Kill Bill on Blu-ray this week
From the Academy Award winning writer of Pulp Fiction (Best Original Screenplay, 1994), Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown, comes Quentin Tarantino’s action-packed Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 to Blu-ray, on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 from Miramax. This also marks the first time this wild cinematic rollercoaster ride of furious action, martial arts mayhem and ….
Benefit screening of Steven Soderbergh classic satire Schizopolis coming with director attending
Steven Soderbergh, acclaimed director behind Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, and Sex, Lies and Videotape, will host a rare screening of his mind-bending satire Schizopolis, at the IFC Center in the West Village, New York City. The screening will be part of a special benefit event celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Slamdance Film Festival (where Schizopolis ….
The Crash TV series widget
The Crash TV series premieres exclusively on Starz, on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper, the series looks at the way different lives intersect and collide in the melting pot of LA, and will be quite different from the movie portrayal. From the ….
New extended trailer for Van Damme’s JCVD
Jean-Claude Van Damme parodies himself, and action filmmaking in the comic crime thriller JCVD. There have been some teaser trailers out on the web for a while, but this is the first trailer that really gives some of the meat of the story, and shows what this action star whose trying to hold onto his ….
French horror Martyrs film trailer
Martyrs certainly seems to be in the tradition of Hostel, and has that stylish and twisted sense of relationships, as in Alexandre Aja’s French horror High Tension. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, in May, and has had screenings at various European fests, and has just been released in France. Martyrs revolves around ….
Spanish horror Sexykiller trailer
From Spain, comes the Miguel Martí (Slam, Fin de curso)-directed horror/comedy Sexykiller, which follows Bárbara (Macarena Gómez), as she slices and dices her way through the student body of a medical school. The sexy, fashion-obsessed student has an insatiable hunger for blood, and killing becomes her hobby after classes. Sexykiller (which was formerly titled Barbykiller) ….
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 ….
The Pool official website
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a “room boy” working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the ….
New photos, poster and scenes from Righteous Kill
Righteous Kill hits theaters on September 12th, just two from now. I have new pics from the film below, as well as three new clips, that were just uploaded to the net. Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Al Pacino play a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of ….
The Lucky Ones film details
When three very different U.S. soldiers find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America, they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of them has to real family. A humorous and timely drama about coming home, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Wedding Crashers), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, ….
Noir martial arts film Bunraku film details
Bunraku is a noir martial arts live-action/animation hybrid film, that revolves around a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett) and an ardent young Japanese warrior Yoshi (Gackt), who both arrive in a town that is terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and guided by the wisdom of The Bartender (Woody ….
New photos from Appaloosa
I’ve posted a batch of new photos from Warner Bros. next western film, called Appaloosa, in the gallery. Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises), four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Pollock), Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger (Cold Mountain) and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) star in the Western Appaloosa, adapted from the Robert ….
R-rated trailer shows fate of boasting inmate in Death Race
You know that trailer for Death Race that ends with a dude boasting “You can burn me, you can shoot me, but you can’t kill me”? Well, the r-rated trailer for the movie shows you just what happens when you boast…And it’s funny as hell. The actor’s name is Robert LaSardo, and his familiar face ….
MMA fighter and indie film fight choreographer gets Olympic shot
The mixed martial arts sport of San Shou, which combines American Boxing, Chinese Kickboxing, and Mongolian Wrestling, has struggled for years to gain mainstream acceptance despite a large international following and the long-time support of MMA fighting icons such as Cung Le. Now, the sport has been given its greatest opportunity for exposure yet, the ….
Hi-def versions of Wong Kar Wai film Ashes of Time Redux
Romance noir genius Wong Kar Wai goes back to his roots with Ashes of Time Redux, which follows a broken-hearted hit man who moves to the desert and finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. The auteur is re-editing and re-shaping his only martial arts film into the form he says was his ….