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Jet Li, Collin Chou, and Wu Jing Join Forces for Badges of Fury
Jet Li? Collin Chou? Wu Jing? In the same damn movie? The upcoming Chinese thriller “Badges of Fury” already has my attention. Given that these guys know how to fight, the idea of seeing...
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Guess What? The Evil Dead Remake is Officially Rated R
It’s official: The Motion Picture Association of America has given director Fede Alvarez’s “Evil Dead” remake an R-rating. Of course, this is no surprise to anyone who watches the trailer at least once before...
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First Blurry Image from Director Ti West’s The Sacrament
I know a lot of people who can’t stand Ti West’s movies, and I simply cannot understand why. I think he’s one of the few guys making genuinely scary movies these days. Although “Cabin...
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Tara Cardinal Kicks Ass in the New Scarlet Samurai: Incarnation Teaser
Tara Cardinal is my hero. In addition to filming a handful of indie projects, the “Legend of the Red Reaper” mastermind has been putting some serious work into her Asian-inspired actioner “Scarlet Samurai: Incarnation.”...
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Danny Trejo is the Law in the New Russian Comedy Ticket to Vegas
Danny Trejo? Russian comedy? Sex? Violence? Elvis impersonators? I’ll bite. While my knowledge of Russian cinema is sadly limited to the work of producer, writer, and director Timur Bekmambetov, I’m always open to learning...
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Erik Gardner’s I am an Exorcist Drops a New Teaser Trailer
I know what you’re thinking, and you’re probably right. Why would I waste my time writing about a movie that doesn’t even have funding yet? The answer is simple: I secretly love exorcism movies....
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Takashi Miike’s Thriller Shield of Straw Gets a New Teaser Trailer
Ack! Takashi Miike has another movie coming out! I’m so behind as it is. Although my backlog of motion pictures is growing by leaps and bounds, I’ll always make room for a new Miike...
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Dancing! Fighting! Bowling Alleys! It’s Jay Chou’s The Rooftop
At a young age, Jay Chou has already had an interesting career. Not only did he have a part in director Woo-ping Yuen’s badass martial arts flick “True Legend,” he co-starred in the big-budget...
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Encapsulated Cinema: Django Unchained, Seven Psychopaths, and Ghoul
Django Unchained (2012) Quentin Tarantino is one of my favorite filmmakers. However, his recent films have left me wanting more. It’s not that they were necessarily bad, mind you, but they didn’t have the...
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Valentine’s Day Gets an Extra Coat of Red in The Chrysalis
The upcoming Chinese horror movie “The Chrysalis” certainly fulfills the traditional Valentine’s Day requirement of the color red. Judging from the trailer you see embedded down below, the upcoming feature doesn’t shy away from...
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South Korean Thriller The New World Lands a Poster and a Teaser Trailer
Choi Min-sik’s performances in both “Oldboy” and “I Saw the Devil” are nothing short of phenomenal. I’m sure that’s not the first time you’ve read something along those lines. Even when the movies themselves...
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First Official Teaser for S-VHS Promises Even More Found Footage
I wasn’t a fan of the 2012 found footage flick “V/H/S.” While others were quick to toss the film into their Top 10 lists for the year, I thought it was among the worst....
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Here’s A 146 Minute Castlevania Movie Made Out Of LEGOs
No joke. The video you see embedded below was constructed entirely out of LEGOs. And the damned thing is two-and-a-half hours long. The best part: the filmmakers uploaded the entire production to YouTube. In...
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Director Tibor Takac’s Spiders 3D Drops A Full Trailer And A Poster
Although I hate spiders with an undying passion, I’m strangely drawn to monster movies which feature the creatures in all their disturbing glory. That said, “The Gate” director Tibor Takac’s “Spiders 3D” might be...
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Tomoyuki Takimoto’s Brain Man Headed To Japanese Theaters This February
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten excited about a Japanese movie that didn’t involve things like bodily fluids, ass-obsessed zombies, and creatures emerging from otherwise ordinary vaginas. Director Tomoyuki Takimoto’s “Brain Man,” while...
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Chinese Horror Flick Mysterious Island 2 Scares Up A New Trailer
The 2011 Chinese horror flick “Mysterious Island” found a group of young and attractive individuals competing for cash on — you guessed it — a mysterious island in the middle of nowhere. Lots of...
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Director Travis Bain’s Bigfoot Flick Throwback Gets Another Trailer
In case you haven’t noticed, the Bigfoot genre is enjoying a sudden boost in popularity among the folks who make and distribute indie motion pictures. Unfortunately for moviegoers, very few of them look to...
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Short Film: Director David Roddham’s Coward
Full disclosure: Generally speaking, I don’t spend a lot of time watching short films. The ones I do catch are usually recommended to me by someone familiar with the project. It’s not that I...
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First Images From The Walking Dead XXX Parody Are Actually Kind Of Impressive
So apparently there’s a pornographic parody of the hit AMC show “The Walking Dead” in the works. Although this isn’t altogether surprising in and of itself — everything seems to have a XXX spoof...
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