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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: COHERENCE May Be A Bit Too Clever For Its Own Good

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: COHERENCE May Be A Bit Too Clever For Its Own Good

Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: COHERENCE May Be A Bit Too Clever For Its Own Good

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:19 PM PDT

An approaching comet, a cracked cell phone, and a dinner party are the building blocks upon which Coherence is constructed. Very soon, however, Schrödinger's cat, intermittent power outages, and fractured personalities are poured into the mix, followed by a sweet, sweet topping consisting almost entirely of brain-teasing puzzles and head-shaking twists. It is possible to be a bit too clever for your own good. Directed by James Ward Byrkit, who wrote the screenplay based on a story that he and Alex Manugian devised, Coherence brings together four couples in a house, with only occasional forays into the outside world. (It's a great way to maximize what one imagines to be a relatively small budget, yet the film never feels confining, thanks in no small measure...

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TIFF 2013: Twitch's Super Wrap With All Our Reviews and Top Fest Picks

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 05:30 PM PDT

Another crazy and wonderful year of the Toronto International Film Fest has come to a close and again Twitch's coverage has been second to none. How's that, you ask? Just take a gander at the incredible list of features and reviews below. Once you're done there, click through the gallery below where we chat about our favorite films of the fest and reveal a few disappointments as well. As always, your comments on our festival coverage are very much appreciated. Previews 10 Big Launches 14 Far East Faves 13 Slices of Big Screen Reality 12 Fantastic Genre Offerings 16 Features Seeking the Big Sale 13 Flicks That Have Lit Up Previous Festivals Twitch Picks Our Top 15 Festival Flicks Reviews 12 YEARS A SLAVE...

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Etrange 2013 Interview: Jeremy Saulnier on BLUE RUIN

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Jeremy Saulnier is just amazed as anyone else. In September 2012, he was still editing his second feature, unclear when or where it would play, paying the bills shooting corporate videos. He spent this September hopping between film festivals, riding the waves of critical acclaim that started this past May when Blue Ruin screened as part the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was picked up for distribution both at home and abroad within hours of premiering.If it all sounds too much a Cinderalla story it bears noting that the film really deserves it. From Cannes, Brian Clark wrote, "[we] doubt we'll see a more deft, thrilling genre film this year... it's rare that a genre-film takes the chances of this one...

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Review: BLUE CAPRICE, A Coldly Detached Observation of Two Mass Murderers

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Given the devastating recent history of mass shootings in the U.S., Alexandre Moors' debut feature Blue Caprice is nothing if not timely. Blue Caprice is a speculative imagining of the events which led up to the so-called "Beltway Sniper" shootings in October 2002, in which former army soldier John Allen Muhammad and 17-year old Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington D.C. metro area by committing random shootings that killed 10 people and wounded three others. The two of them, with Malvo as the trigger man, shot their victims through a hole in the trunk of a blue Chevrolet Caprice (the source of the film's title). Muhammad was eventually convicted of murder and executed in 2009, while Malvo was convicted as a teen offender and is...

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Watch The U.S. Trailer For Palme d'Or Winning BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT

The big winner at Cannes this past spring was Blue Is The Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche's screen adaptation of the graphic novel Blue Angel. A coming-of-ager that got quite a bit of initial attention for its graphic sex scenes between its two leading ladies, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, it's also a seemingly very good flick. Our own Ryland Aldrich had this to say from Cannes: There is a stereotype that used to exist in America that European (and especially French) films were all full of gratuitous sex. Back before the internet, VHS tapes, and days of easy access pornography, young boys would sneak into art house cinemas to get a look at those lovely bare bodies from across the Atlantic. Whether any of this...

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Review: AFTER TILLER, An Important, Vital Look at Late Term Abortion

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

On May 31, 2009, Doctor George Tiller was murdered while attending his regular Sunday church service. The doctor was one of a handful trained and willing to perform what are almost antiseptically referred to as "late term" abortions, the termination of a foetus after around the twentieth week of gestation. While Tiller's work is legal in the state in which he practiced, he nonetheless became a figurehead for the anti-abortion movement. As such, his murder was both celebrated by some and caused shock and horror for others. What it did not do was cause a national rush in the US for other doctors to take up Tiller's mantle. The film After Tiller follows the four known doctors who continue to practice the controversial procedure, despite...

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Review: Elwood Perez Returns to Filmmaking With Frustratingly Enigmatic OTSO (EIGHT)

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Various colorful images of Manila open Otso (Eight), Elwood Perez's first film since Lupe: A Seaman's Wife and Ssshhh... She Walks by Night ten years ago. Lex (Vince Tanada), a returning Filipino writer who is commissioned by a director to draft a script for an upcoming independent project, gives perspective to the seemingly unconnected displays of Manila's sights. Nothing has changed. The truths of the Manila that he grew up in are still the same truths that Manila grapples with. After a tour of the unchanging metropolis, Lex moves into his home for the next few months, a remarkable apartment building owned by Anita Linda, a local screen goddess. Otso suddenly switches to stark monochrome. Otso is perhaps Perez's most impenetrable film. Perez, however, has always...

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Austin Film Fest 2013 Offers Up Cracking Lineup

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Too often overlooked in the hot bed of film fun that is Austin, Texas is late October's Austin Film Fest. This year's festival runs October 24-31 and features venues all around the city. The lineup has just been announced and it is an impressive mixture of notable titles from this summer's marquee festivals as well as number of interesting world and US premieres. Notable titles include the Coen Bros.' Cannes-premiering Inside Llewyn Davis with Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett in attendance, the much-praised TIFF/Telluride/Venice hit 12 Years a Slave, and Stephen Frears's Steve Coogan-written Philomena. The Narrative comp includes eight features, three of them world premieres. The Docu comp's eight films feature five world premieres. One notable doc which premiered at LA Film...

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Review: Sam Rockwell Breaks Age-Old Movie Rule in A SINGLE SHOT

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Briefcases full of money are bad news. Terrible news, even. If you see a briefcase full of money, run as far away from it as you can, and maybe stay inside for a few days just to be safe. You will not get to keep the money. Others will die because of you, and ultimately, you will die too, probably in a grisly fashion. After No Country for Old Men, A Simple Plan, Fargo and, thematically speaking, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, this advice really should not need repeating. In fact, for years, movies have hammered away at this theme more consistently and mercilessly than almost any other. And yet, here we go again. The hapless suitcase-full-of-money-finder in A Single Shot is John Moon, a...

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Feratum 2013: José Mojica Marins (Zé do Caixão/Coffin Joe) Joins Ghoulish Gary As Festival Guest!

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:01 AM PDT

Feratum 2013, kicking off in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán on October 3, has an exciting new announcement: José Mojica Marins (aka Zé do Caixão/Coffin Joe) is the festival's guest of honor! The Brazilian cult filmmaker Mojica Marins made his comeback to cinema five years ago, with the film Embodiment of Evil, and now he'll be in Mexico for the first time!Gary Pullin (aka Ghoulish Gary) is another guest, also making his first trip to Mexico. Pullin has done great artwork for Rue Morgue Magazine, Mondo Tees and some others, as well as the poster for Twitch's 5th anniversary party! A Ghoulish Gary artwork exhibition is scheduled for the festival: "In the Land of Ghouls and Monsters: The Art of Ghoulish Gary Pullin", at a Tlalpujahua museum (Museo Rayón)....

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Hey, Canada! Win A Copy of VHS 2 On BluRay!

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Hey, Canada! Hit horror anthology VHS 2 hits BluRay on Tuesday from Mongrel Media and we've got five copies to give away! You want one to call your own? Couldn't be easier! Just email me here and name the two segments which have more than one director involved. Please include your mailing address. And check out the trailer below!...

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Review: THANKS FOR SHARING Seeks Sympathy For Sex Addicts

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:01 AM PDT

Are you a sex addict? Do you know a sex addict? Would you like to know more about the subject, but wish someone would make a movie about it, rather than publish another book? According to Stuart Blumberg's new film Thanks for Sharing, sex addicts need understanding and support, just as much as someone who is addicted to alcohol or narcotics. Even more so than the often-pictueresque Manhattan locations, sexual addiction forms the landscape against which a three-pronged story plays out, as three generations of men deal with the life-long consequences of their addiction. Blumberg, making his directorial debut, also shares a screenplay credit with Matt Winston. The world that he's created is, for the most part, a kind and lovely and well-heeled Manhattan, in...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Tim Tickles Tiger, Keanu Calls Curses!

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT

While the day is still young in several parts of the world, I will wager a bet that I will not see anything else today that will make me laugh as hard as the two videos posted below. Weeks ago we reported that Tim League would be fighting Tiger Chen in one of the Fantastic Fest debates this year. For those not in the know: these debates start out as a serious discussion on a specific subject, but afterwards the participants step into the ring and start fighting each other, with audience and referees present. That festival director Tim League is actually picking up gloves against renowned martial artist Tiger Chen is an act of courage indeed, and the subject was known to be "Tae...

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Review: THE SHORT GAME Will Double-Eagle Your Heart

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Documentaries live and die on the strength of their characters. Think about some of the most memorable docs in recent years; Billy Mitchell in King of Kong, Steve "Lips" Kudlow in Anvil: The Story of Anvil, or the soldiers of OP Restrepo. Each of these movies takes us into the lives of characters so remarkable, in some cases it's difficult to believe they aren't figments of a talented screenwriter's imagination. But it's the capture and vivid depiction of the too-good-to-be-true characters that ignites a narrative and makes a documentary really shine. This is absolutely the case in Josh Greenbaum's youth golf documentary The Short Game. Packed with some of the most charming seven and eight year-olds ever captured, Greenbaum takes us into their lives...

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HELI Is Mexico's Oscar Submission, While LA JAULA DE ORO (THE GOLDEN CAGE) Goes For The Goya

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT

The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) confirmed that Amat Escalante's Heli is Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards. Heli was chosen over such films as Eugenio Derbez's Instructions Not Included, Claudia Sainte-Luce's The Amazing Catfish (winner at TIFF 2013), Rafa Lara's Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla, Hari Sama's The Dream of Lu, and Paula Markovitch's The Prize. Mexico has never won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, achieving only eight nominations in the history of the award: Macario (1960), The Important Man (1962), Tlayucan (1962), Letters from Marusia (1976), Amores Perros (aka Love's a Bitch, 2000), The Crime of Father Amaro (2002), Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Biutiful (2010). The 86th Academy Awards will announce its nominations on January...

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Review: IP MAN - THE FINAL FIGHT Displays Both Humility and Strength

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Herman Yau directs Anthony Wong in this low-key but enjoyable drama focusing on the twilight years of Ip Man's life. Less an action movie than a love letter to 1950s Hong Kong, the film nevertheless cements the man's position as a modern day folk hero. Another week, another Ip Man movie, or so it certainly seems, with Herman Yau's latest arriving so soon after Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster. After Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip brought the wing chun master to life so successfully in 2008, there have been four more bona fide Ip Man films, including Yau's own "prequel", The Legend Is Born: Ip Man from 2010. The Final Fight begins with an elderly Ip Man (Anthony Wong) returning from a visit by his...

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