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Watch Woo Ming Jin's DOUBLE

Watch Woo Ming Jin's DOUBLE

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 12:30 AM PDT

Though best known as an arthouse director, Malaysia's Woo Ming Jin (The Tiger Factory, Woman On Fire Looks For Water) has been exploring his more commercial urges of late. And by commercial, I mean horror.His shocker Seru hit Malaysian cinemas last year and now Woo is part of the YOMYOMF series of Silent Terror shorts - a collection of four short films from directors around Asia, all unified by the fact that none of the pieces include dialogue. Woo chips in this week with a piece titled Double:A young woman lives in a bright, white house. Like clockwork, she goes through her daily routine. The young woman seems to exist alone in this cavernous and antiseptic environment, until one day, she is visited by another...

Gripping New Trailer For Bigelow's ZERO DARK THIRTY

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT

If there was a fear about Kathryn Bigelow's upcoming Zero Dark Thirty it was that the subject matter would virtually ensure that the film devolve into little more than chest thumping rah-rah. It is, after all, the story of how American forces tracked down and killed Osama Bin Laden. The Republican Party were certainly quick to play the propaganda card, challenging the film almost immediately claiming that the Obama administraition were leaking information to the filmmakers in exchange for a very pro-Obama piece of work in an election year.I can only imagine that most of the people squawking had never seen The Hurt Locker, in which Bigelow presented a remarkably grounded take on a different aspect of this same conflict. And the latest trailer for...

New Hand Drawn Poster For THE LAST STAND

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 11:30 PM PDT

A word for everyone out there who is at all a fan of poster art that is more than just a bunch of photoshopped heads. It's time to say a word of thanks to folks like Mondo, Tom Hodge and the rest who have been driving this current boom in hand drawn art - i.e. posters that actually are art rather than marketing knocked together as cheaply as possible - because they've clearly changed the way the studios are thinking.Most recent case in point: The brand new artwork for the Kim Jee-woon directed, Arnold Schwarzenegger star vehicle The Last Stand. More of this, please, studio PR folk and a whole lot less Photoshop....

Guillermo Del Toro Wants You To Sign Up For PACIFIC RIM! And Also Buy The Comic.

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Hands up everyone who is surprised that a new piece of poster art for Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim turned up at the New York Comic Con. Anyone? Nah, me neither. But predictability doesn't make the new artwork - designed to look like a vintage propaganda recruitment poster - and less cool. Also cool is the word that Del Toro is planning a comic book tie in to the film, which he promises will be more than just a rehash. Yes, please....

Watch The First Teaser For [REC]4: APOCALYPSE

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 10:30 PM PDT

One of the most successful horror franchises in the world will come to a close with the imminent release of Jaume Balaguero's [REC]4: Apocalypse. And audiences at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival got an early taste with a screening of the first teaser for the film at this year's edition of the festival. While compatriot Paco Plaza chose to put a different spin on his [REC] prequel - [REC]3: Genesis - all signs are that Balaguero intends to continue on from where [REC]2 left off, both in terms of story and style. And now that teaser has arrived online. It's essentially just cut together from footage from the earlier films but, to these eyes at least, it's good to know that the [REC] franchise...

BIFF 2012 Review: PLUTO Signals the Arrival of a Brilliant New Talent

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 10:02 PM PDT

Film festivals can be a great place to catch up with big films from established luminaries of world cinema but for the ardent cinephile, the most exciting thing is to make a fresh discovery. With patience and some discerning selecting, you will almost always come away with a few pleasant surprises but, while it is wonderful to stumble upon an accomplished debut or sophomore films from emerging talents in the field, every so often you will see something that gives you a special feeling.It is an unmistakable sense of being part of something new and exciting, in the presence of an artist with raw talent, effortless ability and an intuitive understanding of film. These spine-tingling moments don't happen at every festival but when they do...

Review: HERE COMES THE BOOM Is Less Terrible Than You Thought

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 09:00 PM PDT

The thing about the boom is that it will come whether you're ready for it or not. The boom follows no schedule, obeys no law but the law of the boom. We would be prudent, therefore, to heed such warnings of imminent boom-coming as we are given, including the one contained in this new film, Seven Psychopaths. Er, no, Here Comes the Boom. This is the one where Kevin James plays a schoolteacher who becomes a mixed martial arts fighter to raise money to save the music department, written by James and Allan Loeb (The Dilemma) and directed by frequent Adam Sandler collaborator Frank Coraci. What's surprising is that, despite this description, the movie is NOT a hellish ordeal filled with jokes about fat guys...

BIFF 2012 Review: Lee Dong-ku's FATAL Is a Blistering Debut

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 08:35 PM PDT

Fragile and ephemeral, life is a series of moments, of complicated and random connections that constitute the fabric of our character. Each decision we make affects our path irrevocably: our actions may not always be consequential but they are nonetheless inerasable. Like a thin sheet of glass, our lives can shatter in an instant. The briefest moment can reveal our brittle fragility.Fatal, a New Currents section debut feature from Lee Donku, begins with a life-altering moment for five people. A young woman has been drugged and raped by a gang of high school students, though one of them is an unwilling participant bullied into performing an act that will torment him for the rest of his life. 10 years later, this now 28-year-old man works...

Review: SINISTER Undermines Expectations for Haunted House Thrills

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 08:15 PM PDT

True crime writing never pays. Ellison (Ethan Hawke) had a widely-acclaimed bestseller his first time out, but that was ten years ago. He hasn't been able to replicate that success, though he keeps trying, continually moving his family as close to the scenes of unsolved crimes as he can. He investigates the crimes, makes enemies of local law enforcement, and writes books that are meeting with diminishing returns. His wife Tracy (Juliet Rylance) is supportive, but her patience has its limits, and those limits are coming into sight. Mostly, she's worried about their two children, who have been constantly uprooted; young Ashley (Clare Foley) semms OK, but 12-year-old Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario) is manifesting signs of stress and anxiety. With these character threads established, Scott...

Hey, Australia! Win Tickets To See South Korea's THE THIEVES in Cinema

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:30 PM PDT

Thanks to our friends at Dream Movie Australia, we have FIVE double passes for the latest South Korean blockbuster The Thieves to give away to our Australian readers! Directed by Choi Dong-hoon, The Thieves has broken the box office record previously held by Bong Joon-ho's The Host to become the highest selling South Korean film of all time. It boasts an all-star cast including Gianna Jun, Kim Hae-suk, Kim Yun-seok, Kim Hye-su, Lee Jung-jae, Simon Yam and Oh Dal-su. How to win: It's really simple. All you have to do is email your name and postal address to me at: hugo@twitchfilm.net. The competition will close at midnight on Sunday October 14. The Thieves is distributed in Oz by Dream Movie Australia. The film is scheduled for release in...

WHEN GORDON MET CHELL, An Epic Half Life-Portal Mash Up From The Guy Behind DOOMSDAY ARCADE

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Let's get this straight, I know there's some actor with the same name living out in the Canadian boonies, but the only Michael Shanks you should care about right now is the ambitious creator of all things awesome from Melbourne, Australia. He's the guy who a few months ago unleashed the amazing Day In The Life Of Max Payne upon the internets, which was the latest in a string of incredible (and hilarious) video game-inspired shorts. Other favorites so far have been How I Play Skyrim, Life And Death According To Zelda, and the completely NSFW video, Inappropriate Portal Gun Use #32. Non-game related videos include Shanks' music video for his own band Roadgeek, in which he assumes a Dave Grohl-like role and plays every instrument and sings, as well as...

Review: SMASHED Offers a Sobering Look at a Young Alcoholic

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Young and in love, married couple Kate and Charlie Hannah like to get smashed. Like GG-Allin-meeting-your-Christian-parents smashed, someone is going to vomit and piss themselves at some point in the night. They spend their days in bars getting drunk and nights having unconscious sex. The good life, right? Things change, however, when schoolteacher Kate -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead in a knockout career performance -- throws up in the middle of class from sipping too much whiskey before entering the building one morning. The crack she smoked for the first time while being black-out drunk the night before may have also played a part. When questioned by school authorities, Kate tells them she's pregnant, and now must sober up and figure out how to extricate herself...

Sitges 2012 Counterpoint Review: THE LORDS OF SALEM Turns a Satanic Cult into a Snoozefest

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Goofy. That's the word that kept popping into my head through the entire running time of Rob Zombie's baffling Polanski rip-off, The Lords of Salem. Not weird, not bizarre, not hallucinogenic, and certainly not Lynchian, as some critics (including our own Ryland Aldrich) have labeled the movie, but just inexplicably goofy. It is a movie that completely and (I assume) purposely eschews logic, suspense and even narrative in favor of what some fans will likely describe as "crazy shit." Only, none of the shit is actually very crazy, especially if you've watched a White Zombie music video before, and the only images anyone's likely to remember from the film are the few that actually provoke laughter. I personally liked the faceless man walking his pet...

Twitch in Bondage: Bonded By Blood

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Because the Bond films have been around for so long and have been wildly popular, they become representative of the times in many ways. The films mark the moments and eras in which they were made -- geo-political relations, attitudes towards violence, attitudes about women, trends in music and clothing, and the cultural shifts represented in greater pop culture. To that end, many Bond films can be called "The Something Bond"; like Live And Let Die is the Blaxploitation Bond, Moonraker is the Sci-Fi Bond, The Man With The Golden Gun is the Kung Fu Bond. Even though the Bond films change with the prevailing trends, one thing stays consistent: Bond films are filled with elements of horror. Some are hinted at and some are...

Review: MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Takes Us On A Pleasing Road of Self-Discovery

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) is on a road to nowhere. She just dropped out of med school to work full time in hopes of getting her husband out of jail for being bad once (really nice of her, right?). Things really start to suck even more when she's blindsided regarding news of his behavior while incarcerated. He hasn't been released yet and still has a few years left. So, she does what any levelheaded person would after hearing this -- she starts to live a little; discover herself and what's now good for her. Nothing wrong with letting your hair down every now and again.  Middle of Nowhere is Ruby's life pieced together post husband-going-to-jail and includes memories of the good times that keep her hanging...

Pay A Visit To Nightmare City

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT

Starting tonight in Los Angeles is the Nightmare City Horror Festival: 20 days, 73 events, 6 venues, 61 horror movies, 16 live shows, 6 LA film premieres, 10 artists, and 1 incredible black-light poster exhibit. Presented by The Cinefamily, Elijah Wood's Woodshed Horror Company and Cinespia - film screenings to be held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. From the press release:Nightmare City, at the intersection where horror, fantasy, science fiction and surrealism collide. The Cinefamily, Cinespia and The Woodshed  have combined forces with other L.A. cultural organizations to present an ambitious schedule of events designed to terrorize horror buffs and tantalize non-traditional fans. Film premieres, concerts and live scores, rare 35-mm repertory screenings, magic and stagecraft, comedy and an exclusively curated black-light poster art show - in Nightmare City all...

New DJANGO UNCHAINED Trailer Goes to the Snow

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 07:59 AM PDT

For a movie that aims to exploit a hothouse atmosphere of slavery, the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained looks terribly ... cool, as in temperature, not temperament. Although we've seen images of Jamie Foxx in the snow before, something about this trailer tips the scales toward a more seasonally-appropriate (for the Northern Hemisphere) mood. Maybe it's the sight of an aged Samuel L. Jackson, with plenty of snowy white hair? Maybe it's the interior shots of Leonardo DiCaprio, looking all cozy? Trailers are all about selling atmosphere and mood, and with the film's release pinned to December 25, maybe the marketing folks wanted to make Django Unchained look like it's a fine movie for the kids to go see on Christmas Day. The...
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