The opening credits of The Forbidden Room are a small masterpiece—a completely wild mishmash of title cards in all different styles and typographies, which perfectly fits the movie as a whole. Another recent favorite are the almost unbearably tense credit sequence from Good Time, which don’t appear until something…

Loved Kaili Blues but I’d say Ulrich Köhler is a bigger name than Bi Gan. But I’m most excited for the eight-hour film about death and dying from Wang Bing—no part of that description I don’t like.

Oldman going uncredited in Hannibal was a weird contractual thing where he couldn’t be billed alongside Hopkins and Moore and decided he’d rather go without any credit at all. It wasn’t about keeping his role a secret because they never attempted that—it was very publicly announced that he would be playing Mason…

It doesn’t fit here since it’s more of a sui generis work than part of an indigenous film tradition, but one of my favorite Hong Kong films (horror or otherwise) is Patrick Tam’s Love Massacre, a slow-burning, San Francisco-set vehicle for Brigitte Lin (her first movie after leaving Taiwan and the cloying youth…

Weird and sightly dickish of Carol to tell Glenn that she and her friends are the last people on Earth when they ran into two more (one of whom admittedly didn’t stick around very long) like, what, a week ago?

Judging from reports from China (where the movie’s already opened), they’ve changed the character’s background so that he’s actually Chinese and emigrated to Vietnam in his youth. (He isn’t named “Nguyen” anymore either.) They seem to have retained the rest of his backstory, though apparently the Chinese release…

The film, Take It Out In Trade, was a previously lost softcore porn movie directed by Ed Wood in 1970, and was being shown for the first time since its debut at a strip club in Glendale, California more than 40 years before.

Multiple industry sources who work with Amazon say it is clear there is pressure on Price and his team to deliver.

At one point Annapurna was in the running too, though they’re not mentioned in the article so I assume they’re out. It seems weird to me that so many of the companies vying for these distribution rights have no theatrical distribution arm outside the U.S. (Amazon, Annapurna) or no theatrical distribution at all…

I recall reading somewhere that the bumps on AS are done by the interns, which if true means a top story on a major pop-culture website is about nothing more or less than some unpaid college senior’s throwaway comment about a TV show.

Don’t mind me, just testing for grayness.