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DVD Review: DAILY LIVES OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Has Never A Dull Moment

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DVD Review: DAILY LIVES OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Has Never A Dull Moment

DVD Review: DAILY LIVES OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Has Never A Dull Moment

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Daily Lives Of High School Boys is an absolutely hilarious anime series. The title already tells you all you need to know about the show - the main characters are high school boys and the series focuses on their daily lives. Like most teenage boys, their common interest, and therefore the focus of their conversations, is a certain mysterious species known as girls. Due to a lack of experience, their behavior and attempts to engage their 'targets' often have disastrous results. And much of the joy of this anime comes from laughing at the characters and thinking back to a time when we were all doing the same embarrassing things. Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake attend Sanada North Boys High School. These good friends spend a lot...

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China Box Office: PACIFIC RIM Stays Top, Smashes US Total

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:00 AM PDT

Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim continues to dominate the Chinese box office, holding on to the top spot for a third consecutive weekend, while local product also draws solid numbers. Rank Title Origin 12/8-18/8 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1 Pacific Rim USA $23.50 $103.41 19 2 Tiny Times 2 China $16.92 $44.41 11 3 One Night Surprise China $15.42 $22.95 10 4 Unbeatable Hong Kong/China $8.99 $8.99 3 5 The Palace China $7.47 $7.47 6 6 Fast & Furious 6 USA $2.75 $65.89 24 7 Crimes of Passion China $1.27 $3.53 11 8 I Love Wolffy 2 China $1.26 $11.73 18 9 White House Down USA $0.50 $28.47 28 10 Kunta China $0.33 $2.29 17 It's official, the Chinese love Pacific Rim more than...

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Lima Film Festival Wraps Up Its 17th Edition

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 05:30 PM PDT

The Lima Film Festival is the grandfather of local film fests. It has become a prime showcase for the best films from Latin America and is an event no local movie buff worth his or her salt can ignore. The fest just recently wrapped up its 17th edition, held from 9 to 17 August. One of the biggest highlights this year was having Alexander Payne as a special guest, who surprised everyone with his massive love of films and his immaculate Spanish, asking everyone to refer to him as "Alejandro." Included in a retrospective of his career was a special one-off screening of his latest, Nebraska, which is already gaining some end-of-year awards buzz, particularly for Bruce Dern's performance; sadly, it was by invitation only....

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Indie Beat: L.A. Stories -- Seeking Independence In Hollywood

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Even from indoors I can sense the sprawl. It is an onslaught. It is an adventure. Its sun-charged heart of concrete beats ceaselessly. The seeming endlessness of a loud city song, a vortex cradled by hills, valleys, and mountains. Even when one arrives at the ocean, the sprawl merely careens into other directions. I live in Los Angeles. I am a film journalist in Los Angeles. It is a town that perplexes and excites me. I am writing today's column in a state of flux, with doubt sidling for a spot in the sun. I won't let it. I've been back for six months. I have an incredible group of friends and many, many smiling acquaintances here. As a journalist I've attended the L.A. Film...

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Morelia 2013: Jodorowsky To Present THE DANCE OF REALITY

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

After announcing its official selection, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) 2013 has really exciting news for the Mexican fans of Alejandro Jodorowsky. The 84-year-old Jodorowsky returned to filmmaking after 23 years with The Dance of Reality (aka La Danza de la Realidad), which was first screened at Cannes 2013. And now the Mexican premiere of The Dance of Reality, with Jodorowsky in person, will be celebrated at Morelia 2013! You can read here Brian Clark's Twitch review of The Dance of Reality; here's an extract: "When we first meet the young-boy version of Alejandro Jodorowsky in his new "imaginary autobiography" The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad), he is wearing a long blond wig and watching in terror as his dad brawls with two...

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The 51st New York Film Festival Announces Main Slate

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

The 51st New York Film Festival, running from September 27 - October 13, announced their main slate of films today. And true to their form, it is full of hot shot titles and festival favorites from the year thus far. While you've got your Gala screenings (Captain Philips, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, and HER) the real meat of the fest comes with the main slate, which includes Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son, Claire Denis' Bastards, and Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs. Also on tap, the Palme D'pr winning Blue Is The Warmest Color, and the big screen take on Alan Partridge, sadly sans the Alpha Papa subtitle. Get a whiff of the whole slate below.  ABOUT TIME (2013) 123min Director:...

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Opening In Mexico: JURASSIC PARK 3D And THE CONJURING

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park turned 20 on June 11, 2013. To commemorate the 20th anniversary, it was converted to 3D and released theatrically in the US back in April. Jurassic Park 3D finally opens in Mexico on August 23. Jason Gorber recommends enjoying it while we can: "From the Raptor/Kitchen scene through to the Gallimimus "flocking" towards our heroes, there's lots of gee-whiz moments that pop from the screen. For much of it, however, it's a genuine opening of the space. The process integrates the different planes well, it's not often that you get that sense of different card assembled in space. There's some ghosting present, but some of that may be accounted for by the close proximity I had to the screen, a result of...

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Review: HIDE AND SEEK Is Worth the Look

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT

The thriller genre, one of the hallmarks of contemporary Korean cinema, seems to be as strong as ever on the peninsula these days. Many of the country's best commercial films are knee-deep in crime, sex and death, and gussied up in slick atmospheric aesthetics. This summer, as with many before, has seen its fair share of high profile thrillers grip the nation, such as Cold Eyes, The Terror Live, The Flu and now Hide and Seek. Café owner Sung-soo has a beautiful family who he lives with in a luxurious apartment in Seoul. However, Sung-soo is wrestling with his past and has developed an obsessive-compulsive disorder. When he learns that his brother has gone missing, he visits a rundown apartment outside of Seoul. Sung-soo notices...

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7 Movie Pubs That Make Me Want To Have A Pint

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

All I know about pubs is what I've learned from the movies. And what I've learned is that pubs are the center of the universe, a theorem that is proved by Edgar Wright's The World's End, in which Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, and Martin Freeman return to their home rural village of Newton Haven to complete an epic pub crawl that turns out to be so much more than what that simple description suggests. Click through the gallery below to discover more proofs for the importance of drinking establishments in Britain, Ireland -- land of my forefathers (on my father's side) -- and Scotland....

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Watch Sion Sono's WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL For Free!

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

You want an example of how things have changed int he world of international film festivals? The festival world is now embracing digital technology as never before, with the Venice Film Festival this year embarking on a bold new venture that will allow up to 500 viewers from around the world to participate in a one time only digital screening of twelve titles from their official selection during the course of the festival. You can find the complete list of titles involved in the venture and a link to buy tickets here. One of the involved titles is Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play In Hell and, as you may have guessed from the headline, we've got five free passes to give away. You want...

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International Poster Premiere For Manuel Martín Cuenca's CANNIBAL

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Announced int he first wave of titles selected to the Toronto International Film Festival, Manuel Martín Cuenca's Cannibal will soon unspool on these shores and before it arrives we have the international poster art for the film to share with you.Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life. She will make him realize the true nature of his acts and, for the first time, love awakens. Carlos is evil incarnate, unaware of itself. Nina is pure innocence. And Cannibal is a demon's love story.Check the trailer here, the posters below, and remember you can click to enlarge. Antonio de la Torre and Olimpia Melinte star....

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Check A Slew Of New Images From Tsui Hark's YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT

With the Hong Kong release rapidly approaching, a stack of new images from Tsui Hark's prequel project Young Detective Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon have been released and things are looking good. Mark Chao takes over the title role from Andy Lau and hopes are running high that this one will be able to match the energy and style that made the first one of Tsui Hark's most entertaining films in ages.The young Dee Renjie arrives in the Imperial Capital, intent to become an officer of the law. Empress Wu, who is at the start of her reign, has sent the fiery-haired Detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night. By chance, both Dee and Yuchi fight off the...

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Meet COWBOY BEBOP Director's SPACE DANDY

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo helmer Watanabe Shinichiro will be back on Japanese television screens in January when his new series Space Dandy premieres. And it would appear that long time fans of the director have plenty to look forward to, with the series promising the sort of high energy and slick style that made him famous in the first place. The Anime News Network describes it like this:The story revolves around Dandy, an alien-hunter. His job is to seek out new aliens never seen before, and receives a reward whenever he finds a new species. His mission is to find those new species faster than anyone else as he travels the galaxy. Together with the bucket-of-bolts robot QT and the dimwit alien Meow he...

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B-Movie Legend Albert Pyun Retires Due To Health Issues.

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Sad news from Tinseltown as legendary B-Movie director Albert Pyun has decided to retire early from filmmaking due to health issues that have been plaguing him for the last few years. I've been a fan of his films for years and had the good fortune of meeting him in Austin a few years ago. It was a thrilling experience and one of the few times I've asked someone I admire to pose in a picture with me, a picture taken by actor Michael Pare no less.Yesterday Pyun posted on his Facebook page about his plans to retire and today he wrote a letter to his fans explaining his situation.Take it away Albert. "While the screening went well in Albuquerque, my health has deteriorated further over...

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Hold On To Your Nuts And Do Not Feed The SQUIRRELS

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

What next for Wanted and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov? That's a good question, actually, the director-producer maintaining an active slate in both roles in both Hollywood and Russia but one thing he's got brewing on the production side is horror-comedy Squirrels.When a young man's estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds his mom's sleazy new boyfriend, a natural gas company buying up the town, an angry female sheriff who happens to be his ex-girlfriend, and an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their path due to an erosion of their food chain as...

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Meet Tony Jaa, Dog Lover, In New Demo Reel

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

While I'm really not sure why anyone associated with Tony Jaa would think that the Thai martial arts star particularly needs a new demo reel at this stage of his career, we've got exactly that with a brief new reel hitting Vimeo over the weekend. It's nothing particularly flashy, though it does include some sequences with a trained police dog - these bits also appear in a promo video for an upcoming dog competition also released over the weekend - which makes me think this is likely early prep work for Dolph Lundgren production Skin Trade.Take a look at the video below....

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Gondry's MOOD INDIGO Cut For International Release

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT

International press on Michel Gondry's has been by and large unified on two fronts. One, the film is a meticulously crafted flight of fancy from a man who does meticulously crafted flights of fancy better than arguably anyone else on the planet. And, two, the original version of the film was overly long and required a knowledge of the source novel by Boris Vian that made it quite difficult to follow and perhaps a little tiresome for those who didn't have said knowledge.Well, producers have attempted to address point two with a new version of the film which runs thirty six minutes shorter and is described as playing as a 'looser adaptation' that doesn't require advance knowledge of the story. According to a press release...

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Watch The Teaser For Dan Sachar's Sci-Fi Short LAST OF YOU

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Long time readers may recall that we're big fans of Israeli filmmaker Dan Sachar here at Twitch. Way back in 2009 Todd got wind of Sachar's poignant, Tarkovsky-esque short When It Will Be Silent: six minutes that showed a lot of promise. In 2011 Sachar delivered big time on that promise with the pastoral Overture, a post apocalypse for the philosophers and deep thinkers among us (and also my favorite short of that year). Overture was in fact his film school thesis, and upon graduation Sachar was showing no signs of stopping. It is then with great pleasure today that we share the teaser of his latest work Last Of You.The inventor of a memory recording device obsessively replays the last day he shared with...

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Who Will Be The New Wong Fei-hung In Roy Chow's RISE OF THE LEGEND

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

One of the most popular kung fu icons of all time is returning to the big screen, with director Roy Chow (pictured above) resurrecting the legend of Wong Fei-hung for his upcoming Rise Of The Legend. Previously played by the likes of Jet Li and Jackie Chan, Wong's historical roots are as an actual martial arts instructor - Lau Kar Leung's family trained in his school - but over the years Wong has been elevated to the status of a true folk hero and is often portrayed as standing strong against foreign influences in China.Given the history of major stars playing the character there is obviously a great deal of interest in who is taking on the role this time but - despite the film...

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Frightfest 2013 Preview: BIG BAD WOLVES, THE AMERICAN SCREAM, Ident Competition Winners & More!

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 06:30 AM PDT

The August bank holiday is almost upon us here in old London town, which of course means that Film4 Frightfest is almost here as well! At the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, from Thursday August 22nd to Monday August 26th, audiences will be enjoying some of the best in new horror film from around the world. Here's a small sampling; some of the films have been reviewed on Twitch; others are ones Twitch has been anticipating.In addition, the winners of the TURN YOUR BLOODY PHONE OFF competition were announced. Mike Tack, Holomax, Moneky Brains Productions, Paul While and David Scullion made idents designed to, ahem, 'encourage' patrons to turn off their mobiles during screenings. The festival has also recruited some friends (directors whose work has...

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