We've had batmen, spidermen, zebramen, but wait for it.... Chicken Man is coming, courtesy of Kollywood (the Tamil "cousin" of Bollywood, if you will). Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper - one of...

If R Balakrishnan's Paa were a Hollywood production I would suggest it was an incredibly clumsy attempt at Oscar bait.  But it's not a Hollywood picture and so it simply stands as a reminder of how incredibly strange Bollywood...

When we last heard from the Stephen Chow-produced, Stephen Fung-directed Jump a long while back, the hop-hop dance flick was delayed for reshoots due to its male lead Edison Chen getting involved in the much-publicized sex scandal.  Since then, Edison's...

Oh, Sweden, you make me giggle.  Though information on Josef Fares' Farsan is strangely absent from both the Swedish Film Institute and its production company website, I know all I need to know about it from the trailer.  Namely:...

Fresh on the heels of posting about low budget German martial arts flick Straight Blast we've just discovered another in-progress project from martial artist Mathis Landwehr.It seems like fusing martial arts with breakdancing is becoming the wave of the...

As well as the feature films competing for the Silver Melies at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, there were also seven shorts in competition to be nominated for a chance to go on to win their own Melies D'Or....

Time for a bit of excitement about Teddy Chen's Bodyguards And Assassins?  Why, yes, I think it is.  The massive scale epic which saw an enormous full scale replica of turn of the century Hong Kong built in mainland...

You may know him from his roles in The Last Picture Show, The Return Of The Living Dead or The Killers.  Or, perhaps, he is familiar from his remarkable string of television guest spots throughout the 1980s.  Whether you...

Browsing through the trailer page over at apple.com I came across a trailer for a film I've never heard of but apparently has been in the works for over four years. The film is simply called Love and was commissioned...

It was back in March when word first broke that there would be another live adaptation of the short story Toli o Kakeru Shojo [The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]. Then it got quiet until today. Thanks to NipponCinema...

What are the chances?  A nation that doesn't produce a huge number of films in the first place and an even smaller number of genre films, two of Ireland's prime exports this year are full blooded revenge pictures.  Conor...

If Conor McMahon's Dead Meat was a low-budget trip into zombie land, then what does that make the Irish director's sophomore picture, The Disturbed?  Shot on a miniscule budget, McMahon here moves into straight up revenge-sploitation, with a bare...

I've said it before and I'm going to keep on saying it until people start paying attention and giving him the types of roles he deserves:  Germany's Mathis Landwehr is one of the great undiscovered talents in the global...

This was the big surprise of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival for me so far: the UK premiere of Lithuanian director Ignas Miškinis' strange little road movie Low Lights (Artimos Šviesos). The (gushing) review's coming, but for the...

Based on the Mark Millar/John Romita Jr. comic, this is one super-hero flick that looks to break the mold. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the book, which is about a comic geek named Dave Lizewski who decides to...