by Charlie Hobbs, May 24, 2012 9:30 PM
With the second wave of Jean Rollin Blu-ray releases from Redemption/Kino on May 29th, I get to resume this series, and that makes me smile. The first of the discs hitting store shelves next Tuesday is Rollin's debut feature,...
by Brian Clark, May 24, 2012 6:13 PM
With so many serious, dramatic and even generic (see Lawless) films in competition at Cannes, director Leos Carax's Holy Motors came as something like a 100 mph gust of fresh air. In fact, this sci-fi/comedy/I-don't-know-what-to-call-it is such a wild, weird...
by Swarez, May 24, 2012 7:13 AM
Reynir Lyngdal's found footage horror film FROST seems to be gathering up speed at Cannes this last weekend with Alliance snapping up the UK rights and other companies circling this promising looking flick.For those who don't know, the story revolves...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 3:15 PM
Leos Carax's Cannes-selected Holy Motors is a weird one. And it's got itself a weird trailer to match. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life...
by Andrew Mack, May 23, 2012 10:25 AM
From my childhood there are ever-so-brief memories of watching someone's adaptation of Pippi Longstocking. Television, film and animation versions of Astrid Lindgren's children's books have dotted the entertainment landscape since the late 40s. It had to be one of...
by Brian Clark, May 22, 2012 8:32 AM
Rust and Bone's narrative reminded me of an old-school pulpy melodrama from the 50's or 60's, the type of film where most of the narrative momentum comes not so much from cause and effect, but from traumatic stuff happening every...
by J Hurtado, May 21, 2012 9:40 PM
In the bonus material for Blue Underground's Blu-ray release of A Bullet for the General, there is a five minute statement from the director, Damiano Damiani, in which he repeatedly declares that his film is a satire of westerns and...
by Peter Martin, May 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Director Xavier Gens made a big splash in the genre pool with the very impressive and hard-edged Frontière(s) before tangling with Hollywood on the ill-fated Hitman and then delivering the apocalyptic (and divisive) The Divide. Now he's set to...
by Brian Clark, May 19, 2012 2:05 PM
As a stomach-churning, jet-black satire of modern culture, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction. However, for these very reasons, it's also cold, sterile and mostly void of humanity or even emotion. It's...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 7:30 PM
Rubber and Wrong director Quentin Dupieux is sending his Wrong Cops to arrest the internet on May 24th. That would be the day that the cult director premieres the first chunk of his proposed Marilyn Manson starring feature film...
Hobo With a Shotgun
