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Rotterdam 2015 Review: AS THE GODS WILL Leaves You Gasping For More

(Putting the Fear of God into someone was never taken as literally as here...) Miike Takashi must, by now, be the most experienced director in the world in several genres, especially if those genres are vaguely defined as "gory and...

Even By Miike Standards, This Is Just Weird. Check The Full Trailer For AS THE GODS WILL

The are exploding heads o'plenty in the full trailer for Miike Takashi's adaptation of popular manga As The Gods Will. Heads exploding into piles of beads, apparently, all of it presided over by a mocking sculpture. Then there's the guy...

Fantasia 2010: GOLDEN SLUMBER Review

[Our thanks to Lauren Baggett for the following.]Well into the final reel of Golden Slumber, the climax was interrupted by an automated voice (bilingual: this is Quebec, after all) warning us that a fire alarm had been pulled, and that...

Fantasia 2010: GOLDEN SLUMBER Review

[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review which is being bumped up to the top of the page to coincide with its Fantasia screening today.]Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run...

NYAFF 2010: GOLDEN SLUMBER Review

Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run conspiracy thriller, mixing JFK and The Bourne Identity? Or a treatise on friendship lost, the repairing of bonds, and finding one's way "back home"? The film...