by Matthew Lee, September 10, 2011 10:02 AM
Lee Jeong-Beom's blockbuster The Man From Nowhere is a film that struggles to keep two distinct target markets happy, torn on the one hand between satisfying impressionable young Koreans come to gawp at one of their brightest stars strutting his...
by Matthew Lee, September 7, 2011 4:02 AM
What makes Takeshi Koike's Redline a work of sheer, unalloyed genius is that when you get down to it, it's simply a daft science fiction cartoon about racing cars very, very fast. Seriously, the simple premise is less a compromise...
by Ben Umstead, May 6, 2011 9:10 AM
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.]Hobo With A Shotgun is currently available on demand and opens in select US cities on May 6th. You pretty much know what you're in for when you go to see a...
by Andrew Mack, May 1, 2011 12:01 PM
Here is what is true about Norwegian Ninja. In 1984 Norwegian diplomat Arne Treholt was convicted of high treason and selling state secrets. He was convicted to a twenty year prison term and served eight of them before being pardoned...
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by Peter Martin, April 30, 2011 5:00 PM
[Adam Green's Hatchet 2 screens as part of a North American indie spotlight at the HOFF festival in Estonia, providing a handy excuse to revisit a previous review.]Splatter fans will have a field day. Adam Green's sequel to his 2006...
by Todd Brown, April 26, 2011 12:46 PM
Trolls. They're big. They're dumb. They eat rocks. And - as it turns out - they are not just a fairy tale creation.Thomas, Kalle and Johanna are a trio of student film makers striking out to the remote parts...
by Swarez, April 4, 2011 7:19 AM
Each year Fantastic Fest gets a shit ton of short films to screen over the course of the festival, most of them pretty damn awesome. Last year Can Evrenol screened his weird and disturbing short film To My Mother and...
by James Marsh, March 13, 2011 12:06 PM
[With 13 Assassins now screening at SXSW we revisit James Marsh's previous review.]For his latest film, prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi has taken Kudo Eiichi's 1966 tale of a villainous shogun and the disillusioned samurai sent to assassinate him,...
Action,
Asia,
Comedy,
Continental Europe & Russia,
Documentary,
Fantastic Fest 2010,
HKIFF 2010,
Horror,
Martial Arts,
Sci-Fi & Fantasy,
Thriller,
UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand,
USA & Canada
by James Marsh, January 10, 2011 11:16 PM
It got so late in the day that I figured posting a Top 10 list now might be a little after-the-fact, but thanks to the reassuring tardiness of my fellow Twitch cohorts Eight Rooks and Sean Smithson, I was...
Action,
Asia,
Continental Europe & Russia,
Cult,
Drama,
Exploitation,
Fantastic Fest 2010,
Horror,
Martial Arts,
Sci-Fi & Fantasy,
Thriller,
USA & Canada,
Western
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, January 10, 2011 2:52 PM
Yeah yeah yeah, shaddup. My top ten list comes in late, but I had a LOT of catching up to do. Life conspires to thwart my regular viewing habits, so admittedly there's more than one film I know that...
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