I’ve received this press release stating that this year’s Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film from the country Belgium, BULLHEAD, will be released domestically by Drafthouse Films in select theaters on Friday, February 17th, 2012. For location of participating theaters and details, check out info below.. Continue reading

A few weeks ago, special thanks to Soda Pictures and Red Flag Releasing, I got the opportunity to interview Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, The Bloom Brothers) about her new drama, NORWEGIAN WOOD, directed by Anh Hung Tran, based on the popular novel by Haruki Murakami. The interview took place on January 6th, Rinko’s birthday so I started out by greeting her Happy Birthday which she took with excitement. By the way, the film NORWEGIAN WOOD is expanding to additional U.S. theaters starting this weekend.
She also talked a bit about her role in the Samurai movie 47 RONIN starring Keanu Reeves and also in PACIFIC RIM directed by Guillermo Del Toro… Continue reading

Kinopoisk got its hands on these new images of GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE, you can check out the rest OVER THERE but I’ve included some here, I can’t wait for this awesomeness to arrive, God I hope it doesn’t disappoint, because right now, everything about it looks badass.. Continue reading

The British Academy Of Film And Television Arts has its own lifetime achievement award as well, they call it Outstanding British contribution to Cinema award and this year’s recipient is two time Oscar nominee John Hurt (V For Vendetta, The Elephant Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), no Brit deserves it better. Congratulations, Mr. Hurt. Please don’t die.. Continue reading

The ever so awesome Allocine has this blooper reel from my most favorite movie last year, THE ARTIST, it shows some of the outtakes, some are sillier than others but if you haven’t seen the film yet, don’t judge it by this reel because seriously, the movie was just absolutely wonderful and I’d watch it again and again, here’s to THE ARTIST hopefully winning Oscar for Best Picture. Cheers!.. Continue reading

GRADE: 2 out of 5

There really is no other way to describe MAN ON A LEDGE than to simply call it Phone Booth meets The Negotiator. It’s a mildly entertaining thriller that throws originality out the window. I think it’s cute that it badly wants to be taken as a smart, edgy, heist action with unexpected twists and turns but once that juice runs out, as soon as the creativity hits the wall, everything about this movie falls apart.. Continue reading

GRADE: 4 out of 5

At times it feels like a long episode of Man Vs. Wild but the film’s occasional detour to drama about mortality and faith and questions about what happens when you die while trying to survive through dangerous elements keeps me fixed on THE GREY. Liam Neeson is the man, it doesn’t get more macho than Neeson, he can track down and fight human traffickers and now he can fight wolves, that is one bloody ballsy Irish son of a gun… Continue reading

Marvel has unleashed these new photos from the upcoming much anticipated summer awesomeness, THE AVENGERS. Some of these pics were previously seen in the latest issue of Empire mag, consider these the hi-res. I like the one with the close up shot of Sam Jackson as Nick Fury, he seems wise and focused.. Continue reading

At first I thought I was looking at the poster for some kind of sequel to Benicio Del Toro’s The Hunted, but then I misread, this poster, via Joblo, says THE HUNTER, starring Willem Dafoe, the film made its way to Toronto Film Festival last year and Magnolia will release it this Spring.
Dafoe plays Martin, a mercenary sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger. Check out the facebook page and view this image in its entirety after this jump.. Continue reading

Every year, after the Oscar nominations are announced, people would usually be familiar with some of the names mentioned or the majority of the films in the key categories but once they get to the animated short or documentary short or feature short categories, people would go ‘what are these films?’ which is an understandable argument because those shorts, as well-made as they are, may not have received the exposure they deserve.
But thanks to ShortsHD and Magnolia Pictures, you’ll get to watch what this year’s Oscar nominated shorts are all about.
I’ve received this press release stating that those two forces will bring the Oscar nominated short films of 2012 in over 200 theaters across the U.S and Canada on February 10th, 2012. You’ll get to watch the nominated shorts in the animation, live action, and documentary categories prior to the announcement of the winners on Feb. 26th.
So on Feb. 10, check your local theaters for shotimes and listing
The nominated short films will also be released individually on iTunes from February 21st in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany and other iTunes Stores throughout the world. The release will also be available via cable’s Movies On Demand (MOD), and will be available via Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Brighthouse, Cablevision and Cox Communication.
How awesome is that! So now none of us would have to miss out anymore. Check out details below.. Continue reading