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Sundance 2021 Review: LAND, Buried in an Avalanche of Cliches
Buried in an avalanche of painfully obvious cliches, surface-deep characterizations, and unexamined privilege, Land, Robin Wright’s feature-length, filmmaking debut is about as far from auspicious as any feature-length debut can be. Elevated by Wright's impressively committed performance as a grief-haunted...
Opening in Theaters: THE GRUDGE, Once More, With Menace
Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver star in Nicolas Pesce's new version of Shimizu Takashi's original horror thriller.
Guanajuato 2016 Dispatch: Demián Bichir on Jorge Michel Grau's 7:19
The opening night film for the second half of Guanajuato 2016 (the one that takes place in Guanajuato Capital) was Jorge Michel Grau’s 7:19, a drama set in the historic morning of 19 September, 1985, when Mexico City suffered a...
Interview: THE HATEFUL EIGHT Los Angeles And New York Press Conferences
(WARNING: Quentin Tarantino dropped some fairly big spoilers while talking, and they're in this article...)Having "Misirlou" as your opening credits is just so intense it just says "you are watching an epic, you are watching this big old movie. Just...
Exclusive Posters For WORDS WITH GODS Tease New Work By Alex De La Iglesia, Mira Nair and More!
Here's an intriguing project: An omnibus of short films with Alex de la Iglesia, Hideo Nakata, Amos Gitai, Guillermo Arriaga, Mira Nair and others tackling the subject of faith. The film is called Words with Gods and it premieres this...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, Denis' BASTARDS, and More!
Scott's back this week, and we've got a slew of films to talk about. While GRAVITY continues to rule the box office, Hanks makes a fine turn in Captain Phillips. Also chatted about Claire Denis' Bastards (playing Toronto's TIFF Lightbox...
Review: MACHETE KILLS, Drilling Grindhouse Viewers Into Submission
Self-aware, self-referential, and self-abusing, Machete Kills splatters a full load of gooey grindhouse goodness onto the screen even before the main titles roll. Having turned the volume up to 11, however, that leaves more than 100 minutes to be filled...
Morelia 2013 Chingonized: Robert Rodriguez And Danny Trejo In Morelia To Present MACHETE KILLS!
Rumors turned out to be true and Robert Rodriguez is confirmed as special guest for this year's Morelia International Film Festival, kicking off on October 18. During his very first visit to a Mexican film festival, RR won't be alone...
MACHETE KILLS (And Kills And Kills) In This New Red Band Trailer
What's there to say with this one? You've got Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo bringing back their popular assassin character. Charlie Sheen... er, excuse me, Carlos Estevez... is the president of the United States. Mel Gibson is the baddy. And...
Fantastic Fest 2013: Tiger Chen Will (Maybe) Kill Tim League While Keanu Reeves Watches
In case you hear about the untimely death of Alamo Drafthouse co-founder Tim League in a couple of weeks, we just want you to be prepared. Among the signature events announced for Fantastic Fest 2013, to be held in Austin,...
Second MACHETE KILLS Trailer Just Feels Tired
Hands up everybody who wants to watch Robert Rodriguez make Twitter jokes while nicking visual gags from Black Dynamite! No? Nobody? Well, then, don't bother watching the new Machete Kills trailer because that's about all it has to offer, which...
World Premiere of MACHETE KILLS To Open Fantastic Fest 2013
Fantastic Fest has announced that the World Premiere of Robert Rodriguez's action-packed sequel Machete Kills will be the opening film at this year's festival. Danny Trejo, the film's eponymous vigilante, will attend the screening on 19 September, along with the...
Danny Trejo Sharpens His Blade In First Teaser For MACHETE KILLS
Danny Trejo is back as Machete and while the first teaser for Robert Rodriguez' latest is holding back on the crazy violence that's only to make room to show off the massive cast and Sophia Vergara's machine gun bra. Yep,...
She's Not A Kid Any More. Alexa Vega Tweets Photo Of Her MACHETE KILLS Character.
Remember the Spy Kids? You know, the precocious little tykes who starred in films designed to entertain Robert Rodriguez's children? Yeah, back in the day a young Alexa Vega was one of the titular stars. And now a significantly less...
Marko Zaror Takes Villain Role In Robert Rodriguez' MACHETE KILLS
In a move that makes so much sense it's shocking that it hasn't happened before now, Robert Rodriguez has cast Chilean action star Marko Zaror in a key villain role for the upcoming Machete Kills. Rodriguez apparently wrote the part...
Lady Gaga Joins MACHETE KILLS
Look, I like a good bit of stunt casting as much as the next guy. In the context of a Machete movie casting Mel Gibson - as Robert Rodriguez did for this latest effort - for example, is a damn...
EFM 2012: MACHETE KILLS Promo Art
It's grainy. It's tilted. It was shot on an iPhone. But it's the new promo art for Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills with Danny Trejo.Here's how Deadline described the plot:The new film finds Machete recruited by the U.S. Government for a...
MACHETE Returning To The Big Screen. And This Time He KILLS!
Didn't Machete kill the first time? Isn't that the entire point of the character? Heh ...Word is out that Robert Rodriguez plans to return Danny Trejo to the big screen in the second of what is now a planned trilogy...
