British couple Mary (Joanna Scanlan) and Ahmed (Nasser Memarzia) are spending what looks to be an uneventful night at home after a social outing. In a matter of seconds, though, Ahmed dies suddenly when sitting down in his chair while Mary is making tea. This jarring development sends her life into a tailspin, amplified by the discovery of an identification card belonging to a French woman in her husband’s personal effects....
The acts included Zamora the torture king (real name Tim Cridland), who would pierce his skin with all kinds of implements. He’d also lay on top of sharpened weapons and have a cinder block broken over his chest. Beatrice Aschard, aka Bebe the circus queen and Rose’s wife, would have a watermelon sliced by a machete while it was balancing on her neck, among a bevy of other performances. Paul Lawerence started off as Slugs before changing his stage name to The Enigma....
Alex (Daniel Brühl) has a problem; his mother (Katrin Sass) has been in a coma for eight months. Worse, while the die-hard socialist matriarch is down for the count, the Berlin Wall comes down and East Germany is no more. After she emerges from her catatonic state, Alex is informed that any sudden shock could be fatal. A shock like, say, the news that the regime you’ve enthusiastically supported your entire life is suddenly no more....
So what does that say about Sir Ian McKellen in director Sean Mathias’s Hamlet, just fifteen years shy of his centenary? A play about a young man again, this time pretending to be mad. Is he mad? McKellen last played Hamlet 53 years ago, when he was the same age as The Dane at the play’s close. That was 1971! A Clockwork Orange was still playing on general release. So was Polanski’s Macbeth, come to that....
Oh, Tinseltown has gradually grown comfortable with films about homosexuals-so long as they’re martyred or at least expired by the closing credits (think Philadelphia, Milk and A Single Man, even Brokeback Mountain for that matter). What it hasn’t figured out what to do with is a comedy in which the central characters are raunchily and unrepentantly gay, involved in criminal malfeasance and based on real people who are still above ground....
In the opening scene, Daniel introduces himself through an efficient use of voice-over dialogue. We learn that he’s a psychic, but not a particularly good one, as he humorously reflects on his woes. Next thing we know, Daniel is breaking into a house when he runs into another burglar, Josie (Cheryl Holifield). The chemistry between Joseph and Holifield is apparent at once, even if some of the dialogue feels a bit forced....
Shortly after moving in, Sacha stumbles upon Dan enjoying a glass of wine while in drag. Dan confides that he has been privately cross-dressing for years. He hoped his wife would understand, but she took their child and left him. Dan invites Sacha to his public drag debut at a midnight cabaret. Sacha politely declines as he will be busy hiding in his room all night. Unfortunately, Dan’s big night ends in a drag disaster....
From how he depicts it, Diallo traversed the entire stretch of the African continent to eventually board the same boat Sall was on. Diallo is very charming and will clearly go as far as he is able in this life. Sall seems more taciturn and less conversational. He seems to have a gift for cooking. Being an undocumented migrant is a hindrance in that regard. His road will be steeper and harder than his friends....
Minato (Soya Kurokawa) is having a hard time. He lives with his mother, Saori (Sakura Ando), a young widow struggling with her role as a mother of an adolescent. His behavior is becoming increasingly erratic, and it comes to light he’s had some run-ins with his teacher, Hori (Eita Nagayama). Enraged at the potential abuse of her son, Saori seeks to make the school pay for its perceived malfeasance. Of course, nothing is quite so simple, and the film’s structure provides shifting points of view that bring new revelations for each party involved in the scandal....
Well for those who dig the segment, here’s a quick bit of news — DVDuesday will now be on Attack of the Show twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. Yeah, you heard me — TWICE A WEEK! That’s two-times the DVDs and two-times the Gore! Tuesdays segment will basically be the same with reviews of the latest DVDs hitting store shelves that day. Then there will be a whole new segment on Fridays with recommendations of various kinds of DVDs worth checking out....
Leave it to the French to take such a clever idea and run with it. The Adamant is a psychiatric hospital on the banks of the Seine in Paris that also doubles as an activity center, café, library (complete with a substantial DVD collection), and art center. Philibert takes us inside the Adamant, allowing the patients (or “passengers” as the filmmaker prefers) to give us a guided tour of all of what goes on....
Your movie might be nominated! So why not check out the nominees below and read the text from the official press release? Greener Grass from IFC Midnight leads with with four nominations including Indie Comedy, Ensemble Cast, Indie Movie of the Year and a Directress nomination for co-directors Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe. In an effort to support women directors, Film Threat’s Award This! has separated the directing category into male and female directors in the same way that the Oscars has gender-split its acting categories....
Despite seeing its revenues diminish slightly over the past decade, film has remained as one of the most lucrative industry’s in entertainment. Such is the success of gaming that film has looked to it for inspiration and even collaboration. In this article we will explore in fine detail the symbiotic relationship between film and gaming and explain how both have used the other to excel and thrive. Team Ups In 1980 the average cost of marketing a movie in the United States was $4....
Caleb (Embry Johnson) is a 15-year-old who’s been experiencing unexplained visions since he was a toddler. For a number of years now, Caleb has been under the supervision of the United States government. However, he will only speak about his new revelation with one person; his father Erik (Cory Kays). The snag is that Erik is drinking his life away, ever since Emily (Adrianne White), Erik’s wife/ Caleb’s mom, died; not to mention that Erik and Caleb haven’t spoken in years....
The movie shows children the cycle of seasons through animation and music. With each season displayed, a new movement is played to fit the changing of the seasons. The 12-minute educational video has soothing and relaxing music that gives life to the animation as dancing fungi and trees are front and center for the majority of the short. While Rebirth does not have groundbreaking animation, it’s simple and very children friendly in the way a Nick Jr....
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Four days earlier, a small meteor crashed into the Earth, landing in an apartment. But the crash was no mere meteor but an egg, producing a tiny, delicate spider. While 12-year-old Charlotte (Alyla Browen) is snooping through apartments when she discovers the spider, claiming it as her pet and christening it with the name “Sting.” Charlotte lives with her Mother (Penelope Mitchell), baby brother, and stepfather, Ethan (Ryan Corr), who also illustrates her up-and-coming graphic novel, “Fang Girl”....
Gavin’s younger brother, Harry (Bjorn Gessle), lives in their hometown of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Once he hears about the incident that resulted in Gavin forced leave (involving the assault of a student who fell asleep in his class) he decides to organize a hiking trip on part of the Appalachian Trail that goes through Vermont. The trip is not only for the two brothers but for the rest of Gavin’s close-knit group of guy friends from college....
In this article, we will be taking a look at a few of the best casino movies ever made, as well as going through each and giving you a brief description to see if any of them take your fancy. Rounders Rounders is perhaps the quintessential casino movie, with it being the first film in this category that most people have seen. Moreover, when you factor in its impressive cast (we are talking about you Matt Damon), it also happens to be one of the biggest-budget gambling movies out there....
LAST SEEN: You can find it on YouTube. AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None. REASON FOR DISAPPEARANCE: Blatant (and tasteless) bootlegging of copyright-protected material. CHANCES OF SEEING A DVD RELEASE: Not likely, to say the least! This week’s column is somewhat different because the film in question has not been widely bootlegged. In fact, I am unaware of any bootlegging of it. However, it is here because it incorporates bootlegged prints of two very different films into one of the most tastelessly funny shorts ever made....
