Drama

Tokyo Sonata film review

Kiyoshi Kurosawa – known for atmospheric thrillers like 2003’s Doppelganger, as well as satisfying and thought-provoking horrors like Pulse and Sakebi (Retribution) – brings his unique ability to disturb and captivate us at the same time, to the film Tokyo Sonata, the portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family, that slowly chips away at its ….

Hills Have Eyes director now eyeing Contractor

Frenchmen Alexandre Aja – who helmed the French language cult horror High Tension, as well as The Hills Have Eyes and Mirrors – is attached to direct the thriller The Contractor, according to Variety. Ian Jeffers (Death Sentence, upcoming Castlevania and Mandrake) is rewriting the script for the project, which Alexandra Milchan – daughter of ….

Jim Jarmusch brings order to the crime thriller with The Limits of Control

Director Jim Jarmusch (Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken Flowers) returns to the screen with a dreamy-looking crime thriller called The Limits of Control. The Jarmusch vision brings an artistic and rich sensibility, even to the trailer for the movie. The Limits of Control tells the story of a mysterious ….

Matt Damon to star in sci-fi love story written by Bourne Ultimatum scribe

Universal is looking to work with Matt Damon on his next film project, after the success of the ‘Bourne’ series of films – a franchise which has another sequel in the works at the studio. The distributor is finalizing a deal for Damon to star in The Adjustment Bureau, which is described as a contemporary ….

New trailer for Steve McQueen-directed Hunger

Steve McQueen directs Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Rory Mullen and Lalor Roddy, in the U.K. drama Hunger. Hunger revolves around the last six weeks of the life of Irish Republican activist Bobby Sands, who held a prison hunger strike, in an ….

Mission Impossible writer goes on new mission – two write and direct two novel adaptations for Columbia Pictures

According to Empire Online, David Koepp – who wrote MIssion Impossible and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull – is in talks with Columbia to direct two films for the studio. The first is titled Billionaire’s Vinegar, which is loosely based on a novel by Benjamin Wallace, called The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The ….

Ang Lee close to Life of Pi

Ang Lee is negotiating to direct an adaptation of Life of Pi, based on Yann Martel’s coming-of-age survival tale, according to Variety. Gil Netter is producing the project for Fox 2000 Films. The story revolves around a child who is the sole survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a ….

Holly DVD review

Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, Holly succeeds in its efforts to stir sufficient emotion to make the viewer ask questions about the inhuman, and sometime brutal world of sex-trafficking. The issue has become a hot topic in the past few ….

The Boondock Saints Blu-ray review

The Boondock Saints follows religious Irish brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus – played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus – who grab Boston by the balls as vigilantes out to eliminate evildoers. It all starts after they kill a Russian mobster in self-defense, and decide that they have found their calling from God – ….

Pretty Woman Blu-ray review

Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the romance comedy classic Pretty Woman on Blu-ray disc for the first time on February 10, 2009. The feel-good modern spin on the Cinderella tale stars Academy Award winner Julia Roberts as Vivian – a spirited, streetwise prostitute, who has a chance meeting with a a dapper, no-nonsense socialite billionaire ….

Red-band trailer and new images from The Mutant Chronicles

Magnolia Pictures has released new images, along with a red-band version of the film trailer for Simon Hunter’s The Mutant Chronicles. Have Faith… The Mutant Chronicles is set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control the planet as they battle over the planet’s ….

More details on the Dollhouse New York Comic Con sneak peak

Joss Whedon and Tahmoh Penikett will guide fans through a sneak peek of the first act of the highly anticipated premiere episode of Dollhouse, which launches on Friday, February 13th on FOX. Dollhouse stars Eliza Dushku, Tahmoh Penikett, Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman, Enver Gjokaj, Harry Lennix and Olivia Williams. Mini posters from the show will ….