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A young woman becomes friends with a lion in an animal-powered drama.

Pause for a moment and take in the overwhelmingly beautiful and emotionally charged trailer for Tran Anh Hung's French language period drama Eternity. Mercy.    At the end of the 19th century, Valentine, aged 20, married Jules.   Towards the...

The sense of touch can be tricky to convey in film. A filmmaker must rely upon visually accurate information in order for the spectator to 'feel' the sensation. Touch is very prominent in director and writer Claudia Llosa's Aloft, how...

As the 47th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival gets underway the award for the Best European fantastic feature film, the Méliès d'OR Award, was announced today. Fabrice du Welz`s thriller Alleluia takes home the grand prize! Welz`s film recently took home Best Director,...

Aaron Paul makes his big budget big screen debut with Need For Speed, Wes Anderson's got another of his beautiful confections with Grand Budapest Hotel, and Denis Villeneuve takes a dark take on being endoubled in Toronto with Enemy.Video embedded...

With film, things often come in pairs. Sometimes the doubles are explicit; some studio vying with another for a given plot, be it a tale of animated insects or impending asteroid impacts. Sometimes, the twinning takes the form of accidental...

The sense of touch can be tricky to convey in film. A filmmaker must rely upon visually accurate information in order for the spectator to 'feel' the sensation. Touch is very prominent in director and writer Claudia Llosa's Aloft, how...

With film, things often come in pairs. Sometimes the doubles are explicit; some studio vying with another for a given plot, be it a tale of animated insects or impending asteroid impacts. Sometimes, the twinning takes the form of accidental...

From writer-director Rose Bosch comes LA RAFLE (THE ROUNDUP), a film that tells the story of the 1942 'Vel' d'Hiv Roundup'. Its main cast includes Jean Reno (LEON THE PROFESSIONAL, THE DA VINCI CODE) as a Jewish doctor, and...

I can't really argue with Christoph Waltz's win - the man is magnetic for every second of his screen time in Inglourious Basterds - but let's be honest: Christopher Plummer's beard was robbed.  Robbed, I say!...

After mining Harry Knowles' Twitter Feed, Devin Faraci of CHUD.com found and posted five incredible faux-comic book covers for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds drawn in the style of Marvel Comics legend Jack Kirby.Here's hoping this inspires an actual comic book adaptation...

Despite being one of the most famous directors on the planet, Quentin Tarantino, and his recent few films - notably Kill Bill, Death Proof and his most recent WWII pastiche, Inglourious Basterds (sic) are in an awkward place in popular...