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Masaaki Yuasa Looking To Kickstart His KICK-HEART

Masaaki Yuasa Looking To Kickstart His KICK-HEART

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 08:30 PM PDT

Hey you! Yes, you. One of Japan's unique voices in animation wants your help! Masaaki Yuasa, writer and director of Mind Game and television series like Kemonozume and The Tatami Galaxy is making a new short called Kick-Heart. And a Kickstarter campaign has been launched to crowd-fund this project and finish this ten-minute short. Kick-Heart is a love story between Romeo, a successful pro-wrestler, and Juliet, a nun who lives a secret double-life as a female pro-wrestler. Romeo's secret is that he enjoys taking a beating in the ring, while Juliet feels invigorated when facing her opponents as a wrestler. When the two meet in the ring, the fireworks fly. Their story is set in the colorful backdrop of the professional wrestling world. Will Juliet reveal her true...

Decode THE SHINING With ROOM 237 Trailer

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 07:52 PM PDT

Rodney Ascher's acclaimed documentary Room 237 has been perplexing and entrancing cinephiles throughout its hugely successful festival run - the film screened at A-list events including Sundance, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Locarno and Toronto - by embracing one of the most compelling stories going. You want a rabidly loyal fanbase? Looks no further than the adherents of Stanley Kubrick. You want fanaticism gone strange? Ask them about the meanings hidden within Kubrick's The Shining. That's exactly what Room 237 does.In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his classic horror film, THE SHINING. Over 30 years later, viewers are still struggling to understand its hidden meanings. Loved and hated by equal numbers, the film is considered a genre standard by many loyalists, while other viewers dismiss it as...

TV Review: FRINGE S5E2, IN ABSENTIA (Or, How Are The Observers So Shit At Finding Things?)

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 07:23 PM PDT

There is clearly an elephant in the room for this final season of Fringe. Two actually. Things that should be overarching issues for all involved but which, two episodes in so far, are being systematically ignored in the name of keeping things moving forward simply.First: Why have the Observers taken over? What has convinced a race that lives outside of time and had devoted themselves for God only knows how long to passive observation to abandon that position and instead become militaristic oppressors? Why lock themselves into one timeline? Why this timeline in particular? And why take up arms at all? These are big, big issues, and ones that are not only not being answered but not even being ASKED by anyone at all, which...

VIFF 2012 Review: A WEREWOLF BOY Is Mainstream Melodrama

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Who is Jo Sung-hee? Judging this young director by his first two feature film may be a lot like pinning down a psychological profile on Dr. Henry Jekyll. Jo's first feature, End of Animal (2010), was a very idiosyncratic quasi-religious doomsday variation with muddy meaning but clear vision. Contrary to those beginnings, his new film, A Werewolf Boy, is a not-so-subtle big budget South Korean divergence on the Twilight franchise that plans on hitting the mainstream right between the eyes. Sold on the fresh faces of Park Bo-young and Song Joong-ki, this coming-of-age melodrama doesn't even seem tempted to step outside the boundaries of familiar film conjecture of boy meets girl. In this case, it is a sweet yet genetically modified feral boy meets strong-willed...

NYFF 2012 Review: MEMORIES LOOK AT ME Is a Lovely, Elegaic Observation of Family Life

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

In a late scene in Memories Look at Me, Song Fang's lovely, elegiac debut feature, Fang (played by Song herself), a young woman from Beijing visiting her parents at her childhood home in Nanjing, wistfully expresses to her mother her wish to go back to when she was seventeen. "I'd like to relive my life," Fang says. Her mother tries to dissuade her from this notion. "Sort yourself out in the present ... You've made your choices," her mother tells her. Their conversation turns to chilies growing outside their window; Fang remarks on how well the chili plants have grown. "People are no different," her mother answers. "People need nurturing. Or they don't grow." This scene illustrates a major theme of Fang's film: the weight...

Grimmfest 2012, Day 2: DEVOURED Will Swallow Your Soul

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Round two of Grimmfest was another half day -  the festival is packing everything into the weekend. As the day began, the Grimmfest crew was riding high off the first day reviews in the UK mainstream press for the launch of Some Guy Who Kills People, which their new venture Grimm Up North Entertainment is distributing (am I shilling that film too much? No, I don't think I am). I screwed up my schedule, so had no chance to catch Nightbreed: the Cabal Cut - that'll have to wait until Sheffield's Celluloid Screams festival later this month - but there were still a couple more screenings to squeeze into.Devoured Greg Oliver picked a strange film with which to start making features. Devoured is a...

Sitges 2012 Dispatch: MISS LOVELY and THE CONSPIRACY

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Though I couldn't get into the Sitges opening night thriller, The Body, the film's marketing team managed to scare me more than anything I've seen thus far at the massive genre festival. It was after I had gone out for a while to explore and orient myself with the beach side town. When I returned to my hotel room, I headed immediately for the bathroom (not too uncommon) and suddenly caught my breath. Is someone else in my hotel room? Here is a admittedly low-quality laptop photo of the lipstick-stained wine glass that I did not leave in my bathroom. Granted, about a half second later I saw the flyer underneath and realized what was up (then went ahead and drank the wine), but still...
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