Poster Premiere for Patrick Hughes' Modern Western, 'Red Hill'
I've been keeping my eye on Red Hill, a modern-day Western from first time feature filmmaker Patrick Hughes, for a couple of months now. Star Ryan Kwanten (who plays Jason Stackhouse on True Blood) is what put it on my radar, but it was the striking first trailer for the film that kept it on there. It's played a few festivals so far this year to fairly unanimous praise and it looks like the plan is to continue building that fest circuit buzz since Red Hill will be playing at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and the Philadelphia Film Festival.
If you happen to not live near any of the cities housing those fine fests, though, no worries, it won't be too long before you have a chance to see it: Strange Releasing will be putting Red Hill in theaters on November 5th. Check out the official synopsis and brand new poster for the film below.
Young police officer Shane Cooper relocates to the small country town of Red Hill with his pregnant wife Alice to start a family. But when news of a prison break sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic, Shane's first day on duty rapidly turns into a nightmare.
Enter Jimmy Conway, a convicted murderer serving life behind bars, who has returned to the isolated outpost seeking revenge. Now caught in the middle of what will become a terrifying and bloody confrontation, Shane will be forced to take the law into his own hands if he is to survive.
A taut thriller which unfolds over the course of a single day and night, and told with explosive action and chilling violence, RED HILL is a modern-day western played out against the extraordinary landscapes of high-country Australia.
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Cinematical is happy to bring you this exclusive poster for Repeaters, the latest from Canadian indie filmmaker Carl Bessai, to be screened during this year's Toronto International Film Festival. (Full poster after the jump.) Imagine, for a second, if you didn't repeat a mundane Groundhog Day, but rather one singular, terrible day. You aren't alone in the experience -- you have two others with you -- but you find that you have to contend not only with the emotional slap of that same day over and over again, but also with one friend's increasing disconnect from reality.
The film follows three rehab patients who are given a one-day pass to make amends with their families. Kyle (Dustin Milligan, 90210) tries to reconnect with his sister, Sonia (Amanda Crew, Charlie St. Cloud) avoids her ailing dad, who subsequently passes away, and Weeks (Richard de Klerk, Cole) sets off to see his violent father in prison. It's a terrible day for each of them, and just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, they cannot find their way out. They wake up to the same day, over and over again. Instead of comic hijinks, however, it leads them to face the dangerous and scary possibility of a life without consequence.Continue reading Poster Premiere: 'Repeaters' - The 'Groundhog Day' of Thrillers 
Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for Magnolia Pictures' Freakonomics. (Visible in the gallery after the jump.)
It all started when Steven D, Levitt's Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything hit the book world like a whirlwind, daring to take the "boring" world of economics and give it a twist of the strange, mundane, and controversial. In 2007, word hit that the book would become a feature documentary, but rather than be tackled by one filmmaker, a who's who of notable documentarians came together for the project -- Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), and Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), with connective pieces by Seth Gordon (The King of Kong).Continue reading Exclusive: Poster Premiere for 'Freakonomics' 
Cinematical has received the exclusive poster for Ben Wheatley's directorial debut, Down Terrace. It's a terrific black comedy about a family of criminals trying to figure out who sent the recently released Bill and Karl (played by real-life father and son Robert and Robin Hill) off to jail in the first place.
As I wrote in my Fantastic Fest review: "The gentle comedy of short fuses morphs into the gallows humor of sudden outbursts, as hitman pals bring their toddlers along for the job and our family begins to run out of shower curtains in which to wrap up all these loose ends of theirs. From there is where things grow much more personal, and it's at this point that the film reveals the true power of its plainness -- as the laughs subside, we've grown very much immersed in who these people are and what they're bound to do to one another."
Magnolia Pictures will release Down Terrace through their Magnet arm on October 8th. You can check out the full poster in the gallery below.
Gallery: 'Down Terrace' Poster Premiere
The wave of news on superhero films has been surging ahead of the San Diego Comics Convention, which runs this Thursday to Sunday, for days now. But for me, it's has just crested with these two concept images from Marvel Studios' upcoming films Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor.
I've found myself getting burned out on all the superhero movie news lately, particularly that these two properties were destined to undergo post-production 3D conversions. None of the Thor images Marvel has released have piqued my interest and, so far, all we have seen of Captain America were renderings of the costume Chris Evans would be wearing. However, these two bits of concept art do give a greater idea of the kind of the visual energy that Marvel will be shooting for both of these films. And I must say, I love the direction of it.
I'm particularly fond of the Thor fighting Loki concept art pictured above, but Captain America on the battlefield in World War II, which you can see below, is really quite something. That's just me, though, what say you?
Gallery: 'Captain America' and 'Thor' Concept Art
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