The Chaser
No, it’s not the ABC comedy troupe as they menace the security posts at the 2008 Sydney AEC conference, but the story of a cop turned pimp trying to track down some missing girls of his employ. Sure...
View ArticleBangkok Dangerous
It’s quite common for an American studio or director to remake and balls up an Asian action or horror classic, but less so for directors to balls up their own remake. It fair to presume however that...
View ArticleAdventureland
Coming of age tales never get old, and if they’re well done, there’ll always be an audience for them, particularly when they’re set in an era today’s grown-up movie fans hold dear. It’s 1987 and recent...
View ArticleSauna
A foreign language film set on the swampy border between Russia and Sweden at the end of the 1500s with no blood and only a few scares will always be a hard sell to audiences, but Sauna is worth your...
View ArticleMutant Chronicles
There’s no accounting for how some movies are received. Sometimes a distributor will buy a film from the producer, decide they don’t have the money to market it (or that they money they put into...
View ArticleCoffin Rock
The marketing that accompanied this film promised it was from the producers of Wolf Creek, though the film owes as much of a debt to Fatal Attraction and similar films from the ‘psycho vengeful lover’...
View ArticleA Perfect Getaway
Happy, attractive young newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) travel to Hawaii for their honeymoon and decide to tackle a treacherous but beautiful track to a secluded beach. On the...
View ArticleMaking Waves
Blonde Ambition Ariel’s flowing red hair is as familiar to Disney fans as Mickey Mouse’s ears, but did you know she was nearly a blonde? When writer/directors Ron Clements and John Musker told the...
View ArticleThe Jungle Book
When Disney animation studios were making great movies like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp, two Los Angeles brothers were practising their musical act and starting to make it in...
View ArticleNic Winding Refn
Nic Winding Refn worked on the periphery of recognition for a long time until he used Tom Hardy to great effect in Bronson, the story of a man who’s even more a force of brutality and violence than...
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