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A classy crime thriller, with edgy suspense and twists that can't be predicted.  Mike Hodges directs Paul Mayersberg's script about a frustrated writer who returns to casino work to find material for a book.  A young Clive Owen shines as the rakish but sensible roulette & blackjack dealer, who documents his own criminal activities. Croupier Blu-ray Hen's Tooth Video 1998 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date November 3, 2015 / 24.95 Starring Clive Owen, Gina McKee, Kate Hardie, Alex Kingston, Nicholas Ball, Paul Reynolds, Ciro de Chiara, Rhona Mitra, Loretta Parnell. Cinematography Michael Garfath Production Designer Jon Bunker Art Direction Ian Reade-Hill, Alexander Scherer, Gernot Thöndel Film Editor Les Healey Original Music Simon Fisher-Turner Written by Paul Mayersberg Produced by Jonathan Cavendish, Marlow De Mardt, Jake Lloyd, James Mitchell, Brigid Olen, Christine Ruppert Directed by Mike Hodges

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

He: "You're my conscience." She: "Don't you have a conscience of your own?" If...

Singapore’s Cubix International and China’s Bestlinkage Group are opening a $1.5bn media hub, D’Hive, in the Songjiang district of Shanghai.

The project, which is backed by the district government of Songjiang, will offer local tax, rental and set-up incentives, production funding and on-site consultation.

Scheduled to break ground at the end of 2014, the commercial development spans 390,000 square metres and aims to bring in tenants ranging from studios and production companies to creative and media agencies. It also aims to become a one-stop destination for foreign media companies who are looking for media-related services or to set up operations in China.

Companies including Singapore’s Yellow Box Studios and Shooting Gallery Asia, Canada’s Mokko Incubation School and the Us’ Latitude Entertainment are currently in discussions to set up offices in the complex.

“D’Hive will be an iconic centre for creativity and the congregation of media talents and services. The international...

Nowadays, every struggling filmmaker who strains to put together the financing for his or her micro-budget feature has a singular thought (one that’s probably repeated often throughout the process): If only I was making this movie in the early ‘90s. That, of course, was the heyday of American independent cinema, the post-“sex, lies and videotape” world where specialty shingles and mini-majors were snapping up teeny-tiny movies for millions of dollars and, what’s more, actually getting them seen by mass audiences. Hell, in our hometown, we had a fairly out-there art house theater in the mall. One of the most famous hubs for independent cinema at this time, that proved ultimately to be a cautionary tale of expansion and ego, was New York City’s the Shooting Gallery, a tale that is lovingly chronicled in “Misfire: The Rise and Fall Of The Shooting Gallery.” The story of...

Last year, Telltale Games did what many people thought would be impossible: they took the smash hit comic book The Walking Dead, and turned it into a point and click adventure game. It was a real triumph in video game storytelling, with much of the game contingent on conversation and player choices. But more than that, it channeled pure emotion into the hands of the gamer, and plenty of jaded, cynical naysayers were moved to tears while playing. On top of that, the game was released in an episodic format, although you can purchase the complete experience as one whole package now. Of course, the game came at a perfect time, with the white hot Walking Dead television show on AMC, which in turn spurred sales of the comic book and created an appetite for this game. But based on the show and many issues of the comic, you would expect that the game would be Sheriff...

In the late spring of 2000, I found myself across a desk from one Milton Tabbot (currently Ifp’s Senior Director of Programming, for the unfamiliar) in an office plastered with movie posters in the West Twenties. I was a few months away from finishing college and, unsure of what exactly to do with myself, had applied on a whim to a position at an organization called the Ifp. I wasn’t sure exactly what this shadowy group did, but I knew I’d heard of it; the job was a marketing gig, and involved a big upcoming event called the Independent Feature Film Market (Iffm). Even though I was about to pick up a degree in the not-terribly-related arena of semiotics, I thought it couldn’t hurt to put my hat in the ring.

A few weeks after sending in my resume, I came home to find a message from Milton on my machine.

Lorene Scafaria was trying to make it in the film business when she lost her job answering phones at the now-defunct indie Shooting Gallery, which prompted her to use their stationery to send out query letters to agents, pack her bags, and move from New York to Los Angeles (or at least, stay with an eccentric aunt in Orange County — close enough). This was one week before 9/11. The budding screenwriter (who went on to write Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) found herself strangely inspired by the death, doom, and destruction of that day, but on the personal level, watching how relationships began or fell apart in the wake of tragedy. That was the initial seed for Scafaria's directorial debut, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, in which Steve Carell and Keira Knightley partner up as an asteroid is on its way to destroy the Earth...

I see you, Bob Iger. According to a Deadline report, Disney CEO Iger allegedly let slip at the company’s annual shareholders meeting today that preliminary design is “just beginning” for the previously announced Avatar theme park, which is planned for Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando.

The park is set to explore both familiar and as-yet-unseen settings from creator James Cameron’s Avatar universe (including environments from the two sequels in development), and is the result of a licensing deal between Walt Disney Parks & Resorts and Fox Filmed Entertainment, allowing the Imagineers at Disney World to develop attractions based...

Here's a awesome collection of money art from artist James Charles, who took actual Us currency and gave each one a fun little facelift resembling a popular movie or TV character or historical figure. These are actually selling at the Shooting Gallery art gallery in San Francisco for $600-$1,000 a pop. 

These are all done incredibly well. Check out all of the pop culture money art and tell us what you think!

Why wade through mindless 2010 countdown lists when you can re-live the year’s biggest stories yourself—through the interactive YouTube game. Thanks to the remarkably prolific Fine Brothers, as of today its all yours as they released their year ending 2010 Shooting Range Game. Want to see if you can navigate the delicate road from Bed Intruder crime victim to viral video stardom of Antoine Dodson? Or maybe you think you best Kevin Coster in the race to plug up the underwater leak Bp Oil Spill. For whatever reason the Brothers Fine decided to invoke a old western theme to their “Shooting Gallery”—perhaps a nod to the end of the ‘Wild West; in online video? (Seriously, that buzzphrase passed away gracefully in 2010 and should not be used hereafter.) Related News:Fine Brothers Hit ‘American Idol’ With 21-Part Interactive Video ‘Twilight: Eclipse’ – The 8-Bit Interactive Game Hits The Station ‘Chad, Matt & Rob...

· Kristen Wiig poses as Brigitte Bardot (!) in the new issue of V. Not to be outdone, Wiig's one-upper character Penelope submitted to a cutting-edge procedure to graft Bardot's face onto hers. She died on the operating table.

· Casting! Hugh Jackman will come aboard the Lee Daniels-directed Selma, while Benicio del Toro will play undercover FBI agent Jack Garcia in Making Jack Falcone.

· Michelle Rodriguez is returning to Lost. Here's hoping she's able to make stop by Michael's Shooting Gallery.

· "Basically everyone I know is knackered, me included," GOOPed Gwyneth Paltrow this week. Oh, I get it. Because your husband is British.

· Were Jeremy Renner and Jessica Simpson flirting at an Oscar party this week? If only The Hurt Locker had included a scene where he had to defuse sexual napalm.

· Megan Fox is stripping down for the new Emporio Armani Underwear campaign. One more after the jump, kids!

· Libby and Michael are coming back to Lost! (Or, as they're otherwise known, ex-Losties Cynthia Watros and Harold Perrineau.) I'd like to believe it's Michael's Shooting Gallery that convinced them.

· Ugly Betty's Michael Urie has finally revealed that he dates men, like you'd figured.

· Contrarian film critic Armond White has made the shortlist for Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World.

· Lea Michele is reuniting with her Glee guest star Kristen Chenoweth to voice the animated Dorothy of Oz. Gaysplosion!

A Hollywood filmmaker is looking for a few good men -- and women -- with military backgrounds who want to break into the entertainment industry.

Larry Meistrich, best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "Sling Blade," is soliciting movie and TV pitches from active members of the military, veterans and their family members with the intent to choose at least one project per year to produce and finance.

Beyond pitching, GI Pictures wants the projects to be made entirely by current and retired military personnel and family members, including writing, directing, producing acting and all crew members. Those with potential but no experience, he'll train.

"My management team fits because we all have parents who were in the military," Meistrich said.

"The skills acquired during a military career are very complementary to production," he said. "The way a set runs is similar to a chain of command, but we're obviously not risking our lives.

It's time for part 2 in the sometimes series that I like to call Lists here at late Film, with today's rather titularly self-explanatory list coming luke warm off the heels of Fi's Fave Films! - An Alternative List. Back when late night TV was great here in the UK, I would avidly watch short films from the random showings on Channel 4 (some, such as Alison De Vere's The Black Dog, were regulars) to less random collections on Shooting Gallery. For as long as I've loved film, I've loved short film, for there is something so powerful and emotive in these short few minutes. Yes indeed, I loves me a short film, and here is my pick of top 5 fave's...

1. The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote (Billy O'Brien, 1999)

Anyone who knows me will tell you I just simply adore rodents, so it's probably unsurprising, then, that my favorite short would feature a rat.

Magnolia Pictures is launching the Six Shooter Film Series, a theatrical release program featuring half a dozen features from its genre arm, Magnet Releasing.

Magnet also unveiled its latest pickup, Hitoshi Matsumoto's Japanese superhero mockumentary "Big Man Japan," which will close the program.

The series is a rebranded package of Magnet titles, similar to one presented by Magnolia head Eamonn Bowles' former company the Shooting Gallery. While all films will be offered for open-ended engagements, most will run a minimum of one week theatrically and will only be extended by exhibitors based on their boxoffice performance.

Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film "Let the Right One In," which won best narrative feature at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, opens the series in New York and Los Angeles on Oct. 24 and enters a platform release a week later.

It's followed by Hal Halberman and Jeremy Passmore's action comedy "Special" on Nov. 21 (after a Nov. 7 sneak preview on Magnolia sister company HDNet's Ultra VOD Channel), Nacho Vigalondo's Spanish sci-fi film "Timecrimes" in December, Franck Vestiel's French thriller "Eden Log," Oliver Blackburn's 2008 Sundance premiere "Donkey Punch" in February and "Japan" in March.

A Magnolia spokesperson said a new series may be created based on the success of this one.