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We won’t need much pondering further down in the film history timeline to comprehend why the post-9/11 theme was a pivotal inspiration for NYC...

Sex and politics don’t mix. Just ask Bill Clinton. But if you are Japenese then the combo is not all that abstract. Glad to...

Fans of Millenium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers know who Satoshi Kon is and have been waiting a couple of full moons for his latest release. Selected as part of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival the anime opens in New York on May 25, 2007 and Los Angeles on June 1, 2007, before expanding nationwide throughout the summer. Today, Sony Pictures Classics has passed on the one sheet and trailers below.

Director Bong Joon-ho’s The Host begins in the year 2000, when a morgue assistant in Korea is ordered to empty bottles of hazardous waste down a drain, even though he the boss who gives the order both know the chemicals will end up in the Han River. Two years later, fishermen are finding small mutated creatures. By 2006, a leviathan sea beast is hanging from the Han River Bridge. Among the people gathering to watch the creature is Gang-du, a good-hearted but lazy slacker who works in a food stand along the bank of the Han. Mayhem erupts moments later when the creature rushes onto land and begins to kill and devour everyone in sight. In the ensuing pandemonium, Gang-su’s young daughter Hyun-seo is grabbed by the creature and carried into the depths of the Han River.

Director Neil Burger has started gaining momentum in his career with The Return, the first of four films set to follow his successful debut with The Illusionist. The latest project has already garnered the three leads with Rachel McAdams, Michael Peña and Tim Robbins set to star.