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A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.

[via Wildgrounds & Sakura Cinema]

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I can’t embed the trailer for John Michael McDonagh’s Irish cop comedy The Guard right now, so just click the image below for now.

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Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international drug-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

Boyle drifts through life, not much concerned about anything, not even the mysterious murder of a man in one of the town’s holiday cottages. But when Everett shows Boyle the mugshots of four drug traffickers, he recognises one of them as the dead man.

And so the two cases converge, with a bemused Everett finding himself adrift in the decidedly original and sometimes surreal world of Sergeant Gerry Boyle, the last of the independents!

[via Quiet Earth & Twitch]

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In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds).

Hal is a gifted and cocky test pilot, but the Green Lanterns have little respect for humans, who have never harnessed the infinite powers of the ring before. But Hal is clearly the missing piece to the puzzle, and along with his determination and willpower, he has one thing no member of the Corps has ever had: humanity.

With the encouragement of fellow pilot and childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), if Hal can quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears, he may prove to be not only the key to defeating Parallax…he will become the greatest Green Lantern of all.

[via Yahoo!]

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Looks like Takashi Miike tasted some blood while filming his remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 13 Assassins, so he decided to bring another samurai classic back to the screens with a remake of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai.
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A poverty-stricken samurai named Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the manor of a feudal lord under the pretense of wanting to find a suitable place to commit seppuku. The lord sees this as a bluff, as many hard up samurai had made the same request in hopes of getting a hand-out. However, Tsugumo’s true motive is to complete the last part of his vengeance.

[via Wildgrounds & Nippon Cinema]

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First Trailer for South Korean anime Green Days by Han Hye-jin-I and Ahn Jae-hoon that already screened on several festivals and will officially open in theaters in June.
Talking of South Korean animation, I still haven’t watched My Beautiful Girl, Mari that’s collecting dust for over five years now…

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Not wanting to lose, Yi-rang orchestrates a collapse in the middle of a relay race even though she’s on the verge of giving up her dream of becoming an athlete. At the same time, Soo-min transfers in from Seoul and Cheol-soo, who dreams of becoming a scientist, come into her life. They are all immature but they are in the midst of youthful aspiration.
With this warm-hearted animation, Han Hye-jin-I and Ahn Jae-hoon encourage Yi-rang’s dreams and portray the fantasy and flutter of adolescence through encounters with good people. Set in the ’80s and ’90s, an old umbrella and a railroad crossing the downtown in the film is the stuff that reminds us of our lost past, evoking a reminiscence in the audience of that which is vanished. It is a way of evoking the real “dreams” that we have lost in this modern society where a rapid capitalization is progressing.

[via Catsuka & Han Cinema]

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Short clip from Richard Ayoade’s indie comedy Submarine.

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Submarine follows a 15-year-old boy named Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) who has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

[via ComingSoon.net]

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Years after his college sweetheart Kate perishes in a devastating house fire, Josh Higgins’ life is spiraling out of control. Still tortured by the tragedy, Josh finds himself subjected to frequent panic attacks and a rampant case of insomnia, affecting his relationship with his new wife, Meg. It isn’t until he takes a seemingly harmless sleeping pill that Josh is thrust into a disturbing sequence of events that illuminate an unknown ability to reach out and touch the past. After he unexpectedly awakens one morning in Kate’s presence, Josh determines that his own sickness has somehow opened a pathway to the life he was once destined to have. He then becomes increasingly obsessed with what may be a fatal exploration into his own unconsciousness, as his marriage to Meg continues to disintegrate. Plagued by his increasingly volatile surroundings and the ominous presence of a strange man following his every move, Josh realizes that his window of opportunity to vindicate the past is quickly disappearing. As the walls of his own psychosis slowly start to close in around him, Josh must race to save himself, Kate and the parallel life that he vows can never again be lost.

[via Beyond Hollywood]

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A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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To celebrate Star Wars Day, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox released technical details and the cover artwork for the three Star Wars Blu-ray Disc collections that will hit the stores (and our wallets) on September, 12th (16th for the US):

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