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SPL 2 Approved For Production By Chinese Government

SPL 2 Approved For Production By Chinese Government

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 04:00 AM PDT

Some big news coming in from China by way of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, better known over here by their catchy acronym SAPPRFT or, for broadcasted and theatrically released entertainment, SARFT. Often described as the Chinese censorship board, any film produced in Mainland China first has to be approved by SARFT. Which means that their monthly publication of approved titles is a nice heads-up on what is being planned over there. According Kevin Ma over at Filmbiz Asia, this month's list includes at least one very hot item: production company Sil-Metropole Organisation Limited has been given license to make SPL 2, a thematic sequel to Wilson Yip's 2005 film Sha Po Lang. This is big, BIG news. The original...

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Roller Derby Slasher Pic MURDERDROME To World Premiere At Monster Fest!

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:00 AM PDT

Self described "roller derby exploitation slasher extravaganza" MurderDrome will have its World Premiere at booming Australian genre festival Monster Fest in November. Strongman Pictures Entertainment and Monster Pictures sent Twitch the exclusive teaser video below to announce the news, and show a little taste of the film.Launched three years ago as the Fantastic Asia Film Festival, Monster Fest is the genre festival offshoot of Monster Pictures. I've been two years in a row and it's definitely one of the most fun festivals to attend, as it's run by fans who respect filmmakers and audiences. It kicks off this year on November 21st in Melbourne. MurderDrome appears cut from the same cloth as other low budget Aussie exploitation fare, notably El monstro del mar! from 2010. With documentary...

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Hey, Australia! Win Tickets To See UNBEATABLE In Cinemas!

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 11:30 PM PDT

Thanks to our friends at Magnum Films, we have FIVE double passes to give away for Unbeatable, the new MMA action drama from one of Hong Kong's most consistent action directors - Dante Lam.Unbeatable stars a very muscular Nick Cheung, who has starred in two of Lam's best films, Beast Stalker and Stool Pigeon, and Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng. Early buzz for the film is excellent, and it won Cheung the Best Actor Award and his 10-year old co-star Crystal Lee Best Actress at the recent Shanghai International Film Festival.For a chance to win one of the double passes, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Like the Magnum Film Facebook page, and2) Email your name and postal address to me...

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Review: ELYSIUM Falters By Taking The Middle Road

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:01 PM PDT

After storming onto the scene with District 9, made on the fly after a much-publicized aborted attempt to film Halo, Neill Blomkamp immediately established himself as a sci-fi director contending with the big guys. While not everyone loved his overtly metaphoric take on Apartheid using aliens for Afrikaners, I found the film to be both visually impressive and thoroughly enjoyable from both a story and performance standpoint.Blomkamp arrives with Elysium, his slightly delayed foray into big budget, big studio extravagance. Some of what made his earlier film enjoyable makes the transition well, some gets lost in translation, but overall we have a satisfying, if not particularly revelatory, addition to this year's slate of summer sci-fi fun.From the sweeping opening shots, the film looks quite extraordinary....

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Kim Ki-duk's MOEBIUS Approved for Release Following Cuts

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk has been having a hard with his latest film, the controversial Moebius, which is set to have its world premiere later this month at the Venice International Film Festival, where it will screen out of competition. Following three rounds of assessment by the Korea Media Ratings Board (KMRB), Kim's film has finally secured a rating for general release. The film was initially slapped with a restricted rating, which is effectively a ban in a country with no specialty theaters. KMRB's main objection was with the film's sexual content, which features instances of incest, a particularly taboo subject in Korea. Acquiescing to the board's requests, the filmmaker cut one minute and 40 seconds from 20 scenes from his feature but upon its second...

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Review: THE WAY WE DANCE Brings A Youthful Vitality To Hong Kong Cinema

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:00 PM PDT

Following a flood of youth-oriented films from Taiwan and mainland China that have proved increasingly popular, dominating box office charts around Asia, the Hong Kong industry is wisely getting in on the act. The latest offering from local indie director Adam Wong strives to be Hong Kong's answer to the Step Up dance flicks, and largely transcends its budgetary limitations to deliver a toe-tapping, unashamedly feel-good romp. High-school graduate Fleur (Cherry Ngan) lives for dance. Every moment she's awake she is plugged into her music, planning out new hip-hop moves in her head. Unfortunately, she is trapped...working at the family restaurant scooping tofu all day long. She's even picked up the nickname "Tofu Fa" after the sweet dessert she dishes out day-in day-out. But when her university...

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FANTASIA 2013 Review: BOOZIE MOVIES Has An Existential Crisis With 24 EXPOSURES. But The Boobs Were Nice!

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT

After seeing 24 Exposures at its international premiere at Fantasia, I was inspired to take a good, long, hard look at myself. That night, I spent a large portion of time staring into my hotel room's bathroom mirror with a handle of cheap Canadian whiskey in one hand and a pair of hair clippers in the other. I entered a trance. I was transfixed. I couldn't take my eyes off of my mustache and soul patch. My eyes strained from staring so hard. My facial hair began to take on a new form like one of the those magic 3D posters from the 90's.The hair that had been growing out of my own skin for so many years no longer seemed to belong to me....

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TIFF 2013 Announces The Complete Canadian Film Lineup. And It's Got Depth, Folks.

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

I won't even begin to get into the plethora of animated short films announced today for TIFF's Canadia shorts blocks, because there is a wealth of interesting cinema spewing forth from the bowels of English and French Canada for this years edition of TIFF.  Regulars Bruce McDonald, Michael Dowse, Denis Villeneuve, Robert LaPage, Bruce Sweeney and the documentary tag-team of Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky all have new films, aloing with the current darling of Canuck cinema, Xavier Dolan.  The multi-talented Jeff Barnaby's provocative looking First Nations film Rhymes For Young Ghouls (pictured above) gets its world premiere along with a film directed by prolific character actor Peter Stebbings and a surprisingly un-pornographic sounding new one from Canada's L'enfant terrible, Bruce LaBruce.  All of these...

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Review: ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA Keeps The Stakes Low And The Comedy Hilarious

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The highly anticipated big screen debut of Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge arrives in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, a blissfully straightforward and outrageously hilarious comedy that finds Partridge caught up in a hostage situation at the local radio station in Norfolk where he works.When North Norfolk Digital is taken over by Gordale Media, changes to the staff and the direction of the station are inevitable. Partridge, though, makes a desperate attempt to save his job by throwing fellow DJ Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney) under the bus. Pat doesn't handle his dismissal well, returning to hold the station at gunpoint and unwilling to negotiate with anybody other than Alan.At this point I should probably admit that my prior knowledge of this popular character is virtually non-existent and...

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First Astounding Trailer for Spike Jonze's HER

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 01:15 PM PDT

We learned the first real insight into Spike Jonze's much-anticipated follow-up to Where the Wild Things Are when the director sat down with David O. Russell to discuss Her at LA Film Fest earlier this year. Now we are finally getting a real peek at some of the footage via this morning's trailer debut. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely writer who connects with an artificial intelligence voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde co-star. Here's an official synopsis: In the not so distant future, Theodore (Phoenix), a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love...

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Cinemalaya 2013 Review: Hannah Espia's TRANSIT, An Arresting, Moving Portrait Of The Filipino Diaspora In Israel

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Hannah Espia's Transit deals with the struggles of an extended Filipino family living and working in Tel Aviv after the Israeli government passed a law forcing children of overseas workers who are below five years of age to be deported back to their homelands. Joshua (Marc Justine Alvarez), who has lived all his life in Israel, is a few months shy of his fifth birthday. Moises (Ping Medina), Joshua's father, aware of the risk of his son being deported if caught, keeps Joshua indoors. Janet (Irma Adlawan), Moises' sister, takes care of Joshua while Moises is out to work as a caretaker for a wealthy retiree. She also has to manage Yael (Jasmine Curtis-Smith), her teenage daughter from an Israeli former flame, who now has...

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Teacups Are Invading! Bizarre, Wacky Trailer For Sci-Fi QUEST FOR THE POWER SPHERE (Buscando La Esfera Del Poder)

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT

"They came to destroy our world. But we will destroy it first." After watching the bizarre, wacky, lovable teaser trailer for Argentine filmmaker Tetsuo Lumiere's Quest for the Power Sphere (Buscando la Esfera del Poder), I must conclude that it's the first alien invasion movie I've seen in which the extraterrestrials arrive in spaceships that resemble teacups. Lumiere has many made short films. His first feature was titled TL1: My Kingdom for a Flying Saucer, which should provide a clue as to his sensibilities; he also made a sequel, TL2: Happiness is an Urban Legend. In between, he made a documentary consisting entirely of images from YouTube, Hotels and Other Temporary Accommodations. As for Quest for the Power Sphere, the official synopsis says it's about "princesses and...

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Review: PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS Lacks Personality

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Having missed 2010's Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief because of reasons, and then never catching up with it due to factors, I was at a disadvantage when it came time for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. But I was also free of preconceived notions. Since I didn't have an opinion of the first film, I didn't approach the sequel with any idea of whether it was likely to be good or bad. I was a blank slate! Speaking of blank slates, this movie stars Logan Lerman: so sweet in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and such a bucket of white paint everywhere else. He plays the title character, a seemingly ordinary teenage boy who discovered in the first film that his father is...

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"You Must Be Desperate." New THOR: THE DARK WORLD Trailer

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

The new trailer for Marvel's Thor: The Dark World picks up where the last one left off, with locked up Loki (Tom Hiddleston) cooly surmising why his adoptive brother Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has come to see him: He must be desperate. Indeed he is! Why, he's even brought Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) to meet his family on his home world of Asgard. The trailer covers the bases, reprising previously-seen destruction and including snippets of new destruction, and even gives Heimdall (Idris Elba) a line of dialogue. Mostly, it focuses on the antagonistic relationship between Loki and Thor, which also allows room for a bit of levity under the direction of Alan Taylor, whose experience with Game of Thrones, among many others, seems to make him a...

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Destroy All Monsters: There Will Never Be a Female DOCTOR WHO

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Peter Capaldi is a splendid choice to play the Twelfth Doctor. He's even somewhat outside the box. Doctor actors have been inconspicuously reducing in age, almost without exception, from One to Eleven - and in casting 55-year-old Capaldi, I can see, beyond question, that there is new and interesting ground for showrunner Steven Moffat to cover. Moffat has completed three superlative seasons with "The Doctor As Boy," and can now tackle "The Doctor As Man," or even "Old Man." For the fiftieth anniversary of the show, that has a pleasant "everything old is new again" vibe to it. (Another pleasure in all this, which can't help but delight the 7-year-old me who used to sprint behind the couch when Tom Baker's Doctor Who came up...

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