JANUARY 8 ― Long after being pronounced “dead” years ago, the market for physical media, especially of the niche kind, has never been in better health the last few years. If you’re a fan of the more mainstream stuff then yes, maybe physical media is irrelevant when it comes to your choices.
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Zack Snyderâs Justice League later this week after a years-long campaign of fan demand made the seemingly fabled alternate version to
Justice League an absolute reality. While itâs a pretty huge benchmark in modern cinema history, itâs far from the only âdefinitive cutâ that fans have debated about on the internet. Everything from the existence of the materials to complete said cuts, to whether or not the alternate version was worth the time, have come into discussion. And because of subjects like that, the following directorâs cuts have been in the public eye for some time, whether you can watch them or not.
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When you land a smash indie hit like
Donnie Darko, the world canât help but take notice. A mind-bender like the iconic Jake Gyllenhaal-starring sci-fi thriller almost always makes waves for a talent like writer/director Richard Kelly, and when Hollywood came aâcallin in one particular instance, we could have seen an alternate
X-Men sequel happen with his talents applied that very project. However, there was a huge lesson that Kelly learned when it came time for him to turn down that rather promising gig: when you have a movie as weird as
After the cult success of Donnie Darko in theaters and especially on DVD, movie fans were eager to see writer-director Richard Kelly would create next. Buzz built fast as word leaked out about the cast which would include Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake, Miranda Richardson, Wallace Shawn, Bai Ling, Nora Dunn, Kevin Smith, Amy Poehler, Zelda Rubinstein, Curtis Armstrong, Christopher Lambert Janeane Garofalo, Jon Lovitz and Will Sasso. He even brought on Moby to create the score. What could he possibly be up to with such a cast and the title Southland Tales? While people waited for the movie, Kelly let it be known that you needed to do more than buy a ticket to absorb his film. He was originally going to have six graphic novels released one per month leading up to the opening weekend. This got shortened to only three. None of the books were released before the movie debuted in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May, 200