It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the premiere of the independent documentary Behind The Sword In The Stone has been set for Friday, December 20 in Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland! Alec Moore and Mark Wright, the team at Mossy Hare Productions (MHP Films), made the announcement this […]
Cohen Media Group, the US distributor for Capital, directed by Costa-Gavras, released both a new poster and a new trailer today! The new tagline for the film–Money is the master–is a line from hedge-funder Dittmar Rigule, played by Gabriel Byrne, and it sums up the global problem examined by the […]
Updated September 24: Director Jérôme Bonnell is scheduled to appear at both screenings, October 12 and 14! No word about Gabriel Byrne or Emmanuelle Devos attending, so let’s hope! — The Chicago International Film Festival is in its 49th year and organizers just announced the line-up of international and other […]
Please note: There are spoilers in this essay about the French film Le temps de l’aventure, also known as Just A Sigh, which I viewed on DVD without the benefit of English subtitles. And so you should be warned. If you have seen the film, then you will understand where […]
August 29: Screen Daily reports that the project has been “postponed indefinitely.” A month before principal photography was due in the US and Germany for Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s $6.6m (NOK 52m) Louder Than Bombs, Norwegian production outfit Motlys has postponed the project indefinitely, having failed to provide the full […]
Serious actors don’t do genre films. What does that mean? Well, generally speaking, genre films–science fiction, mystery, crime, and most importantly, horror–are not considered serious works and so serious actors don’t take roles in these kinds of films. This is not really true any longer. These days, there are many […]