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Ryûhei Kitamura’s Versus (2000) is now available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video

A relentless one-of-a-kind sensory assault chock full of hyper-kinetic fight scenes, gangster shootouts, sword-slashing violence and gory zombie horror, Versus was a key title amongst the barrage of innovative horror and action movies that appeared as if from nowhere from Japan at the turn of the millennium, leading to a new wave of appreciation for Asian extreme cinema.

A mysterious face-off in a wooded clearing between two escaped convicts and a carload of sharply dressed yakuza holding a beautiful woman captive ends in hails of bullets and showers of blood. The location for this violent encounter is the mythic Forest of Resurrection, the site of the 444th portal of the 666 hidden gates that link this earthly domain to the netherworld and it didn t get this name for nothing. As one of the surviving prisoners escapes with the...

When the iconic The Cabin in the Woods movie came out in 2011, fans of the horror genre thought it'd be another dud that's filled with cheesy one-liners and touchy teens; but everyone was shocked when it was actually a really good movie, filled with comedic relief, scary monsters and an original plot. There's nothing quite like it and it became an instant favorite for poking fun at horror film stereotypes, while making a name for itself.

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There doesn't seem to be a sequel in sight, as the ending of the movie made it quite clear; so to fill the void, there are quite a few shows out there that have similarities. Although differences might be apparent, some of the best sci-fi/thriller shows currently out and available have their own monsters, with a strong fan base.

Everyone is looking to social distance right now. With the ongoing pandemic, the thought of escaping into the beauty and solitude of nature is an alluring and captivating thought to the entire world...

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But, then again, the woods tend to be filled with monsters, giant animals, madmen, and supernatural forces, so maybe the woods aren't as peaceful as people think. Here's a list of 10 movies that are guaranteed to make you afraid of the woods. From slasher classics to inbred murderers, these movies will make you never want to leave your cramped city apartment ever again.

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for the entire season of “Dublin Murders,” including tonight’s season finale, and the novel “In the Woods.”]

In the opening moments of “Dublin Murders”, we see Detective Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) sever her relationship with her partner, Detective Rob Reilly (Killian Scott). Eight episodes later, we see why: the web of lies — both personal and professional — built by the two dissolve in the most public of ways, endangering the integrity of their work on the Katy Devlin and Lexie Madison murder cases. Rob has been revealed to be Adam, the sole survivor of a decades-old incident in the Knocknaree Woods where two other children went missing; Cassie’s undercover work as Lexie has been blown by her housemates.

In an exclusive interview with IndieWire, showrunner Sarah Phelps talks about the process of adapting Tana French’s massively popular novels for TV, finding the perfect actors to play Rob and Cassie — and what happens when...

[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for Episodes 1-4 of “Dublin Murders” on Starz.]

And then, suddenly, everyone is living a lie.

At the end of this evening’s episode of “Dublin Murders” Det. Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) returns to undercover work in the form of Lexie, her doppelgänger murder victim who was using the name of one of Cassie’s previous undercover identities.

Yes, this sounds totally batshit. But “Dublin Murders” is an adaptation of the first two novels in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series — “In the Woods” and “The Likeness” — and, like the books, it’s not just a typical cop procedural. It’s a look at how childhood trauma resonates and warps experiences, perceptions and constructs of reality.

It’s an explosive moment that sets up the back half of the series, marking the official transition away from “In the Woods” into the storyline of “The Likeness,” as Det. Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie...

There is a lot of water imagery in “Dublin Murders,” from the perpetual Irish rain to shots of the Irish Sea. It’s atmospheric, but it also serves a bigger purpose: a reminder that far off ripples can expand into devastating waves.

Based on the first two novels in Tana French’s bestselling and Edgar Award-winning Dublin Murder Squad series, “In the Woods” and “The Likeness,” “Dublin Murders” is, on the surface, about two homicide detectives, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene), trying to solve the murder of a young girl whose body was found ritually posed at an archaeological dig in the woods. In was in these same woods 20 years earlier where two children disappeared, leaving behind their friend who was found hugging a tree and screaming, wearing ripped clothes and shoes filled with another child’s blood.

There are other complications to this visceral set-up — and in “Dublin Murders,...

BBC One is set to premiere its Sarah Phelps-written crime drama Dublin Murders on October 14 at 9Pm.

The eight-episode series has been picked up by Starz in the U.S. and is adapted from Tana French’s first two novels in the Dublin Murder Squad crime series – In The Woods and The Likeness.

The atmospheric, psychological thriller, which was made by Euston Films, Element Pictures and Veritas Entertainment, is adapted by creator and writer Phelps, who has reimagined Agatha Christie stories And Then There Were None and The ABC Murders for the BBC.

Filmed in Belfast and Dublin, Dublin Murders stars Killian Scott (C.B. Strike) and Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful) as detectives dispatched to investigate a child’s murder, who find a community caught between old and new Ireland.

Dublin Murders will also air on Starz in the U.S. and Canada in 2019, as well as on StarzPlay in Germany,...

Multi-prized Swiss director Corina Schwingruber Ilic, whose “All Inclusive” world premieres in Venice’s Horizons Short Film Competition on Thursday, is advancing towards post-production on her first feature “Dida,” co-directed with Nikola Ilic, her husband.

Shot over five years, and now editing, “Dida” turns on Nikola Ilic’s mother, who has learning disabilities, and has lived all her life in the family apartment in Belgrade, cared for by Ilic’s grandmother.

But the grandmother has now died. So that responsibility falls to Nikola Ilic. But, at the age of 29, he moved from Serbia to Switzerland to live and work with Corina Schwingruber.

“Dida” is produced by Franziska Sonder, Karin Koch for Zurich-based Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, whose credits include Cannes Critics’ Week hit “Chris the Swiss.”

“It’s a big topic,” said Schwingruber Ilic, taking in “immigration and globalization”: How much do you give up your own life to take care of your parents,...