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Indonesian Western BUFFALO BOYS Available Today!
Indonesian western and Singapore's submission for the Oscars' "Best Foreign-Language Film category, Buffalo Boys, is now available in select theaters and on Digital. The internationally produced, 19th century martial-arts western was directed by Mike Wiluan (also a co-producer on Crazy...
Watch The Haunting Trailer For Yam Laranas' AURORA
It would appear that Anne Curtis is having herself a year. Still fresh from her leading role in Erik Matti's high octane action picture Buybust, the Filipino star will next appear on the big screen in Yam Laranas' ghost story...
10+ Years Later: [REC] and the Found Footage Renaissance
The excitement surrounding Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's 2007 found footage film, [REC], is hard to explain to anyone who wasn't tracking horror movies 10 years ago. There was a palpable groundswell of anticipation among genre fans here on domestic...
THE TITAN Trailer: Sam Worthington Becomes Super Human in New Sci-Fi Thriller
Avatar's Sam Worthington is not quite done with body-morphing military sci-fi just yet. In Lennart Ruff's The Titan, Worthington's family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment to evolve mankind for its inevitable evolution into space. The Titan promises to take...
Review: KONG: SKULL ISLAND, A Lifeless Creature Feature
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts does not believe in subtlety, does not relish the glorious curious reveal of a brand new creature; an iconic symbol of the movies that hundreds of man-hours were spent to animate and bring to life. This is...
BEYOND SKYLINE Poster Lights Up the Skies
Liam O'Donnell's follow-up to the Brothers Strause' original alien invasion film, Skyline, may not have a release date yet, but that's not stopping the publicity train from trying to drum up some buzz. The latest poster for the flick has...
COLOSSAL Trailer: Anne Hathaway Has a Monster Problem
In Nacho Vigalondo's latest, Colossal, Anne Hathaway discovers that catastrophic events across the world caused by a giant rampaging monster are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering. I have been a massive fan of everything Vigalondo...
Other Worlds Austin 2016 Review: DOMAIN, Great Visual Style and an Intriguing Puzzle Narrative
An intriguing Twilight Zone premise gives way to a deadly mystery in Nathaniel Atcheson's fascinating new sci-fi indie, Domain, which just had its world premier at the Austin Other Worlds Film Festival. In the film, more than half a million survivors...
SPECTRAL Trailer: Netflix's Supernatural War Movie Hits this Week
I had big hopes for Spectral when it was announced that Legendary would be producing it. A big budget supernatural war movie blending the raw aesthetic of Black Hawk Down with the notion of a ghostly invasion sounded like a great...
Watch Bloody Good THE BELKO EXPERIMENT Trailer
That James Gunn used his elevated status following Guardians of the Galaxy to get his long gestating shocker, The Belko Experiment, into production says a lot about how much the project means to him. Forget all the great reviews out of TIFF, or...
Sci-Fi SPECTRAL to Premiere on Netflix December 9
Anyone wishing for a more grounded approach to ghosbusting may be interested in Spectral, Nic Mathieu's debut feature, which is being touted as "Black Hawk Down meets Ghostbusters". Produced by Legendary Pictures and Universal, the film was pulled from a theatrical run...
Momentum Nabs Bousman's ABATTOIR
Momentum Pictures has acquired all North American rights to the the latest Darren Lynn Bousman shocker, Abattoir, with an eye to release the film in theaters, VOD and Digital HD on December 9, 2016. Written by Christopher Monfette (Syfy's 12 Monkeys) and directed...
The Trailer that Ruins the Movie - Part One.
Well, what about them? Those trailers, sometimes you love'em because you are showed just enough to get really in the mood for something special or you hate them because they have showed you too much. But you can only know...
Stephen McHattie and The Dark Stranger Give Leah 'Stranger Danger'
Terror films, a film production and distribution house, has slated several films to release, this Halloween season. One of their stand-outs is titled The Dark Stranger. Starring Katie Findlay (After the Dark, 2013) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool, 2008), a...
Demon Or Serial Killer In First Trailer For EL GUARDIAN INVISIBLE?
A collision of cold facts and local superstition lies at the heart of El Guardian Invisible, Fernando Gonzalez Molina's adaptation of the hit crime novel from Dolores Redondo, as belief in old Basque legends cloud the details of a potential...
STRATTON Trailer: Dominic Cooper Fights Terrorism in Simon West's Latest
Based on the Duncan Falconer book series, Stratton began life as a vehicle for Superman himself, Henry Cavill, before the Man of Steel bowed out of the project and Dominic Cooper took over. With his performance in AMC's Preacher getting a decent...
Review: DEADPOOL, A Marvellous Meta Movie With A Mouth
Although it is cut from the same cloth as other superhero origin stories before it, both in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) and X-Men world, Deadpool prefers its material vibrant, filled with polka dots and stained with blood. Ryan Reynolds plays...
The BLUE DEMON Gets an Upgrade In Japanese Video Game Adaptation
The bad guy gets an upgrade in Blue Demon ver 2.0 (Ao Oni v 2.0), Maegawa Hideaki's big screen adaptation of the Japanese PC game, and while the story line is absolutely stock stuff - a group of teens enter...
Things Take A Darker Turn In The Trailer For Oshii's Live Action PATLABOR: THE NEXT GENERATION Movie
Ghost In The Shell helmer Oshii Mamoru has been clear about his intentions for his live action Patlabor: The Next Generation project right from the beginning. Like the original animated effort the story would begin with a light hearted, comedy...
Durban 2014 Review: Kenyan Crime Thriller VEVE Is A Damp Misfire
Though it boasts handsome production values and Tom Tykwer amongst its producer team, Kenyan crime thriller Veve is otherwise a catalog of missed and squandered opportunities, a thriller that simply fails to thrill thanks to a script overstuffed with unengaging...
