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Listen to 90 Seconds of Adele's Bond Theme SKYFALL

Listen to 90 Seconds of Adele's Bond Theme SKYFALL

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:00 AM PDT

I gotta be honest, when it comes to all things Bond-related I find it pretty hard to be truly critical. I love everything about the Bond universe, from Moonraker's gondola-hovercraft to George Lazenby's kilt to Denise Richards' nuclear physicist and Die Another Day's invisible car. I'm simply incapable of stepping back and judging any individual elements of the series as anything other than parts of the tower of cinematic awesome that is the James Bond franchise. This blinkered appreciation even extends as far as the series' theme songs. While nobody is going to argue with Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" or Wings' "Live And Let Die" being championed as classics, I will happily sit through - hell, even sing along to - less appreciated entries...

It's A TRAILER WAR!

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:00 AM PDT

Everybody knows it to be true: Trailers are almost always the best part of going to the movies. Particularly when it comes to low budget schlock. So why not make a movie that's nothing but trailers?The trailer compilation is nothing particularly new - there are the 42nd Street Forever collections and Joe Dante has been spiffing up cult trailers with commentaries and the like at his Trailers From Hell for quite a while - but a chance to see a feature length presentation of the best - by which I mean weirdest - on the big screen all buffed and polished back to a shine? That's a bit more unusual. Cue Drafthouse Films and Trailer War.Unleashed from the vaults of the Alamo Drafthouse, a meticulous...

Review: An Opposing View On THE TALL MAN (AKA THE SECRET)

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Pascal Laugier's The Tall Man opened recently in Belgium theaters under its new name The Secret. Our own Peter Martin was hardly ecstatic when he reviewed Laugier's latest, stating:... what's needed is something incendiary, something that will provoke a deep reaction, either positive or negative. Instead, a pallid bromide is offered up, and it's just not enough.I beg to differ, so here's my take on Laugier's newest film: The Tall Man is Pascal Laugier's long-awaited new feature. After Laugier unleashed Martyrs onto the world, people were aching to see where he would go from there. The result will no doubt be a big disappointment to many, as The Tall Man became a very different film altogether. Then again, if you look closely the typical Laugier elements...

Noboru Iguchi's BAD BUTT Attacks as Part of Online Horror Anthology SILENT TERROR

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT

YOMYOMF, the You Tube channel owned by Fast and Furious stalwart Justin Lin, is celebrating Halloween with a new horror anthology directed by some of the most interesting horror directors currently working in Asia. Lin will serve as an Executive Producer for the project alongside Anderson Le, Director of Programming for the Hawaii International Film Festival. One short will premiere each Thursday during the month, and the filmmakers include Oko Anwar (Modus Anomoli), Woo Ming Jin (The Tiger Factory), Eric Matti (Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles) and Noboru Iguchi, who, judging from the title of his short, apparently did not get enough of filming butts when he made Zombie Ass. The gimmick for this one, titled Silent Terror, is that (surprise!) the directors were not allowed...

Watch: Stephen Chbosky Talks THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Author Stephen Chbosky accomplished quite a feat when he wrote his debut novel, the wildly popular young adult coming-of-age tale The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I imagine once the book gained its popularity and the idea of a film adaptation became a possibility, Chbosky thought "Man, I wouldn't want to be the person who has to adapt this thing!" considering the novel's epistolary narrative structure, not to mention the towering number of devoted Wallflower fans. Turns out Chbosky ended up being that person, not only adapting the screenplay but also directing the film, which stars Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller, and is now playing in limited release across the U.S. We recently sat down with the man of many hats -- and...

Ragnar Bragason Goes Metal. METALHEAD Starts Production

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Children and Parents director Ragnar Bragason is gearing up another feature film after his smash hit Bjarnfreðarson a couple of years back, this time moving away from the core group of actors and writers that he has been working with almost exclusively since the hit TV series The Nightshift in 2007.Teaming up with producers Árni Filippusson and Davíð Óskar Óskarsson at Mystery - the company behind Either Way, which was recently remade as Prince Avalanche by David Gordon Green - they are beginning production for Metalhead which starts next month.Billed as a story "about a girl, heavy metal and cows, Metalhead is a dramatic film, both tender and grim with moments of rebellious comedy. It's a story of a terrible loss and how we deal...

NYFF 2012 Review: ROMAN POLANSKI: ODD MAN OUT

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

In 2008, director Marina Zenovich re-opened old wounds with the release of her film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary about the titular filmmaker's infamous 1977 rape trial. It shined a light on a number of alleged inappropriate and illegal actions taken by the judge at the time, which ultimately led to Polanski's decision to flee the country. These were details the average person calling for the director's blood was ignorant of, and they made for a fascinating film. But maybe it did Polanski more harm than good. Some of the wounds Zenovich scratched belonged to sleeping dogs, and their re-opening roused the ornery beasts from their slumber. In 2009 Polanski was invited to the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland to accept a lifetime...

Catch Chris Nash's Skinfections Trilogy Online!

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Hot off its premiere as a trilogy at Fantastic Fest 2012, Toronto filmmaker Chris Nash has just uploaded his terrific triptych of short films about relationships and skin diseases onto the interwebs, so that they may now spread and infect the nightmare hearts of all who come across them. Packaged as the SKINFECTIONS TRILOGY, Nash has also released this fabulously grotesque poster-art for the trilogy by Toronto-based artist Trevor Henderson.All three films, MY MAIN SQUEEZE, BLACKHEAD and LIPLOCK, are embedded below, so turn down the lights, cuddle up beside your sweetheart and make sure you don't have half a pizza in your mouth when you click play....

Celluloid Screams 2012: A Taster For The Festival's PAPERCUTS Art Exhibition

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT

The 2012 edition of UK horror festival Celluloid Screams runs from 26-28 October 2012 in Sheffield, at the Showroom Cinema, and while the full lineup is a dark, bloodstained little gem, there's another treat for festival-goers beyond the movies on show. Celluloid Screams are running Papercuts: Alternative Horror Poster Art, an exhibition of local artistic talent (and I do mean talent) who've put together one-shots for the various classic horror screenings the festival has put on over the past few years. Admission is free, with a selection of short films from the festival lineup also screening in the Showroom's bar, and from the look of the samples they've sent me these pieces should be well worth checking out in the flesh.If you were thinking of...

Celluloid Screams 2012 Full Lineup! SIGHTSEERS! RESOLUTION! ENTITY! And One Heck Of A Trailer.

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

UK Twitch readers around the Midlands at the end of the month might like to be reminded that there's another local festival around this time of year (as well as Manchester's Grimmfest) that caters for those cineastes who prefer their movies weird and wonderful. Sheffield horror festival Celluloid Screams returns for its 2012 outing over the weekend of 26-28 October, serving up three days of prime genre cinema, both new releases and classic screenings.The full lineup's been out for a little while now but with a new (and pretty awesome) trailer to pitch the festival, what better time to let you know all the fun you could be having in a few weeks' time?First up, getting a gala presentation on the opening night is much-loved...

Twitch in Bondage: Am I Not Your Bond Girl

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 11:01 AM PDT

The first Bond film I saw was For Your Eyes Only. It remains one of my favourites, mainly because of the awesome Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet). When she killed the evil Gonzales with a crossbow, I found a new film idol: the Bond Girl. (It also began my interest in archery, but we'll save that for another day.) The James Bond franchise is nothing without Bond Girls; from sexy sidekicks to vixeny villains to spectacular spies, these girls have pleased, teased, assisted and sometimes saved Bond and his movies. The Bond Girl is not without controversy, especially considering her generally believed place of subservience to Bond, and her character as little more than as an object of gaze and sexual enjoyment. And yet, she has...

Twitch in Bondage: James Bond Forever - Our Series Begins

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:55 AM PDT

"Bond. James Bond." The words still send unreasonable chills down my spine, thereby convincing me that Ian Fleming's creation has infected me on a subatomic level since childhood. My introduction to James Bond came via the ABC television network in the U.S. Watching the edited-for-TV series, interrupted by frequent commercial breaks, was not the ideal way to meet the most famous secret agent in movie history, but it made me think of him as a really cool uncle, the kind of distant cousin who couldn't possibly be related by blood yet still showed up every so often to remind us that our lives were incredibly commonplace and ordinary. Ensconced in a deadly world of fantasy, surrounded by impossibly beautiful, partially-dressed women who tumbled into bed...

TV Review: DEXTER S7E01, ARE YOU Brings Dexter Back Big Time

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:30 AM PDT

One episode in to the new season of Dexter and one thing is very clear: There will be no stepping back from the precipice, no resetting back to the starting position, hopefully no more angsty musings about dark passengers or any other such stuff. After romancing the character for six seasons it's all bare and on the table. Dexter is a serial killer. Period. The question now is what happens next.There was some concern about whether this would really be the case and justifiably so. After all, Dexter has nearly been caught repeatedly throughout the series, the near misses continually eroding any sense of plausibility the show may have with many fans refusing to forgive producers for the end of Season Five, where all involved...

Jason Gorber's Cinerunimations: LOOPER, Eco, and a Constellation of Clichés

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

In one of Looper's most delicious scenes, two versions of the same lead character are discussing the vagaries of time travel. When asked to explain how the technology works, "old" Joe deadpans a response to deflect the question, stating that to account for time travel paradoxes, "we're going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws." This droll response isn't just one of the movie's most amusing moments, laying bare the ease by which an older version of a character can bat away at the eagerness of his younger self, but also one of the most telling. In this instance, the script is both acknowledging our desire to understand the mechanisms behind Looper's sci-fi conceit, while blithely batting that carrot away...

Review: Joyce Bernal's OF ALL THE THINGS

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Of All the Things has director Joyce Bernal reunite with Aga Muhlach and Regine Velasquez, who, once upon a time, graced her films like Dahil May Isang Ikaw (Because There's Just You, 1999) and Pangako... Ikaw Lang (Promise... Just You, 2001) as perfect lovers. Muhlach and Velasquez have considerably aged since their last pairing, lending the characters they portray in Of All the Things a certain semblance of cynicism, frustration and desperation in both love and life. In a sense, Of All the Things, without straying too far from the overused formula of local rom-coms, infuses the genre with some sort of sobriety that supposedly comes with maturity, at least in age. That is not to say that Of All the Things is a...

TV Review: BOARDWALK EMPIRE S3E03, BONE FOR TUNA (Or, Now Nucky Has Angst)

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT

After taking last week off due to Fantastic Fest we return to our weekly look at HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Episode three of season three brings back the breasts with director Jeremy Podeswa promising to snap the show out of the domestic drama mode it has cruised in through the opening of this season.Yep. Everybody's favorite tale of gangsters, guns, sex and violence has been considerably more sedate so far this year with the storylines so far dominated by family strife and the consequences of last season's actions. Episode one was dominated by Nucky Thompson's crumbling marriage. Episode two by Chalky White trying to push his daughter into a new life and the return of Eli Thompson to the fold. And episode three? It's all about...

Blu-ray Review: PRODUCED BY GEORGE MARTIN Shines Spotlight On Musical Pioneer

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT

The notion of a music producer is a relatively foreign one to most fans of popular music. While the rough understanding of how a Film Director gets their job done is old hat to even the most superficial of movie fans, the equivalent role in music production is often shrouded in mystery. As even die-hard rock fans who was behind the boards for the early hits for, say, AC-DC, they may well draw a blank. While Harry Vanda and George Young aren't exactly household names, there's also the fact that the band's later producer, "Mutt" Lange, is more widely known for his marriage to Shania Twain, at least for casual audiences.For every Phil Spector there's a Tom Wilson, both incredibly important in the history of...

Blu-ray Review: A CAT IN PARIS Delivers Charm & Adventure For The School-Aged Set

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT

If there is anything that irritates me about films made for children these days, it is that they treat children with kid gloves. No danger, no threat, no real emotion, nothing to get kids too attached to the story. A bunch of flashing lights and whirring bells and whistles do not emotion make. The films that I saw when I was a kid were different. I know it's cliche, but back in my day we had films with dark themes and story lines that actually had young people engaged with something more than the most primitive parts of their brains. Films like The Secret of N.I.M.H., The Last Unicorn, and others, mostly from Don Bluth and company, had kids on the edge of their seats...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: Despite Misfires, Sniper Thriller TOWER BLOCK Hits Its Mark

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Nothing good ever happens on the block. It might not be small-scale alien invasions of futuristic battles with scarred lady drug kingpins, but if you live on a block, something terrible is bound to happen to you. Consider the film up for consideration today. We're informed by the opening titles of first-time feature directors' Ronnie Thompson and James Nunn's Tower Block that after World War II, these grim high rises attracted tenants for their spectacular views, but in recent years have become breeding grounds for violent crime. Most of the tenants have fled for presumably safer places to live, but Tower 31 still has some holdouts on its top floor for reasons that remain muddy (one of the minor strikes against James Moran's screenplay). We...

Independence's Blood: TAITA BOVES Trailer

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:30 AM PDT

This is an extended trailer for Taita Boves, a film by Luis Alberto Lamata. Again Lamata delves into the Venezuelan colonial history to tell the tale of Boves and his legacy. And by doing so he deals with ghosts of that era that still remains in the collective unconscious on one nation.TAITA BOVES chronicles a thirst for revenge that devastated a country. It tells the true story of Jose Tomás Boves, a cruel man who became a legend during the Venezuelan War of Independence, the most violent in the Americas. He went from seafarer to pirate, horse smuggler to prosperous merchant, prisoner to military chief. Spanish by birth, he spearheaded a grass roots troop of slaves, mulattoes, Indians and mestizos that crushed Simón Bolívar and his...

Review: PITCH PERFECT Doesn't Live Up To Its Name, But Comes Close

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

When Glee first hit the airwaves, I had high hopes. Here was something that seemed genuinely interesting, a self-aware, self-effacing look at High School arts nerds and their proclivity for all things a capella. Much like the pilot show for Lost, things quickly went downhill, and any of the charm or wit was quickly bled out once the filmmakers essentially blew all their good ideas with their first chapter.There would be no Pitch Perfect if there was no Glee, and I guess that's something we can be thankful to that show for. Sure, PP is a derivative, predictable, silly thing, but it's also just a tiny bit rebellious, its charms just a little bit edgy making for more than a cookie cutter post-tween underdogs-make-good film....

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