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Rest in Peace, Sylvia Kristel

Rest in Peace, Sylvia Kristel

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:53 PM PDT

Sad news: earlier this week, the Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel died of cancer at the early age of sixty. While she has been a supporting actress in many mainstream films of the seventies and eighties, by far her most famous role was as the title character in Just Jaeckin's 1974 French softcore classic, Emmanuelle. It's hard to underestimate the popularity of that film when it was released. These days the name Emmanuelle (or sometimes Emanuelle for copyright reasons) has been used in association with so many sequels and cheap knock-offs that it has become synonymous with cheap exploitative nudity. But the original was something else: until the eighties arrived it was still in the top ten highest grossing films of all time, the first French...

Review: ALEX CROSS Solves Crimes by Annoying People to Death

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 08:00 PM PDT

Poor Detroit. Where is RoboCop when you need him? Until the mechanical police officer appears again, you're stuck with Tyler Perry as Detective Dr. Alex Cross, a half-human, half-mechanical law enforcement investigator who's more interested in exacting revenge than in solving crimes or protecting the citizens. The creation of novelist James Patterson, Cross lived and worked in Washington, D.C. but the character and his family have been moved halfway across the country to Detroit, Michigan, for no apparent dramatic purpose. (I suspect that state tax credits are better in Michigan.) Cross is a highly-intelligent psychologist-turned-police officer who can shoot bad guys with deadly accuracy but prefers to annoy them to death with by-the-book psycho-babble. At least, that's the technique he tries with a psychotic assassin...

Ready or Not, JUSTICE LEAGUE Movie Coming in 2015

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

The summer of 2015 will henceforth be known as the official season of competing superhero team movies. Warner Bros. hopes to release Justice League in the same summer that Disney and Marvel will release The Avengers 2, according to Los Angeles Times. Now all they have to do is finalize the script, hire a director, cast the actors, and shoot the thing next year. The studio will release Man of Steel, their Superman reboot, next summer, but was forced to hold up on their other plans due to a legal case brought by the heirs of Joe Shuster, who co-created the comic book character. With that cleared up yesterday in favor of Warner Bros., it's full speed ahead for Justice League. Disney has staked a...

Review: THE SESSIONS Helps Everybody Get Their Jollies

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:01 PM PDT

The Sessions tells a true story about a physically disabled man who enlists a professional sex surrogate to help him through the difficulties, both emotional and logistical, of losing his virginity. That may sound like shameless Oscar-bait -- a perception enhanced by the presence of John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy -- but in truth the film is simpler than that, more small-scale, with a light and unpretentious sense of humor. Were it not for its frank sex scenes, it could be a TV movie. I think it's important to make that distinction because otherwise, when you hear "true story," "disabled man," and "Helen Hunt," you think, Oh, boy, here we go. Get ready to be forcibly inspired by some grim thing I'll...

Is MAD MAX: FURY ROAD in Trouble?

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

The long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road is now shooting in Namibia under the direction of George Miller, but studio backer Warner Bros. reportedly has concerns about the production. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has sent veteran producer Denise di Novi to Africa to serve as their representative, someone "who can keep us posted on the day's events," in the words of Jeff Robinov, Warner Bros. motion picture group president. Sources claim the production has fallen five days behind schedule and is over its budget, which is rumored to be in the $100 million to $125 million range. Early in her career, di Novi served as producer for Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns), and since then has racked up an impressive number of...

Review: TAI CHI HERO Bides Its Time Before The Final Throwdown

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Stephen Fung's post-modern martial arts odyssey continues, replacing some of the goofiness of Tai Chi Zero with a more complex plot, while struggling to deliver a knockout punch. Tai Chi Hero follows on immediately from its predecessor, with "freak" Yang Lu Chan (Yuan Xiao Chao) exchanging marriage vows with the beautiful daughter of Grandmaster Chen. An act of gratitude and nothing more from Yu Niang (Angelababy), their union brings Lu Chan into the fold, making him eligible to train in Chen style kung fu, which is all he's ever wanted. Yu Niang is quick to lay down the ground rules of their relationship - they are not husband and wife, but master and pupil. She will teach him kung fu and he will sleep on the floor....

Review: Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN Goes Beyond the Myth

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:01 AM PDT

The very first moments of Lincoln hearken to Saving Private Ryan, a rain-soaked, dreary butchery where we see brutal and close combat between the fraternal American combatants. As the dust settles, we hear from some of these soldiers as they relay to their commander-in-chief the acts of their battles. We hear President Abraham Lincoln first off screen; as the camera pushes back we see the soldiers over his shoulder, his famed silhouette peaking from behind the tall, stove-pipe hat. The choice of vocalization is the first that many will be surprised by; this is no booming, commanding voice, but a soothing, almost provincial affectation. We then have the famed words from Gettysburg recited back to the president, thus sidestepping the need for some awkward flashback,...

Review: TAI CHI ZERO Respects The Past While Racing To The Future

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Director Stephen Fung delivers a deliriously over the top reimagining of the life of martial artist Yang Luchuan - founder of the Yang school of tai chi - in the first part of his ambitious blockbuster franchise. Tai Chi 0 balances a respect for the golden age of Hong Kong martial arts comedies with an obvious love for comic books, video games and steampunk influences to deliver high octane entertainment. Yuan Xiaochao - a gifted martial artist in real life and gold medal winner at the 2006 Asian Games - plays Yang Luchuan, a young man born a little bit different. A boy with what looks to be a single demon horn sprouting from his forehead. It's not, as it turns out, but it is...

Opening: NOBODY WALKS Exposes Emotional Fault Lines With Flawless Balance

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT

"One of the year's best American films," in the words of our own Christopher Bourne. opens tomorrow in limited release. Mr. Bourne saw Nobody Walks in connection with the BAMcinemaFest in New York earlier this year and wrote the following: Director Ry Russo-Young (You Won't Miss Me) makes a major leap in complexity and penetrating character study with her third feature Nobody Walks, co-written with Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture, Girls), which tells its story from multiple perspectives, and features both beautiful photography and equally beautiful performances. This is my personal favorite out of all of the festival films I was able to preview. It observes and draws us into the intricate entanglements and crises of its many characters without imposing judgment on their often ill-advised...

Second MAMA Trailer Puts Jessica Chastain in the Horror Spotlight

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT

Family can be such a bitch, right? Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain) searched and searched for his young nieces after they mysteriously went missing in the woods when their parents died. Finally the young girls turn up, Lucas and Annabel take them home, and all hell breaks loose. Chastain is front and center in the international trailer for Mama, directed by Andres Muschietti. It features new footage and makes it abundantly clear that raising someone else's children is no easy task, especially not when they're haunted by a ghost who insists on visiting rights. Guillermo Del Toro served as mentor and executive producer. The film is due out in the U.S. on January 18, 2013....

The Twitch Guide To Toronto After Dark 2012! And Aloha From The RESOLUTION Boys!

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

As the organized chaos of another Toronto After Dark Film Festival descends upon the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, we have taken the time to pull together from our massive collective brain and summarize our feelings about a few of the films that we have caught at other festivals around the world. But don't take our word for it. And if you're good, perhaps there will be another video from Aaron and Justin from Resolution at the end.Guest contributor Alex Koehne caught the opening night film, Irish horror comedy Grabbers, earlier this year. He had this to say in his review. "...Jon Wright's Grabbers scratches the horror-comedy sweet spot in a manner seldom seen since 1990's Tremors. Like that film, Grabbers draws its humor far less...
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