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We're not prone to schilling out posts for corporate fatcats and such. But if it means that some hard working and decent filmmakers get financing for their film then schill we must!The LE BAGMAN guys just shot a crazy mock... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 10:38 PM


Who wants a DVD of Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, Broken Embraces, directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring Penelope Cruz? Of course, we all do. We figure if we keep throwing stuff at you all you'll keep calm and... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 10:03 PM


If you are planning to attend the Udine Far East Film Festival this year and you're going to the opening film you are officially a lucky bastard. And we hate you. A lot. Reason being the festival has just... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 9:34 PM


Yar. Thar be nudity and suggestive scenes in yonder Japanese trailer for Gasper Noe's Enter the Void. Consider ye warned. She be a sexy and visually fucked up trailer indeed. I don't know why I did that in pirate... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 9:14 PM


Oh joy. Na-hong Jin's first film The Chaser got a lot of love around these parts when it came out so now that news is juuuuuust starting to come out about his sophomore effort titled The Murderer then we're going... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 8:53 PM


I reviewed this film for Magills Cinema Annual last year and remarked that it seemed a little been there done that for ll of us who've been waiting for the first really, truly great Nazi Zombie flick. There are only... More >>

by Canfield, March 16, 2010 5:16 PM


The fourth kind is about as memorable as the average alien abduction. Except for some minor discomfort the viewer is liable to be left asking "Whahappn?" That a film like this could get made is the only real indicator of... More >>

by Canfield, March 16, 2010 5:09 PM


I was aghast to see this film all but ignored by the Academy Awards this year. Spike Jones has plucked the magic from an enduring childrens classic and created a timeless cinematic fable. In an age where the term kids... More >>

by Canfield, March 16, 2010 4:58 PM


Fight! Fight! Fight! Marc Vorlander responds to Rena Riffel's Showgirls 2 plans.

Chrissie Chow and Jiang Lu Xia to play kung fu vampire killers!

Full trailer for Tetsuya Nakashiima's 'Confession/Kokuhaku' stuns!

The Director Of GEISHA VERSUS NINJA Teams With TOKYO GORE POLICE Helmer For GOTHIC AND LOLITA PSYCHO!

Have Your Say: What about all that Lolita stuff in anime...?

Is DEVIL'S FLOWER a Russian answer to Twilight?

Predators website up and running

Because The World Needs To See More Stuntmen Blown Through Windows: A Second Trailer For Dante Lam's FIRE OF CONSCIENCE

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Although the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival doesn't officially get under way until Sunday, press screenings have begun and yesterday I got the chance to see Gaspar Noe's latest piece of shock & awe Cinema. Gapsar Noe makes Lars... More >>

by James Marsh, March 17, 2010 12:11 AM


Marco Ferreri's 1969 film Dillinger is Dead is now out on DVD from The Criterion Collection. Ferreri's film is an exercise in pop art surrealism that captures the aesthetic and political zeitgeist of the 60s. Connoisseurs of avant-garde cinema will... More >>

by Rodney Perkins, March 16, 2010 9:00 PM


Though I will need to double check my notes for the past few months before saying this definitively, Jorge Michel Grau's debut feature Somos Lo Que Hay may just be the best film I have seen all year. This is... More >>

by Todd Brown, March 16, 2010 8:24 PM


"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" When he was a boy, Richard Bolisay's... More >>

by Michael Guillen, March 16, 2010 3:24 PM


[With Shane Meadows' Le Donknow seems a good time to re-post our earlier review of the film.] about to screen at SXSW 2010 - and having just screened as part of Canadian Music Week - Roadie. Washout. Reluctant father. Meet... More >>

by Todd Brown, March 16, 2010 2:24 PM


Gut-twisting and soul-troubling, Simon Rumley's latest film fires a stun gun into the heart of horror. For every convention that is honored, another is upended and a third is smashed to pieces. Red White & Blue amply demonstrates Rumley's continuing... More >>

by Peter Martin, March 16, 2010 1:07 PM


It is the late 1800s: two hooded horseback riders square off in a race across the Welsh countryside. The incident concludes in both tragedy and suspicion, and, in part, incites the surviving rider to emigrate from Wales to Patagonia,... More >>

by Peter K., March 16, 2010 12:55 PM


As I've mentioned in my review, I've a personal affinity for documentaries because they offer that keen insight and perspective through the filmmaker's lens on their pet subject and in Singapore, we're witnessing a growing number of quality documentarians who are... More >>

by Stefan, March 16, 2010 11:38 AM


VEDA Review

SFIAAFF28 2010: FILIPINO CINEMA: A Few Questions for Dodo Dayao

Bong Joon-Ho Talks MOTHER

SXSW 2010: A SERBIAN FILM Review

AUGUST IN THE WATER: Retro Review

SXSW 2010: Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

SXSW 2010: MONSTERS Review

SXSW 2010: THE LOVED ONES Review

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From the festival: SXSW 2010

SXSW 2010: Final Character Teaser For Simon Rumley's RED, WHITE AND BLUE

by Todd Brown, March 1, 2010 12:00 PM

Following a very successful international debut in Rotterdam, Simon Rumley's slacker revenge picture Red, White And Blue is about to be unleashed on American audiences as part of the SXSW Film Festival.  And to go along with its US bow the promotional materials are starting to flow.The first general... More >>
[With Canadian documentary Reel Injun having its US premiere at SXSW 2010 we now re-post the review we initially ran at the world premiere in Toronto.]Neil Diamond's Reel Injun accomplishes one truly remarkable feat.  The documentarian, himself a native from... More >>
Meet Mark Hogancamp.  In April of 2000, Mark was attacked outside a bar in New York State and literally beaten to death by a group of five men.  Though Mark would be revived by paramedics he would spend nine... More >>
KICK ASS does. At its most elemental level, it's tremendously exciting to see a superhero flick that embraces unadulterated bloodshed and violence while promoting the idea that deranged destruction can happily co-exist with responsible hero-hood. It's a movie that gleefully... More >>
Shot through with flashes of outright brilliance, Colm McCarthy's Outcast is a film that never quite figures out what it wants to be. Is this the story of Fergal, the roving Irish teen of unusual parentage struggling to hold... More >>

SXSW 2010: First Footage From Gareth Edwards' Alien Invasion Flick MONSTERS!

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    by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 10:38 PM


    We're not prone to schilling out posts for corporate fatcats and such. But if it means that some hard working...
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    by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 9:34 PM


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    by Andrew Mack, March 16, 2010 9:14 PM


    Yar. Thar be nudity and suggestive scenes in yonder Japanese trailer for Gasper Noe's Enter the Void. Consider ye...
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    by Todd Brown, March 16, 2010 2:24 PM


    [With Shane Meadows' Le Donknow seems a good time to re-post our earlier review of the film.] about to screen...
  • Full trailer for Tetsuya Nakashiima's 'Confession/Kokuhaku' stuns!

    by Andrew Mack, March 15, 2010 10:37 PM


    Oh my. The teaser back in January only gave a brief glimpse of the stunning look of Tetsuya Nakshima's...
 

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