"Lawless" Theatrical Poster

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 is written by alternative music icon Nick Cave, based on the real life story of the Bondurant Brothers. Check out the trailer in glorious hi-definition, courtesy of Apple Quicktime. Enjoy some cool character posters. Total Film has the new trailer.

BREAKING NEWS: Take a look at the new Red Band trailer!

"Stolen" Theatrical Poster

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 has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi from some of his former crime partners. Now he has 12 hours to come up with $10 million dollars or his little girl is dead.

Stolen releases on September 14, 2012. Check out the trailer.

"Unstoppable" Japanese Theatrical Poster

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 Cruise to super stardom

The Last Boy Scout (1991) – based on a script from “Lethal Weapon” scribe Shane Black, Tony Scott ended up creating one of the funniest and grittiest action flicks of the 90’s. Black’s dialogue and Scott’s direction seemed to bring out the best in lead actor Bruce Willis

True Romance (1993) – Tony Scott translated Quentin Tarantino’s script to the screen in a culturally-defining movies of the 90’s. Scene-stealing performances from the likes of Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken help color this violent but humorous crime thriller

Crimson Tide (1995) – this tense submarine film co-starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman is famous for its uncredited rewrites from Quentin Tarantino. The movie would also be the start of a fruitful partnership between Tony Scott and leading man Denzel

Man on Fire (2004) – this pitch-black revenge film reunited Tony Scott with Denzel Washington and signaled the beginning of a more visually experimental phase in Scott’s career

Unstoppable (2010) – another collaboration with Denzel Washington, Tony Scott’s last film was a crowd-pleasing thriller, based on the true story of a runaway train

Moss: Special Edition 2-Disc Set (Bayview Entertainment)

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 discover a place full of well-kept secrets in this 2010 Korean film based on a popular webcomic

Silenced (DVD) – this acclaimed 2011 Korean drama tells the true story of the tragic abuse that occurred at a school for the hearing impaired

Murderer (DVD) – in this 2009 Hong Kong thriller, Aaron Kwok is a detective chasing down a brutal killer…when all the clues point towards Kwok himself

Breathless (DVD) – this 2008 Korean film tells the story of a violent debt collector with a dark past and the high school girl who tries to soothe his troubled soul

Sunny (DVD) – two middle-aged woman, unhappy with their lives, reminisce about the good old days and decide to get the high school gang back together in this 2011 Korean drama

The Image of Bruce Lee: The Snake, The Tiger, The Crane (DVD) – this Brucesploitation release features two 1978 movies on one disc

FOREIGN CINEMA

A Separation (Blu-ray/DVD) – this 2011 Iranian film holds a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture

Bonsai (DVD) – in this 2012 Spanish-language comedy, a young writer searches for work and inspiration, all while dreaming of the one who got away

Post Mortem (Blu-ray/DVD) – in this 2010 Spanish-language film, a lonely morgue clerk’s obsession with a burlesque dancer is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup

Attack of the Killer Backpacks (DVD) – this 2012 German film offers a deliberate spoof on Eighties slasher movies

Tigra Chaco (DVD) – in this 2009 Spanish-language film, a young truckdriver returns to the town where he spent his idyllic childhoods and ends up rekindling romance with his childhood sweetheart

Bunty Aur Babli (Blu-ray) – this 2005 Bollywood film offers a more light-hearted, musical take on “Bonny & Clyde” – now in hi-def

Ishaqzaade (Blu-ray) – this 2012 Bollywood romantic drama proved to be a surprise hit worldwide and now arrives in hi-def

MAINSTREAM

Kill and Kill Again (DVD) – acclaimed martial artist James Ryan stars in this 1981 action movie. In the film, Ryan is hired to save a a Nobel prize winning chemist from a deranged billionaire and his private army of martial artists

Bernie (Blu-ray/DVD) – this Southern-fried 2012 comedy starring Jack Black is the latest from “Dazed & Confused” director Richard Linklater

The Dictator (Blu-ray/DVD) – Sacha Baron Cohen continues his irreverent brand of comedy with this 2012 feature

Freelancers (Blu-ray/DVD) – 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, and Robert De Niro headline this 2012 direct-to-video cop thriller from Lionsgate

Two in the Chamber (Blu-ray/DVD) – Dolph Lundgren and Cuba Gooding Jr. team up for Anchor Bay’s direct-to-video action thriller about an assassin playing both sides of a Russian mob war

Virginia (DVD) – Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris headline this 2010 Southern drama

Elevator (DVD) – in this 2011 thriller, 9 people are stuck on an elevator…and one of them has a ticking time bomb

Trucker’s Woman (DVD) – in this 1975 drive-in favorite, a college student is convinced his truck driver father’s death was no accident…along the way to stopping an evil crime syndicate, he falls in love with a beautiful woman at a truck stop

Joysticks (Remastered Widescreen Edition) (DVD) – the one and only Joe Don Baker stars in this 1983 sex romp apparently set in an arcade

NEW TO BLU-RAY

War Games (Blu-ray) – the 1983 Cold War thriller starring Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who inadvertently starts World War III

Halloween 4 (Blu-ray) – the 1988 sequel that represented the return of killer Michael Meyers and actor Donald Pleasance to the series (Part 3 was quite the detour)

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Meyers (Blu-ray) – this 1989 Halloween sequel actually went direct-to-video in most countries outside the United States

Stephen King’s Thinner (Blu-ray/DVD) – the 1998 thriller about an overweight man who starts shrinking down to nothing thanks to a gypsy curse

Good Will Hunting: 15th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) – Gus Van Sant’s 1997 drama that put Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on the Hollywood map

Weekend (Blu-ray/DVD) – the acclaimed 2011 British indie drama about two men’s one night stand receives a re-release from the Criterion Collection

ANIMATION

Space Adventure Cobra: The Animated Movie (DVD) – this 1982 theatrical anime is a deadly serious space opera

The Rescuers: 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under) (Blu-ray) – two of Disney’s animated classics return in hi-definition

Pocahontas Two-Movie Special Edition (Pocahontas / Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World) (Blu-ray) – the 1995 Disney animated film comes to hi-def

The Aristocats (Blu-ray) – the 1970 Disney animated musical comes to Blu-ray

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation (DVD) – the 1992 direct-to-video animated feature, co-written by Paul Dini (“Batman: The Animated Series”), finally gets the upgrade to DVD

CLASSICS

Sante Fe Trail (Blu-ray) – Amazon describes this 1940 film as ‘A pre-American Civil War tale of bravery and romance starring Errol Flynn,’ and featuring Ronald Reagan as General George Custer(!)

Private Hell 36 (Blu-ray/DVD) – director Don Siegel (“Dirty Harry”) helms this 1954 film about a cop who falls for a world-weary lounge singer and betrays his partner

Captain Carey U.S.A. (Blu-ray) – in this 1950 noir film, a former OSS Operative returns to Italy after WWII only to discover that his former flame is not a casualty of war after all

HORROR

Black Magic Rites: Remastered Edition (Blu-ray/DVD) – this 1973 Italian horror film is a sadomasochistic shocker set in a gothic castle, now remastered in hi-def

Frankenstein ’80 (DVD) – this 1984 Italian splatter flick updates the Frankenstein mythos to then-modern times

Hell (Blu-ray/DVD) – the sun has scorched the earth barren in this 2011 post-apocalyptic horror film

Little Big Boy: The Death Stalker Murders (DVD) – this 2011 horror film tells the story of a horror director who suffers a psychotic breakdown when his leading lady leaves his current project

Zombie A-Hole (DVD) – the product description bills this 2012 horror film as ‘an exploitation flick with Southern gothic flair’

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"The Bullet Vanishes" Teaser Poster

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 Jiang Yiyan. Ghost Bullets is produced by Derek Yee (Triple Tap, Shinjuku Incident) and directed by Law Chi Leung (Inner Senses, Koma). It releases across China this August 14th, 2012.

Sina has posted all-new stills from the movie. Enjoy new concept poster for the film, courtesy of Chinese Films.

Some new stills for the film feature Nicholas Tse, though they also bear the Chinese Films watermark. Sina has posted a collection of seven new character posters. Thanks to DiP for the heads up!

The full-length trailer is now online. No English subtitles as of yet.

BREAKING NEWS: Distributor China Lion is bringing the film to North American theaters on August 31st, 2012. Select cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington DC.