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WAKING KARMA Review: Tepid Attempts to Thrill in an Ultimately Unengaging Thriller
On Karma’s seventeenth birthday her mom, Sunny, discovers that the father of her child, a dangerous and murderous cult leader named Paul, is coming to collect his daughter for a rite of passage ritual. Mother and daughter flee to the...
SXSW 2021 Interview: CLERK Director Malcolm Ingram On Pop Icon Kevin Smith
In 1992 a young man from New Jersey, US, traveled to Vancouver, Canada to study film and pursue his dream. Since he was little, his father instilled in him a love for movies. Then a particular film, Richard Linklater's Slacker,...
WELCOME TO ACAPULCO Interview: Director Guillermo Iván On His Video Game-Inspired Action Comedy
How in the hell did American video game designer Matt Booth (Michael Kingsbaker) end up in Acapulco, Mexico, being chased by several extremely dangerous characters? That’s the big question Guillermo Iván's action comedy Welcome to Acapulco seeks to answer, going...
A Madsen And A Baldwin Go To Turkey And Things Go Badly In New Teaser For MAGI
Dabbe director Hasan Karacadag dips his toes into international waters with the upcoming Magi - or, rather, he brings the international to him in Turkey - and the results are all sorts of messed up according to the new teaser...
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...
Eight Clips From Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT
With Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight arriving on screens for Christmas much of the conversation has been dominated thus far by matters of format and Tarantino's push into 70mm projection - a conversation not at all helped by the utter...
THE VISIT: Trailer For Sundance Selected Doc Asks If We're Ready For Aliens To Arrive
Though we're still unpacking the full Sundance selection this year one of the first titles to jump out to our attention is Michael Madsen's The Visit. No, the director is not the guy from all those Tarantino films. Yes, he...
Jackson, Russell, Roth, Madsen, Dern And Tatum Among Tarantino's HATEFUL EIGHT
Polish up your six shooters and get your tongue all warmed up for lots and lots and lots of dialogue for Tarantino's Hateful Eight is officially a go and the full cast list boasts a collection of familiar (and welcome)...
Giveaway: Win A DVD Of Action Flick BEYOND THE TROPHY
We have five DVDs of Daniel Gillin's action flick Beyond the Trophy to give away. ARC Entertainment is releasing the film on DVD on June 3.Beyond the Trophy tells the story of men's obsession with power and how far they...
Wenders, Redford, Glawogger And More Join For 3D Documentary Project CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE
While 3D technology has largely been used by Hollywood in the service of banging and crashing and blowing things up films such as Pina and Cave Of Forgotten Dreams have demonstrated that the technology has far more wide ranging uses...
Razor Sharp Teeth And 100 Feet Of Constricting Power! It's Corman's PIRANHACONDA!
Title says it all, really. Producer Roger Corman is re-teaming with Sharktopus writer Mike MacLean and Camel Spiders director Jim Wynorski - whose filmography is dominated by exploitation pictures and softcore porn - to create Piranhaconda. The only cast confirmed...
