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DVD Review: THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE

DVD Review: THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT

It's pretty convenient when a director explicitly spells out what message you're supposed to be taking away from their work. Maybe it's a tad lazy to examine a film in such an obvious way but when the director is the great Fritz Lang (M, Faust, Metropolis et al) you probably want to pay attention. Lang was still in Germany at the start of the 1930s, with the Nazis tightening their grip on the reins of power, and he was none too keen on what was going on. So when he was coerced into making a sequel to one of his most successful movies thus far he decided he'd pitch The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) as a withering rebuke against the dangers posed by National...

Fantastic Fest: Steffen Haars Drunkenly Reviews NEW KIDS NITRO

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Hello, my name is in its steffen. Thanks for the free 5 twitchfilm.com vodka for writing this review drunk my own movie New Kids Nitro. I'm not very good at the moment because I spent the afternoon / evening beer and drank it off had buds with this Russian juice. I start to sweat at this time. Max Porcelijn, the director of planning c, sitting opposite me, to run through the same as me, I think he writes shit, desondank his film cancer fat (that means that I am positively in Dutch). This is my speech about new kids nitro, we had a lot of different guns shoot and blow shit up, that was fun, especially since we ourselves have imagined. I puked in my...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: PLAN C Is A Sly Anti-Caper

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Police work has rarely looked more like an ordinary office job than it does in the wryly amusing Plan C, where the desks are stuffed side by side in cramped spaces, bureaucracy reigns, and bald, middle-aged Ronald has lost his mojo. Ronald (Ruben van der Meer) is suffering from a stifling case of mid-life ennui. His ex-wife has remarried a successful author, his young son is become more distant, he has fallen behind on his police reports, and his leisure time is devoted to poker -- which he claims is not gambling, but a skill. It's a skill he's been sadly lacking for nearly a year, though, and, as a result, his Chinese loan shark has lost all patience over a $10,000 debt. Desperate for...

THE PACT Doesn't Quite Keep Its End Of The Bargain On UK Blu-Ray

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact promises an intriguing mash-up of ghost story and serial killer flick, permeated by psychological troubles and murky secrets from the past. It focuses on the appealingly self-reliant Annie (Caity Lotz), beckoned home by her estranged sister Nicole when their abusive mother dies. On arrival it becomes apparent Nicole has gone missing, and before long things start to go bump in the night. As it all gets progressively more alarming (and dangerous) Annie dives into the past to unravel a family mystery and find out what the hell is going on.  The Pact has split people here at Twitch with Alex Koehne enjoying the Sundance screening and concluding: "The character histories might be painted with fairly broad strokes, but with a mystery plot full of red...

Sono Sion Planning To Go Blockbuster With WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Sono Sion, the bizarre arthouse auteur of extreme cinema such as Love Exposure, Guilty Of Romance and Suicide Club - has decided it's time to go mainstream. Or at least as mainstream as his particular tastes will allow. Sono has announced that his upcoming feature, Why Don't You Play In Hell, will be an action movie with some similarities to Kill Bill. Kunimura Jun, Tsutsumi Shinichi, Nikaido Fumi, Tomochika, Hasegawa Hiroki, and Hoshino Gen star in a story that Tokyo Hive says "focuses on a group of people who are only bound by hatred and that hatred is gradually reaching its boiling point. 'Muto' (Kunimura) desperately wants to help his daughter 'Mitsuko' (Nikaido) to star in a movie. 'Ikegami' (Tsutsumi) has fallen in love with...

Review: FROST Barely Nibbles At Your Cheeks

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Aside from a couple of titles Iceland's not exactly known for its horror movies. Even though our folk tales are ripe with monsters, ghosts and ghouls local filmmakers have never looked at horror as something to pursue or be particularly proud of, I chalk it down to arrogance mostly.  Producers Julius Kemp and Ingvar Thordarson are basically the only ones who can see the potential in genre fare and their Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (aka Harpoon) is now the most distributed Icelandic film in history. Why? Because it's horror and horror sells very, very well. The production duo along with director Reynir Lyngdal is now back with another genre film, a found footage horror/sci-fi mashup that has lofty goals and fantastic surroundings to play...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING Will Take Your Head Off!

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Following the surprise success of 2009's Universal Soldier: Regeneration, director John Hyams continues to steer the previously wavering franchise in new and invigorating directions, thanks in large part this time round to the involvement of Larnell Stovall and new leading man Scott Adkins. Adkins, who has clawed his way into the martial arts limelight thanks to eye-catching turns in, most notably, Isaac Florentine's Undisputed sequels, plays John. Before we learn anything about the man, we see him suffer through the trauma of witnessing his wife and daughter brutally assassinated in their home, before taking a bullet to the head. The assailant? None other than a freakish-looking Luc Deveraux (Jean Claude Van Damme). John comes to nine months later in the hospital, and while other...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: MIAMI CONNECTION Is The Best Tae Kwon Do Rock Avengers VS. Ninjas & Stupid Cocaine Film You've Never Seen

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Dear Miami Connection,You're the one for me. I've loved you since the first time I saw your trailer. I don't know whether it was the insanely acrobatic Tae Kwon Do or the incredible friendship-themed power pop that first got me hooked, but I'm stuck like glue. So often I find that incredible trailers are cut from the most inane films, it's not a challenge to turn 90 minutes of boring horseshit into 90 seconds of incredible highlights, so you'll have to forgive me if I was a little bit skeptical at first. I wasn't really that I doubted you, baby, it was just that, well, I've been burned before.I can still remember the first time I saw the trailer for Seed of Chucky, the fourth...

TIFF 2012 Review: A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S GRAHAM CHAPMAN

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Graham Chapman has been dead for almost a quarter century, but that hasn't stopped him from starring in a brand new film. If that weren't notable enough, this work is also the closest we'll probably ever get to a legitimate Monty Python Reunion. Back even earlier, Chapman wrote (well, co-wrote) his so-called "Liars Autobiography", a series of preposterous tales loosely strung together into a kind of mad memoir. Beneath the cheekiness and outright falsehoods there were elements that did elucidate the complexities of Chapman's life, from his role as a medical student who gave it up to wear women's dresses on the BBC as part of a sketch comedy team, to reactions to his admission to all and sundry that he was a man that...

Fantastic Fest: Watch Devin Faraci Trade Blows With Joe Swanberg In The Fantastic Debates

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

One of the signature events of Fantastic Fest, the Fantastic Debates provoke mixed feelings deep within my soul. On the one side, the spectacle of watching two grown men debate some geeky topic or other before donning gloves and proceeding to punch one another is great entertainment. It's bloodlust on an awkward, ludicrous level. And on the other, it is also an event that I have carried a somewhat uncomfortable association with over the past two years, being the man most associated with the fightiest fight in the Debates' history since my participation in 2010. And so I now extend my thanks to Joe Swanberg for lifting that particular mantle from me in the Fantastic Debates 2012.Swanberg - director of Uncle Kent, Art History and...

Emily Blunt Talks LOOPER, Acting & Her Desire For 'An Obnoxious Number Of Guns'

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Rian Johnson's Looper makes an appearance at Fantastic Fest today prior to its US theatrical release. Twitch had the opportunity to sit down with leading lady Emily Blunt in Toronto, as part of a roundtable interview following the film's world premiere, to talk about Johnson, the film, the strain of being mother to a fictional child and her apparent love of firearms.Q: You've had a career that is very hard to define.Emily: I think I've been drawn to roles, have enjoyed playing within a role, lots of different things. No one's just one thing. No one's just drama or just ditzy. People are many things. I really enjoy coming across characters that when I read them I go, "Oof, how am I going to do...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: LEE'S ADVENTURE

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Talk about a pleasant surprise. I referenced the new and upcoming generation of Asian film makers a couple of times already (pk.com.cn, Honey PuPu), Lee's Adventure is allowed to join this illustrious duo as the film further underlines my belief that something is definitely brewing over there. If you cling to the laws of traditional cinema you can safely skip this film, but if you want a sneak peek at the future of film making, Lee's Adventure is a definite must see.Lee's Adventure is a mixed media rework of the cult short film bearing the same name, originally released in 2009. The original was a 20 minute short sporting different kinds of animation styles, the 2011 adaptation throws in some live action scenes to further...

Fantastic Fest 2012: Max Porcelijn Drunkenly Reviews Max Porcelijn's PLAN C

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Waarom Plan C de beste film ooit is >??????\Ik ben max porcelijn, the writer /director of plan c dus dat is gezegd\Dus is a bad situation - todd browne got me drugged, trying to get me to review my own movie............. I'm writing in English, now I'm going to switch to DucthPlan c is an honest movieI 'm drunkj, but honest  ---- PLAN C is great, becuae of the same reason --- I'm honetx, an dive treid to be in my film ----badness!!!!!!!I can I also wright in dutch??????Ok' PLAN C is good for a lot of reasoinsssssss'Seriouloayyyy' They' vee feed me too  much alcohol ---- but still I'm OkKKK[Throughout Fantastic Fest Twitch will be presenting a series of drunken reviews of films as penned by the...
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