by Simon de Bruyn, November 6, 2009 10:00 PM
In what was billed as a world first, Australian shark thriller The Reef opened up its set to the world this week with a compelling live stream that gave audiences a chance to see what happens on a film set. Over...
by Todd Brown, November 6, 2009 11:37 AM
For those in the know about recent Spanish genre cinema, this is a collision of talents to be excited about. Producers Telecinco (Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage) and M.A. Faura (Hierro), director Eugenio Mira (The Birthday) and writer Antonio Trashorras...
by Peter Martin, November 6, 2009 1:04 AM
As Keanu Reeves might say: "Whoa!" Deliciously bizarre, The Box, Richard Kelly's meditation on the meaning of life, masquerades as a slow-boiling mystery thriller. Building on a slender, clever premise dreamed up by the great Richard Matheson in the short...
by Peter Martin, November 6, 2009 12:32 AM
Sometimes too much sincerity can be a bad thing. I applaud the effort made by director Olatunde Osunsanmi to forge a new trail in depicting alien encounters in The Fourth Kind. With its extensive reenactments "based on actual case studies,"...
by X, November 4, 2009 10:35 AM
Song Yoon-Ah as a femme fatale? Now that's an interesting choice.Song will play Ji-Yeon, who moves abroad after her husband, detective Sung-Ryeol (Cha Seung-Won), manages to get their son killed in a car accident which is drenched in suspicious clues...
by Todd Brown, November 3, 2009 12:34 PM
One of my favorite films of the year and certainly one of the most interesting Hong Kong thrillers of recent years, Soi Cheang's Accident comes to DVD and Blu-Ray in Hong Kong next week. Both editions are fully English...
by Simon de Bruyn, November 3, 2009 10:20 AM
With directors now blogging, snapping pics on their iPhone and twittering from set, it's increasingly easy for film fans to get closer than ever to the filmmaking process. Now Australian shark thriller The Reef is taking things a step further,...
by X, November 3, 2009 5:21 AM
[Starting with this installment, we'll feature some of the most interesting films to grace Korean shores from before the mid 1990s renaissance, which does have its roots (amongst a million other reasons) in late 80s social protest films, the "proto-blockbusters"...
by Todd Brown, November 2, 2009 5:00 PM
It is, perhaps, unfair to label director Tetsuya Nakashima purely a pop director considering that even his most candy-colored confections draw so much of their power from the dark layers that lurk underneath the gloss. But after bursting on...
by X, November 2, 2009 8:15 AM
...even if you're Im Sang-Soo, it seems.We reported during the weekend the latest casting news on the remake of 1960 classic 하녀 (The Housemaid) - to make a long story short: yes, Im Sang-Soo is directing, and Jeon Do-Yeon will...
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