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Interview with Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond)
So, a lot of your older films have been re-released on DVD recently over here and in the States. Have you noticed any of your films have been re-evaluated or any new audiences to your work? Well, it’s interesting, you know. Hitchcock once said that his movies went from being flops to classics, and I think that’s happening to some of my films now.
Review – Audition (1999)
Takashi Miike is one of the wildest filmmakers working today and one of the most prolific making at least two films a year for over 20 years. Audition is often considered his masterpiece and was the first film of his which cemented his reputation in the west. Miike often crossbreds genres with much ease and Audition is a perfectly example of that because for the majority of the film it’s a romantic comedy and then in the final act becomes a sadistic horror film.
Full COSMOPOLIS Trailer Arrives And Robert Pattinson Wants A Haircut
As I create this post the 2012 Cannes Film Festival programme has just been announced (stay tuned next post) David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS is heading to the south of France next month before that A Full trailer has just been launched.Last month a we got our first glimpse of the madness that we’ll expect and the full trailer (A French one) reveals more debauchery and a endless supply of catchprase’s that would have Roy Walker choking on his Mr Chips.
Watch Fantastic Cannes bound John Hillcoat’s LAWLESS Trailer
I’m one of the very few people who actually enjoyed John Hillcoat’s The Road which gave myself the opinion that when the film is adapted from a book see the film before you read the book and I did that enjoying the film more as well as book. It just seems like yesterday not realising that 3 years on he hasn’t done a feature film since until now, LAWLESS.
Blu-Ray Review: HUGO
★★★★★ Hugo (2011) is the most recent film by legendary director Martin Scorsese. It’s come at an interesting period in Scorsese’s career after the extremely successful “The Departed,” for which he won his long-delayed Oscar.
Detachment Review
★★★½☆ Rarely does a film attack nuanced and complex institutions like America’s educatory system with such brazen, cursory detail and still get away with it. But with justified vitriol, attitude and a certain amount of first-hand authority, director Tony Kaye together with former public school teacher-now-writer Carl Lund find the right kind of brittle, agitated tone to carry through their sweeping messages and moral outrage.
After 2 teaser clips from the highly anticipated film, finally the first full length trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master has finally arrived. PT Anderson is a little bit like Terrence Malick, he doesn’t make many films but when he makes them there so widely received dramatic, tension driven so much style and panache it’s no wonder their Oscar bait films. On evidence of the previous clips and this new trailer this looks like one of the big hitters for the 2012 cinematic calender.
Every Family has a story to tell which if you look at it, it’s a true this is also the case in Billy Bob Thornton‘s new directed film Jayne Mansfield’s Car which today has a International trailer. Until today it’s a film I haven’t heard of until now and even on paper it doesn’t look like a film that may interest you a lot but the cast is the pulling power of this film which pulls you in.
When you look back to last summer no one expected Bridesmaids to be the success it was, since then we expected a number of wannabe films however that never happened. Sundance earlier this year one potential candidate appeared, Bachelorette and tonight the film’s first official trailer has appeared online which shows The Bridesmaids formula can still work.
Feature – Top 10 Comic book films
Today The Dark Knight Rises (read our review) arrives in UK, U.S and Irish cinemas, the long wait is over when Christopher Nolan completes his trilogy and we can finally see what he means with ‘Legend Ends’. The past 5-10 years Hollywood’s films have been dominating our local cinemas, multiplexes alot not worth your hard earned cash, some okay in our new feature we look at ten of the best comic book films. Some you may agree with some you won’t love to know your favourites.
It’s getting close to that time of the year when Twilight will be invading filmland but before then Bella has film where she does a ‘dirty’ not the cheating on her boyfriend R-Pattz but Kristen Stewart Dirty Dances In The UK Trailer for On The Road. Despite having a official release date here in the UK for sometime, it’s taken 5 months for the UK version of the trailer appear as it was March since we had the U.S trailer which the film still doesn’t have a release date.
If you weren’t old enough to be born or live during the 1980’s you may wonder those film fans old enough rave about Ghostbusters do, all I’ll say is go buy them or rent them off your favourite online film rental.
Top 5 Oliver Stone Movies
With Oliver Stone’s Savages coming to cinemas across the UK imminently, we’re taking the opportunity to have a look at the very best of his filmography. Spanning over 40 years in its entirety, Stone’s career has been equal parts writer, director, and producer – he even has a penchant for turning up in cameo roles from time-to-time.
The Brood Blu-Ray Review
The Brood is one of those times I have had in my worst ever list for a long time. However I hadn’t watched the film in the better part of a decade so I was willing to re-watch it but my opinion hasn’t improved. It was written and directed sadly by one of my all-time favourite directors David Cronenberg aka. the man that saved the Canadian film industry.
The Time Bandits...30 Years On
Time Bandits is the one of the very few films that is actually for all ages, in the way Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, E.T. and the many wonderful Pixar and Ghibli films are. It’s directed by one of the few true masters of the illusion of cinema, Terry Gilliam, who made his start doing the animations for Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Blu-ray Review - Blood Ties (2013)
Blood Ties is a throwback thriller to the 70s crime films which we all know and love. It wears its influences- from Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese- quite liberally on its sleeve. It’s reminiscent of the work of the American director James Gray, who has been doing this for the better part of 20 years, so it’s not surprising he is one of the credited screenwriters. Chris (Clive Owen) is released from prison after serving 9 years for murder after he gets out for good behaviour.
Blu-Ray Review - Pay The Ghost (2015)
Let another film in the strange canon of Nicolas Cage films released direct to dvd/blu-ray/streaming or whatever format you watch it on, I think many of these will become stables of Netflix for years to come. Nicolas Cage may be known as this over the top performer at this point but he is seriously one of the finest actors of his generation his range.
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
The wild life of cowpunk musician Mojo Nixon is the subject of a rockumentary far more conventional than its subject - from the Doc'n Roll Film Festival During the ’80s Mojo had a surprise rise to stardom with his very distinctive blend of rowdy humour and left-wing politics, one that that mocked and loved American culture in equal measure. His best-known song is probably Elvis is Everywhere, which was made with love for Elvis but whilst mocking over-zealous Elvis fans.
Two men, very little CGI and a lot of imagination!
Ian Schultz talks to Kentucker Aubrey and Albert Birney, the directors of STRAWBERRY MANSION, about Terry Gilliam, John Waters, Jan Svankmajer, how to make a film with very few sets, and what's available inside in the house! AmeThe two directors of the micro-budget sci-fi/fantasy Strawberry Mansion (2022) have created a film with shades of Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry and Wes Anderson, centring on an auditor who in the future records and taxes dreams, and gets caught up in the dreams of an...
Strawberry Mansion
A dream auditor gets caught up in the network of dreams of an elderly client - quirky American sci-fi with a touch of Terry Gilliam is in cinemas now This micro-budget whimsical science-fiction film has a visual palette similar to Barry Levinson’s Toys (1993), set in a near-future that looks like present-day with a twist of retro.
Pink Flamingos (Blu-ray Review)
Pink Flamingos was the first film John Waters made that had any real attention outside of festivals and some highly specialized art house theatres. It was an early example of a “midnight movie”: it was picked up by the Elgin Theater in New York City and quickly found an audience. Initially it was strictly a hip, downtown, queer audience, but soon the film broadened its reach.
Deep Water - film review
After a 20-year hiatus, British director Adrian Lyne returns to the silver screen with a satisfactory erotic thriller, not dissimilar to the titles that made him famous decades earlier - on Prime Video on Friday, March 18th Adrian Lyne’s long-awaited return to filmmaking – his last film was 2002’s Unfaithful – is in the erotic thriller genre that Lyne became synonymous with via Fatal Attraction (1987) and Indecent Proposal (1993).
Emily the Criminal
Quick-paced and tense crime thriller starring an Aubrey Plaza at the top of her game enraptures the BFI London Film Festival Plaza plays the titular Emily, a low-paid service worker trying to move up in the world. Due to criminal charges, the high-paid work is seemingly closed off for her. The predicament depicted is sadly far too common for many Americans.
Nightmare Alley - film review
Guillermo del Toro's new film is completely rooted in a brutal noir reality, and it feels like it was indeed made 80 years ago - now on all major VoD platforms Guillermo del Toro’s first movie since 2017’s Oscar winning The Shape of Water is an adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s eponymous 1946 novel. It’s fairly faithful to the book, much more than the first version, a noir movie entitled Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947).
Licorice Pizza -film review
Teenage boy meets young woman and they embark on a number of adventures across California and New York, in Paul Thomas Anderson latest paean to the 1970s - on all major VoD platforms on Friday, April 1st Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly anticipated new movie is a simple boy-meets-girl tale, in the San Fernando Valley during the year of 1973.
The Beta Test - film review
A Hollywood agent struggles to navigate the post-#MeToo film industry, in Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe's ambitious yet poorly structured new movie - now available on VoD Jim Cummings made a big splash at SXSW three years ago with Thunder Road, where it won the Grand Jury prize. It became a huge sleeper hit in France. He has since made the werewolf comedy The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020).
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson's star-studded anthology film is a complex and delightful ode to journalism, and it may require a few viewings in order to unpack all the references - on most VoD platforms on Monday, February 14th Wes Anderson’s 10th feature film was originally going to premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.. It indeed premiered at Cannes, but a year later. It’s Wes Anderson’s first live action film in eight years, the last being The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
Our dirty questions to Edgar Wright
The British director of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and BABY DRIVER talks about his first ever documentary THE SPARKS BROTHERS - in exclusive interview Edgar Wright’s first documentary, The Sparks Bothers investigates the idiosyncratic band founded by Ron and Russell Mael. They’ve been going for more than 50 years now, resulting in 25 studio albums. The band’s famous albums include Kimono My House, Angst in My Pants and No. 1 in Heaven produced by Giorgio Moroder.
Deerskin (Le Daim)
One man's obsession with his designer jacket turns him into a serial killer, in this dirtylicious black comedy starring a smiling Jean Dujardin - on VoD on Monday, September 27th This French black comedy was directed by Quentin Dupieux, previously made the killer tire film Rubber (201). It co-stars Jean Dujardin, best known for his lead role in The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011), and Adèle Haenel (from Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019).
Favourite Films with Noam Chomsky!
The world-renowned linguist and anarchist Noam Chomsky may not watch many films today. Michel Gondry once said “he never watches movies” during a interview for his 2013 animated documentary Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky. However Noam and his first wife Carol (who passed away in 2008) were at one time self described “movie addicts”. I shot Noam a quick email asking about his favourite films. 1.
Sound of Metal - film review
Deep dive into the headspace of a metal drummer gone deaf, in this finely crafted American drama with an impressive sound design - in cinemas on Monday, May 17th (as they finally reopen!) This is one of the very best films to come out during the pandemic—in fact, because of the pandemic the film probably has had a bit more attention than it normally would have, as in a crowded year it could have been lost in the shuffle. It’s a small movie with two known actors, but no huge stars.
Passing - film review
A light-skinned black woman "passes" as white, in this quiet and impressive drama about the complexities of racial identity - in cinemas on Friday, October 29th The directorial debut of actress Rebecca Hall is based on a novella by Nella Larsen, a female African American writer active in the 1920s. She is widely considered one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was a wide-ranging cultural movement centred around the New York district.
Terry Gilliam discusses The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and more...
dreamsfanzine.com 1997-2020 interview by Ian Schultz, Psychotronic Cinema It’s been a long-term ambition to interview Terry Gilliam, simply because he is my favourite director. I’ve been a fan ever since my dad dragged me, against my will, to see The Adventures of Baron Munchausen at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. I’ve devoured every film of his since then, having seen every one theatrically since Brothers Grimm, often more than once.
Mick Garris talks Sleepwalkers, Stephen King and interviewing Jimi Hendrix
Posted by Ian Schultz on Oct 19, 2020 in action, All, Books, comedy, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, horror, Interviews, News, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments SLEEPWALKERS, writer Stephen King (left), director Mick Garris (center), and Cliver Barker (right) on set, 1992.
It's Hard Not to Be Impressed
Rating: 7.5/10 Cast: John David Washington as The Protagonist Robert Pattinson as Neil Elizabeth Debicki as Kat Dimple Kapadia as Priya Michael Caine as Sir Michael Crosby Kenneth Branagh as Andrei Sator Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ives Himesh Patel as Mahir Clémence Poésy as Laura Martin Donovan as Victor Written & Directed by Christopher Nolan Tenet Review: DISCLAIMER: ComingSoon.net does not condone attending screenings at indoor movie theaters/cinemas at this time due to risks of contracting...
10 Great Sci-fi Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
The list compiled here features a mix of 10 science fiction films that for various reasons have been neglected over the years. Some have well-respected directors, while others are from relative unknowns. Every last one deserves a second (or third) viewing. There’s everything from an episode from an anthology series to more hard science fiction, including one that has never been released.
Discover the human drama of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi
For much of the duration of Geoff Murphy’s The Quiet Earth, middle-aged Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) believes himself to be the last living person on Earth – but Zac was already a loner, even before the so-called ‘Effect’ that put him in this post-apocalyptic state of extreme solitude.
That Good Night - review
Difficult to be more cliche than to call your film about coping with the end of things That Good Night, but John Hurt is missed and deserved more leading roles. John Hurt's final screen performance is humorous and delicate, but isn't enough to save this drab drama. It isn’t always superficial fan talk to say that a single performance can elevate a bad film.
Discover the post-apocalyptic nightmare of this landmark social drama
Threads first aired on BBC2 on 23 September, 1984, and had much the same – albeit vicarious – impact of instant and lasting trauma on its millions of viewers (6.9 million, to be precise) as a megatonne bomb hitting a major city.
Blu-Ray Review - Breathless (1983)
It took serious cojones when Jim McBride decided to remake one of the most “sacred” films of the French New Wave: Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle. The original was an utter classic, with Belmondo channelling Bogart and Jean Seberg becoming the dream girl of many a young man.
Sorcerer (1977) review - Little White Lies
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to catch William Friedkin’s forgotten masterpiece on the big screen. The year is 1977, and director William Friedkin has had back-to-back hits, reinventing the horror film and the police procedural in the process with The Exorcist and The French Connection. His next move was an adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s 1941 novel ‘Le Salaire de la peur’, which was also the basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot’s earlier film, The Wages of Fear.
1984 is returning to cinemas in protest of Donald Trump
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 4 April marks the date when Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel ‘1984’, begins writing a diary in rebellion against the ruling authoritarian regime. Orwell’s depiction of a society governed by extreme surveillance and censorship has been made into two feature films since its publication – Michael Anderson’s 1956 adaptation and Michael Radford’s later version, aptly released in 1984.
Greg Araki's Nowhere (1997) DVD Review
Gregg Araki is one of the most increasing disappointing filmmakers in history. He made the fantastic Mysterious Skin, which boosted great performances, score and a real maturity to an extremely difficult subject matter of child abuse. Nowhere is one of his earlier films and one of his very worse despite a endlessly intriguing concept of this college students going to a party movie with apocalyptic themes, alien abduction, bisexuality and acid drenched visuals.
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