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TIFF 2013 Review: THE ARMSTRONG LIE Expertly Explores One of Sports' Most Fascinating Stories

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TIFF 2013 Review: THE ARMSTRONG LIE Expertly Explores One of Sports' Most Fascinating Stories

TIFF 2013 Review: THE ARMSTRONG LIE Expertly Explores One of Sports' Most Fascinating Stories

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:45 PM PDT

We're living in a great time for sports documentary filmmaking. ESPN's 30 For 30 series has featured a number of fantastic films by notable filmmakers that have played at such film festivals as Sundance and Toronto. Just two years ago, Undefeated, a football doc, won the Best Documentary Oscar. And 2010 racing doc Senna has topped lists for best documentary of all time. One of the most notable documentarians today, Oscar winner Alex Gibney, is no stranger to this trend. His 2011 baseball doc Catching Hell was distributed by ESPN as part of their 30 For 30 follow-up series "ESPN Films Presents." Now Gibney is back with a remarkable documentary that focuses on one of the darker corners of the world of sports. In...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: NIGHTBREED: THE CABAL CUT

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Cinema culture is all but overrun with alternate versions of cherished media. Remakes, reboots, and director's cuts vie for the attention and dollars of fan communities who hope for the best but too often get the butt end of someone's desire to make yet another buck off a forgotten film or franchise. So when someone comes along claiming that a new cut puts a film in a significantly new light knowledgeable fans and cineastes can hardly be blamed for taking it with a grain of salt. But when such claims turn out to be true? The satisfaction is palpable. And in this case it could hardly happen to a better person.Clive Barker has been given notorious short shrift by Hollywood for years seeing truly great adaptations of...

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TIFF 2013 Interview: Twitch Talks R100 With Matsumoto Hitoshi

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Thursday, September 12, 2013 proved to be one of those extraordinary festival days for me. I found myself closing the day with a trio of highly interesting films from Asia, the last two forming one of the most perfect double bills in my two decades of attending TIFF. Cold Eyes is a decent thriller, falling apart in the final act, but told with enough style to keep it interesting throughout. This paled compared to the extraordinary Moebius, the latest from Kim Ki-Duk, a film steeped in sarcasm and sadomasochism. The audience was raucous and perfectly in tune with the tonality of the film. In the very same venue, moments after Moebius spooled, the regular denizens of Midnight Madness joined up at the Ryerson for...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: THE RESURRECTION OF A BASTARD, Amidst Bursts Of Violence And Dark Humor

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 11:39 AM PDT

Sneaky and disquieting, The Resurrection of a Bastard is far more complex and layered than its title might suggest. Bursts of violence and darkly funny moments are framed within the world created by Guido van Driel. The source material is his own graphic novel, but in adapting it for the screen (with co-writer Bas Blokker), van Driel demonstrates a sure command of cinematic techniques, especially impressive since this is his directorial debut. Impeccably crafted and ingeniously plotted, the film raises existentional questions even as it moves forward relentlessly. The first question is, What's up with Ronnie? His beard, burly frame, and bespectacled appearance belie the quiet menace he exudes, despite the neck brace that immediately calls attention to itself. So when he kindly compliments someone...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: PROXY Dwells On The Dark Side Of Parenting

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome is a relatively rare form of child abuse that involves the exaggeration or fabrication of illnesses or symptoms by a primary caregiver. The central idea around which everything swirls in Zack Parker's Proxy is as brilliant as it is dark, exaggerating a real medical condition in a similar fashion to what David Cronenberg did with the hysteria and outcry when soft core skin flicks were shown on local TV stations - the result was Videodrome - or how Paul Solet examined in Grace how newborn children sapping their mothers resources, and bring about an anxious protectiveness. The best horror movies exaggerate the anxieties of our times, and for that Proxy has illustrated how the egos and minds of new parents (or...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: SHE WOLF Walks Among Us

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Bursting with feral energy, Tamae Garateguy's She Wolf (original title: Mujer Lobo) is a fever dream about sex and love and sex and then a little more sex. And then the screaming starts. Sceenwriter Diego Fleischer, working from Garateguy's idea, constructs a skeleton of a story about a woman who struts through the streets and subways of Buenos Aires, Argentina, turning heads wherever she goes. Frankly, she doesn't have to work too hard. It's as though she walks around in a heady cloud of pheromones, and the men come to her like hungry puppy dogs. The sexual encounters that follow are naked, grasping, grappling power plays, in which the men assume that they're in control, blind to the reality that the woman has manipulated them...

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Neil Marshall Is Going Troll Hunting!

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Neil Marshall, the director of faves like Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday will have director's pass at the script for a redo of Norwegian creature feature Troll Hunter. Production is set to begin in early 2014 to take advantage of Winter conditions at locations already scouted out for the film.A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.Marshall's star continues to rise beyond his cult film status with two episodes now of Game of Thrones. He is finishing up another large scale epic episode for the fourth season apparently. He has also directed the premiere episode...

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US Trailer for THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN Offers Bluegrass Joy and Pain

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Felix Van Groeningen's vivid emotional drama of life, love and Bluegrass tunes with its mouthful of a title, The Broken Circle Breakdown, is quite simply put, one of the best films you will probably see all year. The Flemish director set the bar pretty high with his last film, 2009's The Misfortunates, a family drama about four men who cannot seem to get this shit together, until you realize that they are living life to its fullest.  Here the amount of growth and intimacy and yes melodrama (but the good kind) is heightened that audiences kind of stagger out of the cinema emotionally drained.  Edited in an elliptical fashion that only heightens the intensity of the feelings, and sprinkled liberally with great music (as seen in...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: NINJA, SHADOW OF A TEAR Kicks Ass. Then Face. Then Ass Again.

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Though the script may not be the most sterling work of literature you've ever come across and the production was forced to work within a strictly limited budget Isaac Florentine's Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear stands as one of the most exciting and engaging American action films in recent years for one very simple reason. Florentine and his star of choice, Scott Adkins, are simply the most potent pairing of director and star working within American action film today. It's the worst kept secret of the film world, really, as the pair have done this now a handful of times with the Undisputed films, in particular, winning a vocal and loyal underground fanbase, but it bears repeating over and over again until the day comes...

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Boyka Will Return In UNDISPUTED 4

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Good news for fight fans emerged from the world premiere of Isaac Florentine's Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear at Fantastic Fest last night. In the midst of the Q&A session a fan asked a question on the mind of many fans: What will come first for Adkins? Ninja 3 or Undisputed 4? Adkins, clearly unsure how much he was allowed to say in public, simply paused and smiled at the crowd until producer Frank De Martini picked up the mike and delivered this little nugget: "The Undisputed 4 script is being written right now by David White and it should shoot in the spring. Unless Scott wants too much money."So there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth. Undisputed 4 is happening and -...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: GREATFUL DEAD Explores The Humour And Horror Of Loneliness

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Indie director Uchida Eiji looks to finally have scored a breakthrough hit with this darkly comic exploration of neglect, obsession and voyeurism that successfully mixes exploitation with an astute social conscience.All Nami has ever wanted is to be loved. But when her mother leaves home to pursue her obsession with sponsoring Third World children, and her sister elopes with her boyfriend, she is left with a subordinate father and his new trophy mistress. As she grows up, Nami (Takiuchi Kumi) seeks out other solitary individuals, social outcasts like herself, and obsessively observes and logs their behaviour. She looks for patterns, answers, anything to help her make a connection and understand her own predicament, and when she spies an elderly, reclusive gentleman (Sasano Takashi), she believes...

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Coming up: The 150th Film In Our Facebook Quiz!

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Way back when Twitch had its own separate forum, the most-trafficked topic used to be the screenshot quiz. The rules were simple: someone would post a screenshot, and the person who guessed the movie won the right to post the NEXT screenshot. And this went on for seven years, until well over a thousand films had been guessed. Then times changed: the forum went dead as people moved discussions over to social media. When our site upgraded last year, we decided to relaunch a new forum on our Facebook page. And what was the first topic we put on it? The screenshot quiz of course!!! We decided to reboot it fresh, with slightly revised rules, and with a winners list added for bragging purposes. No...

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Celluloid Screams 2013: Lineup Includes Claymation, Zombies, Vampires And Revenge, Israeli Style!

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 05:00 AM PDT

You've just found out you are going to be in Sheffield, UK, the weekend before Halloween! This is not entirely a bad thing because Celluloid Screams, the Sheffield Horror Film Festival runs from Friday October 25th through to Sunday October 27th. And to get your horror groove on you get to watch current festival faves like The Battery and Big Bad Wolves. And if you like kickin' it old school you can also see classics like Return of the Living Dead and Braindead. Be sure to head on over to the festival website for pass information. Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival, Friday 25 - Sunday 27 October2013, returns to Showroom Cinema for its fifth edition, with a weekend packed full ofpremieres, previews, special guests...

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