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Kickstart This! Noir-ish MAN FROM RENO Seeks Closure

Kickstart This! Noir-ish MAN FROM RENO Seeks Closure

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT

The first footage from Dave Boyle's Man From Reno has been revealed, and it shows a darker side than might have been expected from the indie filmmaker. As Twitch's Todd Brown observed earlier this year, Boyle has become known for "his quirky fare revolving around the culture clashes of Asian Americans and showcasing Boyle's love for Japanese culture. From Big Dreams, Little Tokyo to White On Rice and Surrogate Valentine, Boyle's particular vision has been developing and sharpening up." Man From Reno, however, is more of a moody noir, based on the official synopsis (and that footage): Man From Reno follows best-selling Japanese mystery writer Aki Akahori (Fujitani Ayako) as she escapes the limelight to San Francisco where she encounters a charming stranger (Kitamura Kazuki)...

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Violence On The Streets Of Copenhagen: An Overview Of Pre-DRIVE Refn

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Though we've been fans of Nicolas Winding Refn going right back to his debut picture, Pusher, for many people the Ryan Gosling starring Drive was their first exposure to the prolific director. So consider this our gift for those people: An overview of Refn's body of work pre-Drive with trailers included. So if you've been wondering where to go next, let this be your guide....

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2013 Locarno Film Festival Lineup Includes Kurosawa, Sangsoo, Herzog and More

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The lineup for the 66th Locarno Film Festival has been announced, and once again, the program highlights a diverse slate of world cinema from both known directors and new independent talent. The international competition includes 18 world premieres, including Our Sunhi, the latest from Hong Sangsoo, who I could have sworn already made two other movie this year. It also includes the international premieres of SXSW Awards darling Short Term 12 and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Real. In the out of competition spotlight, the festival will host an outdoor screening of the Mark Wahlberg/Denzel Washington shoot-em-up 2 Guns, and will also screen the Berlin Festival hit Gloria and Jeremy Saulnier's genre knock-out Blue Ruin. As a bonus, there are tribute screenings to George Cukor and Werner Herzog. Check out the...

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Review: BENEATH Swims A Line Between Straight-Faced And Winking

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Larry Fessenden takes the old fashioned horror-as-allegory approach to his work. Recently (though Beneath is his first feature in nearly seven years) this has meant adapting the environmental horror aesthetic of 70s films like The Boogens to the present decade by using an inspired minimalism. His technique in Beneath owes more to ʻsuspenseʼ films like The Birds than it does to the explicit gore of more famous 80s slashers and the last decade's torture horror. Beneath, however, could never be considered a thriller or suspense film because it's plotseems to have been chosen (from beneath a pile that had lain on the director's desk for years, so they say) for its extremely generic qualities. Six teenagers head out on a small boat to party, but...

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Review: THE LUNCHBOX Is An Exquisite Ode To Love And Longing

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Dabba (The Lunchbox) by Ritesh Batra is an exquisite, bittersweet ode to love and longing from India, that makes your heart sing. A debut feature that screened at the Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Rail d'Or Award in the International Critics' Week section. Dabba is a very Indian film--more specifically an independent Bombay, but emphatically not Bollywood, film. It is also remarkably non-Indian in ways few Indian films can boast of: multi-national co-production including Sikhya Entertainment, Dar Motion Pictures and NFDC (India), ASAP (France), Rohfilm (Germany), Cinemosaic (US); multi-national crew from India, Germany, France and the US; international sales (Match Factory, Germany; a coup for an Indian film), and it has sold in 27 territories worldwide, including N. America (Sony Pictures Classics), UK...

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Review: Cathy Garcia-Molina's FOUR SISTERS AND A WEDDING Wants To Relate With Earnest Charm

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Predictably, Four Sisters and a Wedding is plagued with all the deficiencies and excesses of a movie that caters to the masses. It suffers from an identity crisis, but that identity crisis is its biggest selling point, especially in a country where being all-in-one is a virtue and a movie that offers tears, laughs, and lessons is a prized commodity. Four Sisters and a Wedding is adamantly a comedy, one that uses unbridled exaggerations and popular wit to earn chuckles. Along the way, it suddenly transforms itself into a drama, with each of the movie's multiple characters getting their fair share of profusely teary expositions. At the end of the movie, everything is wrapped up almost too neatly and easily with just mouthfuls of motherhood statements...

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Review: THE CONJURING Will Scare You, Not Scar You

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Let's be blunt: most wide-release horror films are bad. They tend to be either watered-down, teen-friendly PG-13 mediocrities that aren't scary; or gruesome, R-rated endurance tests that aren't scary either. It almost feels miraculous when something genuinely scary finds its way onto 2,000 screens, like the first Paranormal Activity (2009), Insidious (2010), and Sinister (2012). This year's pants-wetter is The Conjuring, a deviously creepy tale directed with smooth, fun-loving confidence by James Wan (who, not coincidentally, also made Insidious). Set in 1971, the story comes from the files of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real-life husband-and-wife paranormal investigators who would later become known for their examination of a certain house in Amityville, N.Y. The Conjuring is thus "based on a true story," in the sense...

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"Ask Not What Art Is, But What It Is Not": Nicolas Winding Refn And Cliff Martinez On ONLY GOD FORGIVES

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT

It's a little past 11 at night and I'm sitting in the bar adjacent to the Slaughter Lane Alamo Drafthouse in South Austin, Texas. Amidst the din of diners and drinkers I'm reading and rereading then rewriting my own scibblly notes I took from the just-attended-screening of Only God Forgives. The film's director Nicolas Winding Refn, and its composer Cliff Martinez, are sitting in a dark corner of the joint, wrapping up an interview. I'll then be up to bat. It's still hard to fathom that six hours ago the three of us were amongst a small group firing guns at an indoor range (To read of that adventure click here). My first experience with a gun just mere hours behind me causes the violence...

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Giveaway: Win GRABBERS Poster and Digital Download!

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Just in time to sate your summertime thirst for adult beverages and man-eating monsters, Irish horror=comedy movie Grabbers heads to select theaters in the U.S. on Friday, July 19, and will also be available to watch via various VOD platforms. And just to make things a little bit cooler, we've got a printed version of the wonderfully wacky poster you can see right here, along with a code to watch the film for free on SundanceNow in the comfort and safety of your own home. Official synopsis-wise, the movie goes a little something like this: On Erin Island, an idyllic fishing village off the coast of Ireland, charming but somewhat work-shy Ciaran O'Shea, is tasked with greeting Lisa Nolan, a straight-laced young officer who has...

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Destroy All Monsters: Between SHARKNADO and PACIFIC RIM, All Monsters Have Been Destroyed

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT

The marquee release out of Hollywood this past weekend -- at least in geek culture circles, though apparently not beyond -- was Guillermo del Toro's Godzilla update, Pacific Rim, which features giant mecha-bots beating up giant monsters from beneath the sea. The most-talked-about pop cultural phenomenon of last week, meanwhile, was a televised exploitation flick called Sharknado, in which ... well, sharks and a tornado met chainsaws and Ian Ziering. Clearly, we have witnessed the metascendance of the B-movie, an astrological phenomenon so rare -- basically, one eclipse eclipsing another eclipse -- that the Mayans might have predicted it for last year. I don't know if I would even go so far as to call Sharknado a B-movie -- it might scrape a D, if...

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Review: TURBO - Go, Go, Snail Racer!

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Always pursue your dreams, no matter how stupid and weird they may be. That's the underlying message of Dreamworks' latest high-concept, celebrity-voiced animated offering, Turbo. It's the story of an outsider snail named Theo who, deep in his heart of hearts, wishes he was a race car. Is Turbo the 3D animated race car snail movie that the world's been waiting for? David Soren, whoever he is, certainly thought so. Soren's name appears in rapid succession in the closing credits of the film (Director, Screenplay, and I believe also Story), momentarily evoking the way Marv Newland's name intentionally and humorously dominates the credits of his singularly created "Bambi Meets Godzilla." So it's probably safe to say David Soren (this being his debut feature film, coming...

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