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Another Quick Tease For Tsui Hark's YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON

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Another Quick Tease For Tsui Hark's YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON

Another Quick Tease For Tsui Hark's YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:50 AM PDT

Tsui Hark's first Detetive Dee film, 2010's Mystery of the Phantom Flame proved a surprisingly effective combination of period martial arts, Sherlock Holmes-esque sleuthing and fantasy adventure. Three years later the Hong Kong veteran is back with a 3D prequel, the rather comically titled Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon. Andy Lau has handed over the mantle of the titular snoop to Taiwanese hearthrob Mark Chao (Monga, So Young) and is joined by Angelababy and Feng Shao Feng. We've seen plenty of stills, but precious little of the film itself so far, and this new teaser expands only slightly on the last, boasting ominous underwater growling, fairly dodgy CGI galleons and still no sign of Detective Dee himself. The film opens in Hong Kong...

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Roadshow Picks Up THESE FINAL HOURS For Wide Australian Release

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:30 AM PDT

In what will probably be the biggest coup for indie filmmakers in Australia this year, major Australian distributor Roadshow Films has picked up Zak Hilditch's apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours for a wide release - expected in 2014. The film was produced by Liz Kearney. To put this in context, Roadshow hasn't picked up an Australian film after it's completed for as long as I can remember, and I've been writing about the industry for six years (a relatively short time, but a long and varied one in the annals of distributing genre films in Australia).Obviously helpful with the deal (announced at the film's West Australian premiere at film festival CinefestOz) was the involvement of seasoned director, producer and distributor Rob Connolly, who executive produced the film....

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We Are Go For Turbo! TURBO KID Starts Production Early 2014!

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:00 PM PDT

In case you don't know the story already, here is a recap. RKSS (Roadkill Superstar) made the short film called T is for Turbo and submitted it to the first ABCs of Death guest director contest where the public got to vote for their favorite short. While Turbo amassed a huge number of votes, it did not make it into the first film. However, Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun and V/H/S 2) and ABCs producer Ant Timpson went to bat for the film at the first Frontières International Co-Production Market at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal last July. And their efforts were not in vain! The project was picked up by EMAfilms for production at the festival.  A year passed with nary a...

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Ben Affleck Is The Next Batman

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:26 PM PDT

Look how burly Ben Affleck looks holding that Oscar. So manly. Now imagine him in tights and replace the golden guy with a Batarang. Because that's what's happening. Variety has broken word that after mucking about for the last few years making serious movies that people actually like and respect, Affleck is returning to the superhero world to take up the cowl as Bruce Wayne and Batman in the upcoming Superman / Batman crossover film. Yep, it's happening and it seems like a smart bit of casting, though so did Daredevil. What say you?...

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Review: GHOST SHARK Asks, Can Great White Lightning Strike Twice?

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT

From the brilliant minds that brought you Arachnoquake and Mega Piranha comes the chilling tale of the vengeful spirit of a great white shark, Ghost Shark. It airs tonight on SyFy at 9 p.m.ET. A shark is attacked by a group of fisherman and before it dies it rests in a cursed cave where it's spirit is released to continue feeding on the residents of a sleepy summer town. Ava and Cicely's dad was the captain of that chartered boat and when he also turns up missing they investigate his disappearance. But soon Ghost Shark begins attacking the residents, turning up wherever there is water. How can it be stopped? And what does the lighthouse keeper Finch (Richard Moll) know about the cave and the town curse...

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Review: OLD CATS, The Best Sebastián Silva Film Of The Year

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Sebastián Silva is a Chilean director, and maybe in this time and age, the most well-known director born in Chile today -- the best-known Chilean director ever award would go to the masterful Raúl Ruiz -- and it's easy to see why. His movies get releases and are usually accepted in important festivals, like Cannes and Valdivia, and more importantly, he has managed to premiere all his films, starting with 2009's The Maid (La nana), at Sundance, and always getting an award out of it.In 2013, we've seen releases of the two movies that he premiered at Sundance this year, first a theatrical release of the Michael Cera/Gaby Hoffman drug-fueled comedy Crystal Fairy, and later a home video release of his Michael Cera/Juno Temple psychological...

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Review: PARADISE: FAITH, Baring Body And Soul

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

The second installment of the Paradise Trilogy by Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Faith premiered at the Venice Film Fest last year (Love at Cannes 2012 and Hope at the Berlinale 2013). It is by far the strongest and most affecting effort among the three. Paradise: Faith tells a story of Annamaria (played with an uninhibited gusto by Maria Hofstätter), last seen in Paradise: Hope, helping her sister Teresa (Margarete Tiesel) prepare for her vacation to Kenya. She is a Catholic whose devotion verges on fanaticism. Like her sister, Annamaria is taking the summer off. But instead of going on a third-world sex tour, she is staycationing: taking a break from her job at a medical lab so she can devote herself to door-to-door missionary...

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Fantastic Fest's Fantastic Market Announces New Projects

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Fantastic Fest has just announced the first projects selected for Fantastic Market / Mercado Fantastico, the international co-production market that debuts at this year's festival. Ten different countries are represented on the list and Twitch readers will certainly recognize most of the names there. Representatives of the projects will make pitches at the market in Austin, and a jury made of Fantastic Fest founder Tim League, director Robert Rodriguez and other industry professionals will select and award the top three. Here's the full press release: Austin, TX - Thursday, August 22 -- Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the 16 selected projects for the inaugural edition of its international co-production market: Fantastic Market | Mercado Fantastico. The market runs from September 19th through September 21st,...

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Review: SHORT TERM 12, The Rare Film That Gets Child-Adult Relationships Right

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

As someone who has spent much of his adult life working extensively with children and teenagers (from being a kindergarten aide to high school substitute, to a 1:1 aide at home and in school) I am always very wary going into films that deal with adult-child relationships that fall somewhat outside of domestic/parental roles. My concern stems from the notion that the filmmakers are coming to the subject as an outsider; approaching the material as a cute novelty of cinema. Treating it as a sentimental or melodramatic trope rather than mining for an authentic experience of adolescence, as well as the trials of the adults who must endure and support this journey. There is only so much research or prep work that can be done...

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Review: DRINKING BUDDIES Brings Joe Swanberg To The Big Time

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Joe Swanberg's career as a filmmaker has gone through several phases, all without his name being known to more than a tiny fraction of the movie-going public. The inadvertent and unwilling godfather of the "Mumblecore" sub-genre (in which listless twentysomethings ruminate on their mundane lives in snarky, semi-improvised dialogue), Swanberg was a perfect fit for the Austin-based SXSW Film Festival, where his first four movies premiered, one after another, four years in a row (2005-2008). But Swanberg's prolificness -- he made six films in 2011 alone -- worked against him, especially since they tended to be short, cheap-looking, and derivative projects. The indie community, weary of what seemed to be a quantity-over-quality mentality, turned against him. This culminated in an event at last year's Fantastic...

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Review: THE WORLD'S END Kicks Ass With Middle-Aged Insight (And Beer)

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Gary King (Simon Pegg) is that guy everybody knows from high school. The cautionary tale. The guy who peaked too early and who now has to come to grips with the fact that his life will never again be as good as it was when he was sixteen, that he's already well into the downhill slide and there's nothing at all that he can do to stop it. And so Gary does what all Gary's do. He gets drunk and pretends that nothing has changed, that he effectively is still 16 and life is still awesome. And in this particular Gary's case, he's taking some friends along for the ride, reconstructing the greatest night of their lives, the night five high school chums tackled a...

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Review: YOU'RE NEXT Upends Siege And Slasher Conventions

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett professed, maybe a bit tongue in cheek, at its North American premiere that their intent with You're Next was to make a tight little genre thrill ride that mashed together the opening scene of the original Scream with the slapstick of Home Alone. An unlikely combination to be sure, but it all comes together in such an entertaining package that by the yardstick of either comedic pratfall or a bloody deconstruction of horror tropes, it has to be labelled a success. Reuniting the principal cast from Wingard's last film, A Horrible Way To Die, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen and Amy Seimetz are three of the 'ten little Indians' on an evening of bloody murder. When Audrey and Rob invite their...

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Opening: THE GRANDMASTER (U.S. Version), No Subtleties Please, We're American

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Judging by the U.S. cut of The Grandmaster, in comparison to the version released in Hong Kong, we Americans must be really dumb. The Hong Kong version, available on Blu-ray in Asia, runs 130 minutes. The U.S. cut runs 108 minutes. But it's not simply a trim job; the U.S. edition is so significantly edited that it qualifies as a different movie. By adding, subtracting, and re-arranging dramatic footage, the rhythm and pace changes; by removing historical footage that provided context and replacing it with explanatory title cards, it now unreels as something closer to a traditional bio-pic -- with plenty of crunchy fighting and doomed romancing -- with the instructional value of a high school history lesson inserted, rather than an elegaic tribute to...

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Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright Talk THE WORLD'S END

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

I interviewed Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright at the end of a very long day several years ago for Hot Fuzz . They had had the long day, not me. I was thrilled beyond belief to have the chance to chat with all three of them and was sure it would never come up again. They were talking to journalist number 666 (me) and fighting some serious sleep deprivation. They were in fact, sorta zombie-ish and wanted to talk about anything except zombies, which they graciously did anyway. Talk to them again? I cheered! I triumphantly raised my fist into the air. I went out and bought a cricket bat. I told all my friends who clapped me on the back and told me...

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Murnau, Lang, Mizoguchi And Hawks In Masters Of Cinema Oct-Nov Line-Up

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 06:39 AM PDT

Eureka Entertainment unveiled the October and November new releases on its consistently impressive Masters of Cinema label earlier today, and it proves to be yet another stunning line-up of classic movies from the four corners of our fair planet. October sees Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse The Gambler get a Blu-ray world premiere, to accompany last year's release of sequel The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Also coming to Blu-ray that month is Howard Hawks' seminal western, Red River, starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, and a limited edition dual-format 8-film set of late classics from Japanese legend, Mizoguchi Kenji.In November we have the previously announced release of F.W. Murnau's vampire classic Nosferatu, which comes to Blu-ray following a UK theatrical release that begins with a screening at...

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