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Fantastic Fest Invites You To Bring Your Dog To The FRANKENWEENIE World Premiere!

Fantastic Fest Invites You To Bring Your Dog To The FRANKENWEENIE World Premiere!

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:30 AM PDT

As everybody who reads this website doubtless already knows, Fantastic Fest kicks off in Austin, Texas on 20 September, and on opening night they will be hosting the World Premiere of Tim Burton's new animated movie, Frankenweenie. The director will be walking the red carpet alongside voice talent from the film including Winona Ryder and Martin Landau, but that just didn't seem exciting enough for those crazy folks at the Alamo Drafthouse. In keeping with the film's plot, about a young boy who refuses to let even death come between him and his beloved canine pal, Fantastic Fest is dedicating one of the screens showing the film to guests and their dogs. That's right, Fantastic Fest is inviting attendees to bring along their four-legged friends (with...

Check Out Gorgeous Aussie Sci-Fi Short ARROWHEAD: SIGNAL

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Melbourne-based filmmaker Jesse O'Brien has just launched an online campaign to independently finance a proposed epic space adventure thriller called Arrowhead. It tells the story of a mercenary named Kye who crashlands on a deserted planet, where he must battle the harsh conditions and try desperately to be rescued, while also dealing with a vicious alien parasite that has infected his body and brings on an incredible physical transformation. The film centres, however, around Kye's relationship with the ship's onboard computer REEF. O'Brien is appealing for funding via the crowdfunding platform Pozible, and to give potential investors a taste of what is to come, he has shot a 10-minute short, entitled Arrowhead: Signal, which he hopes will give some indication of his crew's abilities, as well...

Blu-ray Review: BAIT Proves There's Still Life In Killer Sharks

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:15 PM PDT

The pitch meeting for Bait must've been a doozy. A film featuring sharks stalking the aisles of a grocery store seems like a no brainer for genre film geeks, but I can imagine that it may have been tough to sell the idea to the money men. Australian film legend Russell Mucahy, director of Razorback, Highlander I & II, and much more, wrote and was initially slated to direct this latest nature run amok feature from the land down under. Ultimately he wasn't able to direct the film, but the skeleton of his story remains; Bait lists no less than six additional writers on the project, which is never a good sign. Nonetheless, Bait outruns its backstage demons and delivers a fairly solid, slickly paced,...

TIFF 2012 Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Respects Its Source

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:30 PM PDT

So. You've the director of what will soon become one of the biggest, most successful films ever created. And you've got a bit of time on your hands. So what do you do? If you're Joss Whedon - creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse, writer of Toy Story, director of The Avengers - you break out your rolodex, invite a few friends over to your house and film an adaptation of a classic play by William Shakespeare.For those unfamiliar with the basic story, here it goes: Don Pedro has just returned home after a successful military campaign, bunking down along the way with the loyal governor of Messina, Leonato. It takes no time at all for Pedro's youthful supporter, Count Claudio,...

ABCs OF DEATH Producer Ant Timpson Resurrects NZ Film Awards

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT

New Zealand curator-producer Ant Timpson loves life as much as he loves death. On one hand he has co-produced the much-anticipated bloodbath anthology The ABCs of Death, while on the other he has been plotting to bring not just one, but two extinct creatures back to life. The NZ industry was shocked when the former awards ceremony for NZ film and TV, the Aotearoa Film and Television Awards, was pronounced dead. Due to funding and other factors, the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand decided to cease the film component of the awards. Enter Ant Timpson and NZ Herald online entertainment editor Hugh Sundae, who came up with the idea to stage an alternate awards ceremony - and name them The Moas. The Moa (pictured above, and...

TIFF 2012 Review: TO THE WONDER Emotes on Our Ephemeral Existence

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT

"Pourqoi pas Toujours?" (Why not always?) is the question on the mind of Terrence Malick in his latest emotive cinematic meditation -- it could have easily been the title. Here he is less concerned with the connections between the personal and the infinite than he was in Tree of Life, although one may consider To The Wonder a companion film, if only because it is shot and constructed in nearly the same manner. There may even be a shot or two from the previous film used here.  Gone, however, is the consideration of fathers and sons and the complex divide between them, or coming of age.  Here the film suggest that each 'age' in a person's life, each chapter, however or wherever you wish to...

TIFF 2012 Review: THE SUICIDE SHOP, A Mildly Curious Oddity

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Animation was featured quite prominently at this year's PiFan, with Japanese works such as Gyo, Rainbow Fireflies, and Blood C: The Last Dark, not to mention some retrospectives on the Space Battleship Yamamoto series and Czech animation. Sadly, by the end of the festival the only one I was able to see was The Suicide Shop 3D, a French offering from live-action filmmaker Patrice Leconte. It looked to be a cross between the stylings of Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, 2003; The Illusionist, 2008) and the playfully macabre storytelling of Tim Burton. In many ways the film was a combination of those aesthetics but what it lacked was what makes those filmmakers so successful in their craft: originality and heart. Burton may have...

TIFF 2012: SATELLITE BOY Charms In New Trailer

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT

For a country that has so many disputes about land embedded into its culture, it should be no surprise there is an entire subgenre of Australian movies that deals with underdog characters faced with the threat of big business developers coming and possessing their land. Werner Herzog travelled to Australia in 1984 to tackle this for his first film in English, Where the Green Ants Dream, and more recently it's become a popular topic for family comedies, such as The Castle, Subdivision, and Crackerjack. Clearly the genre is now swinging back to the more serious themes explored by Herzog. Already this year we've had Mabo, the biopic of Aboriginal land rights campaigner Eddie Koiki Mabo, and now comes Catriona McKenzie's Satellite Boy, screening in this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Pete is 10...

TIFF 2012 Review: SMASHED Faces the Awkward Side of Sobriety

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Young and in love, married couple Kate and Charlie Hannah like to get smashed. Like GG-Allin-meeting-your-Christian-parents smashed, someone is going to vomit and piss themselves at some point in the night. They spend their days in bars getting drunk and nights having unconscious sex. The good life, right? Things change, however, when schoolteacher Kate -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead in a knockout career performance -- throws up in the middle of class from sipping too much whiskey before entering the building one morning. The crack she smoked for the first time while being black-out drunk the night before may have also played a part. When questioned by school authorities, Kate tells them she's pregnant, and now must sober up and figure out how to extricate...

Jean Rollin on Blu-ray: TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES Review

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Up to this point, Redemption's Blu-ray releases of the work of Jean Rollin has focused on his classical period, that is, the films from his debut in 1968 with The Rape of the Vampire through the early '80s with films like The Living Dead Girl. The latter film pretty much serves as the line of demarcation between those films made from passion in his hungry years and the films he made in the '80s to pay the bills. Between 1983's Sadomania and 1994's Le parfum de Mathilde, Rollin mostly served as a hired gun making sex films; some classy and some not so classy. It wasn't until 1997 that he was able to make something that resembled the films for which he's known best;  that...

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3 Promises US Setting & 500+ Person Pede!

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Today, Monster Pictures announced a new UK dual-format steelbook Blu-ray/DVD release of Tom Six's controversial body horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) together with its reprehensible sequel The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) in time for Hallowe'en. The four-disc limited edition set will include a bounty of features for both films, including exclusive new interviews with the cast and crew of the second film, and is set to hit shelves on 29th October.However, even more interesting for fans of the series was the news contained in the press release about the series' third as-yet-unfilmed installment. Ilona Six, producer of the films and sister of writer/director Tom Six, is quoted confirming a number of details about the production of The Human Centipede 3:"For all you fans of...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Announces Final Wave, Topped by THE COLLECTION

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Even if you won't be making the trip to Austin, Texas, the announcement of the final wave of programming for this year's Fantastic Fest is worth your time. Consider it a checklist of genre goodness, to be investigated further when some of these films make the rounds at festivals closer to your home territory and/or make their way to home video. What goodies await? The final wave is toplined by the world premiere of The Collection, the followup to Marcus Dunstan's The Collector. The first film, Dunstan's directorial debut, was a nasty surprise, and the sequel could duplicate that success: When Elena's (Emma Fitzpatrick) friends take her to a secret party at an undisclosed location, she never imagined she would become the latest victim...

New FRANKENWEENIE Clip: Meet Dr. Ryzkroski (bzzzzzzt...)

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

While the general enthusiasm surrounding a new Tim Burton film has noticeably waned from, say, a similar event 20 years ago, Frankenweenie is a project which still gets most of us here at Twitch excited. Why? Well, this time Tim Burton is working fully with his own designs, it is animated using the same style as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, and it is based on his own stellar short. So while it will most definitely look like vintage Burton, in this case that will be a good thing. Today, Disney released a new clip from it. Meet Dr. Ryzkroski, a teacher the likes of which we have all encountered at some point. He wants to tell you all a thing or two...

TIFF 2012 Review: REALITY Counts the Cost of TV Stardom

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:20 AM PDT

In his 2008 Cannes Grand Prix-winning Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone took us deep into a crime-ridden community to give an intimate taste of modern Italian society. In his follow-up four years on, Garrone again plays tour guide to the Italian psyche, this time with the reality TV obsessed middle class in his crosshairs. By putting a greater focus on character, Garrone has crafted an even more engaging -- and every bit as fascinating -- journey into Italian culture. Garrone opens his film during an opulent wedding with guests in high fashion, drinking free flowing champagne in all their wealthy glory. In a genius stroke of storytelling, we soon realize these obvious celebrities are nothing of the sort, their extravagant surroundings merely rented for the day...

L'Etrange 2012 Interview: Jan Kounen on WINDWALKERS, the French Version of BLOOD FREAK and More

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:30 AM PDT

Director Jan Kounen has been a favorite here at Twitch pretty much since the site's inception. Coming from an art school background and beginning with animated short films, Kounen has since carved a completely personal and unique career path, and proved himself impossible to pigeonhole. He established a cult following with his first feature, the hyper-stylized, ultra-violent gangster film Dobermann, but rather than following that up with more of the same, he has since made documentaries about Shaminism and Eastern spiritual figures, created a singular, mystic reworking of the Western with Blueberry (AKA Renegade), taken on the modern advertising world in 99 Francs and (deep breath) and chronicled an infamous love affair with the chamber-drama Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.It's no surprise then that L'Etrange...

TIFF 2012 Review: THALE, A Mythical Creature From Norway

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT

What do you say to a naked lady -- especially one who emerges from a bathtub filled with a milky white substance, and a hose stuck in her mouth? If you're Elvis (Erlend Nervold), a neophyte worker with No Shit Cleaning Services in Norway, you don't say anything at all, because the naked lady (Silje Reinåmo) has one arm firmly lodged against your windpipe before you know what's happening. It's left up to Leo (Jon Sigve Skard), the owner of the cleaning service, to calmly and gently speak to the feral creature and offer up something to distract her from killing Elvis. Leo asked his good friend Elvis to help out after his usual assistant wasn't available. The cleaning service specializes in the removal...

TIFF 2012 Review: A ROYAL AFFAIR is an Incredible Epic

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT

To be frank, A Royal Affair is easily one of the best films I have seen this year, and there is little doubt it will end up in my top five. I say this with such conviction for a few reasons. Firstly, I love period pieces and all of the basic elements are not only gorgeously presented, but enhanced greatly by the layers of political, historical and dramatic truths in the film. Secondly, there is so much more happening in A Royal Affair and it is all balanced with deft direction and style, and lastly the incredible performances from the three protagonists not only add to the drama of the film, but actually go to great lengths to envision the true historical accounts of...

Production Deals Out Of Fantasia For TURBO KID And DARK HOLLOW

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Good news for two more projects pitched during Fantasia's Frontières International Co-Production Market at this year's festival last month. The mythological horror film Dark Hollow and T is for Turbo/Turbo Kid (above), one of the most popular entries for the letter 'T' during the The ABCs of Death competition, both signed feature film deals. Local boys Raven Banner Entertainment will handle worldwide sales for Dark Hollow, the film adaptation of Brian Keene's horror novel. The film will be directed by Paul Campion (The Devil's Rock). Canadian production house EMAFilms signed on to produce a feature film based on the T is for Turbo short. ABCs of Death creator Ant Timpson and Hobo With A Shotgun director Jason Eisener were already on board as producers of...

Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins Despair in Trailer for Feng Xiaogang's BACK TO 1942

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:24 AM PDT

Feng Xiaogang, the mainland Chinese director responsible for such epics as Aftershock and Assembly, as well as the blockbusting romantic drama If You Are The One and its sequel, seems determined not to be outdone by fellow countryman Zhang Yimou, by casting not one but two big name Hollywood stars in his upcoming wartime drama. Zhang brought The Dark Knight star Christian Bale to China for last year's The Flowers Of War, which at the time smashed box office records to become the most successful Chinese language film at the domestic box office. Feng's new film, Back To 1942 - depicting the horrific drought and famine that swept Henan Province during the Sino-Japanese War - features turns from two Academy Award winners: Adrien Brody and Tim...
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