Mondo (the boutique shop of the Alamo Drafthouse) has six posters going on sale today at their official website.  Five of them we showed you earlier but now they’ll be available to purchase online: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Nevermore, Red White & Blue, the Roger Corman Tribute poster, and the official poster for Fantastic Fest 2010.  There’s also a new poster for the Guillermo del Toro-produced thriller Julia’s Eyes, which also played at this year’s Fantastic Fest.  Hit the jump to check out all of the posters along with their prices, size, edition, and artist.  Be sure to follow @MondoNews for the official announcement of when these posters will be available for purchase.

When I was told that there would be a performance of a live-action graphic novel — complete with three voice performers, live music, and special effects — created right in front of me, I actually delayed leaving Sunday evening from Fantastic Fest to stay quite a bit later to enjoy this incredibly well-made production. I’m not old enough to have heard any radio plays that The Intergalactic Nemesis celebrates, but I am old enough to enjoy the hell out of it in this format. So hit the jump for a brief review of everything that is great about The Intergalactic Nemesis.

Sometimes you get a chance to simply sit down and talk with an actor; no timetable, no handler, and every question is fair game. Darren Shahlavi was kind enough to sit down with me for that style of interview, and over the course of our 20 minute conversation we covered a huge number of topics. Shahlavi has started to hone his craft and play increasingly larger roles in films and TV, and his hard work is starting to really show. Shahlavi stars in Ip Man 2 (read my review here) as the main bad guy, Twister, who is a Western boxer visiting Hong Kong. After screening the film just moments before, I was able to interview him and you can see the results after the jump.

Fantastic Fest can be a bit of a madhouse if anything runs late, which in this business, I have learned is quite common. Hell, I was called to come early to several interviews, and ended up interviewing way later than my originally scheduled time. Such is life, and you just get the interview done and move on… hopefully. Originally I had a roundtable press-conference style interview with makeup magician Greg Nicotero (just think of a horror film with great practical effects that you loved, and I bet he was involved in some fashion), but when the audio on his short United Monster Talent Agency decided to go wonky, the screening ran way late. Because of how late it ran, I was facing a 10 minute window before screening Ip Man 2 downstairs, and Luke Mullen (again, thanks Luke) actually allowed me to jump ahead and fit in a five minute chat. So, hit the jump for my all-too-brief interview with Nicotero as we discuss The Walking Dead, continuity, and his favorite vampire aesthetic.

Before I say anything about IP Man 2, you simply must see IP Man first. Why? Because it is a blast that has a lot of heart, even if it takes extreme liberties with the history of Ip Man and the rise of the Wing Chun fighting style. When one of his greatest pupils happens to be the legendary Bruce Lee, you know the fighting style is something to watch. In order to enjoy IP Man 2, you don’t have to see the first, but since you have time between now and the early 2011 theatrical release by Well GO USA, you might as well. The fights in IP Man 2 are some of the best by fight choreographer Sammo Hung, who faces off against Donnie Yen as both choreographer and opponent for the first time. The story’s scale is reined in compared to the first, but the heartfelt drama is yet again a staple, showing that Hong Kong action films are back. Hit the jump to read my full review.

I’ll admit to being nervous when I actually got the opportunity to interview Edward Norton during Fantastic Fest.  Not because of giddy joy (there was some of that as I am a fan of his work), but because he can come off as reserved and somewhat intimidating in his serious attitude.  However, the Norton I interviewed for the upcoming film Stone (read my review here) was relaxed and genial which resulted in a nice chat.  See the results after the jump as we talk cornrows, his gravitation towards films with ambiguity, and his adoration of Austin.  John Curran’s Stone hits theaters this weekend and stars Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, and Edward Norton.

Even if you don’t recognize the name, if you are a fan of kung fu films, you have probably seen a number of Yuen Woo-Ping’s influential fight choreography. His resume includes recent hits like The Matrix trilogy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, both Kill Bill films, and a string of other praised martial arts films. Yuen has worked with nearly every major kung fu star, including Jet Li (Fearless and The Forbidden Kingdom), Jackie Chan (Drunken Master), Donnie Yen (Iron Monkey), and a number of others. When Fantastic Fest announced that Yuen would be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in addition to premiering Yuen’s upcoming True Legend (my review here), I jumped at the opportunity to interview the legend. Hit the jump to see my chat with Yuen as we discuss who he wants to work with in the future, his influences in directing, how he creates the fight choreography, and why the Drunken Fist fighting style keeps coming back.

Sometimes you take a premise and wring it for all it’s worth and you add some soul, humor, great casting, and gritty action to give it the right flavor. That’s exactly what the post-apocalyptic vampire road movie Stake Land does, as director Jim Mickle takes Nick Damici’s script and fine-tunes the narrative enough to elevate it above a simple romp through vampire infested back roads and really connect with the audience. The biggest draw will be the different classes of vampires Stake Land introduces, but even the retreaded portions of the film are executed so well that the end result is better than the sum of its parts. Hit the jump for my full review and why this was my favorite film of the entire festival.

Yuen Woo-Ping knows how to choreograph a fight, but the challenges of directing a compelling movie aren’t quite as easy to overcome. While he has a long history of telling the Drunken Fist story, this is the first dramatic telling of the narrative and the results are sadly mixed. True Legend is a wild romp through the long and winding road of Beggar So that feels oddly pieced together despite the rousing final act. The film has its ups and downs, but the end result is a bit of a mess that leaves one feeling that it could have been so much more. Hit the jump for the full review.

Adam Wingard’s A Horrible Way To Die might be a horrible way to spend 85 minutes if you can’t get past the shaky cam experience of feeling intoxicated, which is a shame because the story is quite intriguing. When you play on themes of addiction, in this case to murder and alcohol, you can strike a balance of the evils that people try to deal with day to day. While we may not all have a killer within us, we all have our flaws and guilty pleasures to overcome. So hit the jump for my full review of this rocky journey that will have you talking about the themes long after the film has finished.

If you knew how to track down a sadistic serial killer who had offed your fiancé, would you take your time to enact revenge or would you simply murder that person? Would you even bother to turn him in? That’s the basic premise of director Ji-woon Kim’s excellent and disturbing I Saw The Devil, which takes revenge to a sadistic new level and shows the sad results of such actions. Acted with little to no remorse, this gut-wrenching and violent thriller will have you on the edge of your seat for most of the second and third act, with a flourish of an ending that shows some true heart and why the battle between good and evil isn’t always black and white. Hit the jump for my full review.

When you see the same people at the same place everyday for a week, you become family. And the final day of Fantastic Fest 2010 was our family reunion. As the audience of film nuts all made our final trip to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, the discussion turned backwards on a fantastic week of films. It was difficult to admit that day eight was the end, but the programmers certainly outdid themselves, featuring films and events that were the perfect way to end a perfect week. Hit the jump to read about the awesome sci-fi flick Transfer, the epic Hong Kong blockbuster Woochi and the live Edgar Allen Poe performance Nevermore.

Last week I had the opportunity to sit down and discuss Let Me In with writer/director Matt Reeves and the star of the film, Kodi Smit-McPhee, during Fantastic Fest.  I had a notepad full of questions to ask, as I loved the original Swedish film, had finished reading the book a week prior, and screened the remake the day before, but I was given a small window to talk to them so I tried to make my questions count. Join me after the break as we discuss the plot points he wanted to keep from the original film, the decision behind the use of CGI and the vampire aesthetic, and how long Kodi can really hold his breath.

If you haven’t already, check out my review of Let Me In from Fantastic Fest here and look for my interview with Dylan Minnette and Elias Koteas in the coming days.  For now, enjoy the interview and look for Let Me In tomorrow.

When the director of Saw 2, 3, and 4 decides to remake a B-movie horror, you expect some graphic and torturous kills and perhaps not much else. However, when you gather a talented group of actors and give him a good script, it appears you get a little bit more than what you pay for. That is exactly what Darren Lynn Bousman’s latest effort, Mother’s Day, proves, as he takes B-movie mechanics and surgically implants a backbone of drama that ends up being a surprisingly fun mixed bag. Join me after the jump for my full review.

The relationship between a parole officer and an inmate is one with constant tension between what is and isn’t true. As John Curran’s Stone observes, how much truth is shared, if any, may never be known as the human drive to simply survive can create a powerful situation that is so believable, it might fool the very people meant to read through all the false fronts that are thrown their way. Religion, deception, reformation, seduction, and the power of lies are all explored as Stone (Edward Norton) weaves his way through our hearts and minds, leaving plenty of questions in the wake of the remarkable ending. Join me after the break for the full review.