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Vikram's THAANDAVAM Trailer Promises A "Complete Entertainer," But ...

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Vikram's THAANDAVAM Trailer Promises A "Complete Entertainer," But ...

Vikram's THAANDAVAM Trailer Promises A "Complete Entertainer," But ...

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 09:03 PM PDT

It's only been a couple of years since Ronnie Screwvala took his multimedia conglomerate, UTV Motion Pictures, into the south of India. UTV is the biggest studio in India, and in 2011, the controlling stake in the company's stock was purchased by The Walt Disney Corporation. This transition has really seemed to up the speed at which UTV seeks to take over all of Indian cinema, not just the Hindi film industry, on which they've had a very firm grip for the better part of a decade. In the service of that goal, they've released several big budget features with big South Indian stars including Arya (Naan Kadavul) in Vettai, Kamal Hassan in Unnaipol Oruvan, and Vikram in last year's breakout hit, Deiva Thirumagal. The...

International Chinese Film Festival Enlightens Melbourne

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 08:02 PM PDT

The burgeoning International Chinese Film Festival (formerly Sydney Chinese Film Festival) is still growing and facing teething problems but the opportunity to flourish in Australia is one that cannot be ignored. Luckily, in its fourth year the festival has expanded its reach yet again to include Melbourne in its competition and exhibitor film lineup, and festival director Lanwei Gong has certainly chosen some interesting and diverse picks to amuse, horrify and intrigue viewers both adept and new to mostly mainland Chinese films.Fresh from the gala opening at the Venice film festival and subsequently TIFF comes Hur Jin-ho's Dangerous Liaisons, boasting an impressive cast including Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung, and retelling the classic French tale in a period 1930's Shanghai setting. Oozing with sexuality and...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN is Sexy Violent Fun

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 07:15 PM PDT

There are few filmmakers who know how to create as much onscreen fun with as small of a budget as Chilean writer/director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza. With 70s cinematic sensibilities, funk-filled soundtracks, and always awesome action, Mirageman and Mandrill were fun-packed riffs on the superhero vigilante and suave assassin (respectively) subgenres. His latest, Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman is his take on guns-blazing bounty hunter exploitation films (he calls it LatinXploitation, or LXPL for short). Mix in a heavy dose of video game culture via a Grand Theft Auto mission motif and you have another big success from Espinoza and a film that is truly fantastic. Marking a big departure for the director, Espinoza has traded in the high kicks of action...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: COLD STEEL Shoots For Romance As Well As Action

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 06:08 PM PDT

David Wu, long-time editor of Hong Kong action auteur John Woo, returns to feature filmmaking with this spirited war-time thriller that supplants nationalistic breast-beating with action and romance to mostly positive effect. At the height of the Sino-Japanese War, small-town huntsman Mu Liangfeng (Peter Ho) is drawn into the conflict after saving a truckload of Nationalist troops from a Japanese sniper. Mu had previously rescued a US pilot from his crashed plane, who in turn showed him how to give his weapon the proper respect. Recognising this inherent discipline in Mu, army captain Mengzi (Tony Leung Ka Fai) recruits him into his elite sniper unit. As the invading Japanese forces flood south, and the Nationalist Army must rely on the help of underground Communist...

Patrik Eklund's FLICKER Tops Fantastic Fest Awards!

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT

During a riotous night of high praise and beer swigging, the Fantastic Fest Awards were dished out to the cream of the festival, with more categories and winners than ever before. Patrik Eklund's wry Swedish ensemble comedy Flicker took the top honour of the night, the AMD Next Wave award for Best Film, Robert Wilson & Jason Lapeyre's I Declare War won the Audience Award, Kristina Buozyte's Vanishing Waves won the Fantastic Feature prize, Adrian Garcia Boliano's Here Comes The Devil swept the Horror Features category, Dutch comedy New Kids Nitro bagged the Gutbuster Comedy award and Michael Stephenson's The American Scream won the inaugural Best Documentary prize. As is customary, winners were invited to the stage to chug down a celebratory beer in their trophy...

Books to be Scene: Tim Powers' HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 11:02 AM PDT

"Christina reached behind her and lifted the chalice from the wall top and handed it to Maria. "Rest in peace, Uncle John," said Maria softly as she poured the wine over the dirt. "Please."...Christina glanced up quickly, for a deeper shadow had seemed to fall across them from only a yard away - and then it was gone, and the grass was rippling in waves away from the raw mound.Christina was reminded of having once at twilight walked through a field of tall grass and disturbed sleeping birds, who darted short distances away without appearing about the grass tops, so that her passage had seemed to cause ripples, as if she were wading through a pond instead of grass.She thought she caught a whiff of...

EXCLUSIVE: Dada Chen Sucks In New Clip From VULGARIA

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Already the most successful Hong Kong film of the year, and coming off a Best Actor win at last night's Fantastic Fest Awards, the hilarious Category III comedy Vulgaria is about to hit US theatres courtesy of China Lion, and so we come to this new clip. Vulgaria is the latest film from writer/director Pang Ho Cheung, whose previous work includes such diverse films as Dream Home, Love In A Puff and Isabella, and charts the trials and tribulations of a struggling film producer (Chapman To), who will do just about anything to secure financing for his next film. When he gets caught up with a model nicknamed "Popping Candy" (Dada Chen), who is hustling for an acting career, To soon finds her advances impossible to resist and in...

Reel Asian Sneaks a Few Titles. The One You Should Care About is COLD STEEL

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Having its sweet 16th anniversary this year, Toronto's Reel Asian Film Festival continues to showcase cinema from from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kashmir, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand; this also includes films from Canada and USA with an Asian bent. As it was last year, the festival will be presented in two parts: November 6-11 in Toronto and  November 16-17 in Richmond Hill (just outside the city).Having seen the lovely 35mm print of Cold Steel, anyone who loves classic Hong Kong melodrama would be advised to check out David Wu's film, a throwback to 1980s and 1990s John Woo classics (for which Wu served as editor), but also a humorous reaction to Woo's bombastic tendencies. It's a film that sneaks right up and charms its audience, including...

THE MUMMY Will Be Brought Back to Life by Len Wiseman. Oh, Boy!

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Universal is working its way through its roster of classic monsters for 21st Century reboots, and now it's the turn of The Mummy. For this new-fangled version, Len Wiseman is being hired to direct, according to Deadline. Joe Spaihts is in process of writing the screenplay, which Wiseman described as "a darker twist on the material, a scarier version." The story will be set in the modern day. Universal wants the film for the summer 2014 blockbuster season. The 1932 original was directed by Karl Freund, who served as director of photography for Tod Browning's Dracula, and followed in the latter's footsteps as a static piece of work that doesn't hold up. Remaking the film in the late 1990s made sense, the franchise extended to...

Euro Beat: Female Model Cast as David Bowie, L'Etrange Festival Wrap and More

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 08:15 AM PDT

Belgian Model Hannelore Knuts will play David Bowie in a new movie inspired by the chameleon-like lifestyle of the iconic pop singer simply titled Dave. And, in case you can't tell from the first still above, Knuts is a woman! Okay, okay -- it's not too earth-shattering considering that Bowie forged a good decade of his career partly by blurring gender lines. But get a load of this plot: "The main character of the film travels back in time to stop three lookalikes of David Bowie, at different times." Sold! The film was directed by Wim Reygaert and Stephen and David Dewaele, who collectively form DJ Souwax, who are already known for mixing music, art and animation. Soulwax has also produced remixes of Bowie songs...

Contest: The Big BOND 50 Blu-ray Giveaway

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 07:35 AM PDT

Courtesy of MGM and Twentieth Century Fox, we've got a copy of the 22-film Bond Blu-ray collection for one of our lucky readers. Bringing together 50 years of Bond history (with a slot for the eventual home video release of this November's Skyfall), the September 25 release of the Golden Anniversary James Bond Collection is the fix for all of you 007 fans who want all of your Bond in one place. Here's the official copy from the studio: All the Bonds. All the girls. All the action. All in high-definition. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment mark James Bond's monumental golden anniversary with the release of BOND 50, the complete Bond experience showcasing all 22 classic films on Blu-ray together for the...
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