©Courtesy of GKIDS Kokuho : Nagasaki, 1964 — After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men…
©Courtesy of Weinstein Company Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has vehemently expressed his displeasure with The Hunger Games franchise, calling the lucrative series a rip-off of the Japanese cult classic, Battle Royale. This is not the first time The Hunger Games has been accused of taking inappropriate liberties with Battle Royale. The novel on which The Hunger…
The 43rd Torino Film Festival has been the stage to the new work of one of the few female filmmakers from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Dechen Roder started off making small documentaries and videos, through her production company Dakinny Productions, incepted in 2009. In 2015 she wrote and directed Lo Sum Choe Sum, which competed…
©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Finland’s resiliency is amazing. They flat-out defeated the vastly larger Soviet Red Army in the First Winter War and essentially battled them to a draw in the Second. Aatmi Korpi was their not-so-secret weapon. According to his mythical backstory, after the Communists massacred Korpi’s family, the enraged Finnish commando launched a…
Check out more of our Youtube Channel ©Courtesy of Netflix Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called…
@Courtesy of Universal Pictures After the stunning and entirely deserved success of Wicked in 2024 (474 million dollars earned ad the US boxoffice, 755 worldwide, 10 nominations at the Academy Awards included Best Movie, Best Actress and Best Actress in a Supporting Role) this year’s sequel Wicked: For Good was by any means one of…
@Courtesy of MUBI Among the several masterpieces that Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes realized together, A Woman Under the Influence (1974) set the bar about portraying the psychological and emotional difficulties of a woman confined in often suffocating social roles of wife, mother or housewife. The truth and intensity which that movie was able to…
Photo by Zade Rosenthal – © ILM/Revolution Studios New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori has died at the age of 75 after struggling with Parkinson’s disease. In a statement to RNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, his family declared: “His legacy endures with his whānau, his mokopuna, every filmmaker he inspired, every boundary he broke and every story…
@Courtesy of Black Bear The most compelling, knockout boxing performances – both in the ring and on the screen – are potent game-changers that will long be remembered. That sentiment is certainly true for the career of former professional boxer, Christy Martin. It’s also the case for the new gritty, cathartic biopic about her life,…
@Courtesy of Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Discovery will be reviving the Gremlins franchise with Gremlins 3, a new sequel scheduled for theatrical release on November 19, 1927, according to David Zaslav, the studio’s CEO and president. Zaslav told investors this week that Steven Spielberg will be returning as executive producer of the upcoming production, which…
@Courtesy of Toho It’s been confirmed that the sequel to Toho’s Godzilla Minus One will be titled “Godzilla Minus Zero“. At Godzilla Fest in Japan, the title was announced, and Takashi Yamazaki, who wrote/directed the original movie and is an expert in VFX, will be returning in the same capacities. Shirogumi, Yamazaki’s company which handled…
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