©Courtesy of Japan Cuts Competition was fierce, but the Battle of Okinawa might have been the most brutal 82 days of World War II’s Pacific Theater. The tragedy escalated and compounded when Okinawan civilians were used as human shields. Propaganda misinformation regarding American G.I.’s directly led to horrific mass suicides, including many of the so-called…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Warner brothers has dropped a trailer for a highly anticipated Tom Cruise’s latest outing, “Digger.” Tom Cruise brings to life a formidable figure striving to assert he’s the globe’s savior – though catastrophic consequences follow when his actions result in widespread devastation. Shot entirely in VistaVision, “Digger” tells the tale of…
Chihiro Amano, a year after directing her film Sato and Sato, returns to cinemas with Magical Secret Tour that had it North American Premiere at the 25th New York Asian Film Festival. This is a gold-smuggling story inspired by true events, involving housewives who were arrested for smuggling gold bars at Chubu Centrair International Airport…
Photo by Universal Pictures – © Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Ariana Grande, who is also a star in “Wicked,” has left the thirteenth season of FX’s “American Horror Story,” which begins on September 24th. Deadline reported that adjustments to the horror series’ production schedule have caused a conflict with Grandss Eternal Sunshine Tour’s scheduling. The…
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts There are filmmakers whose careers are defined by reinvention. Then there are artists like Yoji Yamada, whose enduring greatness comes from continually refining the themes that have occupied him for decades. Tokyo Taxi, his remarkable 91st feature film, finds the veteran director returning to familiar emotional territory, yet doing so with…
In 1836 Joseph-Xavier Boniface published a book called Picciola, about Count Charney, a former soldier who had been jailed for conspiring against Napoleon, who passed his days behind bars tending a plant that lightened his time amidst the walls that imprisoned him. Japanese film director Baku Kinoshita and writer Kazuya Konomoto seem to have grasped…
©Courtesy of Toho and GKIDS Films Toho and GKIDS Films have released a second teaser trailer for the anticipated “Godzilla Minus Zero,” the sequel to Toho’s highly acclaimed, internationally successful and Oscar-winning “Godzilla Minus One”. Writer/director Takashi Yamazaki, who is also the VFX wizard, returns to his company Shirogumi for this film once more, just…
©Courtesy of Academy of Television arts and Science The Television Academy recently revealed the Emmy Awards nominations, spotlighting strong contenders in drama and comedy categories, with the limited series category appearing somewhat lackluster. Many of the titles are recurrences from previous years such as “The Pitt,” “The Diplomat,” “Paradise,” “Slow Horses,” “Shrinking,” “The Gilded Age,”…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures and IMAX have debuted the second trailer and a fresh poster for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Three,” a preview that only appeared nearly four months after the initial teaser, which first surfaced in March, and now comes five months before the movie’s scheduled release. In addition, it…
©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Mexicanamerican : Expertly merging old VHS home movies with new family interviews, filmmaker Eddie Sánchez traces his parents’ journey from Mexico to the U.S. in this poignant and affecting documentary debut. What is the cost of the American Dream? Filmmaker Eddie Sanchez sets out to better understand his parents, Lalo and…
©Courtesy of Channel 4 Television Corporation It appears Sacha Baron Cohen has completed filming on a new feature film featuring his well-known character Ali G, the interviewer. The Insneider initially broke this story, then a several media followed up the story including Deadline and Empire. They mentioned that the film was shot secretly and will…
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