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Corman-Produced Chinese Horror HELL'S HAUNTED PALACE Gets A Trailer

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Corman-Produced Chinese Horror HELL'S HAUNTED PALACE Gets A Trailer

Corman-Produced Chinese Horror HELL'S HAUNTED PALACE Gets A Trailer

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 03:40 AM PDT

Roger Corman, the King of the Bs himself, has been getting his hands dirty in the Chinese Film Industry lately, financing a couple of ultra low budget films in Guangzhou through Hong Kong based production company, ACE Studios. Both films will be English-language productions aimed for the US cable TV market, directed by Australian-Chinese director Antony Szeto, whose previous work as a director includes recent Sammo Hung vehicle Wushu, but has plied his trade as an action director and stunt coordinator for more than two decades. The first of these two collaborations, Hell's Haunted Palace, just had its world premiere at PiFan last month, under its international title The Living Dead. It tells the story of a group of American filmmakers, whose plans to make a documentary...

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LA Happenings: Prepare For HarmonQuest! Plus, Everything Is Fest And Preston Sturges

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Get the scoop on special and repertory screenings happening this August 2nd weekend and beyond in Los Angeles. ...

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Melbourne 2013 Review: THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO Is A Stunted Visual Essay

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

The Last Time I Saw Macao is a quasi neo-noir cum documentary that centers on Portugal's historical occupation in a city with the highest density on Earth. It has been likened to Marker's Sans Soleil and, on its own merits, has moments of pure splendor stemming from montages of the city itself.The rest of the time the film tries to tell a forcefully engaging noir tale that never works to any effect and does nothing to enhance the investigative and contemplative aspects of the visual essay. It is a goofy and clumsy gimmick of murder and supernatural intrigue where nothing is shown and the occasional hammy acting of a forced scream is heard after the sound of a muffled gun shot. During these sounds, the...

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PiFan 2013 Review: THE KIRISHIMA THING Explores The Mysteries Of Social Hierarchy

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Shot through with deadpan humor and framed in a complex but always coherent structure, The Kirishima Thing is an engaging new work from director Daihachi Yoshida that is both modest in its aims and ambitious in its construction. Kirishima is the top athlete at his high school, and when he suddenly disappears, the social order of the entire insititution crumbles behind him. With foul play never suspected and the titular character never appearing on screen, the Kirishima 'thing' is merely a MacGuffin to set the stage for a wider exploration of hierarchical norms in Japanese society, particularly as they apply to the pressure cooker environment of high school. The jocks and their girlfriends, Kirishima's friends, hold power in the school while, tellingly, the geeks are...

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Review: THE SPECTACULAR NOW, Coming Of Age As A Beautiful Experience

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

The late John Hughes was the man in Hollywood who understood teenagers and teen angst better than anyone else in the industry. He knew how to tell beautiful stories about how being young can sometimes be weird and confusing, and brought this to life on film flawlessly. The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles are timeless classics, not only because they feature good storytelling and star Molly Ringwald, but because their depiction of high school life is still accurate to this very day. The older the audience is, the more the films become relatable. This brings me to James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, which is perhaps the most important adult-oriented film about the victories and woes of high school life in the last decade. Free-spirited, closet-alcoholic...

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Opening In Mexico: Richard Linklater's BEFORE MIDNIGHT

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Everybody is praising Before Midnight, Richard Linklater's third film about the love between Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke). Nine years after the second installment, Before Sunset, this new chapter first premiered at Sundance 2013 and was released theatrically in the US on May 24. Considering I watched both "Sunrise" and "Sunset" on DVD, the fact that the company Diamond Films is taking the risk to go theatrical in Mexico with Before Midnight is definitely an exciting situation. Ryland Aldrich reviewed the film at Sundance and had this warning to share: "Not every movie needs its audience to know nothing about the plot or story going in. We live in a world of trailers and Twitter and even spoilers from Lego toys. But the...

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Review: EUROPA REPORT Takes An Enjoyable Journey Into Deep Space

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Ecuadorian filmmaker Sebastián Cordero has a handful of titles on his directing resume, the best known probably 2004's John Leguizamo-starring non-comic journalist drama Cronicas. All of his films have been in Spanish and none venturing into what we would commonly call "genre cinema." Therefore, the decision to hire Cordero for what has repeatedly been referred to as a "hard sci-fi" project may seem a bit out of left field. The decision, as it turns out, was a wise one. Cordero brings a well-tuned human element to this space exploration drama that succeeds on the strength of the performances and interactions between characters. Though the storytelling gets more than a bit mushy in the editing room, ultimately Europa Report gets it right and provides a very...

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Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See THE BANQUET, CROUCHING TIGER And ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA On The Big Screen!

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

The end is upon us! The Twitch curated Swordsmen, Gangsters And Ghosts retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox comes to a conclusion this weekend with screenings of The Banquet tonight, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on Saturday, and Once Upon A Time In China parts one and two together on a single ticket on Sunday. And what better way to say farewell than to give away some tickets?We've got a pair of tickets to give away to each of these screenings and we're making it simple. Want to win? All you need to do is swallow your pride, email me here, and tell me the title The Banquet was released as in the USA. Get a move on, that screening's coming up fast!...

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Check The Trailer For Vincenzo Natali's HAUNTER

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Splice director Vincenzo Natali returns to screens with haunted house thriller Haunter and the first trailer has arrived for your viewing pleasure.Abigail Breslin stars as a young girl who must unravel a decades-old mystery to save her family in this terrifying haunted house thriller. From acclaimed director Vincenzo Natali (Splice).I very much prefer not to say too much about this one to avoid spoiling elements for those unfamiliar with what's going on here so I'll just leave it with 'watch the trailer below'....

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Review: COCKNEYS VS. ZOMBIES, Brainless, Knockabout Entertainment

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

After the critical and commercial success of his big screen debut, Severance, it comes as no surprise that screenwriter James Moran would continue to introduce East London geezers into recognisable horror movie settings. Cockneys Vs. Zombies, however, proves as over-reliant on its high concept premise as its title might suggest, bringing precious little of note to either the urban crime film or shuffling undead sub-genre. Sadly, the film also fails to escape the intimidating shadow cast over British horror comedies by Edgar Wright's vastly superior - but not altogether dissimilar - Shaun Of The Dead. Cockneys Vs. Zombies follows the plight of an East End retirement home, targeted for demolition to make way for an upmarket apartment complex. Among the residents is Ray Maguire (Alan...

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BAD GRANDPA Corrupts The Youth Of America In First Trailer

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Let's get this out of the way right off the top: Jackass is not for everybody. That's such an obvious statement that it's virtually a truism, and even those who love Jackass find there are often long stretches that don't appeal to them, either. But none of those stretches ever seem to involve Bad Granda.For those unfamiliar, here's the gag: Johnny Knoxville and other members of the Jackass gang along with their rather famous friend Spike Jonze will occasionally ridiculously good old man makeup and then go out in public and do incredibly inappropriate things. Imagine an old man ramming his scooter through the front of a store window for example, or an octogenarian making out with a teenager on the street. The Bad Grandpa...

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