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Review: THE GUILLOTINES Fails To Make The Cut

Review: THE GUILLOTINES Fails To Make The Cut

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 07:00 PM PST

It has been a long and bumpy road for Peter Chan, getting his new production of The Guillotines to the big screen. First announced back in 2009 with Hong Kong's man-of-the-moment Dante Lam at the helm, Teddy Chen then took the reins when Emperor Motion Pictures gave The Viral Factor the green light, only for the production to grind to a halt just weeks before shooting was set to commence. Script issues were cited, but it emerged that Chan had again fallen out with Chen (as was the case of their previous collaboration, Bodyguards and Assassins). History repeated itself, and Chen was replaced by Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs), but things finally got underway. Originally thought to be a remake of the Jimmy Wang Yu classic,...

"James Franco Didn't Suck Any Dick Last Night?": THIS IS THE END Red Band Teaser Hits

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 04:51 PM PST

Mentioned on and off for what must be half their adult lives, This Is The End is the directorial debut of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and stars just about every male comic actor under forty in Hollywood, as, well... as themselves at the end of the world. In the fear that their movie won't be seen because, ya know, the world is ending tomorrow and all, Rogen and James Franco introduce this teaser trailer from the safety of their condom stocked bunker. Anyone who enjoyed the boys' antics in The Pineapple Express should get a kick out of this.Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel and Craig Robinson (with extended cameos from Jason Segel, Emma Watson, Michael Cere, Aziz Ansari...

Watch Episode One Of HELLFJORD Now!

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 02:15 PM PST

Hellfjord loves you. Or its producers do, at least. With the Norwegian run of the cult series now done and dusted the brains behind the show want you to have an early Christmas present. The complete first episode, English subtitles included, for you to love and cherish forever.Please do not ask Sergeant Salmander about Gunnar. He loved that horse dearly and nobody feels worse about what happened to Salmander's noble steed than Salmander himself. Yes, he understands that there were children present at the Independence Day parade who may require significant, long term counseling to come to terms with what they witnessed that fateful day but still, he feels bad, okay? Sergeant Salmander's journey may begin with a horse in Oslo, but it ends with...

Astron 6 Is BREAKING SANTA

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

Astron 6 - the Canadian film collective responsible for Father's Day - love Christmas. The love it so much, in fact, that they wanted to give you a present. A festive treat, of sorts. And so here it is, an Astron 6 holiday special. Scroll down below for Breaking Santa....

Review: BARBARA Tears Down the Wall

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

As a leading figure of Berliner Schule, director Christian Petzold has been portraying 'lost' people in both literal and metaphorical sense: desperate souls cornered into making tough and sometimes wrong decisions brought on by economic hardships in the post-global recession era. In his new film Barbara, even though the setting is East Germany and the year is 1980, that portrayal of characters in (im)mobile state fits well and works superbly here. Barbara (Nina Hoss) is a city doctor who gets banished to the country as a punishment when she applies for her exit visa to go west. In her new environment, she is under constant surveillance by secret police and subjected to inspections and body cavity searches routinely. Deeply distrustful about her new neighbors and...

BERANDAL (aka THE RAID 2) Announces New Cast, More Ass Kicking

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 10:30 AM PST

With principal photography on Berandal - the upcoming sequel to The Raid - now just weeks away a handful of new cast members have been announced. We know star Iko Uwais will be back but who will be joining him? Julie Estelle (Macabre) will take the role of Hammer Girl with other parts going to Merantau baddie Alex Abbad, The Forbidden Door star Marsha Timothy, and local stars Mathias Muchus and Tio Pakusadewo. And here's one for those who are more concerned with who will be punching who than they are with who will be delivering the lines: Internationally renowned silat practitioner Cecep Arif Rahman has also signed on for a major part. Writer-director Gareth Evans actually tweeted the Rahman news a while back, incredibly...

"I Don't Think Film Can Give Answers": Nina Hoss Talks BARBARA

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

In Barbara, her fifth collaboration with director Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss stars as a doctor in East Germany circa 1980, who, after several repeated attempts to escape to the west, is exiled to a rural pediatric hospital. Her continued plans of escape come into doubt when she befriends the hospital's handsome head surgeon, André (played by Ronald Zehrfeld) and Stella (Jansa Fritzi Baur), a troubled patient from a hard labor camp. In a career full of beguiling performances, Hoss' turn as Barbara is nothing short of astounding. Quiet and steadfast in her resolve, in many ways Barbara recalls a classic movie heroine. Hoss further extends to Barbara a humane beauty that is ever so nuanced and mesmerizing to watch. If Barbara offers us anything it reminds us...

Second Teaser For Stephen Chow's JOURNEY TO THE WEST Features First Footage, Dodgy CGI

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 09:30 AM PST

One thing is very clear about the upcoming box office duel between Stephen Chow's Journey To The West and Soi Cheang's The Monkey King. There's going to be a lot of dodgy CGI.Both based on the same popular legends, Cheang's Donnie Yen starring project was first to get some actual footage to the fans (an earlier teaser for the Chow film featured no actual footage) and the fan response was less than impressed. Now Chow's Shu Qi, Bo Huang, Zhang Wen, Show Luo and Chrissie Chow starring effort - written, produced and co-directed by Chow with Derek Kwok - has followed suit and I fear the result will be the same. We get our first look at some key characters here and while the physical...

TRANSFORMERS 4: No to Thwaites, Yes To Reynor?

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 09:15 AM PST

It was ten days ago that Twitch got word Australian actor Brenton Thwaites and American born Nicola Peltz had emerged from the lengthy screen testing process for Transformers 4 as the duo tapped to play the young leads in the film. But more than a week later there has been no official confirmation from the studio - a sign that things haven't gone as smoothly as hoped - and now Irish industry site IFTN is reporting that Irish actor Jack Reynor (star of What Richard Did) has been offered the part with the caveat that Bay is "keen for Paramount ... to agree with his casting decision". Did Thwaites not get the thumbs up from the studio? Will Reynor? Whoever lands the part they'll be...

Review: THIS IS 40 Has Laughs, But No Substance

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 09:02 AM PST

The very first joke in This Is 40 -- a movie made in 2012 by experienced comedy professionals -- is about Viagra. That lazy, hackneyed start is a bad sign because it suggests that writer-director Judd Apatow, the reigning champion of urbanely vulgar R-rated comedies, isn't trying very hard on this one. The rest of the movie is generally better than that, with a great deal of very funny dialogue, but it's also a lot like that Viagra joke: it's unoriginal, it lacks substance, and it overstays its welcome. None of these charges are new when it comes to Apatow. Plenty of critics and viewers called out The 40-Year-Old Virgin (116 minutes), Knocked Up (129 minutes) and Funny People (146 minutes) for being too long...

LOST IN THAILAND Smashes Chinese Box Office Records, Watch The Trailer Now!

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 08:30 AM PST

Writer / director / star / producer Xu Zheng has just set the bar phenomenally high for himself, absolutely shattering a literal handful of Chinese box office records with his debut directorial effort Lost In Thailand. Best known to fans in the west for his roles in Ning Hao's Crazy Stone and Crazy Racer and Pang Ho Cheung's Love In The Buff the wild success of Lost In Thailand has easily eclipsed any of those films and established Xu as a legitimate force in his own right.Lost in Thailand is the story of two rival business managers, Xu (Xu Zheng) and Bo (Huang Bo), who are fighting over a revolutionary new in-house technology for control of their company. If Xu wins, his future will be...

Review: ON THE ROAD Hits the Right Beats

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as On the Road would be terribly ambitious, even without the narrative complications of Jack Kerouac's famously stream-of-consciousness storytelling style. Ask Francis Ford Coppola. He has been working to get the project made for some 30-plus years. Well, the film is finally done, and the good news is, it's remarkably decent. When the bottle finished spinning, the job of adapting the book fell to director Walter Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera. Best known for their young Che Guevara road tripper The Motorcycle Diaries, Salles and Rivera proved a great choice to adapt such a revered book. Their approach allows the source material to do the heavy lifting, not spending too much time trying...

Baz Luhrmann Presents Leo As a Different Kind of GREAT GATSBY in New Trailer

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 07:00 AM PST

The newly-released second trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby makes wildly apparent that Leonardo DiCaprio will be a very different kind of Jay Gatsby in the upcoming 3D extravaganza. And that could be a very good thing indeed. The first trailer, released seven months ago, felt like nothing more than a gaudy burst of energy and pretty, meaningless diversions. As I wrote at the time: "Whatever degree of subtlety that was present in 2008's Australia has been wiped out of mind." It made me wonder why on earth Luhrmann was bothering to make a new version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel -- other than providing an excuse to play with 3D technology. DiCaprio as Gatsby in the first trailer resembled a classic, doomed,...

A Few Spanish Glimpses at Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 06:00 AM PST

Nacho Vigalondo just wrapped production on his third feature film, Open Windows, down in Austin, Texas. A psychological thriller starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey, it follows on Vigalondo's examination of the dissemination of information, as the story is told in real time on a computer screen. As this is his first English-language film, hopefully a larger audience will soon know the genius of Vigalondo that we cinephiles have seen for the past several years. A couple of reports have appeared on Spanish television, including some brief snippets of the film, and of the screen that Vigalondo has created for the story. While most of the report is in Spanish, there are brief interviews in English with Wood and Grey....
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