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Review: BULL, Revenge From Across the Pond
Revenge movies can come in two flavors: a balls-out, action-filled romp, or a low-key slow-burn with quick flashes of violence. Bull, from director Paul Andrew Williams, is closer to the latter, a British take on a formula that is miles...
HYENA: Watch The Slick And Heavy Hitting Trailer For This UK Crime Thriller
By all indications from the previous clip we aired in the Fall and this new trailer for Gerard Johnson's Hyena, we are up for some heavy crime thriller action coming out of the UK. Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything...
Watch The Opening Scene From Gritty UK Cop Thriller HYENA
You like your cop thrillers boiled harder than hard? Then if advance word is to be believed, Gerard Johnson's Hyena is one for you. Boasting a stellar cast of quality character actors - Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, This Is England),...
New Trailer For Nacho Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS Thrills And Disturbs
Nacho Vigalondo's ingenious and manic third feature Open Windows has been making the festival rounds this season, and is due for release in the US (October 2 on VOD, November 7 theatrically) and the UK on October 17. The first...
OPEN WINDOWS: Black Leather, New Poster For Nacho Vigalondo Thriller
I had the opportunity to see Nacho Vigalondo's third feature Open Windows at the European Film Market in Berlin earlier this month. And while I can't tell you any details, I can say that it was pretty incredible: intelligent, innovative, brilliantly...
Ben Wheatley Talks A FIELD IN ENGLAND, Destiny, And His Characters
I first became aware of Ben Wheatley when I was assigned to write an essay on his film Down Terrace (2009) for Magill's Cinema Annual. What struck me while watching it was how carefully balanced and powerful it was and...
ScreenAnarchy's KILL LIST Review Roundup
Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace was a dark, weird, funky, concoction with some of the blackest comedy (and least penetrable accents) I'd seen and heard in recent years. So when Mr. Wheatley's followup film, Kill List was scheduled for its World...
Mondo Gets On The KILL LIST
With Ben Wheatley's deeply disturbing Kill List beginning its limited theatrical release in the US this week - it is already available on all of the big VOD platforms across the country - artist Iron Jaiden has created a custom,...
US Trailer For Ben Wheatley's KILL LIST
Unquestionably one of the best films of 2011, US audiences have had a long wait for Ben Wheatley's Kill List. The wait is a bit ironic given that the film premiered on US shores at the SXSW festival but it's...
TIFF 2011: KILL LIST Review
[With Ben Wheatley's Kill List about to arrive in Toronto we revisit our earlier review.] British director Ben Wheatley follows up the incredible critical success of his 2009 debut DOWN TERRACE with another peek behind the net curtains of suburban...
ETRANGE 2011: KILL LIST review
(And with Ben Wheatley's Kill List just having played at the 17th L'Estrange Film Festival in Paris, let me weigh in with a dissenting opinion.)Watching Ben Wheatley's disappointing sophomore feature Kill List feels like climbing a house someone stopped building...
FRIGHTFEST 2011: KILL LIST Review
British director Ben Wheatley follows up the incredible critical success of his 2009 debut DOWN TERRACE with another peek behind the net curtains of suburban British crime in his "difficult second feature", KILL LIST. As with his previous film, things...
FRIGHTFEST 2011: KILL LIST Review
I'm torn by Kill List. Ben Wheatley's second feature, following the much-lauded Down Terrace, is equal parts impressive and frustrating. With a divisive piece of narrative elusiveness, the third act will either leave you intrigued or irritated depending on how...
"They're Bad People. They Should Suffer." Full KILL LIST Trailer.
UK distributors Optimum releasing have been teasing Ben Wheatley's Kill List for the past week now and today is the day when the world gets a look at the first full trailer. A riveting horror picture unlike anything seen on...
Exclusive Second Teaser For Ben Wheatley's KILL LIST
The full trailer for Ben Wheatley's Kill List arrives tomorrow morning at 10am UK time at Total Film but to whet the appetite in the mean time ScreenAnarchy has an exclusive new teaser for the film today. As with the...
Eerie First Teaser For Ben Wheatley's KILL LIST
It seems fair to say that the 2011 edition of the SXSW Film Festival was dominated by a pair of genre offerings from the UK. There was Joe Cornish's Attack The Block, a fabulously fun scifi-action-horror hybrid. And then there...
SXSW 2011: IFC Midnight Picks Up KILL LIST
Kill List had its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday night at midnight, and less than 48 hours later, IFC Midnight announced its acquisition of North American rights to the film. Directed by Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace), the story picks...
SXSW 2011: KILL LIST Review
It's the aftershock that kills you. Emotional tremors have clearly been rocking the lives of Jay (Neil Maskell) and Shel (MyAnna Buring) for some time, probably years before the beginning of Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley. Their marriage is fraying...
SXSW 2011: Exclusive KILL LIST Image Goes WICKER MAN On Your Ass
Well, now. This is interesting.Ben Wheatley's Kill List, soon to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, has thus far been pitched as the story of a pair of hitmen with very little else being shared. But clearly there is something...
EFM 2011: First Image From Ben Wheatley's KILL LIST
Ben Wheatley won a stack of awards with his debut feature Down Terrace over the past year or so and now he's back to up the ante a bit with his sophomore feature Kill List. Freshly announced to premiere at...
