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HANNIBAL International Trailer Paints Mads Mikkelsen As A Sympathetic, Helpful Cannibal

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HANNIBAL International Trailer Paints Mads Mikkelsen As A Sympathetic, Helpful Cannibal

HANNIBAL International Trailer Paints Mads Mikkelsen As A Sympathetic, Helpful Cannibal

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PST

The first teaser for upcoming U.S. TV show Hannibal left the titular character, played by Mads Mikkelsen, in the shadows, but a new, extended international trailer brings him into the light as a sympathetic, helpful psychiatrist. He is charged by FBI Agent Dr. Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) with helping troubled Agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) as he profiles a serial killer. Graham is presented as the darker half of the unlikely pair, with Dr. Hannibal Lecter the kindly, uninteresting civilian. That reflects some of the descriptive passages in Thomas Harris' novels that explored the earlier days of the characters, which is where the new show begins. One concern that pops up here is to what degree Hannibal will keep the character exploration in the background...

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TV Review: COMMUNITY S4E04 Alternative History Of The German Invasion (Or, It's Nice To See Greendale Again)

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:00 PM PST

One thing that has clearly been lacking thus far in this season of Community is quality time spent on the campus of Greendale Community College. In many ways the study room is just as central to this show as the study group is (it's their home-base and place of origin after all), a point tonight's episode wants to emphasize with care and insight as we move ever closer to Jeff's early graduation date. So how does it fair?With the History of Ice Cream class ("It's as informative as it is delicious!" Garret exclaims) under way without them, Jeff and the gang sign up for a non-dairy based dessert history class -- a European History class -- with their Professor being played by Malcolm McDowall (who...

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Review: 21 AND OVER Makes Binge Drinking A Laughing Matter

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:01 PM PST

Since I didn't go to college and didn't get drunk in my early 20s, some movies are less fathomable to me than others. Case in point: 21 & Over, a mixed-message spiritual cousin to The Hangover, whose writers make their directorial debut with a drunken comedy that's more sober, less humorous, and more offensive than (likely) intended. The gross-out part of the equation is filled early with public urination -- on squealing girls in a bar, no less -- and slow-motion projectile vomiting. These moments and others that pop up thereafter feel obligatory, however. (Not the male nudity, though; all three of the fit lead actors are lovingly displayed at various times in the nearly altogether.) Directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, working from their...

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Australian Soccer Indie TOTAL FOOTBALL Available To Watch Online

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:30 PM PST

Australia is producing a surfeit of sporting movies at the moment. Stellar cricket comedy bromance Save Your Legs has opened across the country, while Aussie rules football drama Blinder is waiting in the wings (or half-back flank) for its March 7 release. Last year big wave surf documentary Storm Surfers 3D rode across screens, and later this year we'll have another surf movie, Drift, based on Australian surfing in the 1970s.Amid all these big fish is Total Football, a small indie (formerly called Offside) set in the world of Australian soccer - or football, as purists like to call it - written and directed by Gian Carlo Petraccaro. I haven't seen the film yet but have been enjoying following the spirited promotion of the film, especially...

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Exclusive English Language Teaser and Poster Debut for NEW WORLD

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 03:13 PM PST

We've previously brought you word about the Korean language teaser and full Korean trailer for Park Hoon-jeong's New World. Well Go USA has picked up the film for US distribution and those fine folks are wasting no time bringing out materials ahead of the March 22 release date. We are happy to bring you now, the exclusive debut of the English language teaser trailer, the poster, and two stills from the flick. With an incredible cast that includes Choi Min-sik (Oldboy, Crying Fist), Hwang Jeong-min (The Unjust, Private Eye), and Lee Jeong-jae (The Thieves, The Housemaid), it sounds like this is a film not to be missed. Check out the official description from Well Go, followed by the goods. The head of the Goldmoon crime...

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Dallas IFF Announces First Titles, Including MUD, PIT STOP, THE DIRTIES

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 02:00 PM PST

The first 10 titles that will be screening at the upcoming Dallas International Film Festival have been announced, marking the local premieres of Jeff Nichols' Mud, Yen Tan's Pit Stop, and Matt Johnson's The Dirties. The festival's 7th edition will run from April 4-14. It's become one of the premier cultural events in the city, but beyond giving wealthy patrons the opportunity to demonstrate their support of the arts, Dallas IFF breathes life into a local film culture that is dominated by mainstream fare; this year it promises 180 (?!) films from around the world. Here are the titles and descriptions, all provided by the festival. BUCK WILD (USA) Director: Tyler Glodt Set in Texas, BUCK WILD follows four friends whose hunting trip goes horribly,...

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Review: STOKER Triumphs With Beauty And Violence

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:00 PM PST

Stoker is what you've come to expect from Park Chan-wook: A twisted tale of familial obsession, sexual repression, buried histories, and, in the loosest and grimmest sense, self-liberation. Park's uber-violent Vengeance trilogy, and political thriller JSA: Joint Security Area, are undisputed classics, though some would say (including me) the director later had a couple of minor missteps with I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK, and his vampire film, Thirst. So while Stoker was indeed at the tip-top of my "must see" list this year, I didn't allow myself to turn cartwheels before I had a chance to lay my eyes on the film in its entirety. Now? I'm doing cartwheels. A modern Gothic, Stoker begins with the aftermath of the death of Richard Stoker (played...

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Review: JACK THE GIANT SLAYER Boldly Slashes Forth, Free Of Irony

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 12:00 PM PST

Color me surprised, because if Jack the Giant Slayer isn't quite the best movie of the year so far, it's at least a damn good one.It's fair to say the movie had a stink about it. It was meant to come out last summer, and got pushed back for a variety of reasons, ostensibly to allow Warner Bros. to focus on reaping a gazillion dollars from their final Christopher Nolan Batman movie. The original director was replaced by former indie guy and now genre stalwart Bryan Singer, who rewrote the film with his long-time collaborator Christopher "Alas He's Not Related To Ralph" McQuarrie.    It's coming on the heels of a slew of other Faery-tale re-imaginings: two Snow White offerings, a Burtonian trip to Wonderland,...

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Review: LEVIATHAN Enthralls, Blows Minds

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

It's dark. First, you hear the eerie clanking of metal and waves: sound of something heavy, something industrial getting pulled out of the bubbling sea. It's all abstract: saturated colors -- iridescent blue, yellow, red and green all mixed in. It takes some time to realize that we are on a giant commercial fishing boat, and the crew is untangling an enormous chain that is connected to the fishing net. It's a tedious and also dangerous process by the looks of it. The whole scene reminds me of late Godard films where he manipulates his video image into an abstraction. This is just the beginning of Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's jaw-dropping second feature, Leviathan. The images, shot entirely on tiny GoPro cameras, are startling...

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Do You Dare Ride The LIFT TO HELL?

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST

Upcoming Chinese horror film Lift To Hell comes exactly as described on the box, delivering a story of a lift (an elevator for us non-Brits) taking you on a one way trip to EVIL. Horror is a burgeoning genre in mainland China thanks to some low cost, high yield successes with a host of production outfits now piling on the gravy train and trying to figure out how to be as gory as possible without running afoul of local censorship rules. And how they've managed that here is certainly a question. The bigger question, though - for those who have seen it - is how this trailer compares to Dick Maas' 1983 haunted elevator offering The Lift. Anyone?...

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Review: PHANTOM Dives Into Cold War Waters With A Nuclear Drama

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:01 AM PST

Dive! Dive! Treading familiar water with aplomb, the modest submarine thriller Phantom is buoyed by two superior performances from Ed Harris and William Fichtner, who add salt and crust to what is otherwise a relic of the Cold War. "Inspired by actual events," according to an opening title, Phantom is set almost entirely on board a creaky Soviet diesel submarine in 1968. Writer/director Todd Robinson appers to have worked backward from the ending, conjuring up a scenario in which a nuclear crisis develops between the U.S. and the Soviet Union because of top-secret equipment the KGB is testing. Harris plays Demi, who is ready to accept an ignoble retirement when his superior officer, Markov (Lance Henriksen), offers him the opportunity to captain the secret mission....

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Serpents And Sinners In Trailer For Mitchell Altieri's HOLY GHOST PEOPLE

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST

William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and the like had it right. When you take people somewhere off the beaten track and stoke a religious fervor in them, strange things can happen. You don't even need to go off the beaten track to find it, in many cases. Back in my college days - when I was completing a degree in religious studies - Toronto was caught up in an extreme charismatic movement with services at certain well known and well populated churches filled every night of the week with scores of people writhing on the floor, barking like dogs, speaking in non-existent languages etc. Though my own church background was far different I attended a few times to witness these things first hand - a good...

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Like It Or Not, PROMETHEUS 2 Is Coming

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 07:30 AM PST

One of the most divisive films of last year was Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Hey, only kidding - after the Phantom Menace-eqsue want-it-to-be-good spark faded from our eyes, most of us had to admit it wasn't very good and didn't make a lot of sense. Back here at Twitch, founder and editor Todd Brown wrote a critical open letter to the screenwriter Damon Lindelof, and we all (except for the crazy Dutchman, Ard) grasped our copies of Alien tightly and collectively wiped our memories of the experience - dismissing the film as a cryo-sleep fever dream that Ripley may have had in stasis between the events of Alien and Aliens.But now comes confirmation from Prometheus lead actress and Sigourney Weaver cipher Noomi Rapace that the mooted...

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SXSW 2013 Exclusive: Teaser Trailer Debut for GOOD NIGHT

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 07:00 AM PST

It's festival trailer premiere season and we've got another SXSW exclusive for you. This time it's the feature debut Good Night from director Sean H. A. Gallagher. Though the premise sounds a bit dark, the trailer looks like a lot of fun. The Narrative Spotlight title features a great cast that includes Alex Karpovsky (Girls), Todd Berger (It's a Disaster), Jonny Mars (A Teacher), Adriene Mishler, and Chris Doubek (Lovers of Hate). Check out the synopsis below, followed by the teaser. Leigh's 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces that the evening may be the last time her friends see her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately follow. Austin filmmaker Sean H.A. Gallagher has assembled a talented pool...

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Review: THE BRASS TEAPOT Somehow Succeeds in Spite of Itself

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:01 AM PST

Alice (rising star, Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano, that kid from Sky High) are a cute, if callow, young couple caught in the cogs of the economic downturn. His business degree has only landed him a telemarketer job and her art-history degree leaves her going to one failed job interview after another. Her Nicole Kidman To Die For wardrobe choices and perky attitude does not appear to help when the other interviewees have more qualifications or experience. They pay their credit cards with other credit cards, which would actually make living paycheque to paycheque kind of a step up. Passive-aggressively poked by their more fiscally stable family, who just want the young couple to get on with it and have kids, and jealous of their wealthy...

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Steven Spielberg Will Head The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Jury

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:00 AM PST

No one can keep Steven Spielberg down. You know what he does when his classy, historical epic doesn't win the Academy Award for best picture? He gets up, dusts off his tux and prepares to preside over the jury for the most prestigious film festival in the world. No big deal. Yes, Spielberg has been chosen as the president of the jury for the 66th Cannes Film Festival. There's no real use in speculating about how his presence will affect the outcome of the awards until the actual lineup is announced, though, if Lars Von Trier would put Nymphomaniac-editing on hold and speed-shoot his own historical epic with dinosaurs and aliens in time for competition, there would certainly be much rejoicing. Spielberg has shown three...

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