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Witness The Coming Of The Agoraphobic Apocalypse In First Trailer For THE LAST DAYS

Witness The Coming Of The Agoraphobic Apocalypse In First Trailer For THE LAST DAYS

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:15 PM PDT

After making a somewhat lackluster feature film debut with 2009's Carriers, hopes are much higher for acclaimed brother act Alex and David Pastor with their second effort, The Last Days, if for no other reason than because they've gotten away from the US system - which is not exactly known to be friendly to international talents - and returned to their native Spain, where they previously directed a string of award winning shorts.The duo have, true to the title, crafted a tale of the end of the world. But what brings things to the brink is not war or disease but rather the sudden onset of mass agoraphobia.2013. A mysterious form of agoraphobia spreads across the planet, leaving the entire popular trapped inside of buildings....

TV Review: DEXTER S7E02, SUNSHINE AND FROSTY SWIRL (Or, Dexter And Deb Do Twelve Step)

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:45 PM PDT

Oh, Dexter. You started off this season so well just to immediately turn around and squander it all. After years of moping around about your Dark Passenger and all that jazz you finally kicked off Season Seven by asserting yourself and owning your true nature. No moping, just "Yes, I am a serial killer." And then ... blergh. We're not only back to being emo, we're more emo than ever before and lord knows the world does not need an Emo Serial Killer.Here's how it goes. Season Seven kicked off with Deb finally realizing what Dexter is and confronting him about it. And Dexter, for his part, actually owned up. It was a strong move, one that set up any number of promising possibilities for...

VIFF 2012 Review: MCDULL, THE PORK OF MUSIC Is A Worthy Continuation Of The Franchise

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT

McDull, a little pig with a big heart, comes from a long line of adorable yet pointed social commentary created by writer Brian Tse and cartoonist Alice Mak over the past 20 years. A little too plump and not too smart by his own admission, McDull has found his place in the limelight with a handful of feature length films and a batch of colorful characters and salty observations. The world, and all its subdued pleasures and inevitable disappointments, is reflected through the misadventures of McDull and his Kindergarten classmates made up of various little animals and an occasional human. This latest installment, McDull: The Pork of Music, highlights Springfield Kindergarten's resilient Headmaster and his love for singing that he attempts to instill in his...

Do You Dare Open THE GATE OF RAGNAROK?

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Thor aside, the lack of Norse mythology on the big screen is something of a mystery. It's a rich tradition, filled with charismatic characters and larger than life adventure. It's prime material for cinema, basically, and yet very little of it has ever been used as the basis for films. But that may change soon.Scheduled for an August 2013 release, Mikkel Brænne Sandemose's The Gate Of Ragnarok (Gåten Ragnarokk) promises a Goonies style kid oriented adventure film steeped in the traditions of the Norse gods.At the outset of the film, we are transferred back to the year 833 A.D., where we meet a group of Vikings in the process of leaving their village. They are leaving their livestock tethered by a tiny lake. More than...

BIFF 2012 Review - Sex, Sex and More Sex in Park Chul-soo's B·E·D

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

A small and sensual chamber piece, Park Chul-soo's new feature B·E·D (his 27th) brings to mind Green Chair (2005), his most significant work of the last decade. However, whereas that erotic film was a fascinating study of an unconventional relationship, Park's new film can't seem to move beyond its bedroom antics. Granted, as intimated by the title, a bed is the chief component of the film: It is the principal location and also serves as a heavy metaphor for a man's lifelong obsession with sex, and, by extension, all men's carnal fixation.Based on a short story by Kwon Ji-ye of the same name, B·E·D features a man, presented to us as 'B', whose life 'begins on the bed and ends on the bed'. He has an affair with married woman 'E'...

Watch The First Trailer For Michael Paul Stephenson's THE AMERICAN SCREAM

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Director Michael Paul Stephenson won himself a loyal cult with his Best Worst Movie and he returns to screens this month with his latest documentary effort The American Scream. An award winner when it screened at Fantastic Fest, here's how the festival describes it: Chances are you've come across one in your lifetime. Your neighbor may be one. Your co-worker may be one. There could even be one in your family. Sometimes they operate alone and sometimes they involve their loved ones. The moment they wait for is over in what seems like the blink of an eye but there can be months of planning, designing and building leading up to a night of terror. These people are home haunters. The idyllic East Coast town...

A Man. A Horse. A Promo For HELLFJORD.

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Fantastic Fest got an early treat of upcoming Norwegian cult television series Hellfjord, with the entire series screening at the Texas festival prior to the October 9th debut in Norway. And the response? Oh, yes, it was rather good. Which is to be expected given that the bizarre comedy comes from the creative team behind Dead Snow with the hands on supervision of Rovdyr and You Said What director Patrik Syversen with talents such as the director of Cold Prey, Roar Uthaug, chipping in on an episode to episode basis. The goal was something akin to Twin Peaks meets Hot Fuzz and they very much get there.Hellfjord is the story of the urban police officer Salmander - second generation Pakistani immigrant - who after somewhat...

Blu-ray Review: HERE WE GO 'ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:01 PM PDT

It's been a long time since I've taken on the BFI's fantastic Flipside series, which sadly seems to have come to an end. This time around we've got yet another Swinging Sixties sex comedy from jolly ol' England, though, if I'm to be honest, it's far from my favorite of the series. Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush is probably as famous today for its theme song by quintessential psychedelic band Traffic as it is for its goofy adventures of a thunderstruck virgin in the age of sexual exploration. Unfortunately, the film never manages to deliver the kind of Benny Hill-esque mania it is reaching for and ultimately falls a bit flat. Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a seventeen year-old grocery delivery man in...

Win One of Two Copies of TOUCH: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON on DVD

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Kiefer Sutherland's television followup to 24, Touch, is out this week on DVD from Twentieth Century Fox. The show sees Sutherland trade in his 9MM and questionable execution of due process for a cute kid with the power to anticipate future events through a numerical code. And we've got two copies to give away to our luck readers. From the studio: Martin Bohm is a widower and single father who is haunted by an inability to connect to his emotionally challenged 11-year-old son Jake. But when Martin discovers that Jake can predict events before they happen, everything changes. Two of our luck readers will win the first season of this numerology-obsessed series simply by following @Twitchfilm on Twitter and retweeting the link to this contest...

Grimmfest 2012, Day 3: Step Inside THE WRONG HOUSE

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Day three of Grimmfest 2012 and the crowds were still turning up in force, even with a full 12 hours of screenings to get through. Saying Wake Up And Die is "Groundhog Day with murder" might be a smartass synopsis if you were pitching the movie, but it isn't exactly wrong; a woman (Andrea Montenegro) wakes up in a stranger's apartment after a night of passion, only he quickly moves from aggressively amorous to strangling her in cold blood. Then she comes to in exactly the same situation, where her terror and confusion prompt him to kill her again. And again. And again. So what the hell is going on, and how can the poor woman break free from the loop? Frustratingly, director Miguel...

Sarah Snook, Sam Reid Bless THE SECOND COMING

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:30 AM PDT

One of the most intriguing rising talents in Australia, the ever-luminous Sarah Snook, has been announced as the co-lead alongside Sam Reid in the upcoming adaptation of Andrew Masterson's novel The Second Coming. Much-cited as one of David Fincher's final choices for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Snook has been quietly building up an array of impressive performances since her breakout role in Sisters of War. She was easily the best thing about the ill-conceived (heh) promiscuous procreation comedy Not Suitable For Children, and last week was also announced as part of the key cast for apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours. Sam Reid's been quietly amassing his own string of impressive roles. He scored a role in HBO's mini-series Hatfields & McCoys, was in horror-comedy Redd Inc., and has an upcoming...

Twitch in Bondage: Licensed to Drive

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT

The James Bond films are nothing if not prone to expectations and formulas. Going into the cinema you expect to be thrilled, to see some spectacular action, some beautiful women, a halfway interesting villain, some funny gadgets, a cool car, and that's just for starters. The gadgets made a hesitant and plausible entry in From Russia With Love, giving Bond a small yet impressively tricked-out suitcase. But in the next film the scriptwriters gave him a tricked-out car which included some downright impossible options. It started a tradition: Bond and his opponents often needed a set of wheels which was up to their needs. It didn't always take the center-stage as much as the Aston Martin did in Goldfinger, and sometimes it paid to deliberately...

Hey, Twitch! Get Social!

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Hey, Twitch readers! As I'm sure you're all amply aware, social media is a huge factor in spreading the word on your favorite sites and stories and so we wanted to point out a couple changes we've made recently. At the top and bottom of every article you'll find direct links to share that article on Facebook or tweet on Twitter - as has been the case for ages now - but we've now also added links for you to submit links to both Reddit and the recently relaunched Digg. All four of these options have the potential to make a really big impact for us here so if you're a user of any of them and you see something you like, please take a...

TV Review: BOARDWALK EMPIRE S3E4, BLUE BELL BOY (Or, Nucky's Got Anger Issues And Mickey's Digging His Own Grave)

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:03 AM PDT

It's not exactly news at this point but it is becoming increasingly clear that the Nucky Thompson of this latest season of Boardwalk Empire is a world apart from the Nucky Thompson of seasons one and two. The one-two punch of being betrayed by both his own wife and his one time protege Jimmy Darmody - who he executed by his own hand - has left Thompson permanently changed. The one-time merry crook - in love with his image as a gentleman man about town - has been replaced by a man isolated and alone, insecure in his solitude, and increasingly ruling by fear. Woe to anyone who gives Nucky reason to mistrust him. And, by the end of this episode, that clearly seems to...

Blu-ray Review: Taking a Look At the BOND 50 Special Features, Pt. 1

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT

With the recent release of the Bond 50 Blu-ray collection, it was a little tough providing a comprehensive review of the entire 22-disc set. With that in mind, Jason Gorber and I have decided to break up the collection, with me covering the special features over two articles (expect the second installment next week), while Jason handles the particulars of the video and audio presentation. The entire set comes in a sleek slipcase, with the 22-disc collection spread out in a series of sturdy pages in the book-style packaging across two volumes. Flipping through, you've got two discs on the right black matte page next to its respective Bond girl and year of release. On the left, stills from each film. MGM/Fox apparently wanted to...

Sitges 2012 Dispatch: MANIAC Crowds, STITCHES and SLICE AND DICE: THE SLASHER FILM FOREVER

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:20 AM PDT

My second day at Sitges was the day of the slasher movie. Besides watching the Irish comedy/slasher, Stitches, and a blood-soaked documentary on the evolution of the genre, I once again contemplated the Maniac remake, which I found inspired and well-made, but also kinda repulsive. Apparently the audience at the festival screening wasn't quite so phased -- word from the screening was that every single torturous, fetishistic scalping was met with whoops and cheers. I talked to numerous audience members who were dispirited and sometimes angry about the reaction, and I can empathize. Regardless of whether you think the images in the film are defensible, the idea of actually cheering for them is only a step or two removed from cheering for a rape scene....

Masters of Cinema Announces Jan/Feb 2013 Slate: Kubrick! Fellini! Guitry! & More

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:30 AM PDT

It is always an exciting day when Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series unveils a new block of titles soon to be entering its pantheon of cinematic excellence. And today is just such a day. Only a few minutes ago, the MoC twitter feed announced its slate of January and February 2013 releases, and it more than holds up to the label's recent run of incredible home video titles, which has included Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity and will soon see the release of Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc.January will see the release of Stanley Kubrick's much sought-after debut feature, Fear And Desire on both DVD and Blu-ray, in a newly restored print by the Library of...
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