by Matthew Lee, September 10, 2011 5:42 AM
If Jim Mickle's brilliant Stake Land has one thing above all else to teach us it's that cliches do not matter in the slightest if the person using them knows what they're doing. Stake Land tells the story of a...
by Todd Brown, May 1, 2011 1:00 PM
Meet the children of the Quintanilla family. There is July, the teenage daughter. She is not quite rebellious but certainly chafes against her mother's care. And there is Christian, slightly older but in many ways simpler. All Christian wants...
by Kurt Halfyard, April 22, 2011 12:11 PM
Ricky is having a tough day, the bullet with his name on it is quite literally staring him in the face. Structured as a flashback of his life right at the second of final judgment, for (ostensibly) our entertainment,...
by Todd Brown, March 11, 2011 2:43 PM
[With James Wan's Insidious now screening at SXSW we revisit Todd Brown's previous review.]Though it breaks down some in a final act sees the tightly wound story seemingly split into a pair of competing films - one an 80s...
by Todd Brown, March 5, 2011 10:18 PM
Some disturbing news out of Barcelona today with word that the Sitges Film Festival - one of the oldest, largest and most respected genre film events in the world - and its director, Angel Sala, have been charged with...
by Kurt Halfyard, January 21, 2011 3:38 PM
[With Greg Araki's Kaboom now screening at Sundance we revisit Kurt's previous review from Sitges.]Probably the best thing audiences will get out of Gregg Araki's latest joint, Kaboom, is some well thought out and thorough advice on cunnilingus from rising...
by Kurt Halfyard, October 18, 2010 7:05 PM
[Thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]Korean director Kim Jee-woon has build quite an impressive filmography. Films like A Tale of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life or The Good, The Bad, And The Weird achieved international success and gathered him a lot of fans and well...
by Kurt Halfyard, October 17, 2010 11:01 AM
At one point in fabulously envisioned Stake Land, the loner-hero takes a brief snatch of down time from kicking up road dust and vampire killing to relax on an outdoor recliner chaise. It is the moment that you realize...
by Todd Brown, October 16, 2010 8:15 AM
And a drum roll, please, because here are the winners from the 2010 Sitges Festival.OFICIAL FANTÀSTIC COMPETICIÓ SITGES 43JURAT / JURADO / JURYFrancesco Barilli, Jaume Collet-Serra, Colin Geddes, Jan Harlan & Elena ManriqueMillor Curtmetratge / Mejor Cortometraje / Best...
by Todd Brown, October 16, 2010 8:10 AM
[Our thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]It's been a while, but Takeshi Kitano has finally returned to the genre that launched him to the international success. After exploring the mysteries of artistic creation and his own inner...
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