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The Future Is Teased In Our First Look At Indie Sci-Fi 2088

The Future Is Teased In Our First Look At Indie Sci-Fi 2088

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST

Over on the site for his company SMI-Entertainment Steven Ilous' Sci-fi feature film is proposed as thus : The challenge: To produce, direct and write a transmedia sci-fi/drama property that will entice audiences from all around the world, allowing people to experience this story through multi-platform touch points.Say now, that sounds like something. Just as cool is the teaser trailer. And while all you can do is watch this time out, what a minute it is! Mood is established readily; we get a solid look at the future world design from cars to bots, to the cityscape. All in all a very strong package, a near perfect little visual enticement. Enough to ask Mr. Ilous to hurry it up and please finish the film!   ...

Interview: Rick Alverson and Tim Heidecker Get Serious About THE COMEDY

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Rick Alverson's not-comedy, The Comedy, is currently one of my favorite films of the year. It haunts me. It is, and I quote myself, "hilarious, transgressive, brilliant, and most people will find it unwatchable." But that doesn't mean you shouldn't give it a shot.For the unaware, it is a character study about an aging hipster douche named Swanson, played with unnerving commitment by comedian Tim Heidecker. I am a fan of Heidecker's work, and let me assure you-- The Comedy is some of his best. So I made a quick foray to the reRun theater in Brooklyn to meet the man and his director for a chat. I'm led up a dark stairwell with the other writers, like cattle. The killing floor is an open...

Review: DEXTER S7E08, ARGENTINA (Or, A Clumsy Start Somehow Yields A Strong Finish)

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:30 PM PST

Here's a fundamental truth about Dexter, something that has very much been the case right from the beginning. It's a show that often struggles to get things right, swinging through peaks and valleys from episode to episode and season to season as it struggles to get and maintain the right blend of character, action, and drama. Some seasons have been saddled with dodgy actors. Some have been hampered by poor writing. It has a tendency to veer into bad telenovela territory from time to time. And yet, when it gets things right it really gets things right. And every single one of those tendencies was on display in Argentina, an episode that started off in incredibly hackneyed and clumsy fashion before resolving itself in a...

Review: BOARDWALK EMPIRE S3E10, A MAN A PLAN (Or, My Head Hurts Just Thinking About It)

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 01:35 PM PST

It begins with whiskey, it ends with whiskey, and in between the Jeremy Podeswa directed A Man, A Plan neatly balances strong character work with extreme head trauma. In other words it's all you could hope for from an episode of Boardwalk Empire. A Man, A Plan stands as one of the season's strongest episodes not only for the way it cinches tight so many seemingly disparate threads into a compelling and convincing tapestry of violence but for the way it manages to explore a simple theme within each of the lines contributing to the overall picture: Namely who, if anyone, is actually trustworthy in this whole sordid world. It's a short list.Gaston Means sits neatly on top of the list of people who cannot...

Morbido 2012: Saturday Nights Alright For Festing!

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST

So the festival staff were right. Saturday night ended this morning around six with very careful, alcohol induced steps through the courtyard of my hotel. There are a lot of steps in Patzcuaro. I am not talking about "Holy Shit. You mean I have to climb up that to get there?" steps. I mean just random single and double steps wherever you go. I think the idea behind it is to highlight the incredible tile work there is in the architecture and infrastructure in this city. It is beautiful to look at but I have to be mindful everywhere I go. I have stumbled more than once, much to the amusement of the little chicos running around town. Saturday's screenings were undeniably better than...

5 Hitchcock Films You Should Watch Instead Of Watching HITCHCOCK

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 11:30 AM PST

Coming to theatres this week is Hitchcock, a truly misguided film ostensibly about the making of Psycho and the relationship between Hitch and his wife Alma. When it debuted at AFI Fest recently, our own Ryland Aldrich had a positive first impression, feeling that director Sascha Gervasi "delivered an expertly crafted film that avoids the trappings of melodrama to tell an interesting and actually quite fun story about a historical figure of enormous weight." Personally, I found it to be quite abhorrent. Forgetting the many liberties it takes with the making of that seminal film and the actual biographical events that fueled its creation, Hitchcock's cloying, tongue-in-cheek tone, mixed with a gimmick that suggests the great director was mentally ill, are most aggravating. In short,...

Review: HABIBI Is An Earnest If Familiar Love Story

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST

Susan Youssef's first feature Habibi is an earnest if not entirely impressive tale of forbidden love set in Israeli-occupied Palestine. While the film does stir and touch at appropriate moments, the threads of a tried-and-true narrative ultimately fail to come together into something noteworthy. Layla (Abd Elhadi) and Qays (Kais Nashif) are lovers who, at the opening of the film, have had their student visas revoked, and are thus forced to return to their respective families. Layla, an engineering student, comes from a somewhat well-off family that is attempting to arrange her marriage to a very wealthy doctor. Qays, a gloomy writer and poet, comes from a working-class home and works in construction. As the film progresses, Qays' lovesickness prompts him to steal away to...

Scream Factory Announces Super Six Horror Blus For 2013! DAY OF THE DEAD, LIFEFORCE, THE BURNING, THE FOG, THE HOWLING, & NIGHT OF THE COMET!

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST

Just when you thought Scream Factory couldn't get any cooler, they used the Horrorhound Weekend in Indianapolis to announce six of their biggest acquisitions yet!  Only one of these releases has had a Blu-ray release so far, and the rest are more than deserving of the honor. The Fog is one of Carpenter's underrated best, The Burning features the slasher debut of George Costanza, The Howling is probably the second best modern werewolf film out there, Lifeforce is Tobe Hooper's ode to space vampires and Mathilda May's boobs, Night of the Comet is one of the '80s finest horror-comedies, and I guess there's always more to say about George Romero's Day of the Dead.Scream Factory adds these releases to the already stellar line-up they've been...

Spying on the Set of Nacho Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 09:00 AM PST

A series of emails took me through the maze of streets in a central neighbourhood of Madrid. Upon arrival, I was led by producer Nahikari Ipiña into the location shoot of Nacho Vigalondo's new thriller Open Windows. Starring Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey and Neil Maskell, this is Vigalondo's third feature film and first in English. Vigalondo has made a reputation with his time-travel film Timecrimes, and sci-fi comedy Extraterrestrial. His unique approach to dissemination of information in contemporary society make his films metatexts on technology and its effect on human interaction. Details of the film are being kept pretty quiet, so I won't be revealing much on the plot. Suffice to say that in continuing with Vigalondo's singular vision, the film is seen entirely on...

Blu-ray Review: BASKET CASE: THE TRILOGY Is The Only Way To Go! (Second Sight Films)

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST

Frank Henenlotter is a filmmaker and film lover who holds a very special place in my heart. His tireless dedication to the preservation of sleaze and exploitation history is nearly unparalleled, as a filmmaker, his work is instantly recognizable for its gleeful rejection of good taste and its take no prisoners attitude. Like the iconoclastic John Waters, Henenlotter's career has been a series of ups and downs, not necessarily in terms of quality, but certainly in terms of the problems that have plagued both auteurs in finding funding for their work. Thankfully, both men have careers that don't necessarily depend on that kind of income, but it makes me sad that they have such a hard time getting money to get projects off the ground....

GAME OF THRONES Series Three Teased

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 07:30 AM PST

March seems very far away right now thanks to HBO announcing that Game Of Thrones returns to the small screen March 31st. And to make the wait seem all that much longer they have released a brief teaser for the season, one that includes no footage but a bit of ominous dialogue. Big things were afoot last season and - speaking as someone who is still refusing to read the books so that I can experience the show totally fresh - I can't wait to see how things shape up ......

Review: BACK TO 1942 Epically Documents an Important Chapter in Modern History

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

Feng Xiaogang is perhaps China's most clever commercial film director. Reportedly having never directed a film that failed to make a handsome profit, he has had a string of huge local box office hits in recent years, including 2007's Assembly, 2008's If You Are The One and 2010's Aftershock. In fact, Aftershock became China's all-time highest grossing film upon its release; a record it held until the release of Jiang Wen's Let the Bullet Fly. Now with his new film Back to 1942, Feng looks set to reclaim that title. Back to 1942 is based on a novel by Liu Zhenyun, also credited as the film's screenwriter, and tells the true story of the devastating Henan Province famine that claimed over three million lives in 1942, a time when China was in the middle of...

BONDI HIPSTERS Introduce Us To Adrian's Mum, Explains A Lot

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 04:30 AM PST

Hands down one of the best webseries on the internet is Bondi Hipsters, which chronicles the life and adventures of Dom Nader and Adrian Archer, two Sydney taste ambassadors who are so freakin' underground that not even that ghost brother in Two Hands would be able to find them.With their national tour with the Parklife festival now over, the Hipsters are now showing us another part of their lives - namely their families. First in front of the camera is Adrian's mum, who seems to have a pretty interesting approach to parenting. It actually explains a lot about Adrian.Watch below....
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