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Opening: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Now It's Time For Moviegoers To Weigh In.

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Opening: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Now It's Time For Moviegoers To Weigh In.

Opening: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Now It's Time For Moviegoers To Weigh In.

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:00 PM PST

An event movie if ever there was one, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey rolls out across North America at midnight tonight, giving night owls the chance to pass 169 minutes in the company of Bilbo, Gandalf, Gollum, more than a dozen dwarves, and all manner of orcs, goblins, elves, and other magical (and not so magical) creatures. Our own Jason Gorber provided a comprehensive overview in his review, starting with Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and then tackling The Hobbit itself: So many elements echo the other films, from [Howard] Shore's fine score to the smallest details of production design. The world of Tolkien is pretty ageless, so to traffic in these worlds again is a far closer connection to the previous...

Vietnam Delivers A Slick Dark Thriller With COLD SUMMER

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:00 PM PST

Vietnam continues to impress as one of the fastest growing film markets in south east Asia, a new wave of young talent rising up in response to an audience hungry for local voices and projects. And one upcoming film worth keeping an eye on appears to be dark thriller Cold Summer (Mua He Lanh).The sophomore feature from Ngo Quang Hai - best known on these shores for his work as an actor in A Vertical Ray Of The Sun - Cold Summer is beautifully shot and run through with grim imagery. This one appears to have learned a lesson or two from the sort of thrillers normally associated with Korea. The full trailer has arrived with English subtitles included. Take a look below....

Tyldum Leaves TORDENSKIOLD Biopic Afloat. Instead, Will Decrypt THE IMITATION GAME.

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 05:00 PM PST

Headhunters director Morten Tyldum, has left the Norwegian-Danish production Tordenskiold, the biopic about Peter Wessel Tordenskiold, in favor of making his international debut with another biopic - this one about about Alan Mathison Turing - titled The Imitation Game. The Imitation Game is based on Graham Moore's book about the UK mathematician, logician, crypto-analyst and computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing, who was during WW2 head of Hut 2 at Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre that unravelled the settings of Germany's Enigma machine. After the war, he worked in the computer industry. A homosexual, he was prosecuted in 1952, and accepted chemical castration to avoid prison. He committed suicide in 1954, by cyanide poisoning, aged 42. In 2009, British PM Gordon Brown issued a public apology for "the appalling way he...

Nakashima Tetsuya Quits Live Action ATTACK ON TITAN

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Wanted: A new director with a skill for special effects.Less than a week after the first promo arrived for the anime adaptation of Isayama Hajime's Attack On Titan word has followed that the proposed live action adaptation has hit troubled waters. Citing creative differences on the script and other matters director Nakashima Tetsuya (Confessions, Kamikaze Girls) has exited the project.Manga publisher Kodansha is determined to continue the project with a new director, hoping for a theatrical release in 2014....

Park Chan-wook Teams With His Brother And Song Kang-ho's Bad Wig For DAY TRIP

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:00 PM PST

The Park Brothers are getting back together. While all eyes have been on Park Chan-wook's upcoming English language debut Stoker it seems he's also had a little something else on the go, namely a second project with his brother - and Night Fishing co-director - Park Chan-kyung.Titled Day Trip the film stars a bewigged Song Kang-ho and Jeon Hyo-jeong as a vocal teacher and his student who head into the mountains to train. Check the gallery below for a selection of stills and remember you can click to enlarge....

THE RESURRECTION OF A BASTARD Opens Rotterdam

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:30 PM PST

An adaptation of his own graphic novel. Guido van Driel's The Resurrection Of A Bastard has been announced as the opening film of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.Rutger Wolfson, director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam about the opening film: "We are extremely glad to present 'The Resurrection of a Bastard' as our Official Opening Film and in our Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Guido van Driel deeply impresses with an original, bleak and nearly magical story that he shot in a compelling and controlled way. Also the actors excel in this...

Witness The Peculiar World Of Fantasy Coffins In PAA JOE: DEAD NOT BURIED

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:00 PM PST

Why spend eternity in a box when you can spend it in a lion? That's a very fundamental question for Paa Joe, a Ghanaian craftsman of 'fantasy coffins'. And what, praytell, is a fantasy coffin? It's a coffin that's more a work of art than a practical appliance, something designed to capture the life of a person rather than simply contain them in death. One of the leading figures in the fantasy coffin trade, Paa Joe is now trying to expand into the art world and UK filmmaker Benjamin Wigley has been capturing the man's work on film with Paa Joe: Dead Not Buried. It has all the makings of a truly fascinating documentary, take a look at the trailer below....

Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Takahata Isao Returns To The Director's Chair With THE TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER. See The First Poster.

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST

Studio Ghibli co-founder Takahata Isao has been away from the director's chair for quite a long time now. His most recent directing credit is as part of 2003 anthology Winter Days. His most recent feature? 1999 effort My Neighbors The Yamadas. So word of a new feature from Takahata is very big news indeed.The film is The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari), an adaptation of a popular folk tale about a princess discovered as a baby growing inside the stalk of a glowing piece of bamboo.Word of the project has been circulating for a while now but Studio Ghibli have just formally announced the project along with word that Takahata has co-written the script with Sakaguchi Riko while Ikibe Shinichiro is composing the...

Jamie Foxx And Leonardo DiCaprio Face Off In New DJANGO UNCHAINED Clip

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:30 PM PST

While I agree very much with Eric Snider's assessment of Django Unchained as 'lesser Tarantino' - I place it above on Death Proof on my own personal rankings - I also agree with his further assertion that it is a very good time. For all its flaws there's a lot to love about Django and ranking very high on that list are Django (Jamie Foxx) and his interactions with Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio, having the most fun of his entire career). And so a tip of the cap to the PR folk who decided that releasing a scene focused on the two of them would be a good thing to do. They're right, of course, and you can check it out below....

First Poster For Miyazaki Hayao's THE WIND RISES (KAZE TACHINU)

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:20 PM PST

Though people have known it was coming for a while now Studio Ghibli have made it official, formally announcing Miyazaki Hayao's The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) while also unveiling the first poster art. Based on his own screenplay - which is, in turn, based on his original manga of the same name - The Wind Rises touches on the life of Horikoshi Jiro, designer of Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane, widely used in World War II. Frequent collaborator Hisaishi Jo will return to compose the music....

Roar Uthaug Brings Disaster To The Fjords With BOLGEN (THE WAVE)

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

A tsunami in a fjord? It happened for real in 1934 when a massive landslide dropped two million cubic meters of rock into the Tafjorden in Norway, triggering a wave over two hundred feet high at its peak which left nearly fifty people dead in communities along the shore. And that real life incident is providing the basis for Cold Prey and Escape director Roar Uthaug's latest effort, Bølgen (The Wave). Billed as Norway's first ever disaster film, Bølgen has just received production support from the Norwegian Film Institute and will move those real life events into a present day story. No start date has been announced as of yet....

Sundance 2013: Second UPSTREAM COLOR Teaser Asks More Questions

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:20 AM PST

Everyone is jumping at ghosts when it comes to news about Primer director Shane Carruth's long-long awaited follow-up to that 2004 Grand Jury Prize winning film, Upstream Color. This morning brought a big ghoulish one for us to ponder with the release of the second teaser trailer for the film ahead of its Sundance bow. The teaser, titled "Starlings," suggests the plot focuses on the relationship between Carruth's character Jeff and Amy Seimetz's Kris. Check out the teaser below and the first teaser here, in case you missed it....

Laos Enters The Horror Arena With Mattie Do's CHANTHALY

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

Mattie Do's Chanthaly is a film of firsts. It is, by all accounts, the first horror film produced in Laos. It is also the first Laotian film produced by a female director. But while both of those facts are very interesting from a historical perspective neither would count for much unless the film delivered. And, once again, all accounts are that it does.Chanthaly screened as a work in progress at the recent Luang Prabang Film Festival where the always reliable WiseKwai caught it and came away much impressed. Here's how the festival pitches the intriguing premise:Raised alone by her overprotective father sequestered in their home in Vientiane, Chanthaly suspects that her dead mother's ghost is trying to deliver a message to her from the afterlife. After a...

Review: SAVE THE DATE, A Delightful Movie About a Female Slacker and Her Mushy Men

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

Bookstore manager and freelance artist Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) plans on getting her shit together. Someday. But not anytime soon. When we first meet Sarah, she's moving into an apartment with her rock star boyfriend, Kevin (Geoffrey Arend). Helping them is Sarah's sister Beth (Alison Brie) and her fiancé and Kevin's drummer, Andrew (Martin Starr). Sarah and Kevin's first night in the new apartment leads us to believe they are inseparable. While slow dancing in their underwear, they talk about farting, leaving the milk out, and all of things couples do but don't ever discuss - it's quite charming. So, Kevin does what any man madly in love with his girlfriend would do - he proposes to her. Much to her surprise, he asks in front of...

Descend To The Depths With First SEPTIC MAN Stills

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

"I asked Tony Burgess to write us a simple script about a man trapped at the bottom of a well. He came over to discuss it, and clogged our toilet. The rest is history." Jesse Thomas CookLeave it to the writer of Pontypool to come up with a superhero origin story that involves a man trapped inside a septic tank. Throw in some serial killers and a healthy horror overtone and that's exactly what Burgess has done with Septic Man, the new feature from Monster Brawl director Jesse Thomas Cook.Indie film collective Foresight Features have followed up the release of their 2011 films Monster Brawl and Exit Humanity with a trio of new genre pictures, all set to debut in 2013.  The studio recently completed...

Review: DJANGO UNCHAINED Is a Little Unfocused, But Bloody Good Fun

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

Quentin Tarantino's eighth feature film, Django Unchained, is his longest, his most narratively straightforward, and his N-word-iest. The godfather of modern gonzo filmmaking addresses American slavery and race relations the same way he has addressed other sensitive issues: by making a boisterously entertaining movie that couldn't be less interested in sensitivity. He's in it for the fun. If his amusing story about a resourceful ex-slave seeking vengeance against his tormenters happens to convey a message about the absurd moral wrongness of racism and slavery, well, that's cool. But the main thing is to have fun. And Django Unchained is fun -- explosive, outrageous, and bloody, with the kind of shrewd, eyebrow-raising bombast we've come to expect from Tarantino. It's brimming with imaginative grace notes --...

Review: JACK REACHER Punches Its Way Across Genres

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:00 AM PST

Tom Cruise takes on the role of the antihero Jack Reacher whole-heartedly in this film based on the popular series of the same name by Lee Child. The plot, taken from the first ninth * novel of the series, One Shot, begins with a seemingly random killing spree. In the aftermath, the shooter calls out for Reacher before slipping into unconsciousness. It is not long before Jack makes his way to Pittsburgh and joins forces with the shooter's criminal defense lawyer Helen (Rosamund Pike), daughter of the district attorney Alex Rodin (Richard Jenkins), and uncovers a far more complex plot than originally suspected. When a shadowy figure named Zec (Werner Herzog, yes you read that right) appears, Jack and Helen are plunged headfirst into peril....

LINCOLN Tops Golden Globe Nominations

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:45 AM PST

The nominations for this year's Golden Globe Awards were made this morning and while you're unlikely to see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel score significant nominations much of anywhere else there is a general lack of eyebrow raising selections compared to previous years at the Globes. Lincoln leads amongst features with seven nominations while Django Unchained and Argo take five each. Read on for the complete list: Best Motion Picture, Comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Miserables Moonrise Kingdom Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Silver Linings Playbook Best Motion Picture, Drama Argo Django Unchained Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Best Director, Motion Picture Ben Affleck, Argo Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty Ang Lee, Life of Pi Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Quentin Tarantino, Django...

Gus Van Sant, Ulrich Seidl Included in First Berlin Film Festival Competition Announcement

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 05:00 AM PST

The Berlin Film Festival has just announced six of its competition films as well as a special world premiere of Christian Rost and  Claus Strigel's new documentary Redemption Impossible. The initial lineup includes heavy hitters from around the world, including Gus Van Sant, who is bringing his latest, Promised Land, Hong Sang-Soo who has somehow already made another movie and Ulrich Seidl, who will premiere the third part of his Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Hope. I was quite taken by the first part, Paradise: Love, so here's hoping I find some way to see Seidl's controversial Venice Film Festival winner Paradise: Faith before February so that I arrive fully prepared. It's also noteworthy that the director of Space Chimps is sharing space with these acclaimed art...
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