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16th Japanese Film Festival Australia Has A 'Totally Sweeet' Lineup Indeed!

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16th Japanese Film Festival Australia Has A 'Totally Sweeet' Lineup Indeed!

16th Japanese Film Festival Australia Has A 'Totally Sweeet' Lineup Indeed!

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT

For 16 years the Japanese Film Festival in Australia has been going strong, delivering mostly mainstream delights and genre-fare but this year they seem to have mixed things up for the better - also diversifying into festival picks and cutting-edge cinema straight from Japan. This is good news for Australia, and Melbourne and Sydney in particular, which will get the bulk of these screenings. Here is just some of the sweet lineup.Opening the festival is TIFF entry Thermae Romae, I just recently watched the anime series of this popular manga adaptation and can safely call it one of the boldest most hilarious anime in recent years, with a lead the likes of Hiroshi Abe I expect the live action to be equally as brilliant. When Roman architect...

Review: CAMERAMAN GANGA THO RAMBABU is a Unique Theatrical Experience

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT

The fans turned the film's first local screening into a unique theatrical event, the likes of which I haven't seen since the opening night showing of Rajnikanth's Enthiran. First, a little background and context. My specialty here at Twitch is one that not many outsiders put much stock in.Indian cinema gets almost no major media coverage anywhere but its homeland. This is in spite of the fact that it has the largest audience -- nearly three billion viewers worldwide -- of any film industry in the world, including Hollywood. This is in spite of the fact that the Indian diaspora spreads beyond the subcontinent and has deep roots all over the world, from Singapore to Hong Kong to Malaysia to Germany to the United Kingdom to the...

New Teaser From EVANGELION 3.0 Features Fresh Footage

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:01 PM PDT

The ad campaign for the upcoming theatrical release of Anno Hideaki's Evangelion 3.0 - the third in the four film retelling / reimagining of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series - has been curious, to say the least. With the film hitting Japanese screens next month we've had - so far - a teaser that is nothing but piano music, featuring no actual footage from the film, and a series of television cross promotions featuring characters from the movie teaming up with a jockey and his horse-Eva but, again, no actual footage from the movie.The new teaser has actual footage from the movie. It's short but it's real, so take a look below....

Hey, Toronto! Complete Lineup And Schedule For The Twitch-Presented BIRTH OF A VILLAIN Series Announced! Tix Now Available!

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Alright Toronto area horror fans, have we got a treat for you. Starting in November Twitch is presenting the Birth Of A Villain screening series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. And what might this be? A screening series featuring the first films in all the major horror franchises, all of them on the big screen projected from 35mm. In the lineup: A Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, Child's Play, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hellraiser, Phantasm, The Howling and Friday The 13th. The one-two punch of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and John Carpenter's megahit Halloween in the 1970s put a new face to American horror movies. While previously the genre had its share of tortured, sympathetic anti-heroes (the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf...

Who's Sexing Who: Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier Join NYMPHOMANIAC

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

When you're doing a movie with explicit sex scenes, it's always nice to surround yourself with familiar faces. Thus, Lars Von Trier has cast Willem Dafoe and Udo Kier in Nymphomaniac, his forthcoming two-part sex epic. Both are experienced players in previous Von Trier projects. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they are joining newly-announced Jean-Marc Barr (another Von Trier veteran, from Dogville and Breaking the Waves), Caroline Goodall, Kate Ashfield, Saskia Reeves, and Omar Shargawi. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays the titular character, who tells her story to Stellan Skarsgard. Previously-announced cast members include Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, and Connie Nielsen. Reportedly, Nicole Kidman will not be in the movie. Still left to be revealed is who will be sexing who. Both hardcore...

Watch The US Trailer For Peter Chan's DRAGON (WUXIA) With Donnie Yen

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

The good folk at Radius are bringing Peter Chan's Cannes-selected martial arts mystery Dragon (aka Wuxia) to VOD October 26th prior to a limited theatrical run starting November 30th. So if you're looking for your Donnie Yen fix, the time is coming.Liu Jin-xi (Yen) is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu (Kaneshiro). Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy hero--and draws the attention of China's criminal underworld in the processA new US trailer has just been released for...

Blu-ray Review: ENEMY MINE (Twilight Time Limited Edition)

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Is it weird that the director of Das Boot and Outbreak is also one of the men most responsible for shaping my love of films as a young child?Yes, Wolfgang Petersen has made some pretty great films, but the ones that will always stay with me are a pair from 1985, The NeverEnding Story and Enemy Mine. The NeverEnding Story was one that we'd recorded on VHS off of an HBO broadcast that got watched over and over again from the time I was six years old until I moved out of my parents house. It was one of the early films that helped me to understand the power that movies have to transport you to a different time and place, not unlike its protagonist...

Japanese Director Wakamatsu Koji Dies After Collision With Taxi

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Legendary Japanese director Wakamatsu Koji has died, it is being reported, after succumbing to injuries sustained last Friday, when he was hit by a taxi in Tokyo. The 76-year-old filmmaker, oft-compared to French New Wave pioneer Jean Luc Godard, had over 100 films to his credit, with his latest, The Millennial Rapture, having just premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last month, and 11.25: The Day Mishima Chose His Fate set to play the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival in November.Wakamatsu made a name for himself in the 1960s and 70s, as a driving force of the pinku-eiga softcore porn industry. Titles such as Go Go Second Time Virgin (1969) and Ecstasy of the Angels (1972) are widely revered as classics of the genre....

Tom Cruise, Tough Guy, in JACK REACHER Trailer

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT

He may be far from the character envisioned by author Lee Child, but audiences won't care if Tom Cruise can deliver the goods as Jack Reacher, a former military police officer who now walks the land like Caine in Kung Fu, beating up people and rescuing strangers. Having read several of the Reacher books, I've questioned the wisdom of casting Cruise since it was announced, but the new trailer puts him in context of a very good supporting cast, with the likes of Werner Herzog (!) as a bad guy, plus Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, and Richard Jenkins. Christopher McQuarrie has written some snappy dialogue, and his direction looks entirely on the money. I'm officially in the "cautiously optimistic" camp now. The movie opens in...

Hollywood Beat: Broadcast TV Aims to Recapture the Zeitgeist

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:01 AM PDT

They may not be Lena Dunham's Girls, but Emily Owens, M.D. and The Mob Doctor (as well as Nashville and others) are aiming to recapture the zeitgeist -- and the female audience -- for broadcast television in the U.S. On the more traditionally male, genre-oriented side of things, 666 Park Avenue leads the way by tapping into familiar horror imagery with some wicked twists. Emily Owens, M.D. stars Mamie Gummer (Meryl Streep's daughter) as a medical intern at a hospital that is much like high school -- a comparison that is hammered home with endless boxes of nails. Jennie Snyder Urman created the show, and it reflects her experience on 90210 and Gilmore Girls (she also wrote the script for 2011's Something Borrowed), with Emily...

Opening: HOLY MOTORS Rattles Cages and Delights the Senses

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT

My top pick of the year (so far), Leos Carax's Holy Motors is a dazzling carousel of emotions, ricocheting from earnest entreaty to ridiculous physical humor to poignant tenderness to revealing intimacy to the silly and absurd. Really, it touches on the full range of human experience, and features an absolutely sublime performance by Denis Levant, who plays a host of characters throughout the course of a single day. The film debuted at Cannes earlier this year, where our own Brian Clark grappled with it: With so many serious, dramatic and even generic (see Lawless) films in competition at Cannes, director Leos Carax's Holy Motors came as something like a 100 mph gust of fresh air. In fact, this sci-fi/comedy/I-don't-know-what-to-call-it is such a wild, weird...

HIFF 2012 Review: KEY OF LIFE Is A Brilliantly Understated Gem

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Uchida Kenji's Key Of Life is the sort of film that rarely makes its way to international audiences outside of the festival circuit and that, friends, is nothing short of a tragedy. Because as much as the typical distribution argument that films such as this - films that are too quirky for the genre crowd and too genre for the arthouse - makes a certain degree of objective sense this is simply brilliant storytelling rife with sterling performances and a completely original, completely compelling spin on both the gangster film and the romantic comedy. And, yes, you read that right.Uchida's third feature revolves around a trinity of key characters, each of whom could easily have anchored a film all on their own but whose stories...

As MINDSCAPE With Mark Strong Gets Underway, Watch the Director's Earlier Work

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Mark Strong, Brian Cox, and Taissa Farmiga are set to star in Mindscape, which is now getting underway with debuting director Jorge Dorado at the helm, according to Screen Daily. The film "follows a a man with the ability to enter peoples' memories who takes on the case of a brilliant but troubled and dangerous teenage girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma." Strong has been doing excellent work for years, perhaps most notably in Sherlock Holmes and Kick-Ass, a one-two punch that raised his profile considerably, while Taissa Farmiga made a very good impression in older sister Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground. Dorado has twice been nominated for Spain's Goya Awards, and you can watch one of his nominated...

More Madame Blossom Than You Can Shake Your IRON FISTS At!

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 07:01 AM PDT

What is that you say? Your day has been just a little shy of Lucy Liu as Madame Blossom in The Man With The Iron Fists? Well, have we more than enough clips and TV spots to fill that void! And if you're not repeating her 'Power belongs to no one but to be seized through sex and violence' line then you are a stronger person than we are....

Grimmfest 2012 Review: THE WRONG HOUSE Is So Very Wrong, But So, So Right

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT

For a movie about a real-estate bargain that turns out to be far too good to be true, it seems perversely appropriate you have to forgive a lot - I mean a lot - to get into The Wrong House (a.k.a. House Hunting). Eric Hurt's low-budget American horror story comes with a litany of caveats that are almost objectively bad, bad, embarrassingly bad, from a dull, mawkish script to a cast who don't know what to do with it half the time to amateurish direction and effects. It sounds like the pitch for some godawful DTV piece of torture porn, and the prologue seems as if it's headed there at full throttle with Hurt counting up the ancillary revenues all the way.And then slowly but...
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