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CSI's Archie Kao Joins THE DEATHDAY PARTY

CSI's Archie Kao Joins THE DEATHDAY PARTY

Posted: 15 Mar 2013 04:10 AM PDT

Best known for his role in CSI, American-born actor Archie Kao has signed on to Brightstar Cinema's Chinese thriller The Deathday Party, opposite Anita Yuen and mainland TV star Xiong Naijin. Written, produced and directed by Hang Tse, it follows the story of Helen (Yuen) and Danny (Kao), fighting to save themselves and their daughter as demons of the past collide with the present. China Film Group will be releasing the film domestically, which began filming last month in the ancient Chinese Alu Caves of Yunnan.Kao will next be seen co-hosting the 7th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong next Monday night. The event plays as part of this year's Entertainment Expo, which also includes the Hong Kong Film & Television Market as well as the...

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Review: THE CROODS Survives by its Wits

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 08:50 PM PDT

Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone head the voice cast of Dreamworks' latest animated odyssey, following the world's last surviving family of Neanderthals as they venture forth into an untamed and unexplored prehistoric world. Gorgeous visuals, frantic pacing and a consistently funny script help this otherwise generic family adventure tip the balance in its favour.Originally conceived by Aardman Animation as part of their five-picture deal with Dreamworks, The Croods - or Crood Awakening as it was originally titled - was first penned by Monty Python alumnus John Cleese, together with Space Chimps helmer Kirk De Micco. When Aardman and Dreamworks parted company, the latter kept the rights and Lilo & Stitch director Chris Sanders came on board as director, only for him to then put...

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Exclusive New Images From AMER Directors' THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 06:30 PM PDT

The directing duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzaniinspired quite a loyal cult for themselves with the release of their 2009 debut feature Amer, a cult they teased recently with their brilliant O Is For Orgasm segment in The ABCs Of Death. Well, if you're waiting for more you'll have it soon with the release of their sophomore feature The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears (L'Etrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps). The Strange Colour is the story of a man who investigates the weird conditions of his wife's disappearance. It's a film which we (Hélène & Bruno) have worked on for nine years now. It is set in Brussels (where we live) which is particularly known for its Art Nouveau architecture. The film...

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SXSW 2013 Review: HOURS Makes the Mistake of Putting All Its Dramatic Weight on Paul Walker's Shoulders

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 06:00 PM PDT

All human beings have a talent for one thing or another, and Paul Walker is a human being, so Paul Walker undoubtedly is good at something. But whatever it is, it's not acting. Acting is not the thing Paul Walker is good at. He's harmless enough in the Fast and the Furious movies, where little acting is required and where he has equally blank-faced scene partners (Vin Diesel, cars, etc.) to offset him, but it would be a bad idea to put him in, say, an emotional drama that's essentially a one-man show. Yet that's exactly what has been done with Hours, a dimwitted, unintentionally funny melodrama starring Walker as a man stuck in an abandoned hospital during Hurricane Katrina with no one to talk...

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SXSW 2013 Review: GO FOR SISTERS Is an Easy-Going Character Drama from John Sayles

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Few filmmakers are more legitimately "independent" than John Sayles, who has now written and directed 18 features since 1979 (Return of the Secaucus Seven) without studio backing. His latest, the affable character drama Go for Sisters, while not an outstanding or distinctive achievement, is a perfectly good addition to the Sayles filmography, energized by three central performances that have a lived-in, likable vibe to them. Our heroine is Bernice Stokes (LisaGay Hamilton), a tough-minded but not unsympathetic Los Angeles parole officer with little patience for nonsense. "I listen to people sugarcoat their bulls*** all day," she tells her public-defender boyfriend as he tries to ease his way into a "we're breaking up" speech. The bulk of her job entails sitting behind a desk and hearing...

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Oscar Isaac To Lead Ariel Kleiman's PARTISAN For Warp Films

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Warp Films are crushing it in independent cinema right now. In addition to the UK company constantly churning out modern classics such as This is England, Kill List, Down Terrace and Berberian Sound Studio, its Australian division has produced Snowtown and 2013 Sundance-selected Shopping in quick succession. Now comes news that their third film, Partisan (also undoubtedly Sundance-bound) is moving forward, with hot-ticket thespian Oscar Isaac in the lead.Partisan will be the feature debut of Australian director Ariel Kleiman, whose short film Deeper Than Yesterday - made as Ariel's graduate film at the Victorian College of the Arts - was one of the most impressive student shorts of the past decade. Oscar Isaac, who has impressed in key supporting roles in Drive, Balibo, Robin Hood and...

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SXSW 2013 Review: COLDWATER Is Lukewarm

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Shedding light on important issues through the power of narrative filmmaking can be a tricky proposition. The very nature of fictional storytelling can sometimes make the issues brought to the forefront seem less worthy of inspection (ie: "it's just a movie"). At the same time, calibrating a film's emotional impact to a pitch perfect balance, somewhere between ineffective and sensational, is a razor-thin tightrope walk. Coldwater, directed by Vincent Grashaw and written by Mark Penney, unfortunately stumbles at the starting gate and never fully recovers.    The film begins with teenager Brad Lunders (P.J. Boudousqué) being snatched from his bedroom in the middle of the night by unknown assailants. Within a few minutes, it's made clear that these strange men have come from a juvenile reform...

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WASTELANDER PANDA Is Coming For You. New Series Teasers Begin

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Last year we found out about a strange new hybrid of awesome, a webseries about a Max Rockatansky-style panda wandering the blasted post-apocalyptic landscape. A prologue for this series, Wastelander Panda, was launched online, and after an overwhelming vote of support via crowdfunding, a three-episode first series began production. Now, with the first series in the can and the creators currently at SXSW launching the first episodes as part of the festival's interactive program, they have also started teasing the series online with behind-the-scenes videos about the making of these episodes. First cabs off the rank are videos on Make Up and Production Design. Check them out below!...

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Cineplex Entertainme​nt and Raven Banner ​Launch New Monthly H​orror Series SINISTE​R CINEMA

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Good news for fans of horror film here in Canada. If you have been lamenting that some of the buzz titles from festival circuits or limited release films haven't been playing at a cinema near you then your day just got a little bit brighter. Cineplex Entertainment and Toronto-based sales outfit Raven Banner Entertainment have just done you a solid and created Sinister Cinema, an ongoing monthly(ish) series of screenings at 25 screens across the country. That's like... HALF the screens in all of Canada... maybe. With exception to the Maritimes though (raises an accusing looking eyebrow). So break out your day-timers, check your scheds, save your nickles from your paper routes (pennies would have been better for alliteration but up here Canada has begun...

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Giveaway: Win a Copy of HITCHCOCK on Blu-ray

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Director Sacha Gervasi's biopic about the greatest filmmaker of all time (what, you wanna argue it--come at me), is hitting home video this week from Fox and we've got one copy to give away to a lucky winner. To win a copy, simply follow us on Twitter at @TwitchFilm, and retweet the link to this contest using the hashtag #HitchTwitch. Contest is open to readers in the U.S. and Canada and ends on March 14 (today) at 11:59 PM PST. Winners will be notified via DM. Hitchcock is available now on DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD from Fox Home Video Entertainment....

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Latest Trailer For Johnnie To's DRUG WAR Shoots To The Beat.

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:30 PM PDT

More ultra-violent action from Johnnie To's first mainland China-shot action film, Drug War (Duzhan), in the latest trailer. Holy heck this is violent stuff. Thank you, Mr. To. Set in Jinshan, China, Timmy Choi, a cold-hearted drug dealer, crashes his car into a convenient store after the exposure of his drug factory. In saving his own life, he locks his wife and brother-in-law inside the factory. Police officer Lei, extremely smart and careful, tries to track down drug criminals by offering an opportunity for Ming to reduce the penalty. Choi helps out by betraying all his brothers, until the last minute when he turns back... Drug War opens in China on April 2nd. Well Go USA has the US rights but still no word on...

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Aksel Hennie Hits The Deep Water In First Trailer For PIONEER

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Though we've been talking about Norwegian star Aksel Hennie for years here at Twitch, for many his first real exposure came through international hit Headhunters. So how do we greet the news that Hennie has reunited with the producers of that film along with the director of the original Insomnia - later remade by Christopher Nolan - for the upcoming thriller Pioneer? With a great deal of excitement, of course.PIONEER is set in the early 80's, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea...

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Hey, Toronto! Classic Nikkatsu Action Flick A COLT IS MY PASSPORT Screens For Free This Saturday At 10pm!

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Okay, Toronto, you have no excuses. We're nearing the end of the Twitch curated Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Of Nikkatsu retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and we're going out in style! Classic title A Colt Is My Passport - a huge personal favorite - is this week's selection, screening on 35mm Saturday at 10pm and the screening is free. Yes, completely free. No contests, no nothing, just come on out and get a brilliant piece of stylish crime cinema for free thanks to the Bell Free Weekend happening this week at the Lightbox. Which, yes, does mean that you can park yourself in the Lightbox and see a whole lot of stuff for free, but this is the one you should prioritize.A riotous fusion...

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Director Cristian Mungiu Takes Us BEYOND THE HILLS In This Exclusive Featurette

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 07:00 AM PDT

It's funny the films I can get so enthusiastically, heck almost manically fanboy-ish about. Much of that kind of energy is reserved for the Spider-Mans and Batmans of the world, but for me it's usually something like... well, Cristian Mungiu's Beyond The Hills. The kicker is that I can get so behind such a picture and want to talk about it with everyone, but must do so in broad terms so as not to ruin the experience for those that have yet to see it. As it were (broadly speaking), Beyond The Hills is every bit as mesmerizing and potent in emotion and form as Mungiu's Palme D'Or winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days. It's a film that hones in on a myriad...

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Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema: THE ROAD TO SAMPO

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 05:00 AM PDT

A lot of people are talking about Korean Cinema these days. Whether it be the latest commercial blockbuster to gleefully experiment with genre or the freshest arthouse hit rocking the festival circuit, the industry has a built a well-earned reputation as one capable of satisfying a wide variety of cinematic tastes. However, as rich and diverse as today's Korean Cinema is, it didn't simply appear out of nowhere. I've been watching Korean films for a decade and while I've seen my fair share of classics, particularly from the goldmine that is the 1970s, classic Korean Cinema has not exactly been my strong suit. Of late I've taken a greater interest in older Korean films and I'm very glad I have. With powerful dramas, demented genre...

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