The 19th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has announced the names of the recipients of its Rising Star Award and Action Cinema Award, as well as the international jury members who will select the winner of the Nyaff “Uncaged” Competition Award during the upcoming virtual edition, running from August 28-September 12 on the Smart Cinema USA app. Tickets for this year’s special virtual edition go on sale August 23.
The 2020 Screen International Rising Star Award goes to South Korean actress Lee Joo-young for Baseball Girl, making its international premiere and screening throughout the festival. The award recognizes her daring choice of roles across her already diverse body of work, as well as her fierce commitment to every performance, whether in indie cinema, where she already stands as a star, or the TV drama scene. These notable traits are exemplified by her tour-de-force turn as the eponymous underdog female athlete in Baseball Girl.
The 2020 Screen International Rising Star Award goes to South Korean actress Lee Joo-young for Baseball Girl, making its international premiere and screening throughout the festival. The award recognizes her daring choice of roles across her already diverse body of work, as well as her fierce commitment to every performance, whether in indie cinema, where she already stands as a star, or the TV drama scene. These notable traits are exemplified by her tour-de-force turn as the eponymous underdog female athlete in Baseball Girl.
- 8/24/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
(above) Still from “They Say Nothing Stays The Same,”Joe Oagiri, 2019, Japan
The 19th edition of the Lincoln Center’s New York Asian Film Festival will be virtual this year, and will go from August 28 to September 12, 2020. This year’s focus is on women filmmakers, under the title “Women Transforming Film.” In this year’s line-up, Nyaff spotlights titles directed and led by women — including “Heavy Craving”, “Lucky Chan-sil”, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,”, “My Prince Edward”, and “Victim(s)”.
A generous share of the program is devoted to new filmmakers, including striking directorial debuts and sophomore efforts. This edition reflects today’s particularly kinetic innovations, much informed by social media and the hyper information highway. An impressive cross-section of work highlights new ideas in storytelling and tackles social mores and personal demons, including “John Denver Trending”, “Beauty Water”, “Detention”, and “IWeirDo”, to name a few. Work by first and second-time directors...
The 19th edition of the Lincoln Center’s New York Asian Film Festival will be virtual this year, and will go from August 28 to September 12, 2020. This year’s focus is on women filmmakers, under the title “Women Transforming Film.” In this year’s line-up, Nyaff spotlights titles directed and led by women — including “Heavy Craving”, “Lucky Chan-sil”, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,”, “My Prince Edward”, and “Victim(s)”.
A generous share of the program is devoted to new filmmakers, including striking directorial debuts and sophomore efforts. This edition reflects today’s particularly kinetic innovations, much informed by social media and the hyper information highway. An impressive cross-section of work highlights new ideas in storytelling and tackles social mores and personal demons, including “John Denver Trending”, “Beauty Water”, “Detention”, and “IWeirDo”, to name a few. Work by first and second-time directors...
- 8/11/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
YouTube channel NoClip’s latest documentary focuses on the history of developer Arkane Studios and reveals fascinating footage of the developer’s unreleased Half-Life: Ravenholm game.
For those who don’t know, Arkane was once tasked with developing a Half-Life spin-off that would have focused on Half-Life 2‘s Ravenholm area. In case you didn’t read our retrospective on Half-Life 2‘s brilliant Ravenholm section, it was essentially a zombie-packed nightmare world loaded with classic horror imagery.
Arkane’s take on the Ravenholm concept would have starred Adrian Shephard: the protagonist of Half-Life: Opposing Force. The game also would have featured Half-Life 2‘s Father Grigori, who it seems has gone completely mad and has resorted to boiling and eating head crabs. Yes, we’re quite serious.
While the plot details of Ravenholm are somewhat scarce, this video does reveal quite a bit of the project’s gameplay. It appears that...
For those who don’t know, Arkane was once tasked with developing a Half-Life spin-off that would have focused on Half-Life 2‘s Ravenholm area. In case you didn’t read our retrospective on Half-Life 2‘s brilliant Ravenholm section, it was essentially a zombie-packed nightmare world loaded with classic horror imagery.
Arkane’s take on the Ravenholm concept would have starred Adrian Shephard: the protagonist of Half-Life: Opposing Force. The game also would have featured Half-Life 2‘s Father Grigori, who it seems has gone completely mad and has resorted to boiling and eating head crabs. Yes, we’re quite serious.
While the plot details of Ravenholm are somewhat scarce, this video does reveal quite a bit of the project’s gameplay. It appears that...
- 5/27/2020
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
While there’s been a spate of promising under-the-radar horror trailers released recently – like Exorcism At 60,000 Feet, Psycho Goreman and Uncaged, for example – we haven’t seen many spooky paranormal documentaries lately to help keep us up through the long, dark nights. That may be about to change, however, as Zak Bagans’ creepy supernatural doc, Demon House, is now available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members in North America and a few other select territories.
The eerie documentary focuses on a haunted house in Indiana, which made headlines for reportedly being possessed by over 200 demons. As a result of these reports, Bagans – an American paranormal investigator who hosts Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures – stepped in to find out what all the spooky ruckus was about. Long story short, he purchased the aforementioned house. Sight unseen.
Bagans and the rest of his team went to the home to...
The eerie documentary focuses on a haunted house in Indiana, which made headlines for reportedly being possessed by over 200 demons. As a result of these reports, Bagans – an American paranormal investigator who hosts Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures – stepped in to find out what all the spooky ruckus was about. Long story short, he purchased the aforementioned house. Sight unseen.
Bagans and the rest of his team went to the home to...
- 4/11/2020
- by Dylan Chaundy
- We Got This Covered
While all of the major studios mull over whether to release their big summer movies on streaming services due to theaters closing because of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a perfect time for small, low-budget films to have their moment. Preferably in the horror genre. Which is why I give you, The Jack in the Box.
We recently got a trailer for Abominable, which is about a group of poor folks who get picked off one by one by a crazed yeti. And before that there was Uncaged, about a killer lion. But now we come to The Jack in the Box, not to be confused with the popular fast food chain.
The movie follows a group of people who discover an old Jack in the Box toy. After its donation to a museum, an employee named Casey begins to believe that the toy is responsible for the deaths of his fellow co-workers.
We recently got a trailer for Abominable, which is about a group of poor folks who get picked off one by one by a crazed yeti. And before that there was Uncaged, about a killer lion. But now we come to The Jack in the Box, not to be confused with the popular fast food chain.
The movie follows a group of people who discover an old Jack in the Box toy. After its donation to a museum, an employee named Casey begins to believe that the toy is responsible for the deaths of his fellow co-workers.
- 4/9/2020
- by Ryan Beltram
- We Got This Covered
With so many folks out there looking for ways to keep themselves entertained at home right now, perhaps this new batch of home media releases might have something to offer you this week. If you missed it in theaters last year, the controversial Black Christmas remake hits both Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday, and Scream Factory has put together a fourth volume in their Universal Horror Collection series, which looks like a must-own for all classic genre fans out there.
Also headed to Blu this week is The Nines, which is one of my favorite underseen films from Ryan Reynolds, as well as Cannibal Apocalypse, featuring John Saxon. We also have Glenn Danzig’s Verotika coming out on Tuesday and if you need something to keep the kiddos busy, Jumanji: The Next Level should do the trick.
Other releases for March 17th include Uncaged, By Day’s End, Witch Hunters,...
Also headed to Blu this week is The Nines, which is one of my favorite underseen films from Ryan Reynolds, as well as Cannibal Apocalypse, featuring John Saxon. We also have Glenn Danzig’s Verotika coming out on Tuesday and if you need something to keep the kiddos busy, Jumanji: The Next Level should do the trick.
Other releases for March 17th include Uncaged, By Day’s End, Witch Hunters,...
- 3/17/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
I’ve seen all manner of hideous, gruesome and bizarre monsters tearing people limb from limb on screen. So, with a bog-standard non-supernatural lion as the monster, can Uncaged really deliver the goods? The Dutch horror-comedy shows Amsterdam being menaced by a lion (that apparently just appears in town without explanation), with the city falling into a panic as its citizens are munched on by the ferocious and hungry beast.
Uncaged‘s trailer includes lines like “amazing how one lion can stop an entire city…,” “this isn’t just a lion…” and “the last thing I want is to turn Amsterdam into a hunting ground.” It also promises an action scene where a lion tears up a subway car, fights a Swat team and engages in a motorcycle chase.
Honestly, I doubt Uncaged is going to win any awards, but at minimum it looks like it’ll provide multiple scenes...
Uncaged‘s trailer includes lines like “amazing how one lion can stop an entire city…,” “this isn’t just a lion…” and “the last thing I want is to turn Amsterdam into a hunting ground.” It also promises an action scene where a lion tears up a subway car, fights a Swat team and engages in a motorcycle chase.
Honestly, I doubt Uncaged is going to win any awards, but at minimum it looks like it’ll provide multiple scenes...
- 3/11/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
The hunt is on… A lion stalks suburban and city streets in the upcoming “Cat” and mouse horror-thriller Uncaged! Today, Dread Central is thrilled to share an exclusive clip from the film, embedded at the top of the article. Check out […]
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- 3/10/2020
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Did you enjoy Crawl from last year? That movie about alligators terrorizing a father and daughter in their own home in the middle of a hurricane. I know I did. It’s yet another reason never to live in Florida. Hell, Quentin Tarantino even had it among his favorite films of 2019.
If you dug it though, then I have another animal-on-a-rampage movie for you that you’re going to want to pay attention to. And while it appears to lack a certain level of sophistication that Crawl surprisingly had, it still looks like you’ll have a good time with it.
The movie’s called Uncaged. No, it isn’t an autobiography of actor Nicolas Cage (sadly), but it is about a lion that escapes from a zoo and hunts people in Amsterdam. Forget National Treasure 3. I want them to combine Cage’s 2019 movie Primal and this. I haven’t seen either,...
If you dug it though, then I have another animal-on-a-rampage movie for you that you’re going to want to pay attention to. And while it appears to lack a certain level of sophistication that Crawl surprisingly had, it still looks like you’ll have a good time with it.
The movie’s called Uncaged. No, it isn’t an autobiography of actor Nicolas Cage (sadly), but it is about a lion that escapes from a zoo and hunts people in Amsterdam. Forget National Treasure 3. I want them to combine Cage’s 2019 movie Primal and this. I haven’t seen either,...
- 2/20/2020
- by Ryan Beltram
- We Got This Covered
Jordan Peele’s upcoming show “Hunters” is among the slew of new movies and TV series that will be added to Amazon Prime Video next month.
Peele executive produced “Hunters,” a drama following a group of Nazi hunters in New York City in 1977. The first season, created by David Weil, stars Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Kate Mulvany.
On the film front, Amazon Prime will add a mix of critical favorites and popcorn flicks like “Dick Tracy,” “Magic Mike,” and “Precious.” Recently released movies such as “47 Meters Down: Uncaged,” “The Farewell” and “Honey Boy” will also become available to stream on the platform later in the month.
See everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in February below:
Feb. 1
Beat the Devil
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Buffalo ‘66
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter
Cheech & Chong’s Still Smokin’
Crashing Through Danger
Dick Tracy
Earth Girls Are Easy
Emergency Landing
Father Steps...
Peele executive produced “Hunters,” a drama following a group of Nazi hunters in New York City in 1977. The first season, created by David Weil, stars Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Kate Mulvany.
On the film front, Amazon Prime will add a mix of critical favorites and popcorn flicks like “Dick Tracy,” “Magic Mike,” and “Precious.” Recently released movies such as “47 Meters Down: Uncaged,” “The Farewell” and “Honey Boy” will also become available to stream on the platform later in the month.
See everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in February below:
Feb. 1
Beat the Devil
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Buffalo ‘66
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter
Cheech & Chong’s Still Smokin’
Crashing Through Danger
Dick Tracy
Earth Girls Are Easy
Emergency Landing
Father Steps...
- 1/29/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Ticket sales dropped 35 percent week-on-week.
The last week of March (March 25-31) suffered a heavy drop in ticket sales of 35% week-on-week making it the second-quietest week in 2019 so far, behind the traditionally slow pre-Chinese New Year week only.
Although February was the biggest single month in a single market, overall the first quarter of 2019 turned out to be a sluggish one at the China box office. Gross box office receipts fell by 8% to $2.8bn compared to the same period in 2018. The months of January and March were each down 20% year-on-year.
In such a slow week, Song Of Youth emerged as...
The last week of March (March 25-31) suffered a heavy drop in ticket sales of 35% week-on-week making it the second-quietest week in 2019 so far, behind the traditionally slow pre-Chinese New Year week only.
Although February was the biggest single month in a single market, overall the first quarter of 2019 turned out to be a sluggish one at the China box office. Gross box office receipts fell by 8% to $2.8bn compared to the same period in 2018. The months of January and March were each down 20% year-on-year.
In such a slow week, Song Of Youth emerged as...
- 4/1/2019
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The low-budget movie has grossed $5m on its first weekend.
The success at the Chinese box office of the low-budget Dutch horror film Prey has shown the opportunities now available to international independent films in the Chinese market.
Prey, retitled Violent Fierce Lion for China, was released by Star Alliance Movies on 4,000 screens on Friday (March 22). It grossed an impressive $5m to become the sixth biggest film at the Chinese box office in the week March 18-24. It This far-outpaced the €231,548 it took at the Dutch box office in 2016.
Directed by Dutch horror director Dick Maas, Prey is about a...
The success at the Chinese box office of the low-budget Dutch horror film Prey has shown the opportunities now available to international independent films in the Chinese market.
Prey, retitled Violent Fierce Lion for China, was released by Star Alliance Movies on 4,000 screens on Friday (March 22). It grossed an impressive $5m to become the sixth biggest film at the Chinese box office in the week March 18-24. It This far-outpaced the €231,548 it took at the Dutch box office in 2016.
Directed by Dutch horror director Dick Maas, Prey is about a...
- 3/25/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The low-budget movie has grossed $5m on its first weekend.
The success at the Chinese box office of the low-budget Dutch horror film Prey has shown the opportunities now available to international independent films in the Chinese market.
Prey, retitled Violent Fierce Lion for China, was released by Star Alliance Movies on 4,000 screens on Friday (March 22). It grossed an impressive $5m to become the sixth biggest film at the Chinese box office in the week March 18-24. It This far-outpaced the €231,548 it took at the Dutch box office in 2016.
Directed by Dutch horror director Dick Maas, Prey is about a...
The success at the Chinese box office of the low-budget Dutch horror film Prey has shown the opportunities now available to international independent films in the Chinese market.
Prey, retitled Violent Fierce Lion for China, was released by Star Alliance Movies on 4,000 screens on Friday (March 22). It grossed an impressive $5m to become the sixth biggest film at the Chinese box office in the week March 18-24. It This far-outpaced the €231,548 it took at the Dutch box office in 2016.
Directed by Dutch horror director Dick Maas, Prey is about a...
- 3/25/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Chris Freiberg Mar 29, 2019
Think you've played the very best the Xbox 360 has to offer? Here are the underrated games you might have missed!
The Xbox 360 wasn’t the most powerful console of its generation or the best-selling, but it was easily the most innovative. It was the first fully HD-capable console to hit the market, established what an online service should look like on a console, and its controller was so perfect that pretty much everyone has spent the last decade or so releasing only slight variations.
The Xbox 360 has an especially vast library, and there are a lot of great games for it that don’t have Halo or Gears of War in the title. These are the 25 most underrated games for the console:
25. Gun
2005 | Neversoft
Red Dead Redemption may now be remembered as one of greatest video games of all time, but it actually wasn’t the first...
Think you've played the very best the Xbox 360 has to offer? Here are the underrated games you might have missed!
The Xbox 360 wasn’t the most powerful console of its generation or the best-selling, but it was easily the most innovative. It was the first fully HD-capable console to hit the market, established what an online service should look like on a console, and its controller was so perfect that pretty much everyone has spent the last decade or so releasing only slight variations.
The Xbox 360 has an especially vast library, and there are a lot of great games for it that don’t have Halo or Gears of War in the title. These are the 25 most underrated games for the console:
25. Gun
2005 | Neversoft
Red Dead Redemption may now be remembered as one of greatest video games of all time, but it actually wasn’t the first...
- 8/23/2018
- Den of Geek
Ryan Lambie Jan 19, 2018
In the wake of Visceral's cancelled Star Wars game, director Amy Hennig talks about the falling profits from "linear" videogames...
Amy Hennig (former creative director of Naughty Dog) and Sean Vanaman (co-writer and co-director of Firewatch) recently sat down and had a conversation about the gaming industry. During their incredible discussion - which you can and should read in full over at Polygon - Amy Hennig talked about something that has fans of single-player game experiences engaging in a debate of their own.
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"I think we’re in an inflection point right now," said Hennig. "Obviously what happened with our Star Wars project didn’t come out of the blue. A lot of too-dramatic articles were written about it — the death of linear story games and all that kind of stuff — but look,...
In the wake of Visceral's cancelled Star Wars game, director Amy Hennig talks about the falling profits from "linear" videogames...
Amy Hennig (former creative director of Naughty Dog) and Sean Vanaman (co-writer and co-director of Firewatch) recently sat down and had a conversation about the gaming industry. During their incredible discussion - which you can and should read in full over at Polygon - Amy Hennig talked about something that has fans of single-player game experiences engaging in a debate of their own.
See related Hard Sun episode 2 review Hard Sun episode 1 review 28 British TV dramas to watch in 2018
"I think we’re in an inflection point right now," said Hennig. "Obviously what happened with our Star Wars project didn’t come out of the blue. A lot of too-dramatic articles were written about it — the death of linear story games and all that kind of stuff — but look,...
- 1/19/2018
- Den of Geek
Amsterdamned, The Lift and Sint director Dick Maas returns to Dutch cinema screens this Halloween season with his latest piece of crowd pleasing fun Prey (Prooi). And what's next in a career that's seen the director terrorize his home town with killer elevators, killer Santas ad a killer diver lurking in its canals? A killer lion, of course. Maas' Prey turns a big cat loose on the streets of Amsterdam and it's one hungry kitty. Throw a one legged, wheelchair bound hunter into the mix and you've got a recipe for fun. We shared the teaser for this one a while back but with theatrical release coming in just a couple weeks the full trailer is now also available. Check it out below!...
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- 10/7/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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