Hello out there! All 3 maybe 4 readers that I have left. Guess what? I’m back. Well, I’m coming back. I’m partnering with Josh Hylton of www.joshhylton.com to bring you a podcast. I don’t have a name yet, or an exact date that it will be available. Here is what I do know:

1. We will record the first episode next week.
2. We will run down our best/worst of 2011
3. We will bring the awesome.

This is it. Actually I know more…a lot more. I’m just not going to share. I’m going to sit over here, drink my beer, and you’ll just have to wait a week to find out the awesomeocity that is in store.
Until then. – JV

Happy New Year! JV Returns this year with an audio podcast!

If you’ve got an action movie that needs an awesome henchman Al Leong is your go to guy. He’s been in Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Big Trouble in Little China, Action Jackson, They Live. Seriously, he’s been in every action movie ever. Even if he wasn’t cast, he just shows up, and if you don’t give him a part he’ll hench your ass. Check out this Lifetime Achievement Award for Henching present by Rotten Tomatoes.
Check out Al Leongs IMDB page here.

Chan-Wook Park’s amazing looking tale of a priest accidentally turned vampire will be releasing to select U.S. cities July 31st. Park is the man responsible for giving us the vengeance trilogy*, and if you haven’t seen those you’d better get off your ass. If early buzz is any indication Thirst might be Park’s best film to date. Check out the trailer below and make sure to get out and see it as soon as it hits your city.

* The vengeance trilogy is Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

Thanks to Mel for pointing me in the direction of the amazing “Training Video”. If you can’t handle gore don’t watch this, but if you can it’s a damn riot.

As some of you already know I’m down with a pretty severe case of Strep Throat, but hope to back on track by Monday. The picture to the left pretty much represents how I feel. Make sure to visit JohnSchwegel.com he’s got some great stuff there.

I love zombie films, but let’s face it since the success of 28 Days Later the market has become flooded. And it’s a flood of biblical proportions. Coming on the heels of that flood is IFC’s zombie flick Pontypool. The hype surrounding this Canadian lensed genre film has been a bit much to swallow, and to be honest I still don’t know what to think. Directed by Bruce McDonald, Pontypool is about a small town radio station that discovers that a recent madness sweeping the population may be transmitted through speech. After it’s TIFF debut this Summer the film garnered a lot of positive buzz, but I’m still not sold. Pontypool opens in limited release as well as in IFC’s VOD on March 29th. Check out the trailer below and give me some damn feedback you fiends!

* I love the films tagline “Shut up or Die”.

Happy Valentines Day for those of you that celebrate it.

*Thanks Egg for putting the new header up
** Apparently a TV station runs Movies that Don’t Suck already if anyone can think of a better name leave it in the comments section below! I’m open to suggestions!
*** The song playing at the end of the Vlog is the amazing Frank Black’s “Cold Heart of Stone” from his Black Letter Days Album. Buy it.

Sometimes I’m a sucker for bad movies. Especially if that movie contains graphic violence, ridiculous stunt sequences, robots, or monkeys. This movie has all of that, except the monkeys. Sigh. One day. The cast of this ridiculous b-movie include Stacy Dash and Richard Lynch. Where the hell has Richard Lynch been since 1992? Enjoy the tongue in cheek goodness below.