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THE LADY ASSASSIN Bares Her Blade In 3D

THE LADY ASSASSIN Bares Her Blade In 3D

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

The Lady Assassin (My Nhan Ke) is headed for Vietnam, with writer-director Nguyen Quang Dung's handsome 3D martial arts fantasy angling to be one of the big winners over the upcoming Tet holidays. And if Tet audiences are hungry for spectacle then I daresay this will give them exactly what they want, the gorgeous scenery populated by a host of deadly sword wielding killers.The production values, fight style and one very goofy joke are very clearly aiming for that golden age Hong Kong feel and they're pretty much nailing it. Check out the trailer below....

Review: THE GUILT TRIP

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:00 PM PST

A Jewish man calls his mother in Florida. "Mom, and how are you." " Not too good," says the mother. "I've been very weak." The son says, "Why are you so weak?" She says, "Because, I haven't eaten in 38 days." " Mama," the man says, "that's terrible. Why haven't you eaten in 38 days?" The mother answers, "Because I didn't want my mouth to be filled with food if you should call." - Ancient Jewish Joke (source)On paper, and even from the trailers, the idea of a Seth Rogen/Barbara Streisand road movie sounds like the stuff of horror movies. It's probably a testament to the talents of those involved that the film isn't quite the abomination that it looks to be from the marketing,...

Quentin Tarantino Talks Race And Violence In DJANGO UNCHAINED

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:05 PM PST

Quentin Tarantino is, to put it mildly, a talkative fellow. So when presented with the opportunity to join in on a four person round table interview with him to discuss the upcoming Django Unchained I knew that I - and the rest of the journos present - weren't going to get the chance to ask a whole lot of questions. But I also knew that the answers to what questions we did slip in would be good ones and so, of course, I said yes. And the loquacious writer-director did not disappoint. Read on for his comments on hating his characters, race, violence and the MPAA.I was reading the Playboy interview you did recently and you were talking about how Calvin Candie is the first...

BULLHEAD's Matthias Schoenaerts and Michael Roskam Reteaming for Noir-ish THE FAITHFUL

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:01 PM PST

More than one year ago, our own Todd Brown reported that Bullhead director Michael Roskam planned to follow up that powerful, hard-hitting film with The Faithful, described as a "romance-crime-tragedy [set] against the backdrop of the ultra-violent criminal gangs of 1990s Brussels." Now we hear from Variety that Bullhead star Matthias Schoenaerts will be top-lining the picture. Between the debut of Bullhead last year and now, both Roskam and Schoenaerts have become very busy. Roskam is co-writing with Michael Mann a pilot script for HBO crime series Buda Bridge, and is also set to direct the fact-based The Tiger (about a man-eating tiger in Russia). Meanwhile, Schoenaerts has appeared in the lead role in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone -- out soon in the U.S....

Books to be Scene: G. Willow Wilson's ALIF THE UNSEEN

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:08 AM PST

Alif and his friends read the complaints of their coddled American and British counterparts - activists, all talk, irritated by some new piece of digital monitoring legislation or another - and laughed. Ignorant monoglots, Abdullah called them. They had no idea what it was like to operate in the City.They had no idea what it was like to live in a place that boasted one of the most sophisticated digital policing systems in the world, but no proper mail service. Emirates with princes in silver-plated cars and districts with no running water. An Internet where every blog, every chat room, every forum is monitored for illegal expressions of distress and discontent.Their day will come, Abdullah had told him once. They will wake up and realize...

NO, Don't Watch This Trailer, Unless ...

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:31 AM PST

Pablo Lorrain's NO stars Gael Garcia Bernal as a Chilean ad man who takes a turn into politics. The new trailer for its upcoming U.S. theatrical release sets up the premise and the historical period, then unleashes a torrent of real-life ads and the dramatized events. Our featured critic Eric D. Snider saw the film at Telluride earlier this year, and had this to say in his review: Pablo Larraín's NO is a fascinating, inventive look at the advertising campaign that helped unseat Chile's dictator in 1988. What happens in NO isn't substantially different from what happens in every election year in every country. Which is to say, it's absurd, funny, and a little sad. The film opens in the U.S. on February 15, 2013....

Review: AMOUR, What's Not to Love?

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

Michael Haneke wants to remind us all that we are going to die someday, and that the long day's journey into night is probably not going to be a pleasant one. He accomplishes this mightily in the heartbreaking, occasionally shocking, but always deliberate and restrained, Amour. From its single-shot intro, which shows the authorities discovering a neatly arranged corpse, to the the final shot of Isabelle Huppert sitting quietly in a sunlit parlour, this is the director at the absolute top of his craft delivering one of the best films of the year.  Is it manipulative and often unpleasant? Well, that has been the director's modus operandi for as long as I've been watching his films, but compared to, say, Lars von Trier, Haneke has (almost) always taken...

LINCOLN is Best of 2012, According to Dallas Critics

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:30 AM PST

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln has been named the best film of 2012 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, of which I am a proud member. (That being said, the film was not in my personal top 10.) Kathryn Bigelow nabbed the best director honors for Zero Dark Thirty. Performances by Daniel Day-Lewis (best actor, Lincoln), Jessica Chastain (best actress, Zero Dark Thirty), Tommy Lee Jones (best supporting actor, Lincoln), and Sally Field (best supporting actress, Lincoln) were voted as the best of the year. Beast of the Southern Wilds is the winner of the Russell Smith Award, named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film. Amour was voted best foreign-language film,...

Silver Jesus Wields A Shotgun In Behind The Scenes Shots From Alex De La Iglesia's WITCHING AND BITCHING

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

Do not mess with Silver Jesus. He will shoot you.Spanish director Alex De La Iglesia is hard at work on his latest cult comedy Witching And Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi) and behind the scenes shots have emerged featuring Silver Jesus and a Toy Soldier holding up a cash-for-gold shop. See? You should never trust street performers.The photos are actually of stars Mario Casas and Hugo Silva shooting a key scene from the film. More will hopefully be coming soon.When your marriage has you on the brink and your bank account in red, it's time to rob a Cash-for-Gold shop. That's the last-ditch decision made by a group of desperate guys led by divorced dad JOSÉ. Unfortunately for all, José never lets his kid down...

New Extended Trailer For VISHWAROOP Gives A Look Behind The Scenes

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:30 AM PST

It's been a long road to the screen for Kamal Hassan's Vishwaroop. The film has been gestating for what seems like ages and after its original director, Selvaraghavan, had to back out due to scheduling conflicts, Hassan himself took over the reins. That wasn't the end of their problems, though, as the crew was denied entry to the US for shooting at the last minute over visa issues, and had to move the production to Canada at the last minute. If only those were the only issues, but the challenge continues.In his quest to ensure that his big gamble comes out on top, Kamal Hassan has also made some very unusual business deals in regards to the release of Vishwaroop. The most controversial of which...

Review: THE IMPOSSIBLE is Too Soggy and Too Staged to Warrant Consequence

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

"Just close your eyes and think of something nice" is a refrain repeated several times during J.A. Bayona's Tsunami disaster film that sees Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts - and their three children - attempt to re-unite after a tidal wave destroys their hotel and threatens their lives. There is no arguing with the staging and execution of the disaster itself - a tour de force sequence that sees the camera, Watts, and young Tom Hollander swept away in a river of debris-strewn water for an unrelenting 15 peril-laden minutes. But the film itself seems to ignore that there are actual Thailanders in Thailand, and only focuses on 'saving the white people' for its runtime. Occasionally, a local will show up to help (having nothing better...
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