Drafthouse Films To Bring THE VISITOR Back To The Big Screen
Attention cult film fans, a screen near you is going to get significantly weirder in the near future with word that Drafthouse Films is bringing 1979 cult film The Visitor back to the masses.AUSTIN, TX - Wednesday, June 19th, 2013... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway
Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Melbourne Cinematheque June Round-up: Fast And Cheap With Roger Corman
Welcome back to my ongoing coverage of the Melbourne Cinematheque's fantastic program for 2013. From 12 to 26 June at ACMI, the focus is on B-movie king Roger Corman's 'vulgar auteurism' in the retrospective Fast, Cheap & Under Control.Stupendously prolific,... More »
  

Review: Jodorowsky's THE DANCE OF REALITY Finds Magic In Brutality
When we first meet the young-boy version of Alejandro Jodorowsky in his new "imaginary autobiography" The Dance with Reality (La Danza de la Realidad), he is wearing a long blond wig and watching in terror as his dad brawls with... More »
  

Review: Michel Gondry's MOOD INDIGO Exhilarates, Exhausts
Michel Gondry is back. And he's going no holds barred.After slumming it as studio hired-gun and inner-city auteur (in 2011's The Green Hornet and 2012's The We and the I, respectively), the French director is back in small-batch surrealist mode with Mood Indigo (L'ecume... More »
By Ben Croll   
  

Twitchvision: Talking AFTER EARTH, NOW YOU SEE ME, and More!
You may already have joined in the massive conversation about the film (at least by Twitch standards), but here's a nice, digestible version of my view on the abysmal After Earth.A not so good week for me, really ended up... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: BLANCANIEVES, An Enchanting Spanish Limited Edition
("Special Editions" like these make the collector in me live happily, ever after...) Cinematically, 2012 was pretty busy for Snow White: no less than four film versions of her story were released last year. From the USA we had... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Take Your First Look At Shimizu's Live Action KIKI's DELIVERY SERVICE
Twitch was first to break the word that The Grudge director Shimizu Takashi had landed the task of directing a new live action adaptation of the first two novels in the series which also spawned Miyazaki's beloved animation Kiki's Delivery... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Let's Make This Indie Go! Astron-6 Needs Your Help To Make THE EDITOR A Reality.
Our favorite Canadian film collective, the mighty Astron-6, is on the move!Today Astron-6 announced the IndieGoGo crowd-sourcing campaign for their upcoming film, The Editor. Back in February it was announced that Astro-6 had won a Telefilm Canada grant to assist... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Review: You Have Nothing To Fear From Chiller TV's CHILLING VISIONS: 5 SENSES OF FEAR
Chiller TV gets into the horror anthology game with their first ever horror anthology Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear. The show airs this Friday, May 31st at 9pm ET. All this week Chiller has been screening five films that this quintuplet... More »
  

From Regions Beyond: French Gore on DVD, OGROFF - MAD MUTILATOR & DEVIL STORY
Welcome to a newish, somewhat irregular, but totally awesome feature, From Region Beyond! We commonly review home video releases from all over the English speaking world, but it's about time we started letting you guys know that there's a whole... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

The WASTELANDER PANDA Emerges With A Trio Of New Episodes
The post-apocalyptic panda returns with a trio of new episodes arriving online from Victoria Cocks' Wastelander Panda. A project that began as a joke during a university lecture, Wastelander Panda first emerged into the public eye with the release of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Cannes 2013 Review: Jean-Luc Godard Does 3-D In THE THREE DISASTERS, And No, James Cameron Will Not Be Spared
"The digital medium is a dictatorship," intones Jean-Luc Godard as images flash over text, which flashes over more images, ultimately demonstrating how, ironically, 3-D is actually the perfectly-suited to Godard's recent information-overload collage-style filmmaking. But just because the enfant-terrible-turned-bitter-recluse is... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: MAWARU PENGUINDRUM Will Make You Dance To Its Beat!
(Insert Linux joke here...) Recently I lamented the general lack of originality in anime. Next thing I know, this series was dropped in my lap, making me eat my words. For Mawaru Penguindrum is not just original, it's beyond batshit... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Hey Australia, Melbourne's Cinema Nova Creates A Cultastrophe!
Chalk this up as reason number 666 to visit the iconic Cinema Nova in Melbourne's hip north; every Friday a very diverse and strange happening coordinated by fanatical film devotees Zak Hepburn and Ben Buckingham is set to upset your... More »
  

LA Happenings: VERTIGO And AGUIRRE At The Egyptian, LOVE EXPOSURE, ALTERED STATES & More At Cinefamily
The back half of May is looking to be a mighty fine time for film fans of all kinds who call the greater Los Angeles area their home. The following are a few choice cuts from the many special and... More »
  

Review: THE CHILD FROM MARACAIBO, Life, Death, Noir, And The Fantastic
The Child from Maracaibo is Miguel Curiel's second film. His previous movie, Una Noche Oriental was released more than 25 years ago (!), so I will treat this one as his real 'first film.' Watching it, I couldn't stop thinking... More »
  

Gorgeous First Images From Cannes Selected Masked-Wrestling Noir OUR HEROES ARE DEAD TONIGHT (NOS HEROS SONT MORTS CE SOIR)
Yes, you read that headline correctly: David Perrault's debut feature Our Heroes Are Dead Tonight - a selection of the Critic's Week sidebar in Cannes this year - is a crime noir set in the world of masked wrestling in... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Watch The Trailer For Jodorowsky's LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD
An old master makes his long awaited return to the big screen with La Danza de la Realidad, and while it must be said that CGI visual effects and digital photography are not particularly Alejandro Jodorowsky's friends long time fans... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SPARTACUS Duo Liam McIntyre and Viva Bianca Join TURKEY SHOOT Reboot
With the new trailer for Mark Hartley's remake of Australian cult classic Patrick only launching yesterday, it's time for more news of the highly-specialised 'remake of Aussie exploitation movie that everyone remembers thanks to Not Quite Hollywood' variety. Today's news... More »
  
 
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