Fantastic Fest will host a Gala Screening of Buried at The Paramount Theatre on Thursday, September 23, with Ryan Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortés in attendance, as part of their opening night programming of the festival. Buried, which Lionsgate will release in select theaters on September 24th and wide on October 8th, stars Reynolds as …
“Outrageous, and hysterical, All About Evil is as much an ode to no-budget indie horror as it is a celebration of independent movie theatres; surely, a veteran horror fan can ask for nothing more.” All About Evil Dir. Joshua Grannell (2010, USA, 98 mins.) Freaks everywhere, rejoice. Director Joshua Grannell, better known as cult film …
The Bourne Identity and Mr & Mrs Smith director Doug Liman is set to direct the time-travel actioner All You Need is Kill, says Variety. The movie, based on the Japanese novel of the same name, has been in development for a few months now. In a recent interview at http://www.collider.com/ Liman had this to …
Natasha Romanova (the Black Widow) Recently Joss Whedon told The Sunday Herald-Sun a little about his plans for the upcoming Marvel superhero film, The Avengers. He didn’t reveal anything new, but he did mention that in addition to Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, there will be other female characters in the movie. Rumors are circulating about …
Jaws Directed by Steven Spielberg Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw star in this terrifying thriller about an enormous man-eating Great White Shark that terrorizes the fictional coastal summer resort town of Amity, Long Island on the Fourth of July weekend. Based on the trashy best-selling novel by Peter Benchley (who also provides the …
“A charming film that will appeal to those with patience or tender souls…” Fausta: La Teta Asustada / The Milk of Sorrow Director: Claudia Llosa Fausta is a young woman afflicted with a rare disease. The milk of Sorrow, passed on to her through her mother’s breast milk, affects the children born to women tortured …
It looks like Angelina Jolie is set to follow in her ex-husband’s footsteps (Billy Bob Thornton) by taking a stab at directing. Jolie, who has worked with such directorial legends as Clint Eastwood and Oliver Stone, is set to direct a Bosnian love story during the Bosnian War of 1990. According to THR, the film …
Despite the fact that Piranha 3D didn’t make huge box office numbers on opening weekend (only $10 million), Dimension Films has issued a press release announcing that they are already developing a follow-up with both director Alexandre Aja and producer Mark Canton returning. Considering Piranha 3d only has an estimated $24 million budget, the film …
The first review of David Fincher’s The Social Network is up and it is a douzy. Scott Foundas, former Village Voice film critic, now a film programmer, has seen the film and loves what he has seen. The review/essay will be published in the next issue of Film Comment, in which The Social Network, will …
“Rubber is this century’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes…” Rubber Directed by Quentin Dupieux Director/writer Quentin Dupieux’s horror-comedy Rubber opens with the narrator asking the questions that have long baffled humanity: “Why is ET brown? In the movie JFK, why does that president get assassinated? And why do some people like sausages and other people …
Director Guillermo del Toro says he might return to the Hellboy film franchises sooner than expected now that he’s dropped out from directing the long-awaited adaptation of The Hobbit. When asked by MTV News about his Hellboy return, del Toro seemed to indicate that its fate rested in the hands of Ron Perlman and whether …
This weekend marked the ceremony for the 2010 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Award which awards all the minor and technical awards for the The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Major Awards will be announced next week at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. HBO and ABC walked away with 17 and 15 awards …
Body Count: Volume 2 I was recently asked to write a horror script that would be produced by a local group that’s trying the Sam Raimi/Robert Rodriguez means of raising money for real features by making schlocky b-pictures as a revenue source. They’re hell bent on producing a zombie picture because everyone seems to have …
Yesterday director/producer Bryan Singer (House, Trick ‘r Treat) spoke to Harry Knowles from Ain’t it Cool News and dropped some huge details about X-men: First Class. I’ve unfortunately been skeptical for a while about this movie, despite all the positive things we’ve been hearing lately about it. After the train-wreck (In my opinion) that was …
“Horror fans finally have a remake worthy of the original…” I Spit on Your Grave Dir. Steven R. Monroe (2010, USA, 107 mins.) Though the horror remake is fairly ubiquitous at today’s cinema, and though most horror remakes have been terrible, fans of Meir Zarchi’s 1978 controversial film can breath a sigh of relief. Director …
Anyone expecting a conventional horror or comedy film will be disappointed. Rubber Dir. Quentin Dupieux (2010, France, 85 mins.) Quentin Dupieux has brought us one of the year’s most interesting, intelligent, and worthwhile films. To say that Rubber is about a sentient, psychokinetic, murderous tire would be accurate, but would also miss the point. This …
Fehérlófia Directed by Marcell Jankovics Despite having an Oscar nomination and a short film Palm D’Or to his name, it is rare to hear the name Marcell Jankovics outside of hardcore animation circles (although I understand he is well loved in his home country of Hungary). None of his work is as criminally underrated as …
“Brash, numbing, shocking and laugh-out-loud hilarious…” Piranha 3d Directed by Alexander Aja There is nothing particularly funny or poetic about the carnage in Piranha 3D. Even “disturbing” seems a bit too strong a word to describe the excessive, but still somehow palatably cartoonish bloodshed on display – can a film about pre-historic. bloodthirsty piranha really …
Love is Colder Than Death (1969) Rainer Werner Fassbinder The style of this film is unlike any that came before or after. R.W. Fassbinder openly embraced his love of Noir and French New Wave to make a shadowy burst of a film that takes a bumpy boat ride full of moments of manic ferocity and …
The Switch Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck Adaptation is a difficult art. Stay too faithful and you’ll wind up importing elements not appropriate to the new form, but stray too far and you’ll annoy proponents of the original. While the latter approach has probably resulted in a greater volume of good films, the …
Cult Cinema: Volume 7 Good comedy is a mix of the familiar, the unexpected, and the shocking. Which is an elaborate way of saying that ending a knock-knock joke with a line about killing a baby is a sure way to get a laugh. Try it some time. At work. So, it’s no surprise that …
That’s right ladies in gentleman! In the wake of other hype-spectacular biopics such as The Social Network, you can now look forward to Google the Movie in your theatre…eventually. John Morris and Groundswell Productions have teamed up and acquired the movie right to Ken Auletta’s biography about the Websearch giant, called Googled: The End of …
Paramount Pictures has announced who the screenwriters will be for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. According to HeatVision, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Punisher: War Zone) have signed on to pen the new feature which is in development with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Paramount and Nickelodeon picked up the rights to …