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First Tease Of Corman-Produced Actioner FIST OF THE DRAGON

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First Tease Of Corman-Produced Actioner FIST OF THE DRAGON

First Tease Of Corman-Produced Actioner FIST OF THE DRAGON

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:00 PM PDT

Last month we brought you a trailer for a Roger Corman-produced horror movie called Hell's Haunted Palace, made on location in China by Australian-Chinese director Antony Szeto. Now we have a first look at their second collaboration, and it sees Szeto and his crew in far more familiar territory with the modern day martial arts actioner, Fist of the Dragon.Again shot at ACE Studio in Nanhai, China, the film sees a retired MMA fighter (real-life UFC star Josh "The Punk" Thomson) head to the Far East to meet his new lover, Meili, played by decorated Hong Kong martial artiste Juju Chan. But when he inadvertently takes possession of a package sought by an international arms dealer, things go pear-shaped real fast, which in martial arts...

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Review: RIDDICK Is More Fun, Less Riddick-ulous Than Last Time

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:15 PM PDT

No one expected there to be even one sequel to The Fast & the Furious, let alone five of them (so far). Even fewer people thought there'd be a follow-up to Pitch Black, the 2000 sci-fi thriller about people stuck on a planet with carnivorous monsters and a Hannibal Lecter-ish murderer -- and yet then came The Chronicles of Riddick in 2004 and now Riddick, with more sequels on the horizon if this one does well enough. That both unlikely franchises should star Vin Diesel is evidence that he is some kind of enchanted, lucky creature who frequently happens to be in the right place at the right time. He is probably immortal. Don't cross him. Pitch Black was well-regarded, inexpensive, and not a hit,...

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Out On VOD: There Is Always Someone To Eat In BUTCHER BOYS

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:00 PM PDT

From the writers and directors of The Wild Man Of The Navidad comes a horror film for the meat-eaters in your family: Butcher Boys. It will be released on VOD in the States on Friday, September 6th! From the writer/producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes this gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring a group of friends face to face with the macabre world of cannibals, the Butcher Boys. The Butcher Boys are international predators who deal in human ­flesh - dead or alive.Now I don't know about 'international' predators. These guys seem to stick in and around the factory district of San Antonio in this film. But...

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TIFF 2013 Review: Sono's WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL Brings The Madness To Midnight

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:30 PM PDT

Mark my words: If another film brings even half the level of lunacy to the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness lineup as does Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play In Hell, I will eat my shirt. Literally. I will cut up the shirt I am wearing right now - which I quite like, incidentally - I will cook it into a stew, and I will eat it. I feel more than confident in the safety of said shirt while making this offer, however, because after a pair of 'serious' pictures, and others that while harrowing were relatively speaking rather conventional, Sono's Why Don't You Play In Hell is absolutely mad. It is every insane urge and image that Sono has had banging around in...

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Frankenstein Mechanics: ROBOCOP Trailer Aims For The Grim N' Gritty

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:00 PM PDT

I am not a child of the 80s. Per se. I was born in the 80s, but was far too young to see and to appreciate Paul Verhoven's satirical actioner Robocop in its heyday. By the time my adolescence rolled around the original's reputation had already been marred by sloppy sequels and a sub-bar TV Show. My memories of the actual film are vague at best as it's one I haven't had the desire to revisit in my adult years.So with that, I'm going into José Padilha's remake with eyes that aren't fresh, that are aware of the original,, but certainly not filtered with a lot of spite or hesitation towards this new take. Either a new fan or old, the remake's first trailer is...

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TIFF 2013 Review: ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE Brings A Cosmopolitan Maturity to the Ailing Vampire Genre

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:30 PM PDT

Detroit is the new Transylvania in Jim Jarmusch's delightfully detached vampire reverie, Only Lovers Left Alive. The film manages to significantly build upon and outdo Neil Jordan's recent Byzantium in terms of clawing back the genre from its more recent sparkly teen-focus.  The mature tone is pregnant with the kind of disaffected slow gaze that would probably result from a century or three on this imperfect earth with its revolving social cycles.  It achieves a modern-Gothic romanticism better than pop culture's own aging vampire-queen Anne Rice ever managed in novel form or when adapted to celluloid. It evokes the people exodus and urban decay of Motor City in such a transcendent fashion that it nearly renders Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's Detropia redundant. Undoubtedly, this is...

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First Teaser For DHOOM 3 Is Kind Of Underwhelming

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:00 PM PDT

The world has been impatiently awaiting a first look at Dhoom 3, the third installment of Bollywood's biggest action franchise, and it's finally here, for better or for worse. The Dhoom series has reigned over the box office for the last decade, thanks to a largely potent combination of big name movie stars, big action, and big laughs. With the big time backing of major Bollywood studio Yash Raj, Dhoom has made its way into the Indian everyday vernacular, with an easily recognizable title tune and its over the top action on wheels, this is The Fast and the Furious with more singing and dancing. While this first look should be something to knock our socks off, it is actually kind of disappointing with the...

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Give Blood For Tommy Wirkola's DEAD SNOW: RED VS DEAD

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 06:30 PM PDT

Okay. So you are not going to give blood, literally! There has to be some sort of health and safety violations if you shipped your blood to the production of Tommy Wirkola's follow-up to his smash Nazi-Zombie hit Dead Snow, Dead Snow: Red VS Dead! Filming is already underway in Iceland and Wirkola has dreamed up a finale to end all finales. He wants to kill a lot of Nazi Zombies. Thing is, he needs a tad more money to be able to pull it off. So he is hoping that we, the lovers and fans of his first film, will support him and in essence 'give blood' to his project. Great big buckets of it! He has shot a pitch video that you can watch...

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Dwayne Johnson And McG Take A Leap For THE FALL GUY

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:45 PM PDT

It would appear that the attempt to get a movie version of the 80s television show The Fall Guy may have just the star power it needs to get up off the ground. Word today is that Dwayne Johnson is in negotiations to take the lead and McG (Charlie's Angels and Terminator Salvation) is in talks to direct. If you are not old enough to remember the show (sadly on Friday I will be reminded how old enough I am to remember) it starred the Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors. He played a Hollywood stunt man who would collect bounties on the side because falling out of a burning building simply did not pay the bills in those days. It aired for five seasons from 1981 to...

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Hey, NYC! Wanna See METALLICA: THROUGH THE NEVER For Free?

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

I know next to nothing about the band Metallica, so here I find myself just the messenger with the hunch that a good cross section of our audience at Twitch also digs Metallica. METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER is more than a film. It is an experience. The sound quality, 3-D effects, action, apocalyptic narrative and cinematic structure will leave audiences stunned and then clamoring for more! It's not a documentary, it's not a concert film, it's a Metallica experience that their fans have never seen before and it's the motion picture event of the Fall.If you live in New York City and would like to catch the film early on September 18, then all you gotta do is head over to Gofobo and enter the...

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Review: In POPULAIRE, Candy Colors Hide A Rotten Core

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

That which glitters is so very, very far from gold in the new French film Populaire. Dig a little deeper into this superficial charmer and you'll find a core that borders on dreadful. I couldn't possibly recommend a film less.It starts innocuously enough. Rose Pamphyle (up and coming Belgian actress Deborah Francois, whose magnetic charisma keeps this mess sadly afloat) is 21, suffocated by her small-town life, and looking for something more. She finds it, we are told, as an insurance company secretary one town over. Her employer is Louis Echard (a snarling Romain Duris, under the impression that smarm is charm), a 30ish bachelor still-pining for the one that got away. Rose's nearly botched job interview is saved at the last minute by...

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Tampa Crisis To Get Big Screen Treatment In Matthew Saville's DARK VICTORY

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Just before films premiere at festivals or are released into cinemas, one can expect the producers of the next project with the director or star to announce news of their next project as it's likely to be well reported. This rule stays true for the producers and director of Felony, who have announced a new feature together, but with the added impact of perfect timing as their next project directly relates one of the major issues being debated in the current Australian federal election campaign - and thus will doubtless receive heavy coverage as a result.This next film is Dark Victory, based on the book of the same name by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson (although that had the added unsubtle subtitle, "How a Government Lied its...

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Venice 2013 Dispatch, Last Days: Saying Goodbye To Tsai Ming-liang

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The 70th Venice film festival will be over in 48 hours. With almost all of the competition films having screened, we still have no idea who could actually bring the awards home. On the contrary of the past editions, this could be the first time we're actually lacking a possible frontrunner for the Golden Lion. Critics' darling Philomena could get something, as well as Tom At The Farm or Miss Violence or Ana Arabia or whatever. No idea. In the meanwhile, the Femen activists are delighting the photographers with their boobs, Juno Mak is entertaining the Chinese audience around the laguna, and Andrzej Wajda is getting his special award. Back to the viewing:...

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Live In A David Cronenberg Movie With New Interactive Project BODY/MIND/CHANGE

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

David Cronenberg and Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast) have teamed up with TIFF and the Canadian Film Center Media Lab to create a new interactive, multimedia project that allows you to "experience what it is like to live inside a David Cronenberg film." Details of how they're going to pull this off are vague, with phrases in the press release like "presents the plausible science fiction found in [Cronenberg's] work as scientific fact." But hey, you can go to the website now to sign up for the project, and watch a teaser starring Cronenberg himself below! Or try to wade through the whole press release in search of clues between the lines of the emphatic "I'm-thrilled-to-be-doing-this" quotes.The first stage, based on the website description, sounds...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Closing Night Film And Final Wave Of Programming Announced!

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

While I'm sure no one is quite ready to think about the end of the Austin, TX genre orgy that is Fantastic Fest before it's even started, you should at least be aware that the fest will be finishing with a bang. Terry Gilliam's promising existential techno-fable The Zero Theorem has been selected as the closing night film. Now then, file that away somewhere and get pumped for the other films announced as part of the final wave! These include Sun/Slamdance favorites like Escape from Tomorrow and The Dirties, promising TIFF picks like We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, and even the world premiere of a movie about a detective with down syndrome. That one is from Norway, and is called Detective Downs. Check...

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SAVE THE GREEN PLANET Director's Latest HWAYI Gets A Full Trailer

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Ten years on from the cult smash Save The Green Planet, and Jang Joon-hwan is back with his sophomore effort, Hwayi, a more conventional looking if still decidedly left field take on the crime thriller. Todd shared the teaser last month, noting that it's taken Jang quite a while to get a second flick off the ground due to his first actually flopping on his home turf. The full trailer for Hwayi arrived today and is embedded below. But since it doesn't have English subs I actually recommend reading the plot synopsis first, something I rarely do recommend -- it'll make for a better watching experience. Unless of course you know Korean, then by all means... Hwayi is a boy living in a farm village,...

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TIFF 2013 Review: iNUMBER NUMBER Brings Reservoir Dogs To South Africa

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Sweating men, decaying industrial wasteland and corruption of all stripes are all front and center in iNumber Number, an esoteric name for a movie that is all other respects is tight as drumskin.  Consider it Reservoir Rats, only replace Tarantino's sharp dialogue with a more pragmatic pidgin of Zulu and English.  In place of flourished monologues, the wow-factor here is the assured editing and gritty cinematography on display.  Even the subtitles on this film scurry around the frame to dwell in shadowy spaces.  Though this is Donovan Marsh's fourth feature film none of the previous three appear to be crime pictures making this a calling card for the world to take notice.  An opening sequence involving undercover cop, Chili (the outstanding S'dumo Mtshali) in a...

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Venice 2013 Review: LOCKE Luckily Delivers

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Bravisimo! The entries at the 70th edition of the Venice International Film Festival have honestly been disappointing in general so far, but, luckily, some rather decent exceptions have emerged. This is one of them. Screened "Fuori Concorso" (out of competition), British second time director Steven Knight brings an ingenious thriller of 84 minutes in length solely shot in one location; the inside of a car. Its name: Locke. Welsh construction manager Ivan Locke, played by Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight, Bronson, Warrior, Inception), has an ideal life. He has the perfect family, a dream job and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career; Europe's biggest concrete filling in history. But one call will force him to make a decision that will put all...

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Review: SALINGER Promises Secrets And Insights, Delivers Research And Interviews

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Not content merely to be a sturdy, well-researched documentary that recounts the life and literature of J.D. Salinger, Shane Salerno's Salinger seeks to discover the secret psychological motivations of the writer, who famously guarded his privacy for decades after his first novel, The Catcher in the Rye, became a runaway success upon its publication in 1951. Salerno works very hard to make the case that Salinger not only lost a great romantic love during World War II, but, more importantly, suffered from an extended, untreated case of post-traumatic stress disorder due to the horrors he saw in battle as a soldier, and that everything he wrote thereafter can be linked directly to his personal experiences. To that end, Salerno also indulges in frequent use of...

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Motorcyle Daredevil Kurt Russell Steals My Heart In THE ART OF THE STEAL Trailer

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Throughout his career, Kurt Russell has built up so much goodwill for me that I totally buy him as an aging motorcycle stunt driver turned master criminal in the first trailer for The Art of the Steal, which is set to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. Russell decides to pull --- wait for it --- "one last job" after cracking up his bike, putting together a team that includes his half-brother, Matt Dillon, who is supposedly the "idea man." The cast also features Terence Stamp, Jay Baruchel, and Jason Jones (from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart). Jonathan Sobol (A Beginner's Guide to Endings) wrote and directed. Heist movies are a dime a dozen, and this one could easily be a...

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Santiago 2013 Review: VER Y ESCUCHAR (SEE AND LISTEN) Makes You Warm On The Inside

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

José Luis Torres Leiva has managed to make a name for himself in the reflective-contemplative advocates among those who study the new trends of modern cinema. Among his film projects are festival winners like The Sky, the Earth and the Rain and Summer, which played in last year's edition of the Rotterdam Film Festival. Now he's just released a new film, a documentary this time, called See and Listen. It had its world premiere in the FIDMarseille of this year, and made its Chilean debut at the Santiago International Film Festival, where it played in the Chilean lineup, and finally grabbed the Best Director prize from the Festival. This particular movie has quite a road ahead of itself, and it's already bringing the prizes in.Torres Leiva...

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It's Elementary: Ian McKellen To Play Sherlock Holmes For Director Bill Condon

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Ian McKellen and Bill Condon will reunite for A Slight Trick of the Mind, a stand-alone, solo Sherlock Holmes mystery. The premise is that Holmes is an old, musty, retired detective haunted by a case from his youth. With his memory waning -- and no Dr. Watson to assist -- Sherlock must solve his greatest mystery! It's based on a novel by Mitch Cullin. Condon will direct, but the script duties are in the hands of Jeffrey Hatcher (Stage Beauty, Casanova), according to The Hollywood Reporter. McKellen and Condon previously teamed for 1998's Gods and Monsters, in which McKellen played the great (retired) director James Whale. That was a very strong drama that earned Condon an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay, while McKellen was...

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TIFF 2013 Preview: Twitch Picks Our Top 15 Festival Flicks

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT

This is it! The Toronto International Film Fest kicks off TODAY!! We've been bringing you previews every day for the last week. Here's a quick rundown if you missed one: 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 Today we raise the curtain by bringing in the other voices who will be writing up these amazing films throughout the festival to tell you just which flicks they are most excited to see. Be sure to keep your eyes glued to Twitch all throughout the fest for up to the minute news and reviews -- and follow us on twitter to get...

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Review: IL FUTURO Goes Far Beyond Exploitation

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT

There's a way to be grossly exploitative and then there's The Future, an Italian film that has a heaping amount of female nudity and yet never feels grotesque. That it is one actresses' frame on display over and over helps to give the film a sense of ease. We witness youth's exploration of sexuality and the way that can be used as casually as a handshake or lead to so much more. Sex is a gateway: to adulthood; to a relationship; to knowledge; to money; to power; to the harsh realities of life. There aren't so much profound life lessons within as there are an opening up of the discussion for these ideas. As good as it gets, The Future is hampered with a slow...

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