And Now For Your Christmas Counter-Programming: New DJANGO UNCHAINED And AFTERSHOCK Trailers
Ah, Christmas. A time of peace and love and earthquakes and slavery and bad club music. Yes, while - being male - we spent our weekend wrapping up the last minute shopping a pair of remarkably not-Christmasy trailers arrived online.First,... More »
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One Of These Nine Films Will Be Oscar's Best Foreign-Language Film
Oscar's short list for the Best Foreign Language Film has been narrowed to nine titles, a list heavily focused on Europe and including exactly zero titles from Asia. Which means, in a surprising move, Kim Ki-duk's Venice winner Pieta is... More »
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Review: ON THE ROAD Hits the Right Beats
The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as On the Road would be terribly ambitious, even without the narrative complications of Jack Kerouac's famously stream-of-consciousness storytelling style. Ask Francis Ford Coppola. He has been working... More »
  

Celebrate Valentine's Day With A Crossbow And Argentinian Hitwoman Thriller MALA
See that woman with the crossbow? She'll be lining up the shot with Argentinian audiences on Valentine's Day when Adrian Caetano's hitwoman thriller Mala hits the big screen.  Natalia Oreiro plays Rosario, a killer who specializes in taking out pimps,... More »
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NO, Don't Watch This Trailer, Unless ...
Pablo Lorrain's NO stars Gael Garcia Bernal as a Chilean ad man who takes a turn into politics. The new trailer for its upcoming U.S. theatrical release sets up the premise and the historical period, then unleashes a torrent of... More »
  

By The Time You Say It, She's Shot Yours Off. First BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN Trailer!
Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's Machine Gun Woman arrived at Fantastic Fest with her guns blazing, prompting our own Ryland Aldrich to proclaim the latest from the director of Mandrill and Mirageman a dose of "wildly sexy violence". A should you be... More »
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Things Look Grim In Dark Border Drama LA VIDA PRECOZ Y BREV DE SABINA RIVAS
Though there is much, much more to Mexico than Narco gangs and border issues there's also no denying that those two issues loom large over everyday life in some territories. And director Luis Mandoki looks to be wading right into... More »
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DAEMONIUM Chapter Two Arrives Friday, Watch A Trailer Now
Director Pablo Pares has long been a favorite on the Latin American genre circuit, his Plaga Zombie, 100% Lucha and Zona Mutante winning fans with their scrappy energy and infectious love for the genre. And while Pares latest effort, Daemonium,... More »
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Watch The New Green Band Trailer For THE ABCs OF DEATH
Death is coming for you. Lots and lots of death. International horror anthology The ABCs Of Death hits US VOD on January 31 prior to a theatrical run starting March 8 and a new green band trailer for the film... More »
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ATROCIOUS Director Unveils His KISS OF VENGEANCE
While director Fernando Barreda Luna scored international success with his found footage horror film Atrocious he has something very different in mind for his next project. No bumps in the night here, no mock doc style. Instead what we get... More »
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MALDITOS SEAN Director Visits THE CORPORATION
Argentinian director Fabian Forte turned heads on the international genre fest circuit last year with his feature film Malditos Sean (Cursed Bastards) and he's gearing up to do so again with his new effort La Corporacion (The Corporation). An ultra... More »
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Mexico's HALLEY Brings The Undead To The Arthouse
Freshly announced as a selection at Sundance, Sebastian Hofmann's Halley looks to be the most unusual sort of undead film: One that dares enter the arthouse.Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Música y Mórbido es muy bueno!!!
(Yes. Morbido 2012 drew to a close over a week ago but for this separate post I had to wait for one of the musical artists to return from a quick tour)Normally we would not focus so much on... More »
  

Gritty First Trailer For Argentine Rape-Revenge Horror WHEN YOUR FLESH SCREAMS
Argentina continues to roll on with the nation's wave of intense horror films, the newest offering coming down the line being Guillermo Martinez's When Your Flesh Screams. Very much in the rape-revenge model, the first trailer for the film premiered... More »
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Morbido 2012: Sunday, Bloody Sunday
I was seated in the courtyard of my hotel, the day after Morbido drew to a close, waiting for the bus ride back to Mexico City. It was an amazing weekend of cinema, culture and carnal delights. And I... More »
  

Morbido 2012: Saturday Nights Alright For Festing!
So the festival staff were right. Saturday night ended this morning around six with very careful, alcohol induced steps through the courtyard of my hotel. There are a lot of steps in Patzcuaro. I am not talking about "Holy... More »
  

It's Not Easy Being A Man In Cesc Gay's A GUN IN EACH HAND
Boasting an all star cast of Spanish speaking talent - Ricardo Darin, Javier Camara, Eduardo Noriega, Candela Pena, Jordi Molla, Luis Tosar - and a biting sense of humor, Cesc Gay's A Gun In Each Hand (Una Pistola En Cado... More »
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Morbido 2012: Mexico, Mezcal And A Morbid Fascination With Vampires!
As I write this opening memoir about the Morbido Festival Internacional De Cine Fantastico Y De Terror I am trying to remember a few things. First, which day is it? Second, how many shots of Mezcal did I end... More »
  

Nicanor Loreti's DIABLO Rains Down Blows And Blood
A hit on the Latin American festival circuit, Nicanor Loreti's gritty cult action film Diablo has released a gorgeous hand drawn poster and the first full trailer for the film. Boxers, gangsters and a whole lot of blood ... what's... More »
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Amazonas Film Fest 2012: Awards Wrap Up, Wild Jungle Style
The 9th Annual Amazonas Film Festival wrapped up in style last weekend with an explosion of color and music in Brazil's Amazon capital of Manaus. Teams of dancers flooded the stage of the historic Teatro Amazonas as pounding drums... More »
  
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China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

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CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 1: THOSE GOD DAMN FILM BLOGGERS

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