The Raven

Ricardo de Montreuil has made a splash with his $5,000 scifi short, The Raven. The film has already drawn comparisons to Alive in Joburg which later became District 9. Who knows... perhaps we'll be seeing a 2-hour version of this in the years to come.

Gingercide

The gingerism on display in M.I.A.'s new video for "Born Free" feels like South Park meets Children of Men on steroids. And while satire and exploitation serve their purposes, I have to consider them little more than stepping stones to a sad truth: our capacity for arbitrary hate will never die.

Please, for the good of humanity, don't be an idiot.

Spawn of Grindhouse

Remember Machete? You know... one of the fake trailers from Grindhouse? Well it's due out later this year (September 3). I'm guessing Robert Rodriguez has been un castor ocupado between this and producing Predators.



As if that wasn't awesome enough, Hobo With a Shotgun - AKA faux trailer that won the SXSW 2007 Grindhouse Competition - is currently being filmed as a full-blown feature. Playing the title character? Rutger MFing Hauer. Get pumped.

Will Eli Roth bring us Thanksgiving? Will we ever get to see Nic Cage play Fu Manchu in Werewolf Women of the SS? One can hope.

Predators

Forget all your frustration and/or disinterest with the AvP movies. Robert Rodriguez is the producer for the new Predators, due out later this year.

If that doesn't persuade you by itself, check out an interview with Rodriguez at SXSW's Horror Panel.

Centurion

Neil Marshall returns with his version of the Ninth Legion massacre, starring Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Dominic West (The Wire), and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace). The film is set to debut in the UK on April 23, and it'll hopefully hit American theaters by summertime. Also, fans of Marshall's The Descent should be able to find The Descent: Part 2 (which Marshall produced but did not direct) on DVD by the end of April.

Codehunters

Codehunters looks like the Gorillaz got crossed with Final Fantasy VII characters and shat out into Borderlands.

Green Zone

Paul Greengrass has steadily been making a name for himself with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum (not to mention United 93). Matt Damon is no small part of that, and (it should go without saying) I'm excited to see this when it comes out in May.

Big Brother Blood Bath

It's easy for me to hate most "reality" tv shows, but especially one that trivializes the work of George Orwell. What better way to bring the wankers down than plop them into a chapter of World War Z? It warms my heart.

Dream Yourself to Death

A short by Rian Johnson, of "Brick" and "Brothers Bloom" fame.

QT Top 20 & Mixtape

In honor of the Inglourious Basterds, I present you with Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 since 1992 (ie. the year Reservoir Dogs came out). And, as a bonus, "The Tarantino Mixtape" by video remix magician Eclectic Method.

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

I'd heard rumors (ie. "rumours") about QT writing a WWII movie after Kill Bill Vol. 2 came out. I figured he'd scrapped the project when Grindhouse was released in 2007, so I'm pretty excited to finally see some footage of Inglourious Basterds. Empire Online has a shot for shot trailer breakdown that all you salivating Tarantino fans need to read.

Escape From City 17

"Directed by The Purchase Brothers.

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500."