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Review: HANNIBAL S1E07, SORBET (Or, Hannibal Prepares Quite The Feast And You're The Main Course!)

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Review: HANNIBAL S1E07, SORBET (Or, Hannibal Prepares Quite The Feast And You're The Main Course!)

Review: HANNIBAL S1E07, SORBET (Or, Hannibal Prepares Quite The Feast And You're The Main Course!)

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:00 AM PDT

I'm burning the candle at both ends this week, putting in 60+ at the day job and watching my hockey teams of choice get eliminated from the playoffs one by one (I held off watching this week's episode for a night for a wasted overtime effort last night). So I will beg your pardon if this week lacks any clarity or focus. Sharpen your carving knives, here we go... Part of the opening scene finds Hannibal attending a charity event. The great irony is that he is attending a 'Concert for Hunger Relief.' Top that off with dry humor at the end of his exchange with one of his patients, Franklin, and we start to see the foundation get laid down for this episode. Hannibal is...

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Review: Breezy Rom-Com A WEDDING INVITATION Rings A Little Hollow

Posted: 09 May 2013 11:01 PM PDT

In the film business these days, China seems to be the word on everyone's lips, as its market is in the midst of a breathless expansion. However, strict quotas on foreign imports mean that only 35 international films get to share in the spoils every year. To get around this system, a number of foreign companies have begun co-producing films with China, though the results thus far have been mixed. The Korean media giant CJ Entertainment has been investing in the mainland for quite some time, but they have just scored their biggest hit with the romantic comedy A Wedding Invitation, their first fully-produced film for the Chinese market. After five years of dating, QiaoQiao breaks up with LiXing, telling him they need to pursue...

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Review: A WOMAN AND WAR (SENSO NO HITORI NO ONNA) Confronts Wartime Sex Crimes

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:01 PM PDT

A Woman and War is the feature length debut from Inoue Junichi, a screenwriter who started his career as an assistant director at Wakamatsu Productions. The first time director experienced some festival success back in 2009 with his script for Pure Asia, a stylish black and white revenge tale that shone a light on race hate crimes committed by Japanese on North Koreans, and it seems his politically charged debut was not a one-off. Inoue must have something of an affinity for controversial subject matter, as his first feature aims to shine a spotlight on the sex-crimes permitted by the Japanese army during the second world war. Based on a novella by famed post-war writer Sakaguchi Ango, the film follows the lives of three characters...

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Review: WHITE FROG Cries Out For Love, Tolerance, Tenderness

Posted: 09 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time. White Frog establishes a happy family before promptly destroying it. Promising and popular high school senior Chaz Young (Harry Shum Jr.) dies unexpectedly. His mother (Joan Chen) goes to pieces, ridding the home of all reminders of him. His father (BD Wong) withdraws, seeking solace in his religious faith. His younger brother Nick (Booboo Stewart), 15, is hit the hardest. He doesn't act like other people -- the explanation is not revealed immediately -- and he has no friends, other than his kind and supportive brother, whose loss he cannot fully comprehend. From that bleak beginning, director Quentin Lee fashions a story of hope and faith, love and tenderness, empathy and tolerance. Screenwriters Ellie...

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Clooney and Bullock Lost in Space in Terrifying First GRAVITY Teaser

Posted: 09 May 2013 08:05 PM PDT

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity has been a long time coming and today we finally get a glimpse of the film through its first teaser. The film stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts who become stranded in space.Originally set up years ago at Universal before going into turnaround, the film eventually found a home at Warner Bros. After many big names coming and going, such as Angelina Jolie, Robert Downey Jr., Marion Cotillard and Natalie Portman, Clooney and Bullock were eventually set as the leads in the $80 million project that went into production in London in May 2011.Two years later and we finally get a look at the film, and boy is it something. Starting off serenely, the tone quickly shifts to terror as,...

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LA Happenings: Czech Films, Experimental Shorts From Slamdance And... GALAXY QUEST!

Posted: 09 May 2013 07:00 PM PDT

I am probably flattering myself a little too much in thinking that there is an eagle-eyed reader or two who noticed that this East Coast Editor no longer resides on the east coast. Yes, as you can see from the headline, I am indeed residing in the land of perpetual sunlight. Now don't let me make you think I am abandoning the occasional NYC Happening (or that one of our many fine Big Apple correspondents can't chime in), I just figured since I am in LA, it might be prudent of me to share with our LA readers what's going on in their neck of the (H)woods.Starting tomorrow, May 10, The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum will be presenting the 2nd annual Czech...

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Drafthouse Films Heads To A FIELD IN ENGLAND

Posted: 09 May 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Drafthouse Films is heading to A Field In England, with word out now that the distribution company has picked up North American rights to the latest from Kill List director Ben Wheatley. Earlier today we ran a report on the innovative release strategy for the film in the UK - where it will be released on all platforms simultaneously on July 5th - and while it doesn't appear that the US will be getting it at the same time - the press release states it will be available to festivals until August - it should not be far behind....

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Buy A Trap. Kill A Cub.

Posted: 09 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT

What do you mean you don't think 'Belgium' when you think 'horror'? Okay, fine, the nation known best for its monastic beer has never been much of a player in the horror scene but director Jonas Govaerts is looking to change that with Cub. With a string of (rightfully) acclaimed short films behind him, Govaerts is now preparing his debut feature with a talented team around him including Bullhead cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis and executive producer Richard Christian Matheson.Cub a horror movie about Sam, a twelve-year-old imaginative boy who goes to camp in the woods with his pack of cub scouts. Together with the other cubs and the leaders of the pack Sam finds himself in a dark wood where a psychopathic poacher and his masked...

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Review: AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR Needs A Commercial Break

Posted: 09 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Still lean and handsome in his 50s, Bruce Greenwood has proven to be an incredibly versatile actor over a career that stretches back to the late 1970s. In many of his roles, Greenwood has exuded great intelligence, whether he's playing a heroic type or a villain, so casting him in And Now a Word From Our Sponsor as a guileless advertising executive who can only speak in advertising slogans sounds like a canny idea. The execution of that idea falls short, however. In the screenplay written by Michael Hamilton-Wright and directed by Zack Bernbaum, Greenwood embodies Adan Kundle with the requisite blank-eyed expression and stiff body language, and he recites marketing catchphrases with aplomb. After kind-hearted charity fundraiser Karen Hillridge (Parker Posey) agrees to put...

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Review: HE'S WAY MORE FAMOUS THAN YOU Is Excessive, Obnoxious And Hilarious

Posted: 09 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

He's Way More Famous Than You is a zany bit of fame-whore lambasting, with co-writer and star Halley Feiffer fearlessly taking aim at just about everything under the Hollywood/celebrity sun, most notably herself, and more importantly her appearance in "Noah Baumbach's cinematic masterpiece" The Squid And The Whale. As an alcoholic narcissistic, nightmare inversion (explosion?) of herself, she squeals across the screen like a manic pixie banshee girl, dead set on making her own movie, which will, in her mind, revitalize her in-the-toilet career. To do this, she finagles the help of her brother Ryan (co-writer Ryan Spahn) and eventually, with much begging and whining down the pipeline, his partner Michael Urie, aka the gay guy from Ugly Betty, aka the guy who is gonna...

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Review: NO ONE LIVES Takes On A Certain Kind Of Lunatic Charm

Posted: 09 May 2013 11:01 AM PDT

What new stalk and slash move No One Lives does well: It gives Versus and Midnight Meat Train director Kitamura Ryuhei ample room to stage and execute a series of elaborate and gory kills. What it does poorly: Everything else. Luke Evans -- that's him in the image above, wondering how he ever ended up in this thing -- is relocating. Uprooting and traveling across country to get away from some unnamed trouble. He's got a girl in the seat behind him, another locked in the trunk of his car, and a trailer filled with high tech weaponry and gadgets which he owns and knows how to use for no reason that anyone ever cares to explain. The gang of small time crooks who drive...

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Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:01 AM PDT

If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes in an 'erotic odyssey' by caravan across the countryside. The rocks are useful for bashing against skulls. And all that space makes for convenient body-dumping grounds. It has taken UK director Ben Wheatley just three short years to make the transition from making a living as a television gun for hire to one of the most acclaimed and intriguing feature directors not only in the UK, but in the entire world. Consider his career trajectory: Down Terrace: Micro budget feature opens to critical acclaim and...

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Review: AFTERSHOCK Shakes Free Of Disaster Movie Expectations

Posted: 09 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT

At the outset, Aftershock appears to be another placid film about how cool it is to go clubbing in Chile. We see wine tours with tourists, eager or not, sipping away at a cabernet, feigning interest in winespeak. We attend throbbing outdoor festivals, with DJs spinning away and drugged out, barely-clothed throngs dancing away to an incessant beat. We're even taken into an exclusive club, where the likes of Selena Gomez shows up, only to smack down the advances of one of our leads, none other than Midnight Madness stalwart Eli Roth. This prelude should be deadly boring past the witching hour, but it proves to be one of the more effective points of the work -- we genuinely get to know these characters, the...

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Julien Leclerq Delivers Intrigue In First Teaser For GIBRALTAR (THE INFORMANT)

Posted: 09 May 2013 08:00 AM PDT

In many ways it is quite strange that French director Julien Leclerq has not yet been snapped up by Luc Besson and the Europa machine, for if there is someone more capable of shooting the sort of glossy, technically impressive thrillers that Besson so loves than the director of Chrysalis and The Assault, I'm not sure who it is. But it's good news for us because what Leclerq loves more than slick visuals are morally ambiguous, intelligent scripts of the sort that Besson long ago jettisoned in favor of a whole lot of bang and crash. And up next for Leclerq is international thriller Gibraltar, being shopped in the international market as The Informant.THE INFORMANT is the extraordinary true story of ordinary Frenchman, Marc Fiévet,...

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Brooklyn Film Festival Reveals Their 2013 Line Up

Posted: 09 May 2013 07:30 AM PDT

It was just yesterday that I was extolling the pluses of watching movies in a place like Brooklyn, what with the fifth Annual BAMcinemaFest happening there in June. Well Today, and not to be out done (because no one is stepping on anybody's toes) the Brooklyn Film Festival lays bare (Oooh Lala) their 2013 slate of programming. From May 31st to June 9th, indieScreen and Windmill Studios NYC are the locales where you NYC readers can take in the sights and sounds of such movies as the Martial Arts Documentary Dragon Girls, The Slamdance Audience Award Winner Hank And Asha and the homegrown Opening Nighter HairBrained. Take a gander at the full list of titles below.    BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILM LINE-UP FOR MAGNETIC...

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Hot Docs 2013 Review: 12 O'CLOCK BOYS Is A Hell Of A Ride

Posted: 09 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT

It's no surprise to long term readers of my reviews that I'm kind of enamoured with David Simon's Baltimore. From Homicide: Life On The Streets, through The Corner and of course The Wire (still perhaps the best programme that has ever aired on television), these fictional works exposed a very real, unique culture of inner city Baltimore in a way that remains a touchstone years after their aired.I grant immediately that David Simon had nothing to do with the making of Lotfy Nathan's tremendous film, 12 O'Clock Boys, yet the spirit that drove Simon's shows runs throughout this work. There's something about the row houses, the grass courtyards flanked by brick low rise apartments, the dockyards seen in the distance and thickly accented "ee-you" at...

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Second Shot From Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND Heralds Unique Release Strategy

Posted: 09 May 2013 06:00 AM PDT

You don't have to look remarkably hard to find a cadre of loyal fans who would have you believe that Ben Wheatley - director of Sightseers and Kill List - is the future of British filmmaking. The man has built an impressive and diverse body of work in a very short time and shows no signs of slowing down one iota. And now his latest film - A Field In England - may herald a new future in British distribution.England during the English Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O'Neil and Cutler. O'Neil (Michael Smiley), an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a...

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Agent Scully Tracks A Killer In Irish Series THE FALL

Posted: 09 May 2013 05:00 AM PDT

It's been a while since Gillian Anderson last packed a weapon and tracked a villain but the former Agent Scully is doing exactly that in upcoming Irish serial killer series The Fall. The five episode series begins its run on Irish television next week prior to all five episodes hitting Netflix in the US on May 28th and features Anderson in the lead as a London police officer sent to Belfast to help track a serial killer. Check the trailer below....

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