Archive 1997-2016
In Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese has crafted a harrowing psychological thriller about a federal agent investigating the disappearance of a prisoner from a hospital for the criminally insane off the coast of Massachusetts.
Given the recent crop of vampire movies incandescing at the box office, the success of Paranormal Activity and the permanent ubiquity of zombie apocalypse films, it was only a matter of time before Universal Studios decided to resurrect their renowned monster line-up.
Over the course of putting Nicole Kidman, Emily Watson and Icelandic pop star Björk through hell – to some degree both on the set and on-screen –Lars von Trier gained a reputation for making misogynistic films which revel sadistically in the abuse of often helpless and kind-hearted women.
John Woo’s sword-and-sandals war epic Red Cliff was released in Asia in two parts over the course of 2008 and 2009, clocking in at roughly 280 minutes and breaking the Chinese box office record previously held by Titanic.