Title: Pulp Fiction Director: Quentin Tarantino Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Amanda Plummer, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Tim Roth, Maria de Medeiros and Christopher Walken. Running time: 154 minutes, Rated R, available on standard DVD Miramax and Lionsgate has released Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Palme d’Or Award winning (also Oscar winner for best Screenplay and seven Oscar nominated) masterpiece Pulp Fiction on Blu-ray. A shuffled story line intertwining two hit men, a mob boss, the mob boss’s wife, a boxer, two diner robbers, a gold watch and a mysterious glowing briefcase – along with some other memorable side characters set to a…

Title: Road To Nowhere Director: Monte Hellman Starring: Shannyn Sossamon, Tygh Runyan, Dominique Swain, Waylon Payne, Cliff de Young, John Diehl Monte Hellman’s first film in more than two decades, The Road To Nowhere, is, whatever else one says about it, first and foremost a work that wouldn’t exist were it not for other movies. A referential slice of film noir which enjoyed its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year, recently screened as part of a retrospective of the director’s work at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and now opens wider in Los Angeles and other markets throughout the summer, The Road To Nowhere takes grab-bag elements and splintered fractions of…

Title: Ghost in the Shell – Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society Directed by Kenji Kamiyama Distributed by Manga Video & Bandai Entertainment Running time:  113 min, Not Rated, Available on standard DVD In the year 2034 and the section 9 field team is out to investigate a chain of suicides by Siak  Republic agents that are linked to a master hacker known as the “Puppeteer.” Meanwhile thousands of children go missing and are discovered to have had their cyberbrains replaced and identities modified to become the children of “Noble Rot” senior citizens, who are elderly patients in a hospice-like environment that are hooked up to a health care monitoring…

Gabe and Alan Polsky have garnered the rights to adapt author Jonathan Lethem’s 1994 cult noir novel “Gun, With Occasional Music” for the big screen. The two recently produced “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”. The sci-fi oriented “Gun” follows a private eye through a futuristic Oakland and San Francisco as he investigates a murder involving drugs, mutants called “baby-heads”, and hyperevolved animals that live side-by-side with humans. The book has been garnering interest for a film adaptation since it’s release over a decade ago. No other information about the project has been released yet. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Gun, With Occasional Music”. By Costa…

Trailer for the upcoming independent film “Kill Kill Faster Faster” by director Gareth Maxwell Roberts. Synopsis: Completed in June 2007, ‘Kill Kill Faster Faster’ is a hard boiled contemporary film noir inspired by the novel of the same name by Joel Rose. A poignant love story that is tragic and bitter sweet. Written and directed by Gareth Maxwell Roberts, it was produced by Carlo Dusi. Joe One-Way serves a life stretch for the murder of his teenage bride Kimba. Inspired to write by Clinique, his cellmate and mentor, Joe writes the play ‘White Man: Black Hole’. New York film producer Markie Mann pulls strings to have Joe paroled, contracting him…