speak to Broomfield one-on-one recently, and although the conversation occurred just days before Palin officially announced that she is not seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the light that he sheds on her upbringing and early political career via the nearly three months he spent in Wasilla, Alaska, during his…

Relativity Media becomes the first studio to run media on Spotify in the the United States. Relativity Media announced the long-term partnership with the award-winning digital music service Monday. The partnership will be in effect by promoting the epic adventure “Immortals,” which will be released November 11, 2011, to Spotify’s U.S.-based customers. “With its worldwide presence, growing popularity in the U.S., and deep integration with Facebook, Spotify is the perfect digital platform to reach socially-engaged music lovers and early adopters in order to continue to build our fan base for Immortals and upcoming releases,” said Relativity’s President of Theatrical Marketing, Terry Curtin. Jon Mitchell, Head of U.S. Sales for Spotify,…

He brought us The Cell and The Fall and now director Tarsem Singh is back, but in, well, a more commercial way. His latest film, Immortals, is a big-budget, effect heavy, action adventure featuring Theseus (Henry Cavill), a man hell bent on taking down the individual responsible for killing his mother, Hyperion (Mickey Rourke). Hyperion’s on a mission to find the invincible Bow of Epirus and will do whatever it takes and kill anyone necessary in order to get his hands on it. And that’s where the gods come in, as they’re left with no choice, but to intervene for the sake of humanity. The Immortals showing at San Diego…

Stephen Dorff has been chosen to replace Matt Dillon as Charlie Rankin, the male lead in the upcoming independent movie ‘Boot Tracks,’ Collider is reporting. No reason has publicly been given on the cast change. Appearing with Dorff in the film, which is based on the novel of the same name by Matthew F. Jones, are his ‘Somewhere’ co-star Michelle Monaghan and Ray Winstone. The movie, which will be directed by David Jacobson, follows ex-con Charlie after he is just released from a four-year prison sentence. He has a fling with an insecure former porn star, Florence Jane, who will be played by Monaghan. After the fling, Charlie must perform…

Just days after Relativity Media released its knight action movie ‘Season of the Witch’ starring Nicolas Cage, the studio confirmed via a press release that it will be distributing a 3D Greek Gods epic movie titled ‘Immortals.’ The movie, which is set to hit theaters on November 11, 2011, will be helmed by ‘The Cell’ director Tarsem Singh, and was written by Charles Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides. Confirmed stars for ‘Immortals’ are Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas of ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ fame, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’s Frieda Pinto, Luke Evans from ‘Robin Hood’ and Henry Cavill from Showtime’s ‘The Tudors.’ The movie follows a ruthless…

Title: Somewhere Directed By: Sofia Coppola Starring: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning You can have an immensely interesting story with colorful characters, but if the pace at which the tale is told is slow, it’s an instant killer and in the case of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, it’s certainly deadly. Stephen Dorff is Johnny Marco, an actor who enjoys driving his Ferrari, hanging out with a pair of twin exotic dancers and chain smoking. With zero concern for his image, Johnny rolls out of bed just as his car pulls up to take him to a press conference for his latest film where he takes photographs alongside his well-groomed co-star. He’s a…

Stephen Dorff (“Blade”, “Cecil B. Demented”, “Public Enemies”) has joined the cast of Relativity Media’s “War of Gods”. Slated to hit theaters November 11th, 2011, the film is about the ancient Greek hero Theseus as he and the current gods of Greece must band together to battle against the elder gods known as the Titans, led by Rourke, who are intent on destroying the world. Dorff joins Mickey Rourke, Henry Cavill, Kellan Lutz, and Freida Pinto in the Tarsem Singh-directed fantasy action epic. Christian Gudegast wrote the script, reworking an earlier draft by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “War Of Gods”. By Costa Koutsoutis…