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Review: ARJUN - THE WARRIOR PRINCE Artfully Straddles Grownup Themes and Disney Sugar

by Peter Gutierrez, May 25, 2012 5:30 PM


It's hard not to be impressed by Arjun - The Warrior Prince. And I'm not talking about the grand sweep of its story or its breathtaking visuals -- I mean its sheer ambition in terms of "audience and purpose." Yes,...

CHICAGO gets rare 35mm screenings of MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE and FIST OF THE WHITE LOTUS!! June 1.

by Canfield, May 25, 2012 10:41 AM


My jaw dropped when I heard about this and yours should too. This is a really rare opportunity to see 35mm prints direct from the Shaolin Archive. Friday, June 1! Mark it on your calenders Chi-Towners. This is the day...

Full Trailer For Gordon Chan's Hong Kong Action-Horror THE FOUR

by Todd Brown, May 25, 2012 9:25 AM


Fist Of Legend director Gordon Chan will soon be bringing a cast of Colin Chou, Anthony Wong, Crystal Liu, Deng Chao and Ronald Cheng to the big screen with The Four - a fresh adaptation of popular story The...

Mads Mikkelsen Joining THOR 2

by Todd Brown, May 25, 2012 7:36 AM


A viking is headed to Valhalla.Mads Mikkelsen - the Danish star of Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher, Pusher 2 and viking epic Valhalla Rising, best known on US shores for his stints in Casino Royale and Clash of the Titans...

Wildly Over The Top Red Band ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER Trailer

by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 4:20 PM


What? You expected restraint from a movie titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? Give director Timur Bekmambetov a man with an axe and, by god, he's going to make use of it. And he does that and more in the...

Oldman Will Create Padilha's ROBOCOP

by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 3:36 PM


Another major piece has just fallen into place for the Jose Padilha directed remake of Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop. We already knew that The Killing star Joel Kinnaman would play the robotically enhanced crime fighter and now we know that...

GI JOE Will Not Retaliate Until 2013

by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 3:15 PM


Just five weeks away from their scheduled release of GI Joe: Retaliation and perhaps feeling a bit of performance anxiety due to the monster sized competition in what is already shaping up to be the blockbusteriest of blockbuster season,...

Review: PISTOL OPERA (Personal Favorites #32)

by Niels Matthijs, May 24, 2012 5:43 AM


If you're into weird and you haven't seen Pistol Opera yet, just skip this review and make sure you go into the film as blank as possible. Pistol Opera is without a doubt one of the strangest cinematic experiences of...

Peter Weller Is The New BATMAN In THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS

by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 2:20 PM


RoboCop is the new Batman. Or, at least, he is the new voice of Batman.Warner Brothers currently have director Jay Oliva hard at work on a two film animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 1986 comic miniseries The Dark Knight...

Two Clips, Seven Character Posters For John Hillcoat's LAWLESS

by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 12:15 PM


Fresh from its premiere in Cannes, two clips and seven character posters have been released from John Hillcoat's prohibition era action-drama Lawless. LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for...
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