Jul 01
Green Lantern: First Flight
Green Lantern: First Flight, the fifth in the feature-length animated DVD series of DC Universe animated movies, will have its world premiere in Ballroom 20 at Comic-Con in San Diego at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009, according to Sci-Fi Wire. Fans attending the Con will have the opportunity to see……. »
posted by Rene
| tags: animated films, animation, California events, Christopher Meloni, comic based, DC Comics, fan conventions, film screenings, Green Lantern, Green Lantern: First Flight, John Larroquette, Kurtwood Smith, Lauren Montgomery, Michael Madsen, San Diego Comic-Con 2009, San Diego events, Tricia Helfer, Victor Garber, Wonder Woman
Jun 26
Mia Wasikowska – Hilary Swank – Richard Gere in Amelia
Hilary Swank stars as the title character of Amelia, a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, while attempting to make a flight around the world.
Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Virginia Madsen, Christopher……. »
posted by Rene
| tags: Amelia, Amelia Earhart, biographies, Christopher Eccleston, drama, Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank, Mia Wasikowska, Mira Nair, Richard Gere, The Namesake, Vanity Fair, Virginia Madsen
Jun 26
Ethan Hawke in Daybreakers
Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman and Vince Colosimo, and is directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig, better known as the Spierig brothers, who directed the Aussie zombie film Undead, which wasn’t well received critically, but became a cult ‘grindhouse’ hit.
posted by Rene
| tags: Daybreakers, Ethan Hawke, grindhouse films, horror films, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, the Spierig brothers, thrillers, Undead, vampire films, Vince Colosimo, Willem Dafoe
Jun 26
Dan Hedaya and M. Emmet Walsh in Blood Simple
Back in February, Shockya reported that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was attached to produce a remake of the martial arts film House of Flying Daggers. Now comes a report from Empire, that Zhang Yimou – director of that seminal kung fu epic as well as Jet Li’s……. »
posted by Rene
| tags: action films, Amazing Tales: Three Guns, Asian film, Blood Simple, comedy films, crime thrillers, cult classics, Dan Hedaya, foreign films, Frances McDormand, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Jet Li, John Getz, John Wayne, M. Emmet Walsh, Ni Dahong, Sam Raimi, San Qiang Pi An Jing Qi, Seven Swords, Sun Hong Lei, suspense thrillers, The Coen Brothers, The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots, thrillers, True Grit, Wang Xiaohua, Xiao Shenyang, Zhang Yimou
Jun 25
A bloody scene from The House of the Devil
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired U.S. release rights to Ti West’s critically acclaimed horror film The House of the Devil. A homage to 1980s horror masterpieces, the film premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and is expected to……. »
posted by Rene
| tags: cult classics, Greta Gerwig, horror films, House of the Devil, indie films, Jocelin Donahue, Mary Woronov, thrillers, Ti West, Tom Noonan
Jun 25
Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate
IFC has put together the ultimate list of “The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time,” with a list that ranges from The Shining to Pulp Fiction.
posted by Rene
| tags: best movie trailers, Citizen Kane, classic cinema, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Little Children, pulp fiction, South Park, The Big Sleep, The Manchurian Candidate, The Shining
Jun 25
James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in The Box
Cameron Diaz stars in the Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)-directed sci-fi thriller The Box, based on Richard Matheson’s (writer of I Am Legend and The Shrinking Man) short story Button, Button about a suburban couple with a young child, who receive a simple wooden box as a gift from……. »
posted by Rene
| tags: Button Button, Cameron Diaz, Donnie Darko, Frank Langella, Gillian Jacobs, horror films, I Am Legend, James Marsden, James Rebhorn, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, sci-fi films, The Box, The Shrinking Man, thrillers
Jun 25
The Last Airbender
This teaser for The Last Airbender really looks great, but M. Night Shyamalan has been letting me down with his last few movies. Great, high concept vehicles that don’t provide the punch. I’m pulling for this one to be not only a hit, but a good film.
posted by Rene
| tags: Aasif Mandvi, action films, adventure films, Cliff Curtis, Dev Patel, fantasy films, Jackson Rathbone, Jessica Jade Andres, Keong Sim, M. Night Shyamalan, martial arts films, Nicola Peltz, Noah Ringer, Shaun Toub, The Last Airbender
Jun 23
Fabrice Luchini and Louise Bourgoin in The Girl From Monaco
French comedic-crime-dramas can be quite shocking. One minute, you can have two people laughing buoyantly at someone’s jokes, and the next minute, someone falls out of the trunk of a car, bloodied with no I.D. The great thriller With A Friend Like Harry had that sorta……. »
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| tags: Anne Fontaine, comedy films, drama, Fabrice Luchini, foreign films, Gilles Cohen, How I Killed My Father, Jeanne Balibar, La fille de Monaco, Louise Bourgoin, movie posters, Roschdy Zem, Stephane Audran, The Girl From Monaco
Jun 23
Scene from the original Lake Mungo
David Leslie Johnson, who wrote the script for the Orphan, which hits theaters on July 24th, has been tapped to pen a remake of the Australian horror suspense film Lake Mungo for Paramount Vantage, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Vantage grabbed remake rights to the film in November, when it premiered……. »
posted by Rene
| tags: David Leslie Johnson, David Rapsey, Doug Davison, Gary Hamilton, Georgie Nevile, horror films, Joel Anderson, Lake Mungo, Orphan, remakes, Roy Lee, suspense films, The Departed, The Ring, The Rotting Woman, thrillers
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