by J Hurtado, February 22, 2012 9:15 PM
Saif Ali Khan's Agent Vinod is supposed to be his big marquee release for 2012 after a lackluster couple of years. The film has been in the works for a couple of years now, and in spite of several delays,...
by Todd Brown, February 22, 2012 6:38 PM
With the March 23rd theatrical release of Gareth Huw Evans' action film The Raid coming up fast, today saw the release of the second of a planned series of six behind the scenes videos from the film. This time...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, February 22, 2012 6:04 PM
Tim Burton is going back to the well of his early career, to re-imagine and expand upon his beloved 1984 short film, Frankenweenie. Originally a live action piece starring Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, and Barret Oliver as little Victor Frankenstein,...
by Peter K., February 22, 2012 4:56 PM
The Toronto Korean Film Festival is hyping up their inaugural year with a series of free screenings leading up to the festival proper, which according to TKFF organizers, is slated for late June. First up is a free screening of...
by Simon de Bruyn, February 22, 2012 4:39 PM
Brothers Nash and Joel Edgerton have certainly come a long way since running around in Dural, a semi-rural suburb of Sydney, Australia, making epic movies with their mates on their 8mm camera. Joel has just finished playing the manly, mustachioed Tom...
by Al Young, February 22, 2012 1:20 PM
Leave it to horror cult director Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, Karate-Robo Zaborgar) to conjure up the ridiculous idea of a killer sushi in his appropriately titled film Dead Sushi. As exploitatively promised in the trailer, you can expect to...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, February 22, 2012 12:30 PM
In 2010, the Sitges Film Festival and its director Ángel Sala were charged with exihibiting child pornography in connection with the screening of A Serbian Film. Today, newspaper El País is reporting that the charges have been dropped. The charges...
by Todd Brown, February 22, 2012 10:39 AM
Well, this is all moving rather quickly.It was only January when Cormac McCarthy's agents learned that instead of writing the new novel they were expecting the author of The Road and No Country for Old Men had instead written...
by Todd Brown, February 22, 2012 9:56 AM
there are a great many ways that a person can end it all and the young protagonists of Yegor Baranov's dark comedy Suicide (Самоубийцы) are bad at all of them. It takes a very particular sense of humor to...
by Hugo Ozman, February 22, 2012 6:40 AM
BULLY is an upcoming documentary and a deeply personal film by Sundance- and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, about the bullying epidemic that is affecting millions of children and young people today. Synopsis: Following five kids and families over the course...
by James Marsh, February 22, 2012 4:09 AM
For a festival that only runs for four days, YIFFF certainly knows how to spread itself as wide as possible and pack in as much quality programming as the city can accommodate. In addition to everything I have alrerady covered...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 5:48 PM
Alex Chandon's Inbred is a film that first appeared in these pages in December of 2010, the UK horror film drawing attention thanks to a compelling premise and a cast anchored by This Is England star Jo Hartley. A disparate...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 4:40 PM
File away the name 'Øystein Karlsen' for future reference because you'll be hearing it more in coming months. Karlsen is the co-writer and director of popular Norwegian television comedy Dag, a show that is being adapted for US audiences...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 4:39 PM
We wept when it went away and now we rejoice because it's coming back.NBC have announced their upcoming schedule and Community has been reinstated to it's 8pm Thursday slot as of March 15th. Will they just play out the...
by Simon de Bruyn, February 21, 2012 3:40 PM
I've just watched this three times in quick succession and you should too: it's a digital short created by Australian comedy duo Henry Inglis & Aaron McCann to advertise the Central Institute of Technology, a real West Australian tech college that runs...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 3:18 PM
It has come to this for Action Jackson and ... well ... the son of a better director than he is. Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers have been reduced to starring in the latest Asylum mockbuster, American Battleship.When...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 3:07 PM
Obsessive fans of Crispin Glover likely need no introduction to Trent Harris, a director responsible for some of Glover's most notoriously odd moments. Rubin And Ed, a film in which Glover and Howard Hesseman wander the desert trying to...
by Charles Webb, February 21, 2012 2:01 PM
Brett Ratner's Tower Heist makes its way to DVD and Blu-ray this week and we've got five copies to give away to you, our readers. Featuring Eddie Murphy's return to more adult comedy (that is to say, no costumes, no...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 1:00 PM
Imagine a city so cold and gray and dreary that suicide is the only growth industry to be found. And imagine a family run shop - one stretching back for generations - catering to exactly that urge, selling all...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 12:03 PM
Irish writer-director John Michael McDonagh won much love in these pages with his debut feature The Guard, an odd couple action comedy that got enormous mileage out of the casting of Brendan Gleeson as a politically incorrect small town...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 10:52 AM
Michael Fassbender has been very busy indeed over the past few years and the actor shows no sign of slowing down. Having won raves for his performance in Shame, Fassbender will next been seen in Ridley Scott's Prometheus before...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 10:27 AM
Stop! Before reading any further bear in mind that comic book creator Mark Millar has been known to speak out of line and, shall we say, embellish facts when discussing his own work. So take this with a grain...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 9:02 AM
Well, now, from one cult musical to another it would appear that Paul Williams - aka Swan from Brian DePalma's Phantom Of The Paradise - has got himself a wee part in Paul Bunnell's The Ghastly Love Of Johnny...
by Brian Clark, February 21, 2012 7:17 AM
It's tempting to begin festival wrap-ups with some sort of blanket-statement about the festival as a whole, assessing the overall quality, trends, failings and so on. But I don't feel qualified to do anything of the sort. Berlinale's program is...
by Todd Brown, February 21, 2012 7:08 AM
The undead have arrived in Amsterdam and a whole lot of 'em are about to get even deader if the new trailer for Martijn Smits and Erwin van den Eshof's Zombibi is any indication.The film is due to arrive...
by Simon de Bruyn, February 20, 2012 3:16 PM
Now he's got the Australian short film culture well and truly kickstarted, the guy behind the biggest short film festival in the world, John Polson, has set his sights on owning the short-films-stitched-together-into-a-feature game. Over the weekend the Tropfest founder announced Sydney Unplugged,...
by James Marsh, February 20, 2012 12:33 PM
There are only a few days to go until the Northern City of Yubari, Japan opens its gates to fans of weird and wonderful cinema for this year's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, and it's time to look a little...
by Brian Clark, February 20, 2012 9:15 AM
Here's an interesting fact about the Berlin Film Festival: Almost everybody gets an award. Seriously, besides the well-known jury awards, there are approximately 1,867 other awards given about by various organizations, from the international film organizations of the Protestant...
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by Todd Brown, February 20, 2012 8:36 AM
Indonesia's Garin Nugroho won acclaim around the world with his 2008 effort Opera Jawa - a film that fused elements of music, traditional dance and opera as part of a project commemorating the 250th birthday of Mozart. And Nugroho...
by Todd Brown, February 20, 2012 8:17 AM
Yes, kids, Grady Hendrix is returning to the Alamo Drafthouse to unleash a wave of lost Hong Kong gems upon your retinas. The following is no less true for being copied and pasted from the Alamo Drafthouse website: After...
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