The cinematic medium can make for a fascinating subject, especially in the hands of a director willing to explore it through personal insights. This is certainly the case with “Like You Know it All” from Hong Sang Soo, one of the current champions of the Korean independent film scene, whose previous...

The main guest at this year’s Grossmann Film and Wine Festival (Ljutomer, Slovenia) was the great Italian director Ruggero Deodato. Last year Roger Corman and Brian Yuzna were there and interviews with them can be found at Beyond Hollywood. Now, exclusive to this site, comes a talk with the director...

With the original “Oh! My God” having been a surprise box office smash, a sequel was always going to be a distinct possibility. Now, viewers can get another comic dose of lovable rogue Im Jung Hwan as the follow up arrives, with director Kim Jung Woo having handed the reigns to newcomer Hwang Seung...

The popularity of food related Korean films continues with “The Naked Kitchen” from first time female director Hong Ji Young, who also worked on the recent patisserie-set “Antique”. The film boasts an all star cast in the form of “Princess Hours” heartthrob Ju Ji Hoon (also in “Antique”),...

There are few true bikers. There are only a few more people who know real bikers. No, you aren’t one of them. If you were, you wouldn’t be sitting in front of a computer reading this review. You’d be too busy removing glass from your scalp from the beer bottle a guy broke over your...

Could it be? Is the Justice League movie dead, or at the very least, been put on delay mode for a very, very long time? One can only hope. I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again: I’m excited about a Justice League movie, but not so much about anything that I’ve heard about...

Against all the odds, with the genre having long been lingering in the cinematic doldrums, 2007 turned out to be a bumper year for Korean horror, largely thanks to the willingness of directors to innovate and to try something a little different than the usual simple tales of vengeful long haired spirits...

The crowning ghoulish jewel in the recent wave of Shaw Brothers horror releases is undoubtedly the notorious, long sought after “Seeding of a Ghost”. Directed by Richard Yeung Kuen (who also gave genre fans “Hell Has No Boundary”, a self-styled ‘exercise in eradication’)...

Cate Blanchett returns in a rarity — a sequel to a prestige film in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”, while Sean Astin tries to save a small town’s baseball team in “The Final Season”. That guy who likes to dress up as women returns with “Tyler Perry’s Why Did...

The King of schlock and president of Troma, Lloyd Kaufman, was the special guest of the GROSSMANN FILM FESTIVAL in a small Slovenian town Ljutomer. Slovenia is one of the small countries that came about after the breakdown of Yugoslavia, and the GROSSMANN Film and Wine Festival is one of the rare festivals...

The official poster for Australian film director Greg McLean’s crocodile film “Rogue” has surface. Get it? Surfaced? It’s a movie about a crocodile that swims? Oh man, I kill me. But I digress. For a while there, it looked like “Rogue” was going to get the direct-to-DVD...

I had heard that Australian filmmaker Greg McLean’s “Rogue”, the follow-up to his graphic true-life serial killer movie “Wolf Creek”, was going direct to DVD in the States, but that seems to have been premature. The film, about a killer croc, was in danger of being torpedoed...

The “Punisher 2″ rollercoaster ride continues. We reported a while back (here) that Lexi Alexander’s name had risen as a potential director for “Punisher 2″, replacing our hoped-for John Dahl, and now the blokes over at Arrow-in-the-Head has “confirmed” that...

Remake Happy Hollywood is at it again — this time targeting the 2001 South Korean tearjerker “Failain”, a movie that I really, really, really liked. The original was directed by Hae-sung Song (from a novel by Jiro Asada) and starred Cecilia Cheung as a young Chinese woman who arrives...

“The Witches Hammer” is, in essence, a low-budget British take on the “babe with a blade” vampire movie formula. Over the last few years, the likes of the “Underworld” movies, “Ultraviolet” and “Bloodrayne” have all tried to lend a feminine...

Supposedly based on a story that gave inspiration to not only Romeo and Juliet, but also the threesome of Guinevere, Lancelot, and King Arthur, “Tristan and Isolde” stars James Franco (”The Great Raid”) as Tristan and Sophia Myles as Isolde, forbidden lovers during the Dark Ages...

You would be forgiven if you thought the only thing Demi Moore was famous for is as that older chick shacking up with that semi-retarded kid in the trucker hat who likes to punk celebrities. After all, she did take a major sabbatical from the acting game for quite some time, leaving behind a thriving...

Gurinder Chadha’s “Bride and Prejudice”, supposedly a modern retelling (Bollywood style) of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, allows me to break out my favorite line when reviewing movies such as these: It is what it is, and if you went into this film knowing what...

David DeCoteau, the director of the low-budget, cheapie “Ring of Darkness”, is gay and proud of it. And the fact that DeCoteau is unapologetically gay means his movies are filled with hunky young men with rock hard bodies who also like getting naked — or at least semi-naked. None of...

Although 2003’s “Shiver” is more Serial Killer/Murder Mystery than Horror movie, that doesn’t stop the distributors from trying to lure audiences in with false advertisement. Even the movie’s poster, showcasing severed heads inside body bags, gives off vibes that we’re...