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THE SONATA Trailer Strings Together Ominous Notes

Don't shrink back from this modern gothic horror flick simply because it features ... a violin! Actually, I don't know anyone who would resist The Sonata, a lovely, haunting composition of a film, simply because it features stringed instruments. Freya...

Popcorn Frights 2019 Review: THE SONATA Soars Into Modern Gothic Suspense

Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian and Rutger Hauer star; Andrew Desmond directed.

THE SONATA: Watch The Striking Teaser For Andrew Desmond's Chilling Debut

Andrew Desmond is a director we've been keeping a close eye on in these pages for some time now. His short film work has been striking and we were pleased to share the first images from his debut feature, The...

Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY 1 & 2 Headline Action-Packed Slate from Eureka Entertainment

Hong Kong action classics Police Story and Police Story 2 are coming to Blu-ray in gorgeous new 4K restorations, as part of a loaded slate of upcoming releases from Eureka! Entertainment.   It’s been a little while since we checked...

Trieste Science+Fiction Festival to Open with MORGAN, Rutger Hauer to Receive Award

The northeast corner of Italy will be a hotbed of science fiction and fantastic cinema as the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival takes over Trieste, November 1st to 6th. Morgan, Luke Scott's (son of Ridley) feature film debut about science once again...

VIY 2 Heads To China, Recruits Jackie Chan

The fact that Oleg Stepchenko's Russian ghost story Viy exists at all is something of a minor miracle. Roughly a decade from the release of the first teasers to the film actually reaching completion it was the near definition of...

Rutger Hauer Is Making CLONES

Rutger Hauer wants to copy your brain. And there's a fighting chance it's not going to go particularly well. At least that's what I took away from the trailer for Rafael Bolliger's handsome scifi short Clones. But it's Rutger, right?...

Review: Dario Argento's DRACULA 3D Is Predictably Bad, Until...

Early warning: This review will eventually spoil what was -- for me -- the only great minute of Dario Argento's Dracula 3D. It is not a plot spoiler per say, and it was also spoiled by the sales reel that...

Review: IL FUTURO Goes Far Beyond Exploitation

There's a way to be grossly exploitative and then there's The Future, an Italian film that has a heaping amount of female nudity and yet never feels grotesque. That it is one actresses' frame on display over and over helps...

Opening In Chile: Rutger Hauer And Manuela Martelli In THE FUTURE

Attention people in Chile, Chileans or tourists visiting, there's a new movie opening today (June 6) and it's one of the most long-awaited Chilean productions of all year (besides the two films starring Michael Cera and directed by Sebastiàn Silva)....

Coming Soon In Chile And Argentina: CARNE DE PERRO, IL FUTURO, SAMURAI, HERMANOS DE SANGRE

If May was a good month for Latin America cinema, June has also its highlights.Last week Chilean cinemas saw the premiere of Carne De Perro (Dog Flesh) from Fernando Guzzoni, winner of the Kutxa-New Directors Award of the San Sebastian...

Dallas IFF Review: THE FUTURE Elevates Beyond Exploitation Into Something Nearly Profound

There's a way to be grossly exploitative and then there's The Future, an Italian film that has a heaping amount of female nudity and yet never feels grotesque. That it is one actresses' frame on display over and over...

Full Trailer For THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING, With Rutger Hauer

Alfred (Freddy) Heineken is the man widely recognized for taking his family's brewery and transforming it into the international empire it is today. But for three weeks in 1983, Heineken was famous for an entirely different reason. Because in early...

Rutger Hauer Plays The Lead In THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING

Alfred (Freddy) Heineken is the man widely recognized for taking his family's brewery and transforming it into the international empire it is today. But for three weeks in 1983, Heineken was famous for an entirely different reason. Because in early...