Eureka Acquires COMPUTER CHESS for Masters of Cinema

Eureka Acquires COMPUTER CHESS for Masters of Cinema


Eureka Acquires COMPUTER CHESS for Masters of Cinema

Posted: 12 May 2013 03:40 AM PDT

Eureka Entertainment has announced its acquisition of Computer Chess, the award-winning new comedy from Andrew Bujalski (Beeswax, Funny Ha Ha). The distributor will oversee a UK & Eire theatrical run of the film later this year, following a "major UK festival debut", followed by a DVD and Blu-ray release in early 2014, through Eureka's prestigious Masters of Cinema series.Bujalski's film scooped the coveted Alfred P. Sloan award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, given to a feature that honours the theme of science and/or technology. Computer Chess went on to play at Berlin and SXSW. Our own Brian Clark caught the film's European premiere in Germany, where he praised it as "a relaxed, fascinating and often hilarious couple of days in the lives of of an...

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Review: GO GOA GONE Goes Great Guns, Gets Gasps And Giggles

Posted: 11 May 2013 08:07 PM PDT

Color me genuinely shocked. I went to to Bollywood's first zombie comedy with very low expectations and came out completely enthused about the finished product. Directorial team Raj & DK took a lot of very broad references and influences and melded them into something not exactly new, but certainly very entertaining. I've seen a lot of Bollywood horror films, but this is the first one that I feel I can recommend to general audiences without reservation or qualification. Go Goa Gone is a top notch bit of fun.Bunny, Luv, and Hardik are roommates. While Bunny works his little ass off trying to move up in the world, Luv and Hardik spend most of their energy either getting high or trying to get laid. Through a...

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Review: DOCTOR WHO S7E13, NIGHTMARE IN SILVER (Or, An Underwhelming Episode Sees The Doctor Battle Cybermen While Irritating Kids Tag Along)

Posted: 11 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Neil Gaiman's previous scripting effort, "The Doctor's Wife," is acknowledged as one of the strongest episodes of recent Doctor Who, effortlessly feeling like something that fits very naturally into the show's past while giving us a fresh spin on something familiar. Understandably, expectations were high for "Nightmare in Silver," an episode that seeks to accomplish the same feat. This time, it's a reestablishment of the threat posed by the Cybermen, an attempt to make them both more scary and more interesting.Unfortunately, very little in the episode works as well as it should. I'm prepared to entertain the possibility that much of Gaiman's script just doesn't translate but there are numerous flaws throughout this mess and many of them can be attributed to the writing. The...

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