Jameson Kowalczyk

Probably most familiar to audiences for his portrayal of an interpreter who suffers a mental/emotional breakdown in the climatic battle of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, Jeremy Davies now takes on another such non-heroic role, and gives arguably the most brilliant supporting we’ve seen all year in acclaimed and award winning filmmaker Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn.

IONCINEMA journalist Jameson reports from Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, happening this weekend in Secaucus, NJ.

Few actors ever get the chance to go to the extremes that Sir Ben Kingsley has in his career. In 1982 he won an Oscar for the title role in Gandhi, portraying history’s most non-violent revolutionary. 22 years later, he would be nominated for another Oscar, this time for his portrayal of Don Logan, arguably the most brutal, animalistic, and outright scary gangster, ever, sent to persuade a retired bank robber out of retirement for one last job in Sexy Beast

If there is one thing genre fans love more than genre films and magazines that report on genre films, it’s genre-focused conventions (“cons” for short, i.e. “Comic Con”) – gatherings of fans and industry professionals (and press!). While I’d feel pretty out of place at a Star Wars or Dungeons and Dragons convention, I will feel right at home this weekend at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, coming to the New York area this weekend (June 29 through July 1) by way of Secaucus, NJ. Secaucus is a five to ten minute train ride from Penn Station, and a familiar location to anyone who commutes via rail from NJ to NYC during the week.

You Kill Me, now out in a limited release from IFC films, is a welcome return to independent filmmaking for director John Dahl, who made a name for himself with films like Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, but has recently focused his talents on direction major studio releases like Joy Ride and The Great Raid.