This week, in honor of Spike Lee‘s Oldboy hitting theaters, we make Ryan watch Zinda.
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Ryan’s Score: 4/10
Ryan’s Synopsis: “There’s peaceful music at the end.”
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Release Date: November 29, 2013 (Limited and VOD)
Director: Sini Anderson
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Combining great interviews with intimate Cinéma vérité-style footage, Sini Anderson’s The Punk Singer provides a poignant
Universal and Legendary Pictures have announced some release date changes today, with Duncan Jones‘ World of Warcraft adaptation shifting from December 15, 2015 to March 11, 2016. The original date happens to overlap with a little film called Star Wars Episode VII,
Although it looks like total garbage, there’s something about this trailer for Jean-Claude Van Damme‘s latest action flick, Enemies Closer, that has me oddly intrigued. The one guy from Mad TV (Orlando Jones) and the guy from Dead Man on Campus (Tom
The full list of nominees for this year’s Independent Spirit Awards has been officially announced, with Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave snagging the most noms with seven. Other notable Best Feature entries include Frances Ha (pictured above), All is Lost, Inside
Film Pulse writer Ernie Trinidad recently had the opportunity to speak with Josh Brolin, star of the upcoming Oldboy remake directed by Spike Lee, and to ask him about the process of creating the remake, deviating from the original, and the demanding
Last week, we posted the trailer for Sororal, an Australian neo-giallo flick, and now we have a teaser for co-writer Robbie Studsor‘s next film The Burning Kiss, a neo-noir thriller. Although the trailer doesn’t reveal much, it’s just stylish enough
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This week on the show we have a conversation with Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin) on The Punk Singer, we go over some
Seth Rogen and James Franco‘s love for one another has taken a new level in this shot for shot remake of the Kanye West/Kim Kardashian video for Bound 2, titled Bound 3. No more words, hit the jump and let the love
There are only two noteworthy pre-theatrical and date and date VOD releases hitting this week, with the Jessica Biel-starring drama The Truth About Emanuel (formerly titled Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes), and Takeshi Kitano‘s Beyond Outrage.
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick is the documentary Twenty-Four by Thirty-Six, from Post No Joes Productions. As a collector and aficionado of poster art myself, a documentary about the history and current day status of poster art is something
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Release Date: November 22, 2013
Director: Francis Lawrence
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
When Francis Lawrence took over directing duties for the second entry in the massively popular Hunger Games series, there
This week in the grindhouse, in honor of Drafthouse Films re-releasing it in theaters, we’ll be taking a look at Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45. In this follow up to his feature debut, Driller Killer, Ferrara shows a bit more maturity in his
After months of clips and teasers, a full length, and very graphic, trailer for Lars Von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac has been released. As one might expect from a Lars Von Trier film with a title like Nymphomaniac, the film looks to be very
A new theatrical trailer has been released for Quentin Dupieux‘s (Rubber, Wrong) upcoming absurdist cop comedy Wrong Cops. This film looks every bit as weird and wonderful as Dupieux’s previous two, and features a great cast including Mark Burnham, Eric Wareheim, Steve
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Release Date: October 18, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Dan Eberle
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Dan Eberle’s Cut to Black plays out like the neo-noir flick I’ve been yearning for for years but haven’t
