Sundance 2013 Review: DON JON'S ADDICTION Bulks Up the Body and Career of Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Sundance 2013 Review: DON JON'S ADDICTION Bulks Up the Body and Career of Joseph Gordon-Levitt


Sundance 2013 Review: DON JON'S ADDICTION Bulks Up the Body and Career of Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 06:21 PM PST

Warning: the words "cock," "cum," and "masturbation" are used in this review. With that out of the way, let's get filthy.Joseph Gordon-Levitt is constantly on the move, making new projects with his online art collaboration company, HitRECord.org, and working as an A-list actor with some of Hollywood's most prolific directors. The Boy Wonder has now taken his career in a gutsy new direction: writing, directing, and starring in a movie called Don Jon's Addiction, about a rico suave obsessed with porn. And not just your Average Joe (hehe) who likes porn - this guy lusts for porn and watches it while in class, driving, and after having sex with a woman you and I would never ever get a second glance from. He's so unsatisfied...

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Sundance 2013 First Impression: BREATHE IN is Another Mature Meditation On Love

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 04:44 PM PST

Drake Doremus made a splash at Sundance two years ago when his second film Like Crazy won the US Dramatic Competition on the strength of the director's remarkable portrayal of romantic love. Star Felicity Jones is back with Doremus at Sundance with Breathe In (though this time in the out-of-competition Premieres section) in another meditation on the subject. Albeit a far different kind of love than his last film, Doremus's minimalist style remains consistent and fans of Like Crazy will find the same joy in his portrayal of chest-thumping emotions. Not without it's flaws, Breathe In relies a bit too heavily on some plot conveniences that detract slightly. Still, Doremus's ability to tell a story from all his characters' points of view is even...

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Slamdance 2013 Review: FYNBOS Is A Brilliantly Anti-Cathartic Piece Of Cinema

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 03:00 PM PST

A young white woman in high heels walks down a street in a black working-class neighborhood. Though clearly on edge, she walks with a purpose. She pauses at a row of trash cans. Clothes billow in the wind, threaded on a line nearly invisible in the bright sunlight. The sweep of the cloth calms her, helps her commit to what she is about to do. And with an anger and fear swelling up from deep within chasms of self she dumps the contents of her purse into the trash, erasing her identity with a furious hand. Next, she enters a phone booth, dials the emergency number and reports that she has been robbed.       These are the first captivating moments in commercial director...

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Danny Trejo Stars In Russian Action Comedy TICKET TO VEGAS

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 01:15 PM PST

Danny Trejo has gun, will travel. Or, rather, has gun and will allow others to travel to him. Yes, that is Machete himself on the poster for upcoming Russian action comedy Ticket To Vegas, the Gore Kirakosyan film that looks to fuse sex comedy with bullets blazing action.The core story revolves around a young Russian couple who win the lottery but rather than receiving their millions they are told that the 'win' was actually only the first step. They must now travel to Las Vegas and compete for the ultimate prize in a contest hosted by an Elvis impersonator. Trejo? He's local law enforcement.A pair of trailers for the film have arrived online, check them out below....

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Watch Choi Min-sik In Full Trailer For THE NEW WORLD

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 12:15 PM PST

2013 will not see a finer cast assembled in Korea than director Park Hoon-jeong has gathered for upcoming crime drama The New World. How do I feel confident saying this of a film that releases in February, with most of the year yet to come? Simple: A better cast doesn't exist.Park has gathered three of Korea's finest character actors to anchor his action thriller with Choi Min-sik (Oldboy, Crying Fist), Hwang Jeong-min (The Unjust, Private Eye) and Lee Jeong-jae (The Thieves, The Housemaid) front and center. A detective infiltrates into one of the biggest gang organizations in the country and gets involved in a fight for the heir to the gang after the boss dies and in between the second in charge who trusts him...

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Kidman Kills It In New STOKER Clip

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 09:30 AM PST

As my anticipation ramps up to see (and review) Park Chan-wook's English language debut Stoker here at Sundance, we now have a clip of actress Nicole Kidman, who plays the horrifying mother "Evie Stoker," chewing the scenery in this sure-to-be twisted tale of familial terror. The film also stars Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, and Jacki Weaver.You can go HERE as well, to view screening times for the Sundance festival....

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TWITCH Presents 100 Years of Nikkatsu at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:31 AM PST

One of the great things about TIFF finally getting a home space is their ability to curate niche mini-festivals. Even more great is that they give the likes of Twitch's own Todd Brown a chance to bring an unappreciated sub-genre of gangster noir to a new audience, showcasing the films of the Nikkatsu studio.My knowledge of Japanese classic cinema is pretty much formed by the big three: Kurosawa, Mizoguchi and Ozu. The films showcased as part of this series were a generation fighting against some of the more formal methods of these three masters, while drinking in the slick style of nouvelle vague kineticism from France, the stark nihilism of 30s and 40s Gangster films, and even the broad and epic twang of the spaghetti...

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