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BFI London Film Festival Review: Hara-Kiri – Death of a Samurai (2011)
Prolific and unpredictable Japanese auteur Miike Takashi follows up his hugely popular and critically acclaimed “13 Assassins” with another period samurai outing in the form of “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai”. The film is...
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British Horror Film Festival ’11: The Holding, Stalker, and The Hike
The British Horror Film Festival, now in its second year, took place in London and Bournemouth over October 14th and 15th 2011, boasting a line-up of new home-grown genre fare. As well as the...
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2nd Annual Zipangu Fest Gets Ready to Make Some Noise in November
It’s Japanarchy in the UK all over again when the 2nd Annual Zipangu Fest opens its doors to lovers of all things Japanese cinema. The fest will run November 18th through November 24th in...
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London Film Festival Review: 360 (2011)
“City of God” and “The Constant Gardener” director Fernando Meirelles returns with “360”, his highly anticipated new outing, fittingly chosen as the opening film of the 2011 London Film Festival. Using Arthur Schnitzler’s classic...
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2nd British Horror Film Festival Line-Up
In London this October 14th and the 15th and love horror movies? Then you’re in luck, because the 2nd British Horror Film Festival is gearing up once again, and will be showing films on...
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The Avengers Are Heading to NY Comic-Con
Yup! You read that right. The Avengers are all actually heading to New York. So if a big ol’ villain wreaks some havoc at the New York Comic Con this year, know that you’ll...
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MIFFF Short Films Reviews
One of the coolest things about the Maelstrom International Fantastic Movie Festival is the shorts program. There were an absurd number of them, almost fifty, broken up into genre-specific chunks—a fantasy, animation, horror, and...
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MIFFF Review: Boy Wonder (2010)
Do yourself a favor, go out and find a way to watch “Boy Wonder”. It’ll be totally worth it, promise. A near perfect combination of grim revenge movie and dark super hero origin story,...
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MIFFF Review: The Selling (2011)
A big problem with films that present themselves as horror-comedies is that, all too often, they are neither frightening nor funny. In direct opposition to this trend, Emily Lou’s new film “The Selling” succeeds...
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Winners List From the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards
Well, once again, the annual Emmy Awards came and went and as usual, there was winners, losers, and lots and lots of glam with red being the color of the night for all the...
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MIFFF Review: Midnight Son (2011)
Almost immediately director Scott Leberecht’s new horror film “Midnight Son” calls to mind George Romero’s 1976 movie “Martin”. Both are ostensibly vampire movies, but vampire movies that tweak the formula and refuse to follow...
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Tom Six’s The Human Centipede 2 Will Premiere at This Year’s Fantastic Fest
Going to be in Austin between September 22nd and the 29th? If so, then you should spend quite a bit of time at this year’s Fantastic Fest. The genre-friendly festival has recently announced the...
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Eddie Murphy to Host the 84th Annual Academy Awards
Get ready: It’s officially official that this year’s Oscars host will be none other than the one and only Professor Klump Eddie Murphy! The announcement comes after there were rumors going around the Internet...
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Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival Announces 2011 Lineup
If you happen to be kicking around Seattle on the 16th, 17th, or 18th of September I’m here to let you know that you should definitely check out the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival....
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Fantastic Fest Reveals Their 2011 Second Wave Film Slate
Fantastic Fest has announced the second wave of programming for their 7th edition of Fantastic Fest, which takes place down in Austin, Texas from September 22th to September 29th. The line-up will include 17...
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Chinese Visual Festival 2011: Screening Day 2
The Chinese Visual Festival is described by the organisers as ‘a twin art festival dedicated to promoting Chinese independent documentary making partnering 10 documentaries shown at Birkbeck College and London Confucius Institute for Traditional...
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Chinese Visual Festival 2011: Screening Day 1
The Chinese Visual Festival is described by the organisers as ‘a twin art festival dedicated to promoting Chinese independent documentary making partnering 10 documentaries shown at Birkbeck College and London Confucius Institute for Traditional...
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Empire Presents … BIG SCREEN 2011 Notable Line-Ups Include Cowboys and Aliens, Fright Night
In London between August 12th and 14th? You’re in luck, because Empire Magazine’s Empire Presents….BIG SCREEN Film Festival/Convention (Film Con?) will be under way during those dates, and if you’re attending, you’ll be able...
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Chinese Visual Festival 2011 Press Preview Night
The Chinese Visual Festival, set to run at various locations in London from 30th June to July 15th 2011, kicked off last night with a press preview consisting of an exhibition of works from...
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Brazil’s Fantaspoa 2011 Film Festival Line-up
Fantaspoa 2011, billed as “the biggest fantastic film festival in Latin America”, is gearing up down in Brazil, with a whopping 150 films in its line-up, including 55 short films and 95 feature films....
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