AFM 09: Adam Mason Goes Saul Bass With Amazing New Poster Art For LUSTER

Adam Mason's Luster is a film that we've been tracking in these pages for quite some time now, the director of Broken, The Devil's Chair and Blood River taking a step into some new territory here to create a dark,... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM 09: Tak Sakaguchi and Sion Sono Teaming For THE BLOOD OF WOLVES!

Though they may seem an odd or unlikely pairing on the surface, Versus star Tak Sakaguchi and Love Exposure writer-director Sion Sono have long worked in the same circles. The two cult figures not only share the same manager but... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM 09: THE MACHINIST And AGORA Cinematographer Xavi Giménez Takes The Director's Chair With TRANQUILITY VALLEY

You may think I'm exaggerating when I say this but you can make a good case that nobody in the world has had a larger impact on the world of Spanish genre cinema than cinematographer Xavi Gimenez. How can I... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM 09: Felix Chong Goes Solo With ONCE A GANGSTER

Best known as one half of the writing duo that created the Infernal Affairs phenomenon, Felix Chong is about to take the helm himself with Once A Gangster. Chong's Infernal Affairs partner, and frequent co-director Alan Mak is still hanging... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM 09: Dante Lam Returns With FIRE OF CONSCIENCE

Fresh off the success of his award winning cop thriller The Beast Stalker - my review here - director Dante Lam is currently hard at work on his next feature, Fire of Conscience. Starring Leon Lai and Richie Jen it... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM 09: Pang Ho-Cheung's DREAM HOME

With the annual American Film Market just around the corner, many and various PR machines are cranking into high gear and trying to ensure that their project is the one attracting all the attention. Normally this means waiting until the... More »

By Todd Brown

Trailer for Sci-Fi Noir Superhero flick Franklyn

Nearly a year to the day since Todd mentioned this project which bafflingly replaced its cast of Ewan MacGregor, Paul Bettany and John Hurt with Sam Riley, Ryan Phillippe, and Bernard Hill. Franklyn is the story of four lost souls... More »

By Kurt Halfyard

FANTASIA: MUAY THAI CHAIYA Review

[The Udine Far East Film Festival celebrates its tenth edition this year. The lady friend and I rolled in to town last night and while we missed yesterday's screenings one of the late pictures was Muay Thai Chaiya, a... More »

By Todd Brown

FANTASIA: FEAR[S] OF THE DARK Review

While it makes the unfortunate mis-step of ending weaker than it begins it is hard to fault French animated omnibus Fear[s] of the Dark too much for that. When you have a project as unique and compelling as this... More »

By Todd Brown

Udine Report: CROWS 0 Review

[Another review pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film's screening at this year's Udine Far East Film Festival, this one my review of Takashi Miike's Crows 0, originall reviewed when it screened at the American Film... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: A Poster For Aussie Exploit-O-Doc NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD

Over the course of the AFM we were given a first peek at clips from Aussie doc Not Quite Hollywood, a hugely entertaining piece of work detailing the rise of Australian genre film throughout the seventies. We're still hoping to... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: NEGATIVE HAPPY, CHAINSAW EDGE Gets Posterized

While doing our initial scan of AFM titles, Japanese cult picture Negative Happy, Chainsaw Edge took the prize for best title - a prize it easily maintained throughout the course of the market. Now I'm told that despite the large,... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: A Poster For Noboru Iguchi's MACHINE GIRL

While we're still hoping to share the trailer for Noboru Igushi's Machine Girl with you all sometime in the near future a quick scan of the booths at AFM turned up a very fun poster for the film and now... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: A First Look At NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD

Oh, lordy ... this is going to be good. New on the slate of HD Net Films is upcoming Aussie doc Not Quite Hollywood, which spills the largely unknown history of Australian cult films from the 70s and 80s. The... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: Major Acquisitions From Cinema Epoch ...

We've just received word from the folks at Cinema Epoch that they plan on launching an as-yet untitled - or, at least, if they have titled it they haven't told me the name - new series of Asian Arthouse DVDs... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: Stuart Gordon Returning to the World of Lovecraft with THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP

Good news for fans of Stuart Gordon: his long rumored return to the world of H.P. Lovecraft is a rumor no more. The Thing At The Doorstep is apparently scripted, funded, and will go before cameras in 2008 thanks to... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: Word From Gans' ONIMUSHA and Basset's SOLOMON KANE

Prior to packing up for today's departure from the American Film Market I opted to make one last spin through the market offices to see what I may have missed one earlier treks and was greatly rewarded when I wandered... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: The Weinsteins Go To France ...

While there has been no official word on this as of yet word has begun to circulate that the Weinstein Company have acquired rights to Marc Caro's Dante 01 and Pascal Laugier's Martyrs, both of which have been covered... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: 99 FRANCS Review

Once the wunderkind of French film, his star shooting to the top thanks to Dobermann, director Jan Kounen has spent the past several years seemingly wandering in the universe, waylaid by a fixation with shamanistic spirituality that may well... More »

By Todd Brown

AFM: It's Good News / Bad News For Aronofsky

So. Walking by the offices of Summit Entertainment yesterday my eye was caught by a poster proclaiming a new film for director Darren Aronofsky, an enormous personal favorite. So, hurray! Aronofsky is making a new one and it starts shooting... More »

By Todd Brown

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Destroy All Monsters: Retire Superman

While the internet is tearing itself apart in its efforts to empirically determine whether Man of Steel "sucks" or "is awesome" - because such things are now apparently possible, given Superman Returns' near-unilateral, and intellectually disturbing, dismissal - I'd like to pause to make a gentler request: may we please... More »

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 recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »