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Scottish Comedy ELECTRIC MAN On DVD Tuesday And VOD Friday!

Scottish Comedy ELECTRIC MAN On DVD Tuesday And VOD Friday!

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 12:00 AM PDT

Jazz and Wolf run Deadhead Comics. They owe their landlord £5,000 but they don't have it and it seems the shop is doomed. But, when Issue No 1 of Electric Man mysteriously appears in the shop it seems their problems are solved. Far from it. Worth £100,000, the comic is being sought by a number of people who'll stop at nothing to get it for themselves - the strange and alluring Lauren McCall, Electric Man obsessive Edison Bolt and Lauren's Uncle Jimmy, a violent thug. Add to the mix, the return of Wolf's girlfriend Victoria and you have all the elements for what's been described as 'The Maltese Falcon' meets 'Clerks.'Electric Man, the feature debut from writer/director David Barras, is a deceptively charming and often...

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First Teaser For Superstar Rajnikanth's KOCHADAIYAAN Is Here!

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 11:40 PM PDT

It's been a long road for Superstar Rajnikanth after the international record-breaking success of Enthiran (Robot). That film, directed by Tamil visionary director Shankar, not only broke box office records in India, but also captured the popular imagination of film geeks worldwide, something Indian films rarely manage. That was in 2010, here we are, nearly three years later and we finally have a look at his follow-up feature; a long-gestating, constantly mutating motion-capture epic known as Kochadaiyaan.This project began its live as Sultan: The Warrior back in 2008, but was shelved when Enthiran took off. Sultan was a CG animated feature for which there was already a live teaser way back in the day, however, it wasn't to be. Rather than finishing Sultan, directed by...

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TIFF 2013 Review: CANOPY Is An Interesting But Flawed Experience

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 08:30 PM PDT

It was back in the early 2000's, shortly after the release of O Brother, Where Art Thou, that word began to circulate that the Coen Brothers intended to shoot a film adaptation of James Dickey's novel To The White Sea. It caught the eye not just for the fact that Brad Pitt was slated to star but also due to the story playing out almost entirely without dialogue, with Pitt playing a WWII pilot struggling to get back to safety after his plane crashes behind enemy lines. They hefty eighty million dollar proposed budget killed To The White Sea dead but now - a decade later and with a far, far smaller budget - first time Australian filmmaker Aaron Wilson has essentially made that movie...

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TIFF 2013 Review: RUSH Burns Rubber, Makes Hearts Race

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 08:00 PM PDT

There's a dilemma about any "based on a true story" film. First, the movie has to work for those unfamiliar with actual events, those neophytes completely unaware of actual historical facts. Most movies often coddle these people, spending far too much time situating plot with interminable exposition that it all becomes a bit pedantic.Secondly, and ideally, the film should work at least as well for the person that already knows the nuts and bolts of the actual events, someone for whom the actual execution of the well known story is as pleasing as any moments of plot. When a film gets this balance correct, when it works both for the person completely oblivious (or even actively dismissing) to the events that the film is based...

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TIFF 2013 Review: DEVIL'S KNOT Adds Little To Tragic Story

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 07:30 PM PDT

For each of the last three years, the story of what transpired in West Memphis, Arkansas on May 5, 1993 has been the subject of a film that has played the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2011, we saw the third installment of the Award winning Paradise Lost series. After an initial documentary that brought international focus to the case, and a quick follow up that was more about the filmmakers themselves (along with some egregious manipulation of their subject matter), Directors Berlinger and Sinofsky returned after 11 years with a film that was part summation, part mature follow up on their previous outings. Garnering an Oscar nomination, when PL3 screened at TIFF it included its original ending, which left the fate of the incarcerated...

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TIFF 2013 Review: 12 YEARS A SLAVE Gracefully Examines Our Troubling Past

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 06:05 PM PDT

It certainly isn't easy using cinema to tackle mankind's great atrocities. But when it's done well, a movie can give these horrors the kind of personal connection that allows an audience to digest an event as more than just an abstract tragedy. To transcend storytelling and teach the kind of lessons necessary for our species to evolve is a lot to ask of a filmmaker. Yet some take on this challenge all on their own. When it's done exceptionally well, these films can be some of our great cultural achievements. They can also be damn good movies. While it may be more than a bit hyperbolic to call any movie transcendent mere hours after a first viewing, it's all too easy to declare Steve...

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TIFF 2013 Review: The Devil Is In The Details In HORNS

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

"Are you Horny?" asks Juno Temple of Daniel Radcliffe in one of the more tranquil moments in this goofy yet sincere adaptation of Joe Hill's by all accounts quite good novel, Horns. Two lovers, Iggy and Merrin, lay like Yin and Yang across a spread blanket in the leafy Washington State forest, their own little eden. They kiss while the camera looks on from heaven only to have it then quickly drill down into the ground to look up from Hell as we learn that shortly after their playful kiss Merrin is murdered and Iggy is kind of the chief suspect. David Bowie's "Heroes" plays on a turntable only before it is physically impeded to produce that ominously SLLLOOOOWW deep sound that only vinyl can produce. The...

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TIFF 2013 Review: GRAVITY, An Experience Like No Other

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

You're going to hear a lot about this film, gushing hyperbole about how Alfonso Cuarón has created a new masterpiece of such wonderful elegance that it's a sight to behold. You'll hear that it's the best set-in-space film of all time. You might hear talk of the lengths they surely went through filming the thing. Talk will turn to awards for the film's megastars and their taut performances, to the wonderful POV shots, the amazing use of the physics of near-Zero gravity, and the stunning visuals. Some will complain of vertigo seeing the thing. People may hail it as a new cinema, a brave new way of merging spectacle and intelligence, a paradigmatic shift on the order of Kubrick's 2001 mixed with the Lumiére's L'arrivée...

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TIFF 2013: Trailer For Götz Spielmann's OCTOBER NOVEMBER, A Character Study With Issues

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Götz Spielmann presents his new film at this years Toronto International Film Festival. It's a story about two sisters who meet in a small Austrian village to be with their dying father. According to the official synopsis: A new chapter begins; old relationships are reconfigured. The reunion slowly but relentlessly brings to light old conflicts between the so very different sisters. Spielmann is one of the most successful contemporary Austrian filmmakers. He became internationally famous in 2008 for his film Revanche, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. This film appears to be a sparse drama, a character study about families with issues under the backdrop of gorgeous scenery. The film screens at TIFF tonight, followed by two more screenings on...

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TIFF 2013 Interview: CANNIBAL Director Manuel Martín Cuenca Talks About Representing Evil

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Manuel Martín Cuenca's masterful Cannibal has had its first public screenings at TIFF (one more on Saturday September 14th, you can read my review). It's a mermerizing story of love and evil, with a man committing crimes so horrible that only the purest love might save him. I was able to send a few question to Cuenca via email, about his conception, interpretation, and presentation of the story.Twitch: There are a lot of films about the lonely killer, and cannibals. How was this story different to you?Miguel Martín Cuenca: In the film, cannibalism is just a metaphor for evil. We were interested in how it represented something bad in our society. It's about the presence of evil in all of us, connecting with the normality of...

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Review: I AM BREATHING, Dying Is Difficult, In More Ways Than One

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

The terminally ill Neil Platt, certain that Motor Neuron Disease will kill him within the year, is determined to preserve something of himself for his toddling son Oscar. He records a daily blog of his thoughts, encourages his family to videotape him, and exploits every possible method he can think of in order to ensure that his personality will be transmitted from beyond the grave. I Am Breathing is a synthesis of these efforts, and its unevenness is an example of why the reality of death confounds any attempt to present it in a straightforward manner. Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon's documentary doesn't have any artistic pretensions of explicating the 'grand theme' of the death of the father. The subtext is there, but the style...

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Jaa's Management Responds To Threatened Lawsuit: "Thailand abolished slavery many years ago."

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 07:15 AM PDT

Yesterday Twitch reported on a new conference in Thailand in which Sahamongkol head Sia Jiang, Ong Bak director Prachya Pinkaew and fight choreographer Panna Rittikrai appeared before Thai press, stated that Tony Jaa was under a new ten year contract with Sahamongkol, that he had breached said contract by signing on for a role in Fast And Furious 7 without their permission, and that they intended to sue if this was not rectified immediately. Later in the day we received word from Jaa's management saying not true, there is no contract in place. Here's the complete statement:As Tony Jaa's manager I am posting this in his behalf. Tony has always had the greatest respect for Sahamongkol and the people behind Sahamongkol. He is therefore saddened...

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Fear & Loathing At TIFF 2013, Part 2: In The End, Every Festival Is The Same

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT

CHAPTER 4: CUSTOMS & COSTUMESWe haven't even reached the U.S. Canadian border and the trip has already turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare turned FX series. I desperately need a drink.  My hands are trembling at the wheel and my foot has this strange twitch thing going on. I'm involuntarily pumping the gas pedal, driving erratically, driving like a drunk under a heavy bender. But I'm sober and I'm sure I'd drive a hell of a lot better if only I could get my lips wrapped around my magical flask. But the Canadian border control officers are assholes. I've already had my car ransacked on my way to Fantasia the previous month and was almost taken into custody and on charges of smuggling illegal pornography into...

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