THE VILLAINESS (originally titled Ak-Nyeo) opens with one of the most badass fight scenes in recent memory. Seriously, the opening number (which feels like a single first-person shot) opens with such fire and fury that it’s almost nauseating. I mean that in the best of ways. Playing at this year’s

I am clearly a glutton for punishment and must hate myself because after watching VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS and reviewing it here, I went on to talk about it for 40 minutes with my friend and Director Matt Campagna ( MUTANT WORLD, HUNTER’S MOON). Matt and

Oh boy…..where to begin……. When Luc Besson was making the visionary sci-fi film THE FIFTH ELEMENT, Jean-Claude Mézières, the writer for the French comic book VALERIAN AND LAURELINE, asked him why he wasn’t making Valerian instead. To this question Besson replied “because it is impossible” and you know what? He