Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is finally on physical after years of the myth and legend growing amongst cinephiles about Quentin Tarantino only showing it in his theater. For years, fans have heard about this legendary version of the… Read More ›
Arriving just at the moment in which Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was dominating the box office, Wolfgang Petersen’s popular and polarizing adaptation of Homer’s first epic poem arrives in a jam-packed special edition, courtesy of Arrow Films. Loosely based on… Read More ›
“At least believe in love, Kimura. Love is all you need.” – Suzuki in Tekkonkinkreet The bonds we make in life have a tendency to follow us everywhere. We don’t always know what they mean to us, either, until we’ve… Read More ›
Mixing genres is a frequent and sometimes dangerous proposition. We’re not talking about mixing romance with comedy or horror with thriller elements (though there is a science to this, as well), but films which incorporate seemingly desperate genres like yakuza… Read More ›
Fans of Power Rangers rejoice! Jason David Frank’s final movie is finally here, and Legend of the White Dragon from Well Go USA feels like a love letter to the fans who grew up watching him become one of the… Read More ›
“Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.” – Dominic Toretto, The Fast and the Furious Before they went to space, before they were international spies, before they… Read More ›
There’s this strange belief that movies today are little more than remakes or IP extensions. Not only is this incorrect (there are plenty of original stories being released in theaters and online every week), but it’s almost entirely positioned as… Read More ›
Even in our very divisive times, there are a few things folks can agree on: human traffickers deserve violent comeuppance and if Jason Statham (Wrath of Man; Fast & Furious 7) is in a film, someone’s getting hurt. Luckily for… Read More ›
What does it mean to be strong? What does it mean to hold power? Is it the means to defeat a thousand foes and to draw fear from opposition *or* is it to be able to protect all who matter… Read More ›
“I see your face with every punch I take And every bone I break, it’s all for you And my worst pains are words I cannot say Still I will always fight on for you” – From “Gifts and Curses”… Read More ›
Lionheart is the kind of late-20th-century action movie that shows a guy doused in gasoline and set ablaze within the first five minutes of runtime. The violence is rough, and brutal acts against the human body are depicted without hesitation…. Read More ›
No matter how well off we think we are, each of us are one bad day away from mountains of debt. This is especially true in areas where medical bills can mount, forcing people to make choiceless choices regarding what… Read More ›
Review Warning: The following review will do its best to refrain from specific details as it relates to the filmmaker’s intention, but the source material is so woven into modern storytelling in a variety of ways that not discussing the… Read More ›
In 2017, director Kang Yun-sung’s based-on-a-true-story The Outlaws introduced audiences to Detective Ma (Don Lee), colloquially known as “Beast Cop” for the way he resolves conflicts within his district with his power-packed fists. Watching Ma tackle Chinese gangsters trying to… Read More ›
For a period of time, setting stories within schools was pretty common. Whether in television (Welcome Back, Kotter; Saved by the Bell) or film (Dead Poets Society; Summer School), the relationship of teacher and student was utilized to explore everything… Read More ›
The Mortal Kombat series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias managed to survive parental outrage over the violence, the destruction of arcades during the rise of at-home gaming, and even, remarkably, Annihilation (1997). Yet, even with its expansion of… Read More ›
“You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin’.” – Lt. Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds (2009) There are a few things in cinema that most audiences agree on:… Read More ›
Filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson returns to EoM Presents to discuss his latest directorial effort, the ocean survival thriller Above & Below. Johnson speaks about the technical and logistical challenges of underwater filmmaking, the performances of frequent collaborators Louis Mandylor and… Read More ›
“No one wins a fight.” – Dalton in Road House. When Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino premiered their Nickelodeon program Avatar: The Last Airbender in 2005, there was likely little sense of what the response would be. On paper,… Read More ›
When stories aren’t being told the way you want to see them, sometimes you have no choice but to make them yourself. Based on an artist’s statement, that’s the idea behind the creation of Attack on Paradise (formerly Paradise) by… Read More ›