Review: KICK-HEART Kicks Hard, Tickles Heart |
- Review: KICK-HEART Kicks Hard, Tickles Heart
- Japan Cuts 2013 Review: A STORY OF YONOSUKE Reflects on Human Kindness and Unending Optimism In ... Us
- Japan Cuts 2013 Review: I'M FLASH!, A Visually and Sonically Stylish Tale of Gangsters and Religious Cultists
- FIDOCS 2013 Review: PENA DE MUERTE (aka DEATH PENALTY) Mixes Experimental And Classic Documentary Styles Perfectly
- Second Trailer For Brazilian Horror BLACK SEA Is No Fisherman's Tale
- New To Netflix: Isopods, Orcas, and A FISH CALLED WANDA
- How RESOLUTION Will Help You Have Sex!
| Review: KICK-HEART Kicks Hard, Tickles Heart Posted: 12 Jul 2013 11:00 PM PDT  I'm a big fan of Japanese animation director Yuasa Masaaki. The man's output is often weird but always wonderful, and his designs never use the standard templates so often used in anime. Just look at his series Kaiba and The Tatami Galaxy and you'll see just how unique an artist he is. In fact, I like him so much that I sometimes imagine giving him loads of money for a new film. Last year, there was no need for imagining: via the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter it was possible to finance Yuasa's newest project, a 13-minute short called Kick-Heart. The first anime produced through this means (and by Production IG no less), it has now been finished and will be released to its financial backers from... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT  From reading a brief synopsis online of A Story of Yonosuke, and with its 2 1/2 hour plus runtime, and the fact it is a period piece (taking place in 1987), I was fully expecting a Being There or Forest Gump type parable steeped in a socio-political survey on Japan's economic boom and its downturn in recent years. In a way the film is a parable, but in the subtlest terms. It's a winsome tale about an affable young man named Yonosuke (a funny sounding name, I was told), who is not mentally handicapped nor an ethereal butler who may or may not exist. Rather, he is a regular guy who still manages to touch many lives with his gentle, optimistic nature.Even though the film's... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT Religious cultists, yakuza hitmen, a lovely bar pickup, and a speeding motorcyclist collide, quite literally, in the genre oddity that is I'M FLASH!, the latest from iconoclastic director Toyoda Toshiaki (9 Souls, The Hanging Garden). This time, Toyoda jettisons the moody experimentalism of his previous two features The Blood of Rebirth and Monster's Club to create a film that hearkens back to the wilder style of his earliest work. The title may indeed be a very appropriate one, in the sense that it flashes by us with an excess of visual style at the expense of truly lasting substance, despite the religious and philosophical-sounding talk that is spoken throughout. Nevertheless, I'M FLASH! often dazzles with the audaciousness of its go-for-broke mishmash of genre-movie elements and... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT  The latest edition of FIDOCS (Festival Internacional Documentales Santiago Chile) has already passed and yet here we are, reviewing what was maybe the best Chilean film that I saw in the festival. I took this long because it's one of the most complex films that I've seen in a while, one that requires a wealth of knowledge (provided in the film) that is almost unrelatable to an audience that didn't know about the facts this documentary is trying to take a look at. Here we have a documentary in the vein of those made by Errol Morris, 'talking head' interviews and all that, but in specific it reminds of his 1988 film The Thin Blue Line, where he used filmed re-enactments and fictionalizations of situations and... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Second Trailer For Brazilian Horror BLACK SEA Is No Fisherman's Tale Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Brazilian splatter master Rodrigo Aragão released today a new trailer for Mar Negro (Black Sea), his third low budget gorefest in five years. It is his biggest production to date and it sure looks to follow the fun and mayhem of the other films of his so-called "eco-horror trilogy": Mud Zombies (2008) and The Night of the Chupacabras (2011). Aragão brought his big guns this time and the trailer shows some very impressive makeup effects designed and executed by the director himself. Here's the official synopsis: A strange contamination strikes a fisherman's village. When fish and shellfish become evil creatures that transmit death and destruction, the lonely Albino risks his soul for the love of his life, in a desperate fight for survival. Despite being... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| New To Netflix: Isopods, Orcas, and A FISH CALLED WANDA Posted: 12 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT Welcome to this week's entry for New To Netflix! Not that we are actually new to Netflix, we're just happy, able, and willing to help you find out what kind of 'Twitch-y' material is coming to the big red virtual envelope in the streaming room. This week there is undoubtedly a marine-life theme. From Barry Levinson's found footage clone of Jaws, to Marion Cotillard having her legs bitten off by a Killer Whale to Kevin Kline eating all of Michael Palin's prized aquarium fish ("Ewwww. Don't eat the green ones...they're not ripe yet.")... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| How RESOLUTION Will Help You Have Sex! Posted: 12 Jul 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Though the home video release is still just under three months away on October 8th I think it wise that Resolution filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, along with their leads Peter Cilella and Vinny Curran, let you know now that their movie increases your chances of experiencing carnal delights. Like myself, not everyone has someone at the ready to jump in the sack. We need all the help we can get. So, careful and meticulous planning is needed when we do get our desired companion in front of the TV to watch their horror film. If we let the movie do the talking for us, according to Justin and Aaron Resolution will help us have sex! And if you're like me, three months may be just... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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