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Long Time Actor, Stunt Performer and Fight Coordinator Jeff Wolfe Talks His Directorial Debut OUTBREAK, Working With Sammo Hung and That Scene In DRIVE ...
From battling alongside Jet Li in Once Upon a Time in China and America, facing off with Jean-Claude Van Damme in Knock Off, battling The Rock in The Scorpion King, acting alongside Quentin Tarantino in Alias, taking a memorable elevator ride with Ryan Gosling, through Stunt Coordinating everything from the Rush Hour, Mcgyver and Revolution TV series, Jeff Wolfe has been making his mark on the industry both infront and behind the camera.
Warriors Two & The Prodigal Son: Two Films By Sammo Hung Blu-ray review
As a long-standing fan of old-school Hong Kong martial arts movies, it seems insane that in almost two decades of writing for Cine Outsider, I’ve never really talked in any detail about Sammo Hung, or to give him his full name, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung. It’s not that I haven’t had the chance, mind you.
Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu Classics by Joseph Kuo Blu-ray review
When it comes to classic-era kung-fu movies, most of us tend to think of Hong Kong, the home base of genre specialists The Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. These are certainly the movies that I grew up on, blissfully unaware as I was back then that not only were exterior scenes in many of these movies shot in Taiwan, but Taiwan had its own martial arts directors, stars and movies.
Interview: I AM VENGEANCE: RETALIATION Director Ross Boyask Talks UK Action
Cult director Ross Boyask and his leading man Stu Bennett (formerly WWE Superstar Wade Barrett) delivered a solid little action thriller a few years back with I Am Vengeance, produced by the UK's Evolutionary Films. The original film saw Bennett playing John Gold, a man with a past who finds himself forced to fight to avenge the death of his family.
ESCAPE: There's no way out for Director Pedring A.Lopez
Filipino Director Pedring A Lopez has made quite a name for himself with such projects as Nialang/The Entity which pitted a Manilla Cop and a Yakuza Princess played by former AV superstar Maria Ozawa against a soul-stealing demon, and the slick widely acclaimed female driven action thriller Maria, starring Christine Reyes as a former assassin whose past life comes back to haunt her and brings her back to battle.
Review: THE CHANGEOVER, A Dark Fantasy From New Zealand
A young woman finds her inner strength in Miranda Harcourt & Stuart McKenzie's dark fantasy film The Changeover. Based on a popular 1984 novel by Margaret Mahy, The Changeover follows the plucky sixteen-year-old Laura Chant (Erana James) as she tries to save her young brother from an ancient curse. Standing in her way is Carmody Braque (Timothy Spall), an ageless spirit who poses as an antique dealer as a way of luring unwitting souls to their doom.
Netflix Signs Deal With THE HAUNTING of HILL HOUSE's Mike Flanagan And Trevor Macy, New Chapter Coming in 2020
Netflix announced today that they have entered into a multi-year deal with Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, the fine gents who brought us fan favorite The Haunting of Hill House. Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall television deal with Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy.
Fear Goes International In THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL Trailer
Following a year-long festival run that began at SXSW 2018, the latest Ant Timpson/Tim League horror anthology production The Field Guide to Evil is set to have a limited theatrical release in North America starting on March 29th. The film is the partial result of a new kind of profit sharing crowd funded project through MicroVentures where fans were invited to contribute.
THE WANDERING EARTH: Netflix Picks up Chinese Sci-fi Box Office Giant
News came late last night that streaming giant Netflix have acquired the rights for Frant Gwo's sci-fi thrillfest, The Wandering Earth. Already a box office phenomenon in China, earning $603 million over its first two weeks of release in the Mainland, it shows no signs of slowing down. Ex-pat audiences have been filling up the cinemas here in North America as well. For those of us who are fortunate enough to have seen The Wandering Earth here at home we too have fallen under its spectacular spell.
Dominiquie Vandenberg Talks LEGION MAXX
"Dominiquie Vandenberg is a modern-day warrior poet whose fight choreography is like a ballet that he mixes with images from a brutal past.
Friday One Sheet: Floating Heads, The Horror, The Horror
It is the week of Halloween, and horror movie posters abound. But the real horror is the poster-trend that never seems to die: the infamous floating heads. This trend came to prominence in the age of Walmart DVD shelves. Getting a major celebrity's face to peak above the shelf/rack resulted in favoured sales numbers by various analytics programs. Somehow it started in also infect theatrical releases, and it remains, to this day, the bane of anyone who loves a good piece of key art.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER: Watch The Trailer For Rich Phelps' Dark Short Film
Multi-hyphenate talent Rich Phelps has been touring the country with his new short film One Way Or Another and it's really not hard to see why. Phelps - who wrote, directed and edited the piece - has got a smart indie drama with a dark edge to it here, a sort of character driven rural noir where boredom and familiarity take its characters to some dark places.
Interview: Dolly Wells on Creating Sparks with Melissa McCarthy in CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
A familiar face on British stage and television shows like Doll & Em, Some Girls, and frequent collaborations with The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding, Dolly Wells takes a dramatic turn in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Review: THE DARK Exists in an Unusual Space
There is a monster inside of all of us. A monster made out of pain, frustration, and fear. A monster fed by neglect, trauma, and anger that rears its ugly head when we get tired of fighting. In director Justin Lange's debut feature, The Dark, that monster is a literal one. A beast borne of trauma and anger that feeds on the flesh of the wicked from its home deep in the forest near Devil's Den, and the beast is hungry.
Exclusive THE DARK Clip: These Woods Are Cursed
In our strange and mysterious exclusive clip from The Dark, two young people are walking in the woods when something causes them to stop, suddenly, and look around. Are they about to be eaten by a monster? Our own J. Hurtado began his positive review of the film thusly: "There is a monster inside of all of us. A monster made out of pain, frustration, and fear.
Review: SUSPIRIA, Creating New Flames From the Ashes of a Classic
It's honestly difficult to know where to start with Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of Dario Argento's deeply loved and cherished Suspiria. This film is something you really have to take away with you -- like a curse. The first thing you should arm yourself with on your journey into this labyrinthian, but electric 152 minute reworking of Suspiria is that -- spoiler alert -- for better or worse, Guadagnino's film is definitely not a remake.
Review: BURNING, a Thriller Like No Other
Eight years after his phenomenal drama Poetry, Lee Chang-dong made a long-awaited return to the Cannes competition with his sixth film Burning, an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story 'Barn Burning'. Dense with symbolism, this tour de force burrows towards the ineffable as it gradually builds palpable tension through a mystery that begins to consume its lead character.
Intense and Disturbing, CANIBA Finally Hits U.S. Theaters
After touring the festival circuit in 2017, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's highly disturbing documentary Caniba is finally being released in the United States courtesy of Grasshopper Films. Caniba is playing theatrically in New York during October. Then, the film screens in Los Angeles in late November. Dates in other cities are currently in the works. Caniba tells the story of notorious Japanese killer Isseu Sagawa, who murdered and cannibalized Renée Hartevelt in 1981.
Review: SILENCIO, Time-Bending Thriller That Misses Opportunities
Science fiction, arguably, has always been the more ponderous of the fantastic genres, in that in its various high-concept scenarios, it asks its audience to contemplate large questions regarding the nature of human existence, and how we function within that existence. Lorena Villarreal's english-language feature debut, Silencio, gives such a scenario, but sadly takes a long time to get there, and misses many opportunities to consider deeper and more interesting questions along the way.
Interview: Richard E. Grant on CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? and the Secrecy of STAR WARS
Ever since making a splash in the indie classic, Withnail and I, Richard E Grant has been a memorable presence in over 100 films and television shows. Appearing in virtually every genre of cinema, Grant touches hearts in Can You Ever Forgive Me? with his hilarious and poignant portrayal of Jack Hock, an AIDS-stricken grifter, and the only friend of a fellow reprobate, forger Lee Israel, played by Melissa McCarthy.
Dark Corner Announces All New VR Horror Just in Time for Halloween
It's that creepy time of year again and while the world of VR narratives are still struggling to gain a foothold outside of the festival world, the horror slice of the VR narrative pie is looking pretty encouraging. Leading the charge for the last few years has been the good folks at Dark Corner.
Velasco Broca's AUTONOMOUS GODS Fall In Love
What is love and where does it come from? Spanish maverick Velasco Broca and his collaborators at Canódromo Abandonado have the answer in the third episode of their (very odd) comedy web series Autonomous Gods. Watch and learn! In an underwater cathedral, a grumpy priest explains a series of esoteric truths to a an altar boy: where do the cosmos and the Spanish regions come from? What is love? Where do the gods end up when we stop believing in them?
Mumbai 2018 Preview: 15 Films To Catch At India's Biggest Film Fest
The 20th edition of India's biggest film event, the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star (a bit of an unwieldy name that folks usually shorten to "MAMI"), opens this Friday October 26th, with one of its most expansive line ups to date. The festival, which has established itself in the last several years to be the prime destination for movie fans in South Asia, is set to screen over 200 films at venues all over Mumbai, and frankly, it can all be a bit intimidating.
Mark Dacascos And Brahim Achabbkhe Face Off In THE DRIVER
Arriving in Thailand straight from the set of Netflix upcoming Wu Assassins and a little movie named John Wick 3, Mark Dacascos (Drive, Crying Freeman) gets behind the wheel and back in action for his latest project, The Driver. The film is directed by Wych Kaosayananda, whose credits include everything from Balistic: Eck Vs Sever, Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge, and Angels which was reborn as Zero Tolerence.
Review: VENOM, A Cleaned Up, Toned Down, Baffling Misfire
Over the past two decades very few Marvel supervillains have been as visible to non-comic enthusiasts as Spider-Man's nemesis, Venom. Since his introduction to the world at large in The Amazing Spider-Man #300, the evil black goop from outer space has been one of the most popular foes for the web-slinging smart aleck since 1988.
Luna's Revenge premieres at Raindance Film Festival
Among the fantastic line-up of the 26th Raindance Film Festival is the exciting German thriller "Luna's Revenge" which premiered last night at the Vue Cinema in London's West End. In attendance were Lisa Vicari (Dark, Hell) who plays the title role Luna and Branko Tomovic (24: Live Another Day, Dogs of Berlin, Deus) who stars as the dangerous and scary undercover agent Victor.
Review: HEAVY TRIP, Sweet, Heavy-Metal Black Comedy
Of all the things I imagined Heavy Trip would be, "sweet" was not one of the adjectives that would've immediately jumped to mind before watching this utterly charming shaggy dog story of a band chasing a dream they never really intended to catch. But here we are, in a post-Heavy Trip world, and sweet is the best way to describe this hilarious film that is shockingly appropriate for the whole family, as long as your family isn't averse to grave robbing and escaped mental patients.
Fantastic Fest 2018 Review: FERAL, Andrés Kaiser's Worthy Debut Feature
The only Mexican film at this year's Fantastic Fest was Andrés Kaiser’s debut feature length film, Feral, which uses fake documentary and found footage formats to delve into a tragedy that took place in the late 1980s. It officially ended with several unanswered issues, the central questions being: who exactly were the man and the three infants who perished due to a fire that broke out in their house located in a wooded area of Oaxaca, Mexico? And what was the cause of the catastrophe?
Busan 2018 Review: BEAUTIFUL DAYS Handsomely Frames Somber Subject
As the veil of secrecy over the guarded North Korean regime threatens to give way (if only slightly) in the surprising geopolitical climate we find ourselves in today, the film industry in South Korea has also begun to change how it approaches narratives concerning its Northern neighbors.
Camera Japan 2018 Review: DESTINY, THE TALE OF KAMAKURA Is Sugar Sweeeeeeeet...
This year, the Dutch Camera Japan Festival is being held for the 13th time, and to celebrate that, its theme is "superstition and the supernatural". Opening the Rotterdam leg of the festival was Yamazaki Takashi's new fantasy Destiny, The Tale of Kamakura, and a more fitting film would be hard to find, as it is virtually crammed with ghosts, yokai, and Gods. In the film, we follow newly-weds Isshiki (Sakai Masato) and Akiko (Takahata Mitsuki).
Fantastic Fest 2018: Wrap and Index of Films We Really, Really Liked
We have no grand pronouncements to make about this year's edition of Fantastic Fest, except to say that we (mostly) wrote only about films that we really, really liked. Here's our wrap (as of this moment) of our reviews and interviews. More related articles may follow. The Night Comes For Us by Peter Martin After the Screaming Stops by Peter Martin Gustav Moller on THE GUILTY by Peter Martin Jim Hosking and David Wike on AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN by Eric Ortiz Garcia Were we right?
THE MANDALORIAN: Jon Favreau Reveals Details on His STAR WARS Show
Jon Favreau just revealed some details about his upcoming Star Wars show he is creating for Disney's streaming service. By way of his Instagram account he revealed that the show will be called The Mandalorian and will take place in the SWU timeline between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order.
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA: Watch The New Trailer For New Netflix Series from RIVERDALE Creator
Netflix released the official trailer for Chllling Adventures of Sabrina, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa`s adaptation of the Sabrina The Teenage Witch comics. It is a curious mix of dark magic and moments meant for levity. Set to a sock hop boppy tune even the darkness seems all bright and cheery. The Netflix original series premieres October 26, 2018 with 10 episodes.
Review: OUTCAST (2015), a lifeless and confusing action "epic"
I’m a big fan of Nicolas Cage, believe it or not. He’s a pretty great actor in the right role, and a hilariously over-the-top one when playing the wrong character. He is very expressive, knows how to use his body and mannerisms —even now that he’s developing a beer gut and losing his hair—, and is a master at playing men on the verge of collapse.
OUT NOW!! Official Soundtrack: Zoe and the Astronaut
October 3 2018, 12:35 PM Community Content OUT NOW!! Official Soundtrack: Zoe and the Astronaut
Review: EXES BAGGAGE, A Man and A Woman Walk into a Bar...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. They loved each other once. Each had baggage they couldn’t get over. Like a cigarette half-smoked and song half-played, their relationship -- like so many others --burned bright but was gone before they knew it. It’s a story that’s been told time and time again, differing only via slight permutations. It’s not special, there are no extremes, it’s the kind of coupling and uncoupling many of us have gone through and/or will eventually go through.
New York 2018 Review: Bi Gan's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, The Cinematic Event of the Year
After his phenomenal debut Kaili Blues (2015), Bi Gan's sophomore effort, Long Day's Journey into Night, doesn't disappoint in terms of ambition, technical prowess and sheer ecstatic beauty. I've never experienced anything quite like it, as far as an immersive moviegoing experience goes. If the uncut 40-minute shot in Kaili Blues took your breath away, just wait until you see a continuous hour-long 3D scene in the latter half of the film.
Fantastic Fest 2018 Interview: Director Amanda Kramer Talks LADYWORLD
In the opening credits of Amanda Kramer's Ladyworld, we hear what we'll eventually confirm as an earthquake that has left eight young girls trapped in the house where they were supposed to celebrate the birthday of one of them.
Sneak Peek Teaser: GLIMPSE, Episode 4, The Future of Conversation and Human Communication
The sci-fi series Glimpse airs weekly every Thursday on Facebook. We have a teaser for the next episode, titled "Esperanto," that will aim to give a glimpse into the future of conversation and human communication. According to the official verbiage, "the scripted series written by Luke Kingma explores the exponential growth of our science and technology in relation to the human condition, and their intersection in life.
Fantastic Fest 2018 Interview: Director Jim Hosking and Co-Writer David Wike on AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN
After his debut feature The Greasy Strangler, a sort of mix between quirky romantic/comedy indie cinema and exploitation/B movies, British director Jim Hosking is back with An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, stepping away from horror but maintaining a general sense of total extravagance, with humorous moments, and adding a halo of mystery to the plot.
Exclusive HEAVY TRIP Clip: The Seeds of Metal Stardom
How do you escape the basement to become a star? The seeds are planted in our exclusive clip from Heavy Trip. The film, directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, follows a young man named Turo (played by Johannes Holopainen) who yearns to become a heavy metal star. Since he lives in rural Finland, the odds don't seem to be in his favor. In our delightful clip, he and his buddies ponder the possibilities.
Vancouver 2018 Review: WANGDRAK'S RAIN BOOTS
Wangdrak (Druklha Dorje) is a spirited first-grader living in a rural farming village in Tibet. As the movie begins, his daily routine, walking to school with a neighborhood girl, playing with his wind-up frog, has been disrupted by the rainy season and his lack of proper footwear. The walk to school is treacherous with deep rain puddles, and poor Wangdrak has to be carried across by his friend.
Fantastic Fest 2018 Interview: Nicolas Pesce on His Film Adaptation of Murakami Ryu's PIERCING
For his second feature length film, after The Eyes of My Mother, young American director Nicolas Pesce decided to adapt Murakami Ryu’s 1994 novel Piercing.
SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE: New Trailer Features More Spider-Heroes
The new trailer for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is here and it is chock full of Spider-Heroes. Oh, it does not stop at Gwen Stacy, oh no. Now we get to see how many heros' dimensions collide in this animated feature film. In addition to Peter, Miles and Gwen you can see from the new trailer we will also get Peni Parker in full anime mode with her SP//dr Suit, Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Ham in glorious cartoon mode. It is a wonder to behold. Have a look for yourself.
Bollywood's THUGS OF HINDOSTAN Goes Full Pirates Of The Arabian In First Trailer
Every year for Diwali, Hinduism's fall festival of lights, Bollywood pulls out the big guns and this year is no different. Thugs of Hindostan is a film many years in the making, starring numerous massive Indian movie stars in a swashbuckling adventure story.
Vancouver 2018 Review: THE SISTERS BROTHERS
The Sisters Brothers is an excellent movie, but it is being marketed in all the wrong ways. I suppose if it results in a financial success, then all's well that ends well. I worry, though, that once general audiences see the thing, they're going to realize it's not what they signed up for, and the backlash will begin. So, let me say this right now: The Sisters Brothers is not a wacky Western comedy, as the trailer would have you believe.
Have Your Say: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Versus GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
Thirty years ago, then-fledgling animation factory Studio Ghibli released two new feature films, each starring two children: the gentle fantasy tale My Neighbor Totoro and the harsh war drama Grave of the Fireflies. Both films initially opened to great critical reviews but tepid box offices, yet in time both grew in popularity, to become legendary entries in their fields. Few films, animated or not, can match the accolades these two titles have gathered over the past three decades.
CARVED: Watch Justin Harding's Huluween Film Fest Competition Entry
It is October 1st and the spooky season has kicked off everywhere. Streaming service Hulu has started its own Huluween programming which includes a short film competition. Not only are we feeling spooky but also very patriotic so when we found out that Justin Harding was the lone Canadian in Hulu's Film Fest competition we knew we had to share his short Carved with you tonight. And just by watching you are helping Justin stand a chance of winning it all.
Slow Motion. Unnecessary (non)happenings on screen.
Now let me tel you about another time. A time when there were no recaps, no overexplanatory scenes and no time or space for a scene that should only be 2 or three seconds, but due to lack of inspiration or an otherwise misguided sense of tensionbuilding, is played more slowly than the actual real time footage so that the shown scene will actually be 3 or 4 times longer.
New documentary THE NEW FIRE asks if the solution to climate change is right in front of us
What is the solution to climate change was hiding in plain sight? Exploring this question, THE NEW FIRE is a provocative and startlingly positive story about a planet in crisis and the young heroes who are trying to save it. The film features Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Gates, James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, and Kerry Emanuel, and shines a spotlight on nuclear start-ups Oklo, Transatomic, and TerraPower. Nuclear power has been vilified in popular culture and among much of the environmental community.
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