CLEAN Arrives On DVD And Blu-Ray In May From RLJE Films
AMC Networks’ RLJE Films is proudly releasing action crime-thriller, Clean, on DVD and Blu-ray on May 10. IFC Films released the film in theaters, on Digital Rental & VOD back in January.
AMC Networks’ RLJE Films is proudly releasing action crime-thriller, Clean, on DVD and Blu-ray on May 10. IFC Films released the film in theaters, on Digital Rental & VOD back in January.
SOUTH OF HEAVEN was not the original title for the latest film from Israeli writer/director Aharon Keshales. It’s not unusual for films to go through title changes during production but I was struck by a curiosity- wondering how a clever enough title like “Till Death” became the more somber “South of Heaven.” Why choose that phrase for a new title? When I researched the phrase the only thing that consistently popped up was a song, I was passingly familiar with by the metal band Slayer. Stranger connections in pop culture have occurred before, I suppose. So, I thought about this song I had not heard since my young and angry days and how it may add to the understanding of this southern-fried piece of neo-noir from one half of the filmmaking team behind the mean-spirited, yet darkly comic, thriller BIG BAD WOLVES.
In a 2016 documentary about his life and creative process, there is a scene where filmmaker Sion Sono shows a barely completed painting, that he had been working on for months, to the crew filming him and asks dispassionately if they think it’s good art or not. The off-camera interviewer, clearly confused by the sudden and direct question sputters out that he doesn’t know. Sono sharply responds that it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad and that it only matters if it expresses emotion. He then chucks the large canvas across the room with as much care as one throws a soiled tissue into the trash. This peculiar moment reveals a lot about how Sono views his work and it’s all I could think about after I watched his latest directorial effort, the post-apocalyptic “East meets West” mashup, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND.
The trailer for his latest film, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND, doesn’t use the tag of “A Sion Sono Film” or even a simple “directed by” note to introduce the acclaimed filmmaker to American audiences. It instead goes for the attention-grabbing phrase “[from] the warped mind of Sion Sono.” Marketing and cheeky hyperbole aside, no one working in film today has as unique of a voice as the fifty-nine-year-old Japanese auteur.
Andrew Thomas Hunt has played a large part in the growing number of interesting, strange, macabre, or just plain fun genre films that have been hitting the international film scene from Canada for the better part of the past decade. He is one of the founding members of “Raven Banner”, a Canadian film group that produces and releases genre films of all types, both theatrically and to home mediums. Some of the films they have sent out into the world include TURBO KID, WOLFMAN’S GOT NARDS, DEATHGASM, and (most recently) PG: PYSCHO GOREMAN.
Ahead of its forthcoming Sundance world premiere, RLJE Films is officially announcing its acquistion of action thriller, Prisoners Of The Ghostland.
Currently set to screen for this year’s Fuck Covid Edition of Beyond Fest, the Adam Egypt Mortimer-directed Joe Manganiello starrer, Archenemy, is slated for an on-demand, digital and select-theatrical release on December 11. Thus, RLJE Films has dropped the official trailer which you can now view above, as well as the official poster, designed by Christian Ward.
Though his DC movieverse prospects may have taken a backseat, actor Joe Manganiello will still get his superhero thrills on in one form or another in the gritty new fantasy crime thriller, Archenemy.
Daniel Isn’t Real helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s new fantasy thriller, Archenemy, will release theatrically, on digital and on-demand beginning December 11, from AMC’s RLJE Films. Festival attendees currently making plans to catch the film earlier may do so for BeyondFest world premiere on October 2, and at Sitges beginning October 8.
I have a feeling we’re gonna see a few superhero-driven narratives in the year to come – the kind centered on superheroes out of their element only to be pulled back into the fray when duty calls. Such is the case for Daniel Isn’t Here helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s new film, Archenemy, which Voltage Pictures revealed this week in the form of an official trailer, firstly revealed by Variety
Director Joe Begos had good and solid reason to be as exhilirated as he was on Monday. The filmmaker behind the new siege thriller, VFW, just shared the latest hand-painted poster which you can view below, and it arrives just as our own review of the movie went live this morning.
The Toronto International Film Festival is underway and while screenings are running, deals are being made in the process. Writer and debut director Henry Dunham’s new film, The Standoff At Sparrow Creek is just one of them, now following its Midnight Madness premiere and with XYZ Films repping international sales.
One thing I can certainly add, or at least reverb here, is that a film like Kill Order certainly warrants the attention it calls for given the extraordinary talents exhibited here. An amalgam of some of Canada’s striking stunt and filmmaking talents, the Mark Bros are just a tip of the iceberg signaling the amount of talent gleaning in the past decade to date with stunt performers growing keener eyes and appeal toward storytelling and perpetual growth in feature narrative film for wider markets. Kill Order is a further example of this effort now pushing forward with an exclusive trailer reveal via Collider which you can view below courtesy of RLJE Films.
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