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There Are A Few Things DON JON Really Cares About In Life!

There Are A Few Things DON JON Really Cares About In Life!

Posted: 22 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Oh my. This is not your mom and dad's JGL. I bet your dad wishes this was his Scarlett Johansson though. Prepare to feast your eyes on a meaty Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a delectable Scarlett Johansson in the trailer for JGL's feature-length directorial debut, Don Jon.  A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.Before Chase Wale moved on from reviewing films to distributing them he caught the film for us at Sundance. You can find the link to his full review below but here are a couple choice snippets for you. "Don Jon('s Addiction) is filled with a lot of masturbation, pornography, and the wholesome,...

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Universal Plans TIMECOP Reboot. With No Van Damme, Damnit!

Posted: 22 May 2013 08:23 PM PDT

In my mind this is how I picture JCVD took the news that Universal was planning to reboot one of his most successful films without his involvement. Universal is presently searching out writers to reboot and re-imagine the concept of the 1994 sci-fi actioner Timecop. You will remember that the story of the film is about a police force called the Time Enforcement Commission that regulates time travel. Van Damme played the cop who crosses a crooked politician using time travel to further his career. Can we just take a second to remind Universal what happened to Sony and the near disastrous performance of a reboot of a much more idolized sci-fi action epic Total Recall. The film bombed domestically here in North America. If it were...

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St Kilda 2013 Preview: 13 Essential Shorts

Posted: 22 May 2013 08:00 PM PDT

The St Kilda Short Film Festival is turning 30 this year, and to celebrate it is running an extended 10 day program that includes 100 Australian short films, a special program of music videos and retrospective screenings, industry open days and workshops, plus four sidebars showcasing the best of the iconic South By Southwest Film Festival. All in all there will be about 150 shorts and close to 40 music videos, so how does one figure out what to watch amid all the choices? Working at Twitch and its comrade company XYZ Films I get to watch a hell of a lot of short films, many long before they see the light of day. I've picked 13 shorts from across the Australian program that I feel...

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Now on Blu-ray: We All Shout For Scream Factory! THE BURNING, THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, VAMPIRE LOVERS

Posted: 22 May 2013 04:00 PM PDT

We should all just surrender our credit card info to Scream Factory right now and acquiesce to the fact that we'll just be working to support our habits into the foreseeable future. This week saw a pair of fantastic releases and there are many, many more on the way. We'll also take a brief look at a release we missed over the last few weeks that definitely deserves recognition. But first...The BurningI've owned The Burning on DVD since the 2007 special edition DVD came out from MGM, but had never made the time to actually watch it. Thankfully this Blu-ray release from Scream Factory forced me to make the time and I'm damned glad I did. Not only is the film one of the better...

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Elijah Wood Carves Through US Poster And Trailer For MANIAC

Posted: 22 May 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Last year around this time the horror set in Cannes was all abuzz about Maniac, the Elijah Wood starring, Alex Aja produced remake of the cult hit horror film. A year later the film finally has a US release date schedules - June 21 - and a new trailer and poster has arrived for the US market.A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in the present day, MANIAC is a reboot of the cult film considered by many to be the most suspenseful slasher movie ever made. Frank (Elijah Wood, in a tour de force performance) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops...

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DVD Review: OFFENDER, Expressing Stylish Outrage At England's Young Offender System Of Justice

Posted: 22 May 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Sometimes I've gotten so angry that it felt as though steam would blow out of my ears and the top of my head would blow off, like a cartoon character. A similar depth of emotion roils through Ron Scalpello's Offender. The film seethes with anger about England's treatment of young offenders, especially the institutions where law-breakers between the ages of 18 and 21 are housed in overcrowded conditions under the oversight of guards who, by and large, don't give a toss about the young men in their charge. The script by Paul Van Carter, however, confuses the issue by introducing a protagonist who assaults a police officer without apparent provocation and then smiles when he is sentenced to two years behind bars. Tommy (Joe Cole)...

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Review: THE CHILD FROM MARACAIBO, Life, Death, Noir, And The Fantastic

Posted: 22 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The Child from Maracaibo is Miguel Curiel's second film. His previous movie, Una Noche Oriental was released more than 25 years ago (!), so I will treat this one as his real 'first film.' Watching it, I couldn't stop thinking how similar it is to some of the films from Jess Franco, the maverick Spanish director/composer/sometimes actor, sadly deceased not long ago, in the way that Curiel's film mixes genres, sometimes quite opposite elements from specific genres, into one package. In that regard, the movie is a little uneven, because the mixing of those aforementioned elements never goes anywhere. Nevertheless, what it lacks in closure it gains in atmosphere. That atmosphere puts the viewer through an experience. Storytelling-wise, the film really fails to achieve any...

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DVD Review: FRACTALE, More Than Just A Pretty Anime-By-Numbers?

Posted: 22 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT

(Is it original, or an infinite spiral of repeated anime tropes?) Many recent Japanese animation series look good on the technical front, but seem to have trouble distinguishing themselves from the many series which came before them. It's always the same jokes, the same plot twists, the same actions, and frankly a lot of these anime are populated with interchangeable stereotypes. And I haven't even mentioned the similarities in artwork and design which plagues anime in general. But this is generally not the case with those series which are aired in Fuji Television's famed noitaminA slot. These are less obviously aimed at the teenage crowd, and most feature adult subject matters, differing art or both. Which brings us to Fractale, an eleven episode science fiction...

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FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 3: EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL AND I'M TRIPPING BALLS

Posted: 22 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

CHAPTER 6: THERE'S NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A PURPLE BEACH SMOTHERED IN MELTING TROMMETTES DURING A CRIMSON TINGED SUNSET ON THE FRENCH RIVERIA, HOLY SHIT I'M TRIPPING MY FUCKING FACE OFF.It's night. When the fuck did it become night? I'm naked. Where the fuck did my clothes go? I'm on the beach. Why the fuck did I leave the film market?I think this is the Plage de la Balterie, Cannes' infamous nude beach. Ok, at least I'm not calling attention to myself by being naked since it's supposed to be a nude beach.But it's also raining, so no one else is nude right now.I'm sprinting along the beach. I don't know why, but it feels great.  I think I see Anne Hathaway taking a stroll...

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Review: THE HANGOVER PART III Is Barely a Comedy

Posted: 22 May 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Remember how The Hangover Part II was a lukewarm rehash of The Hangover, almost beat-for-beat the same story, with little originality? Todd Phillips evidently heard our complaints and has addressed them in The Hangover Part III, which is nothing like the first two and features no hangovers. It is barely a comedy. Heck, it's barely a movie. Our focus this time is Alan (Zach Galifianakis), the Kramer of the series, a man-child who is mentally unwell and perhaps mentally handicapped. His behavior has gotten more erratic lately, so his family and friends -- including the Wolf Pack, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Doug (Justin Bartha) -- gather to stage an intervention and send him to a rehab facility. What it is they...

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Cannes 2013 Review: ONLY GOD FORGIVES and the Art of Violence

Posted: 22 May 2013 11:01 AM PDT

Nicolas Winding Refn may have burst onto the Hollywood scene with his slow burn but relatively straightforward actioner Drive, but before that film, Refn made a name for himself with considerably more abstract narratives such as Valhalla Rising. Refn returns to this mode in his latest film Only God Forgives; an art film disguised as another bloody crime actioner. But where Drive impressed with its taut story, Only God Forgives relies on its technical elements to bring the viewer along. Fortunately, these elements are immaculately executed, serving up one of the most impressive films of the year -- and a true feast for the senses. Set in Thailand, Only God Forgives reteams Refn with Ryan Gosling as the drug-slanging Julian. While little is explicitly...

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TIFF 2013: World Premiere of Godfrey Reggio's VISITORS Announced As First Selection

Posted: 22 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced their first film for the 2013 edition. It's a world premiere no less, and sure to be a popular choice.The film is titled Visitors, and "will have its world premiere at the Festival in September in stunning 4K digital projection with live accompaniment by members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Michael Riesman," according to a prepared statement by the festival. TIFF has also tagged Steven "I'm retired, no really" Soderbergh to "officially present" the film. If that guy's not careful, he might get used to still being in the Hollywood spotlight.Director Godfrey Reggio is best known for his "Qatsi" trilogy of films, meditative and beautiful films about our planet and its inhabitants, traditionally scored by the...

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Gorgeous First Images From Cannes Selected Masked-Wrestling Noir OUR HEROES ARE DEAD TONIGHT (NOS HEROS SONT MORTS CE SOIR)

Posted: 22 May 2013 09:10 AM PDT

Yes, you read that headline correctly: David Perrault's debut feature Our Heroes Are Dead Tonight - a selection of the Critic's Week sidebar in Cannes this year - is a crime noir set in the world of masked wrestling in the 1960s. Somehow the world is a better place because of this.France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has just returned from combat to be his adversary in the ring and wear a black mask, and be known as "The Slaughterer of Belleville". But for Victor, still shaken from his experience in combat, this is too much : for once in his life, he...

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Hoist Another Pint With The US Trailer For Edgar Wright's THE WORLD'S END

Posted: 22 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

The end of the world is coming and if Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost et al have any say in the matter we'll all be too drunk to notice. Yup, the third collaboration from the team behind Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz is on the way and on the heels of the recent UK trailer there is now also a new - and very much different - US trailer to entice you.Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals...

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Destroy All Monsters: I Think We've Been This Way Before, Mr. Spock

Posted: 22 May 2013 08:00 AM PDT

They can remember it for you wholesale, and they do. At some point, we licensed our pop cultural nostalgia to a handful of multinational conglomerates (well, to be fair, they always owned the licenses) and now they're selling them back to us - though, I guess, not at wholesale, but rather at a horrible markup that is tallied in both dollars and broken hearts. The reboot, the prequel-sequel, the Further Installments Of... this train ride has been chugging along for a while, but bouncing around the vapid hall of mirrors of Star Trek Into Darkness, I began to wonder if it isn't time to get off. We can, appropriately enough, blame The Phantom Menace for all this; appropriately because a) most people blame The Phantom...

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Interview: Twitch Talks to HANGOVER III's Ken Jeong

Posted: 22 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Ken Jeong may often play a lunatic on both big and small screen, but in person it's quite disarming to see just how calm and considerate he comes across. While he got his big screen start in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Jeong's real breakthrough was taking a small-on-paper role of Chow in the first Hangover film and ratcheting things up many, many notches from the character on the page. Between Chow and his Señor Chang / Kevin role on Community, Jeong has established himself as a fearless, unique comedic actor unafraid to throw himself completely into the characters he plays.The third Hangover film provides an epic, worthy finale for the Wolf Pack, with Ken Jeong's Chow again stealing the show in his inimitable way....

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Cannes 2013 Review: Claire Denis' THE BASTARDS Throws A Bleak, Sneaky Sucker Punch

Posted: 22 May 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Clair Denis' The Bastards begins as a simple, slow-burn revenge thriller, and then very quietly morphs into one of the bleakest, most twisted neo-noir films of the decade. As is often the case with Denis (35 Shots of Rum, White Material, Trouble Everyday), the implications of the story settle in slowly, and don't even fully reveal themselves until a fair amount of post-viewing reflection, and maybe even discussion.Not to say the film is a difficult watch. In terms of pacing and plotting, this is some of Denis' most accessible work. From the opening, exquisitely shot images of dense rain, a suicide crime scene and a naked woman wandering the dimly-lit streets, Denis establishes a sublime sense of intrigue that deepens as the film continues in...

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