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Stars: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear | Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga

No Time to Die, not to be confused with Too Young to Die, is the latest instalment of Bond, and the one where the title (almost) has some logical relevance to the plot. Socking it to Quantum of Solace. Bond, the Marble Arch, and Percy Pigs, Bond may be fictious, but he gives us Brits that warm feeling one gets when one dunks a hobnob into some milky tea or a piece of fried bread into an egg yolk. Even my snarky, black, liberal heart cannot sully the manly Jaffa cakes and Yorkshire tea wonder of a Daniel Craig Bond, and nor would I want to. I grew...

Brad Pitt is an Oscar winner but has never taken one home for his acting career. That could change this year as he’s already won a Golden Globe for his stuntman role in the Quentin Tarantino film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He’s now nominated for the seventh time at the Academy Awards, this time as Best Supporting Actor. It’s his fourth as an actor along with three for producing and “Cool World” (1992). These two flopped so badly they could have derailed his career; however, he proved he could handle meatier roles with “A River Runs Through It” (1992) and could hold his own with blockbuster powerhouses like Tom Cruise in “An Interview with a Vampire” (1994), and Pitt gradually became of the most critically and commercially successful actors of his generation.

During the past 30 years, Pitt as established himself as a versatile actor, equally adept at playing...

He was 98. She was 89. They were married for 76 years, had 12 children, six of whom died during their childhood.   That is the story of Jo Byeong-man and Kang Gye Yeol, as told in director Jin Mo-young's My Love, Don't Cross That River, South Korea's all-time highest grossing independent film and documentary feature at the local box office.    Over the years, out of South Korea have come many exceptional films that focus on old people, such as The Way Home, Too Young To Die, Old Partner, and Late Blossom. These films have been embraced by the Korean people, making many of them not just critical hits but also commercial successes. My Love, Don't Cross That River is the latest addition to that...

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He was 98. She was 89. They were married for 76 years, had 12 children, six of whom died during their childhood.   That is the story of Jo Byeong-man and Kang Gye Yeol, as told in director Jin Mo-young's My Love, Don't Cross That River, South Korea's all-time highest grossing independent film and documentary feature at the local box office.    Over the years, out of South Korea have come many exceptional films that focus on old people, such as The Way Home, Too Young To Die, Old Partner, and Late Blossom. These films have been embraced by the Korean people, making many of them not just critical hits but also commercial successes. My Love, Don't Cross That River is the latest addition to that...

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Exclusive: Japanese suspense drama stars Ken Watanabe.

Japanese studio Toho is launching sales on Lee Sang-il’s [pictured] suspense drama Rage, which features a stellar cast including Ken Watanabe, at the Efm.

Based on a novel by Shuichi Yoshida, the film revolves around three couples who become suspicious of people they have recently befriended, following a brutal double murder in a Tokyo satellite city.

In addition to Watanabe (The Last Samurai), the strong ensemble cast also includes Kenichi Matsuyama (Norwegian Wood), Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), Mirai Moriyama (Love Strikes), Go Ayano (The Light Shines Only There), Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister) and Aoi Miyazaki (Eureka).

Currently in post-production, the film is being lined up for a summer 2016 release in Japan. Lee Sang-il previously worked with Watanabe on the Japanese version of Unforgiven and his credits also include Hula Girls (2006) and Villain (2010).

Toho’s slate also includes its new reboot of the iconic Godzilla franchise, Shin [link=tt...

(...and no Jamiroquai in sight...) The Japanese writer-director Kudô Kankurô has his heart in a quirky place, and has proven that already several times over. As a scriptwriter he wrote Zebraman for director Miike Takashi, The Apology King for director Mizuta Nobuo, and adapted Matsumoto Taiyō's famous manga Ping Pong into a live-action script for director Sori Fumihiko. As a director, he made Yaji and Kita - The Midnight Pilgrims and The Shonen Merikensack (also known as Brass Knuckle Boys). These are all great, zany films for sure, and very silly in places. But they are also somewhat more intelligently put together than you'd expect at first, and often contain moments of true poignancy. Enter his newest film Too Young to Die!, which had its...

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Writer-director-actor Kudo Kankuro is an enormous favorite here at Twitch, the prodigious talent delivering a seemingly non stop string of high end oddity throughout his career. As a writer he's delivered the screenplays for cult hits Go, Ping Pong, Zebraman and others. As a performer he's worked with acclaimed directors such as Yukisada Isao and Nakashima Tetsuya. And as a director he's responsible for offbeat favorites Maruyama The Middle Schooler, Brass Knuckle Boys and Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims. And now, after one of his frequent forays into television, Kudo returns to the big screen with musical comedy Too Young To Die.Nagase Tomoya - one of Kudo's Yaji & Kita stars - leads a cast that also includes Miyazawa Rie (The Twilight Samurai) and...

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Welcome to the latest episode of The ScreamCast! Each episode sees hosts Sean Duregger and Brad Henderson take a look at another slice of home video horror.

Don’t forget to check out TheScreamCast.com for the show notes and for more news and reviews of Scream Factory releases and make sure to follow them on Twitter too!

Episode 82: Where My Final Girls At?

The Final Girls has gained a unique following since it’s festival runs and now more people are discovering it via VOD and a limited theatrical run. This week we have the pleasure to have a very candid discussion with screenwriters Mark Fortin and Josh Miller. Also, listen for your chance to be entered into a drawing for some Coffee Shop Of Horrors coffee and an official ScreamCast mug!

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:   Movie Recasting of the Day: We've seen a mashup recasting Pierce Brosnan in the Spectre trailer, now it's Roger Moore's turn (via /Film):   Movie Takedown of the Day: In honor of Straight Outta Compton coming out this week, Honest Trailers slams the Eminem movie 8 Mile:   Production Diary of the Day: From the 2012 documentary Too Young to Die, Heath Ledger's father offers a glimpse at the actor's journal used while preparing for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight (via Legion of Leia):   Classic Cartoon of the Day: Today is the 65th anniversary of the theatrical release of the animated short Popeye Makes a Movie, in which...

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Heath Ledger‘s final performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight may be the most beloved of his too-short career. A recently resurfaced clip from a documentary titled Heath Ledger: Too Young to Die offers a little peek into his chilling mindset as he prepared for that iconic role. See the Heath Ledger Joker diary clip after the jump. […]

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Heath Ledger was known for putting every bit of himself into a role. It’s hard to forget a performance like the one he gave as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, where he did just that. While giving the world so much of himself in all of his work, his life ended too soon, right before The Dark Knight was released.

And now the world can get to know the late actor more in the German documentary Heath Ledger: Too Young To Die, which celebrates the actor’s life and work, and reveals his preparation for some of his roles, including the Joker. Many stories from The Dark Knight set about Ledger’s performance and prep have been known since the movie came out, one of which being the fact that Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for about a month and kept a diary.

It's crazy to think that Heath Ledger only lived to be 28 years old, but he left behind some films that were undoubtedly made better thanks to his contributions. The biggest of which would be the seminal DC flick, The Dark Knight. The documentary film, Heath Ledger: Too Young To Die, traces his evolution from the young Australian actor, who very early on displayed an enormous gift for acting, to the... Read More...

Next year, we'll get Jared Leto's take on The Joker when he appears in "Suicide Squad," but the actor has some very big shoes to fill. Jack Nicholson fell right into the tone Tim Burton was going for in "Batman" with his colorful turn, while Heath Ledger found the depraved menace in the villain with this scarred take in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." A bit of the method behind Ledger's madness has been revealed. Apparently this knocked around the web a few years ago and is circulating again, but it's the first I'm seeing it. This segment from the documentary "Too Young To Die" about Ledger, shows the actor's father thumbing through the pages in the diary his son created as part of his research for the character. You'll see a very heavy presence of "A Clockwork Orange," and Ledger wrote some extensive notes for the hospital sequence.

Even though next year's double-whammy of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad is set to introduce Jared Leto as the new Joker for the DC Cinematic Universe, people are still talking about Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning turn as the villain in 2008's The Dark Knight. A new German documentary about the life of the actor actually gives us a glimpse into the diary he created in bringing one of the most iconic villains to the big screen. And it's a pretty insightful look at how an actor creates a role.

A scene from the documentary titled Too Young to Die has Heath Ledger's father, Kim Ledger, paging through the diary. This personal artifact is filled with with photos of playing cards, various images from the Batman comics, photos of hyenas, and stills of Alex DeLearge from the 1971 classic. A Clockwork Orange. We also see the word...

One of the more famous stories that came out of the production of Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Night" was that in order to prepare for his role as The Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for weeks on end and documented his preparation in a journal to allow himself to get into the character.

Now a clip has gone line from a sequence in "Too Young To Die," the upcoming documentary about the late actor, with Ledger's father Kim looking over that very journal. The older Ledger says: "He pretty well locked himself up in a hotel, in his apartment, for a month or so, to sort of galvanize the upcoming character in his own mind. That was typical of Heath on any movie. He would certainly immerse himself in the upcoming character. I think this was just a whole new level."

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The Joker is arguably Batman’s most iconic adversary, and with each new on-screen iteration comes a different interpretation of the villain. It’s a rare opportunity that we, the fans, get to go inside the mind of one of these actors preparing for the role, but a clip from a new documentary on the life and career of Heath Ledger reveals the diary he kept in order to capture the character. Watch it below. Entertainment Weekly reports that the documentary hails from Germany and is titled Too Young to Die: Heath Ledger, and the clip features an interaction with the late actor's father, Kim. As he flips through the pages of the diary, we can see images and clippings from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, a cackling hyena, actual Joker cards from decks, comic strips of the character, and a photograph of a ...

As we all know, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker, for which he received a posthumous Oscar, has become legendary. Now, new insight to the preparation he went through for the role of the psychotic comic book villain has come to light with the below clip from documentary Too Young To Die. The clip shows Ledger’s father thumbing through the diary the actor helped to get him in the right mind set for the role, and included many different elements that went to make the character whole, from torn out pictures from Batman comics to pictures of A Clockwork Orange, a major influence on the performance. It also features hand written dialogue from The Dark Knight script, and is a fascinating look at the creation of one of cinemas most enduring characters.

It's no secret that Heath Ledger completely immersed himself in playing The Joker for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight - in fact some believe he may have taken things too far, resulting in drug abuse and depression which ultimately led to his death. We'll probably never know if that was the case, but the following clip from the Heath Ledger: Too Young To Die documentary does at least seem to prove that he may have been taking his research for the role to some unhealthy places. Following various writing excerpts and images of the likes of Alex from A Clockwork Orange, the final page of his diary reveals the words "bye bye". A portent of the tragedy to come, perhaps? He only lived to be 28 years old. The news of Heath Ledger's death spread like wildfire. The first major Hollywood star to have died so young in...

He was 98. She was 89. They were married for 76 years, had 12 children, six of whom died during their childhood. That is the story of Jo Byeong-man and Kang Gye Yeol, as told in director Jin Mo-young's My Love, Don't Cross That River, South Korea's all-time highest grossing independent film and documentary feature at the local box office. Over the years, out of South Korea have come many exceptional films that focus on old people, such as The Way Home, Too Young To Die, Old Partner, and Late Blossom. These films have been embraced by the Korean people, making many of them not just critical hits but also commercial successes. My Love, Don't Cross That River is the latest addition to that list; and its...

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Hollywood actress Juliette Lewis is fed up of being asked about her time dating screen hunk Brad Pitt - as she insists their past was as insignificant as a "high school relationship". But the Natural Born Killers star, who dated Pitt after working with him on 1990 movie Too Young To Die, finds she is continually hounded with questions about their romance, which she considers to be ancient history. Lewis, now fronting rock band Juliette & The Licks, says, "It's like talking about a high school relationship. He was a young, struggling actor when we went out. It was a totally different time."...