The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Movie Review

The midnight showing was sold out and electricity rocketed through the air from the excitement. It was as if a viewer was attending a midnight mass for a Goth Christmas, and when everyone got home, Edward and Jacob would have visited and left presents under the posters bearing their likeness. BOOYAH!!...

November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Battle Clips from John Woo’s Red Cliff

For those who are interested in such things, John Woo’s martial arts epic “Red Cliff” (formerly “The Battle of Red Cliff”) opened in limited release in the States yesterday. Granted, the perfect timing for this post would have been yesterday, but hey, better late than never,...

November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Four New Action-Heavy Clips from Ninja Assassin

Let’s face it, if you aren’t jazzed up about seeing James McTeigue’s “Ninja Assassin” on opening day after all the clips and trailers and pics we’ve posted, these four new clips from Warner Bros. isn’t going to change your mind. In which case, you’re probably...

November 16th, 2009 | Read More

Box Office: Disaster Porn Rules the Planet

Who says there’s no profit in blowing up the world a billion times over? Don’t tell Roland Emmerich that. The German director has blown up, imperiled, or invaded the Planet Earth at least a half dozen times in his career, and his latest, the mother of all disaster epics “2012″...

November 15th, 2009 | Read More

The Official Kick-Ass Teaser Trailer is Mildly Kick-Ass

The “Kick-Ass” official site says this teaser trailer isn’t set to debut until 3 days from now on Myspace, but this vid that’s already up at Myspace’s Trailer Park says differently. It’s a short teaser, and pretty much what you already saw in the Comic Con bootleg...

November 11th, 2009 | Read More

Clash of the Titans Teaser Trailer Arrives to Save the Day

It ain’t your daddy’s “Clash of the Titans”. That much is clear from this one-minute teaser trailer for Frenchman Louis Leterrier’s “Clash of the Titans” remake via Yahoo! For one, there’s that whole pounding rock music soundtrack. I don’t think they...

November 11th, 2009 | Read More

The Box (2009) Movie Review

If you’re a fan of writer-director Richard Kelly, or even just mildly interested in his career, the trailers for “The Box” might convince you it’s the kind of movie everyone was waiting for him to make. After two confusing and overindulgent films (cult favorite “Donnie Darko”, and the not-so-cult...

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

Box Office: Christmas Tops the Men and Their Precious Fourth Box

Who says you can’t have Christmas in November? Not Jim Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis. The duo’s CG take on the timeless “A Christmas Carol” took the top spot at the box office in its debut, knocking last week’s champ, Michael Jackson’s “This is it”...

November 8th, 2009 | Read More

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