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More Is Not Always Better. Extended EMPIRES OF THE DEEP Trailer Every Bit As Laughable As The First.
Oh, golly. After keeping an eye on Chinese financed vanity project Empires Of The Deep for years - it first crossed our desks in 2009 - Twitch ran the first trailer for the film back in October of 2012. And... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THE GATE OF RAGNAROK Opens With First Trailer
[Updated with English subtitled trailer and official poster.]Fancy yourself a bit of Amblin style, kid friendly, fantasy adventure? Of course you do. Well then, you've come to the right place because after being kept closely under wraps for quite a... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Watch Visual Effects Reel For Stephen Chow's JOURNEY TO THE WEST
Korean-based visual effects house Macrograph has posted the VFX making-of reel for Stephen Chow's Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, providing a CG breakdown on some of the shots. The company completed around 140 special effects shots in the... More »
By Al Young   
  

Meeting The Criterion: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934), Nolan's FOLLOWING, THE QATSI TRILOGY, BRAZIL

Behold the tale of how I came to dive deep into The Criterion Collection. Almost all of us own the stray Criterion disc or two of our favorite films. Some of us have dozens of Criterion titles but collect far more... More »
  

Motorbikes And Whup Ass In First Teaser For Dustin Nguyen's ONCE UPON A TIME IN VIETNAM
Get ready martial arts fans, Dustin Nguyen has cooked up a potent blend of swordplay, super powered martial arts and motorcycle riding badassery for you with his upcoming Once Upon A Time In Vietnam.Formerly known as Monk On Fire, this... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Dear Duncan Jones, Please Put Pandas In Your WARCRAFT Movie
British director Duncan Jones has been just handed a whopper of a project. Having earned deserved acclaim for his breakout feature Moon, and somewhat positive reactions from some of our own for his follow up Source Code, Mr. Jones has just... More »
  

Watch The First Ten Minutes, A Clip And Two TV Spots For BERSERK: GOLDEN AGE ARC III - DESCENT
As the release date draws near, several promotional clips for the animated film Berserk Golden Age Arc III: Descent (Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen III: Kōrin) have arrived including the first ten minutes, some videos with other footage and two TV spots.The... More »
By Al Young   
  

International Teaser For Stephen Chow's JOURNEY TO THE WEST
More slapstick insanity ensues in the Taiwanese teaser for Stephen Chow's fantasy comedy Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons.  It features new footage of an incompetent demon hunter getting into all kinds of silly situations.  This marks the first... More »
By Al Young   
  

More Behind The Scenes Video From Stephen Chow's JOURNEY TO THE WEST
A couple more making-of videos have been posted for Stephen Chow's fantasy comedy Journey to the West, featuring some actual on-set footage with new characters never seen before.  Also, there is an English subtitled version of the previous making-of video.You'll... More »
By Al Young   
  

Jet Li Battles A Demon In New Clip From THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE
Ever felt the need to see Jet Li punch a demon in the face as they plummet through the center of a volcano towards the pit of lava below? Now you can. Magnet Releasing will release Ching Siu-tung's The Sorcerer... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Get Behind The Scenes Of Stephen Chow's JOURNEY TO THE WEST
Huayi Bros have released a making-of video for Stephen Chow's Journey to the West with Chow directing Shu Qi in a comedic performance. It's amusing to see him get animated, but unfortunately he will be applying his "Mo lei tau"... More »
By Al Young   
  

THE LADY ASSASSIN Bares Her Blade In 3D
The Lady Assassin (My Nhan Ke) is headed for Vietnam, with writer-director Nguyen Quang Dung's handsome 3D martial arts fantasy angling to be one of the big winners over the upcoming Tet holidays. And if Tet audiences are hungry for... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasy, More Real Than Real: THE HOBBIT, HFR And The Future Of Movies
Earlier this year, I found myself at a friend of a friend's apartment watching Tod Browning's 1932 masterpiece Freaks through the "motion smoothing" filter on his HD TV.  For me, the resulting video-like image of what should be the opposite... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Mondo Unveils Limited Edition Olly Moss LORD OF THE RINGS Poster
It is what we have come to expect from Mondo and Olly Moss: Striking, minimal and pretty much perfect. Timed to coincide with the release of The Hobbit, Mondo are releasing a strictly limited edition Lord Of The Rings poster... More »
By Todd Brown   
  
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Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.... More »

Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21

While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite au 21), based on the novel by Belgian author Stanislas-Andre... More »

China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 2: I'M IN LOVE WITH EVERYBODY'S GIRL

CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »

CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 1: THOSE GOD DAMN FILM BLOGGERS

MIKE'S JOURNAL. MAY 13. MORNINGI wake up sometime around five AM. My flight to France doesn't leave until five PM. I should be there for security check in sometime around 3PM. There is no reason for me to be up this early but I'm feeling anxious. I have an itch... More »
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