Drama

The Kite Runner Blu-ray review

Marc Forster’s visceral adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller The Kite Runner, succeeds at tracing massive political and social changes in the country of Afghanistan, while remaining tightly focused on a group of people whose lives are forever altered by the tumultuous changes. The film follows the life of Amir, a spoiled young Afghani from a ….

Exclusive clip from Warehouse 13

Sci Fi posted this exclusive clip from Sci-Fi Channel’s upcoming series Warehouse 13. Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek and CCH Pounder star in the one-hour dramedy, which follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 – a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota, that houses every strange artifact, ….

Oscar winners Sean Penn and Javier Bardem go after drug Cartel

Oscar winner Sean Penn is in negotiations to star in a drama for Universal Pictures and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment called Cartel, which Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cité Soleil) is attached to direct, according to Variety. Latino Review also reported last week that Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) is also in ….

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Blu-ray and DVD on May 5th 2009

A thrilling adventure and captivating story of one man’s unusual and enchanted life, director David Fincher’s Academy Award-winning film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button debuts as a two-disc DVD and two-disc Blu-ray on May 5, 2009 from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film was called “a monumental achievement” that “must be experienced” (Rex Reed, New ….

Win a full-size signed movie poster from Buck Howard – The Great Buck Howard!

You can toss my salad when you get back to the hotel. – John Malkovich to Colin Hanks in ‘Buck Howard’ This Friday, March 20th, Magnolia Pictures will release the comedy The Great Buck Howard in theaters. To celebrate the release, FilmFetish is getting a full-size movie poster, signed by Colin Hanks and writer/director Sean ….

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 ….