After being moved from this August to next February, Valkyrie is again being moved, though this time in our fuhrer… I mean favor. After a recent test screening that “went well”, MGM has opted to move the film back into the late year timeslot, which is normally used for family and Oscar films. Considering MGM [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Drama'
Valkyrie Moves Back Onto The 2008 Slate
August 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Action · Drama · News · War
Defoe To Star In Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist
August 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments
William Dafoe will be starring alongside French star Charlotte Gainsbourg in an upcoming supernatural thriller titled Antichrist directed by Lars von Trier. The pair will play a couple who are mourning the loss of their child and retreat to a remote cabin, only to start experiencing supernatural occurrences.
Tags: Drama · Horror Movie · News · Supernatural · Thriller
Early Look at “The Road” with Viggo Mortenson
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments
After some time in the dark about the happenings of John Hillcoat’s screen adaptation of The Road, we finally have some stills and behind the scenes photos. The book, best known as the novel that got writer Cormac McCarthy on the Oprah show, was a surprise commercial hit as readers ate it up (no pun [...]
A Whole Bunch Of Bastards
August 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As if Tarantino-Watch ‘08 couldn’t get any more heated…
Late yesterday afternoon, news broke that Brad Pitt, who had reportedly been in talks since July, had officially signed on to star in Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglorious Bastards. Pitt will play Lt. Aldo Raine, a Tennessee born rebel who leads a band of eight Jewish American soldiers [...]
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Hell Ride (2008)
August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Arriving a little over a f@#$ing year after the box office flop Grindhouse, Larry Bishop’s Hell Ride has the f@#$ing nerve to try and crash the homage party, with a clusterf@#$ of an end result. Desperately trying to be a f@#$ing exploitation film in the same vein as biker cult-favorites The Losers and The [...]
Tags: Action · Drama · Exploitation · Review
Eli Roth Is A Bastard
August 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m a Bastard
No, not because I paid to sit through Cabin Fever, but because Quentin Tarantino has him on board to play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, a Nazi hunter who weilds a baseball bat in Tarantino’s upcoming war film, Inglorious Bastards. The film, which begins production this October in Europe for the Weinstein Co. and Universal [...]
Winged Creatures Trailer
August 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The trailer for new film, Winged Creatures, is now online. Directed by Rowan Woods, Winged Creatures is a film adaptation of Roy Freirich’s novel of the same name. It details how the lives of a group of people are impacted after living through a random act of violence. The film follows the survivors as [...]
Tags: Adaptation · Book · Drama · Trailer
Colin Firth to be Lord of “Dorian Gray”
August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Colin Firth has recently signed on to star in the Oscar Wilde adaptation co-starring Ben Barnes. The film will be directed by Oliver Parker based on the classic story “The Portrait of Dorian Gray.” The story follows Gray, a character who has been immortalized within an oil painting. As Dorian’s night life and perversions begin [...]
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Battle Royale (2000) - Caustic
August 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments
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In this satire, Class B believes they are embarking on a field trip until they wake after passing out on their school bus and realize their teacher has been killed. They are hoarded into a military installation where they learn the details of the exercise they’ve been chosen to be a part of. The [...]
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Dubuyah Trailer Hits A Day Early
July 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic film W really puzzles me. I think he’s done some good work in the past and he certainly has quite a following but I don’t know if he can really make a wide-appeal film about one of the most hated presidents in U.S. history. Who is the target audience [...]










