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Scoot McNairy Joins R-Patz And Guy Pearce In THE ROVER

Scoot McNairy Joins R-Patz And Guy Pearce In THE ROVER

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 08:30 PM PST

Like his fellow deadbeat Ben Mendelsohn in Killing Them Softly, Scoot McNairy is on the rise in a fast yet intriguing way. He's recently appeared in Argo, filmed the new Gus Van Sant movie Promised Lands, and has a role in the next from Steve McQueen.Now comes news that David Michôd has cast Scoot in The Rover, the director's anticipated follow up to Animal Kingdom. The movie, described as an existentialist western set in the future, also features Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce in key roles.The Rover starts shooting in Australia in January....

Review: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 Brings This Nutty Story to an Energetic Close

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 03:30 PM PST

Even those of us who hadn't read the book could tell by watching The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1, with its many scenes of inactivity and waiting around, that the story didn't need to be split into two films. Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 confirms that suspicion -- there's a lot of wheel-spinning here, too -- but it also delivers a climactic action sequence that's genuinely entertaining in its over-the-top nuttiness. (Perhaps tellingly: it's not in the book.) Shot back-to-back with Part 1 by the same creative personnel (director Bill Condon, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg), Part 2 brings the timeless Twilight saga to a close in a way that fits the rest of the series: sometimes eye-rollingly sappy and inherently silly, yet fully...

Amazonas Film Fest 2012: Awards Wrap Up, Wild Jungle Style

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 02:00 PM PST

The 9th Annual Amazonas Film Festival wrapped up in style last weekend with an explosion of color and music in Brazil's Amazon capital of Manaus. Teams of dancers flooded the stage of the historic Teatro Amazonas as pounding drums and blazing synthesizers took turns battling for big time bragging rights based on their horned ox avatars. Don't ask me to explain the symbolism between the ox dance battle, but rest assured, it was just the kind of wild pageantry that someone would come to expect after an awesome week of films and fun in the Amazon. Twitch had the pleasure of attending the 9th Annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil this past week. What follows are some photos (click for larger) and thoughts...

Watch Compelling SciFi Drama IN THE PINES

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST

Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell's short film In The Pines is a compelling, unusual piece of science fiction. So unusual, in fact, that there is significant room to debate whether it should even be considered science fiction at all, which is entirely the point. A huge favorite on the festival circuit In The Pines is now available in its entirety online, which means now is the time that I show it to you rather than talking about it. Check it out below....

A True Icon, Sugawara Bunta Calls It A Career

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 12:00 PM PST

Fifty six years and a whopping one hundred fifty nine roles since he made his debut, the iconic Sugawara Bunta has announced his retirement. Sugawara first appeared on screen in 1956 and will be best remembered by many fans for his role in Fukasaku Kinji's iconic yakuza series Battles Without Honor And Humanity, though in more recent years he also did a good deal of voice work in high profile animated features such as Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited Away and Hosoda Mamoru's The Wolf Children Ame And Yuki.What roles will you remember this icon the most for?...

Weinberg Reviews FUNERAL KINGS, a Funny, Foulmouthed, Yet Humane Tale

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 11:30 AM PST

Three 14-year-olds cause all sorts of trouble in and around their Catholic middle school. Sounds pretty familiar, perhaps, a bit obvious, and possibly even downright dull. I mean, who still makes movies about troublemaking teenagers these days? First-time fraternal-twin filmmakers Kevin and Matthew McManus just made one, and it's sort of great. Sure, it's laden with vulgar talk for some easy laughs, but that's about where the simple stuff ends. At its best moments, Funeral Kings is a mixture of Stand By Me, Superbad, the deservedly obscure Heaven Help Us, and a particularly perceptive, enjoyably gritty independent comedy that knows what it's talking about. The town is unnamed and the era is unspecified, but our three central characters are the baby-faced Charlie (Alex Maizus), the...

Magnolia Takes North American Rights For Tobias Lindholm's A HIJACKING

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST

Denmark's Tobias Lindholm has quickly established himself as one of the brightest young talents in Europe and North American audiences will be able to get a taste for themselves soon with word that Magnolia have acquired North American rights for A Hijacking with a 2013 release planned. Here's how I described the film in my review from the Toronto International Film Festival:The crew of the freighter MV Rozen are in trouble. En route to Mumbai to take on cargo and fresh crew the cargo vessel has been boarded by Somali pirates, seized by a dangerous and unpredictable armed gang who demand millions from the Rozen's owners to secure the safe release of ship and crew. The process will stretch over months, the lives of the...

Counterpoint Review: ANNA KARENINA is A Brilliant Adaptation by One of Cinema's Finest

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST

Is the latest film from Joe Wright a case of "style over substance?" Our own Jason Gorber certainly felt that way when he saw Anna Karenina at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. As he noted in his review, Mr. Gorber has not seen Joe Wright's previous work, is not a fan of Tolstoy and finds Keira Knightley's physical appearance to be "repellent." While he acknowledged the film's impressive "visual twists and theatrical nods," he concluded: "Call me jaded, but the comings and goings all feel more than a little bit telegraphed to a modern audience. Without narrative surprise, we're left with more style than substance here." While I have myself fallen victim in the past to the dreaded festival burnout, allow me...

Fujiwara Tatsuya Turns Child Killer In Miike Takashi's SHIELD OF STRAW. Watch A Teaser And Clip Now!

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 09:00 AM PST

Japanese actor Fujiwara Tatsuya will likely never fully shake his public image as the teary eyed and overly earnest lead of Fukasaku Kinji's Battle Royale but he's certainly giving it the old college try with his recent decisions. Fresh off of playing an enigmatic cult leader in Toyoda Toshiaki's I'm Flash, Fujiwara returns to the big screen playing a confessed child killer in Miike Takashi's Shield Of Straw.Based on a novel by Kuichi Kazuhiro, the plot is devilishly simple. Fujiwara has been captured and confessed and now must be taken across the country to stand trial, escorted by a pair of police officers played by popular television actors Osawa Takao and Matsushima Nanako. The problem is that his young victim's grandfather is very, very wealthy...

Review: PRICE CHECK With Parker Posey Is A Snoozy of a Movie

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST

You can usually count on Parker Posey. Her untiring comedy and witty improv helped her gain notoriety in the 90s, starring (at a young age) alongside older generation comedic vets in Christopher Guest films. This Party Girl was hailed as the original queen of independent cinema. She's one of the rarities in Hollywood who could have easily shot to superstardom with her credentials, but chose instead to take chances on independent films. That said, it's a real shame to watch her talents dry up in the easily forgettable Price Check. Eric Mabius (the guy you only remember from Resident Evil) stars as Peter Cozy, an underpaid, overworked pushover employee at a down-on-its-luck grocery store chain. His old boss recently quit, and Peter was passed up...

Interview: Traci Lords Dissects The Challenges Of EXCISION

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 07:45 AM PST

After a successful festival run and a US release on home video Richard Bates Jr's Excision hit Blu-ray and DVD in the UK, giving us the opportunity to talk about the film with star Traci Lords. Here's what she has to say about this striking American indie.Twitch: Where do you place Excision in your body of work, what attracted you to this particular screenplay?Traci Lords: My agent sent me the script and the short Excision is based on. I was impressed with director Richard Bates Jr. vision. The role of Phyllis was one I had not played before. The emotional journey of this mother was exciting to me. What did you bring to the character of 'Phyllis' that wasn't in the script? How was working...

Stunning Restored Trailer Teases Ozu's FLOATING WEEDS Blu-ray

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 06:16 AM PST

If anyone out there needed further convincing to pick up Masters of Cinema's upcoming release of Ozu Yasujiro's Floating Weeds, then this gorgeous new trailer should seal the deal. Hitting shelves in the UK on 3 December, in a dual format Blu-ray/DVD edition, the release marks the first time anywhere in the world that Ozu's 1959 remake of his own Ukigusa Monogatari has been released on Blu-ray. If this newly scrubbed up trailer for the film is anything to go by - and it is - then MoC's exclusively restored new master is dazzling, making this far and away the best possible way to enjoy one of Ozu's most highly-praised later masterpieces.Towards the end of his career, Japanese master Yasujirō Ozu (Tokyo Story; Late Spring;...

HKAFF Review: CAUGHT IN THE WEB Chooses Love Over China's Netizens

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 05:43 AM PST

After the critical and commercial success of his excellent period thriller, Sacrifice, in 2010, which marked a perceived comeback for the Farewell My Concubine director, Chen Kaige turns his attention once again to the lives of modern Chinese citizens and examines how shifts in national culture affect the individual. In Caught in the Web, it is the media, and more specifically China's savage netizen culture, that is placed under the microscope. The film focuses on two ambitious young women struggling to get ahead in Beijing's ultra modern, ultra competitive business world, and how the anonymous unforgiving masses of the online community threaten to destroy both their lives.Attractive, successful and good-natured, executive secretary Ye Lanqiu (Gao Yuanyuan) discovers at a routine medical checkup that she has late...
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