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Robert Downey Jr. Options Episode Of UK Show BLACK MIRROR

Robert Downey Jr. Options Episode Of UK Show BLACK MIRROR

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 08:30 PM PST

Warner Bros. has optioned the third episode, "The Entire History of You," from the first season of Charlie Brooker's incredible show Black Mirror. The show was written by Peep Show scribe Jesse Armstrong and he has been signed on to translate the plot device in his episode into a feature length sci-fi thriller. Armstrong already has fans among the writers here at Twitch, not only for Peep Show, but also for his input on films like In The Loop and Four Lions. The film will be produced under Robert Downey Jr's banner Team Downey. The episode of the British anthology show centers on a man with an implant that allows him to record and re-watch all of his life experiences. He begins to suspect his wife is...

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Lee Hardcastle Blows Up Clay Russia In A GOOD CLAY TO DIE HARD!

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 06:56 PM PST

The ABCs of Death alumnus is back at it again. Having earned his spot on one of last year's best omnibus horror films with his short T is for Toilet and won over fans with his claycat homages to Evil Dead II, The Thing and The Raid: Redemption, animator Lee Hardcastle bestows upon us another splattery dose of claymation violence. This time out, Hardcastle is having fun with the upcoming Die Hard flick, giving his own interpretation of events in A Good Clay to Die Hard. Expect more blood, explosions and military-grade hardware than ever before!If you're like me and you're taking that special someone out to the cinema tomorrow night to see A Good Day to Die Hard then this serves as an excellent primer to your evening. No, seriously....

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Magnolia Is Bringing Lars Von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC To The U.S.

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 02:30 PM PST

Magnolia Pictures, who also released Melancholia, has announced that it will be bringing Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac to the United States... whenever it's finished. As announced yesterday, the film is currently 7.5 hours long, and according to the executive producer "all good." However, unlike pretty much every other von Trier movie, the film won't be premiering at Cannes, not because of the whole Hitler debacle from two years ago, but because it won't be ready in time.According to the Danish producer and CEO of Zentropa Entertainments Peter Aalbæk Jensen:"Four editors were working around the clock to meet the Cannes deadline, but we had to give it up...After 268 script pages, 11 weeks of shooting and with 100 hours of material it would have been rape...

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Berlinale 2013 Review: LAYLA FOURIE Isn't The Paranoid Polygraph Thriller It Could Have Been

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 02:00 PM PST

Aristotle wrote that audiences will always allow for coincidences that put the protagonist in a worse position than before, but not vice versa. However, after seeing Layla Fourie, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with the master here. In this would-be paranoia thriller, nearly every story complication and conflict is the result of coincidence, each more unlikely than the last, until finally, the suspense completely collapses under the weight of all the chance meetings, badly timed discoveries and self-dooming decisions by the lead. It's a shame too, because, while the film falls short of its most basic goal, there are many interesting ideas floating around in the margins. It's disappointing also because the first twenty minutes are spectacular. The film opens with Layla talking...

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Review: XL Reveals The Ugly Side Of Icelandic Politics

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 12:00 PM PST

Here we are, four years after the financial crash and artists are still commenting on the events that led to it. Fueled by stories of greed, political corruption and over abundance, it's easy to find material to tell and hopefully warn other generations that this behavior isn't right, unless you are a sociopathic dick hole. Director Marteinn Thorsson and actor Olafur Darri Olafsson have found one such dick hole in the form of politician Leifur, who suffers from a severe case of alcoholism and drug addiction. It seems that his behavior will get him ousted from his political party, as he is seen as an embarrassment.  When his close friend the Prime Minister asks Leifur to go to rehab after a public brawl at...

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Now on Blu-ray: Well Go USA Delivers DOOMSDAY BOOK, THE ASSASSINS, TAI CHI ZERO, DANGEROUS LIAISONS, And THE THIEVES

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 11:01 AM PST

You'll be seeing several of these cram sessions from me as I catch up from a particularly eventful winter during which I was unable to maintain my preferred review schedule. Hopefully these wrap-ups will be useful as I can help you decide what is worth your money and what isn't. Well Go USA is one of the more prolific labels with whom I deal on a regular basis. In the last two months, they've dropped some major releases on us, including their theatrical/Blu-ray release of Stephen Fung's steampunk kung-fu epic, Tai Chi Zero; and Korean box office explosion, The Thieves, among others. Here are a few words about each of their recent releases from our archival reviews:Doomsday Book:This apocalyptic triptych is the joint work of...

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Amanda Seyfried May Dump Seth MacFarlane In A MILLION WAYS TO DIE

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:01 AM PST

According to a report at THR, Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables and the upcoming Lovelace) is in talks to play the role of Seth MacFarlane's girlfriend in his comedy western A Million Ways To Die in the West. Now before you start silently wishing the man dead because you are green with envy, please be reminded that in his next movie his girlfriend leaves him after he chickens out of a gunfight. This in turn sends him into the arms of Charlize Theron, who will play an outlaw's wife who teaches him how to shoot. ...You know what? I think we all have a legitimate reason to hate the man, actually. Yeah. Screw you, MacFarlane, for casting beautiful women in your next movie! ...

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WITHER, HORROR STORIES And MEMORY OF THE DEAD Join Artsploitation Films Lineup

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:00 AM PST

Artsploitation Films has acquired three new international horror titles to add to their distribution lineup. They have added from Sweden, Wither, from Argentina, Memory of the Dead and from Korea, Horror Stories. Artsploitation will release the films either theatrically, by VOD or digital release, and DVD release as well. I saw Wither when it had it's world premiere at the Lund Fantastik Film Festival. In my review I said, "So the script does not set a new benchmark for originality... But the gore and the violence makes up for it in spades. No, really. A spade does come into play later in the film. But, boy howdy, does the violence more than redeem the typical horror plot. By the end of the second act I was giddy as a...

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Chicago's Music Box Theater Throws 70mm Film Festival: 2001, VERTIGO, Tati's PLAYTIME and LIFEFORCE!

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 08:01 AM PST

The Music Box Theater in Chicago, Illinois is presenting a 70mm film festival from February 15-28. If you've never seen a film in 70mm and you live in the Chicago area, prepare to be completely overwhelmed. 70mm isn't about size, it's about the look and feel and sound. This is a rare chance to experience these films as they were originally intended. If you have seen a 70mm presentation before, it was probably 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) or Vertigo (1958), which have both toured that way in the last ten years or so. Both of those are playing. But you also have a chance to see the extravagantly adventurous Lord Jim (1965), the impossibly enchanting Jacques Tati masterpiece Playtime (1967), and, perhaps most unbelievably,...

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FIST OF JESUS Will Make You A Believer

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 07:01 AM PST

In the Spanish short film Fist of Jesus, when Jacob tells Jesus that his son, Lazarus, is dead, Jesus goes to his home to resurrect him. Only, this is the first time that Jesus has ever tried to bring back someone from the dead. You do not always get it right the first time. What follows is a gore-tastic nine minutes of Biblical splatter violence and comedy. Even our Lord and Savior goofs up once and a while. But he makes amends. Big time. This is the truest meaning of "Violence of Biblical proportions". Fist of Jesus was created by filmmakers David Munoz and Adrian Cardona. It did a short tour of festivals in Europe, including Sitges, and the filmmakers would like to make a feature film, Once...

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Trailer For GHOST IN THE SHELL: ARISE

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 06:30 AM PST

Staff at Production I.G. made an announcement today regarding one of their latest projects, Ghost in the Shell: Arise, an anime franchise that needs no introduction, I am sure. Along with their announcement, they also released a trailer, which you may watch below. Arise will consist of four 50 minute parts and fans in Japan will get their first look this summer.  The first part, "Ghost Pain," will run in Japanese theaters for two weeks starting on Saturday, June 22. There will be advance Blu-ray Disc copies with a bundled scenario book available at participating theaters for 8,000 yen (about US$85). There will also be paid streaming of the project, at least in Japan.The general retail release of the first part's Blu-ray Disc will be...

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David Lynch Short Film IDEM PARIS Embraces The Lithograph

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST

Welcome to the strangely hypnotic world of the lithograph through the lens of David Lynch's camera. Cult filmmaker David Lynch made a short film last year during a printing of one of his lithographs at the fine art printing studio, Idem, located in the Montparnasse district in Paris.  It has the caption on it, "Murdered Woman in Burning Car."(Idem) is an important venue for leading international artists to bring their inspiration and creativity to the world of lithography. In this large 15,000 square foot studio with its gleaming glass roof, visiting artists work collaboratively with master printers in the production of unique print editions. Drawing on their long years of experience, these master printers guide the artist through the entire printing process, suggesting innovative and experimental...

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TV Review: BLACK MIRROR S2E01, BE RIGHT BACK (Or, Charlie Brooker's Sci-Fi Anthology Returns, Stronger Than Ever)

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 05:30 AM PST

When Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror began in 2011, it seemed to be focused on being an effective satire above anything else. Its opener, "The National Anthem," is a sensationalist episode that definitely got viewers talking and kept them watching. As the first series progressed, though, it revealed more strengths than just sharp humour, and the remaining episodes displayed a level poignancy and perceptiveness that is rare to see on television. "The Entire History of You" manages this incredibly successfully, taking perhaps the most bleak approach of the three. Assuredly, the second series begins with an episode that provides these qualities and much more.In "Be Right Back," Hayley Atwell stars as Martha and Domhnall Gleeson plays her boyfriend Ash. The couple have recently moved to a...

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IFFR 2013 Review: HALLEY Begs Sympathy For The Zombie

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 05:00 AM PST

(For starters, they're so sloooo-ooow...) While there weren't as many genre films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as, say, ten years ago, this year it actually featured two new zombie films. Amazingly, both titles managed to bring something new to the table in this over-over-overused sub-genre: Frankenstein's Army was a Nazi-zombie-cyborg-fest, and from Mexico we got the reflective arthouse film Halley. Reflective? Arthouse? Zombie? Mexico? Intriguing to say the least! Read on... The Story: Beto is a security guard at a gym in Mexico City. A quiet, reclusive man, he keeps out of the way of other people. When he gets home, he spends most of his time grooming himself and keeping his apartment obsessively clean. Beto has a good reason for doing this:...

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Machetes! Face Kicks! Johnny Tri Nguyen's Gangster Action Flick CHO LON Trailer Is Here

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 04:40 AM PST

We're acolytes of Johnny Tri Nguyen's brand of ass-whupping here at Twitch, so any time new Nguyen footage appears, we are on it. The most recent film we've been tracking is his gangland martial arts film, Cho Lon, and there is finally some footage to go along with the amazing stills we've grabbed over the last couple of months.The film reunites the team behind The Rebel and Clash, namely director Charlie Nguyen and action star/choreographer Johnny Nguyen. With the massive success those films have had at home, and the inroads that they've built to the outside world who now knows to pay attention to Vietnamese action, I would expect Cho Lon to a solid film. The trailer thankfully showcases some drama to go along with...

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