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CinemaOne Review: Ato Bautista's PALITAN, Where Souls Have a Price Tag

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CinemaOne Review: Ato Bautista's PALITAN, Where Souls Have a Price Tag

CinemaOne Review: Ato Bautista's PALITAN, Where Souls Have a Price Tag

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 09:30 PM PST

Ato Bautista's Palitan (roughly translated as Exchange) opens with a business transaction. Ramiro (Mon Confiado, who gives a performance that carries the film from start to finish), the shrewd owner of an electronics shop, is convincing a client to buy his surveillance cameras. The client, troubled by his wife's brazen infidelity, wants to build proof of her cheating. Ramiro then coolly suggests another one of his wares, a pistol, declaring that the only way for a jealous husband is to kill the cause of jealousy. Ramiro is a convincing businessman. He has a distinct way with words, delivering them with the primary objective of making a sale and enjoying the profit. His client, given the freedom of choosing the surveillance camera or the gun, is hooked...

Preview: The Complete Pier Paolo Pasolini at MoMA

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 03:30 PM PST

Fiercely political and highly controversial poet/writer/artist/filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini gets a comprehensive citywide retrospective Dec. 13, 2012 - January 5, 2013. Regarded by many as a visionary thinker and major literary figure, Pasolini's legacy extends far beyond his work as a filmmaker. During his short lifetime, he was a public persona through his poetry, fiery newspaper editorials and political activism in post war Italy. Before his sensational murder death in 1975, Pasolini the filmmaker had made 22 films (including 8 shorts) in 14 years. His complete, rare cinematic output will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art. A well-timed Criterion release of Trilogy of Life in November saw Pasolini's three later works, of adaptation - Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights on Blu-ray....

Review: PLAYING FOR KEEPS Continues Gerard Butler's Losing Streak

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 03:01 PM PST

Playing for Keeps is the bargain of the season. No matter what kind of drab, derivative fluff you prefer, this exceptionally toothless comedy has something to offer! Do you like forgettable movies about a charming but mildly irresponsible man who has it all, loses everything, and learns What's Really Important? Do you prefer a Bad News Bears-style story about a raggedy sports team whose fortunes are changed by an unorthodox new leader? Or would you rather see a tacky comedy about suburban soccer moms being overprotective of their precious snowflakes and throwing themselves sexually at the hunky coach? Playing for Keeps is all of these things -- and more! And less. So much more, and so much less. Gerard Butler gives a typical Gerard...

Review: LAY THE FAVORITE Plays it Disappointingly Safe

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 02:30 PM PST

Let me begin with a slight word of defense on behalf of Stephen Frears' Lay the Favorite: The movie isn't as scorn-worthy and unpleasant as most reviews will likely make it sound. It's a perfectly harmless, casually watchable, movie-of-the-week type romp that never really takes enough chances to really risk being actually unpleasant or infuriating. It would probably be an agreeable movie to drift in and out of during a Trans-Atlantic flight. Unfortunately, it is not playing on airplanes, but rather in theaters, and it was directed by the often-great Frears (The Queen, The Hit, The Grifters), who it seems should be able to tease more out of the Las Vegas sports-betting milieu, especially with such a game cast including Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bruce...

Watch It Big. Watch It Loud. Anthony Scott Burns And Tendril Tease The STYLE FRAMES Conference.

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST

If you cast your mind back a little ways you may recall Twitch raving about a scifi experiment titled Epoch, the footage all repurposed by director Anthony Scott Burns from elements he had shot for Paul Van Dyk's album Evolution. The footage was quite simply stunning, so much so that it raised the possibility that in Burns my cold Canadian home may have a fledgling new scifi visionary to call its own. Time will tell if he can tell a story but, good lord, the man can make a pretty picture.And he's at it again.Burns recently teamed up with co-director Chris Bahry and Toronto's Tendril to create a promo spot for the upcoming Style Frames design conference in New York. And while the full spot...

Are You Hungry For An AMERICAN BURGER? Made With 100% Dead Meat.

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

One hundred percent red meat? One hundred percent dead meat. That's the promise made by Bonita Drake and Johan Bromander's upcoming horror comedy American Burger. A busload of American students on a culture trip in Europe stumble upon a mysterious Hamburger stand in the deep European woods. Trapped in this unknown territory, they are about to realize that European notion of American Hamburgers is terrifyingly different from what they're used to...Drake and Bromander state that they hope to do for burgers what Jaws did for sharks and while there is no trailer available yet we do have the opportunity to meat the chef responsible for these grisly treats in the promo below....

Things Look Grim In Dark Border Drama LA VIDA PRECOZ Y BREV DE SABINA RIVAS

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

Though there is much, much more to Mexico than Narco gangs and border issues there's also no denying that those two issues loom large over everyday life in some territories. And director Luis Mandoki looks to be wading right into the thorny topics with his new film La Vida Precoz y Brev de Sabina Rivas.Set along the Mexican border with Guatemala the film follows the travails of a young girl who dreams of crossing into the US to become a singer. It doesn't go well, of course, and Mandoki manages to capture it on screen with grit, style and what looks like a fairly neat balance between intimacy and scope. Check out the very impressive trailer below....

Review: WAITING FOR LIGHTNING Strikes as One of The Best Documentaries Made About Skateboarding

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

There's been a few* flawless documentaries about the skateboard industry. Two are Dogtown and the Z-Boys and Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, which were both made by the guy who perhaps saved skateboarding, Stacy Peralta. In those docs, he focuses on two different teams and how each separately changed the industry forever. That said, there are a lot of lone skateboarders still out there who shaped, shifted, and skewed the industry on their own. One of those fearless renegades is Danny Way, a man who's broken more world records and bones than corrupt politicians have laws and prostitutes. Jacob Rosenberg's Waiting for Lightning, a documentary about Way's rise to skateboard fame, fiercely tells the inspiring and often tragic story about his roots, coming from practically nothing, and...

Review: ZERO DARK THIRTY Pierces a Troubling Search With Riveting Precision

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

Maya flinches when she sees a chained man tortured by waterboarding. He is believed to have close ties to Osama bin Laden. He has been captured and imprisoned in an undisclosed location. He is never getting out. Three thousand Americans were murdered on 9/11, more than a year has passed, and the clock for finding and killing those responsible is ticking very loudly. And Maya's boss needs information now. It is the first day in the field for Maya (Jessica Chastain) after she impressed her superiors in Washington. D.C. with her work as an intelligence analyst. So she flinches, as any human would, and she tries to avert her eyes, yet she cannot look away, and she swallows her disgust when her boss Dan (Jason...

US Poster Debut For Jet Li's THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

Magnet Releasing will soon bring director Ching Siu-Tung's The Sorcerer And The White Snake - starring Jet Li - to US shores with a VOD release on January 3 and theatrical run starting February 8, and while we're told there will be a new US trailer bowing tomorrow Twitch has gotten an early look at the official US artwork.Action director Ching Siu-Tung helms this fantasy film based on an old Chinese legend about an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman. Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who discovers her true identity and battles to save the man's soul.Check the original trailer below....

Review: HYDE PARK ON HUDSON, a Decent, If Forgettable, Period Piece

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 07:15 AM PST

It may be difficult to get past seeing Hyde Park on Hudson as anything more than a cynical play at Oscar success, shadowing last year's The King's Speech with another tale of the stuttering King, this time set on Terra Americana. I think this kneejerk reaction would be unfair - love it or hate it, Hyde Park on Hudson does manage to sink or swim on its own merits, and its contrasts with the other, perfectly acceptable work, are much more varied than simply an Americanization of this type of period film. The story roughly follows the strange relationship between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), his wife Eleanor, and his (distant?) cousin Margaret Stuckley. It seems, if this film is to believed, that FDR...

CinemaOne Review: Arnel Mardoquio's ANG PAGLALAKBAY NG BITUIN SA GABING MADILIM Sums up War Within a Very Human Context

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 06:30 AM PST

Arnel Mardoquio's Ang Paglalakbay ng Bituin sa Gabing Madilim (roughly translated as: A Star's Journey into the Dark Night) is essentially L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had it been set in present-day Mindanao and draped in reality instead of fantasy. Faidal (Irish Karl Monsanto) is suddenly orphaned when his parents, Muslim freedom fighters who end up becoming bandits involved in kidnapping for ransom, are killed, leaving him with a knapsack full of dollars and a band of American and local troops trailing him. He ends up with his aunt Amrayda (Fe Gingging Hyde) and Fatima (Glorypearl Dy), who decide to aid the orphan in his escape. They end up in the house of Baba Indu (Roger Gonzalez), the family patriarch, who joins them...

Jackie Chan Glides Over A Volcano In Latest CHINESE ZODIAC Poster

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 05:45 AM PST

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Jackie Chan!?The promotional train continues to chug away with the latest Chinese Zodiac poster that pits the flying action star against an erupting volcano.This looks like a major stunt sequence for the climax of the film. If the artwork is any indication, it seems Chan will make good on his promise to deliver an awe-inspiring swan song with a bang. It will be released on December 20th in IMAX theaters....
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