Run and Jump features a bit of semi-stunt casting that got me interested in the movie: the film features Saturday Night Live's Will Forte in a dramatic role. The role isn't devoid of humor, however. Like Steve Carell in Littl...
| Hubert Vigilla |
While this international trailer for Keanu Reeves' directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, isn't exactly the best quality (that might be attributed to its lack of domestic release date), it certainly does bring enough dudes getti...
| Nick Valdez |
There were so many varying opinions at the screening of Dark Touch I went to. Flixist's pal Steve over at Unseen Films is going to compile some of the reviews from critics who talked to him about Dark Touch because they ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
There's a great short story in Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called "Builders." In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely thinks of writing in terms of building houses, and the windows are places where l...
| Hubert Vigilla |
There's a moment in Möbius where I expected a turn toward high-stakes adventure and evasion. As in any story of spies and espionage, this is where a fine plan goes horribly, uncontrollably wrong. People who shouldn't get...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Pull quotes are sometimes picked in order to achieve the greatest possible hyperbolic effect. In the trailer for Lenny Abrahamson's What Richard Did, the blurbs suggest that the film defines the generation it depicts: milleni...
| Hubert Vigilla |
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I wound up streaming NHK all day for a few days to find out what was happening at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. As if the sheer magnitude of the tsunami damage wasn't bad...
| Hubert Vigilla |
It's interesting to see screen depictions of a writer whose work you're familiar with but whose personal life is something you know little about. Their work usually makes more sense once it's been contextualized through their...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Usually "gritty" imagery doesn't get me particularly excited by things, but I can't pretend that seeing these character posters for Bong Joon-Ho's upcoming Snowpiercer don't give me a tingly feeling. Somehow, I missed ju...
| Alec Kubas-Meyer |
Tony Jaa is gearing to make a comeback after a few years away from the silver screen. His new film shooting right now is called A Man Will Rise, which co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Conan Stevens, David Ismalone, and Jakkrit Kanokp...
| Hubert Vigilla |
I really loved Jean-Pierre Jeunet's and Marc Caro's films in high school and college, wearing down my VHS copies of Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, and watching Amelie pretty regularly on fancy, new-fangled DVD. I...
| Hubert Vigilla |
If you live in New York and are a fan of old school kung fu movies, you need to head to Anthology Film Archives next weekend. From April 19-21, the team behind the New York Asian Film Festival is putting on the Old School Kun...
| Hubert Vigilla |
We all know Hayao Miyazaki is a master of his craft, and if you live in New York, you're in for a real treat. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is doing an eight-film Miyazaki retrospective this weekend and next weekend. BAM will...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Hausu (House) is one of the best cult movies ever made. Strike that. It's one of the best movies ever made. If you live in New York, you have two chances to see it this week. The IFC Center is doing midni...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Pablo Berger's Blancanieves will inevitably draw comparisons to Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist since both are silent films. (Blancanieves was Spain's official Oscar entry last year, and I suspect the silent film form was pa...
| Hubert Vigilla |
It's hard to believe that Hideo Nakata's The Ring (Ringu, the Japanese one) came out 15 years ago, kicking off the Japanese horror boom. Nakata's back with a new film called The Complex. While the trailer above doesn't ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
[This review was originally posted as part of our coverage of the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival. It is being reposted as a reminder that the film will be screening for free tomorrow evening at the Tribeca Cinemas in New Y...
| Hubert Vigilla |
If you're sitting at home wondering exactly what the hell you're going to do with yourself for the next 48 hours, you may want take Hulu up on its offer this weekend. In celebration of the acclaimed director's 103rd birthday ...
| Thor Latham |
[From March 9th - 17th, Flixist will be providing coverage from South by Southwest 2013 in Austin, TX. Prepare yourselves for reviews, interviews, features, photos, videos, and all types of shenanigans!] Love ...
| Geoff Henao |
[From March 9th - 17th, Flixist will be providing coverage from South by Southwest 2013 in Austin, TX. Prepare yourselves for reviews, interviews, features, photos, videos, and all types of shenanigans!] While...
| Geoff Henao |
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