Review: TALES FROM THE DARK 1 Is A Scare-Free Triptych Of Hong Kong Ghost Stories |
- Review: TALES FROM THE DARK 1 Is A Scare-Free Triptych Of Hong Kong Ghost Stories
- PiFan 2013: Preview Part II - Vision Express
- Review: GROWN UPS 2 Is Somehow Even Worse Than GROWN UPS
- Review: Webcomics Harbor Old Grudges in KILLER TOON
- Review: BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG Takes A Run At Glory, Stumbles, Still Wins
- Japan Cuts 2013 Angles For A Darker Side Of New Japanese Cinema
- Boozie Movies Rants, Raves, and Still Complains About the New Voltran, Gundam, Robot Jox, Gamera Movie
- Sony Classics Picks Up North American Rights For JODOROWSKY'S DUNE
- Trailer For Paul Schrader's THE CANYONS Looks Surprisingly Good
- Review: EXIT ELENA, A Sweet And Bizarre Home Movie Like Few Others
- Review: STILL MINE, Playing Ball With Whipper-Snapper Bureaucrats
- Review: TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY Investigates The Death Of Privacy
- Review: V/H/S/2, Jolting Horror Made Fun
- Fantasia 2013: Download The Apocalypse In Canadian Horror Film ANTISOCIAL
- Review: FRUITVALE STATION, For Anyone Who Believes In Love And Community
- SHARKNADO Trailer - It's Scarier Than A Tornado!
- Review: CRYSTAL FAIRY, The Good Kind of Bad Trip
- Review: THE HUNT Finds Provocation In Unexpected Places
| Review: TALES FROM THE DARK 1 Is A Scare-Free Triptych Of Hong Kong Ghost Stories Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:12 AM PDT  In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong horror writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this star-studded horror anthology. Results vary from the good to the tedious, however, with the various socio-political messages lost in tired genre trappings. Lilian Lee is one of Hong Kong's most successful authors, who has published hundreds of novels, many of which have been adapted for the big screen. Stanley Kwan's Rouge, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine and Tsui Hark's Green Snake were all originally penned by Lee, and so the prospect of six diverse filmmakers adapting half a dozen of her short stories into an ambitious anthology project was understandably an enticing concept. Tales From The Dark 1,... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| PiFan 2013: Preview Part II - Vision Express Posted: 11 Jul 2013 09:37 PM PDT With less than a week to go until the curtain comes up on the 17th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, we're ramping up our coverage by taking an in-depth look at the different programme sections at this year's fest and singling out some of our favourite films and most-anticipated titles. Today it's the turn of Vision Express, an eclectic assortment genre-based dramas and documentaries from around the world. Here are a few that have caught my attention, or which I can heartily recommend.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: GROWN UPS 2 Is Somehow Even Worse Than GROWN UPS Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:00 PM PDT  Believe it or not, Adam Sandler has never been in a sequel before. It only seems like it because his movies tend to be interchangeable. He plays a guy who dresses, talks, and acts like Adam Sandler; his real-life friends play the other characters; and it's written, produced, and directed by some combination of the handful of guys who write, produce, and direct everything he does. The movies in which Sandler plays a distinct character (like Zohan, for example) are few and far between. Why bother with voices and costumes when you can just throw on a T-shirt, walk onto the set, and be yourself? Unsurprisingly, Sandler's first actual sequel, Grown Ups 2, is even lazier, dumber, and less funny than usual. It's worse than... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: Webcomics Harbor Old Grudges in KILLER TOON Posted: 11 Jul 2013 07:00 PM PDT  Every summer, Korea pumps out a handful of horror films for people looking to catch a few scares and respite from the hot and humid summer. Unfortunately, the industry's yields over the past few years have left much to be desired. So poor have recent offerings been that some are ready to write off K-horror altogether. This summer we have four new entries to sample and they were all released in the month of June. Among them, Killer Toon, the first one I've had a chance to see, seemed to hold the most promise. A web publisher receives a comic manuscript late at night and is about to leave her office when she notices the animated panels on her screen mirror her current actions. The... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG Takes A Run At Glory, Stumbles, Still Wins Posted: 11 Jul 2013 06:00 PM PDT  Every country has its sports heroes. For India, one of the greatest is Milkha Singh, The Flying Sikh. Singh was, for a time in the late '50s and early '60s, one of the fastest men in the world in the 400 meter race. He competed in two Olympics, heavily favored to win the event, and came home empty-handed both times. If you're not Indian, this is probably all you know, if anything at all, of Milkha Singh. Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (Delhi 6, Rang De Basanti) and Farhan Akhtar (director of Don, Dil Chata Hai and star of Luck By Chance and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara) bring Singh's story to life in this epic tale of one of India's greatest inspirational heroes.Milkha Singh is a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Japan Cuts 2013 Angles For A Darker Side Of New Japanese Cinema Posted: 11 Jul 2013 05:00 PM PDT Now in its seventh year, the New York Japan Society's Japan Cuts has built up quite the reputation for being the premiere showcase for new cinematic works from Japan, if not just for the east coast cinephiles, but the entirety of American appreciators. Their programming is nothing short of eclectic, offering the wackier, more fun-fueled or transgressive works with their co-partner New York Asian Film Festival, while presenting a slew of more somber and realist works on the back end, which rarely disappoint. Taking a glance at this year's program prompts one to raise an eyebrow perhaps even more so than usual, as the 2013 slate covers some pretty dark territory, and most of it does not fall into fantasy genres. Chalk that up to... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT  Say hello to this summer's Speed Racer, the next John Carter, the next Scott Pilgrim, the next Dredd. Say hello to every film blogger's new obsession. Say hello to the next big cult film that's inevitably going to receive heaps of insurmountable praise online while it also inevitably bombs on an almost catastrophic level that the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair will relish in reporting on. Say hello to your favorite summer tent pole mega movie for 2013.It's been a long time since Boozie Movies has had the opportunity to write a positive review on a mainstream film (if there's ever been one) but Pacific Rim sure ended up hitting this writer's happy bone, but that doesn't quite make it the... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Sony Classics Picks Up North American Rights For JODOROWSKY'S DUNE Posted: 11 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT  Good news for anyone looking forward to seeing Frank Pavich's documentary Jodorowsky's Dune. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the North American rights for the film, which reminisces about the Chilean director's attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's classic sci fi novel to the big screen back in the mid-70s. The project had considerable talent involved at the time. Orson Welles, David Carradine, and Mick Jagger were attached to star. Pink Floyd was enlisted to create the soundtrack. And the creative juices of H.R. Giger and Jean 'Moebius' Giraud were going to be tapped for art design. Alas, after two years of pre-production, the project was shut down and it became a wistful fantasy that danced in the minds of devoted fans, but not spoken of in an... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Trailer For Paul Schrader's THE CANYONS Looks Surprisingly Good Posted: 11 Jul 2013 01:30 PM PDT  After a series of jokey retro teasers, disgruntled reports about its rejection from Sundance and SXSW, and plenty of gossip questioning its (thus far unseen) artistic merits, Paul Schrader's The Canyons is ready to see the light of day. To celebrate (?!), it has received a serious trailer that looks quite accomplished, hip, cool, modern, kinda jazzy, kinda Valley porn-y, what have you. It also has an official, serious synopsis: Notorious writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and acclaimed director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo) join forces for this explicitly erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveillance. Manipulative and scheming young movie producer Christian (adult film star James Deen) makes films to keep his trust fund intact, while... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: EXIT ELENA, A Sweet And Bizarre Home Movie Like Few Others Posted: 11 Jul 2013 01:01 PM PDT  The opening of Nathan Silver's second feature Exit Elena presents a series of images that are so simple and practical in nature, (not just because of the consumer grade camera the movie was shot on, but also by plain sight) that there's something actually rather extraordinary about them. We watch as 19-year old Elena (Kia Davis) completes the final test to become a certified nursing assistant. These moments are clunky and awkward. She struggles with a support strap, but manages to calmly talk her way through it with a gentleness and politeness that befits someone perhaps reserved and, indeed, as we're to find out, a little unsure of herself. The camera stays static as Elena goes through the motions with her practice patient. It dawns... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: STILL MINE, Playing Ball With Whipper-Snapper Bureaucrats Posted: 11 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT  In the humble, old-person movie Still Mine, James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold play an aging couple (married for 61 years) who are, of course, irrevocably set in their ways but nonetheless continue to face life's challenges, particularly when it comes to mortality, relationships, and the darn changing world. It's straightforward, pleasantly paced, and well acted -- in other words, not asking a lot of viewers, but ought to still leave them with at least a little something. On the whole, it works better than not. In some of the film's better moments, I was reminded of Leonard Cohen's 1995 tune "Tower of Song." A particularly relevant passage goes like this: I see you standing on the other side I don't know how the river got so... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY Investigates The Death Of Privacy Posted: 11 Jul 2013 11:01 AM PDT  A mere click of the mouse is all it takes for you to strike an almost Faustian bargain with one of the mega corporations on the planet. With that click we get access to fantastic email service, genius music players and easy-to-use photo editors. But what do the companies providing us with these seemingly free services get in return? Or, as director Cullen Hoback promptly asks in his film Terms And Conditions May Apply: "What if privacy policies weren't about protecting privacy but about taking it away?" Hoback is a documentarian and investigator in the vein of Michael Moore, putting himself front and center in the film as our fluent narrator and guide through what can often be labyrinthine subject matter. Unlike Moore, Hoback is... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: V/H/S/2, Jolting Horror Made Fun Posted: 11 Jul 2013 10:01 AM PDT  Though perhaps not the very most consistent of films, V/H/S set a high bar for found footage anthology chillers. Only one year later and the team that brought us that film is back with the follow-up, V/H/S/2. Of the original directors, only Adam Wingard (You're Next) returns. Writer Simon Barrett takes his first turn in the director's chair for the segments that wrap around shorts from Wingard, Gregg Hale & Eduardo Sanchez (Blair Witch Project), Gareth Evans (The Raid) & Timo Tjahjanto (Macabre), and Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun). With only four shorts plus the wraparound, the finished product is a tighter, more entertaining, and more consistent film. Consider the bar raised. Barrett's wraparound segment follows a pair of private dicks looking for a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Fantasia 2013: Download The Apocalypse In Canadian Horror Film ANTISOCIAL Posted: 11 Jul 2013 09:30 AM PDT What is the first thing you do when you hear that something bad has happened somewhere else in the world? You jump online or grab your smartphone, go to your trusted news sources, and you start looking for pictures and video. Then we link to it on our favorite social media sites so all our friends and family around the world can also take a gander. Thus we find ourselves at the premise of the upcoming Canadian horror film Antisocial which will have its World Premiere at Fantasia in Montreal on July 31st!Antisocial begins on New Year's Eve in the not so distant future. Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: FRUITVALE STATION, For Anyone Who Believes In Love And Community Posted: 11 Jul 2013 09:01 AM PDT  When I first heard that a film based on the shooting of Fruitvale, California resident Oscar Grant had been made, it set off an explosion of hopes and concerns for me. You see, I have a very close connection with the East Oakland neighborhood, having grown up there myself, kicking around those streets from my pre-teen years into my early 20's. Was this going to be an angry diatribe against The Man (in this case, a team of BART police, BART being the Bay Area Rapid Transit, our version of the subway), and a one dimensional rendering of "Da' Hood" like so many other films have been? Thankfully, no. First and foremost, even before the legal and potentially racial issue arises that Fruitvale Station ultimately... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| SHARKNADO Trailer - It's Scarier Than A Tornado! Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:30 AM PDT  Tornadoes are bad, but it looks like sharknadoes are worse. If you don't believe that, you may want to check out the new trailer for SyFy's new movie Sharknado. It stars Tara Reid and Beverly Hills 90210's Ian Ziering. As the title may suggest, it looks like a lot of ridiculous fun. When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature's deadliest killer rules water, land, and air.I live in Australia and so it may be a while before I get a chance to see this, but many of you will be able to watch it tonight when it airs on SyFy Channel (and please check local guides for... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: CRYSTAL FAIRY, The Good Kind of Bad Trip Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Michael Cera gets a bad rap for consistently playing the lovable awkward loser character. In Sebastian Silva's Crystal Fairy, he takes on a completely different character: the awkward loser that's also an unlikable dickhead. Michael Cera fans and detractors take note; he does a pretty damn good job of filling those shoes as well. Oh, and Silva's film is a remarkably honest and enjoyable film as well. As its full title (at least according to the title cards) hints, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012 is the story of a psychedelic drug trip. More accurately, it's the story of a journey in pursuit of a psychedelic drug trip. Cera plays Jamie, an American living in Chile (why he's there is never revealed) who... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: THE HUNT Finds Provocation In Unexpected Places Posted: 11 Jul 2013 07:00 AM PDT  There is no arguing the craft on display in Thomas Vinterberg's small-town, big-drama showcase The Hunt. Mads Mikkelsen turns in the performance of his career -- and if you look back on his career so far, that is an impressive feat -- as Lucas, a volunteer teacher at a kindergarten school who is accused (and later ritually abused) by his own friends and neighbors after one of his students, young Klara, in a fit of childish pique accuses him of 'pointing his willie' at her. The cinematography, all warm and woody prior to the accusation, turns all white and frigid when the milk is spilt. The supporting characters all play their parts to whip the audience into a conflicting bit of rage at how a)... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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