George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road will get some synthetic beats courtesy of Junkie XL. The Dutch composer and producer (real name Tom Holkenborg) will score the long-gestating sequel, as reported by Manly Movie after the artist teased the news on Twitter. Holkenborg composed the scores for this summer's Paranoia, and the upcoming 300: Rise…
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While most people know Nicolas Winding Refn for Bronson or Drive, sandwiched in-between the two was a film called Valhalla Rising. It follows a mute, imprisoned warrior in 1000 AD named One-Eye (Casino Royale's Mads Mikkelsen) who breaks out of prison with the help of a young boy. Together, the pair board a Viking ship and…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. PARKS AND RECREATION (SEASON 2) My write-up of the first season of Parks and Recreation amounted to little more than a prediction…
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For the past year IFC has bought up a lot of left-field, genre and oddball movies to distribute in the States. It started with Antichrist -- not such a weird buy, given the prestige status of Lars von Trier -- and then went to Valhalla Rising, Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Enter the Void, among…
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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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I've been saying this for years, and it is now quickly coming true. Thanks in part to his one-two punch in 2009 (Bronson and Valhalla Rising) Nicolas Winding Refn is becoming a recognizable name. Bronson is finally about to open in the US, and between that event and the Toronto premiere of Valhalla Rising, which…
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Analysts have noted that the big festivals inaugurating this fall season have been slow to produce buys for films without distribution. Tom Ford's film A Single Man (which has a beautiful trailer I posted yesterday) looked like it could be the first big buy of the Toronto Fest, and that almost turned out to be…
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The momentum behind writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn---a talent of significant interest for many of our staff---is culminating into numerous "man's man"-sounding projects. The Dane auteur behind the Pusher Trilogy and this winter's rollicking Bronson remains attached to direct Keanu Reeves in Jeckyll, a big-budget take on Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, that would introduce him…
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A whole ton of new photos have showed up on the web today, thanks in part to the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. But before I get to those, perhaps the most notable stills are scanned from Empire's Avatar cover story. They show, among other things, Sigourney Weaver's avatar. We saw her in the Comic…
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