Big Screen Entertainment gets new vampire film

Big Screen Entertainment has acquired world rights to a new French vampire film called Sodium Babies, co-directed by brothers Benoit and Julien Decaillon. According to Big Screen CEO Kimberley Kates, the company screened Sodium Babies at this year’s Cannes Film Market. Kates says “It stood out among the numerous titles we previewed. The picture has ….

Tom Cruise nabs rights to ‘Monster’ serial killer book

Variety reports that Tom Cruise and United Artists have grabbed the rights to the serial killer thriller The Monster of Florence, with Cruise attached to produce and possibly to star. This according to Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller. The author, along with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, told an Italian periodical that they have contracted ….

Tale 52 (Istoria 52) trailer

The noir thriller Tale 52 follows Iasonas, a timid young man who meets his future girlfriend Penelope at a dinner party, only to find she’s gone missing when he wakes up one random morning. Unable to understand what has happened, he falls into a world of anguish, confusion and delusional behavior. The Greek fantasy, which ….

Beowulf and Grendel

Year: 2005 A 9th Century Anglo-Saxon poem brought to the big screen in 2006. In today’s MTV-dosed world, the subject matter might seem irrelevant. Which is really sad since friendship, loyalty and revenge are struggles we all face everyday. Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel is probably more relevant today than ever, and proves itself organically, ….

The Bourne Identity film review

Last year, Christopher Nolan took memory loss to a new level with his masterful thriller Memento, in which the hero tattoos notes on his body to help him cope with his condition. This year, the amnesiac champion of The Bourne Identity uses brains and brawn as a means of sorting out his memory loss. Doug ….

The Bourne Supremacy film review

Attention all adventure-starved, action-crazed moviegoers: kennel the cat, wreck the robot, and step on that spider. This summer’s best action hero is not Catwoman, Spider-Man, or a CGI robot – it’s just a dude named Jason Bourne! Matt Damon is back to reprise his role from the widely popular The Bourne Identity as Bourne – ….

The Candidate film review

"Politics is bullshit." Such sentiment, spoken early in the film, sums up The Candidate’s position on politics, not to mention my own. Robert Redford plays the title role, a fresh-faced kid and son of a former governer goaded by a group of campaign strategists (namely Peter Boyle) into running against an "unbeatable" Republican nominee for ….

Dawn of the Dead film review

When there’s no room in Hell, the dead walk to the mall. That was the message of horror master George Romero’s 1978 anti-consumerism flick Dawn of the Dead. This 2004 remake by first-time director Zack Snyder takes away a lot of the social message, and fills it instead with plenty of head-blasting zombie-killing mayhem and ….