Movie News Chat

Sigh. I was really hoping that this would be subtitled but the fact that there is an American rights holder pretty much guaranteed that it wouldn’t. Of the big three anime films already released in Japan thus far this year ...

Thanks to an observant reader for sending this one in … Welsh director Marc Evans, who will be bringing his latest film Trauma to the Toronto Film Festival, has published a diary online for the BBC here. I’ve only skimmed ...

Curses! The last beer in my fridge wasn’t sealed properly and it went flat!

Has he reached the point of market saturation yet? I don’t know, but Takashi Miike has got to be coming close. Thanks to Logboy for pointing out the upcoming R1 DVD releases of Miike’s Andromedia and Kikoku – retitled here ...

The complete line up for the Toronto Film Festival – including the Midnight Madness films which weren’t supposed to be announced till this Friday – is now available here and it’s a good one. I should point out that my ...

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a sequel to the 2000 film Big Momma’s House is all set to roll. There are so many things wrong with this notion that it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all ...

KungFuCinema.com has posted a series of still shots from Kung Fu Hustle – Steven Chow’s long awaited follow up to Shaolin Soccer. Reasons to get excited about this film: 1. It’s Steven Chow. He’s a funny man. 2. Fight choreography ...

Some kind, Korean speaking soul has just posted a detailed list of the special features included on the four disc Old Boy Ultimate Edition over on the KFC boards. There are a lot of them: The film itself, remastered for ...

The Korea herald has just run a detailed review of Three: Monster the three part anthology film with contributions from Chan Wook Park, Fruit Chan and Takashi Miike. Apparently this thing is intense enough that it’s had people walking out ...

Here’s a little something I came across thanks to the good people at GreenCine Daily – which you really should be reading, and not just because they keep saying nice things about us. You may recall us running a story ...

Good news for Takeshi Kitano fans in this part of the world … The Digital Bits is reporting that Miramax will release DVD editions of Kitano’s Zatoichi and Sonatine on November 9th. Zatoichi will feature a behind the scenes feature ...

Variety is reporting that Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police is in danger of receiving an NC-17 rating due to scenes of “graphic puppet sex”. Puppet sex? I think I need to see this film. Go ahead ...