by Kurt Halfyard, February 9, 2010 3:34 PM
Back when Pontypool was tearing up the festival circuit in late 2008, I managed to have a couple hour sit-down with director Bruce McDonald that started in his office and carried over into the bar across the street. While...
by Al Young, February 9, 2010 12:15 PM
Hong Kong based Imagi Animation Studios has thrown in the towel in lieu of massive layoffs of over 300 employees. Back in 2007, the studio released its first CG animated feature TMNT and it became a moderate success at the...
by Todd Brown, February 9, 2010 5:25 AM
I'll put money on it now. Fedor Bondarchuk's Stalingrad will re-write all Russian box office records upon release. How can I feel so confident about a film still in pre-production? Simple.First, Bondarchuk is a proven commodity, his films routinely...
by Al Young, February 8, 2010 12:18 PM
Not all animation always needs a rich visual details and realism to work in aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Adopting the motto that less is more, the CG animated short Pivot from Netherlands apply a unique style of "low poly"...
by James Dennis, February 8, 2010 8:02 AM
This year's BFI London Film Festival has been confirmed as taking place from Wednesday 13 October through Thursday 28 October 2010, so block out your diaries... The full line-up will be announced in September....
by Todd Brown, February 7, 2010 11:46 PM
Funny what a difference casting can make. Like a very great many people, I've been dreading the thought of the upcoming re-do of The Thing. Not because I'm automatically against remakes - the Carpenter version is itself a remake,...
by Ard Vijn, February 5, 2010 9:55 PM
This evening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the three Tiger Award winners were announced. The winners were: "Agua Fría de Mar"(dir: Paz Fábrega, Costa Rica)"Alamar" (dir: Pedro González-Rubio, Mexico) "Mundane History"(dir: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand) The Tiger can only be...
by Al Young, February 5, 2010 6:13 PM
Ok action fans, I have good news and bad news... First off, the good news. According to several Turkish sites, Scott Adkins (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ninja, Undisputed 3) and Cyril Raffaelli (Banlieue 13, The Incredible Hulk, Tekken), both martial arts...
by Todd Brown, February 5, 2010 3:29 PM
Don McKellar and Molly Parker starring in what promises to be a return to the sort of rock and roll drama that made director Bruce MacDonald's name in the first place. I don't need to know anything else. I'm...
by Todd Brown, February 5, 2010 12:27 PM
In a word, icky. It's a buddy comedy with zero chemistry between the buddies in which one is saddled with an unconvincing accent and distracted John Waters moustache and nothing particularly interesting to do while the other overacts wildly...
by Rodney Perkins, February 4, 2010 12:00 AM
The 2010 SXSW Film Festival and Conference has announced its initial slate of titles. The list is rife with hot world premieres (Kick-Ass), films fresh from Sundance (The Runaways, Cyrus), hot titles from the 2009 editions of TIFF and Cannes...
by Todd Brown, February 3, 2010 11:06 PM
We don't do a lot of 'Movie X has a new poster' posts in these parts because I just generally don't consider marketing materials to be news, but I do make exceptions in certain cases. And Dante Lam's Fire...
by Todd Brown, February 3, 2010 10:53 PM
Pang Ho-Cheung's much-delayed slasher picture Dream Home dropped its first teaser earlier today and also turning up is new artwork for the freshly completed romantic-comedy that Pang turned out while his trip to slasher-ville was stalled out by internal...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, February 3, 2010 9:27 PM
Hey Seattle cinephiles, wondering what to do this weekend? Well, the Emerald City's SIFF Cinema's begin their Kurosawa-sensei series this Friday, February 5'th. It's a wonderful chance to see 5 of the masters films, presented in glorious 35mm, in SIFF's...
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by Simon de Bruyn, February 3, 2010 7:15 AM
As the Berlin International Film Festival world premiere of new Australian western Red Hill fast approaches, the director has sent Twitch the first teaser trailer for the film - which reveals an assured and stunning new directorial debut, visually reminiscent of No Country for...
by Al Young, February 1, 2010 8:09 PM
Europacorp has unveiled the official poster for Luc Besson's Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Adèle Blanc-Sec (translated as The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec), featuring Louise Bourgoin who plays the feisty heroine, going face to face with a pterodactyl. Incase your wondering,...
by Peter K., February 1, 2010 3:25 AM
Alan Saunders, better known on the Interwebs as Alanthebox, has got a feature in the works. Actually its been in the works for some time now.Wait, who is Alanthebox you ask? Well, if any of you traversed the popular flash...
by Peter K., February 1, 2010 2:40 AM
I found myself on a Paul Williams kick this Christmas and when I wasn't listening to the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack I was spinning William's pretty awesome Muppet output. It got me to re-visit the Muppet films and reignited...
by Todd Brown, February 1, 2010 1:39 AM
Well, this bit of news kind of came out of nowhere. Derek Yee's action-drama The Shinjuku Incident - billed by many as the first serious, dramatic role of Jackie Chan's career, though you can argue that point a bit...
by Todd Brown, January 31, 2010 1:09 PM
Mark it down on your calendar. Edgar Wright has just confirmed via his Twitter account that Scott Pilgrim Versus The World will hit North American theaters August 13th, a week after the UK release on August 6th. Let the...
by Al Young, January 29, 2010 7:18 PM
Who says Chinese animation lacks creativity and ideas? It appears the indie scene is where its at to find original and compelling works from mainland China. As a way of killing two birds with one stone, I present to you...
by Simon de Bruyn, January 29, 2010 6:19 AM
As far as debuting your first feature goes, Australian writer-director David Michôd has enjoyed a pretty astounding first week, with universal rave reviews and a US distribution deal reportedly looming, after his film Animal Kingdom premiered at Sundance last Friday.Now,...
by Al Young, January 28, 2010 4:52 PM
Phranakorn Film has unveiled two new posters for the Thai epic Bang Rajan 2, featuring professional tennis player-turned-actor Paradorn Srichapan as a warrior armed with two machete and leading his fellow villagers to wage bloody war in the name of...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2010 12:32 PM
Good news from Sundance with word that Newmarket Films has just picked up the rights to Spencer Susser's Hesher. The feature debut from the director of stunning zombie short I Love Sarah Jane, Hesher has been one of the...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2010 10:38 AM
Mel's back on screen, but is it worth seeing? Well, Edge of Darkness is certainly better than anything else to go into wide release in the past several weeks and is quite good in bursts but it's kind of...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2010 10:05 AM
Now, before taking this as gospel bear in mind that Chinese media are notoriously unreliable and many outlets seem to have an active dislike for Zhang Ziyi but, that said, Wayne Wang's upcoming adaptation of Snow Flower And The...
by Todd Brown, January 28, 2010 10:00 AM
For years it was the label that people loved and loved to hate and now it's gone. Miramax - the company founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein that made stars of Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith and a...
by Michael Guillen, January 27, 2010 12:33 AM
Cinephiles who have not yet allowed themselves the luxury of meandering through Jonathan Rosenbaum's online archive are missing out on Rosenbaum's generous mentality; one might even say mentorship (in its classic sense). While the fathers of civilization flounder afar...
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by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, January 26, 2010 9:54 PM
OK sci-fi and fantasy enthusiasts, if you are in the Seattle area the weekend of January 30, you need to get your behinds over to the Cinerama Theatre in downtown Seattle for a double session of mind bending goodness. Two...
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by Todd Brown, January 26, 2010 5:19 PM
What could be better than a man in a zebra suit? How about three girls in zebra miniskirts? Yes, kids, Takashi Miike's Zebraman 2 will be preceded in April by a straight-to-DVD spinoff directed by Miike's AD Nishiumi Kenichiro...
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