by Todd Brown, September 17, 2009 12:04 PM
Those bemoaning the somewhat overly-sanitary monopoly the folks at Walden currently hold on the world of child and tween oriented fantasy, take heart. Black Sheep director Jonathan King has arrived with his adaptation of popular New Zealand novel -...
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by Todd Brown, September 17, 2009 4:03 AM
Brace yourselves for a firestorm, people, the globe's leading provocateur is back on form and slapping his latest film with a title sure to rile elements of the religious right is merely the first and least of Lars Von...
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by James Marsh, September 16, 2009 6:50 PM
Opening this year's Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival on Wednesday night was Johnnie To's latest offering, VENGEANCE. A good old fashioned revenge thriller, the film is a collision of ideas and styles and an obvious attempt by the...
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by Todd Brown, September 16, 2009 11:18 AM
If it seems like the sort of story that could happen in real life, that's because it is. Pulled from actual headlines, Rain Dogs director Ho Yuhang returns with At The End Of Daybreak, a story of class division...
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by Todd Brown, September 16, 2009 11:12 AM
Nina is an aspiring rock star. Kiko is a deaf dancer. And the idea of the two of them hooking up in a Filipino teen-romance will probably provoke as many rolls of the eyes among those reading this as...
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by Todd Brown, September 16, 2009 9:21 AM
Life's a bitch when your soul is owed to the devil. It's even more of a bitch when you're not even the guy who sold it off. But such is the sad state of affairs for Solomon Kane, the...
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by Todd Brown, September 16, 2009 2:53 AM
Following hard on the heels of similarly themed Danish feature Flame and Citron - the chronicle of two famous Danish resistance fighters in WWII - Norwegian blockbuster Max Manus aims to shed light on a largely forgotten episode of...
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by Todd Brown, September 15, 2009 6:18 PM
[Our thanks to Moko for the following review.] An uninformed moviegoer may read the initial premise of Air Doll and think, "Wow, a Japanese movie about a sex doll that comes to life? That MUST be zany! There's absolutely...
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by Todd Brown, September 15, 2009 10:36 AM
It's a tale of two John's in Hong Kong / French co-production Vengeance. On one side of the coin is iconic Hong Kong director Johnnie To, here tipping his hat to his beloved library of classic French gangster films while...
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by Todd Brown, September 15, 2009 2:33 AM
It was supposed to be a return to a simpler life for Johannes and Pernille, a move away from the big city and back to the small town for the high powered lawyer and his young family. It should...
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