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 Alamo Drafthouse have announced they will be taking Austin's Fantastic Fest on tour, showing movies from the festival at all Alamo Drafthouse markets over three weekends in November. Films include Big Bad Wolves, Borgman, Cheap Thrills, Confession of Murder, The Congress, Grand Piano, Journey to the West: Conquering The Demons, and Why Don't You…
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