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Review: AFTER EARTH Is Apocalyptically Bad

Review: AFTER EARTH Is Apocalyptically Bad

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:30 PM PDT

Once upon a time, there was a director who made a film about a kid who saw dead people. I kind of despised this film at the time, and figured that nobody would fall for the silly farce. Alas, The Sixth Sense became something of a phenomenon, and established its auteur, one M. Night Shyamalan, as a maker of large scale, big event Hollywood films. His next work, Unbreakable, broke me, and I figured I'd never see another of his films again.I purposely missed out on Signs, and The Village, and The Lady in the Water, each film with progressively lower IMDb ratings, films that are almost farcically bad in terms of poor reputation. Still, each was advertised with the director's name emblazoned on the poster....

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Sam Neill and Bryan Brown Team Up For OLD SCHOOL

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:00 PM PDT

This is not your father's Old School, and by that I mean you Magnus Paulin Ferrell. Nope, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown aren't teaming up for an remake of the US cult comedy, but are just taking the name and old dogs in a new world formula for a new crime drama series for Australian TV. As Picha reports, Old School tells the story of Ted McCabe (Neill), a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill (Brown), a retired crim, who get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make some much-needed cash, while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld. The series will be directed by Gregor Jordan, Peter Templeman and series creator Paul Oliver. It will air on ABC TV and is being produced by Matchbox Pictures,...

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KON-TIKI Directing Duo Seize PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5 Booty

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning, directors of Kon-Tiki, Norway's entry into the Best Foreign Film category at this year's Academy Awards, have harpooned themselves the big one. The duo have been chosen to direct the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It will be seen as a directing coup to most, but an obvious choice for those who have seen their previous sea-faring film about Thor Heyerdal's trans-Pacific voyage on a raft. These fellas have their sea legs. And while the choice of directors for the franchise certainly has no bearing on whether or not your average cinema-goer sees the film or not -- Johnny Depp is the cash cow --  this is really a big deal for all Norwegian filmmakers in terms of...

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Blu-ray Review: PATLABOR: ORIGINAL OVA SERIES Looks Fresh And Sharp

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT

(Do you feel lucky, otaku?) Confession time: after I saw Ghost in the Shell I became a stark raving mad fan of its director Oshii Mamoru, and made it a point to hunt down his other works as well. While I did not fall equally in love with all of his other films (this is Oshii after all...), his two Patlabor films were definitely happy discoveries. A surprisingly realistic down-to-Earth story about Tokyo police mecha which was ehm... not at all about the mecha, Patlabor turned out to be, in my opinion, awesome. And the good news was that there was a lot more Patlabor to get! A television series spanning several seasons, for example. But there was a catch: the series and the films...

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Review: Brillante Mendoza Produces A Queer Film About Loneliness In The Social Network Era With UNFRIEND

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:00 PM PDT

When we think about the new wave of queer cinema from the Philippines one of the first names which comes to mind is surely Joselito Altarejos. His films - from Antonio's Secret to The Game in Juan's Life - have been selected in various international festivals, from the Turin GLBT to the Image Out of Rochester. So it shouldn't surprise that the most awarded auteur of Filipino cinema, his majesty Brillante Mendoza, revealed himself as an Altarejos fan and decided to produce his last work, Unfriend, which we've been lucky enough to see in a private sneak preview.Altarejos returns to the core themes of Antonio's Secret, investigating the adolescent world with its most perverse lack of direction. This time, however, he doesn't deal with a...

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Watch The Teaser For Tony Ukpo's Indie SciFi AFTER THE WORLD ENDED

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Director Tony Ukpo is one who has popped up here on Twitch from time to time, the helmer turning out a string of intelligent and handsomely shot spins of different genre tropes. Ukpo is putting the final buff and polish on his fourth feature film now and, true to form, he's staying in the genre world with a science fiction picture titled After The World Ended.An astronaut crashes in the middle of nowhere. A young woman searches for her family in an abandoned urban wasteland. A prisoner prepares for a space program that will make him the first human being on Mars.Shuna Iijima, Lucien Maine, and Eke Chukwu star. Check the first teaser below....

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The Machine Gun Woman Does Not Want You To Clean Her Window, Thanks.

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman is freshly out in Chilean cinemas and the titular character wants you to know one thing. She's aware that her car is dirty. And she's fine with that....

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From Regions Beyond: French Gore on DVD, OGROFF - MAD MUTILATOR & DEVIL STORY

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Welcome to a newish, somewhat irregular, but totally awesome feature, From Region Beyond! We commonly review home video releases from all over the English speaking world, but it's about time we started letting you guys know that there's a whole galaxy of discs out there to melt your mind. With help from our buddies at Diabolik DVD, we'll be exploring some of the more obscure, crazy, and awesome cinema of the past and present. Part of the challenge for cult film collectors is to find English friendly releases of films without editions from the big four markets, the US, UK, Australia, and Canada; but they are out there, and we're going to start in France with a pair of classically absurd Gallic gore films whose...

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HEADHUNTERS Director In The Mix For Bond 24, The Script Already Complete?

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:30 PM PDT

The search for Sam Mendes' successor at the helm of the James Bond franchise continues in some interesting directions with Norwegian website Comoyo reporting that Headhunters director Morten Tyldum has been approached by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. Says Tyldum:I can confirm that I've had a meeting with Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. They are fans of Headhunters, and wanted to know if I'm available at the moment. They also wanted me to read a script.That last bit is certainly interesting as it would imply that writer John Logan has already completed a draft of the script. More as it comes, but weigh in below. How would you feel about Tyldum at the helm?...

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Chile Goes SciFi With CONEXION

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

While Latin America has proven a fertile ground for horror film one genre we've seen remarkably little of from the region is science fiction. Perhaps too many people still assume that American style bang and crash space opera is the only way to do science fiction - and are scared off by the budgetary requirements of going that road - but Chile's Diego Ayala has found another path for his near future film Conexion.Chile. In 2015 a group of anthropomorphic aliens request asylum and protection in planet Earth...On this new world Francisco lives with a dark past. He keeps two lives: he is a talented expert in computing and a cold-blooded killer who hunts the humanoid aliens..but an encounter with a lonely female alien named...

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An Intriguing Tease For Mikhail Red's REKORDER

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Someone's caught something on tape that they weren't meant to. And there are going to be consequences. It's a simple place to begin but sometimes the simplest concepts are the most effective and Mikhail Red's Cinemalaya feature Rekorder is definitely intriguing.REKORDER tells the story of a former 1980's film cameraman who currently works as a movie pirate operating in present day Manila. He routinely smuggles a digital camcorder into movie theaters in order to illegally record films. One night he records something else... And the footage goes viral.Though very brief, a first teaser has arrived online and it promises something unique. Take a look below....

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Christopher Ad Castillo Pays A Visit To THE DIPLOMAT HOTEL

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Cinemalaya gets haunted this year with the arrival of The Diplomat Hotel. Best known internationally as a leader of the Filipino arthouse indie wave of the past several years, Cinemalaya - which, like other similar events, is also a funding body - is headed to darker grounds this year with the inclusion of Christopher Ad Castillo's The Diplomat Hotel.Victoria Lansang is a popular news reporter who has been requested to mediate a hostage crisis.  And in front of a national television audience, something horribly goes wrong and people are killed while Victoria suffers a mental breakdown. A year later, she's eager to get back into the game but the only assignment she can get is to do a documentary on the last night of The...

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Kim Ki-Duk's MOEBIUS First Film Selected For Venice Competition

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

After announcing Bernardo Bertolucci as the Jury President of the 2013 Venice Film Festival (28 August - September 7), we finally have the first title competing for the prestigious Golden Lion. Sure enough, after winning the award just last year with Pieta,  Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk will be back in the laguna to present his latest work, Moebius. Once again, the plot seems quite thorny, telling the story of a woman who fatally kills her son by mistake and a man who castrates himself for atonement. Sounds creepy huh? Yes, after the pre-Arirang break, Kim Ki-duk seems back and more prolific than ever ... will Bertolucci, who is himself a film-maker keen on noxious stories (let's think of Last Tango In Paris) appreciate?...

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Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema: BETWEEN THE KNEES

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema is a bi-weekly feature looking back at classic South Korean Cinema. Sorry for the length between updates, will get back on track! While eastern and western sensibilities co-exist somewhat happily in Korea these days, this wasn't always the case. Faced with independence after a long spell of colonial rule in 1945, albeit divided from the Soviet-controlled North, South Korea, through the presence of the US military, was presented with the trappings of the West for the very first time. Ever since then, there has been an uneasy relationship between respect for established local tradition and cravings for imported comforts. Many films have examined this dichotomy, including Early Rain (1966), which I previously covered in Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema. However...

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Rest In Peace, Eddie Romero

Posted: 29 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Legendary Filipino writer, director and producer Eddie Romero passed away Tuesday night of prostate cancer. He was eighty eight.Named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003 Romero achieved cult status abroad as a key figure in a host of Philippines based horror and exploitation films, though his filmography runs far deeper than that. The director of more than fifty features, you'd be hard pressed to find a genre or topic Romero didn't tackle during his long and successful career and his passing marks the end of an era....

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Hey London! Celebrate 100 Years of Nikkatsu at the BFI this June!

Posted: 29 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Nikkatsu Studios has produced some of the most stylish, anarchic and influential Japanese movies of the past 100 years, most notably during its counter culture heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. To mark its centenary, the BFI is staging a month-long retrospective of some of the greatest hits from the notorious Season in the Sun. From Suzuki Seijun's Branded to Kill to Imamura Shohei's Pigs and Battleships, this is a rare opportunity for UK audiences to see some absolute cult classics on the big screen in beautiful 35mm.But don't take my word for it, just read programme curator Jasper Sharp's impassioned introduction from the BFI website:The oldest of Japan's film studios, Nikkatsu was established in 1912 as the Japan Cinematograph Company (Nippon katsudo shashin kaisha)....

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Destroy All Monsters: Car Sex and Muscle Memory

Posted: 29 May 2013 08:00 AM PDT

When a movie is as testosterone-soaked as Furious 6, it can accumulate a curious sweetness in spite of itself, fumbling for thoughts it scarcely has the wit to express. Boys have feelings too, made (as any 13-year-old boy will tell you) no less pointed for any total inability to articulate them properly. The Furious movies are what happen when those feelings grow up, get no closer to competent expression, but get bankrolled to the tune of $150 million. (Read Jason's review of Furious 6 here.) Justin Lin's valedictory for the franchise - he closes the loop on his involvement with fast cars and furious men by, appropriately enough, flashing back (er, forward) to the events of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - faithfully...

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Bong Joon-ho to Set Sail as Producer with SEA FOG, Song Joong-ki in Talks to Star

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT

We're eagerly anticipating Bong Joon-ho's post-apocalyptic sci-fi opus Snowpiercer but while we wait for him to put the finishing touches on his summer blockbuster, it seems the ace Korean director has set his sights on a new project. Bong's career as a producer looks to set sail with Sea Fog, a stowaway drama based on a 2007 play that is in turn drawn from real events circa 2001. Enormously popular Korean Idol Song Joong-ki (A Werewolf Boy) is said to be highly considering the lead role. After a fruitless trip out to sea, a fishing vessel takes on some ethnic Korean passengers in China but their journey back to the peninsula is fraught with tempestuous weather. What's more the police is on their tail and...

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