by Todd Brown, October 14, 2010 6:40 AM
[Adam Mason's Blood River has walked a difficult path from production to release and so, with the film now screening at the Sitges Film Festival, I re-present now the review I wrote for the picture roughly two and a...
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by Swarez, November 13, 2009 1:00 PM
The semi documentary The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela has been touring the festivals ever since it won the Teddy Awards at last year's Berlin Film Festival and was up against Scandinavian powerhouse Lars Von Trier and Twitch favorite Sauna...
by Todd Brown, September 8, 2008 2:56 AM
An elliptical reality bender that will require multiple viewings to even begin unraveling what is real and what is not Greek psycho-thriller Tale 52 prominently features a quote from cult writer Philip K. Dick in its promotional materials. "Reality",...
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by Todd Brown, September 6, 2008 2:46 PM
A word of advice: try and approach Ong Bak director Prachya Pinkaew’s Chocolate - his new martial arts film starring female lead “Jeeja” Vismistananda – as pure spectacle. On that level it is truly astounding. Go in expecting significant...
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by Todd Brown, July 19, 2008 12:23 AM
Yes, the fear is here. Dark Floors - the Finnish horror film conceived and created as a starring vehicle for Finnish metal act Lordi - just hit screens in its native country and is making its market debut here...
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by Todd Brown, July 16, 2008 12:14 AM
Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In is a film difficult to summarize not because of its content but because of the way Alfredson handles that content. The story of a vampire befriending a twelve year old boy, a...
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by Todd Brown, July 16, 2008 12:12 AM
Being a plumber just got a whole lot more violent. Jack Brooks has got an anger problem, and why not? His girlfriend's a nag, he's stuck taking night classes, his van's barely running, and there's also the little matter...
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by The Visitor, February 29, 2008 12:54 PM
**Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad guest-reviews Yoji Yamada's Kabei, which she caught at the 58th Berlinale this year. She was there as a jury member for the Generations section, the category in which her Mukhsin won two prizes last year....
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by Todd Brown, February 18, 2008 4:53 AM
The awards are out at the Berlinale and Brazilian crime actioner Tropa De Elite, a film about corruption and violence in Brazil's elite police squads, has come away with the top prize. Also awarded were P.T. Anderson's There Will...
by Todd Brown, February 11, 2008 3:52 PM
With global martial arts fans all worked into a lather over Prachya Pinkaew’s upcoming female starring fight flick Chocolate very little attention has been paid to other parts of the world. Case in point: Natasha Arthy’s Danish kung fu...
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