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I first became aware of Ben Wheatley when I was assigned to write an essay on his film Down Terrace (2009) for Magill's Cinema Annual. What struck me while watching it was how carefully balanced and powerful it was and...

Big fans of Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace. Big fans of our friends at Canadian distribution label Evokative Films. And the two of them together make for sweet British gangster love on May 17th. Buy it or we'll come over and bust...

Down Terrace has been likened to the TV show The Sopranos for the familiar tropes of paranoid crime families in a dangerous situation, but really it is more akin to the brutal film Gomorrah; not due to the grit and...

Winning accolades and fans across the festival circuit for the past year, and comparisons to material as far and wide as Ken Loach and The Sopranos (although in all fairness it is neither of those things, more like deader-than-deadpan Coen...

[Here begins a trio of Toronto-centric posts and, yes, I apologize to those of you who don't live here.]Fans of bleaker than bleak comedy in Canada, give a nice round of applause to Evokative Films because they're about to give...

[As it is getting its US Release today, here is my Review of Down Terrace, go see it, especially if you are a fan of the deadpan Coen Brothers sense of black-humour.]Upon being released from custody for some petty larceny,...

With UK director Ben Wheatley is gearing up for production on his hitmen vs satanic cult picture The Kill List, local distributors are prepping the theatrical release of his previous picture, the bleak, award winning crime comedy Down Terrace. And...

Upon being released from custody for some petty larceny, Ben and his son Karl, small time gangsters both, return home more or less in silence for an awkward couple of beers and stale pound-cake with their mates.  Karl's girlfriend comes...

Congratulations, boys. New York - January 12, 2009 - The Wagner/Cuban Companies' Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired world rights to DOWN TERRACE, a genre bending portrait of a crime family slotted to...

Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace is now two for two:  Two festivals played, two major prizes won.  The film scooped the Next Wave award at Fantastic Fest last month before heading home for its UK premiere at Raindance, where it was...

Well, well ... after making their production debut with Pakistani splatter flick Hell's Ground and announcing their intention to produce Filipino splatter pic Killdroid - promo teaser here - and Karim Hussain's appropriately titled Filthy - promo here - the...