BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: AnimEigoMSRP: $24.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 131 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Making-of featurette• Premiere Special• Press release interviews• Image gallery and trailers The Pitch A Japanese gangland tale done with realism as the core value. That is: no glamour. No style. No fun. The Humans Director: Takashi Miike Actors: Goro Kishitani; … Continue reading
Boston’s basking in glory today, with a second World Series win for the Sox and Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone earning real accolades for being a fantastic little film that absolutely must be seen. Right now, the town looks pretty good, which means the location scouts are out working overtime. The Sox championship might be … Continue reading
Word had come out a while back that Swedish provocateur Lukas Moodysson had snagged cash to make his first English-language film, now titled Mammoth. That money has bought a good pair of leads: Michelle Williams and the teeny-tiny Gael Garcia Bernal top the flick as a troubled couple. Production starts next week in Thailand and … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Adult SwimMSRP: $29.98RATED: NOT RATEDRUNNING TIME: 230 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Hidden Interviews and Clips The Pitch What if the biggest pop band in the world had the power to affect economies, precipitate military conflicts and define global taste? Now, what if that group was a death metal band made up … Continue reading
The thing I always loved about the Alien mythology — even if it ran counter to H.R. Giger’s terminally creepy design premise — was that aliens would take on attributes of any host. So you’ve got the dog alien from Fincher’s flick, and the backstory that aliens not bred from John Hurt are actually fantastically … Continue reading
Alfred Hitchcock was a big ‘ol sumbitch, so he’s got personality enough for more than one film about him. Right? Especially when the first is Number 13 featuring Dan Fogler, who burned his sack and possibly his career but not the ticket counter when his Balls of Fury dropped. At least he’s no longer a … Continue reading
High-profile remake news always gets punters wondering why ‘they never remake bad movies’. But the remake of a bad or middling movie just isn’t worth the column inches, which is why Cry Of The Owl, featuring Paddy Considine as a guy who separates from his wife, moves to the suburbs and begins syping on Julia … Continue reading
It’s been known that Darren Aronofsky’s production company, Protozoa Pictures, had Robert Siegal’s script The Wrestler. But it’s only as of yesterday that we know Aronofsky is actually in talks to direct. This’ll make half of a matched salt and pepper shaker set with The Fighter, the story of boxer Irish Mickey Ward, which Aronofsky … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE STUDIO: TartanMSRP: $19.95RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 90 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Trailer• TV Spots • Behind the Scenes• Cast InterviewsNote: All screencaps have been crafted to best approximate the experience of viewing the film. Accordingly, there are no entertaining captions. The Pitch A chick with a gash for a mouth (slang) isn’t … Continue reading