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Yeah, I Saw Some Movies. Only A Few. Matthew Lee's Favourites Of 2012

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Yeah, I Saw Some Movies. Only A Few. Matthew Lee's Favourites Of 2012

Yeah, I Saw Some Movies. Only A Few. Matthew Lee's Favourites Of 2012

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 06:00 PM PST

Yes. Yes, I know, you saw the picture. We'll get to that.I didn't see anything like as many movies as most of the Twitch writers in 2012 - just crawling over 150-odd at the end of the year, and not too many of them were released in 2012. I hardly got to the cinema for anything - outside of film festivals I was waiting on DVDs, or VOD releases. One film on here I only saw at the start of 2013, but technically the DVD scraped in at the end of last year and I liked it enough I, well, cheated. So there. But there were some gems I totally wasn't expecting: enough to put this little list together, for what it's worth.In roughly ascending...

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Choi Min-sik And Hwang Jung-min Star In Korean Thriller NEW WORLD. Watch The First Teaser!

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 02:30 PM PST

What's this? An upcoming Korean thriller featuring a pair of the country's most talentable and reliable performers in the lead? Yes, please.Choi Min-sik, the star of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, should need no introduction around these parts as is work has won him acclaim both at home and around the globe for years now. And while Hwang Jung-min may lack the name recognition of Choi his body of work is very nearly as impressive, the brooding star of Ryoo Seung-wan's The Unjust having compiled an impressive resume over the past decade or so.And now the two co-star in upcoming thriller New World.When the biggest crime organization is about to fall apart by a power struggle, the police detective deep undercover is cornered by both bosses on...

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Red Band THE LAST STAND Trailer Gets Silly In All The Right Ways

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 02:00 PM PST

As any fan of director Kim Jee-woon will tell you, one of the director's great strengths is his ability - where appropriate - to fuse his enormous technical ability with a crackingly visual sense of humor. That skill was abundantly on display in Kim's The Foul King and then again later in big budget action blockbuster The Good The Bad And The Weird. And clearly what we're getting from Kim with Arnold Schwarzenegger comeback vehicle The Last Stand is Kim in Good, Bad, Weird mode.While earlier trailers have pitched the film in relatively standard US trailer fashion a whole lot more of Kim's personality comes through in the new red band effort that arrived on Yahoo today. Yahoo doesn't allow embedding of their red band...

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First Teaser For Otomo's Short Anime COMBUSTIBLE

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:30 PM PST

An old fan favorite has cracked the Oscar shortlist for Best Animated Short with Akira helmer Otomo Katsuhiro in the running with his short film Combustible. The story of an Edo era firefighter and his childhood love reunited in the midst of a massive - and true life - fire that wiped out half of the capitol city, Combustible is part of a larger anthology project that also includes directors Ishii Katsuhito, Morita Shuhei and Katoki Hajime. Take a look at the teaser below....

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Contest: Win One Of Five Copies Of SAMSARA On Blu-ray

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:30 PM PST

The eye-popping travelogue/exploration of the natural world is on DVD and Blu-ray this week from MPI Home Video and they've offered us five copies to give away to our readers. First up, here's a synopsis of the documentary: SAMSARA is a Sanskrit word that means "the ever turning wheel of life" and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead encouraging our own inner interpretations inspired by images and music...

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Review: THE GRANDMASTER Brings Class to the Ip Man Legend

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST

Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong Cinema's most prestigious auteur, finally delivers his long-gestating biopic of Wing Chun pioneer Ip Man, and it proves an action-packed visual feast. Light on narrative, but oozing Wong's trademark elegance, the film weaves the director's familiar themes of love, loss and the corrosive nature of time around some of the most gorgeous martial arts sequences ever filmed.The Grandmaster has been a project so long in the works that for some it may qualify as the most-anticipated film of the new Millennium. It was way back in 2002 that Wong Kar Wai and leading man Tony Leung Chiu Wai called a press conference to declare their intentions. It was more than 18 months ago that the first teaser trailer for the...

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Exclusive: How the Gorgeous SAMSARA Captured the World in 70MM

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

In this clip from the the making of director Ron Fricke's Samsara, find out how the filmmaker approached the epic scope of his globe-trotting, non-verbal film in senses-shattering 70MM. And look for an opportunity to own one of five copies of Samsara later today. Here's the official synopsis: SAMSARA is a Sanskrit word that means "the ever turning wheel of life" and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead...

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UK Blu-ray Review: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO Will Cuddle You And Make You Feel Warm Inside

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

(The quite possibly best film of all time, now quite possibly looks better than ever!) Here at Twitch it's party time whenever Studio Ghibli releases titles from their back catalogue on Blu-ray. So far these releases have been stellar, English-friendly and region free. Unfortunately, they're also bloody expensive. Thankfully, a few months later these are always followed by European, Australian and American releases. In the past I've written reviews for both the UK Blu-ray releases of Nausicaä and Laputa, and last month we got the UK Blu-ray for My Neighbour Totoro. This title arriving on the Blu-ray platform has been one of the most anticipated events for me in the past years, because I flat-out love the film and think it is infinitely rewatchable. And...

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Euro Beat: France In Uproar Over Gérard Depardieu and Actors in General

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

French stars are under attack! First the president François Holland promised to instate a 75% tax on salaries over a million euros, which is almost solely aimed at famous entertainers, and now a big player within the industry is arguing that their salaries should be capped at 400,000 euros per film. Which would, ironically, solve that tax problem. Partly in response to this, and perhaps partly because he really has nothing left to prove, Gerard Depardieu threatened to renounce his French citizenship and live in Belgium, where taxes are lower. A quick aside on that tax law: While the French parliament rejected it, but the government is now drafting a new version of it to submit this Fall. Even Holland has admitted that it's mostly...

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TTTT: An American Film Geek's Top 10 for 2012

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

Amid fiscal cliffs and digital revolutions, we are all adrift on a sea of change. Never mind that your boat-mate may be a hungry Bengal tiger, sometimes it's hard enough just to keep your head above water.To date, I've viewed and considered 136 releases from 2012. Not all are anxiety-driven incidental commentaries on the precarious states of either the world, film culture, or both, but in keeping with last years crop of Movies That Mattered, those considerations are still certainly in play.For the first time, I've pretty much managed to see all the end of year prestige films and major releases.  As a voting member of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, this is particularly important.  I see the films, I review them if possible,...

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Boozie Movies Stumbles Out Of The Bar Just In Time To Piss On Everything You Loved In 2012

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

And thus ends another year and now comes the time when every critic in the world is compiling their annual best of lists. Every Joe with an internet connection is arming himself with a stock array of adverbs that only Stephanie Meyer could love and taking to their blogs to make authoritative claims on the best films of the year. And now that there are seeming(ly) hundreds of thousands of internet critics that means there are now hundreds of thousands of best/worst of lists. Reading these has become something akin to crack cocaine, or playing Call of Duty Black Ops 2 online.  It's become a compulsive urge, clicking through all of these lists at work. But just like crack and Black Ops 2, it's not...

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Director David R. Ellis Has Passed Away

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 06:20 AM PST

Sad news from Hollywood today. Veteran action director and former stuntman David R. Ellis has passed away in South Africa while preparing for his new film KITE which was slated to start shooting soon. He was 60. No news on cause of death at this moment.Ellis had made a name for himself in the action genre as a second unit director on large scale movies, shooting action scenes for the likes of the Wachowskis and Peter Weir and we all know him as the director of the cult phenomenon that was Snakes On A Plane.He made his mark as a director to look out for with his amazing sequel Final Destination 2 and the under appreciated Cellular but with the box office failure of the viral phenomenon Snakes...

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