The apartment complexes making up what used to be Kowloon Walled City effectively sealed it off from the rest of Hong Kong. Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In imagines Kowloon as a kind of steampunk ghetto controlled by an aging gangster known as Cyclone (Louis Koo). Cyclone’s domain is a marvel of production […]
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The fantasy adventure series is now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Never count out Jim Cummings. The multi-hyphenate talent who broke out in 2016 with his SXSW winner Thunder Road knows how to make a film hilarious, gripping, and emotional in so many unexpected ways. After following up his feature debut […]
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Raphael (Luke Wilcox) is a a typical 2007 teenage dirtbag who gets wrangles into working as an informant for a local lunatic cop in directors Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky’s uproariously funny cringe comedy, Rats! When Rafi is picked up for tagging a beloved payphone in his native Pfresno, Texas, he finds himself firmly in the sights of the town’s worst law enforcement agent, Officer Williams (Danielle Evon Ploeger). Convinced that Rafi’s small time dope dealer cousin, Mateo (Darius Autry) is using his hustle as a cover for supplying international terrorists with nukes, Williams and Rafi’s mom force him to move in with Mateo and report back on his activity. From there, Rafi’s life spins increasingly out of control in the most hilarious ways possible. The…
The return of the Alien franchise isn’t the only space adventure of August. Mikael Håfström, director of the Oscar-nominated Evil and 1408, is headed deep in our galaxy with Slingshot. Led by Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham, Tomer Kapon, David Morrissey, and Mark Ebulué, the psychological thriller is written by Moon‘s Nathan Parker and […]
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The Adams Family filmmaking team moves away from their usual introspective slow burns in their latest film, the Serbia-set creature feature, Hell Hole. Even though this film seems mile away from their usual projects, the Adams/Poser family can’t help injecting a bit of clever cultural satire into their movie about a Lovecraftian parasitic ass octopus, and we’re here for it. Set in the remote forests of eastern Europe, Hell Hole follows the crew at an oil fracking site as they attempt to get their job underway, only to find that there’s something in the ground that really wants to get out. Part of the delay comes from an environmental study seeking out endangered species led by a pair of scientists, leader Nikola (Aleksandr Trmčić) and…
The decades-long partnership of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is endearingly profiled in the new documentary Merchant Ivory. The titular words are not only synonymous with the legendary duo, but also the string of iconic, sophisticated period pieces […]
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It’s a great time to be a Claire Denis fan. After delivering two (severely underrated) movies in one year with Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon, she’s prepping a pair of new projects. In between, the stunning new restoration has arrived for Fear, No Die, her 1992 feature pitting Alex Descas and […]
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Duchess, a small-time crook, tries to enter the treacherous underworld of diamond trafficking and ends up left for dead when a deal goes wrong. Determined to seek retribution she launches into an unwavering pursuit for vengeance. We’re just over a week away from the drop of Neil Marshall and Charlotte Kirk’s action film, Duchess. We have an exclusive clip to share with you today, the home invasion. Kirk’s character, Scarlett Monaghan, walks into the kitchen of her home to find a baddie assaulting the help. Cue fisticuffs! Even the help… helps. Duchess, the new film from Neil Marshall film, stars Charlotte Kirk, Philip Winchester, Colm Meaney, Hoji Fortuna, Colin Egglesfield with Stephanie Beachum and Sean Pertwee. The film will premiere on VOD…
John Mork, documentary filmmaker and journalist, investigates the possible crimes of a convicted Swedish multiple murderer in the U.S. Now streaming on Viaplay.
