by Todd Brown, October 14, 2009 12:47 PM
Philip Ridley won himself a lot of love many years back with a little vampire film titled The Reflecting Skin - a picture that stars a young Viggo Mortensen and an exploding frog - and has asked for a...
by Todd Brown, October 12, 2009 6:49 PM
[Our thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]I've always had a soft spot for martial arts films. It was thanks to the likes of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and others that my interest for Asian cinema...
by Todd Brown, October 12, 2009 4:29 PM
When director Mamoru Hosoda appeared on the scene with 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time the cries went out immediately hailing him as the heir apparent to legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. The comparison was an obvious one. Not...
by Kurt Halfyard, October 12, 2009 5:26 AM
When it was announced that Australian director John Hillcoat would be taking up the challenge of bringing the bleak and difficult novel, The Road, to the screen it seemed liked the absolute perfect match of director and material. After...
by Todd Brown, October 12, 2009 5:00 AM
When the five feature revisioning / relaunch of Hideaki Anno's seminal anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion was announced a few years back the response amongst fans was immediate. Though none were quite certain whether this would be a simple...
by Todd Brown, October 12, 2009 4:50 AM
The awards ceremony for the 42nd edition of the Sitges Festival ran last night and the big winner was, without a doubt, Duncan Jones' UK scifi picture Moon. The film took home three major awards, including Best Script, Best...
by Todd Brown, October 10, 2009 7:04 PM
The new flesh returns in Samurai Princess - the latest directorial effort from Kengo Kaji, who co-wrote Tokyo Gore Police with effects master Yoshihiro Nishimura/ Nishimura, for his part, returns the favor by filling Samurai Princess with breast grenades,...
by Todd Brown, October 10, 2009 7:00 PM
[Yes, Cold Souls' time has come and gone in North America but with the film screening here at the Sitges Festival now seems a good time to revisit one of the years quiet gems.] A darkly absurd, surreal high...
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by Todd Brown, October 10, 2009 6:57 PM
The simple thing to do here would be to declare Out Of Our Minds a spiritual successor to David Lynch's Twin Peaks - at least to the more surreal and music infused parts of Peaks - and be done...
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by Andrew Mack, October 10, 2009 6:56 PM
It is 1942 and the war has stalled along the Eastern Front. Desperate to advance Hitler's forces turn to the Ahnenerbe, the secret occult division of the SS, to raise the spirits of their dead ancestors to fight on their...
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