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 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 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 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 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 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 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 8:17 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...
by Todd Brown, February 19, 2012 5:43 AM
Mexico's favorite son is returning to the big screen.Timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the creation of Santo - the enormously popular masked wrestler who made as big a mark on the big screen as in the...
by Al Young, February 18, 2012 2:58 PM
The cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft is getting the 3D animated film treatment in Ages of Madness from Lince Studios. Directed by Helio Mira, the ambitious adult-oriented project is currently in the conceptual phase of production and requires a budget...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, February 17, 2012 6:43 PM
Breathing new life into a sub-genre that, it can be argued, has become somewhat stagnant, is new director Ryan Lieske, with his adaptation of horror author Elizabeth Massie's very subversive, very gory, zombie tale Abed. First printed in Skipp...
by James Marsh, February 17, 2012 12:37 PM
Not one to often rub shoulders with A-list celebrities, earlier this evening I found myself at an event celebrating the re-opening of arguably Hong Kong's finest art house cinema, the Broadway Cinematheque, when through the crowd emerged the unmistakable locks...
by Simon de Bruyn, February 17, 2012 8:17 AM
In Australia we have a famous cleaning product called Spray n' Wipe with a classic jingle (it's a breeze, it cuts through the toughest grease). Turns out we could have just used local boy Guy Pearce all along, if this poster...
by Todd Brown, February 17, 2012 5:25 AM
Historical Zorro has been a popular hero of adventure tales for generations now with Antonio Banderas being the latest to play the character on the big screen. And if past-Zorro can be such a big hit imagine, if you...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, February 16, 2012 6:12 PM
Antonio Banderas is on an interesting and somewhat fantastical path in his mid-career. 2011 saw him voice a swashbuckling cat in Puss-in-Boots, play a mad-yet-broken scientist in the wonderfully weird new Pedro Almodóvar film The Skin I Live In, and...
by Todd Brown, February 16, 2012 6:41 AM
Japanese cult director Yoshihiro Nishimura has just completed shooting his segment of international horror anthology project The Profane Exhibit and he has enlisted a familiar face to help him do so. Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police star Eihi Shiina -...
by Todd Brown, February 16, 2012 3:25 AM
If you're Jean Claude Van Damme how do you get into character to play an unhinged survivalist who will soon be mauled by a cougar? By growing a moustache and sideburns, of course. On February 11 Twitch brought first word...
by Todd Brown, February 15, 2012 12:55 PM
It requires a special kind of crazy to shoot a film on location on the Icelandic glaciers in mid-winter but that is exactly what director Reynir Lyngdal has done with the upcoming found footage style horror feature Frost. Twitch...
by Andrew Mack, February 14, 2012 9:48 PM
Good news for fans of Korean action cinema! Shout! Factory has secured the North American rights to distribute two Korean action flicks from 2011. The 3D creature feature Sector 7 and the automotive actioner Quick. The latter cracked the top ten...
by Peter Martin, February 14, 2012 5:08 PM
Action-horror flick Dead Mine, directed by Steven Sheil, and horror-science fiction picture The Side Effect, written and directed by Ti West, have both begun closing deals at the European Film Market, according to Variety. Dead Mine (pictured) follows an...
by James Marsh, February 14, 2012 2:02 PM
Continuing our preview coverage of the forthcoming Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, which takes place in Yubari, Japan from 23-27 February, we now begin combing through the vast and rich category - Yubari Choice. First up is the fairly self-explanatory...
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by Peter Martin, February 14, 2012 1:52 PM
As a single person of a certain age and disposition, I find the flagrantly commercial aspects of Valentine's Day to be completely repulsive. (Which may, of course, help explain my "not in a relationship" status.) In any event, I'm...
by Ryland Aldrich, February 14, 2012 12:00 PM
It's been a little while since we showed you the trailer for Kiwi-Western Good For Nothing, but Mike Wallis's directorial debut is finally coming to US theaters from Screen Media Films on March 9 and we've got an exclusive...
by Peter Martin, February 14, 2012 10:33 AM
Though Steven Soderbergh's Haywire failed to catch fire at the box office, everyone agreed that debuting star Gina Carano established herself as a force to be reckoned with. And now the former MMA fighter will star in the action-thriller...
by Simon de Bruyn, February 14, 2012 2:12 AM
Given I wrote the media release for this story, I think there's no problem me running it verbatim... After clocking up over 70 million views on YouTube, winning a range of awards and becoming a global pop culture touchstone, Gotye's globally...
