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Mary Elizabeth Winstead Is a Ruthless Assassin in First Look at Netflixs Kate Mary Elizabeth Winstead Is a Ruthless Assassin in First Look at Netflixs Kate People cant wait to see Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Kate after Netflix released some first look images of the Japan-set action-thriller. Fans are loving Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an assassin in the upcoming Netflix action-thriller Kate after a first look at the actress in the role was revealed. Over at Entertainment Weekly, three new photos...

After  Mary Elizabeth Winstead‘s scene-stealing performance in  Birds of Prey proved that the actress has some bonafide action chops, it feels like there haven’t been enough people calling for Winstead to become the next big action star. But Netflix is already ahead of the game with  Kate, an action-thriller starring Winstead as an assassin on a job in Tokyo, who only has 24 hours to live before a poison kills her. See the  Kate first look images below. Kate First Look Entertainment We...

Academy Awards® Accredited & One of Asias Biggest Film Festivals Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021 Announcing More Than 500 Nominees & Special Screenings of Short Films from Around the World Online Screening Venue & 3D Space Theater "DOOR" Open Today! Short film shot entirely on a smartphone "Stardust Children" has its world premiere! News provided by Share this article Share this article TOKYO, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This years festival will be held from Fri, 06/11 to Mon, 06/21,...

Apr 7, 2021 “Zokki,” the introduction on the film’s website tells us, “is impossible to categorize … Zokki is Zokki.” Fair enough, but all films, by an iron law of reviewing, must have a label and the one that fits best in this case, if crookedly, is “quirky comedy.” Seeing it at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, I went in expecting “Zokki” to supply belly laughs but left disappointed. Seeing it again, I realized that it was closer in sensibility to t...

ARTS / FILM By Global Times Published: Mar 17, 2021 05:33 PM Actress Ying Ze Photo: Courtesy of Hengye Pictures Tracing Her Shadow, a China-Japan coproduction about Japanese war orphans in China will hit big screens in China on Friday.  Starring actresses and actors from China and Japan like Wu Yanshu, Jun Kunimura and Nagase Jungmin, the latest work from Chinese young director Peng Fei tells the sad story of an old Chinese woman who tries to find the missing Japanese daughter she adopte...

Horror History: Takashi Miike’s AUDITION Is Now 22 Years Old On this day in horror history, director Takashi Miikes Audition with Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina was released in Japan back in 2000. By Mike Sprague Audition in Japan back in 2000. It follows a widower who decides to start dating again. Aided by a film-producer friend, he uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When he becomes intrigued b...

Johnny Depp (Getty Images) Depp plays the lead role of W Eugene Smith in the movie. Depp is a globally acclaimed actor who needs no introduction for film enthusiasts. Often considered one of the most versatile actors in modern-day Hollywood, Depp has been nominated thrice for Academy Awards for Best Actor. He won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for best actor for his brilliant performance in ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ and also has ten Golden Globe Best Actor nominat...

Feb. 5 To his credit, Shimizu creates a nightmarish forest world that reminds us why, in certain lights and moods, tree branches can look like clawing hands and the trees themselves become ominous beings that threaten and loom. It helps that his main setting is Aokigahara, the so-called jukai (sea of trees) at the foot of Mount Fuji that has become notorious as a magnet for the suicidal. It has also inspired several films, including the widely panned 2015 Gus Van Sant drama, “The Sea of Tree...

January 15, 2021 at 11:59 am by Avery Herman In a world that, frankly, sucks right now, the film industry has been hit as hard as any mom-and-pop shop, three-star hotel chain or corner cafe. Gone are the halcyon days of buttered popcorn and ludicrously priced 32-oz Coca-Colas, the days of casually tossing 3-D glasses in an oversized trash can, and the days of squabbling with maskless strangers about the volume and brightness settings on their phone. Movie theaters have closed their do...

Poupelle of Chimney Town ( Entotsu-chō no Poupelle) picture book on Wednesday. The story is set in a town surrounded by a wall that stands 4,000 meters (about 2.5 miles) tall. Because the town is full of chimneys, the air is always full of smoke. No one in the town knows what the sky looks like. On the night of the towns Halloween festival, a deliveryman accidentally drops the heart he is supposed to deliver. He cannot find the heart in the smoke and gives up. The heart continues to beat where...