by Hugo Ozman, April 6, 2012 11:00 AM
(I am from Australia and have a special interest in Asian films. I hope 'Asian Cinema - A View from Down Under' can become a regular feature through which I will share with you interesting news, awesome posters and trailers,...
by Hugo Ozman, April 6, 2012 6:15 AM
The most recent great film set in New York City that I saw was a little independent film called THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND from writer-director-producer David Spaltro. As you could tell from my positive review, I admired it a lot....
by Todd Brown, April 5, 2012 5:26 PM
A number of big budget war epics have rolled out of Russia in recent years but I'm hard pressed to think of one that looked more impressive than Karen Shakhnazarov's upcoming White Tiger.Backed by Russia's Mosfilm Studio, this is...
by Kurt Halfyard, April 5, 2012 2:16 PM
Thomas Hardy is no stranger to Michael Winterbottom, this is his third stab (pun intended) at this author's novels, the other two being The Claim, an loose adaptation of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and Jude, an adaptation of "Jude the...
by Peter Martin, April 5, 2012 1:30 PM
The Thai Film Board has banned the film Shakespeare Must Die, an adaptation of Macbeth, "because censors feared it would cause disunity in Thai society," according to Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal. Wise Kwai provided further context, noting that...
by Peter Martin, April 5, 2012 1:01 PM
Guy Maddin's Keyhole opens in limited release in New York tomorrow before rolling out across the U.S. in the following weeks. We've been tracking the film since before it began production, so it's no surprise that several of our...
by Ard Vijn, April 5, 2012 11:00 AM
[The Hunter opens in limited release in the U.S. tomorrow. The following review was originally published during the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year, under the title "THE HUNTER (The One in Tasmania)."] (Question: do you even NEED...
by Jason Gorber, April 3, 2012 11:56 PM
"I don't consider WAR HORSE a war film" - Steven Spielberg. Judging the films that dominated 2011's awards season, it's clear that for many of the big guns there was a sense of unapologetic nostalgia running rampant. Hugo was a...
by Niels Matthijs, April 3, 2012 3:08 AM
Even though Hiroyuki Tanaka (Monday, Kanikosen) is a certainty in my selection of favorite directors, the past few years Tanaka has been struggling to find his way (much like the rest of the Japanese film industry). While Usagi Drop isn't...
by Todd Brown, April 2, 2012 8:00 AM
Director Lu Chuan won international acclaim for his 2009 feature City Of Life And Death - a portrayal of the Nanjing Massacre - and for his next effort he travels back even farther in time with his Liu Ye,...
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