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UNDERGROUND Director Robert Connolly Boards THE SHIPKILLER

UNDERGROUND Director Robert Connolly Boards THE SHIPKILLER

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Australian director-producer Robert Connolly is on a roll. He's just premiered Underground in Toronto, his controversial telling of Julian Assange's teenage years as a hacker on the run from the law, and the anthology project he's producing, The Turning, is currently underway in Australia. Plus, Zak Hilditch's apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours, which Connolly is executive producing, is about to start shooting in Perth. Now comes news that Connolly will helm his first US project, The Shipkiller, an adaption of Justin Scott's epic 1978 novel. Billed as one of the best maritime thrillers ever written, The Shipkiller tells an epic revenge story: When the world's largest supertanker collides with Peter Hardin's small yacht and kills his wife, he vows to avenge her death by destroying the colossal Leviathan.Connolly's producing partners are...

Full Trailer for Miike Takashi's Killer Teacher Flick LESSON OF THE EVIL

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:15 AM PDT

Miike Takashi is proving as prolific and controversial as ever, with his latest effort, Lesson Of The Evil, already cued up for a November release in his native Japan. Continuing the high school setting of his last film, the fabulous gang war musical, For Love's Sake, Miike's latest is aiming for a very different tone. Judging from the new trailer that has just landed, Lesson Of The Evil is a pitch black comedy that owes a serious debt to both Fukasaku Kinji's Battle Royale and Nakashima Testsuya's Confessions. When students start digging around in the past of their most popular teacher (Ito Hideaki), they soon discover that behind his cheery exterior, he is in fact a psychopath. After that, well, let's just say there will...

TIFF 2012 Review: BAD 25 Celebrates Michael Jackson, Recording Artist

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:09 PM PDT

It's not so far into Bad 25 when you realize just what kind of film it's going to be - exuberant, energizing, even at times elegiac, this is very much a straight ahead celebration of a particularly exceptional recording.For the last two years at TIFF, two extremely compelling documentaries were shown about superstar artists coming to terms with the album following a monster success. Both the film on Springsteen (The Promise) post-Born in the USA, and the film about U2 (From The Sky Down) after Joshua Tree, chose to concentrate in general terms on the creative process that's put to the test by enormous, often unexpected success.The story of Michael Jackson is obviously quite different. Groomed from an extremely young age, honed by disciplinarian parents, schooled through...

Hammer > Jaw. THE CURE Teases Just Right.

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:20 PM PDT

I'm not sure what's going on in this trailer for Pitchaya Jarusboonpracha's The Cure but I like it. Billed as a supernatural action thriller by its 23-year-old director, the trailer packs a hell of a punch with beautiful imagery and the same insane full contact action we've come to love from ThailandShot on the Cannon 5D, this looks very impressive from a first time feature director, one so young as well. Not sure when this will be released, as all the info on their Facebook page is in Thai and it doesn't say in the trailer either, but I'm sure we'll get that info post haste from the filmmakers.So take a look at the trailer below and then head on over to their Facebook page to look...

Hey NYC! Wanna Win A DREDD 3D Prize Pack?

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT

When we first got wind of a new film adaptation of the 2000 A.D. comics character Judge Dredd, many of us found ourselves scratching our heads and asking, "why?" After the Sylvester Stallone starring stinker of the 90s, was a good movie based on the ultra-violent and grim comics even possible? Then, when we heard Alex Garland, screenwriter of Sunshine and 28 Days Later was scripting and Pete Travis (Vantage Point) was directing, many of us found ourselves stroking our beards (or proverbial beards) and saying, "interesting..." With Karl Urban donning the helmet -- and declaring that he would keep it on -- interest and hope in the project amongst comic and action fans alike stayed afloat. When the finished film screened for the first...

Mario Bava on Blu-ray: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON Review

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Back in 2010, we were extremely excited to review the very first Mario Bava film to hit Blu-ray with Arrow Video's release of Bay of Blood. At the time cult video geeks were hoping that this release would open the flood gates for Bava in HD, if ever there was a filmmaker whose work was made for Blu-ray it is this one. However months passed and there were no more releases in sight until Eurohorror collection Redemption Films teamed up with Arthouse champions Kino Lorber, and those floodgates began to leak like a sieve. Redemption introduced themselves to the world of high definition with a massive pile of Jean Rollin Blu-rays, an impressively curated collection which has still not exhausted itself. Then they released the...

Books to be Scene: Chris Womersley's BEREFT

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Quinn threw down his cigarette and ground it out under his boot heel. A woman and her young daughter indicated they wished to pass, prompting Quinn and his new companion to stand back as far as the cramped space would allow.They remained silent until the man, who had again been staring at the scar along Quinn's jaw, motioned for him to lean in and said "You should do something about your face. Cover it up, perhaps? You are frightening the children, you know."And Quinn, usually so reserved but seized by the devil, replied "Well, the children have good reason to be frightened."So we're back to serious stories, huh? For serious people?Pretty much. A wounded Australian serviceman returns home from the first World War, looking for...

POSTHUMAN Teaser Is Adrenaline Fueled Anime Goodness

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

I've been on an anime kick lately, with the new Space Battleship Yamato 2199, and Macross Frontier fueling that fire. Now along comes PostHuman, a 6 minute short film from Humoring The Fates Animation Studio, a commercial studio whose client roster includes Nike, Mattel, and Microsoft. PostHuman is no ad campaign though, rather it's a calling card of narrative animation that wouldn't be out of place in something like the amazing Genius Party anthology films. It's on par with the best of the best.Recalling the work of greats like Katsuhiro Otomo and Satoshi Kon, PostHuman is, simply put, 100% rad! Self-funded by Humoring The Fates Cole Drumb and Jennifer Wai-Yin Luk, * written and directed by Cole Drumb, and featuring the voice talents of Ulric...

TIFF 2012 Review: THE BRASS TEAPOT Has Faith in American Middle Class Virtue

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

The Brass Teapot feels like something that Spielberg would have produced in the mid to late 1980s. It mixes the overall story themes and narrative structure of Gremlins with the goofy morality play of The 'Burbs and the money sense of one of those Danny Boyle found-bag-of-cash films. It feels like a well produced feature-length Amazing Stories episode that riffs on J.R.R. Tolkien's precious One Ring and W.W. Jacob's The Monkey's Paw. It eschews any sort of weightiness to its stakes or consequences, content to play out in a rather bubble-gum fashion that is far too on the nose for its own good. Yet its earnest celebration of the cluelessness of the American Middle Class -- a cynicism-free faith that eventually they will do the right thing -- is endearing....

L'Etrange 2012 Video: RESOLUTION Directors Meet Satanists En Route to Paris

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:41 AM PDT

After wowing audiences at Fantasia and Tribeca, the directors  are bringing their inventive horror movie Resolution overseas... er, they are trying to. The film will screen at L'Etrange Festival in Paris on September 14 and 15 (that's Friday and Saturday!) and directors Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorehead are supposed to be on hand for a Q&A. But if this promo video they made for the festival is any indication, they're going to have to escape from some satanists first. Ah, the trials and tribulations of indie filmmaking! Have a look, and if you're not in Paris, look out for Resolution in theaters in early 2013, courtesy of Tribeca film....

Weinberg on Film: KILLER JOE Emerges as Highly Original

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

The filmography of celebrated director William Friedkin is a colorful one indeed. First-year film buffs will, of course, point to classics like The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), while the more seasoned of the celluloid-obsessed will rattle off titles like Sorcerer (1971), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Blue Chips (1994), Rules of Engagement (2000), and Bug (2006) -- and the hardcore completists will also cite The Boys in the Band (1970), The Brink's Job (1978), Rampage (1987), and The Hunted (2003). Hell, I even saw the guy's 1990 arbor-related horror flick The Guardian! Like, love or hate the individual films, but there's no denying that, as a whole, they represent a rather eclectic storyteller. Most directors find a...

TIFF 2012 Review: HERE COMES THE DEVIL, And He's Looking For Sex

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Here Comes the Devil is only the second film I'm seen by writer-director Adrián García Bogliano, following a recent viewing of his "geriatric lunatics with nitroglycerine" horror movie Cold Sweat only a few weeks ago. Seeing both films in such close proximity caused me a small amount of psychic whiplash, with the first movie a seedy, sometimes silly work that careened from Saw-style torture scenarios in a decrepit mansion to an abrupt homage to The People Under the Stairs with sun-deprived boys replaced with nude, feral camgirls. And two years later, here we have the (relatively) more sedate, though no less lunatic Here Comes the Devil which goes for a more traditional psychological style of horror for most of its running time punctuated by abrupt,...

The Rio International Film Festival Announces Extensive Midnight Programs

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 09:30 AM PDT

The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival kicks off September 27th and Twitch has been given first word on their extensive midnight program lineups. And, yes, you read that right. That lineups, plural. While most festivals have just a single midnight program - if any at all - Rio offers up a whopping four distinct midnight programs, each with a distinct focus. And here's what will be playing this year:MIDNIGHT MOVIES"Sightseers"  (dir. Ben Wheatley, United Kingdom, 2012)"Room 237" (dir. Rodney Ascher, USA, 2012)   "Jack and Diane" (dir. Bradley Rust Gray, USA, 2012)    "Kid-Thing" (dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, USA, 2012) "La Cinquième Saison" (dir. Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, Belgium/Netherlands, 2012) "Les Gouffres" (dir. Antoine Barraud, France, 2012)   "Los Chidos" (dir. Omar Rodriguez Lopez, USA/Mexico, Germany,...

COME OUT AND PLAY Director Makinov Delivers A Perplexing Manifesto

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT

There are many things that Come Out And Play director Makinov doesn't want you to know. Who he is, for one thing. He claims to be Belorussian but given that he never appears without wearing a mask - which he apparently wore throughout production - and that he has taken his name from the bulky jacket he always wears even that is impossible to verify. Because, after all, how would a Belorussian end up directing a remake of Who Can Kill A Child in Mexico? But now, apparently, there are some things he does want you to know. Among them that he really, really dislikes cell phones. With the premiere of his film at the Toronto International Film Festival just around the corner Makinov...

Contest: Win a SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Blu-ray Prize Pack

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT

This week, the Rupert Sanders-directed Snow White and the Huntsman makes its way to DVD and Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Video. And we've got two copies of the high def version of the reimagined fairy tale to to give away courtesy of the studio. First, the film's official synopsis: In the epic action-adventure Snow White & the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscarr winner Charlize Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) who was dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean:...

TIFF 2012 Review: HELLBENDERS Raises a Little, Uh, Hell

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT

"I'm a woman, and you're a Catholic. Everything I do is a sin." -- A taste of the in-your-face comedy on display in J.T. Petty's Hellbenders.Based upon the writer-director's own graphic novel, and pitched somewhere between The Evil Dead and Ghostbusters in tone, it follows a bunch of 'special-operations' Catholic priests that handle the exorcisms and hell-on-earth related anomalies that crop up in New York City from time to time. This motley squad - played by Clifton Collins Jr., Clancy "The Kurgan" Brown, Andre "Bubbles-from-The-Wire" Royo, and Dan Fogler - are the 'nuclear option' for the the church when various deadites and demonspawn walking the earth. If the demon cannot be conventionally exorcised, then the priest takes on the possession themselves, sacrifices their own life via suicide,...

First Artwork For Stephen Chow Produced A CHINESE ODYSSEY

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT

News updates on the upcoming fantasy comedy A Chinese Odyssey, produced by Stephen Chow and directed by Derek Kwok (Gallants), have been kept tightly under wraps since the project was first announced back in July of last year. If you're just as hungry as I am for any bone that they can throw at us, though, here is a little something to whet your appetite.  It's the first promo poster featuring concept art of the Monkey King. Beside Chow playing the main role of the Monkey King, the cast will also include Shu Qi, Bo Huang, Zhang Wen, Show Luo and Chrissie Chow. The film is expected to be released in 2013 during the New Year....

Scream Factory Is Ready To Unleash THEY LIVE On Blu-ray!

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT

"I have come here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum."John Carpenter's They Live is probably my favorite of his post-Escape From New York, late '80s- early '90s filmography. A very obvious anti-Reagan diatribe, not unlike Craven's The People Under the Stairs, They Live manages to be preachy and pulse-pounding fun all at the same time. No one does this kind of pulpy fun like Carpenter, and even though it gets less recognition, I'd put They Live up against Big Trouble in Little China any day of the week. The leading duo of WWF legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and professional tough-guy Keith David (The Thing), tear up the screen in this fantastic film. Shout! Factory's new horror sub-label...
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