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

The Road (2009) Movie Review

“The Road” is an adaptation of the 2006 novel of the same name by author Cormac McCarthy, whose novel “No Country for Old Men” was adapted into last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner. “The Road” obviously has similar aspirations: It’s a haunting, beautifully crafted film with great performances,...

October 16th, 2009 | Read More

How to Not Make Spider-Man 4 A Total Mess

The original Spider-Man (2002) film was released to rave reviews, garnering a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the sequel (2004) was even more critically acclaimed with an average of 94%. Now, the similarity between these two movies (besides the cast, setting, and name) is that each one only had one villain,...

October 14th, 2009 | Read More

Expendables 3-Minute Trailer Will Rock Your World

Let’s face it, Roger Ebert is going to take one look at this three-minute long trailer for Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables” and cream his pants in shock that Hollywood is still making this kind of movie. Heck, he might even write a long article about the evils of too many...

October 13th, 2009 | Read More

Tracing Shadow (2009) Movie Review

“Tracing Shadow” marks the fourth directorial outing for popular Hong Kong Star Francis Ng, and sees him again co-helming with Marco Mak, who he previously worked with on “Dancing Lion”. The film itself is somewhat of a throwback to the glory days of Hong Kong cinema, being a wacky martial arts...

October 12th, 2009 | Read More

Bryan Singer Wants to Direct X-Men Again, Fanboys Cream Pants

I kid, I kid about the fanboys comment, especially since I’m one of those people who would love to see Bryan Singer make a triumphant return to the X franchise. After hacks like Gavin Hood and Brett Ratner took their turn slashing away at the franchise like blind hobos, it’s human nature...

October 11th, 2009 | Read More

Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg (2009) Movie Review

With so many Chinese films still being called ‘Kung Fu’ something or other, and with the continuing global success of Michael Bay’s blockbuster “Transformer” franchise, “Kung Fu Cyborg: Metallic Attraction” was pretty much inevitable. The Hong Kong director getting in on the act is none...

October 9th, 2009 | Read More

New Batch of Clips from Law Abiding Citizen

With their thriller set to hit theaters next week, Overture Films has released a new batch of clips from the F. Gary Gray-directed and Kurt Wimmer-scripted revenge thriller “Law Abiding Citizen”. The film stars Jamie Foxx as a slick D.A. and Gerard Butler as one pissed off citizen turned...

October 5th, 2009 | Read More

Boondock Saints II Poster, Images, and Green Band Trailer for the Kiddies

Two trigger happy vigilantes versus Judd Nelson? Now that’s a movie. MTV’s got your first look at the “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” poster and some stills, and a green band trailer has arrived for the kiddies. (The adults should take at the Red Band trailer here.) Julie...

October 5th, 2009 | Read More