I’m fascinated by how the language of video games has begun to leak into filmmaking. As gaming has become more commonplace and mainstream, a new generation of directors raised with controllers in their hands have begun to blend the mediums. And you don’t just see this in big, dumb action movies – the stylistically ambitious drama  Son of Saul  bears a distinctive video game thumbprint , whether anyone wants to admit it or not. But Hardcore Henry wears its video game influences on its sleeve in a huge way and it is very much a big, dumb action movie, albeit one of the more ambitious big, dumb action movies to come around in quite some time. A new trailer for this insane exercise in mayhem has arrived and it teases a movie that looks to be, for better and worse, unlike anything we’ve seen before. Hardcore Henry ( which was just called Hardcore when it made the festival rounds last year ) is shot entirely from the first person POV of i...

  Writer/director  James DeMonaco ‘s The Purge   movies have never been shy about melding politics and horror. The series’ creepy, Twilight Zone -esque elevator pitch – a near-future America legalizes all crime for one night every year – has been a vehicle to examine how corrupt systems favor the wealthy and powerful while literally leaving the poor and the helpless out on the streets. You can argue about the results (I think they’ve been pretty good), but it’s always nice to see a grisly horror series bring a little bit of actual meat to the slaughter. The trailer for The Purge: Election Year has arrived and it looks like the next natural step forward for this series. But most importantly, Frank Grillo is back, which is the real reason to celebrate. As the title implies, the third film moves deeper into the political realm, following Charlene Roan ( Elizabeth Mitchell ), a presidential nominee who has built her entire campaign on eliminating ...

Actress Priyanka Chopra’s first Marathi film as a producer has gone on the floors. The actress has stepped into the sppace with her Purple Pebble Pictures production house and took to twitter to inform that he is now geared up for a Marathi film. The 33-year-old actress took to her online photo-sharing account on Instagram and announced the news aling with an image wherein the script and the clapboard of the film are kept in front of a photo frame of Lord Ganesha. Priyanka, who will have a guest appearance in the flick, captioned the image as:  Congratulations @purplepebblepictures for starting # Ventilator.. Our 1st Marathi film!good luck to #rajeshmapuskar and the team! Ganpati Bappa Morya.   Congratulations @PurplePebblePic for starting #Ventilator.. Our 1st Marathi film!good luck… http://t.co/nI3bi9YXUQ — PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra)  February 10, 2016 Titled “Ventilator”, the film will have several veteran Marathi film and theatre actors, directed by Raje...