Review: DIE WERKSTÜRMER Wants To Be A Feel Good Summer Comedy So Hard That It Hurts |
- Review: DIE WERKSTÜRMER Wants To Be A Feel Good Summer Comedy So Hard That It Hurts
- Review: 2 GUNS is A Solidly Entertaining, Comedy-Infused Action Film
- Review: THE CANYONS Embarrasses Everyone Involved, Except Lindsay Lohan
- FANTASIA 2013: Boozie Movies Falls Asleep Before Reviewing ACROSS THE RIVER. But The Nightmares Were Worth It.
- Now On DVD: LITTLE DEATHS Revels in Sex and, well, Death
- Cinemalaya 2013 Review: Jason Paul Laxamana's BABAGWA (THE SPIDER'S LAIR) Is a Thrilling Look Into the Sordid Lives of Facebook Scammers
- Omar Rodriguez Lopez's LOS CHIDOS To Be Screened In Mexico City For The First Time
- Fantasia 2013 Review: LIBRARY WARS. Japanese Feel-Good Action Cinema
- The Writing's On The Wall In The UK Quad Poster for YOU'RE NEXT
- Donut Cats In Post Apocalyptic Japan
- Second MACHETE KILLS Trailer Just Feels Tired
- The Live Action AKIRA Isn't Dead After All
| Review: DIE WERKSTÜRMER Wants To Be A Feel Good Summer Comedy So Hard That It Hurts Posted: 03 Aug 2013 05:00 AM PDT  Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Austria, a country internationally acclaimed for their feel-bad cinema, aims in the completely opposite direction with Die Werkstürmer, writer-director Andreas Schmied's attempt at a feel-good summer comedy hit in the tradition of recent European successes like Welcome to the Sticks or the Swedish Kopps. He takes all he can steal from other films, pandering to just about every cliché one has ever seen in a summer comedy, and ultimately ends up producing a comedy that is not really funny. Even worse, there is not a bit of Austria in a movie that stresses the differences between rural Austria and Vienna, and is described as a piece of national cinema by those who sell it.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: 2 GUNS is A Solidly Entertaining, Comedy-Infused Action Film Posted: 02 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT  This summer, the Hollywood movie landscape has become increasingly littered with the desiccated corpses of would-be blockbusters which failed to find their audiences, many probably weary of the seemingly interchangeable array of loud, special-effects heavy spectacles offered to them weekly. Those looking for something different, but not willing to go the art house route, will find a very serviceable alternative in 2 Guns, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur's unpretentious, fleet-footed, comedy-infused action film. Based on Steven Grant's five-issue graphic novel series, 2 Guns is solidly built upon the buddy cop movie template, with the snappy banter between stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as essential to its overall effect as the shootouts and fisticuffs. In many ways, there is a pleasing throwback feel to much of this,... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: THE CANYONS Embarrasses Everyone Involved, Except Lindsay Lohan Posted: 02 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT  So... did you hear about the time that author Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho) and director Paul Schrader (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Cat People, screenwriter of Taxi Driver) decided to collaborate on a crowdfunded movie and cast Lindsay Lohan and a porn star named James Deen in the lead roles? If not, your reaction to the film in question, The Canyons, may vary greatly from mine. Credit my biased expectations to the engrossing, tightly-written New York Times Magazine article which actually makes good on it's sensationalist headline, "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan In Your Movie."Like many films plagued with production problems -- Just try watching Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities after reading the... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Boozie Movies has been struggling with its review for Across the River for well over a week. This is not because the film is polarizing or difficult to summarize and critique or praise. It's just that there's not much to review. Across the River presents the barest of horror film concepts that's minimalist bordering on nonexistent. It's the type of non-movie that's likely to put you to sleep. But the kicker is that it's also likely to give you some potent nightmares after it's bored you to tears. It's a film that you'll struggle to remember and yet its effects will continue to linger on along fringes of your subconscious for some time later. It's now the seventh day after I viewed Across The River... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Now On DVD: LITTLE DEATHS Revels in Sex and, well, Death Posted: 02 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Horror anthologies are becoming a popular trend in film nowadays, so it's nice to see one of the early ones finally getting a DVD release. Little Deaths is a trio of films directed by UK's Sean Hogan (Lie Still), Andrew Parkinson (Venus Drowning) and Simon Rumley (Red White & Blue). The theme connecting the three films is pretty loose: sex and death. Hogan's "House and Home" has a seemingly good samaritan couple take in a homeless girl, only to reveal their true sinister intentions, which may not turn out as they planned; Parkinson's "Mutant Tool" is about a former drug addict trying to straighten her life out, who is haunted by drug-induced nightmares of a caged man with a rather large, em, 'tool'; and Rumley's... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Jason Paul Laxamana's Babagwa, an exploration of the proliferation of deceit in a rapidly virtualizing world, centers on Greg (Alex Medina), who fronts himself online as Bam Bonifacio (Kiko Matos), an affluent and handsome model whose sexual orientation depends on the gender of the target victim. The ruse is the brainchild of Marney (Joey Paras), who gets a sizable portion of the money earned from the swindle. Like all of his previous victims, Daisy (Alma Concepcion), a wealthy and philanthropic middle-aged woman, easily falls for Greg's dashing alter-ego. However, caught in a web of domestic drama, a shallow and stunted romance with his girlfriend (Chanel Latorre), and a slew of unsatisfying paychecks from his illicit gigs, he suddenly finds himself falling for Daisy. Babagwa... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Omar Rodriguez Lopez's LOS CHIDOS To Be Screened In Mexico City For The First Time Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  The prolific artist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, current member of the band Bosnian Rainbows, released his second feature film Los Chidos more than a year ago, when it premiered at SXSW in March 2012. Rodriguez-Lopez has performed in Mexico many times with such acts as The Mars Volta, Vato Negro, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group and Bosnian Rainbows. And now is time to enjoy outside of the Internet his work as a film director, as Cine Tonalá will host the first (and only) official screening in Mexico City of Los Chidos on Friday, August 16. Ryland Aldrich called Los Chidos a "brilliantly absurd journey"; here's an extract of his review: "Leave it to Omar Rodriguez Lopez to create one of the wildest, most innovative, and full on challenging... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Fantasia 2013 Review: LIBRARY WARS. Japanese Feel-Good Action Cinema Posted: 02 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT  In the 1980s in an alternate Japan, a movement rose to control media and do away with material deemed offensive to Japanese culture. The Media Betterment Committee is little more than a police force that bans such offensive material. In opposition to this movement the Library Defense Force was formed to protect such books and publications. Anything they buy is protected by law and they move these publications to their libraries. The year is now 2019 and young Iku has joined the Library Defense Force. She has wanted to join the force ever since an officer from the LDF defended her during such a purge. She wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. Thing is, she does not actually know the identity of... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| The Writing's On The Wall In The UK Quad Poster for YOU'RE NEXT Posted: 02 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT -thumb-200x200-40799.jpg) Hot on the heels of the 1 sheet produced for San Diego Comic Con, Lionsgate have released the UK quad poster for Adam Wingard's long awaited You're Next. It's a simple, blunt approach with that familiar red on black colour scheme seen on everything from Antichrist to Martyrs. Still, it's bold at least.You're Next plays at Frightfest on 22nd August and is at cinemas across the UK from Wednesday 28th August.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Donut Cats In Post Apocalyptic Japan Posted: 02 Aug 2013 10:40 AM PDT  Created as part of the Donyatsu series of animated short films featuring animal-pastry hybrids living in post-apocalyptic Tokyo (yes, you read that right), say hello to the donut cats. No, it has no subtitles, but really ... you don't understand what regular cats are saying, either, so why would you expect otherwise of the donut variety?... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Second MACHETE KILLS Trailer Just Feels Tired Posted: 02 Aug 2013 10:20 AM PDT  Hands up everybody who wants to watch Robert Rodriguez make Twitter jokes while nicking visual gags from Black Dynamite! No? Nobody? Well, then, don't bother watching the new Machete Kills trailer because that's about all it has to offer, which is supremely disappointing from a project like this with a director granted ample budget and near total freedom to do what he wants.Yes, you get a lot of new Mel Gibson footage here if that's your bag, but months before the film hits screens it feels as though it may have already blown out all the best bits in the first trailer. Meh.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| The Live Action AKIRA Isn't Dead After All Posted: 02 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  It aint dead yet.The (failed) progress of a Hollywood adaptation of Otomo Katsuhiro's manga and subsequent anime feature Akira has been well documented over the years and its many fits and starts and now it appears to be back under way.We last had word of the film back in early January, 2012 when - with pre-production well under way and Jaume Collet-Sera in the director's chair - Warner Brothers pulled the plug on the whole thing and sent the crew back home. It was the sort of blow that normally spells the absolute end for a project but Warners cautioned that, no, they still want to do it but had concerns over the budget and script.Well, they were apparently telling the truth and those issues... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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