Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip may have been the only project I was aware of in advance of the Tribeca Film Festival, although not as a feature film.  I had only known about this project as a marvelous, 6 episode BBC series released last year, starring the brilliant Steve Coogan and the hilarious Rob Brydon.  But this film is not a continuation of the story from the TV show, nor is it a “reimagination.”  This is a collection of scenes from the TV series, chopped up and resequenced to create a theatrical movie.  So the big question looms: does a 3 hour television masterpiece hold up when you cut it down to a 100 minute feature film?  Read the full review to find out…

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The latest movie from prolific but patchy Michael Winterbottom, The Killer Inside Me, is faithfully adapted from a novel by black-hearted pulp writer Jim Thompson. It features a stand-out performance by Casey Affleck as the cold-blooded psycho of the title, but with walk-outs and angry reactions at Sundance earlier this year (listen to them here), it is already the subject of some controversy for the vicious beatings meted out to its two female stars, most notably the extended pummelling of Jessica Alba’s sweet and pretty phisog.

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The creepiness that is Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me has been released. The film that turned this year’s Sundance Film Festival on its ear (listen to the outrage) is going after general audiences so get ready. The film stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, and Jessica Alba as a trio involved in sex, murder, and more murder.

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Out of all the films to get trashed at this year’s Sundance Film Festival The Killer Inside Me took the cake. The audience’s reaction to it was less than stellar (listen to the outrage) and at one point a woman had to be physically removed from the theater because she was shouting her disdain at the top of her lungs.

No matter how you feel about the film it’s coming out this summer and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. If you don’t want to see it, don’t watch it but if you do here’s the trailer…

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A lot of jewels have come out of the Sundance Film Festival, and one of them is a documentary from directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross. This year, Winterbottom’s name has become synonymous with the controversy surrounding his feature film, The Killer Inside Me, but we’re talking about his other film, The Shock Doctrine. Its release date has just been announced so for those of you who weren’t lucky enough to see it at the festival, here’s your chance…

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A few days ago we told you about the jaw dropping response to Michael Winterbottom‘s latest film, The Killer Inside Me. When it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival it received little fan fare and was condemned as being a misogynistic piece of crap. The director must have gotten tired of hearing all the complaints about his film because he’s released a very public statement about why he made it as violent as he did.

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Last night after the premiere of Michael Winterbottom‘s film, The Killer Inside Me starring Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba, the director, producers and some of the actors walked out onto the stage and before anyone could ask a question an angry audience member decided to tell them “the film was so violent that she couldn’t believe it was accepted into Sundance.” Then she kept going on about how “it was just horrible.” The majority of the crowed booed her out of the room, while the director tried to move on. She wouldn’t be the last audience member to bring up the film’s violence, others asked “how do you expect something like this to sell?” “Do you support violence against women?” Scroll down if you want to hear the audio for yourself…

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