by Kurt Halfyard, October 15, 2008 7:08 PM
Nearly a year to the day since Todd mentioned this project which bafflingly replaced its cast of Ewan MacGregor, Paul Bettany and John Hurt with Sam Riley, Ryan Phillippe, and Bernard Hill. Franklyn is the story of four lost souls...
by Todd Brown, July 18, 2008 12:19 AM
[The Udine Far East Film Festival celebrates its tenth edition this year. The lady friend and I rolled in to town last night and while we missed yesterday's screenings one of the late pictures was Muay Thai Chaiya, a...
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by Todd Brown, July 17, 2008 12:15 AM
While it makes the unfortunate mis-step of ending weaker than it begins it is hard to fault French animated omnibus Fear[s] of the Dark too much for that. When you have a project as unique and compelling as this...
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by Todd Brown, April 24, 2008 5:30 PM
[Another review pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film's screening at this year's Udine Far East Film Festival, this one my review of Takashi Miike's Crows 0, originall reviewed when it screened at the American Film...
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by Todd Brown, November 9, 2007 12:34 AM
Over the course of the AFM we were given a first peek at clips from Aussie doc Not Quite Hollywood, a hugely entertaining piece of work detailing the rise of Australian genre film throughout the seventies. We're still hoping...
by Todd Brown, November 9, 2007 12:28 AM
While doing our initial scan of AFM titles, Japanese cult picture Negative Happy, Chainsaw Edge took the prize for best title - a prize it easily maintained throughout the course of the market. Now I'm told that despite the...
by Todd Brown, November 9, 2007 12:23 AM
While we're still hoping to share the trailer for Noboru Igushi's Machine Girl with you all sometime in the near future a quick scan of the booths at AFM turned up a very fun poster for the film and...
by Todd Brown, November 7, 2007 3:01 AM
Oh, lordy ... this is going to be good. New on the slate of HD Net Films is upcoming Aussie doc Not Quite Hollywood, which spills the largely unknown history of Australian cult films from the 70s and 80s....
by Todd Brown, November 7, 2007 2:04 AM
We've just received word from the folks at Cinema Epoch that they plan on launching an as-yet untitled - or, at least, if they have titled it they haven't told me the name - new series of Asian Arthouse DVDs...
by Todd Brown, November 7, 2007 1:31 AM
Good news for fans of Stuart Gordon: his long rumored return to the world of H.P. Lovecraft is a rumor no more. The Thing At The Doorstep is apparently scripted, funded, and will go before cameras in 2008 thanks...
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