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Horror History: Takashi Miike’s AUDITION Is Now 22 Years Old On this day in horror history, director Takashi Miike's 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 When he becomes intrigued by a withdrawn, gorgeous girl, they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that she isn...

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 nominations to his name.  Depp made a remarkable debut in 1984 with ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’....

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 Trees.” With its lumpy, moss-covered volcanic surfaces and dense growth of spindly, twisted trees, Aok...

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 doors, another casualty of the relentless disease that has robbed us of much of what we used to call �...

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 town's 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 it fell in the town of chimneys. The film will open in Japan on December 25.