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Rabies

Edited, Written & Directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado
Produced by Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi Tami Leon & Julia Schifter
Hebrew with English subtitles
Released by Image Entertainment
Israel. 94 min. Not rated
With Lior Ashkenazi, Ania Bukstein, Danny Geva, Yael Grobglas, Henry David, Ran Danker, Liat Har Lev, Yaron Motola, Menashe Noy & Ofer Schechter
Low-budget Israeli slasher flick […]

By |March 2nd, 2012|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Horror|0 Comments

Kill List

Directed by Ben Wheatley
Produced by Claire Jones & Andre Starke
Written by Wheatley & Amy Jump
Released by Magnolia Pictures
UK. 95 min. Not Rated
With Neil Maskell, Harry Simpson, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer & Struan Rodger
British director Ben Wheatley’s heady genre mashup Kill List is how midnight movies are supposed to be: smart, weird, and […]

The Grey

Directed by Joe Carnahan
Produced by Joe Carnahan, Jules Daly, Mickey Liddell & Ridley Scott
Written by Joe Carnahan & Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, based on Jeffers’ short story, “Ghost Walker”
Released by Open Road Films
USA. 117 min. Rated R
With Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Nonso Anozie, Joe Anderson & Ben Bray
A desperate man slips while […]

By |January 29th, 2012|Action|1 Comment

Haywire

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Produced by Gregory Jacobs & Ryan Kavanaugh
Written by Lem Dobbs
Released by Relativity Media
USA/Ireland. 93 min. Rated R
With Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas & Bill Paxton

Whatever its faults, Stephen Soderbergh’s grrl-power, globe-trotting action flick Haywire does one thing very right. Unlike other recent distaff takes on […]

By |January 24th, 2012|Action, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Espionage|0 Comments

Outrage

Written & Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Produced by Masayuki Mori & Takio Yoshida
Released by Magnet Releasing
Japanese with English subtitles
Japan. 109 min. Rated R
With Beat Takeshi, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi & Tetta Sugimoto

The bleakly funny Japanese gangster drama Outrage came out in its home country over a year ago. In […]

By |December 8th, 2011|Crime, Japanese, Top Picks|0 Comments

Island of Lost Souls

Directed by Erle C Kenton
Written by Philip Wylie & Waldemar Young, based on The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Released by Criterion Collection
USA. 70 min. Not rated
With Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen & Arthur Hohl
Special Features: New digital restoration of the uncut theatrical version. Audio commentary featuring film historian […]

By |November 11th, 2011|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Horror|0 Comments

Killing Bono

Directed by Nick Hamm
Produced by Ian Flooks, Hamm, Mark Huffam & Piers Tempest
Written by Dick Clement, Ian la Frenais & Simon Maxwell, based on the memoirs I Was Bono’s Doppelganger by Neil McCormick
Released by Arc Entertainment
UK/Ireland. 114 min. Rated R
With Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Krysten Ritter, Martin McCann & Pete Postlethwaite

Killing Bono is a surprisingly […]

By |November 6th, 2011|Biopic, British Kitchen Sink, Comedy, Foreign|0 Comments

1911

Directed by Zhang Li & Jackie Chan
Produced by Wang Zhebin & Chan
Written by Wang Xingdong & Chen Baoguang
Released by Well Go USA/Variance Films
Mandarin with English subtitles
China/Hong Kong. 125 min. Rated R
With Jackie Chan, Joan Chen, Lee Bing Bing, Winston Chao & Jaycee Chan

A historical Chinese epic about the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the […]

By |October 7th, 2011|Asian, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Epic, Featured, Foreign|0 Comments

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Directed by Eli Craig
Produced by Morgan Jurgenson, Albert Klychak, Rosanne Milliken & Deepak Nayar
Written by Craig & Jurgenson
Released by Magnet Releasing
USA. 89 min. Rated R
With Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss & Philip Granger

You can tell by its deliberately corny name that Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, a gruesomely comic spoof of the […]

By |October 4th, 2011|American, Comedy, Horror, Top Picks|0 Comments