What's this? A new edition of International Eye Candy already? Yes, boys and girls, this latest collection of cinematic goodness comes to you a day earlier than usual thanks to my impending trip to the European Film Market, wherein I shall feast my eyes on a variety of good things – and a whole lot of trash – that I won't be allowed to talk about for a good long time. Basically what I'm saying is that I'll be on a plane in the time that I would normally be writing this and so I'm doing it early. And it's a good thing, too, for herein lie a great many Good Things. The full trailer for CASSHERN director Kaz Kiriya's next! Takeshi Miike bustin' skinhead heads in CROWS ZERO 2! An adaptation of SOLARIS author Stanislaw Lem's 1! A Swedish equivalent to SPACEBALLS! Plus the proverbial more, more, more! Here we go!

Let's start with that Swedish picture, shall we? A few years back, pretty much unnoticed by anyone outside of Sweden, apparently, the land of modular feature was blessed with a low budget, very goofy little scifi television series called KENNY STARFIGHTER. It was popular but popular or no, all things must come to an end, and Kenny did indeed stop airing a good while ago. But now he's back and bigger than ever, literally as it turns out, with a brand new theatrical picture, KENNY BEGINS. And while this has nothing at all to do with SPACEBALLS and has an aesthetic all its own, it's pretty safe to say that anybody out there who likes the Mel Brooks scifi comedy is pretty much going to love this. It's cheap and stupid in all the right ways.

You'll find the trailers here

And heeeeeeeeeeere's Naoto! You may not know Naoto Takenaka by name but chances are if you're any sort of fan of current Japanese film then you probably know his face. The man is one of Japan's most prolific and versatile character actors, turning up everywhere in everything and being pretty damn good at it all. What he's also good at is directing and what he's directing now is a wee Japanese zombie comedy titled YAMAGATA SCREAM. The first teaser turned up last week and while it shows a whole lot of nothing on the zombie front is does show off Takenaka's odd sense of humor to full effect.

Check out YAMAGATA SCREAM here

Why, yes, that is LEON's Jean Reno and, yes, he is playing a gangster here. Which, for fans, is pretty much all you need to know before perking up and taking notice. For non-fans, French actor Reno is one of the best in the world when it comes to playing cool anti-heroes and in LE PREMIER CERCLE it appears that he's dropping the 'hero' part of that equation entirely and going purely with the 'anti'. How so? This time out Reno is playing the head of a French gang drawn into a violent conflict with his own son when junior tries to leave the life for a woman. Somehow I think things are going to go badly for the girl …

Check out LE PREMIER CERCLE here

An expanded edition of ADVENT CHILDREN plus a trailer for the upcoming thirteenth installment of the hugely popular game series? Yep, it's more FINAL FANTASY than you can shake a stick at and it's all pretty bloody gorgeous.

New ADVENT CHILDREN trailer here
FINAL FANTASY XIII trailer here

I've become a rather outspoken fan of young Swedish director Patrik Eklund over the last year, absolutely falling in love with his short film work (SITUATION FRANK and INSTEAD OF ABRAKADABRA are both brilliant) and eagerly awaiting whatever comes next. Eklund's one of those guys who could be a Coen if he wanted to but has too much of a sense of himself to simply mimic and instead comes up with these quietly absurd scenarios that play out as mini (and sometimes maxi) tragedies shot through with glibly dark humor. Word is he's prepping a feature now but to tide us over until he gets to that he's got one more short in the works, this one titled THERE'S BEEN AN ACCIDENT. The trailer is an early one, cut from raw footage, but it still shows more than enough to convince that Eklund is one of the truly special ones out there.

Find the THERE'S BEEN AN ACCIDENT trailer here

Takeshi Miike skinhead violence? Here it is: the full length trailer for CROWS ZERO 2, the sequel to Miike's chart topping manga adaptation of last year. The trailers for this one really aren't slowing down long enough to show whether or not the sequel will have room for the same character moments that make the first CROWS ZERO, in my opinion, one of Miike's very best but, golly, it's got a lot of action. And a lot of skins. And, yes, they all really shaved their heads to do it.

Find the CROWS ZERO 2 trailer here

The original Takovsky SOLARIS is considered one of the true classics of science fiction cinema and, honestly, I think the Soderbergh version aint half bad either. And the reason for that, in large part, is because both Tarkovsky and Soderbergh knew better than to mess with a good thing too much and simply let Stanislaw Lem's words make it to the screen. There's been surprisingly little of Lem's work adapted to film thus far – a situation that is about to change with two major adaptations in the work. And the first to hit will be Pater Sparrow's Hungarian adaptation of 1. I'm not even going to try and summarize this here but this looks like beautiful – and more than a little bit cerebral – stuff.

Find trailers for 1 here

We've hit Sweden twice already in this column and now it's time to visit one of their Nordic neighbors with Norway's YATZY. This one comes from production house Four And A Half, which is immediately a mark of quality because they just flat out don't make bad movies over there. It's a troubled youth picture – a much more realistic one than Miike's – from a first time director and just looks incredibly solid on all fronts.

Roll the dice with YATZY here

Hey! It's time for more Miike, this time with the full theatrical trailer for his big budget anime adaptation YATTERMAN. Thought the guy had lost his marbles with THE GREAT YOKAI WAR and ZEBRAMAN? Well, they aint got nothing on this. Personally, I love Miike in kids mode and this looks to be his most gonzo effort in that direction yet.

Check the YATTERMAN trailer here

For something even more gonzo than YATTERMAN – albeit in an entirely different way – I humbly submit to you the full trailer for BANLIEUE 13 ULTIMATUM, the sequel to Luc Besson-produced hit BANLIEU 13, out on these shores as DISTRICT B13. And you've gotta hand it to Besson: he's always understood that the primary rule for a successful sequel is "The same, but more" and he's gone and delivered exactly that. Parkour co-creator David Belle is an absolute lunatic and Cyril Raffaelli is one hell of a martial artist. Put the two of them together and it's magic …

Check the full B13 ULTIMATUM trailer here

Ever wonder what happened to LOCK STOCK's Nick Moran while his co-stars Jason Statham and Jason Flemyng were carving out busy acting careers for themselves? Lord knows I did, but it turns out that Moran basically went back to doing what he did before LOCK STOCK: writing live theater. And while his on-screen appearances have been rare he's now taking the step behind the camera, adapting one of his own theatrical works – TELSTAR, a bio of legendary music producer Joe Meek – for the screen. The cast in this is fantastic, the style is spot on and Meek is just a fascinating character. If the complete feature lives even half way up to the strength of the trailer then Moran has just carved himself a new career.

Check the TELSTAR trailer here

Ninjas! Hurray! Ninjas as filmed by Yoichi Sai – one of Japan's more respected directors! Double hurray! It's KAMUI GAIDEN and while the teaser may be brief it's got me hooked. This thing's gorgeous …

Check the KAMUI GAIDEN trailer here

If folks around here know Paddy Considine it's probably thanks to his role in THE HOT FUZZ or the third BOURNE movie but Considine's been banging around for a good long time, quietly carving out space for himself as one of the finest character actors in the world today. And helping him greatly along the way has been his friend and frequent collaborator, director Shane Meadows – for my money arguably the best director in Britain right now. The pair turned a lot of heads with the searing DEAD MAN'S SHOES a few years back but Considine has a funny side to him as well, a side indulged long ago in a quick short film about a burned out roadie named – bizarrely – Le Donk. Plans have been afoot to spin a feature out of that character eventually, a feature that was actually gearing up to shoot not so long ago before being abandoned by Meadows, who instead shot his masterwork, THIS IS ENGLAND. But now Le Donk is back and back in feature form, the entire full feature having been shot in a mere five days as part of what Meadows and producers Warp Films are hoping will become a regular series. As you might expect for something done so quickly it's been done in moc-doc style and is heavy on improvisation and it looks absolutely brilliant. And I've got to say good on Meadows for continuing to experiment and evolve when it would have been very easy for him to coast on the success of THIS IS ENGLAND …

Find LE DONK here

Okay, full disclosure on this one: I'm a co-producer on Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer's ultra-low budget first feature DARK ISLAND. So feel free to put this off as bias showing through if you want. But before you do that remember that the reason I got involved in the first place is because I was absolutely blown away by ZERO TROOPER F and GREENSIDE, the two short films that Gorski, Pueringer and producer Eric Lim worked on together before moving on to this. It was shot on an absolute shoestring but there's so much going on in the scifi/horror/action hybrid that it's pretty much impossible not to see the talent coming through.

Visit the DARK ISLAND here

Any fans of nasty-ass French horror picture INSIDE – a film that can still make me shudder just thinking about it – out there? Then HUMANS is for you. The directorial debut from the duo behind INSIDE's special effects, this one's a horror-tinged adventure film with a cast that includes favorites Dominique Pinon and Philippe Nahon. The first teaser is kind of a mess on the editing front but there's a whole lot of imagery in there to love.

Find the HUMANS teaser here

And, finally, we close with the full theatrical trailer for GOEMON, the fantasy martial arts film from the director of CASSHERN. Now if CASSHERN was any indication of what's to come this will prove to be very much a love or hate affair – nobody whatsoever seems to be in between in CASSHERN, it's one of the most polarizing films ever – but I'm very much on the love side and thoroughly convinced that direct Kaz Kiriya is one of the purest visual talents working today. Yummy. You want International Eye Candy? This is the candiest and internationalist yet.

Find the GOEMON trailer here