Nic Cage stars in Sion Sono's intensely weird genre mashup, which takes inspiration from Escape From New York. Read our Prisoners of the Ghostland review.
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The Nicolas Cage/Sion Sono movie Prisoners of the Ghostland has been picked up by RLJE Films.
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Imogen Poots has joined the Prisoners of the Ghostland cast alongside Nicolas Cage. Unfortunately, though, director Sion Sono has suffered a heart attack.
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Nicolas Cage, king of wild movies, says his upcoming Prisoners of Ghostland is the widlest movie he's ever made.
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Check out our Tokyo Vampire Hotel review to find out about this Fantasia Film Festival selection that takes place inside a woman's nether regions.
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Why Don't You Play in Hell is the biggest, weirdest, most joyous ode to genre moviemaking you'll see this year. Sion Sono created this film as a blend of hyper-violent gangster pictures, coming of age stories, and romantic comedy. It follows a group of amateur filmmakers who call themselves the F*** Bombers as they encounter the…
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It's easy enough to describe the story in Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell -- a skin-of-the-teeth filmmaking group calling itself the F*** Bombers gets involved in a yakuza rivalry, and is given the opportunity to make the ultimate gangster movie by filming the collision between two gangs. But it is almost impossible…
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The horror anthology V/H/S did well enough that a sequel went into production pretty fast, and you can already see the red-band trailer for V/H/S/2 from Magnet. Now another Magnet-released anthology, The ABCs of Death, is also going to be followed by a sequel. The hook for The ABCs of Death was that the film…
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Love Exposure is a four-hour Japanese film about upskirt photography. There's obviously much more to it than that but, if you want to get people curious about the film, that sentence works. Originally released in 2009, writer/director Sion Sono's film was originally close to six hours but eventually he had to trim down to release his…
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Hot on the heels of the release of a massive batch of films that will appear in the Toronto Film Festival, we've got the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. We knew that George Clooney's The Ides of March would open the fest (the trailer…
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