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Now on Blu-ray: TELL NO ONE Remains an Absolutely Compelling Mystery-Thriller

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Now on Blu-ray: TELL NO ONE Remains an Absolutely Compelling Mystery-Thriller

Now on Blu-ray: TELL NO ONE Remains an Absolutely Compelling Mystery-Thriller

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

An art house sensation when it received a belated theatrical release in the U.S in 2008, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One (original title: Ne le dis à personne) has lost none of its power on home video. If anything, the Region A Blu-ray edition, released today by Music Box Films, reinforces and strengthens my very positive reaction to the adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel. To quote extensively from my July 2008 review: "Run for your life!" is still the most exciting sentence in the English language, isn't it? Senses start working overtime, adrenaline pumps freely, fingertips tingle. While that sentence is never uttered in Tell No One, the idea is the film's secret weapon, ready to be unleashed at a moment's notice. The story has...

Level Up With First VIRTUALLY HEROES Stills

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 03:30 PM PST

Director GJ Echternkamp promises to make the Sundance Park City At Midnight lineup a little bit goofy with his Roger Corman produced feature Virtually Heroes. Robert Baker, Brent Chase and Luke Skywalker himself - Mark Hamill - star in the video game themed comedy.Two self-aware characters in a Call of Duty-style video game struggle with their screwy, frustrating existence. To find answers, one abandons his partner and mission, seeking to unravel the cheat codes of life.A handful of images have been released from the film and they promise a good dose of geeky fun. Check them in the gallery below....

First Official Shot From Jim Mickle's WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 03:00 PM PST

Twitch's love for Jorge Michel Grau's Somos Lo Que Hay is well documented and so you would think that any adaptation of the Mexican cannibal film to US soil would be met with a bit of trepidation. And you'd be right. Or, you would have been right but for the fact that the task of handling said adaptation fell to Stake Land director Jim Mickle and his writing partner Nick Damici. And if there's an American indie horror film from the last few years that we love more than Stake Land then we're very hard pressed to say what it is.Mickle has clearly made some changes to the story rather than just aping the original and fans curious to see what he's been up to...

EXCLUSIVE: First Stills From Apocalyptic Thriller THESE FINAL HOURS!

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:30 PM PST

One of my most-anticipated films of 2013 is These Final Hours, an apocalyptic thriller that takes place on the last day on Earth. Written and directed by Perth filmmaker Zak Hilditch, the film is shaping up to be another fantastic addition to the Australian New Wave of genre cinema currently making a very distinct mark around the world. Starring Nathan Phillips, These Final Hours recently finished filming in and around Perth, Western Australia. Phillips plays James, a self-obsessed young man determined to make his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth. However he ends up saving the life of a little girl (Angourie Rice) searching for her father, and she ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.Now, as...

Watch The New Green Band Trailer For THE ABCs OF DEATH

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:00 PM PST

Death is coming for you. Lots and lots of death. International horror anthology The ABCs Of Death hits US VOD on January 31 prior to a theatrical run starting March 8 and a new green band trailer for the film has arrived on Apple. Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. The ABCs of Death is perhaps the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived, with productions spanning fifteen countries and featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational books, the motion picture is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a...

Sundance 2013: Watch The First Mesmerizing Teaser For Shane Carruth's UPSTREAM COLOR

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 01:40 PM PST

Set to make its premiere in the US Dramatic competition at Sundance in January, Upstream Color is Shane Carruth's long-awaited second feature after his 2004 Grand Jury Prize winning time-travel flick Primer. After a vague if enticing plot synopsis and a small collection of provocative stills, including the one you see above of Carruth in a bathtub with Amy Seimetz , today brings us the first real look at the movie itself in the form of a teaser trailer, and well... if it isn't a spectacular and altogether head-scratching 53 seconds. Have a watch below and let us know what you think in the comments. Again, here is the plot synopsis from the Sundance program:A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life...

Russian Cult SciFi Comedy KIN DZA DZA Gets An Animated Remake

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST

Released in 1986, as the Soviet Union was approaching the end of its run, Georgiy Daneliya's Kin Dza Dza become something of a cult phenomenon. A scifi comedy that catapults an odd couple - a construction worker and a music student - to a far off planet the film has a large and loyal following thanks to its clever comedy and slyly satiric elements. It's a film that's never really gone away and now it's coming back in animated form.An animated version of the same tale titled Ku! Kin Dza Dza! (Ку! Кин-дза-дза) is scheduled for a summer 2013 release and the first trailer has arrived online. Though there are no subtitles the story is simple enough to follow - the human protagonists foolishly fiddle...

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: THE HOBBIT, 48 Frames Per Second, and A Whole New Journey

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:30 PM PST

"To a regular cinemagoer...attendance at the motion-picture playhouse today is a continuously disturbing experience...The discovery that the shadowy images of the screen could be made articulate was as fruitful for exploitation to the captains of the cinema industry as was the realization that women would wear long skirts to the couturiers." -Critic Howard Barnes, deriding the emergence of "Talkies", 1931Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is a coming home of sorts, very much in line with the other three films that formed the Lord of the Rings trilogy. From the casting, to the locations and settings, this film is an echo of the other works, and despite early involvement with Guillermo Del Toro, it's a film that very much feels to be a Peter Jackson film through...

DVD Review: THERMÆ ROMÆ, The Animæ.

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

(Are time-travelling hot-tubs a new general topic for comedies?) Before Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo broke records a few weeks back, the most successful Japanese film was Thermæ Romæ, a ribald and silly live-action comedy about bathing habits which Jason Gorber reviewed here (link). The film was produced by Fuji Television who had licensed the award-winning manga. But they used that license for something else as well: an anime to fill a January slot in their famed noitaminA evening. As with many of the noitaminA series, it's Australian-based distributor Siren Visual who is the first one out of the gate with an English-friendly version. So what's it about? And did I like it? Read on! The Story: In Rome, about 130 AD, constructor Lucius...

ATROCIOUS Director Unveils His KISS OF VENGEANCE

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

While director Fernando Barreda Luna scored international success with his found footage horror film Atrocious he has something very different in mind for his next project. No bumps in the night here, no mock doc style. Instead what we get is the tale of a very angry, very dangerous young woman.Kiss of Vengeance is a western tale about a girl who becomes a true hero that fights the Mafia, inspired by a deep desire of pursuing the killers who executed her family in a horrible massacre back in the 90's. This is the lonely journey about a renegade young rider who can't trust anyone but her own skills. Set in the outlawed border of Mexico and U.S. ruled by the Cartels.In post production now, Kiss...

Books to be Scene: Walter Jon Williams' HARD WIRED

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 10:02 AM PST

Flaming corn-alcohol throbs through [Cowboy's] chest like blood and the shrieking exhaust flows from his lungs like breath, his eyes beam radar and his fingers can flick missiles forth like pebbles. Through his sensors he can taste the exhaust and see the sky and the prairie sunset, and part of his mind can feel the throbbing radio energies that are the enemy's search planes, and it seems to him that the watchers and the escort vehicles are suddenly lessened - he will be taking the panzer over the Line, and they will not...The beast roars like the last lonely dinosaur and trembles as it gains way. Mental indicators climb their columns from blue to green to orange. Ripe wheat straw flies out behind in a...

The Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow!

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 09:35 AM PST

Not just one of the world's leading science fiction festivals, the Trieste Science+Fiction festival is one of the finest genre events in the world regardless of the genre in question and it kicks off tomorrow with a sterling program that includes Looper, Holy Motors, Resolution, Errors Of The Human Body, Antiviral, Doomsday Book, classic Italian titles and a whole lot more.Trieste Science + Fiction / International Festival of Science-Fiction is a multidisciplinary event that explores the many worlds of the fantasy and science fiction genres, focusing on the experimental languages and new technologies of cinema, television, visual arts and entertainment.The festival as we know it today is the natural progression of The International Film Festival of Science Fiction that started in the 1960s. Every November,...

Sundance 2013: 10 Films to Watch Before The Fest - Dramatic Competition Edition

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

With the announcements this week of the Dramatic Premieres and Documentary Premiere to go with last week's Competition and Next films and the Midnight, Spotlight, and New Frontiers lineups, Sundance's January 17 start date is feeling closer and closer. To help you prepare for the indie extravaganza, we're launching a new "10 to Watch" series that will cover some of the prior films from this year's crop of Sundance filmmakers. We'll kick things off today with a look at 10 films by directors who have films in competition in the U.S. Dramatic and World Cinema Dramatic programs. We've included links to each of the films CanIStream.It profiles. While we've never used this service, it seems to be a good way to quickly find out...

Interview: Richard Armitage Talks Thorin, Tolkien, and Being a Leader of Dwarves in THE HOBBIT Saga

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

For an about-to-be World Famous Dwarf, Richard Armitage wasn't looking too shabby when the man sat down in front of a bunch of eager journalists during a long press day in Toronto. Dressed in a waist coat and proper British slacks, the tall, angular man looked very different than his more hirsute kingly character he plays in The Hobbit saga. Armitage sat down on a very different throne, this one a plush leather easy chair, seemingly oblivious to the global fame that's about to befall him. Sure, he's got an very vocal  "Armitage Army" online, consisting of slews of UK and Anglophilic fans of his TV work, mostly middle-aged women, but playing such a major role in Peter Jackson's Hobbit film will certainly take...

Finally! A RESOLUTION You Can Keep This January 25th!

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:30 AM PST

Good news for anyone unable to catch horror hit Resolution on the festival circuit. Tribeca Film will release the film On Demand on January 23rd (cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, VUDU, and more) and in select theaters beginning January 25th. So this New Years you can make a Resolution and actually keep it! Huzzah!In the meantime we have the final festival tour video of 2012. The lads will be at Trieste SciencePlusFiction Film Festival in Trieste, Italy this week. And they have an Argento tinged video to share with you....

Now on DVD: Yorgos Lanthimos' ALPS From Kino Lorber

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 05:30 AM PST

This December the 4th sees the DVD release of Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos' Alps, the highly anticipated follow up to his Academy Award nominated film, Dogtooth.The film ran the festival circuit for a long time before finally being given a limited release by Kino Lorber over the summer. Our Kurt Halfyard saw it at TIFF 2011 and had this to say:The business concept behind ALPS is one of role-playing and empathy. People who recently lost a loved one can hire an ALPS employee to impersonate the deceased for a few days or weeks to ease through the grief process. As the film demonstrates exceptionally well, the barrier between indulging a client's grief and devolving into a form of prostitution is a rather thin and permeable...
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