Read More: Watch: Sound the Alarm! Bleed the Blood! The 'Hateful Eight' Teaser is Here! Put on your winter coat and get your guns ready, Quentin Tarantino is back on the big screen with what looks to be one bloody good Christmas present. Days after releasing the the film's new poster, The Weinstein Company has debuted the official teaser for Tarantino's latest genre epic, "The Hateful Eight." The Western follows a bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) traveling with a prisoner (a roughed up Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Wyoming. While taking shelter from the winter cold at a trading post lodge, they encounter a group of men who can't be trusted and who all want their hands on the bounty. Samuel Jackson, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins and Damian Bechir round out the star-studded cast. The new trailer above plays like a Tarantino greatest hits collection, with the director...
- 8/12/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The 19th Annual Fantasia Film Festival is only a week away, beginning July 14 and running through August 4. And as promised for today, they’ve revealed their full line-up of films screening at 2015’s festival in Montreal.
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
- 7/7/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Feature Luke Holland 2 Oct 2013 - 06:15
With spoilers, Luke examines a disturbing moment in GTA V, and asks whether it's a legitimate part of its story, or a gratuitous misstep...
Nb: This article contains GTA V spoilers.
When you're introduced to Trevor Phillips, you're hardly left uncertain as to whether he's a pleasant man. His introduction sees him engaged in a conjugal act across a kitchen bench; his bedraggled companion only complicit, we discover, in exchange for a blast or two of free meth. Outside, bench-lady’s biker boyfriend meekly voices protestations. So Trevor smashes a bottle in his face and casually stamps him to death.
It’s a moment that’s easily shrugged off in the blithely nihilistic world that Rockstar’s created; one imbued with a detached, satirical tone sharpened to a hypodermic point across the years since 1997’s original. Yet there’s one moment in GTA V that sticks out – one that,...
With spoilers, Luke examines a disturbing moment in GTA V, and asks whether it's a legitimate part of its story, or a gratuitous misstep...
Nb: This article contains GTA V spoilers.
When you're introduced to Trevor Phillips, you're hardly left uncertain as to whether he's a pleasant man. His introduction sees him engaged in a conjugal act across a kitchen bench; his bedraggled companion only complicit, we discover, in exchange for a blast or two of free meth. Outside, bench-lady’s biker boyfriend meekly voices protestations. So Trevor smashes a bottle in his face and casually stamps him to death.
It’s a moment that’s easily shrugged off in the blithely nihilistic world that Rockstar’s created; one imbued with a detached, satirical tone sharpened to a hypodermic point across the years since 1997’s original. Yet there’s one moment in GTA V that sticks out – one that,...
- 10/1/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Michael Madsen's film about a nuclear waste bunker in Finland is a beautiful meditation on the legacy of our civilisation
Put the words "nuclear waste" and "documentary" together and most people will assume they know what to expect: a cat-and-mouse chase between a bold film crew and some evil corporation intent on brushing toxic material under the carpet. But Into Eternity is different: there are no villains exposed, no polemic; in fact no sides are taken at all.
"I could have made a Michael Moore-type film if I wanted," says director Michael Madsen.
"I do have that material. But it would have been a smaller film."
Into Eternity's subject is Onkalo, the Finnish government's attempt to solve its nuclear waste problem by carving a vast, 4km-deep bunker out of solid rock to bury it in for at least the next 100,000 years.
However, the film's focus is bigger. Instead...
Put the words "nuclear waste" and "documentary" together and most people will assume they know what to expect: a cat-and-mouse chase between a bold film crew and some evil corporation intent on brushing toxic material under the carpet. But Into Eternity is different: there are no villains exposed, no polemic; in fact no sides are taken at all.
"I could have made a Michael Moore-type film if I wanted," says director Michael Madsen.
"I do have that material. But it would have been a smaller film."
Into Eternity's subject is Onkalo, the Finnish government's attempt to solve its nuclear waste problem by carving a vast, 4km-deep bunker out of solid rock to bury it in for at least the next 100,000 years.
However, the film's focus is bigger. Instead...
- 11/9/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
With Hammer and Aip Pictures returning to give us some new horror movies, we can't forget about the smaller production companies such as House of Fear, which has revealed a slate of new 3D horror flicks starting with Eldorado 3D starring ... well ... everyone.
According to Screen Daily Peter O'Toole has signed on as narrator on Fantastic Films' and House of Fear's 3D horror comedy Eldorado starring Daryl Hannah, David Carradine in his final performance, Michael Madsen, and Brigitte Nielsen. Check out the plot crunch, trailer, and artwork below.
Synopsis
"After wrongly being sent to a Neo Nazi fundraiser instead of the stripper, Blues Brothers tribute band 'The Jews Brothers', Stan and Ollie, get offered a gig in Eldorado to make amends for a gig gone sour.
At the very same time Jessica, a beautiful but despondent wife, is on the run with a million dollars from her cheating husband's night club.
According to Screen Daily Peter O'Toole has signed on as narrator on Fantastic Films' and House of Fear's 3D horror comedy Eldorado starring Daryl Hannah, David Carradine in his final performance, Michael Madsen, and Brigitte Nielsen. Check out the plot crunch, trailer, and artwork below.
Synopsis
"After wrongly being sent to a Neo Nazi fundraiser instead of the stripper, Blues Brothers tribute band 'The Jews Brothers', Stan and Ollie, get offered a gig in Eldorado to make amends for a gig gone sour.
At the very same time Jessica, a beautiful but despondent wife, is on the run with a million dollars from her cheating husband's night club.
- 6/14/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Some 12 years before Johnny Depp would portray the legendary bank robber John Dillinger on the big screen, he was given the opportunity to portray another legendary figure within the mafia – Donnie Brasco.
“Donnie” himself was a relatively low level enforcer, sent on errands by Capos of the Bonnano crime family, so why was he such a legend? Simple, “Donnie Brasco”, mafia soldier of 6 years was in fact Joseph D. Pistone, agent for the FBI and one of only a handful of people who have ever managed to infiltrate the secretive crime syndicate known as La Cosa Nostra – The Mafia.
Loosely based on Pistone’s true story, Donnie Brasco stars Johnny Depp, Al Pacino and Michael Madsen and was nominated for an Academy Award in the “Best Adapted Screenplay” category. The film has had mostly positive reviews since its release and currently holds an 87% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Put simply,...
“Donnie” himself was a relatively low level enforcer, sent on errands by Capos of the Bonnano crime family, so why was he such a legend? Simple, “Donnie Brasco”, mafia soldier of 6 years was in fact Joseph D. Pistone, agent for the FBI and one of only a handful of people who have ever managed to infiltrate the secretive crime syndicate known as La Cosa Nostra – The Mafia.
Loosely based on Pistone’s true story, Donnie Brasco stars Johnny Depp, Al Pacino and Michael Madsen and was nominated for an Academy Award in the “Best Adapted Screenplay” category. The film has had mostly positive reviews since its release and currently holds an 87% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Put simply,...
- 7/7/2009
- by Craig Sharp
- FilmShaft.com
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