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Lund 2012: VANISHING WAVES Wins Méliès d'Argent! Other Winners Announced!

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Lund 2012: VANISHING WAVES Wins Méliès d'Argent! Other Winners Announced!

Lund 2012: VANISHING WAVES Wins Méliès d'Argent! Other Winners Announced!

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 06:55 PM PDT

The 18th edition of the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival drew to a close yesterday and the winners of the competition awards were announced during the closing ceremony. The Lithuanian sci fi romantic thriller Vanishing Waves took home the award for best feature film in the competition line up, the Méliès d'Argent! This is of course very important for the film as the win also means it will be part of the competition line up at Sitges and will vie for an even bigger honor of Best European Film. Our own Brian Clark had this to say in his review of the film, "Vanishing Waves is an exquisite sci-fi head trip in the vein of Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey, one which takes...

VIFF 2012 Review: WHEN NIGHT FALLS Is A Poetic Protest

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT

On July 1, 2008, just a mere month before the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics, a 28-year-old man named Yang Jia charged into a police station in Shanghai with Molotov cocktails and a knife, killing six and wounding four before finally being subdued. The mass murder was a shock to the scrutinizing world, and an embarrassment to the government. With all eyes on China, the pressure was on to erase the incident and any connecting circumstances as quickly and quietly as possible. Yang Jia's trial was delayed due to the Olympics, but his eventual hearing and conviction was held behind closed doors, and his punishment final and swift. Four years later in May of 2012, Chinese director Ying Liang traveled to the Jeonju International...

Blu-ray Review: THE WILD GEESE Show What Real Men Are Made Of

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT

The Wild Geese is absolutely ludicrous. Absurd, daft, antiquated nonsense. If you thought Sly, Arnie and Bruce kicking ass in The Expendables was beyond belief then you've never seen an aged Richard Burton fight off hoards of African militia. Andrew V. McLaglen's British mercenary flick is a period piece, boys' own adventure from 1978 that overcomes its hackneyed plot by way of an astonishing cast of British luvvies, most notably Burton, Richard Harris and Roger Moore. It's Royal Shakespeare Company meets The A-Team.  In London, Col. Allen Faulkner is tasked by a nefarious industrialist with leading a group of mercenaries into Africa to rescue a political leader. Deposed and imprisoned by the now ruling dictator, the 'Geese' must intercept before said dictator offs him. Faulkner...

You Don't Fool Me: THE PUREST OF LIES Review

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Film production in Venezuela, at least for full features, is not as prolific as in other South American countries. In a good year there will be five or six Venezuelan features released in theaters, which is considered quite a good number locally. That number seems to be building somewhat and with local films gaining international exposure there is some hope that situation may change in the near future.  All of this provides context for the fact that The Purest of Lies is the fourth film by Carlos Malave in less than six years. That, by Venezuelan standards, is quite a lot. But what is more interesting is the way that Malave shifts through genres from film to film and how he even seems to change...

Blu-ray Review: RE-ANIMATOR Is A Classic Given Short Shrift In HD

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 11:58 AM PDT

Re-Animator is the film that launched a thousand careers in B-movies. Stuart Gordon made his feature film directing debut adapting this H.P. Lovecraft story for the big screen, he would later go on to direct such challenging films as Edmond and Stuck in addition to a healthy pile of sci-fi and horror goodies. Stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton also made names for themselves through solid performances in Re-Animator. Combs would go on to further refine his mad scientist/well-heeled maniac persona in other the Re-Animator sequels, as well as supporting roles in big studio horror flicks like the House on Haunted Hill remake and Peter Jackson's The Frighteners, as well as a bunch of other Lovecraft adaptations, even playing the man himself in the elusive...

NYFF 2012 Review: BARBARA Tears Down the Wall

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

It's East Germany and the year is 1980. Barbara (Nina Hoss) is a city doctor who gets banished to the country as a punishment when she applies for her exit visa to go west. In her new environment, she is under constant surveillance by secret police and subjected to inspections and body cavity search routinely. Deeply distrustful about her new neighbors and colleagues, she tries to keep a distance and concentrate on what she is good at - taking care of patients, all the while planning her escape to the west with her wealthy West German lover. A young, good-natured fellow doctor Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld) slowly wins her trust with his talent and sincerity. It turns out that he shares a similar history. Andre uses...

NYFF 2012 Review: LIFE OF PI Is Intriguing But Inconsistent

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

The much anticipated Life of Pi, the new film from Ang Lee, based on Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller, opened the 50th New York Film Festival this past Friday. Long considered impossible to film - even though, as Martel indicated at Friday morning's press conference, he often thought in cinematic terms while writing the novel - Lee has achieved this goal by shooting in 3D, with often stunning results. Life of Pi's impressiveness in visual terms is pretty much undeniable, with major kudos due to cinematographer Claudio Miranda. Much of the film is set on a lifeboat where the main character is stranded with zoo animals, and the action here is rendered with an eye-popping vividness. The raging, violent seas, as well as...

TV Review: FRINGE S5E01, A Favorite Makes An Awkward Transition

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Is maintaining a group of characters enough to carry on a cult hit television series if everything else changes? That appears to be the question that will dominate the fifth and final season of Fringe, at least in the early going, as wholesale changes envelope the series. After four seasons of weird science and paranormal investigation investigation revolving around the clash between parallel universes, Fringe closed that story line off definitively at the end of season four and now finds its raison d'etre instead in what initially appeared to be a goofy, near-future one off from late in the fourth season. As a goof it was a fun little lark, but as the basis of what is essentially an entirely new show governed by significantly...
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