The next film in a year chock full of primo animated features is the Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland co-directed feature, Storks. A clever take on the fairy tale of storks delivering babies, this film is set in a world where storks have ceased work in that business and now focus on shipping parcels. When […] Read more
In Japan, Uzumasa is considered the Hollywood of their film industry. With many ‘jidaigeki’ (sword fighting dramas) films made over the years, there are characters within them known as ‘kirareyaku’ – actors who get killed by the film’s lead. Seizō Fukumoto is one such kirareyaku, who has been slain (to his estimates) over 50,000 times on screen. […] Read more
First Time Fest 2016 Film ‘It Had to Be You’ Acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films for October 21 Release
Samuel Goldwyn Films has announces that it has acquired the North American rights to the romantic comedy It Had to Be You, starring How I Met Your Mother star Cristin Milioti and Dan Soder (Trainwreck, TV’s Billions). It Had to Be You was directed by first-time director Sasha Gordon and was featured in numerous film […] Read more
Level Up follows lay about Matthew (Josh Bowman), a twenty-something gamer without a job living in London. His successful girlfriend, Anna (Leila Mimmack), is quietly losing her patience with him and is trying her hardest to help him see his own potential before she gives up on him all together. Matt’s whole day of sitting […] Read more
Millions of people probably wish of getting a pile of money to make movies, and on the surface that sounds like a pretty good dream. But when that money comes from an insane dictator who kidnaps you and demands you make movies that will promote his twisted ideology… well, it doesn’t sound so wonderful anymore. […] Read more
In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found. These words either scared the heck out of you when you watched 1999’s The Blair Witch or you were very disappointed after seeing the film. 17 years later, these words would […] Read more
A highly anticipated film for this year’s Japan Cuts, Kako: My Sullen Past isn’t an easy film to describe, in this story about a whimsy teen, Kako (Fumi Nikaidou), during her summer break in Kita Shinagawa, Tokyo. Kako: My Sullen Past mixes elements of quirky observational humour with all out off-beat comedy. It’s a film that […] Read more
When a porn star is killed and a seemingly unrelated girl goes missing, an alcoholic private eye named Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and an enforcer for-hire Jackson Healy (Russell Crow) must team up to solve the case. With hired guns, conspiracy theories and pesky, disrespectful kids, The Nice Guys is an old fashioned film with […] Read more
Set to his theaters and VOD this week from Drafthouse Films is Klown Forever, the sequel to the 2012 outrageous Danish comedy, Klown. The film reunites the writers and stars of the film Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam with the director of the first film, Mikkel Nørgaard, for what can only be described as a continuation […] Read more
It’s still hot in Denver folks, but the evening air does smell a bit on the Autumn side. With that, comes a slew of horror films that may (or may not) start to get you ready for All Hallow’s Eve. With the typical slew of jump scares, boogeymen, supernatural ghosts or beings, I have to […] Read more
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