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Home invasion horror The Collector gets theatrical release date

Liddell Entertainment has nabbed U.S. release rights to Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton’s home invasion horror-thriller The Collector, it was announced today by Mickey Liddell of Liddell Entertainment. Directed by Dunstan, from an original script by Dunstan and Melton, The Collector is set for release on July 31st, 2009. The project, produced by Fortress Features’ ….

Leonardo DiCaprio to headline online poker film written by Rounders scribes

Paramount has nabbed rights to a pitch from writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien that takes place in the world of Costa Rica-based online casino gambling, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the film, and produce under his Appian Way banner, alongside Jennifer Davisson Killoran. The project is in ….

Win one of two copies of the Melissa George kidnap thriller The Betrayed on DVD

On June 30th, MGM Home Entertainment will release The Betrayed on DVD. Golden Globe nominee Melissa George (In Treatment, Alias) stars as Jamie Taylor, a young woman who regains consciousness after a bad accident and finds herself held captive. To celebrate the release of this “Powerfully intense kidnapping drama”, FilmFetish is giving away two copies ….

Asian grindhouse, action, gangster, revenge…and Ip Man, on display at upcoming New York Asian Film Fest

The New York Asian Film Festival returns with some 50 brand-new pop masterpieces from all over Asia. The event takes place from Friday, June 19 through Thursday, July 2, 2009, at The IFC Center, located at 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street, New York City, New York. Below is the full schedule for the ….

Ole Bornedal’s Just Another Love Story DVD review

Danish director Ole Bornedal – who directed the brilliant thriller Nightwatch, and is now attached to adapt Dean Koontz’s book The Husband for the screen – directed Just Another Love Story in 2007. It was recently picked up for U.S. home video distribution by Koch Lorber, after getting rave reviews on the festival circuit. The ….

Here’s a look at that Sherlock Holmes trailer in HD

Here’s that great trailer for Sherlock Holmes, in case you haven’t watched it yet.

Norman Jewison, Robert Vaughn, Candice Bergen, Peter Yates and more to appear at Steve McQueen classic film screenings at Lincoln Center

For one week only, now through May 26th, twelve of Steve McQueen’s most thrilling crime thrillers and adventure yarns, will be screening at

Dexter: The Second Season Blu-ray review

Dexter: The Second Season made its way to Blu-ray Disc on May 5th, from Showtime Networks, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. Based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is an incredibly addictive crime drama that stands out as utterly original, darkly funny, and completely engrossing. Season two of the ….

Jason Statham gets Charles Bronson’s role in The Mechanic remake

I’ve been watching this project for years. As regular readers of the site know, I’m a huge fan of 1970’s action films, so projects like Taking of Pelham 123 and The Mechanic have been on my radar since studios decided to capitalize on them years ago. IMDB has had The Mechanic remake listed as being ….

Check out this Kick-Ass 11 year old female assassin

Empire has two new images from Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming “indie” teen super-hero movie Kick-Ass, and the magazine has posted one of them on their website. It features actress Chloe Moretz as Mindy aka Hit Girl, a young assassin who’s been trained by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) since the age of four. Kick-Ass follows ….

First seven minutes of long-awaited Brothers Bloom online…legally

The first seven minutes of director Rian Johnson’s follow-up to the noir thriller Brick – The Brothers Bloom – is up on Hulu. The Brothers Bloom, which hits theaters on May 29th, is a story of a pair of con men who try to swindle a millionairess (played by Rachel Weisz) out of her cash. ….

Sin City sequel rights going up for bid?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, sequel rights to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City, are being shopped around Hollywood, meaning Dimension Films may have lost screen rights to the graphic novel series. According to reports, The Weinstein Company and Dimension maintain that they hold the rights to any sequels to the film, but producers ….

Trailer for Kontroll director Nimrod Antal’s crime thriller Armored

Release Date: September 18th, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire Blu-ray review

Slumdog Millionaire is loosely based on the fictional novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, which tracks the life of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who never received a formal education. After losing his mother to fanatical religious violence, Jamal (played as a teen by Dev Patel) and his ….

To Catch A Thief Centennial Collection DVD review

To Catch a Thief is now available in a beautiful new two-disc set, including an eight-page collectible booklet and additional all-new bonus material. The new release is part of Paramount’s ongoing Centennial Collection, which launched in 2008, and features digitally mastered compilations of some of the studio’s most prized films from it’s nearly 100 year ….