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Review: Global Warming Horror Flick “The Thaw” Offers Minor Scares

October 8th 2009

Last year, in the spirit of Halloween, I treated myself to John Carpenter’s The Thing — a 1982 horror film that I’d never seen but heard plenty about. Without giving too much of the plot away, it involved a some scientists, a cold remote base, an infectious alien creature, and a fiery climactic explosion.
If I [...]

Val Kilmer’s Global Warming Thriller Worse Than “The Happening”?

August 11th 2009

When it comes to poorly received environmentally-themed movies, few rank higher than M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. Weak acting (Mark Wahlberg), a weak plot (attacking plants), and hilarious death scenes (lawn mower) all add up to an abysmal Tomatometer of 18%.
That was SO 2008.
Want to know how bad Val Kilmer’s latest flick, The Chaos Experiment, [...]

Val Kilmer Selling Ranch, Awesome Treehouse, Eco-Village Dreams

April 17th 2009

Word out this evening is that Val Kilmer is selling his 6,000-acre ranch near Santa Fe for $33 million. The 49-year-old actor has lived in New Mexico more than two decades and has had the ranch about 13 years.
We imagine this has to be kind of a bummer for him. We’ve written a bunch in [...]

Val Kilmer’s Global Warming Steam Bath Flick Gets A Trailer

March 13th 2009

Val Kilmer has been on a kick lately with movies featuring environmental themes — and his latest one tackles the subject of global warming head-on. Inside a steam bath. Filled with attractive people.
Called The Steam Experiment, it features Kilmer playing a scientists that’s gone a bit nutty and wants the world to hear his theory [...]

Val Kilmer’s Eco-Horror Flick ‘The Thaw’ Gets A Trailer

Note to self: Leave defrosting woolly mammoths alone

January 21st 2009

Val Kilmer’s latest obscure movie comes to us in The Thaw, an eco-horror tale where climate change is the catalyst for unleashing a frozen threat.
We finally have our first peek at the flick with a trailer that goes about 30 seconds too long and basically sums up everything you figured this movie was about. We’re [...]

Knight Rider’s KITT To Get A Green Upgrade

November 17th 2008

Knight Rider, the modern bastardization of the beloved 80’s David Hasselhoff series, is going green for NBC’s “Green Is Universal” week. We already know that the current KITT (voiced by none other than Val Kilmer) sports some solar panels and is based on the Ford Mustang. Beyond that, producers were rather vague as to any [...]

New Info On Kilmer’s Eco-Horror Flick ‘The Thaw’

October 13th 2008

Back in May, it was announced that Val Kilmer would be starring in a new eco-horror film called The Thaw. In the flick, some scientists come across a thawing Woolly Mammoth in a melting ice cap. Supposedly, rising world temperatures due to global warming are behind the discovery. Anyways, that Woolly is packing a deadly [...]

Will Val Kilmer Bring Eco-Awareness To New Mexico’s Governor’s Mansion

September 18th 2008

In case you haven’t been hanging out around by the lockers, the word on the street is that Val Kilmer might run for Governor of New Mexico in 2010. Sure you could say that Kilmer doesn’t have enough experience to handle a major political position, but I’d argue that these days that doesn’t really seem to [...]

Val Kilmer, A Bathhouse, And Global Warming? It’s His Next Movie!

September 10th 2008

Reports are streaming in that Val Kilmer has signed on for the indie film The Steam Experiment — which revolves around six people trapped and terrorized in an urban Turkish bathhouse. For many of you, that’s a typical family vacation, but the idea behind this particular instance is that the terrorizing is being done to [...]

Another Day, Another Eco-Horror Film: Say Hello To ‘Colony’

July 10th 2008

Just when you thought it was safe to visit your local theatre without being attacked by killer climate change bacteria or trumpeter vines with an agenda — along comes Colony.
Details on this latest “eco-horror” film are light — in fact, there aren’t any other than that little tidbit. Participant Media has decided to run with [...]