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...
Action,
Asia,
Martial Arts,
Posters And Art,
SXSW 2012,
South Asia,
Sundance 2012,
Toronto Film Festival 2011,
UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand
by Simon de Bruyn, March 5, 2012 10:20 PM
For the upcoming Australian release of The Raid (yep, no subtitle) on March 22 local distributor Madman Films has been going all out with its kickass marketing for Gareth Evans martial arts epic. With just three weeks to go Madman's...
by Dustin Chang, February 27, 2012 9:00 AM
This is Not a Film is not a film. Not in a conventional sense anyway. Rather, it's a 75-minute documentation of an idling film director who has been banned from filmmaking, screenwriting, leaving the country and giving interviews for...
by Simon de Bruyn, February 26, 2012 7:50 PM
As Al Young's speculative post about the addition of a subtitle to The Raid's US title is still generating heated comments from readers -- despite a reasonable and refreshingly honest illuminating statement from director Gareth Evans pasted into the comments -- I...
Action,
Asia,
Cult,
Drama,
Martial Arts,
SXSW 2012,
Sundance 2012,
Toronto Film Festival 2011,
UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand
by Simon de Bruyn, February 10, 2012 11:20 AM
With six weeks to go until the March 22 release of The Raid (yep, in Australia we get things one day early folks) Madman has released its own poster to promote Gareth Evans' rollicking action blasterpiece. A horrible pun, sure, but...
by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
Going by the feverish buzz around city planning documentary Urbanized (the third of Gary Hustwit's recent series of films on modern design, after Helvetica and Objectified), you could be forgiven for expecting some kind of rapturous epiphany on how the...
by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
The opening sequence in Paddy Considine's brilliant Tyrannosaur is a model of cinematic efficiency so concise they ought to teach it in film school. Revisiting the events of Considine's original short Dog Altogether and turning them into a full-blown feature,...
by Simon de Bruyn, January 28, 2012 10:01 AM
If the mysterious foreign voiceover and ominous drumming is any sign, I'm seriously hoping there's a moment in The Hunter where Willem Dafoe comes across the mysterious Tasmanian tiger and it turns, grins, and says, "Chaos reigns!" Regardless, I've heard this...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 27, 2011 1:45 PM
I'll admit it, I'm a curmudgeon where coming-of-age films are concerned. Even when they're widely acclaimed, as in Lone Scherfig's An Education, I often find their points too facile, their emphases clouded by an adult perspective that's slyly looking back...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 22, 2011 5:30 PM
Is there anything more disappointing than a restrained period drama that simmers... simmers... and then cools to the point where it reaches room temperature?Actually, I suppose there are many things in the world more disappointing than that -- I'm just...
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