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PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING Teaser Assembles the Jaegers
Legendary has released a short teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 monsters vs. Kaiju epic, Pacific Rim. More of an opportunity to show off some new Jaeger designs and pimp out the film's first...
Hey, America! Win An iTunes Download Of The Zellner Brother's KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER!
The Zellner Brothers won a whole lot of love with their most recent feature film, the Sundance selected Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter. And with the film due to hit VOD and Digital HD on June 19th and Blu-Ray on June...
The Many Faces Of Rinko Kikuchi
This week sees the premiere of Kumiko - The Treasure Hunter, the film based on the bizarre tale of a Japanese woman who thought the bag of money from the Coen Brothers' Fargo was real, and who went looking for...
Berlinale 2015 Review: NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT: A Beautiful But Flawed Epic
Spanish auteur Isabel Coixet (Elegy, My Life Without Me) opened Berlinale with her latest and most ambitious film to date, Nobody Wants the Night. Based on real life persons (though it was unclear whether the events actually occurred), it is...
KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER: Watch The Riveting Teaser For The Sundance Oddity
An odd movie about an odd story, the first proper teaser is freshly arrived for the Zellner Bros Kumiko The Treasure Hunter and it's one fabulous bit of work. Kikichi Rinko takes the lead role, playing a woman who -...
Kaiju Smash! Robo Bash! Here's The Trailer For Del Toro's PACIFIC RIM
On our radar for years now, Guillermo's del Toro's first foray into truly big, big, BIG budget filmmaking is nearly upon us. So after many a teasing image and viral video, we now have a solid, if very standard trailer-cut...
Review: NORWEGIAN WOOD (Anh Hung Tran)
I'm not really the biggest Anh Hung Tran fan, but I do follow his work from a distance. While not truly spectacular, I appreciated the soft-natured atmosphere of Mua He Chieu Thang Dung, Xich Lo on the other hand was...
Review: NORWEGIAN WOOD Is Beautiful But Not Flawless
My initial impressions of Norwegian Wood when viewed for the first time were that its pacing was too slow, the characters talked rather a lot about sex and little else, and there were some big gaps in the narrative. I...
NORWEGIAN WOOD Review
[With Tran Anh Hung's film opening in New York on January 6, we revisit this earlier review.]Although a fan of the writings of Haruki Murakami, I never really gelled with NORWEGIAN WOOD, arguably his most popular novel. Give me the...
Adapting Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD: Tran Anh Hung Interview
When I heard that Tran Anh Hung, the Vietnamese-born auteur of Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo and I Come with the Rain, was going to be adapting Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood back in 2008, I couldn't be happier. I honestly...
What Once Was Funky Is Now Warped: THE WARPED FOREST Trailer!
Rejoice my brothers and sisters of the cult of Funky Forest, a second contact has been made! While Katsuhito Ishii and Aniki are not in participating in this excursion into the wild blue yonder, we have the third member of...
HOLE IN THE SKY (Forgotten Gems) Review
The first few years of the new millennium formed the high days for modern Japanese dramas. Kumakiri's Hole In The Sky is one of the forgotten and often overlooked gems of that era. To be fair though, this doesn't surprise...
NORWEGIAN WOOD Review
Although a fan of the writings of Haruki Murakami, I never really gelled with NORWEGIAN WOOD, arguably his most popular novel. Give me the surrealist eccentricities of HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD or A WILD SHEEP...
Win an ASSAULT GIRLS DVD and Poster! [UPDATED]
[The contest is closing on Wednesday so get your entries in now!]Once again, ScreenAnarchy has teamed up with Well Go USA for a massive contest. Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls hits the streets on Region 1 DVD and Blu-Ray on October...
First Teaser For Tran Anh-Hung's NORWEGIAN WOOD!
Going in to this there can really only be one question. Has Vietnamese director Tran Anh-Hung done justice to the source material? Adapted from a novel by the great Haruki Murakami - the first of his major works to be...
Well Go USA picks up N.A. rights for Oshii's 'Assault Girls'
Good news everyone! Well Go USA has picked up the North American rights for Mamoru Oshii's sci-fi chicks killing worms movie Assault Girls. And they are wasting no time getting ready to dish out the goods this coming October with Japanese...
First Images Arrive From Tran Anh Hung's Adaptation of Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD!
When word of the upcoming adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood first came out my only response was "Perfect. Just perfect." While there is very much a aprt of me that would love to see someone tackle one of his...
A review of Mamoru Oshii's ASSAULT GIRLS
Babes! Guns! Monsters! When you look at what output of Mamoru Oshii actually has reached English-speaking territories the last few years, you'd be forgiven for thinking him to be only making dark, brooding films. Yet when you look at...
Mark Schilling talks 'Assault Girls' with Mamoru Oshii
Mark Schilling from the Japan Times talks with Assault Girls director Mamoru Oshii about his film. For example... Describing the genesis of "Assault Girls" in a recent interview with The Japan Times, Oshii denied having any master plan. Instead...
Japanese Poster Art And Detailed Synopsis For Mamoru Oshii's ASSAULT GIRLS
Can't get enough of attractive Asian women with great big guns doing battle with giant creatures? Well, here's a bit more from Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls, then. The production is favoring slightly tamer art than this for the US and...
