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Sunny Leone Takes A Stab At Erotic Horror In Bollywood's RAGINI MMS 2

Sunny Leone Takes A Stab At Erotic Horror In Bollywood's RAGINI MMS 2

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Canadian porn star Sunny Leone has found a welcoming home in Bollywood over the last couple of years. Her first project was the disappointingly tame Jism 2, a film that disappointed even my moderate expectations. It showed only that she looks really great in clothes that are a couple of sizes too small. Earlier this year she made her debut as an item girl in Sanjay Gupta's impressively violent Shootout at Wadala, which showcased her wriggling ability, but not much else. As unimpressive as her acting skills are, it's become clear that the Indian film community is willing to accept her as an object of desire, which is sometimes enough.Back in 2011, producer Ekta Kapoor and her new production company ALT Entertainment released what was Bollywood's...

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Santiago 2013 Review: MAKNUM GONZALEZ Plays It Safe And Wins

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Ernesto Díaz Espinoza is a beloved figure on Twitch. He even wrote a review here (while extremely drunk) of his own film Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman, which was the first of what he labelled LatinXploitation. That was intended to be a trend or series of films that would take Latin American characters and put them under a B-movie focus, referencing the masters of yesterday, and at the same time trying to return to the Grindhouse days of film. Maknum Gonzalez is the second title under this label, and while not directed by him, he did produce it, and you can see the influence.First time director George Vonknorring takes the reigns of this film, which was shot back to back with the...

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TIFF 2013 Review: ALL IS BY MY SIDE Is A Momentously Audacious Musical Biopic Fitting of The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Making a movie about a musician is bound to be extremely difficult when you don't have the permission of the family's estate. Why has there never been a definitive Elvis biopic -- or Kurt Cobain either, for that matter? Because what would be the point if you couldn't secure the rights to any of the music needed to tell these musical superheroes' origin stories? John Ridley tackles these questions head on with his Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side, which doesn't feature a single lick of original Jimi arrangements. The answer: a resounding "it doesn't matter." All Is By My Side is a captivating tale of one of rock 'n' roll's most enigmatic men, told with beautiful and audacious style. Focusing on...

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TIFF 2013 Review: THE STAG Works Its Comedy Formula To Perfection

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

There is a commonly stated belief among film fans - particularly the sort of fans who frequent film festivals - that formula is bad. That everyone should strive for originality, should tell a story that has never been told before. This, I must say, is a lie. It's two lies, actually. It's a lie first in that most of the people who claim they want originality actually don't, and will sputter in indignation when confronted with something truly new and original because it defies their expectations. In my experience, when people say they want something new, what they really mean is they want something only seventy percent familiar rather than the customary eighty percent. And it is also a lie in that it is somehow...

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Strasbourg 2013: What's Fantastic In Europe?

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival kicked off its 6th edition today with a screening of Jim Mickle's Appalachian creep-out We Are What We Are. With director Lucky Mckee serving as Jury President (and presenting his latest, All Cheerleaders Die), the festival brings ten days of international mayhem to the beautiful Alsatian capital. On hand will be the Dutch mayhem of Borgman and APP, the luchador mayhem in the El Santo and Our Heroes Are Dead Tonight, and some decade spanning monkey mayhem in their 35mm tribute to King Kong and its great ape brethren. For our part, we'll be contributing some Twitch mayhem to the mix with festival updates and reviews starting next week. Check out the full lineup below, look out for upcoming coverage -  and...

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TIFF 2013 Review: NIGHT MOVES is a Tense Showcase of Guilt and Paranoia

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

When purchasing a used boat for an act of extreme vandalism, the young activist, quips that she chose the one named "Night Moves" because it was better in her mind than "Sea Breeze" or "Heart's Ease." I tend to pay attention to the names of boats and films because they are usually chosen with care. This is doubly-true when the name of the boat happens to also be the name of the film. And I'll admit, part of me wants Kelly Reichardt's choice of names to be based on the Gene Hackman noir from 1975 (directed by Arthur Penn), which does indeed feature a sinking boat, along with a healthy dose of paranoia and confusion and stylish ineffectuality.  It's certainly a better boat name than...

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Trailer For Nacho Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS Traps Sasha Grey and Elijah Wood In Tech-Nightmare

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

I suppose it was inevitable that some confident, ambitious director would eventually make a movie set entirely in different windows of a computer screen. Fortunately, first one to the punch is the endlessly innovative Nacho Vigalondo, and, as anyone familiar with his work (Timecrimes, Extraterrestrial) would hope, it looks like a lot of fun in its own ridiculous way. The plot involves Elijah Wood as an obsessed fan of a famous actress (Sasha Grey) who gets more intertwined with her than he ever dreamed when a villain starts threatening to kill her on webcam if Wood doesn't comply with his orders. My first impression is that it looks equal parts tense and silly in a Speed or Phone Booth type of way -- but check the...

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TIFF 2013 Review: FELONY Cops Out In The End

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:01 AM PDT

In the course of a day, detective Malcolm Toohey goes from participating in a major sting operation that gets him shot to celebrating and singing Bon Jovi with his officers in the cop bar, to hitting a child with his vehicle while driving under the influence. A good man at heart, he suffers from extremely poor judgement in that moment of trial and chooses to hide behind his badge. Whether it is fear of losing his professional shine, or simply the shame of his folly, he tells a big lie that will ripple through his family life, professional life, and the lives of the boy's family. It will also have the audience consider some tricky moral and ethical situations over the course of about three days...

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TIFF 2013: Short Film YOUNG WONDER Just Described My Entire Childhood!

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Two things are happening here. Either James Wilkes and I are kindred spirits. Or. The guy has been sneaking into my room at night and tapping into my brain to access my childhood memories and is using them for his own gain! The director of the TIFF selected short film Young Wonder has managed to describe my entire childhood in a span of just over five minutes! Utilizing my childhood memories (maybe) and the help of some buds who have done VFX work on films like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Resident Evil, Wilkes captures the greatness that is a child's imagination. He described his short to us as, "a legion of pop culture, comic, game, sci fi  icons, Mechs and 50 foot tentacle...

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Venice 2013 Review: UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL, A Powerful Documentary That Strips Down Femen Movement

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

For a few years the Femen Movement in Ukraine has been trying to raise awareness for gender and feminist issues worldwide. Thanks to provocative and risky happenings, often acted out bare-breasted in public places, the press has been jumping on the movement with an endless greed for spectacular and bizarre photos. When the documentary Ukraine is Not a Brothel premiered in Venice it had, of course, festival written all over it.  Therefore, it was not a big surprise when director Kitty Green and the present members of the group used their moments of publicity to promote Femen as much as the film. But the movie itself could not be further away from promotion. It is a great piece of cinema dealing with the whole complexity...

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First Look At Anurag Kashyap's UGLY, A Masterpiece Of Misanthropy

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT

India's Anurag Kashyap is back in the saddle with a devastating new film, Ugly.Hot on the heels of 2012's five and a half hour crime epic, Gangs of Wasseypur, Kashyap delivers his next look into India's seedy underbelly with this story of a missing girl whose disappearance is probably the least disturbing thing about the film. Ugly premiered at the Cannes Director's Fortnight this year in what appears to be a new trend for Kashyap, and quickly divided critics who were mostly taken aback by its nihilistic bent. I have seen the film as well, and I can confirm that it is a portrait of a truly unpleasant system in which pride takes priority over procedure.The film is slated to release in India on October...

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TIFF 2013 Review: PRISONERS Is a Tense Thriller With a Few Nagging Problems

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Call me contradictory, but I never quite understood the fuss made of Denis Villeneuve's 2011 Best Foreign Language Feature Oscar-nominated Incendies. While I was impressed by the filmmaking, I had some serious issues with the story that left me unable to fully recommend it. However, I seemed to be mostly alone in that opinion. So perhaps I shouldn't be all that surprised that while Villeneuve's latest film Prisoners has been winning critical acclaim, I am again confronted with too many nagging story issues to give it a pass. This is obviously a mature, finely acted, and well executed thriller, but a few fundamental problems keep it from really succeeding. The story of Prisoners revolves around the disappearance of two young girls and the different...

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TIFF 2013 Review: A FIELD IN ENGLAND Is A Terrifying Headtrip Into The British Countryside

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Bold, beautiful and utterly bonkers, Ben Wheatley's A Field in England is a mind-bending monochrome masterpiece likely to alienate as many as it seduces with its surreal visuals and delightfully deranged performances. As a fan of director Ben Wheatley since his debut, Down Terrace, I have been increasingly encouraged and invigorated by his subsequent efforts, Kill List and Sightseers. His latest offering, A Field In England, is again a notable step forward, but in a direction that may not sit well with unsuspecting mainstream audiences. It's a project that seems to suggest Wheatley has won the confidence of his investors, or at the very least, found a boldness within himself to attempt something that is not only different, but an experiment in filmmaking that tests...

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TIFF 2013 Review: JOE Paints a Searing Portrait of Rural Torment

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Nicolas Cage has enjoyed a varied career, to say the least. From big budget blockbusters to notable indies, many would call his decision making curious, if not downright bizarre. In a lot of ways, this echoes the directing choices of David Gordon Green, who started his career with well-respected artistic indies before moving on to pot-smoker comedies. In the drama Joe, these two iconoclasts come together to tell a searing story of a rural man just trying to do good. It's a brilliant film and a decision both men should be applauded for making. The story opens with a young boy Gary (played by Mud's Tye Sheridan) giving a dressing down to his drunk drifter father over the man's irresponsibility. This obviously dysfunctional relationship...

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