Last year the Sound On Sight staff raved about Sion Sono’s four hour epic Love Exposure placing it on our top 10 films of the year and listing it one of the best films of the previous decade. Although he has made nearly twenty films in the last thirty years, his work remains relatively unknown [...]
Many of you will remember the short film Hobo With A Shotgun, directed by Jason Eisener which won the Grindhouse Trailer Contest put on by the SXSW Film Festival & Robert Rodriguez. It all began with an announcement on Ain’t It Cool News, about a contest that gave a three week deadline to come up [...]
The intense thriller starring Ryan Reynolds trapped in a coffin under ground by Iraqi terrorists, is causing a stir online. Our London correspondents Al White and John McEnetee had nothing but praise when reviewing if for this year’s Frightfest. John McEntee had this to say about Buried: “It is quite an achievement to craft a [...]
The Fourth Portrait casts a sobering look at the troubling issues of domestic violence, and the difficult family dynamics that are born of marriages of convenience. Defying all genre definitions, the film blends comedic elements with deeply touching moments. The result is a fascinating tale of innocence and maturity that bears the signature of one [...]
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With The Last Exorcism hitting theatres this weekend, a trailer for a similar themed horror movie has found its way online, Exorcismus (La posesión de Emma Evans). The Spanish horror film, produced by the makers of the very popular [REC] series makes use of the found footage conceit , a sub genre which has time [...]
Acclaimed auteur Alejandro González Iñárritu returns to TIFF with his long awaited directorial follow-up to 2006’s Academy Award winning Babel. Biutiful is also González Iñárritu’s first film to be made in his native Spanish since his landmark feature debut, Amores perros. Adding further pedigree to this heavy-hitting drama is an all-star cast led by Academy [...]
Based on the popular bestselling novel, Freakonomics is a documentary capturing an entertaining array of case studies dealing with human behaviors. Brought to you by Magnolia Pictures, and directed by Alex Gibney, this film comes out October 1st. To be honest, after watching the trailer, my mind was left a bit off balanced. If you [...]
Ryan Kwanten made a couple of movies in Australia during the last hiatus and here’s the official trailer for one of them – Red Hill, an outlaw western thriller, which also stars Steve Bisley (I Love You Too), Tom E.Lewis (The Proposition), Claire van der Boom (TVs The Pacific) and Kevin Harrington (TVs Underbelly). Synopsis: [...]
Fox Searchlight has released the first teaser trailer for 127 Hours, the upcoming film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy and produced by Christian Colson who all previously teamed up to make Slumdog Millionaire. The film is based on the true story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm [...]
From Jim Mickle, the man who gave us the zombie flick Mulberry Street, comes the vampire road movie Stake Land. The film will star Kelly McGillis who will play a nun who joins a small group of survivors trying to make their way north to safety through the war-torn America. In the aftermath of a [...]
Michael Dowse’s 2002 mockumentary film Fubar was a major hit and is now considered a certifiable cult classic. Based on the lives of two lifelong friends and head-bangers who live out their lives, constantly drinking beer, Fubar debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in the ‘Park City at Midnight’ and ever since has gained critical [...]
The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman (aka Legend of the Kitchen Knife) Directed by Wu Ershan This martial-arts comedy stars Ando Masanobu, Ben Chang You and Kitty Zhang, and was the last of last of the Midnight Madness films announced on Twitter last tonight by programmer Colin Geddes. Synopsis: A group of misfits become [...]
The trailer for Brad Anderson’s latest,Vanishing on 7th Street, has hit the web. The film was recently added to the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival. The post apocalyptic horror film stars Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo, and Thandie Newton. My thoughts and a synopsis from the Toronto International Film Festival after the [...]
Twitch film just dropped the trailer for Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud directorial debut Red Nights which has was recently add to the Midnight Madness lineup at TIFF. Described by festival programmer Colin Geddes as a “fetishistic thriller”, the film stars Carrie Ng as Carrie, a patron of the arts in search of an elixir [...]
The trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s next film, “Black Swan” has been released online by Fox Searchlight. Featuring Natalie Portman as Nina, a talented and dedicated ballet dancer who faces competition for the prima ballerina position in her companies upcoming production of Swan Lake. As Nina and her rival, Lily (Mila Kunis)’s relationship grows more complex, [...]
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