For his third film, French genre director Xavier Gens has locked a bunch of New Yorkers in the basement of a building as they wait out the end of the world. But it turns out these people aren't the only survivors, and interactions with people who didn't make it to shelter set off a chain…
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Friday night at Comic-Con, several moviegoers attended a unique screening of Xavier Gens' The Divide. The film is about a group of strangers who are forced into the basement of their Manhattan apartment building when a nuclear strike happens outside and the screening in San Diego happened in a similar dark, dank basement. We'll have…
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One of the films premiering in the Midnighters section of SXSW this weekend is Xavier Gens' The Divide, about a group of eight strangers who find shelter in a basement when a huge explosion demolishes New York. It's a fun premise for a psychological thriller, if not exactly an original one, and the first teaser…
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The film program at South By Southwest (SXSW) has really come into its own over the past few years -- SXSW is becoming an impressive little film fest in addition to being a massive music party. The lineups for Midnight features and shorts have been announced, and there are some good premieres in there. Attack…
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Last year we heard that Xavier Gens (Hitman) would be directing a film called The Fallout that was said to be in the mode of Assault on Precinct 13. The story has a group of people taking refuge in the basement of an apartment building after an explosion devastates New York City. Now the film…
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