Review: LESSON OF THE EVIL marks Miike's Welcome Return to Exploitation |
- Review: LESSON OF THE EVIL marks Miike's Welcome Return to Exploitation
- TV Review: COMMUNITY S4E08, Herstory Of Dance (Or, Much Ado About Britta)
- TV Review: HANNIBAL S1E01, An Apertif That Goes Down Bloody. Bloody Good, That Is
- Moretz And Moore In CARRIE Trailer
- Review: JURASSIC PARK In 3D Still Inspires A Sense Of Wonder
- US Trailer And Poster For Kim Ki-duk's PIETA
- Interview: Talking THE COLONY With Kevin Zegers and Director Jeff Renfroe
- Boozie Movies: EVIL DEAD and Falling Out of Love With Sam Raimi
- IFFR 2013 Review: MIROIR MON AMOUR, Can Snow White Out-seduce Her Mother?
- Counterpoint Review: EVIL DEAD is Torture
- Legendary Film Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum Talks The Future Of Filmgoing
- Now on Blu-ray in Australia: RUROUNI KENSHIN Is Amazing
- Zoe Bell Kicks Ass In Full Trailer For Gritty Fight Flick RAZE
- Melbourne Cinematheque Review: VIVRE SA VIE Is Godard, Karina Perfection
| Review: LESSON OF THE EVIL marks Miike's Welcome Return to Exploitation Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:00 AM PDT  Miike Takashi's latest high school flick opens as a serious examination of fractured teacher-student relationships, before warping into a deranged and insanely violent black comedy when the charismatic English teacher reveals himself to be a gleefully prolific serial killer. If nothing else, Japanese director Miike Takashi can always be relied upon to surprise his audience. With close to 90 titles already on his resume, the 52-year-old director is as hard-working as ever, releasing three films last year and with at least two more nearing completion. After making his name with extreme titles like Audition, Visitor Q and Ichi the Killer, Miike's filmography has become as diverse as it is busy. In recent years, he has delivered goofball children's comedies like Yatterman and Ninja Kids! as... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| TV Review: COMMUNITY S4E08, Herstory Of Dance (Or, Much Ado About Britta) Posted: 05 Apr 2013 12:00 AM PDT  For those of us that have not given up on the show, we're now a few weeks in to settling in moderate comfort to the Community Moses Port & David Guarascio and their writing staff have made. What started out as a doppelganger with two left feet has turned into a keen footed cousin to the Dan Harmon years of the show. If anything Community is feeling a lot like the feel good times at Greendale that we got in Season 1 with sprinklings of some of the zanier elements that had pollinated by season 2. It's now customary for the Dean to show up in outrageous outfits, for Troy and Abed to reflect on past hijinks and for Annie and Shirley to either team... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| TV Review: HANNIBAL S1E01, An Apertif That Goes Down Bloody. Bloody Good, That Is Posted: 04 Apr 2013 11:00 PM PDT  Admittedly this one snuck up on me tonight. If it were not for the commercial promotions earlier in the evening I probably would have closed the night off gaming, reading, or heaven forbid, Spring cleaning. Thank goodness I stuck around, though, because the season premiere of NBC's new thriller Hannibal was worth checking out. Out of the starting gate, I must declare one thing. I have no lengthy experience with serial killer dramas like Dexter. I gave The Following a shot but have fallen behind on that. So my experience may be limited, but on the plus side it will not be tainted so much by those other shows. Nor did I make the immediate connection between series creator Bryan Fuller and one of my favorite... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Moretz And Moore In CARRIE Trailer Posted: 04 Apr 2013 08:15 PM PDT  Coming this October, just in time for the Halloween season, Carrie is the latest of a string of remakes of another revered horror classic. A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. Kimberly Peirce's film will bow just short of 37 years since the original film was released. New audiences will be lining up to see what havoc Chloë Grace Moretz will wreak on the students of Ewen High School and the citizens of Chamberlain, Maine.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: JURASSIC PARK In 3D Still Inspires A Sense Of Wonder Posted: 04 Apr 2013 08:15 PM PDT  BOOooooooooommmm......I sat in the theatre, kind of in awe. It was my first DTS screening, the cinema having been recently retrofitted for the technology. The year was 1993, and digital surround technology was finally finding its base (and its bass). BOOooooooooommmm......The water in the cup on top of the dash onscreen rippled, concentric rings fluttering to the sound. I'd found out later how they did the effect, by setting thick, metal, guitar-like strings at the bottom of the car and smacking them, causing sympathetic vibrations to move through the vehicle. The first time I saw it, it was movie magic.BOOooooooooommmm......The almighty roar of the T-Rex blared from all speakers, the twang of the guy-wires and electric cables snapping behind my ears. The snout of a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| US Trailer And Poster For Kim Ki-duk's PIETA Posted: 04 Apr 2013 01:30 PM PDT  One of the finest works in an esteemed and controversial career, Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk took home the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival with his punishing drama Pieta. And with Drafthouse Films bringing it to theaters May 17th a new trailer and poster have just arrived.Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, Pietà is the acclaimed film from the celebrated and controversial Korean director Kim Ki-Duk (Bad Guy; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring; 3-Iron). In this intense and haunting story, a loan shark living an isolated and lonely existence uses brutality to threaten and collect paybacks from desperate borrowers for his moneylender boss. He proficiently and mercilessly collects the debts without regard to the pain he causes... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Interview: Talking THE COLONY With Kevin Zegers and Director Jeff Renfroe Posted: 04 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Just over a year ago, I found myself flown to Northern Ontario to visit the set of an ambitious Canadian-produced post-apocalyptic thriller starring Kevin Zegers, Bill Paxton and Laurence Fishburne. The trip to The Colony set was memorable for several reasons, from the epic interview I got to conduct with a slighty amped Paxton, to finding that Fishburne didn't really want to talk, as he (and his small entourage) had just got of the plane. Plus, we got to have our own sense of real-life drama when the weather turned bad while underground, forcing our plane to need late night repairs and having us held up in a small town hotel bar.I assume this is the way I'll handle the weatherpocalypse when it finally comes,... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Boozie Movies: EVIL DEAD and Falling Out of Love With Sam Raimi Posted: 04 Apr 2013 12:00 PM PDT  As with any Boozie Movie piece, caution should be exercised when proceeding. There are spoilers ahead and I was a little bit drunk and more than a little bit cranky. But beyond exposing my state of mind it's intended to temper whatever lofty expectations you may have developed while also exploring a long relationship with the original. So take what comes ahead with a healthy dose of salt. SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!I feel so cheap and used. I feel like I've just been suckered out of my hard earned money once again by a second rate prostitute who doesn't even provide full service with any type of happy ending. I feel like I just got swindled into a $200 private dance in the... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| IFFR 2013 Review: MIROIR MON AMOUR, Can Snow White Out-seduce Her Mother? Posted: 04 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT  (It's all Sex, Lies and Fairy-tales in the "Happily Ever After"...) There certainly wasn't a shortage of films about Snow White in cinemas this past year, what with Snow White and the Huntsman, Mirror Mirror, and Blancanieves. The last of these actually played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and ended in the Top-5 for the audience award (with a whopping high mean rating of 4.6 out of 5!). But would you believe it, there was yet another Snow White adaptation at this year's festival: Siegrid Alnoy's Miroir Mon Amour. You'd be forgiven for not having heard about it though, as the festival's screening was its International Premiere, its first showing outside of its native country of France. Unlike the other film versions, Miroir Mon... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Counterpoint Review: EVIL DEAD is Torture Posted: 04 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT  There is a moment in Fede Alvarez's prepositionless remake of The Evil Dead that offers a hint of the condescension to come; an utter lack of faith in the audience or a confidence crisis in storytelling. After a mishandled prologue involving the exorcism of a dead-ite girl in the basement filled with more cat corpses and mutant hillbillies than Sleepwalkers and The Hills Have Eyes combined, our younger, prettier, twentysomethings come to the cabin in the woods to become, as they say, "spam in a cabin." As our own John Jarzemsky acknowledged in his review from SXSW last month, "the script is probably the weakest point of Evil Dead."Writer/director [Fede] Alvarez's dialogue "is excessively utilitarian and on the nose," John wrote, "a problem exacerbated by mostly wooden... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Legendary Film Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum Talks The Future Of Filmgoing Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has been one of the most essential, unmistakable voices on the cinema landscape for several decades. He's written for virtually all of the major film publications, including Sight & Sound, Film Comment, and Film Quarterly, as well as The Village Voice before his retirement in 2008 when he was the principal film critic for The Chicago Reader. Among numerous other things, Rosenbaum became known as one of the greatest proponents of seeking out World Cinema, well beyond what we are fed through the entertainment pipeline, "art house" or otherwise. His opinions are always sharp, his pool of knowledge exceptionally deep, and range of experience something of a marvel. He's been lauded by everyone from Roger Ebert to Jean-Luc Godard as one of America's... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Now on Blu-ray in Australia: RUROUNI KENSHIN Is Amazing Posted: 04 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Rurouni Kenshin basically defied all expectations and exploded onto screens as one of the most exciting, vibrant and fresh anime live-action visions ever. We reviewed it at Sitges film festival last year, and our correspondent Guillem had nothing but good things to say about it. His full review is here. Making the translation from manga to a live-action film is always tricky. There's always the risk of becoming something too bizarre if they go for an accurate visual style, or straying too much from the source material and becoming something else. Rurouni Kenshin is one the most successful and acclaimed series of all time, both in its original manga and anime forms... I'm very happy to say that the final result delivers. The film's director... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Zoe Bell Kicks Ass In Full Trailer For Gritty Fight Flick RAZE Posted: 04 Apr 2013 07:30 AM PDT  An official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino's favorite action queen Zoe Bell (Death Proof, Django Unchained, Kill Bill) takes the lead in brutal underground fight film Raze. Bell stars opposite Rachel Nichols (Star Trek, Conan), Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) in this no holds barred, to the death tournament battle. And now you can check out the first trailer to get a taste of what's coming.From shadows of post-production emerges the long anticipated "RAZE" trailer! RAZE stars Zoë Bell (Django Unchained, Oblivion) , Rachel Nichols (Continuum, Star Trek, P2), Tracie Thoms (RENT, Death Proof), Doug Jones (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy), Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks), Bruce Thomas (Legally Blonde), Rebecca Marshall (Saw 3D: The Final Chapter), Bailey Anne Borders (The Change Up), Allene Quincy... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Melbourne Cinematheque Review: VIVRE SA VIE Is Godard, Karina Perfection Posted: 04 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Welcome back to my ongoing coverage of the Melbourne Cinematheque's fantastic program for 2013. Here I will be reviewing the first film per season (month). This month I took a look at Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962), the first of the films from the eponymous Jean-Luc Godard. For the month of March I introduced one of German's works, which can be found here. I hope you saw something from this season! Running from April 3-17, the retrospective of Godard's films clamber through genre and the unconventional, turning the medium of cinema on itself with pseudo-documentary and stoic genre pieces. The enfant terrible of the nouvelle vague, Godard's work is uncompromising in his unique and often frustrating visions and statements on society and... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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