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Review: PARKER - This Crime Dud Should Be Illegal

Review: PARKER - This Crime Dud Should Be Illegal

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:01 PM PST

I like Jason Statham, I really do. I mean, sure, he's got the best first name of any actor that has ever lived, but I like the guy. I like that whatever movie he's in, he makes it his own. I like the old Statham from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, I even like the new-ish Statham from The Expendables. It's a subtle thing, I grant, with his amelioration or differentiation between his performances being a difficult thing to measure objectively. Still, I've noticed a kind of pattern with him, regarding how the first film in a series is often OK, while the subsequent ones become increasingly terrible. One can point to Statham as being the the only guy in The Expendables who seemed to know...

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CROUCHING TIGER Sequel SILVER VASE, IRON KNIGHT to Shoot in May

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:37 PM PST

Deadline is reporting that The Weinstein Company feels confident enough it has secured the theatrical rights to Wang Du Lu's Crane-Iron Pentalogy series of novels that it is readying production on a sequel to 2000's international smash hit, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. That film, directed by Ang Lee and winner of four Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film, was the fourth in the series, and TWC is hoping to get its adaptation of book five, Silver Vase, Iron Knight up and running as early as this May.There is already a finished script, courtesy of The Forbidden Kingdom writer John Fusco, and the Weinsteins' are apparently courting Hong Kong director Ronny Yu to helm the sequel. Yu is currently in post-production on his upcoming Chinese-language epic,...

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Slamdance 2013 News: Slamdance Comes Home - Part Deux

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:00 PM PST

After a week in Park City I can tell you there is nothing quite like living and breathing The Slamdance Film Festival. But seeing some of these films at home ain't a bad option either. And It's a good thing now that it is actually an option. Yesterday we shared with you that Slamdance Studios had partnered with online VOD platform Cinecliq for a short film showcase. Today a couple of features are coming your way via the Microsoft Xbox Video service. Check out the lineup which includes 2013 and 2012 films right here, and take a look at the full deets below:SLAMDANCE STUDIOS BRING NEW FESTIVAL FILMS TO AUDIENCESWORLDWIDESlamdance Studios Expands The Online Audience's Slamdance Film Festival ExperienceWith Selections Like This Year's Competition Title...

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Ajay Devgan Rides The Nostalgia Gravy Train In Sajid Khan's HIMMATWALA

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 03:00 PM PST

Here we go again.In 2011, Ajay Devgan stepped up to the plate with Singham, a remake of a Tamil film dripping with nostalgia for a time gone by in Hindi cinema. Big ridiculous action is the in thing, and while South India has been doing this stuff consistently for decades, sometimes in the mid-90s, Bollywood tried to "grow up" and grow out of their silly games. Well, it turns out that people really liked those overblown action spectacles, and Singham was a big hit. Back in December, Devgan went back to the well with Son of Sardaar, another cartoonish action film, this time based on Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality/SS Rajamouli's Maryada Ramana. This film didn't set the overseas box office on fire, but back in...

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Coens. 1960s. Folk. Awesome. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Trailer.

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 02:30 PM PST

Oscar Isaac stars as a singer/songwriter in Inside Llewyn Davis, a wandering musician who ends up in the burgeoning New York City folk scene in the early 1960s. Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the tale is supposedly inspired by Dave Van Ronk's memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, F. Murray Abraham, and Justin Timberlake also star. Distribution plans have not been set yet, but a private screening has been advertised for February 9. The first trailer is remarkably good, establishing a suggestive mood for an era that now seems so very far away....

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Star Wars Postquel Update: Now We're Talking JJ Abrams?

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 02:15 PM PST

Consider this very much rumour / bantha fodder at this stage, but The Wrap has semi-convincingly laid out the argument for how Disney has plucked J.J. Abrams for the next Star Wars movie, even though back in December the director completely denied doing the filmAlready Twitter is awash with Alias puns and Lost fanboys aghast, but it does kind of make sense, even if it remains improbable. I mean, yeah, we've been saying that about most rumoured directors, but J.J.'s proclivities (besides lens flares) tie very much into the used-universe aesthetic of Lucas' world. At the least, it'd be a fine marriage of both sagas that begin with "Star," so one can at least hope there's truth to the (single source) rumour.Oh, and the guy breaking...

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First Teaser For Paranormal Crime Thriller THE GIFTED HANDS

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 02:00 PM PST

In Kwon Ho-Young's upcoming crime thriller The Gifted Hands (사이코메트리), a detective seeks a psychometrist to help solve a case. What is this paranormal phenomena known as psychometry? According to Wikipedia, it is described as "a form of extra-sensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to make relevant associations from an object of unknown history by making physical contact with that object." The bigger question is, What cost for having this special ability?Touch it and you can see the past! A little girl is kidnapped and murdered in the jurisdiction of gangbuster detective Yang Chun-dong (Kim Kang-woo), 3 years on the job. During the case, he realizes the crime scene is the same as the mysterious wall paper he saw once on the street and...

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Slamdance 2013 Review: DOMESTIC Finds Its Bliss

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:15 AM PST

Adrian Sitaru's third feature Domestic begins with the residents of an apartment building in modern Romania gathering in the lobby to discuss with their building president Mr. Lazar (Adrian Titieni) the pesky presence of one mangy mutt whose been hanging out in their hallways and stairwells instead of sitting safe and sound inside its owner's apartment. Some residents want to take the dog to a humane and EU-certified animal shelter where it will be warm and well fed. Mr. Lazar caught in the middle of this blustery crowd stumbles his way into writing a notice that is drafted by at least half a dozen people yelling and babbling at the top of their lungs. This is all done in one impeccably composed wide shot. The...

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Sundance 2013 Exclusive: Poster for Blue-Tongue Films' THE CAPTAIN Burns with Disorientation

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

If you're into short films, you need the Blue-Tongue Films collective in your life. Consisting of Nash Edgerton (The Square co-writer/director; stuntman pundit), Spencer Susser (Hesher writer/director), Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Animal Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty actor), Luke Doolan, Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here co-writer/director), David Michôd (Animal Kingdom writer/director), and Mirrah Foulkes, these folks have paved their way in the short film world with perhaps the most innovative films in the last decade. These guys are responsible for cult hits Spider, I Love Sarah Jane, Lucky, Bear, and a lot more. You can watch all of them over on their official website. Co-directors Nash and Spencer teamed up with Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark writer/director) for their latest short, The Captain. It's about a pilot...

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Hey, Toronto! The Twitch Curated Tokyo Drifters Series Continues Saturday With Hard Boiled Noir INTIMIDATION!!

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

The Twitch curated Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Of Nikkatsu screening series continues this Saturday with a rare screening of Kurahara Koreyoshi's Intimidation. Kurahara's film is one of the purest examples of a Japanese take on American film noir and has seldom been seen on screens on this side of the ocean.A lean, efficient crime thriller from prolific Nikkatsu vet Koreyoshi Kurahara, Intimidation focuses on Takita (Nobuo Kaneko), an ambitious, rising bank manager at a regional branch clawing his way to the top of his firm by any means necessary -- most often by walking all over his meek underling and childhood friend Nakaike (Akira Nishimura). On the verge of his promotion to head office, Takita has his world upended when a mysterious blackmailer appears with...

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Fear The Phone! Full Trailer For Dutch Thriller APP!

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

Dutch director Bobby Boermans is bowing to the inevitable. No, more than that, he's pushing things to an even greater extreme. You see, while others are waging the war against cell phones in movie theaters Boermans is going the other way entirely with his upcoming thriller APP, a film which offers direct interaction with audiences via their phone.In the thriller APP, Anna (Hannah Hoekstra), a young student, gets caught up in her own virtual world. She is addicted to apps, social media and her smartphone. One day Anna discovers a mysterious new app on her phone. It has the answer to every question. Not just scientific questions, but also about her personal life and her friends. When the app starts sending her cryptic texts and...

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THE FALLOW FIELD Trailer Invites You to the English Countryside

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

The debut feature from writer-director Leigh Dovey originally appeared back in 2009 and now resurfaces courtesy of Monster Pictures for a belated UK DVD release on 11 March. Branding itself as Memento meets Wolf Creek in the English countryside, this low budget British horror film may have overstated its case somewhat, but is clearly aiming for a grim, downbeat 70s vibe that worked well for many greats in the genre, while director John Landis is quoted as calling it "a handsome, thrilling and strange movie." There is a bleakness to the trailer below that can't help but evoke Ben Wheatley's Kill List, and earlier reviews hint at a slow-burn twisting plot that boasts a number of surprises and visceral scares. The upcoming DVD release includes an...

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Opening: JOHN DIES AT THE END, A Fun Ride That Fails to Fully Deliver

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST

"David Wong can see things that other people can't. Strange things. Frightening things. Sometimes dead things and creatures from other dimensions. "So can his friend John, with whom he has set up something of a cottage business eliminating supernatural pests. It's because they're on drugs or, specifically, drug. A strange, seemingly sentient drug of indeterminate origin known simply as Soy Sauce, one consequence of whose use is to lead Dave and John to conclude - correctly - that the earth is on the cusp of an inter-dimensional invasion which may or may not be partially their fault but which is certainly their responsibility to stop." Available via various VOD platforms now, and opening theatrically tomorrow in Los Angeles before rolling out across the U.S. in...

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UK Trailer for Soderbergh's SIDE EFFECTS Spins a Druggy Tale

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 06:07 AM PST

The new U.K. trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects takes a somewhat different approach than the original U.S. version. The first trailer focused on the romantic relationship between Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum, which then somehow disintegrates after Jude Law and prescription drugs enter the picture. The U.K. trailer puts Law front and center early -- which makes sense, in view of the target audience -- and pushes Tatum more into the background, with Mara remaining the apparent focus of the story; the role of Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is third-billed, also becomes more clear. Whichever campaign you prefer, the final theatrical feature of Soderbergh's career holds promise for a commercially-minded picture that will bear the filmmaker's distinctive touch. Side Effects opens in Canada and the...

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