January 2005 Archives
| 01/31/2005 |
Twitch Interviews Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman has a resume to die for. As if he hadn't already cemented his place in geek-culture history as the writer of the classic Sandman graphic novels he has also built a loyal following of readers for his fantasy... (6 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
More New Kurosawa? What, Praytell, is Hamelin? It never rains but it pours ... it seems like just a few days ago we were posting those pictures for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's loft and now here comes news of ANOTHER new project from the Japanese master. This from Tommie,... (4 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
Ray Harryhausen Early Years Collection Review Before I commence with the review let me drop this little bit of advice: If you happen to live in the LA area plan on spending some time at Golden Apple Comics on Wednesday. Ray Harryhausen will be there signing... (1 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
BloodRayne Trailer Online And It's Every Bit As Bad As I Feared ... How does Uwe Boll keep making films? It's a mystery of the universe. Maybe it has something to do with karmic balance. To quote Nick at CHUD : "Of course, I'm biased. I've never seen a Uwe Boll film. I've... (7 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
Edgar Wright Adapting Scott Pilgrim? They're not citing a source for the news, so I have no way of commenting on its accuracy, but Comic Book Resources are reporting that Edgar Wright - he of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead fame - has signed... (1 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
Arsene Lupin DVD to be released in France on May 19 A quick note (courtesy of Ecranlarge) that Arsen Lupin is to be released this May 19. The film will be presented in two versions: a single disc and a double collectors set. Specs for the single disc are the same... (5 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
Some People Have More Money Than Sense ... Insanely Expensive Animated Adaptation of Tommy in the Works ... This pretty much speaks for itself: (01-30-2005) The Who's 'Tommy' to Become Most Expensive Animation THE WHO's celebrated rock-opera TOMMY is to become the most expensive animated movie of all time. GREASE producer ROBERT STIGWOOD plans to turn the 1975... (3 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
MPD Psycho. by Takashi Miike. Now Certified Uncut By BBFC And In Shops. Some new details trickled out yesterday that confirmed preview discs of the show had fallen into some peoples hands (not mine, so that label doesn't read this site!). Then Al_Sex_Gore, main man at SexGoreMutants posted info today that says all... (4 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
Oooh ... English Version of Analife in the Works. Whilst gushing about the goodness that is Analife yesterday I commented on how unusual it was to find a Japanese film website that included a fully translated version of the entire site, not to mention an English language trailer. Well,... (1 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
New Tideland Images! Dreams, the unofficial but so thorough it may as well be official Terry Gilliam fan site, has scored themselves a mitt full of images from Gilliam's Tideland. The new shots are a mix of film stills and behind the scenes... (0 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
Little Britain Do Comic Relief! *** UPDATE *** Glory! I've been champing impatiently waiting for season two of Little Britain to hit DVD but it looks as though I won't have to wait quite so long for new stuff from the twisted minds of DavidWalliams and Matt Lucas.... (3 Comments) |
| 01/31/2005 |
More Good Things From Japan: Zoo and Analife *UPDATE* So, I'm still making my way through that massive Eiga list of Japanese film links that I posted yesterday and, if today's big update over there is any indication, Stauffen is doing the same thing. They've found some good stuff... (10 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
In Praise of Green Wing Here's a bit of a viewing heads up to everyone with access to BBC America. Watch out for Green Wing. Apparently BBC America picked up rights to it a week or two back so it should be coming along shortly,... (3 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance Posters! There are four of 'em and they are beautiful ... click away for all four all big and purty. Poster One Poster Two Poster Three Poster Four Number two is definitely my favorite of the lot. Got a bit of... (7 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
Miss Out on That Big Infernal Affairs Box Set? You're Getting Another Chance ... Here's some happy news Logboy stumbled across in the KFC Cinema Forums ... If you missed out on that big eight disc Infernal Affairs box set that came out of Hong Kong late last year and you've been kicking yourself... (14 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
Brick Website Going ion to the Sundance Festival this year one of the big question marks was Brick. The film is a modern high school drama, whih is familiar enough territory. But where things get interesting is that it is also a... (7 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
MidnightEye Updated Today. Nice Stuff, Here's My Highlights. Great site, Midnighteye.com. Anyhow, some noteable stuff in relation to what has generally been obviously going on in Japanese cinema from most fans points of view, and some surprises to be found (as always). Firstly, their review of Izo by... (11 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
Danny Boyle's Millions: official site, release date and free screenings Saw the banner ad for this over at AICN, the official site for Danny Boyle's latest, Millions. Nick and I saw this at TIFF last September and we both had very good things to say about it. And is so... (1 Comments) |
| 01/30/2005 |
Production I.G. Prince Of Tennis : The First Game. No, Hear Me Out, Looks Good... Todd and everyone else at Twitch are probably sitting seeing this thinking "Prince Of F**king Tennis? Has He F**king Lost It?". Hmmm... Maybe, but the thing is the animation is by Production I.G and they don't get involved in many... (5 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Hmm. Bendy. With all the well deserved hype around Tony Jaa claiming the international martial arts star throne there's a pretty major risk of overlooking some significant talent a little closer to home ... I've had some readers prodding me to look... (6 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Poster Just realized that whilst linking to the League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse trailer I had neglected to include the poster. So there you have it. All big and pretty, even.... (0 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Hinokio (aka Inter Galactic Love) Trailer People have been buzzing about this film ever since the first images turned up online. If you're a mech-geek at all, there's an awful lot to like about that robot design ... unfortunately nobody's been able to see it move... (1 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
More J-Film Links Than You Can Shake A Stick At. Go ahead. Try it. Go get a stick and just you try. Your arm will get tired long before you run out of links to peruse. Trust me. I just tried getting through them all and bailed about a third... (4 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Unleashed poster, trailer, and images. MonkeyPeaches has been busy the past couple days. Yesterday they reported that Rogue Pictures released the Unleashed trailer on their web-site and it comes in glorious freaking awesome Quicktime! We've seen it hundreds of time and think about it when... (1 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Korean entertaiment industry rocked by ' Entertainers' X-file' This past week the S Korean entertainment industry had been rocked by a 113-page report in a Microsoft Power Point file, dubbed the "Entertainers' X-Files,". Created by Dongseo Research for Cheil Communications the file was a research document which would... (2 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Vogon poetry = bad. Vogon images = very good. The crazy bastards at CHUD.com have gotten their paws on some images of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy merchandise and we have what appears to be the first image of the Vogons. Huzzah! Along with a couple Vogons we also... (2 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
The Green Butchers. Great Film. Horrible Trailer. Anyone who has followed the Dogme movement will tell you that Anders Tomas Jensen is a genius. As the author of Open Hearts, The King is Alive and Mifune you could argue that Jensen is actually a more important figure... (1 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
New MirrorMask Trailer! It actually IS a new one this time, much longer, and no irritating Mr. Movie Voice. A healthy load of new footage ... click here for happiness ...... (5 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Zebraman. by Takashi Miike. VCD Out In Thailand. DVD To Follow? English Subtitles? I couldn't see any info on whether it has English subtitles or not, so anyone who knows Thaid VCD / DVD suppliers other than ethaicd.com should nose around and see. Having said that, it's the most hopeful sign of the... (12 Comments) |
| 01/29/2005 |
Ghost In The Shell : Innocence. DVD Replacement Scheme Announced Over Subtitles Issues. Finally, Dreamworks has launched a replacement program for those unhappy with the subtitles track on the 'Innocence' R1 USA DVD which including captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. If you are in the USA or Canada, go here.... (2 Comments) |
| 01/28/2005 |
'Do You Like Hitchock?' aka 'Ti Piace Hitchcock?'. by Dario Argento. First Pictures Appear. Hopefully many that know me from forums will be aware I like more than Japanese Cinema... I've been a fan of Dario Argento for about 15 years, and that was my initial aim when DVD came along : see all... (2 Comments) |
| 01/28/2005 |
Tom Yum Goong Footage! New Stuff From Tony Jaa and the Ong Bak Crew! Glory, hallelujah! The first glimpse of finished footage from Tom Yum Goong - the new film from the director and star of Ong Bak - has turned up online and we've got it! People over on the Tony Jaa forums... (6 Comments) |
| 01/28/2005 |
It's ALIVE! League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Teaser Online Now! No footage to speak of, but it still makes me giggle like a little girl ... the teaser for The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse has turned up online here. The correct answer, for those who don't know, is 'yes'. Thanks... (3 Comments) |
| 01/27/2005 |
Casshern. R3 HK Disc Announced. UK Cinema Date Also. First of all i spotted the UK cinema release date for Casshern : it's February 18th 2005. So, if you have already seen it, or if you've been unwilling to shell-out the cash to see if you like it (because... (12 Comments) |
| 01/27/2005 |
North American Kung Fu Hustle Trailer In Quicktime So, when are we going to get tired of talking about this film? Probably never. Just got a note from Sony pointing out that the North American trailer for Kung Fu Hustle is now available in Quicktime format here. I... (3 Comments) |
| 01/27/2005 |
Rinjin 13 Poster, Full Length Trailer, And Website Update A couple weeks back we posted a link to the website for Rinjin 13, a live adaptation of a violent Japanese manga. Well, Logboy just turned up that official poster you see to the left and a quick perusal turned... (4 Comments) |
| 01/27/2005 |
Narnia Cast Photo The good people over at Narnia Web recently posted a still shot from the film featuring the four children cast in the lead roles ... it disappeared from their site fairly promptly, but a regular reader passed it along to... (3 Comments) |
| 01/26/2005 |
Hitchhiker's Trailer to Hit In February? Okay, the information is fifth or sixth hand by now, but it appears solid ... word at the H2G2 fan site is that the full length trailer - with actual footage and all - for The Hitchhiker's Guide To The... (0 Comments) |
| 01/26/2005 |
L'Amant and Sodom No Ichi Trailers Online Here's a little something good courtesy of Stauffen's Japanese Film blog ... we linked to the website for Ryuichi Hiroki's L'Amant a little while back and Stauffen is now pointing the way to a fantastic trailer for the film. Hiroki... (5 Comments) |
| 01/26/2005 |
MirrorMask Review In The Hollywood Reporter The get some details wrong and strangely opt to treat the film more as a Henson product than a McKean / Gaiman collaboration, but The Hollywood Reporter has a hugely positive review of MirrorMask here. They stop just short of... (2 Comments) |
| 01/26/2005 |
Thumbsucker Review in Screendaily Okay ... here's a film that just leapt way up to the top of my 'to-watch-for' list ... music video director Mike Mills' feature debut just got a glowing review in Screendaily - seriously, they love it - and it... (1 Comments) |
| 01/26/2005 |
Ricky Gervais. More Details On "The Simpsons" Episode. Remember, Mr.Gervais has written an episode of The Simpsons? OK, now we know that the voice he will himself provide, is that of a character and not of himself (like other guest stars). Also revealed today is that the recording... (0 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
Time To Warm Up The Ol' Credit Card ... We're Goin' Shopping ... Okay ... the observant will note that I killed the previous post about Kung Fu Hustle being up for pre-order at CD WOW. Why? Because I'm a whore, that's why. YesAsia's just added all three versions of Steven Chow's latest... (8 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
I Still Loves Me Some Dick. More Scanner Darkly Stills ... The Austin Chronicle has paid a visit to the animation studio hard at work on Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly and they've got the pictures to prove it. They've also got word that the production needs more animators, so if... (1 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
Dustin Hoffman To Star For Zhang Yimou? Okay, I have nothing to base this opinion on but a gut feeling, but it says here that this one is a case of wishful thinking and / or a game of Broken Telephone on the original reporter's part, buuuuuut... (0 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
Japanese Machinist Site Online Yeah, we were fairly mixed on the film around here - Canfield loves it, I'm in the middle ground, Mack and Nick are less forgiving - but Logboy just came across the Japanese website for The Machinist and it's sweeeeeet.... (5 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
The Jacket Reviews in Screendaily and The Hollywood Reporter Screendaily and The Hollywood Reporter have both just run a reviews of Adrien Brody starring head trip The Jacket ... the Screendaily review is a bit mixed but there's more than enough in there to convince me that this is... (0 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
Early Harryhausen Shorts to Hit DVD! Well, golly. Here's something major for fans of Ray Harryhausen and animation in general. Sparkhill DVD will be releasing a 2 DVD set of Harryhausen's early works on February first and, juding from the spec sheet, this thing is going... (2 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
A Whole Load Of Asian Films Get R1 DVD Dates. So some of these are kind of obvious, some are new titles announced for American release, and some i know nothing about. Please let us me know about the ones i put a star next to. Otherwise, I am assuming... (12 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
25th Annual Razzie Award Nominees announced Award season in is full swing and it's only fair that when you celebrate the very best [read most popular] in cinema that you also celebrate the very worst as well. Thank god for the Razzies. Starting with an Oscar... (0 Comments) |
| 01/25/2005 |
"Pas sur la bouche"/ Not on the Lips Well, it seems like "Pas sur la bouche"/ Not on the Lips will make it to R1 after all. After being released in Europe some time ago this well made musical will receive its R1 debut on March 22. Should... (0 Comments) |
| 01/24/2005 |
Fun Bar Karaoke Review It wasn’t until I read the liner notes for the Palm Pictures release of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s 6ixtynin9 that I realized that the man had four films to his credit rather than three. I had been under the impression that 6ixtynin9... (6 Comments) |
| 01/24/2005 |
More Sympathy For Lady Vengeance Stills! So, I'm sitting here watching my newly arrived copy of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Fun Bar Karaoke - very good film, very bad VCD - and, for some reason, decided to check my mail while grabbing snacks after disc one ... good... (1 Comments) |
| 01/24/2005 |
Trailer for Gaiman's MirrorMask online! As Todd prepares his interview with the mighty Neil Gaiman we should make it known that the trailer for the movie MirrorMask is now online through the official site. And while I may not be the best person to give... (13 Comments) |
| 01/24/2005 |
Howls Moving Castle. by Hayao Miyazaki. No Longer No.1 In Japan. A couple of short pieces relating to "Howls Moving Castle". Firstly, various people are now reporting that "Oceans 12" has managed to finally knock the latest Ghibli film from its' No.1 spot in Japan. It opened on November 21st 2004... (1 Comments) |
| 01/23/2005 |
After the Apocalypse Review The poster art for Yasuaki Nakajima’s After the Apocalypse happily invites comparisons to David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Whoa, there! That’s dangerous ground to be treading … you go putting a name like Lynch on your PR material and people will indeed... (6 Comments) |
| 01/23/2005 |
Film Comment Screening Series Man, how sweet is this ... if you happen to be in New York City in February I hope you have a lot of time available to watch movies ... Henrik from KitanoTakeshi.com just sent me the link to the... (7 Comments) |
| 01/23/2005 |
House of Flying Daggers Soundtrack Contest Winners! Well, the House of Flying Daggers soundtrack CD giveaway has wrapped up. Thanks to all who entered. To be considered for this one you had to correctly identify the actor who did NOT appear in House of Flying Daggers but... (5 Comments) |
| 01/23/2005 |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Doppelganger Review Though he is not yet well known in the western world Japanese genre-auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa looms large in the Japanese industry. Getting his start with low budget straight to video fare Kurosawa quickly built a name for himself with his... (6 Comments) |
| 01/22/2005 |
9 Souls Review Director Toshiaki Toyoda, best known for his violent high school drama Blue SPring, is a master of the bait and switch. He has an uncanny ability to lull you into believing you're going one way while all the while he's... (3 Comments) |
| 01/22/2005 |
Wha? Frank Black Starring in Next David Fincher Film? Okay, I filed away the recent news that David Fincher was in negotiations to helm a film about the Zodiac killer with a grain of salt. I love the guy, but he hasn't had a whole lot of success getting... (4 Comments) |
| 01/22/2005 |
Tony Takitani News I posted about this Haruki Murakami adaptation a couple days back and, lo! A reader just dropped a note pointing out the trailer over at Apple Japan and Indiewire is reporting that the film is the first to land distribution... (11 Comments) |
| 01/22/2005 |
THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON FILM REVIEW The Assassination of Richard Nixon carries the perfect tagline The Mad Story of A True Man. Based on real life it finds the heart and soul of a historical event through a devastating character study of it's prime participant Sam... (3 Comments) |
| 01/22/2005 |
SIDESHOW TOY PLANET OF THE APES 12” FIGURES REVIEW Get yer hands on Sideshow Toys you @#$%& dirty collectors?! Any Planet of the Apes fans left out there after Tim Burton's ahem...interesting 2001 re-envisioning?! There must be if the response to Sideshow's 12' figure line is any indication. I... (0 Comments) |
| 01/22/2005 |
Ricky Gervais. 'Extras'. Introducing : Andy Millman. Who is Andy Millman? Well, that's the name of the character Ricky Gervais will be playing in his new series "Extras" - that's hot off the press, as this is the first mention of that you will probably have been... (11 Comments) |
| 01/21/2005 |
Corpse Bride Trailer Online! Well, I gotta say that this is one trailer that snuck up on me ... I wasn't expecting to see anything from this film for a good while yet, but I'm glad I did. Things are looking sweeeeet ... click... (20 Comments) |
| 01/21/2005 |
Friggin' Sweet. Jared Hess Directs The Postal Service. Yep. This is the second music video post of the last week. Sue me. This one is from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, for the new single by The Postal Service, who are apparently finally working on a new record.... (2 Comments) |
| 01/21/2005 |
Jigoku. by Teruo Ishii. R1 USA DVD. April 12th 2005. Shuffled over to the Media Blasters site, notoriously difficuly to navigate, and looked through the upcoming releases. It must have been updated recently, as no one yet has obviously picked up on this one. Yes, finally we get the Teruo... (4 Comments) |
| 01/21/2005 |
Sky High. by Ryuhei Kitamura. R1 USA DVD. March 29th 2005. Yes, it's true : but only one source (so far) has picked up on Media Blasters fixed release for "Sky High", which although it had mixed reviews, still has some fans. Ofcourse, it's based on a Manga, and ofcourse it... (5 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
.com or .net It's All The Same To Us ... Twitch readers may remember that we had a little problem with our domain a little while back - namely that our old host decided to shut their doors and take everyone's registered domains with them. Well, after bashing my head... (2 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Tony Takitani Website A little something I stumbled across thanks to the good folks at Greencine ... I'm a big fan of Japanese author Haruki Murakami and unbeknownst to me - until about five minutes ago - there is a film based on... (4 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Crispin Glover's What Is It? Crispin Glover is a very strange man. Very. Remarkably. Quite unusual. And I've been hearing rumblings that he was making an equally strange film - titled What Is It - for quite a while. Well, the rumors are true, the... (18 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Takeshi Kaneshiro Cast in Musical How do you follow up a string of bloody sword fights, physics-be-damned- archery and gravity defying martial arts work? If you're Takeshi Kaneshiro, you sing! Kaneshiro will follow up his role in House of Flying Daggers with a part in... (0 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Miike's IZO Hitting DVD in Germany Well, the good news is that somebody's got the wheel's moving on a DVD release for Miike's Izo outside of Japan. The bad news is that it's happening in Germany. Rapid Eye Movies will be releasing the film for rental... (19 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Stan Lee Wins Lawsuit Against Marvel Comics This is one check I wouldn't want to write ... Stan Lee has won his lawsuit against Marvel comics and Marvel ordered to pay him a 10% cut of their income over the past seven years, including their share of... (2 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Jury-Head Named For 2005 Cannes Film Festival ... ... and it's Sarajevo native Emir Kusturica. Now, people were wont to accuse last year's jury as being style over substance thanks to the presence of Quentin Tarantino as jury boss but this year I'm fairly confident there will be... (1 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Matt Groening. Now He Wants "Little Britain" Stars For "The Simpsons". The Sun, the biggest selling tabloid here in the UK, has apparently today reported that Matt Groening is now "courting" Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators and stars of British Comedy "Little Britain". The suggestion is one of some... (0 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Stephen Fry will be the voice of the "Hitchhiker's Guide" h2g2movie.com has announced fresh news from BBC1 that Stephen Fry will voice ‘The Guide‘ in the upcoming "The Hitchhiker‘s Guide To The Galaxy" movie. "As a friend of Douglas‘s and a besotted fan of "The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy",... (8 Comments) |
| 01/20/2005 |
Late Night Viewing Spree ... All you need to know about Leave Me Alone: it is aptly titled. Danny is definitely the less talented of the Pang Brothers and two Ekins plus half a script do not a good film make. The Pangs are now... (3 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
DARTH TATER!!! IN FEBRUARY MY LIFE WILL BE COMPLETE Because George Lucas doesn't have enough money, because we need a monument to how over the top and silly Star Wars has become, but most of all because we all know that Darth Vadar is such a ....spud Hasbro has... (1 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Take the Twitch Plagiarism Challenge! Right. Ever since we here at Twitch had this little run in with KFCCinema.com over them plagiarizing some of our work I've had to deal with KFC loyalists sending me email and posting on the site accusing us of 'stealing'... (26 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
The Scandinavian production RECONSTRUCTION comes to R1 It appears that after being released in Denmark on an excellent DVD (sadly without English subs) RECONSTRUCTION is now coming to the US offered by Palm Pictures. Street date is April 12.... (0 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT has been announced by Warner-France as a double dvd coming this April 27. While the R1 version is also set for an April release I would strongly recommend to those of you interested in... (5 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Hanzo The Razor. Homevision R1 DVD Boxset. April 19th 2005. The legendary series of three samurai films, much lusted after on dodgy VHS tapes still, and previously (and only recently) announced for this year, have finally recieved an apparently solid release date. Make a note : April 19th 2005. Kung... (1 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Hayao Miyazaki. His Next Projects. 4 Short Films For Ghibli Museum? Nausicaa.net have published the initial details for Hayao Miyazakis' next project(s). They may not be a feature film like we're used to, but there's definately three (and possibly a fourth) short films. The site says, "...we're not sure if he... (0 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
House of Flying Daggers Giveaway Winding Down ... Just a reminder that our House of Flying Daggers Soundtrack giveaway contest will soon be coming to a close ... check out the details here and get your entries in before the 22nd!... (0 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Lakeside Murder Case Review and Interview The Japan Times has just posted a review of Shinji Aoyama's Lakeside Murder Case along with an interview with the director. It sounds as though this one may be a bit of a step back for the acclaimed director, but... (0 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Who Knew? Top grossing actor of all time: Samuel L. Jackson. Apparently The Incredibles put him over the top ... via IFC and the SF Chronicle... (0 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Once Again, Who Knew? The Hong Kong Film Critics Society has announced their annual awards and at the top of the heap? Their pick for best of the year? Is it 2046? Kung Fu Hustle? Dumplings? Anything by perpetual, though confusing, favorite Johnnie To?... (5 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Bullock and Reeves Re-Making Il Mare! It's An Acting Powerhouse! Though I'll readily acknowledge not having seen the Korean film being remade here I've just got to ask this question: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock cast together in a romantic drama? What was the casting director thinking? While I'm a... (2 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Set Report From Miike's Big Spook War! From the "things I would love to have seen" file: "Director Miike, ovbiously exhausted himself, inexplicably slipped on a perfectly fitting mask of Zebraman, the title character of his last film, perhaps in solidarity with his extras. Sitting in his... (4 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Tom Yum Goong Sold Overseas Rights to Tom Yum Goong - the new Tony Jaa film from the director of Ong Bak - have been purchased for Korea, Hong Kong and India. I believe Luc Besson bought the rights for most of the western world... (0 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Fantastic Four site online with trailer. So you decided to give Elektra a miss this past weekend but you're still a glutton for punishment? Well superstars the Fantastic Four web-site is online and the trailer that was shown before Elektra is now online. Okay. If a... (1 Comments) |
| 01/19/2005 |
Cruise and Speilberg talk War of the Worlds I am a cursed man. Again foiled by my lack of WMP 10 I cannot watch Yahoo Movies' exclusive clips of Tom Cruise and Steven Speilberg talking about their collaborative effort, War of the Worlds. Foiled again!!! Please take a... (0 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Kung Fu Hustle US Trailer Sony has sent out links today to the US Trailer for Kung Fu Hustle. For now, available in Windows Media [devil] and Real Player [boil on the devil's bum!!!]. What made me cock [tee hee] my head to the side,... (11 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Chow Yun-Fat's razor stolen by pirates? MonkeyPeaches is reporting that a Hong Kong tabloid Sudden Weekly has taken this picture as proof that Chow Yun-Fat is growing a beard for his role, a Chinese pirate leader, in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequals. It was also... (0 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
The Incredibles: Feeding your child's ADD on March 15th USA Today reports that Disney/Pixar's most recent and awesome animation, The Incredibles, will be in stores on March 15th. Great. Now parents, you know when you will finally have something to replace your child's current fixation and you'll get to... (1 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
More on Matthew Vaughn and Man from U.N.C.L.E. Sorry Todd, but this is going to sting a bit. Dark Horizons drew my attention to the report in Variety today about Matthew Vaughn and his work with the big screen adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Or should I... (6 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Layer Cake Hitting UK DVD in March Is Matthew Vaughn ever going to shake his "Guy Ritchie's sidekick" label? No, probably not, but there are worse things to have on your resume than production credits for Snatch and Lock Stock if you're going to head off and... (1 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Kung Fu Hustle DVD Specs! Logboy just sent me the proposed DVD specs for the Hong Kong release of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, which he apparently found over at the DVD Talk forums. I would double check this and link to the post in... (0 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Got A Question For Neil Gaiman? Paging all Neil Gaiman fans ... The MirrorMask / Sandman / Coraline author agreed in theory to do an interview with us a couple months back but it's taken a while to firm things up enough that I'm confident theory... (2 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Tsui Hark's Seven Swords to Open Cannes? UPDATED AGAIN! Nothing definite yet, but according to this article Tsui Hark's martial arts epic Seven Swords may be the opening film at the coming Cannes Film Festival. The word came from the film's editor, not from someone at the festival, but... (0 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Ah, Female Angst ... Here's something fun ... I was just sent the link to the video for a song titled Bastardo by Charlotte, directed by Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright. Spot the cameos! The song's not half bad, either. Click here to... (3 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Herbie: Fully Loaded poster Call it cutting edge journalism. Call it blatent opportunism to increase readership. Call it what you want. But if we get you to our site and you end up looking at other posts about other, more worthy or your attention,... (12 Comments) |
| 01/18/2005 |
Battlefield Baseball. R1 DVD Details Surface. No Exact Release Date Though. Just a quickie to point out a few details that have surfaced in relation to Subversive Cinemas upcoming (sometime in March or April is the vague date) disc of "Battlefield Baseball". Sure, lots of people bought the expensive R2 Japan... (2 Comments) |
| 01/17/2005 |
Richard Kelly's Southland Tales Website Updated I'm not sure when the update went live but the website for Southland Tales - the new film from Donnie Darko helmer Richard Kelly - has been greatly expanded, particularly the Left option. I love how this thing forces you... (3 Comments) |
| 01/17/2005 |
Jet Li, Yuen Wu Ping and Ronnie Yu Teaming Up For Huo Yuanjia Biopic According to both MonkeyPeaches and Wu-Jing.org legendary action director Yuen Wu Ping has joined the Ronnie Yu-directed and Jet Li starring historical biopic revolving around the life of legendary martial artist Huo Yuanjia. The film - titled Legend of a... (0 Comments) |
| 01/17/2005 |
Bafta Nominations 2005. Second Chance This Year For Decorative Metal Object. For all those that missed out on a Golden Globe, now is the "British Guide To Prospective Oscar Winners" (as though the awards themselves weren't as much of an indicator of quality as an Oscar...). "House Of Flying Daggers" is... (0 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
Golden Globe Results The Golden Globes have just wrapped up and you can see the full list of results here. A bit of a mixed bag for me ... the films I figured would win (Sideways, The Aviator, The Sea Inside) all did,... (2 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
Poster Art For Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Loft We have the best readers in the world. Why? Because they send us stuff like this: the poster for the new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. We posted about this a while back when all we had was a Japanese title... (11 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
New Film From Last Life In The Universe Director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang! Okay, calling the information sketchy would be generous but I've just stumbled across information about the new film from Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, the man behind the brilliant Last Life In The Universe. His newest is titled Invisible Waves and it will,... (2 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
After the Apocalypse Screenings! A week or two back we linked to the trailer for After the Apocalypse, a starkly beautiful looking piece of work dipping a toe into that recently neglected 'end of civilization' pool ... Well, I just got word from the... (0 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
Steamboy Dub Cast Announced. I think I've made it pretty clear that I always prefer to watch my films in their original languages but, that said, I do recognize that dubbing is a financial necessity in some cases and especially in the animation world... (2 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
Adrien Brody In The Jacket. Here's a tasty little morsel I stumbled across at Aint It Cool ... When Adrien Brody is on his game he is pretty easily one of the finest character actors going right now. Like Nicholas Cage he can have a... (2 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
Mindgame to Be Altered For English Language Release? A while back we posted links to the trailer, website and DVD for Mindgame, a new anime film that somehow slipped under the radar in the west while winning critical acclaim at home. Well, a reader spotted this interview with... (3 Comments) |
| 01/16/2005 |
Oldboy. Ultimate / Final Edition. Re-Edited or Censored? You Tell Me... I was reading something over at KFCs new "improved" (read "pretty badly done") forum yesterday. It was written by someone who bought the Ultimate Edition of Oldboy and has noticed that some scenes may have been slightly truncated or potentially... (6 Comments) |
| 01/15/2005 |
Dear Diary: Today was my villiage's worst day ever! I am at Todd's right now and I have just been witness to another unholy onslaught of Thai action violence thanks to part of the team that brought you the Muay Thai actioner Ong Bak. Born to Fight comes with... (8 Comments) |
| 01/15/2005 |
Official Hitchhiker's Guide Poster It's turning up all over the place, but just in case you haven't seen it yet, here it is. The official poster for The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Click here to check it in all of its high-res... (1 Comments) |
| 01/15/2005 |
Vital, Memories of Murder and JSA Picked Up For North American Release! Whee! According to this thread over at Mobius American distributors have ponied up for Vital, JSA and Memories of Murder. Vital and JSA - and early Chan Wook Park film - have both generated a fair amount of international notice... (7 Comments) |
| 01/15/2005 |
Studio Ghibli Turning Howl's Moving Castle Into a Circus? Que? Oh, well at least it's not 'Howl On Ice' ... Read all the details below ... translated from this article and found at Nausicaa.net by Logboy.... (0 Comments) |
| 01/15/2005 |
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance Info Thanks to Aaron for sending in this bit of plot info for Chan Wook Park's Sympathy For Lady Vengeance: "Also found this info about Sympathy for Lady Vengance("Chinjeolhan Geumja-ssi"). The long anticipated third film of director Park Chan-wook's 'Revenge Trilogy'... (8 Comments) |
| 01/15/2005 |
Kim Ki-Duk Launching Production on New Film - Updated Still riding the wave of international acclaim from 3-Iron, Samaria and Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall ... And Spring, Korean director Kim Ki-Duk is set to launch production of his latest film, titled The Bow. Content is a mystery at this... (7 Comments) |
| 01/14/2005 |
Good-bye Dragon Inn DVD Release Okay ... I have to state right up front that I just cannot understand all the critical praise heaped on Tsai Ming Liang's Good-bye Dragon Inn. Opus and I caught it at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival, where it was... (5 Comments) |
| 01/14/2005 |
20 Seconds of Fantastic Four Footage The verdict? It still looks like ass. The effects are marginally better in this than in the early test footage that leaked, but still pretty horrible, and word that they're reshooting the ending in response to the, ahem, incredible finish... (6 Comments) |
| 01/14/2005 |
New Mirror Mask Stills! Rope of Silicone have just posted a batch of new stilles from Neil Gaiman and Dave McKeon's MirrorMask and they look, typically, stunning. Just fantastic stuff ... the more I see of this film the more I'm itching to see... (5 Comments) |
| 01/14/2005 |
So a Japanese, a Korean and a Thai make a movie... So one of the attractions of the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is that a film is specially made for the event by three separate international directors. The project is titled, "Short Digital Films by Three Filmmakers". While the title... (2 Comments) |
| 01/14/2005 |
Hellboy's makeup leaves a stain on Oscar's shirt! Jumping Catfish! More news on the nominating process over at 'The Academy'. Just out yesterday, the nominees were announced for Acheivement in Makeup and lo and behold, Del Torro's masterpiece, Hellboy, is one of seven nominees. Can you say Huzzah?... (3 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
Mark Gatiss Speaks! League of Gentlemen! Dr. Who! Hitchhiker's Guide! Too Much Other Stuff to Count! Though they have been criminally overlooked on this continent there is no doubt in my mind that England’s League of Gentlemen – not to be confused with the very bad film adapted from a very good graphic novel of a... (23 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
KFC interviews Donnie Yen - lucky stiffs! I wish Donnie Yen was my dad. If not that I wish he had more exposure over here in North America and someone would give him the chance to open up a can of Whup-Ass. Alas, we shall keep on... (2 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
Non Ti Muovere / DON'T MOVE After creating an enormous buzz in Europe Sergio Castellitto's latest film Non Ti Muovere is now available on a splendid DVD by Medusa (Italy) and fortunately enough for us offers optional English subs. Of course the film is yet to... (0 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
Feux Rouges (Red Lights) Cedric Kahn's (Roberto Succo, L'Ennui) latest effort is to be released in the UK on January 24. Kahn was nominated with a Golden Bear in Berlin and Red Lights is yet to be released on the big screens in the... (5 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Teaser News I just got off the phone after more than an hour of conversation with The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and have an exciting day of transcription ahead of me but there was one snippet of information in there that... (3 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
Disney hires writers for Tron remake Ask anyone who was old enough to remember the 80s, or watches Jimmy Kimmel Live, and you will know that one of the great movies of that decade was Tron. Man, did that blow us away! There was nothing like... (1 Comments) |
| 01/13/2005 |
Lizard In A Womans' Skin. by Lucio Fulci. R1 DVD Finally : February 22nd 2005. There has suddenly been lots of talk flying around forums more dedicated to horror in the last few days with regards a sudden appearance of the eternally delayed, and much lusted-after "Lizard In A Womans' Skin" from Lucio Fulci. Yes,... (3 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
My Mind Has Been Blown By Born To Fight. Oh. My. God. I just finished watching Born To Fight. I debated writing a full review of this but have decided against it considering the VCD I watched is not subtitled and is in full frame format - a fact... (9 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
MPD Psycho. by Takashi Miike. Uncertified For The UK At This Time. I am a little concerned that a listing hasn't appeared at the BBFC site to show details of the certification for Takashi Miikes "MPD Psycho" TV Series, due to start with Volume One at the end of January. I've emailed... (9 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
INTERVIEW WITH 2001 MANIACS DIRECTOR TIM SULLIVAN When the opportunity arose to do an interview with Tim Sullivan I responded “Great!” Of course I neglected to mention that I had absolutely no idea who Tim Sullivan was. But then my editor mentioned 2001 Maniacs. For those who... (14 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter Trilogy Getting the Full-On Remaster Treatment ... Another Logboy find here ... The UK's Optimum Releasing has given Sonny Chiba's legendarily violent Street Fighter Trilogy - the first Street Fighter film was the first to ever receive an X rating based on violence alone - a bit... (3 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
Tom Mes Chatting At Cinema Nocturna. Okay ... now don't say we didn't give you enough advance notice on this. Midnight Eye editor and general know it all when it comes to Japanese film Tom Mes will be taking part in an open chat session hosted... (1 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
Constantine Clips Online I meant to post this yesterday - no, really, I did - but my web-browser crapped out, taking with it all of my open windows of work in progressand I was just too lazy to go and find everything again.... (9 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
Hurray! Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way Has A Release Date! Hurray! It seems like The Chin has been talking about his new book forever - I first heard it mentioned at the Toronto Film Festival Screening of Bubba Ho Tep a couple years back - but it's finally almost here!... (1 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
Git Website and Trailer: New Film From Director of Spider Forest For the past little while Darcy Paquet over at Koreanfilm.org - a site you really should make a habit of reading - has been singing the praises of a film called Git. Originally shot as part of an anthology, Git... (1 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
An Interview With The Hitchhiker's Guide Director! Coming Soon has just posted the first part of a lengthy interview with the director of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... no comments to make as yet because I've not finished reading it, but it looks like a... (0 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
A Bittersweet Life: New Film From The Director of Tale of Two Sisters! So, I was poking around in the newly resurrected message boards over at KFC and came across some info for A Bittersweet Life, a new film from the director of A Tale of Two Sisters. Just the fact that this... (2 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
More X Files Movie Chatter ... I have to confess that when I first heard David Duchovney talking up the possibility of a second X Files feature film I wrote it off as little more than wishful thinking from a pretty much out of work actor... (0 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
House of Flying Daggers Soundtrack Giveaway Back when we were hosting out House of Flying Daggers poster giveaway I mentioned that we had copies of the soundtrack on the way for another Flying Daggers contest. Well, those CDs have finally arrived. We've got five of them... (2 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
6ixtynin9 DVD Winners Our 6ixtynin9 DVD giveaway has come to a close. Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations to our two winners: Graeme Lennon and Jason. As they correctly pointed out the magic word was lepidoptera. Congratulations!... (2 Comments) |
| 01/12/2005 |
Speilberg and Neeson playing with Lincoln logs? Variety.com is reporting this morning that Speilberg "is ready to embark on his long-in-the-works biopic of Abraham Lincoln. Spielberg has begun discussions with Liam Neeson to play the president as he steers the North to victory in the Civil War".... (1 Comments) |
| 01/11/2005 |
League of Gentlemen Film Release Date And Title! News straight from the mouth of Mark Gatiss: The League of Gentlemen feature film has received a final title and release date. It will be hitting theaters in the UK on April 22 as The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse. On... (12 Comments) |
| 01/11/2005 |
Howl's Moving Castle Owns The International Box Office Now I'm not the sort to equate popular success with quality so you don't hear a lot of discussion of box office stats around here. Generally if I bring box office up at all it's to ridicule a very bad... (2 Comments) |
| 01/11/2005 |
Say Hi To The New Guy We here at Twitch are very happy to welcome a new writer on to our team today. A little later today you should be seeing a new post or two from Svet who'll be specializing in European film around here.... (11 Comments) |
| 01/10/2005 |
Try your luck at 'The Invisibles' Fancy yourself a true movie trivia geek? I thought I did and then I came across this site thanks to the fine folks over at FilmRot. I thought I could identify mostly anything with a glance. While some sites have... (2 Comments) |
| 01/10/2005 |
Appleseed clips online! Okay. My computer officially sucks nuts. I know full well I can upgrade and have the neccessary operating system from the devil installed so I can in turn install Windows Media Player 10 and watch these clips. But right now... (5 Comments) |
| 01/10/2005 |
Howl's Release Date? Another Logboy find here, though I'm honestly not certain how trustworthy this one is ... citing this slender reference at Box Office Mojo, Nausicaa.net a June release date for Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle here in North America. It's not... (1 Comments) |
| 01/10/2005 |
Loads of Godzilla: Final Wars Footage Online Oooooh ... Logboy just pointed ou that Tokyo Monsters has a hefty Godzilla Final Wars tv special posted here. Apparently this thing's got a stack of behind the scenes footage. If my DSL didn't insist on cutting out every minute... (1 Comments) |
| 01/10/2005 |
6ixtynin9 DVD Giveaway Coming To A Close ... Just a reminder ... if you want to score yourself a free copy of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's 6ixtynin9 on DVD you only have until tomorrow night - that'd be Tuesday the 11th - to get your entry in. Click here for... (0 Comments) |
| 01/10/2005 |
USS Rock N Roll Why Star Trek fans are better than Star Wars fans, or at least more entertaining: having watched thier lord and master - that'd be William Shatner - devolve into a state of perpetual self-parody they are inclined to do so... (3 Comments) |
| 01/09/2005 |
"Alone In The Dark" Trailer and Website Are Up. DANG! Oh sweet good lord, it seems that Mr. Uwe Boll is at it again and this time he's brought Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff - what, were Robert Downey Jr. and Eric Roberts not available - along for... (10 Comments) |
| 01/09/2005 |
Kung Fu Hustle Review One of our regular readers just sent in a lengthy review of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and, though he enjoyed it, he's not gushing with praise like most are. Can I say how insanely jealous I am that he's... (18 Comments) |
| 01/09/2005 |
Extra Large Vital Trailer The full length trailer for Shinya Tsukamoto's stellar Vital has turned up on Apple's Japanese trailer page. Why are we pointing this out when we've already steered the way to the same trailer - as well as a shorter version... (0 Comments) |
| 01/09/2005 |
Some More Worthwhile High-Res Trailers From Apple Japan ... Like the title says ... good stuff in large formats, and they load up quick, too ... Kung Fu Hustle. 'Nuff said. Year One In The North. Japanese period drama ... beautiful photography. 30 Lies. Does Japan have it's very... (1 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
House of Fury Website and Teaser Trailer Live! The website for Steven Fung's House of Fury has gone live here. It's pretty sparse at the moment with just the poster image and a link to the teaser - that's down in the bottom right corner - but the... (1 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
Gantz. Ultra Violent Anime Series, USA DVDs Begin February 8th 2005. In the last year I've been steadily trying to get into anime again. I admit, I find most of it incredibly derivative and badly made. Occasionally something stands out, though. This time its "Gantz" from Gonzo Digimation, one of the... (13 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
He Turned Not Being Able to Sing Into a Stack of Cash, Now William Hung's Taking a Run At Acting ... Is there anybody out there who still remembers American Idol reject William Hung? Still humming along to his incredibly tuneless CD? 'Cause apparently his fifteen minutes isn't up yet ... The trailer for Where Is Mama's Boy, Hung's big screen... (4 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
Wait For It ... Hear That? It's the Sound of Some Eating Disorder Group Getting Very Angry At Jerry Bruckheimer ... Pirates of the Caribbean Casting Info Ah, this makes me laugh ... apparently if you're grotesquely thin you could have a shot at a role in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. Check the Toronto Star's transcription of a recorded voice message from the film's casting... (1 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
Blood and Bones Hitting DVD in April No specs yet but word is that Blood and Bones is due to hit DVD in Japan in early April. The film was just ranked Japan's best of the year by Mark Schilling of The Japan Times and pretty much... (1 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
Ricky Gervais. In Mission Impossible 3? Seems So... Thankfully, all the "Entertainment Journalists" go out and buy the British tabloid newspapers, saving me from having to sift through for anything decent other than an oddly-placed pair of female breasts. This time, the one thing they've come up with... (2 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
Hideo Nakata. "Ring 2" : Final Trailer. "Curse, Death and Spirit" DVD Release. Hideo Nakata, original "Ringu" director: a couple of shortish stories... Firstly, the final trailer for the American "Ring 2" is finally here. It looks lovely and I, for one, am fascinated to see what he manages to do with a)... (0 Comments) |
| 01/08/2005 |
Ghost In The Shell : Innocence. Subtitles Issues Continue. Here's a brief update on the CC / closed-captions subtitles for the deaf, and the lack of a pure subtitles track for the American DVD for "Innocence". Firstly, someone found a marketing company email address for Dreamworks PR: they're saying... (6 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
THE WOODSMAN REVIEW Light entertainment anyone? Then steer far away from here. The Woodsman, featuring a career performance from Kevin Bacon as a just released from prison child molester struggling to reform, is designed to challenge. The wonder is that it's smart enough... (2 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
"Be Cool" Trailer and Teaser Website I was never the biggest fan of "Get Shorty", even with my Elmore Leonard love, mostly in part because I hate Rene Russo and run screaming at the name. So it's to my relief that she's not in the... (0 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
Official Land of the Dead Pics! Bloody Disgusting have gotten their hands on a pair of official shots from George Romero's Land of the Dead. They don't show a whole lot - no surprise there - but they look pretty good. Click here and here to... (6 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
Alan Rickman and Bill Bailey Join Hitchhiker's Guide! Well, their voices do, anyway. According to Planet Magrathea Alan Rickman with be the voice of Marvin - an inspired bit of casting - while Bill Bailey will voice the whale. Bailey should be well known to British comedy fans... (0 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
Wallace And Gromit Behind the Scenes Footage! Whee! IFilm has just posted a three minute behind the scenes feature on the upcoming Wallace And Gromit feature film and there's some great stuff in there. You get to see several finished clips from the film - including Ralph... (0 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
Shaun of the Dead Sequel Coming In Comic Format? Now here's a happy little piece of news that I'm not sure if I can believe or not ... CHUD is running an interview with Shaun of the Dead stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in which Pegg says that... (0 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
I Loves Me Some Dick. A Scanner Darkly Pictures Online. Aint It Cool has scored themselves a trio of high res shots from Richard Linklater's upcoming adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and they look sweeeeeeeet ... Dick is a very unique writer who really needs to have... (6 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
Did Jon Stewart Kill Crossfire? He just may have ... we linked to Stewart's infamous / legendary appearance on Crossfire a while back in which he took the show to task saying that it was damaging the country. Well, it appears that CNN head Jonathon... (0 Comments) |
| 01/07/2005 |
Volcano High North American DVD Looking Surprisingly Good ... Well, this is a pleasant surprise ... I just came across the cover image and specs for the March DVD release of Volcano High and the spec sheet, at least, is looking surprisingly good. The disc will be a flippy... (4 Comments) |
| 01/06/2005 |
6ixtynin9 DVD Giveaway Hurray! More free stuff! The kind and generous souls at Palm Pictures are giving away two free DVD copies of 6ixtynin9 from writer-director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang of Last Life in the Universe fame. Apparently the caption contest we did last time... (5 Comments) |
| 01/06/2005 |
Tropical Malady Review I don’t often indulge in ‘what if’s but I can’t help but wonder how the 2004 Cannes Film Festival would have played out if not for the fact that 2004 was an election year and George W. Bush so greatly... (8 Comments) |
| 01/06/2005 |
Ab-Normal Beauty Review Chock full of gorgeous – and disturbing – cinematography Oxide Pang’s Ab-Normal Beauty represents both the best and the worst of the Pang Brothers approach. Absolutely stunning to look at the film is a text book case of style over... (7 Comments) |
| 01/06/2005 |
Johnny Depp : Emilys' Friend in "Little Britain"? Here's a rumour or story being published this morning in many of the UK tabloid newspapers. You may not know unless your one of the few from outside the UK to have seen the popular British comedy "The Fast Show"... (14 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
Kitano! Bowie! Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence! Well, now here's a fun piece of news sent my way courtesy of Logboy ... Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - a World War II POW film starring David Bowie and 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano - is about to be released in... (5 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
Peter Jackson Moving On To The Lovely Bones Post-Kong? It was widely reported a while back (well, by me in a previous life, at least, though my writing credit has been strangely usurped ... kind of irritating, that) that Peter Jackson had purchased rights to adapt a wee novel... (3 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
Natalie Portman Jumping on That Comic Book Gravy Train Variety is reporting that the one consistently watchable part of the new Star Wars flicks - that'd be Natalie Portman - has just signed up to star in the Wachowski penned adaptation of Alan Moore's V For Vendetta. And all... (2 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
After the Apocalypse I've gotta say that I really love Greencine and not just because they say embarassingly nice things about us on a regular basis. These guys have got to be one of the most comprehensive film related blogs in the world... (0 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
Sony Announces North American DVD For Taegukgi! Sony has announced a February 15th release date for a two disc DVD set of the Korean war epic Taegukgi. This looks to be a good one with the original Korean soundtrack included along with an English dub and a... (2 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
Jet Li Joins Cast of New Johnnie To Film Well, there goes my 'No More Johnnie To' pledge ... Monkey Peaches is reporting that Jet Li has signed on to the cast of Long Cheng Jian Ba, a film tracking organized crime in Hong Kong from the end of... (2 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
MILLENIUM SEASON TWO REVIEW Two down and one to go!! For those worried Fox might put us Millenium fans in the same awful position as Artisan did with Twin Peaks the wait is over! Season two offers the same basic extras as the first... (5 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
REVIEWS OF THE RAY HARRYHAUSEN BOX SETS Attention!! Anyone waiting for Peter Jackson's sure to be wonderiffic King Kong!! May I suggest the perfect home entertainment lead in. Go get these terrific Ray Harryhausen box sets lovingly put together by the good folks at Columbia Tristar.... (1 Comments) |
| 01/05/2005 |
"War of the Worlds" Stills Now that the website is live and the trailer is flowing freely on the internet and movie screens I guess the next thing to do is release vials of Tom Cruise's cloned alien baby......er.....movie stills from "War of the... (0 Comments) |
| 01/04/2005 |
Oscar. Up next. Sound Editing. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the seven films being considered for Achievement in Sound Editing for the 77th Academy Awards. These seven films are in contention for only three nominations in this category and the... (1 Comments) |
| 01/04/2005 |
6ixtynin9 Remake News ... Okay, I know this makes three 6ixtynin9 related posts in a row, but I just stumbled across this and it bears mentioning ... It looks as though Thailand has jumped aboard the great big steaming train of Hollywood remakes ...... (2 Comments) |
| 01/04/2005 |
6ixtynin9 Review As any fan of Asian film can tell you there are two major film producing countries on the rise right now. While Hong Kong is trying to fight their way out of a massive industry decline triggered by the reversion... (1 Comments) |
| 01/04/2005 |
Kamikaze Girls Coming To Theaters In North America! I've got to complain about films I've been waiting to see more often ... two days ago I lamented the fact that Kamikaze Girls wasn't available in subtitled format anywhere in the world and today I got word straight from... (3 Comments) |
| 01/04/2005 |
Long Live The Exploitation Film! Trailers For The Nun and Rottweiler! There is no doubt in my mind that the absolute finest horror film production house in the world is Spain's Fantastic Factory. Run by Re-Animator's Brian Yuzna the Factory produces gloriously unrepentent genre and exploitation films with simply stunning production... (6 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
Danny Pang's Leave Me Alone DVD Up For Pre-Order The Hong Kong DVD for Danny Pang's Leave Me Alone is now available for pre-order here. This sounds like a bit of an odd one ... a gangster picture with plenty of gun violence starring Ekin Cheng in a dual... (2 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
Patrick Stewart on X3 and Superman 5 ComicBookMovie.com linked to an article with Patrick Stewart from Spaceview Magazine. Patrick talks about his future with X3 and the rumors that he is slated to play Jor El in the next Superman movie. On X3: "Everyone, my colleagues and... (2 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
First image of Domino released... While I, for one, am not a huge fan of Tony Scott, nor his brother Ridley, nor his nephew Jake, or any other member of the Scott family for that matter. I am quite interested in Keira Knightley. So when... (2 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
New Tideland Pics! The official website for Terry Gilliam's Tideland has been updated with a bunch of new still shots from the film added to the gallery and they look bloody amazing. Am I a little anxious for a new Gilliam film? Oh,... (0 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Stills! Dark Horizons has scored a pair of official still shots from the upcoming Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I can't say that I ever pictured Marvin's head being quite that large, but otherwise these look pretty fantastic ... check... (2 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
Rin-Jin 13, L'Amant Stauffen has updated his site with information on a block of new Japanese films, a couple of which bear mentioning here ... First is Rin-Jin 13, a live action adaptation of the manga from Santa Inoue. I don't know much... (1 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
Are You Local? Royston Vasey Release Date ... Logboy just dropped a note to say that the current issue of Total Film lists June 10th as the release date for the just-wrapped League of Gentlemen feature film Royston Vasey. Don't know who the League are? Shame on you!... (4 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
DiCaprio and Scorsese comment on Infernal Affairs remake - "The Departed" It was obviously going to happen, a remake of the brilliant Infernal Affairs, considering how damn amazing this film is and how perfect it is in every aspect (acting, directing, atmosphere, etc). Now the question is can it really... (0 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
New "Aeon Flux" Pictures You know what I don't like? Planes. Especially plane rides in school buses with wings, and even though it was a 38 minute flight from Toronto to Pittsburgh, it was still 38 minutes of sheer terror. Terror I tell... (1 Comments) |
| 01/03/2005 |
Some Guy's Hatin' the Good Stuff I was just browsing the behemoth known as Greencine and noticed that some guy has one whacked out "worst of 2004" list: - well - in so much that he has Goodbye Lenin, Sideways, Garden State and - wait for... (4 Comments) |
| 01/02/2005 |
House of Flying Daggers DVD Comparison Asian DVD Time has posted a side by side screen capture comparison of the single disc Edko DVD release of House of Flying Daggers with the new two disc version and the new version looks a whole lot better ...... (6 Comments) |
| 01/02/2005 |
Shaun Dead in New York In New York City? Get thee to Barnes and Noble! Specifically the Barnes and Noble at 22nd and 6th. Shaun of the Dead stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are on the PR trail and will be signing DVDs there... (0 Comments) |
| 01/02/2005 |
Buckaroo Banzai On the Comeback Trail! HOT DAMN! It's not another Banzai film - I've resigned myself to the fact that that just isn't going to happen - but it is the next best thing: a comic mini-series written by the creator / screen-writer with visuals... (1 Comments) |
| 01/02/2005 |
North American Casshern Website Launched Dreamworks / Go Fish Pictures have launched the North American website for Casshern here. It's pretty sparse at the moment - only a flash intro, synopsis and link to the Japanese trailer - but it's sure to expand over the... (1 Comments) |
| 01/02/2005 |
The Japan Times' Top Ten Japanese Films of the Year Mark Schilling of the Japan Times has posted his list of the top ten Japanese films of 2004 and it's an interesting one ... a few that were dead obvious and more than a few surprises. 1. Blood and Bones... (2 Comments) |
| 01/02/2005 |
Mindgame. Anyone Seen It? DVD Sneeked Out. With Subtitles. I spotted the trailer for 'Mindgame' some time back, and it got an announcement a short while ago for its Japanese DVD release, which was a few days before Xmas. Then the listing at Yesasia.com changed : English Subtitles to... (20 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
New Year, New Site. As I'm sure you've noticed by now things look a little different around here ... Huge thanks are due to our good friend Opus who took on the challenge of redesigning the site and made it look an awful lot... (20 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Nobody Knows Website Live We posted a link to IFC's trailer for the North American release of Kore-eda's Nobody Knows a while back ... well, IFC have now launched a full website for the film here. The film's fourteen year old lead scored the... (1 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Snake of June 2 Disc Korean DVD We reported last week that Shinya Tsukamoto's Snake of June was finally due to hit DVD in North America in February ... well, if Korea's more your style that fine country will be releasing a deluxe two disc edition of... (0 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Crying Fist Trailer! Thanks to a keen eyed Korean reader we've stumbled across a trailer for Crying Fist, the new flick from the director of Arahan with the stars of Arahan and Oldboy. Click here to check it out in high resolution ...... (3 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Christopher Lee on Wicker Man follow up and Tim Burton movies. When the guys from Shaun of the Dead rolled into town last summer rumours were that their next project, a possible title was something like Hard Fuzz, was going to be a genre mix of John Woo's Hard Boiled and... (0 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Angel Guts : Takashi Ishii And The Series. The Relationship. Firstly, some background. Ishii was a film student working part-time at Nikkatsu Studios when a whirlwind romance (and marriage) led him to begin drawing and writing Manga in order to earn money. "Angel Guts" was born in 1977, and quickly... (0 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Angel Guts : Red Dizziness (aka Red Vertigo). R1 USA DVD Review. The first of three reviews of "Angel Guts" films. Only these were available in subtitles form at the beginning of November 04 when this writing was done. In All, five films will be in the boxset from Artsmagic, to be... (0 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Angel Guts : High School Co-Ed. R1 USA DVD Review. The second of the "Angel Guts" reviews for the Artsmagic boxset due late March 05. The first in the relatively long line of Angel Guts movies, directed by Chusei Sone, is a far more literal and familiar looking film that... (0 Comments) |
| 01/01/2005 |
Angel Guts : Red Classroom. R1 USA DVD Review. The third of my reviews for the Artsmagic release of the five Nikkatsu produced "Angel Guts" films. This time around Chusei Sone, also the director of the first Angel Guts film, gets his input into the script in a more... (1 Comments) |
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