by Al Young, February 4, 2012 11:28 AM
[Update 2: Replace the opening ten-minute video with a slightly better video quality version][Update: Added another video below from an episode of Imagine Nation where the main topic of news is Berserk and its upcoming animated trilogy. If you fast...
by Al Young, February 4, 2012 10:42 AM
From the anime series to the video games, Japanese electropop artist Susumu Hirasawa has been the definitive music composer for Berserk and he continues to lend his musical artistry in the animated film trilogy. On his official site, a short...
by Todd Brown, February 3, 2012 3:57 PM
Michael Roskam's Bullhead has received a great deal of press in these pages for the simple reason that it is very, very good.And now, riding on the strength of a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination, a limited US theatrical...
by Todd Brown, February 3, 2012 3:14 PM
The James Watkins directed, Daniel Radcliffe starring remake of classic chiller The Woman In Black opens today and the opening scene has been released on Yahoo for those who want a taste.Arthur Kipps is widowed lawyer whose grief has...
by Todd Brown, February 3, 2012 11:30 AM
There's a madman on the loose in Germany and his name is Daniele Rizzo. The German actor and comedian has become something of a cult figure in his home country thanks to a hysterically bizarre series of video interviews...
by Hugo Ozman, February 3, 2012 5:34 AM
Director Jafar Panahi is a key figure in Iranian cinema, having made some amazing films during his career like THE WHITE BALLOON and THE CIRCLE. Sadly he was banned from making films for 20 years and placed under house arrest...
by Todd Brown, February 2, 2012 2:28 PM
If so, success!Here's the thing about the Hunger Games movie: Everything about it so far looks cheap and poorly designed. Here's the other thing: It may not matter.While I consider it increasingly unlikely that the promotional campaign for The...
by Todd Brown, February 2, 2012 2:16 PM
It's an age old story: Attractive, high powered fashion photographer falls in love with his model but the model falls for the transvestite makeup artist instead. What's a guy to do? If you're Vietnamese action star Johnny Nguyen -...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2012 5:30 PM
Buried director Rodrigo Cortes took a big step up in scale and expectations for his new feature, getting out of the coffin of his previous picture and attaching a big name cast for a thriller revolving around paranormal researchers.Red...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2012 4:56 PM
For the record, the NFL's insistence that nobody other than a select group of advertisers be allowed to utter the name of their championship game in public is a stupid thing. Almost as unfathomable, in fact, as spending an...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2012 4:50 PM
The most explosions per minute at the Game Which Must Not Be Named - are we still doing that, NFL? Really? - will almost certainly belong to GI Joe: Retaliation. But like so many others who paid big money...
by Al Young, February 1, 2012 4:28 PM
Warner Bros Japan is streaming a "special preview" for Studio 4C animated film Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler (Berserk Ougon Jidaihen I: Hao no Tamago, ベルセルク 黄金時代篇Ⅰ 覇王の卵) which contains a blend of CG animation...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2012 4:00 PM
Though you may not know his name there is a fighting chance that you have seen the work of artist Wayne White. In fact, if you've ever seen Pee-Wee's Playhouse that's a certainty. A multi-talented artist White is the...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2012 3:00 PM
Apparently buying the most expensive ad space in the television world and then putting the ads online before they air is the new thing and The Avengers are getting in on the act.The new trailer is super brief and...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2012 1:00 PM
Writer-director Eddie Alcazar knows you're waiting. Ever since the first scraps of information about Alcazar's philosophical science fiction picture 0000 arrived online it has been eagerly anticipated by scifi fans around the globe, even making several critics' wish lists...
by Todd Brown, January 31, 2012 5:11 PM
Can the mighty Science Powers of Lou Diamond Phillips save us from the spinning vortex of death? Not if that artwork is to be believed, no. Because this is no ordinary tornado. This one is made of metal.When a...
by Todd Brown, January 31, 2012 4:24 PM
While the International Film Festival Rotterdam is widely known for its bold selection of arthouse films there's another side to the festival as well. Rotterdam is arguably the most genre friendly of the major European festivals, the programmers there...
by Todd Brown, January 31, 2012 10:55 AM
It's been a rough few years for Japanese director Takashi Shimizu. The former protege of Kiyoshi Kurosawa burst on to the international scene in 2002 with Ju-On, the terrifying theatrical expansion of his previous two part video series. Shimizu...
by Todd Brown, January 30, 2012 2:19 PM
Back in May Twitch brought the first images and an early teaser from David Cholewa's Dead Shadows. The scifi horror was still in principal photography at the time so the footage was still quite raw but it showed a...
by Todd Brown, January 30, 2012 1:12 PM
HBO hit a home run with Season One of Game Of Thrones, the adaptation of George RR Martin's epic fantasy novels standing as - in my opinion - the best television of the year.Season Two arrives in April and...
by Todd Brown, January 30, 2012 10:18 AM
Troma will be releasing Astron-6's Father's Day for limited theatrical screenings starting next week and the lo-fi collective of Canadian filmmakers has a little treat for fans. Tucked away within Father's Day is a late night television ad for...
by Todd Brown, January 29, 2012 2:42 PM
Where can you find Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudino praying to Ken Russell before being killed by a man with a puzzle piece for a face? The same place you can find Voivod's Denis 'Snake' Belanger as a mad...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2012 4:45 PM
It has been quite a while since we last saw something significant from Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director Shinichiro Watanabe. I had the chance to meet the director when we brought him to Toronto as a guest of...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2012 4:22 PM
I'm not sure how, exactly, Bobcat Goldthwait went from squeaky voiced Police Academy oddity to becoming a pitch dark satirist but that is exactly the road he has trod since moving from teh front of the camera to the...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2012 12:00 PM
UK based director Jim Hosking rose to international attention thanks to his Sundance selected 2010 short film Renegades - a bizarre, peculiar, absurd and uncomfortably hilarious piece of work. A prolific commercial director Hosking has been uploading his favorite...
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 Hugo Ozman, January 28, 2012 5:47 AM
Korean filmmakers are incredibly good at making crime thrillers, and the latest from the genre to come out of the country is TRAIN. The film is based on the popular novel Kasha ('Train') by famous Japanese writer Miyuki Miyabe,...
by Todd Brown, January 27, 2012 2:00 PM
Horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre opens today in limited theatrical release which makes now a good time to look back at the film's world premiere back in July as part of the Fantasia Festival in Montreal. With parts of...
by Todd Brown, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM
Veteran Dutch director Dick Maas caused something of a sensation with his 2010 release Sint. A bloody Christmas themed slasher released locally at the height of the holiday season before premiering internationally at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, Sint...
by Todd Brown, January 27, 2012 12:00 PM
UK based director Jim Hosking rose to international attention thanks to his Sundance selected 2010 short film Renegades - a bizarre, peculiar, absurd and uncomfortably hilarious piece of work. A prolific commercial director Hosking has been uploading his favorite...
