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Now this looks right up my street!

After accidentally overhearing one of the city’s most dangerous criminals putting a hit on a hell-on-heels femme-fatale bounty hunter named ‘The Machine Gun Woman’ (Fernanda Urrejola), nightclub DJ and videogame addict, Santiago (Matias Oviedo), avoids execution only by offering to bring her in. When he is given 24 hours to make good on his claim, Santiago’s life turns into a violent video game of it’s own complete with missions, guns, sexy women and brutal violence.

The DVD & Blu-ray release of Chile’s pioneer of action cinema, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza’s, new deadly and just damn good fun Grindhouse flick Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman, is out on Monday 14th October.

Much Ado About Nothing is released on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow

Featured on the extras, Joss Whedon covers a number of points in his commentary of the film. Here are some highlights…

1. How Much Ado came about: Joss talks about how it all started for him 10 years ago when he and his friends would get together to do Shakespeare readings and get a real feel for the language. He goes on to mention how it was imperative that Amy and Alexis were involved

2. Why the credits are at the start: a way of allowing the audience to ease in to the language, as people know that when the credits are rolling, nothing important is really happening

3. Behind the language: Joss talks about making a film that has the energy of a play, in the language of a film

4. Amy and Alexis: Joss credits them on a particular scene, where Amy gives one of the most important speeches in Shakespeare

5. Character perceptions: He discusses regular use of photograph motifs throughout the film, how character perceptions of each other are warped and comments on a particular scene with Amy and Alexis where what they say to each other has a completely different meaning/mixed message

6. Actor Improvisations: Joss comments on a particular scene where Alexis improvises and didn’t tell anyone what he was going to do, they witnessed it for the first time when the scene began shooting. Joss confesses that as a director he was unsure at that moment whether the character was becoming too ridiculous, but then credits him for this

Hope to get some clips for you soon.

7-17 November, Empire, Leicester Square

Academia Rossica is proud to announce details of its 7th London Russian Film Festival, hosted for the first time in partnership with the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square. Once again, the London Russian Film Festival will bring together the very best in contemporary Russian cinema, with crime thrillers, domestic dramas and animation, all featuring alongside an excellent documentary programme.

With many of these films having already received numerous awards at other international film festivals, this year’s festival will offer British audiences the chance to see some of the best in international cinema for the very first time.

Alongside these film screenings, the Film Festival will also offer audiences the opportunity to participate in masterclasses and Q&As with leading actors and directors, as the Festival’s seeks to foster intercultural dialogue between British and Russian artists and audiences.

Opening this year’s film festival will be Taisia Igumentseva’s debut feature film, Bite the Dust, an apocalyptic black comedy from the 2012 recipient of the Cinéfondation First Prize. An exploration of man’s apocalyptic obsession and the power of inhibition, this film follows the life of a tiny village living in the end times.