Whispering Corridors 5: A Blood Pledge (2009) Movie Review

The landmark Korean ghost series “Whispering Corridors” returns for its fifth instalment with “A Blood Pledge”, marking the debut of director Lee Jong Yong, an interesting choice for the helm, given his previous work under Park Chan Wook on the likes of “JSA” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”....

November 7th, 2009 | Read More

Raging Phoenix (2009) Movie Review

You can’t blame the Thais for continuing to produce action movies like “Raging Phoenix”. There are basically only two genres coming out of Thailand that sells nowadays – martial arts movies and horror films. Everything else just doesn’t translate very well. One of the industry’s newest import...

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Teaser Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Salt is Pretty Sweet

I gotta admit, this Russian trailer (and Russian dubbed) teaser trailer just released by Yahoo! Movies for Angelina Jolie’s CIA spy thriller “Salt” is looking pretty sweet. I’m not a big fan of the outrageous action stunts that are featured in the trailer (give me down-and-gritty...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Prince of Persia Trailer

The trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which aired on UK’s GMTV, is now up on Youtube, and if you ever wanted to know how many different sand effects can be fit into one movie, then you can find out below. It certainly looks a lot like a videogame in that it’s really overproduced...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Box Office: Michael Jackson Is Sorta It, Boondock Sequel Not so Much

In a week without any other major studio competition, the Michael Jackson concert (rehearsal) movie “This is It” opened with $101 million worldwide, including $32 million in domestic ticket sales over a 5-day period, according to studio estimates. That’s good, but it’s nowhere...

November 1st, 2009 | Read More

Palisades Tartan’s Asian Horror: Essential Collection Review

Just in time for Halloween, Palisades Tartan has grouped together three of the most successful Asian horror films of recent years in one region 2 DVD collection. Although terms such as ‘essential’ are woefully overused when it comes to such compilations, in this case it certainly rings true, as the...

October 30th, 2009 | Read More

Paranormal Activity (2007) Movie Review

The buzz surrounding writer/director Oren Peli’s popular 2007 “found footage” horror outing “Paranormal Activity,” has been, in a word, astronomical. In addition to the countless testimonials I’ve read on message boards and entertainment websites alike, scores of people...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra DVD Prize Pack Giveaway

Yo, Joe! Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow take their little tiff to the DVD shelves when “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” arrives on standard DVD and Blu Ray on November 3, 2009. But why buy it when you don’t have to? On behalf of Paramount Home Entertainment, we have one G.I. Joe DVD Prize...

October 27th, 2009 | Read More

Gary Shore’s The Cup of Tears: Sci-Fi Samurai Badassness at its Finest

Holy shit. Now this is awesome. Remember the first time you saw “300″ or “Cassern” or all those samurai movies by Akira Kurosawa? Well, it looks like Irish director Gary Shore saw them too and put them all into a blender, shook it up, and came out with “The Cup of Tears”....

October 27th, 2009 | Read More

Five Minutes From The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

I don’t know which one was stronger: the feeling that Boondock Saints didn’t need a sequel, or the feeling that Boondock Saints would never get a sequel. Either way, Boondock Saints is definitely the best kind of sacrilege, the kind that dispenses indiscriminate justice, so it’s hard...

October 27th, 2009 | Read More

Four Funny Clips from Mary and Max

IFC Films has sent over four clips from Adam Elliot’s animated “Mary and Max”, which follows the tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary (Bethany Whitmore), a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a forty-four-year...

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

Box Office: Low-Budget Activity Favored Over Neverending Redundant Sequel

It used to be you could just toss a script together and call it “Saw”, release it on Halloween, and the kids would flock to see it. Well that’s still sort of true, though not nearly in the same league as previous incarnations of the “Saw” franchise. Especially when there...

October 25th, 2009 | Read More

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Movie Review

“The Men Who Stare at Goats”, starring and produced by George Clooney, is an adaption of Jon Ronson’s 2004 nonfiction book about alleged psychic experiments conducted by the U.S. military. Like “The Informant!”, another Clooney-produced movie, “Goats” is ostensibly based on true events,...

October 24th, 2009 | Read More

Two Opening Clips from The Descent 2

The official site for “The Descent 2″, the sequel to Neil Marshall’s all-girls bloodfest has put up two clips from the movie, both from the opening moments. Jon Harris takes over directing chores from Marshall (who produces), with original leads Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza,...

October 22nd, 2009 | Read More

The Tournament (2009) Movie Review

Scott Mann’s “The Tournament” looks and feels like an ‘90s action movie, the kind that relies on an overly simplified premise that is supposed to pass for a storyline, but is really just an excuse for a whole lot of wanton bloodshed. Mind you, not that that’s a bad thing. In this case, it just...

October 21st, 2009 | Read More

14 Blades Teaser Trailer is Teasingly Awesome

A teaser trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest Chinese costume martial arts epic “14 Blades” has landed online, and oh boy does it look good. I mean really, really good. It looks like the movie that “An Empress and the Warriors” should have been. The focus of the film seems to...

October 21st, 2009 | Read More

The Wolfman Comes to Life in Second Trailer

There have been several recent monster movies, such as Underworld and Van Helsing, that have been more ridiculous and benign, cast in an action mold. I don’t know if The Wolfman is going to fare any better (trailers can be deceiving), but they certainly have the atmosphere down: the dark, bent,...

October 21st, 2009 | Read More

More Crazy CGI Martial Arts in New Storm Warriors Trailer

Like CGI martial arts? You’re in luck, because another trailer for The Pang Brothers’ “The Storm Warriors” (aka “The Storm Riders 2″) has landed online. Let’s face it, “The Storm Warriors” is one of those movies where you know exactly where you stand...

October 19th, 2009 | Read More

Great Sound Design in Cinema

It is not uncommon for a movie to harbor great music, but perhaps it is even rarer for a film to use music in such an innovative way that it enhances the story beyond what mere sound can suggest. This list is not the best integrated sound – otherwise musicals would dominate – but the best...

October 17th, 2009 | Read More

Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Movie Review

“Law Abiding Citizen” posits that age-old question: if the system failed you, and you had the wherewithal to make it happen, would you blow it all up and start over? Okay, so the question doesn’t quite go like that, but it’s close enough. In the case of Kurt Wimmer’s “Citizen”, the answer...

October 16th, 2009 | Read More