Trailer Park Movie HOUSOS VS AUTHORITY Gets A Trailer

Trailer Park Movie HOUSOS VS AUTHORITY Gets A Trailer


Trailer Park Movie HOUSOS VS AUTHORITY Gets A Trailer

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 05:30 PM PDT

While it would be generous to call Paul Fenech the Rob Schneider of Australia, the writer-direct-actor has definitely invented his own crazy brand of broad puerile humour to which a certain section of the population adores and keeps turning up in droves to see. Fenech's career started out brilliantly, when he won the top prize at major short film competition Tropfest, by submitting a film under the pseudonym 'Laura Feinstein' in order to appeal to the sensitivities of the judges, particularly Tropfest founder John Polson, who hoped that a female director would win the award. From there came the TV comedy series Pizza, then the spin-off movie Fat Pizza, followed by another TV show Swift and Shift Couriers, and then a third show Housos - a nickname for the...

TTTT: After the Boys of Summer Have Gone

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 04:01 PM PDT

A Look Back at the Summer Movie Season Back in 1984, a wayward Eagle and a Heartbreaker got together to create one of the most enduring and infectious tunes of that era, "The Boys of Summer." Don Henley (formerly of The Eagles) and Mike Campbell, guitarist extraordinaire (and so much more) for Tom Petty's band gave us a song that, although genuinely catchy and up-tempo, bears a very tangible darker quality, a reflection on a better time, and the realization that it wasn't what it maybe should've been, or could've been. Such is the story of the 2012 summer movie season. Since at least the mid-1980s (right around the time when Don Henley's tune hit the charts), Hollywood has converged on the summer months as a...

Jess Franco On Blu-ray: FEMALE VAMPIRE / EROTIKILL

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Jess Franco on Blu-ray.Four words I never thought I'd type, but here we are. While this is obviously proof that the Mayans' Doomsday calendar is right, I suppose it's only just that we enjoy the spoils of the apocalypse while they are ripe. Redemption Films deal with Kino has produced a great number of gems ripe for rediscovery, films that would never have made it to HD without the clout of a venerable company like Kino behind them. The question now becomes, is it really worth it?Jess Franco has made somewhere in the neighborhood of two hundred films in his life. By the law of averages, at least a few are bound to be pretty decent, though people who've seen any substantial percentage of Franco's...

Win One Of a Pair of THE RAVEN DVD Prize Packs

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

In an appropriately grim memorial, Twentieth Century Fox is commemorating the 163rd year of writer Edgar Allan Poe's death (October 7th, 1849) with the release of the John Cusack-starring thriller The Raven this Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States. The official synopsis from that film, which sees the man who invented the detective story, turn detective: Baltimore, 1849. While investigating a horrific double murder, police detective Emmett Fields (Evans) makes a startling discovery: the killer's methods mirror the twisted writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack). Suspecting Poe at first, Fields ultimately enlists his help to stop future attacks. But in this deadly game of cat and mouse, the stakes are raised with each gruesome slaying as the pair races to catch a...

Ridley Scott Links PROMETHEUS To BLADE RUNNER

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 01:47 PM PDT

And now Ridley Scott's Prometheus is not just a quasi-prequel to Alien but also a quasi-sequel to Blade Runner. Or, at the very least, the director has made it clear that both films take place in the same universe while establishing a direct link between key players.Allow me to explain.Human replacement technology factors large into both franchises - androids in Alien, replicants in Blade Runner - and now an Easter Egg included in the UK steelbook release of Prometheus has made it clear that not only were these two rival systems developed in the same world but that their respective creators - Peter Weyland in Alien, Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner - were not only alive and working in the same world but that the...

VIFF 2012 Interview: Rob Stewart on REVOLUTION and his Plan to Save Humans From Extinction

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

With his last feature, 2007's Sharkwater, marine biologist Rob Stewart managed to help save the world, one shark fin at a time. He is now back with a new documentary, Revolution, aimed at saving a different species - humans. Revolution takes a step back from a single issue and focuses instead on the greater environmental crisis that binds the fate of every living creature on Earth together. The "revolutionary" thesis Stewart puts forward involves the need for humans to think beyond our current understanding of capitalism, the disastrous implications of links between governments and corporate entities and ultimately suggests an economic growth fueled less by expansion and more by the kind of innovation required to ensure the survival of the species. Sharks are a resilient...

Sitges 2012 Review: BLOOD-C THE LAST DARK Brings Mixed Closure To The Franchise

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

The Blood-C saga is the latest entry in the long running Blood: The Last Vampire franchise, which has spanned different media such as novels, manga, TV series and films. Produced in collaboration by Production I.G and famous manga creators CLAMP, Blood-C puts a new spin on the story of Saya, the young katana wielding schoolgirl in her fight against the forces of darkness. Blood-C: The Last Dark is the film that serves as closure to the 2011 anime series. I have to say that I haven't seen the series, so I watched the film without previous knowledge of the Blood-C universe.In a near-future Tokyo, the government has enacted the Youth Protection Ordinance, a law the imposes a curfew for the minors to be out at...

Sitges 2012 Review: THE VAMPIRE SPIDER Sneaks Up, Then Attacks!

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

The first thing that should be known going into The Vampire Spider (La AraƱa Vampiro) is that, despite the title and the fact that it just premiered at a genre film festival, it is not a wild B-movie about a giant, immortal blood-sucking arachnid. While I still think someone should consider making that movie, this Argentinean film is instead, something much more haunting, ambiguous, and even frustrating at times, but which ultimately packs quite a wallop, both emotionally and viscerally. The film concerns a teenager who goes to a cabin deep in the woods with his father. Very little is revealed about their relationship or the purpose of the trip, other than the fact that the boy suffers from some sort of extreme anxiety or...

BIFF 2012 Review - E J-yong Out in Front for BEHIND THE CAMERA

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 09:55 AM PDT

E J-yong's new feature Behind the Camera is a follow-up to his popular mockumentary Actresses (2009), which featured famous stars playing themselves as they took part in a Vogue shoot. That film poked fun at Korea's entertainment industry and its willing participants were not scared to send themselves up on screen. Many of the same stars return here and are joined by numerous others, but this time E takes his game one step further as he includes himself as the main protagonist.The conceit is simple: E J-yong is making a short film but there's a catch, he's directing it from Los Angeles via Skype. Things get more complicated as the film he is shooting concerns a filmmaker directing a film from overseas via skype.There's really...

Cast Is King In DEVIL'S DUST Trailer

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

How do you make a true life story about litigation against a big cement manufacturer appealing to general audiences? You cast the hell out of it. This is exactly what the makers of Devil's Dust, the story of the James Hardie asbestos scandal and court case have done, and the results look superb. Anthony Hayes (The Square) leads the cast as Bernie Banton, the campaigner who became the public face of the political and legal campaign to achieve compensation for the sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted after working for the company James Hardie. Other lead cast include Dony Hany (Rake, Lucky Miles), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, These Final Hours), Ewen Leslie (Mabo, Dead Europe), Mirrah Foulkes (Animal Kingdom), Henry Nixon (Noise), David Roberts (The Square), Alexandra Schepisi (The Eye of the Storm) and the always-great character actor Alan...
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