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Ten Quick Questions For SIGHTSEERS Director Ben Wheatley

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Ten Quick Questions For SIGHTSEERS Director Ben Wheatley

Ten Quick Questions For SIGHTSEERS Director Ben Wheatley

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:02 PM PST

Sightseers is the latest twisted horror comedy effort from Ben Wheatley. After a strikingly original debut with a crime family in utter dysfunction with Down Terrace and then having shocked festivals with the brutal and unforgiving Kill List, he turned his attention to direct Sightseers which combines the best from both of those films. With the help of a passionate comedy duo and additional script writer, Wheatley has made his most accessible but still downright disturbed feature yet. I had the great pleasure to chat with the man and ask him a few questions about Sightseers and his process in general. To me SIGHTSEERS was the culmination of DOWN TERRACE'S familial blackness and KILL LIST'S brutal violence, kind of the best of both worlds. Would you...

Celebrate Christmas With The Davison Brothers, And A Drunk Australian Santa

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 05:00 PM PST

Australian music station Channel [V] did a very wise thing when it got Perth-based stop motion animators the Davison Brothers to do a series of idents for its annual Bad Santa giveaway. Now, thanks to the wonders of the interwebs, they are available for everyone else to watch....

New Trailer For Zack Snyder's MAN OF STEEL

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 12:30 PM PST

Can Zack Snyder breathe new life into Superman? Warner Brothers is certainly hoping so as they need the blue-tighted one to soar if their planned Justice League superhero team up has any chance of standing up to the massive success of The Avengers. And they're taking a definite page out of producer Christopher Nolan's playbook to make that happen, giving the character some darker underpinnings and playing up the man in the suit rather than the action in the latest trailer.Yes, you get some flying, some fire and a bit of action. You get Zod and Jor-El and the Kents on the farm. But mostly what you get is young Clark Kent trying to fit in. It's all a bit Smallville, really, albeit with better...

New US Trailer For Spanish Oscar Submission BLANCANIEVES

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

Pablo Berger's Blancanieves has proven to be a critical and audience favorite on the festival circuit over the past year, viewers drawn in by the gorgeous black and white, silent retelling of the Snow White story. Spain's official submission to the 85th Academy Awards® for Best Foreign Film, BLANCANIEVES is a gorgeous homage to the Golden Age of Europe's silent cinema.  The intoxicating film relocates the tale of Snow White to a sweepingly romantic vision of 1920s Spain, where a young girl escapes from her wicked stepmother to find fame as a matador.The Cohen Media Group will release Blancanieves in US theaters January 25th and they have just released a gorgeous new trailer for the film. Take a look below....

Blu-ray Giveaway: Who Wants A Copy Of Seth MacFarlane's TED?

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has passed along a pair of Blu-ray prize packs from the Seth MacFarlane comedy Ted (micro review: it's pretty good!). As usual, we'll try to keep the hoops to snag one of these to a minimum, but first, the official copy from the studio: A foul-mouthed, hard-partying teddy bear and his 35-year-old best friend come together in the #1 comedy of the year, Ted, available on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand on December 11, 2012, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Directed by Seth MacFarlane, creator of television¹s uproarious and irreverent hits Family Guy and American Dad, Ted stars Mark Wahlberg (Contraband, The Other Guys), Mila Kunis (Friends with Benefits, Black Swan), Joel McHale (Community), Giovanni Ribisi (Contraband, Avatar) and...

James McAvoy And Mark Strong Face Off In First Explosive WELCOME TO THE PUNCH Trailer

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

It seems that James McAvoy took a little nap in the years immediately following Wanted but the likable star is back in a big way now thanks in part to his role as Charles Xavier in the new X-Men films. But its his work in smaller indies that's going to really put McAvoy back on the map, and with the actor currently having five films listed as in post production - including Danny Boyle's Trance - he's going to be well nigh omnipresent over the next little while.And the first of those coming projects to come out of the gate is Eran Creevy's action flick Welcome To The Punch, in which McAvoy stars opposite Mark Strong, David Morrissey and Andrea Riseborough.When a notorious criminal is...

ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY And GRABBERS Win Trieste Science + Fiction

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:02 AM PST

The Trieste Science+Fiction festival has wrapped up and the big winners of this year's edition were Eron Sheean's Errors Of The Human Body, which took the jury selected Asteroide award as best picture, and Jon Wright's Grabbers, which took the audience prize. Both films are favorites around these parts and very well worth the attention. Congratulations to Sheean, Wright and all involved....

Review: THE LAST TYCOON Delivers Pulpy Wartime Thrills

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

After years of churning out mediocre-at-best rom coms, horror flicks and triad yarns, Hong Kong's foremost schlockmeister, Wong Jing, teams up with producer Andrew Lau and star Chow Yun Fat to deliver his best film in ages. Charting the rise and fall of real-life gangster Cheng Daqi, The Last Tycoon spans three decades in battle-strewn Shanghai. In 1913, young Cheng (Huang Xiaoming) murders a dirty cop at the behest of shady soldier Mao Zai (Francis Ng) and flees to Shanghai, while his sweetheart Zhiqiu (Feng Wenjuan) heads to Beijing to study opera. Once there, Cheng quickly allies himself with corrupt police chief Hong Shouting (Sammo Hung) and rises through the ranks of his gang.The film leaps backwards and forwards repeatedly between these early days and the...

Kim Jee-woon Plans Live Action JIN ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:30 AM PST

Get ready for something spectacular. Korea's Kim Jee-woon - soon to make his English language debut with Arnold Schwarzenegger starring The Last Stand - has big plans for his next Korean film and it's something that should leave anime fans very, very happy.According to multiple Korean outlets Kim is now planning a live action adaptation of Oshii Mamoru scripted anime feature film Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade. Directed by Okiura Hiroyuki the 1999 original film is, in my opinion, one of the greatest animated films ever made, a spin on the Red Riding Hood tale set in a parallel reality in which the Nazis won World War II and Japan now exists as an oppressive military state patrolled by heavily armored state police, one of...

Rook Films Announces Peter Strickland's THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

Fresh off of a resounding success at the British Independent Film Awards, where his Berberian Sound Studio picked up four prizes including Best Director and Best Actor, writer-director Peter Strickland's third feature has found itself an intriguing home.Rook Films will make Strickland's The Duke Of Burgundy their first non-Ben Wheatley production with the dark drama set to go into production in early 2013.The Duke of Burgundy, a dark melodrama, is set to star Chiara D'Anna (Berberian Sound Studio) as an amateur lepidopterist whose wayward desires test the limits of her lover's tolerance. "After damaging my eardrums with too many screams during the Berberian sound mix, I wanted to make something tender and quiet, but also quite intense. It's a simple love story about a devoted couple whose intimate needs...

Marvel At Animated Penis Western THE WILLIES: WANTED MELODY

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:30 AM PST

Yes. that's a penis in a hat. With a star pinned to its shaft. Continue on and you'll also have the opportunity to watch a penis ride a horse. It's all part of Wanted Melody, one episode of Paul Jaulmes and Boris Croise's proposed series of short animations The Willies. Yes, the young French animators are making a series of short films across a variety of genres, all of them starring penises as the main characters. And to help fuel their fundraising efforts on Indiegogo they have released Wanted Melody online in its entirety. Enjoy the riding penis below....

Blu-ray Review: A Tiny Kaiju Fan Takes On GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE!

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

I was going to review this one, but I happened to come across a kaiju fan who is far more enthusiastic about the genre than I could ever be. My eight-year-old son, let's call him V Hurtado, wanted to write a report on Godzilla Vs. Biollante after we finished watching it, and I thought it was a great idea. I'll turn over the critique to him and I'll toss a few notes regarding the presentation at the bottom. Enjoy!Godzilla vs Biollante: This monster movie GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE is an awesome movie made by Toho LTD. In this movie, a monster named BIOLLANTE attacks Osaka, Japan and the only monster that can stop him is the Kaiju, GODZILLA. From Rose Form to FINAL Form, Biollante (bee-oh-lon-TAE)...

New LONE RANGER Trailer Promises Big Time Spectacle, Moderate Racism

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:45 AM PST

Oh, dear. A second trailer for Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger has arrived and it's jam packed with the sort of massive big screen spectacle that fans were hoping for from the creative team behind Pirates Of The Caribbean. Also, it's got lots of Armie Hammer, who seems remarkably well suited for the title role and about to be launched into big time stardom. So, so far so good.Unfortunately it also proves everyone right who ever suggested that sticking a bird on Johnny Depp's head and calling him Native American was a bad idea was pretty much bang on with every cautionary warning they ever threw out there. Caricature? I'm not sure Tonto even reaches that level here and what we see of him just...

Euro Beat: British Censors Vow to Get Tougher, Plus Roman Polanski's Editor Speaks

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:00 AM PST

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has already made waves over the last several years by heavily censoring A Serbian Film and The Human Centipede 2, and calling for an all-out ban on The Bunny Game. Now, according to a recent announcement, they're about to step up their game even more. In response to a public study carried out by an independent research group called Ipsos MORI, the board vowed to intervene more in the way films depict rape and sexual assault. Specifically, "scenes with make sexual or sadistic violence look appealing, reinforce the suggestion that victims enjoy rape and scenes that invite viewer complicity in rape or other harmful violent activities." According to BBFC director Sam Cook: "Once again the public have told...
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