It may not be Canada's oldest festival of animation but the Waterloo Festival For Animated Cinema is certainly my favorite, consistently selecting the most interesting animated films from around the world to bring to their audience.  And the 2009...

Ohh Ohh... this is more like it.We mentioned last month the change of plans regarding the remake of Kim Ki-Young's 1960 masterpiece 하녀 (The Housemaid), with director Gina Kim opting out, and leaving the choice of who was going to...

I was waiting for some real footage before covering Wilson Yip's upcoming 葉問2 (Ip Man 2), sequel to last year's madly energetic biopic of the Wing Chun pioneer, but today's press conference and a few words by Donnie Yen himself...

Sit up and take notice, all of you.  We have long sung the praises of UK satirist Armando Iannucci in these pages but it wasn't until the local success of his debut feature, In The Loop, that many on...

So, about 15 hours ago via his Twitter actor Robert Llewellyn who plays the role of Kryten in the britcom Red Dwarf tweeted that a tenth series of the show has been commissioned and will begin filming in 2010...Series...

Several Japanese media outlet is reporting that Hiroya Oku's bestselling sci-fi action manga Gantz is getting adapted into a two-part live action films.  Helming the project is director Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror)...

If there was any doubt that the BBC was hoping to hit a younger demographic with the casting of Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who those doubts disappeared this morning.  The official Doctor Who website premiered a new...

Here are our winners for BAMcinematek's Nicholas Winding Refn retrospective. Congrats to Max Feld and Josh Townsend for getting their numbers picked. They both win a pair of tickets to their choice of Refn's BLEEDER, GAMBLER or FEAR X.For... More >>

Big news today from Fantastic Fest where, before the world premiere screening of Mandrill the team dropped a bomb on the crowd.Mandrill, you see, is the new film from the team behind Chilean martial arts superhero flick Mirage Man,...

The last of the three part behind-the-scenes featurette for Isaac Florentine's upcoming actioner Ninja has been uploaded at its official Youtube channel.  In the video, the director and the cast talks about the Japanese martial arts training to prepare for...

Adventures is not a kind of movie you usually expect from Russia. Early trailer (actually it's a promo reel not for theaters) of 5 Центурия (5th Centuria) has working sound and uncompleted special effects, but however has everything you expect...

Im Pil-Sung. O, Im Pil-Sung. Why does this man's every project sound so insanely alluring?I mean, only two films in the can, and look at what he's given us. First he melted metric tons of snow with 남극일기 (Antarctic Journal)'s...

Sterling news has just come in with word that Canada's Evokative Films has secured Canadian rights to Ole Bornedal's Deliver Us From Evil.  Though my full review of the picture won't run for another day or so, Deliver Us...

As Lydgate suggested, comparisons do ofttime great grievance, particularly when you're a film director. When Park Chan-Ok debuted in 2002 with the excellent 질투는 나의 힘 (Jealousy is My Middle Name), those who weren't wondering whether she was Park Chan-Wook's...

For a while, it seemed like the director of 쉬리 (Shiri) and 태극기 휘날리며 (Taegukgi) would take a now familiar road, that of leaving cash-strapped Chungmuro for a brief foray into TV Drama land, in the form of KBS' upcoming...