More than two years have passed since we caught our first glimpse at a sultry and bloody Paz De La Huerta in Nurse 3D. The production company released a poster before production even began, promising a 2012 release. Well it's almost 2014 and there's still been no sign of the film, directed by Douglas Aarniokoski. Until today. A…
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When Lars von Trier's last film, Antichrist, played at Fantastic Fest, it unknowingly birthed the festival's unofficial mantra: "Chaos Reigns." Chaos reigns again in von Trier's latest film, Melancholia, which is about two deeply depressed sisters and their personal trials during the end of the world. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as the…
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Stacy Keach is the latest actor added to the growing cast of Tony Gilroy's The Bourne Legacy, which stars Jeremy Renner as a new ultra-capable agent who emerges from the same training program that created Matt Damon's Jason Bourne. We don't know Keach's role, but do know that he will play alongside (or against) Rachel…
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Yesterday I highlighted one of the films announced for the Midnight Madness program at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America. Today we're back with another MM offering: The Day, a post-apocalyptic thriller that stars Ashley Bell, Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore, Cory Hardrict, and Shannyn Sossamon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXzVgMihvs This is actually the…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Robert Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, and director Douglas Aarniokoski sat down to answer a bunch of questions from fans about Red Sonja at Comic Con today, and also took the liberty of showing off some of the teaser poster artwork they had come up with. Putting aside the bizarre coincidence that one of the teasers was…
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