Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - March (Part 1) |
- Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - March (Part 1)
- Review: The Stylish YOUR TIME IS UP Rings Hollow
- The HENTAI KAMEN Combats Rude Cinema Goers
- THE GATE OF RAGNAROK Opens With First Trailer
- Who Needs Actors, Anyway? Sono Casting His Next Via YouTube Auditions.
- Review: THE HOST Makes Me Hate Cinema
| Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - March (Part 1) Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:00 PM PDT  It is confession time once again, and this month is a special Easter edition of Full Disclosure. In our monthly efforts to catch up with revered classics and widely-considered must-sees that have thus far passed us by, not only are we admitting our own fallibility as mere mortal cinephiles, but more importantly resurrecting a number of cinematic masterpieces for renewed debate and scrutiny.Seven Samurai (dir. Kurosawa Akira, 1954 Japan)Winner of the Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival, nominated for 2 Academy AwardsTodd Brown, Founder & Editor:The remarkable thing about Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is not that it breaks ground or does anything particularly new. No, by this point we've all seen this basic story structure - a downtrodden village enlists the help of rogue warriors to protect... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: The Stylish YOUR TIME IS UP Rings Hollow Posted: 30 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PDT -thumb-200x200-37573.jpg) I discussed the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), or more precisely their graduation feature projects, for my recent piece on When Winter Screams, a film I enjoyed with some reservations. Now it's time to take a look at the other major 2012 KAFA production. Your Time Is Up has had a more successful festival run so far, largely because it was programmed alongside Lee Don-ku's excellent Fatal during last October's Busan International Film Festival in the New Currents section. Due to the exposure afforded by that selection, this KAFA project found itself competing with Jang Kun-jae's Sleepless Night and about a dozen other films during this month's Fribourg International Film Festival. A young man lives with his older working brother. He borrows a tidy... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| The HENTAI KAMEN Combats Rude Cinema Goers Posted: 30 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT  Irritated by people using their cell phones in movie theaters? Concerned about rising piracy? Pissed of at that bastard stetching out over the back of your seat? Have no fear, the Hentai Kamen is here to help! Because what problems like these call for - clearly - is a guy in a mankini and fishnet stockings with lady's panties over his face. Damn straight.Yes, this is an actual, upcoming Japanese superhero movie - it releases there April 13 - and while I've also included the official trailer below the theater etiquette PSA which I've embedded first is where the real gold lies. Check them below.Kyosuke Shikijo is a promising star of the high school kempo club, and he is in love with Aiko Himeno, a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| THE GATE OF RAGNAROK Opens With First Trailer Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:30 PM PDT  Fancy yourself a bit of Amblin style, kid friendly, fantasy adventure? Of course you do. Well then, you've come to the right place because after being kept closely under wraps for quite a while the first trailer for director Mikkel Brænne Sandemose's Norwegian adventure tale The Gate Of Ragnarok (Gåten Ragnarokk) has arrived.At the outset of the film, we are transferred back to the year 833 A.D., where we meet a group of Vikings in the process of leaving their village. They are leaving their livestock tethered by a tiny lake. More than a thousand years later, an archaeologist discovers that the Oseberg Viking ship hides a secret no one has ever been aware of. With his two children, he sets out on an adventure... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Who Needs Actors, Anyway? Sono Casting His Next Via YouTube Auditions. Posted: 30 Mar 2013 04:00 PM PDT  Always a maverick, Japanese director Sono Sion has found a new way to mess with the system. Word is out that Sono is set to direct a live action adaptation of Inoue Santa's manga Tokyo Tribes but rather than go the conventional route and cast the futuristic street gang flick with conventional actors and agencies its creators are taking it straight to the masses and conducting their casting via open auditions on YouTube. Yes, really.though information is there in Japanese only you can visit the project's official YouTube channel now to see introductory videos by both Sono and Inoue along with a couple sample auditions.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: THE HOST Makes Me Hate Cinema Posted: 30 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PDT  It's rare that I see a film as patently awful as The Host. I mean, sure, I've stomached the likes of Identity Thief in the last few months, but this latest "film" from the "mind" of Twilight "author" Stephanie Meyer may well go down in history as one of the worst things ever screened to an audience.The story involves Alien squiggly bits that after an interstellar journey get implanted into the necks of the human race, resulting in glowing eyes and a fascination with chroming (i.e., covered in shiny metal) vehicles. A ragtag band of humans with a proclivity of making out during a rainstorm, yet still being chaste enough to avoid hitting to the proverbial first base, are shown in a kind of existential battle.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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