Follow the jump for an image from HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY, the Guillermo del Toro-helmed fantasty actioner about to come out on DVD. I got a chance to check it out early, one of the fantastic perks (more…)

In Laurent Cantent’s The Class (French title: Entr les murs/Between the Walls), a public school teacher in Paris grapples with frontiers that define and complicate his student body. The working class students, (more…)

Cullen Gallagher, of the Indie blogsite HAMMER TO NAIL, just posted a great review of BILLY THE KID, the IndiePix co-production recently released on glorious 2-disc DVD. HAMMER TO NAIL declares its mission “building a home for ambitious film”, which definitely holds true for (more…)

In Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor (2008), a Connecticut-based university professor (Richard Jenkins) returns to his New York City apartment only to find two immigrants sleeping there, victims of a real estate scam. The lonely Jenkins, still grieving over the death of his wife, allows the couple (more…)

This was the approximate running time of CHE, Stephen Soderbergh’s epic character piece about the rise and fall of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, which had it’s NYC premiere last night at the Ziegfeld Theatre as part of the New York Film Festival. The film was presented in two, (more…)

Embedded code does not constitute a blog entry but this is the viral video that all my fellow D.C. punkheads have been emailing with exclamation points over the last couple of days.

Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye from Mean Magazine on Vimeo.