South Africa's Charlie Vundla Will Teach You HOW TO STEAL 2 MILLION
Might it be that Viva Riva was just the beginning of a new wave of stylish African action films? If the trailer for South African effort How To Steal 2 Million is any indication then the answer is hell, yes.... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

MIFF 2011 - The Festival Guide insight
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF 2011) is just around the corner; it is celebrating 60 years and is one of the oldest festivals in the world. I have chosen 60 (edit 60+) films and would like to share some... More »
  

MIFF Channels World Cinema With New Promos!
The Melbourne International Film Festival is gearing up for its 60th anniversary -- already announcing a teaser program which includes 25 Cannes features including Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive as its closer. No doubt the 60 years milestone will see MIFF bring... More »
  

SFF 2011 Day 6 - Trailer of the Day is AFRICA UNITED
Today's pick for the Sydney Film Festival Trailer of the Day is the delightful AFRICA UNITED. Here's what the SFF Program says about the film: Three Rwandan kids hit the road to soccer's World Cup in this energetic and... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Blu Ray Review: BLUE CRUSH 2

I suspect that despite the lack of clamor for a sequel to moderately successful 2002 surfer-girl drama, Blue Crush, its direct-to-video sequel might go over well with the tween and teen girls that movie appears to be targeting. It's a... More »
  

Hey NY, LA & Portland - Go See VIVA RIVA this Weekend!
We've been loving on Djo Munga's Congolese crime thriller Viva Riva! for months and months now and it's finally coming out in limited release this weekend! I had a chance to see it this week and completely agree with James... More »
  

Trailer For Acclaimed Congolese Action Drama VIVA RIVA!
Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Viva Riva! has been turning heads on the international festival circuit and putting a new, commercially accessible face on African film in the process. And fresh off of basically sweeping the African Film Awards - where... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

The End Of The World Arrives In The 1950s. Fantastic Trailer For South African SciFi SWEETHEART
Is it an alien invasion or the Rapture? And is there any real difference between the two? That seems to be the tension driving Michael Matthews' Sweetheart, a half hour long South African short film produced on a tiny budget.District... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Watch Die Antwoord In Harmony Korine's UMSHINI WAM
Yes, it is every bit as strange as you think it's going to be.Yolandi Visser and Ninja from frequently bizarre South African rap act Die Antwoord star in Umshini Wam, a new short film from director Harmony Korine. Korine, in... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

South African industrial metal + werewolves = horror you can tap your feet to
The association with metal music and horror film has been a long standing one. Bands have been drawing inspiration from horror films for as long as Metal has been around. Case in point, the South African industrial metal band Terminatryx. Inspired... More »
  

From The Makers of WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX Comes Uganda's Action Madness THE RETURN OF UNCLE BENON

Hold on to your seat and brace yourself for the thrill ride of your life! Ramon film productions, Uganda's leading film making company that unexpectedly took the action world by storm back in July when they unleashed the trailer to... More »
By Al Young   
  

Pierre Laffargue's BLACK on BLU (in the UK)
I cannot bring myself to post up the painfully generic Blu-Ray cover of Pierre Laffargue's wonderfully oddball neo-blaxploitation action-fantasy starring French rapper McJean Gab'1 as an on-the-lam Parisian bank robber down in Senegal for a diamond heist.  The best way to... More »
  

John Cleese Stars In South African Comedy SPUD
It's hard to find a nation on the globe whose box office is not being dominated by either Harry Potter or Tangled right now, but there are a few. In Japan it's Space Battleship Yamato topping the chart. And Finland... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

What Is Neill Blomkamp's AGM HEARTLAND?
Here's an intriguing mystery for fans of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Included in the iPad edition of the current issue of Wired is a one minute teaser titled AGM Heartland, a teaser that arrives with no explanation and no... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Trailer For 1978 South African Grindhouse Picture DEATH OF A SNOWMAN, Now On DVD!
Freshly released on DVD by the good folk at Synapse is 1978 South African grindhouse picture Death Of A Snowman. Also known as Soul Patrol and Black Trash this one is a reminder of why so many of the current... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Billy Zane Heads To Nigeria For Jeta Amata's BLACK GOLD
[Updated with full theatrical trailer.]Though you wouldn't know it from the amount of coverage it gets in the west - i.e. virtually none - Nigeria is home to one of the most prolific film industries in the world, the nation... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantastic Trailer For Japanese Indie-Animation THE MESSENGER FROM THE SEA
Over the last few years an interesting trend has emerged in the world of Japanese animation. You can call it the rise of the indies, a wave of purely independent animators creating their own feature films and OVA releases at... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

An Exclusive First Look At DISTRICT 9 Star Sharlto Copley's Directorial Debut SPOON!
Before he rose to fame as the leading man in District 9 and long before he was cast as Mad Murdock in Joe Carnahan's revival of The A-Team, Sharlto Copley's future plans involved working on the other side of the... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Sundance 2010: From The Producer Of Neill Blomkamp's ALIVE IN JOBURG, Trailer For Kenyan SciFi Short PUMZI
While there's no doubt at all that Neill Blomkamp deserves every scrap of praise that he has received for the fantastic District 9, there is also no doubt that these sorts of creations never happen in a vacuum. There are... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

'Truffe' director Kim Nguyen's next film 'La Cité'
The Quebec film industry here in Canada is so alarmingly good at what is does it is a shame that the rest of our country remains largely unawares of it. Director Kim Nguyen's is following up his previous feature Truffe,... More »
  
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