Yearly Archives: 2012

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Watch Gyllenhaal and Pena bust hella caps in ‘End of Watch’ – another new trailer

THE MOVIE: David Ayer – the award-winning writer of The Fast and the Furious, Training Day, Dark Blue, S.W.A.T., and writer/director of Street Kings and Harsh Times – is back with End of Watch. This time, Ayer is teaming up with Source Code’s Jake Gyllenhaal and World Trade Center’s Michael Pena to bring you another tale of cops, gangsters, drugs, money and firearms. Lots of ’em. Judging from the trailer, End … Continue reading

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Phantom: The Submarine (1999) Review

"Phantom: The Submarine" DVD Cover

Director: Min Byeong-Cheon Cast: Choi Min-Su, Jeong Wu-Seong, Yun Ju-Sang, Son Byeong-Ho, Go Dong-Up, Han Ban-Do, Park Gil-Su, Seol Gyeong-Gu, Jeong Eun-Pyo Running Time: 110 min.  By Equinox21 Well, Crimson Tide this ain’t. Phantom: The Submarine and Crimson Tide have very similar plots, with obvious major differences between them. They both take place on nuclear submarines where the Captain attempts to launch nuclear missiles. In Crimson Tide there’s good motivation … Continue reading

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Labeouf and Hardy are two ‘Lawless’ SOBs – newest Red Band trailer!

THE MOVIE: Lawless is the new film from director John Hillcoat, the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Road and The Proposition. This new endeavor is a bootleggin’ gangster picture set in Prohibition-era Virginia, featuring an all-star cast: Shia Lebeouf (Transformers), Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises), Jessica Chastain (Tree of Life), Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential), Gary Oldman (Leon: The Professional), and Mia Wasikowska (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland). Updates: The script … Continue reading

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Midnight FM DVD (Cinema Asia Releasing)

RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2012 Cinema Asia Releasing presents the DVD for Midnight FM. When her young daughter needs a surgical operation overseas, a popular radio DJ calls it quits and broadcasts her final show. But during this broadcast, things go awry when a mysterious caller starts giving her orders and threatens her family if she rejects him. Check out the trailer.

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Troubleshooter DVD (Cinema Asia Releasing)

RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2012 Cinema Asia Releasing presents the DVD for Troubleshooter. Ex-detective, now private eye, Kang Tae-Sik (Sol Kyung-Gu) enters a love motel to take pictures of a couple for an unknown client. Kang Tae-Sik is then shocked to discover a bloody slain woman on the bed. Kang Tae-Sik flees the scene when the police arrive and mistakenly believes he is the killer. Check out the trailer.

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Nicolas Cage has ‘Stolen’ from ‘Taken’

I couldn’t resist the play on words, but the headline to this post is far-fetched. It’s not like Taken was the first movie to revolve around a father – a skilled badass – who has to save his daughter from a bunch of assholes (remember Commando?). Directed by The Expendables 2’s Simon West, Stolen stars Nicolas Cage as a former thief who frantically searches for his missing daughter. Turns out, she … Continue reading

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Prometheus Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D & DVD (20th Century Fox)

RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2012 20th Century Fox presents the Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D & DVD for Prometheus. Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a … Continue reading

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The Best of Tony Scott

Yesterday, news broke of Tony Scott’s tragic death. In order to celebrate the man’s life and work, we look back at some of his best films. The Hunger (1983) – despite being known for his work in the action genre, Tony Scott got his start in horror – with this very-Eighties vampire tale co-starring David Bowie Top Gun (1986) – perhaps Scott’s most endearing work, this movie helped launch Tom … Continue reading

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Blu-ray and DVD Releases for 8/21/12

It’s a packed week for film buffs, as several contemporary Korean films get their due with North American releases and some old Disney animated favorites arrive in hi-definition for the first time. So let’s get cracking. Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 8/21/12: ASIAN CINEMA Moss Two-Disc Special Edition (DVD) – a young man travels to the village where his father was born, only to … Continue reading

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Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku DVD Set (Criterion Collection)

RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2012 Criterion Collection presents the DVD set for Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku. Following years of a certain radioactive rubber beast’s domination of the box office, many Japanese studios tried to replicate the formula with their own brands of monster movies. One of the most fascinating dives into that fiendish deep end was the short-lived one from Shochiku, a studio better known for its … Continue reading

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Rashomon Blu-ray & DVD (Criterion Collection)

RELEASE DATE: November 6, 2012 Criterion Collection presents their new editions of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon on Blu-ray & DVD. The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove seen from four different perspectives. Toshiro Mifune explodes as the feral bandit who may or may not be guilty of these crimes. Watch the trailer.

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Heaven’s Gate Blu-ray & DVD (Criterion Collection)

RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2012 Criterion Collection presents Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate on Blu-ray & DVD. This controversial Western is based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. It stars Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Mickey Rourke, Willem Dafoe and many more. Check out the trailer.

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The Duellists Blu-ray (Shout! Factory)

RELEASE DATE: January 29, 2013 Shout! Factory presents the Blu-ray for Ridley Scott’s The Duellists. Set during the Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D’Hubert (Keith Carradine) and Feraud (Harvey Keitel), cross swords time and time again in an attempt to preserve their honor. Check out the trailer.

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Nicholas Tse and Lau Ching-Wan do their Sherlock Holmes thang in ‘The Bullet Vanishes’

The teaser trailer is now online for The Bullet Vanishes, a big-budget Chinese murder mystery with Nicholas Tse as a gun-slinging detective and Lau Ching-Wan as his eccentric partner. This looks to be a period piece in the vein of Guy Ritchie’s recent Sherlock Holmes films: think lavish production design, loud action set-pieces, and plenty of suspense. The cast includes Yang Mi, Jing Boran, Wu Gang, Liu Kai Chi, and … Continue reading

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