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Ning Hao's NO MAN'S LAND Finally Gets Release Date

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Ning Hao's NO MAN'S LAND Finally Gets Release Date

Ning Hao's NO MAN'S LAND Finally Gets Release Date

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 11:30 PM PDT

Chinese director Ning Hao, who caused a splash on the festival circuit with his anarchic caper movies Crazy Stone and Crazy Racer, finally has a release date for his "lost" 2010 movie, No Man's Land.Shot in 2009, No Man's Land, is a road movie that follows a provincial lawyer through the barren wastelands of Western China. Since then it has fallen foul of the Chinese censorship board SARFT time and time again, and to-date has never been screened publicly at home or abroad. Now that seems to have finally changed, with Filmbiz Asia reporting that statements on both China Film Group and lead actor Huang Bo's Weibo accounts state that the film will be released in China on 3 December.This is great news, as Ning...

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Review: ESCAPE PLAN Is Escapist Fun

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 10:30 PM PDT

Let's be super clear right from the top: Escape Plan is a film that you will enjoy in direct proportion to your expectations. If you're expecting some transcendent breakdown of action tropes, pitting two aging action stars against their own mythology, creating a Searchers-like reexamination of past glories through the lens of a sophisticated narrative, well, you're not going to get it here.Nor, thank the makers, are you getting some incredibly tedious, self-effacing bore fest that such dreck as Expendables 2 exemplified. In this pairing of Arnold Schwarzenegger with Sylvester Stallone, you get, at its core, the kind of film that these guys always used to make: high concept, thriller-meets-action movie with some snark, some bite, and a whole lot of posturing.It's thus all the more...

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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Michael Bay Assaulted In Apparent Extortion Attempt On Set Of TRANSFORMERS 4

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 09:23 PM PDT

UPDATE: A subtitled video report from Apple Daily has now been added below. Thanks to @Marcosparmberg for the heads up.Director Michael Bay was assaulted today on the Hong Kong set of Transformers 4 in an apparent - and rather inept, frankly - extortion attempt by a pair of local brothers who approached the director and demanded he give them one hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars, which is just under $13 000 US. Bay was struck in the face during the altercation by the elder of the two men who then attempted to fight a trio of police officers. Bay was struck in the face but refused treatment on the scene and continued with his planned shoot while the two men directly involved in the attack...

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Watch The Red-band Trailer for HERE COMES THE DEVIL

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 05:00 PM PDT

It came, it saw, and it left with all the major horror awards, along with lots of major accolades. We're talking about Mexican horror film Here Comes the Devil, written and directed by Adrián García Bogliano of Cold Sweat fame. In Here Comes the Devil, a couple on holiday lose their two young children while walking in the hills. To their immense relief the kids are found the next day, but they seem a bit... different. Soon, the mother starts suspecting something else came home with them. It's not often that you hear a film described as being "sleazy", "exploitative", "creepy", "intelligent" and "terrifying" all at the same time, but apparently Adrián worked wonders here. At Fantastic Fest last month it won Best Film, Best...

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Hey, NYC! Wanna See JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA For Free?

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Care to catch Johnny Knoxville in old person makeup freak out a bunch of real people with some radical stunts and gags? Sure why not! Should be your answer.And if so, all you gotta do is click this link HERE to RSVP to an advanced screening happening on October 22nd. Please note, you gotta be an NYC area resident to do so. And, as always with these things, it's first come first served.86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in JACKASS PRESENTS:  BAD GRANDPA. This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicholl) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever...

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Interview: I Got CARRIEd Away With CHLOE GRACE MORETZ

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT

A quick admission here. I was so star struck meeting Chloe Grace Moretz that I flubbed the first part of this interview big time. But she was there for me. I know most big stars don't like getting called out for their good deeds but when I needed rescuing Hit Girl was there. Luckily I had done my research and seen Big Momma's House 2 as well as Carrie so our conversation took some interesting turns. The following was vetted by every major decision maker in her life and allowed for publication mainly because it makes me look like an idiot. But I'm an idiot who got to meet Chloe Grace Moretz so I don't care. Twitch: The character of Carrie has a fascinating history. You...

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Universal, Baltasar Kormákur Are ON THE JOB

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Erik Matti's arresting and propulsive Filipino crime thriller On The Job has been a fave around these here parts since it premiered at Director's Fortnight in Cannes this past spring. Now get ready for Baltasar Kormákur's On The Job.While the Contraband and 2 Guns director had developing a version of the real life story that Matti's film was based around since even before that went behind cameras, it is just now that Universal Pictures has nabbed the option for Kormákur s version. Both films are based on a true crime story about a group of prison inmates who were released to work as high level contract killers for government and military higher ups.Variety dropped word today of the deal with original producers XYZ Films and Scott Stuber's Universal-based...

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Review: HELLBENDERS Raises a Little, Uh, Hell

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT

"I'm a woman, and you're a Catholic. Everything I do is a sin." -- A taste of the in-your-face comedy on display in J.T. Petty's Hellbenders. Based upon the writer-director's own graphic novel, and pitched somewhere between The Evil Dead and Ghostbusters in tone, it follows a bunch of 'special-operations' Catholic priests who handle the exorcisms and hell-on-earth related anomalies that crop up in New York City from time to time. This motley squad, played by Clifton Collins Jr., Clancy "The Kurgan" Brown, Andre "Bubbles from The Wire" Royo, and Dan Fogler, are the 'nuclear option' for the the church when various dead-ites and demon-spawn walk the earth. If the demon cannot be conventionally exorcised, then the priest takes on the possession themselves, sacrifices their...

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Trip Out With Croatian Short Film AMNESIAC AT THE BEACH

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Whatever you may have in mind when you hear about a film from Croatia - assuming you have anything at all - it's very likely not what director Dalibor Baric delivers with his short film Amnesiac On The Beach. A selection of the Sitges Film Festival this is an experimental head trip just jammed with fascinating imagery. Check out the trailer below....

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Review: BIG ASS SPIDER! Attacks Los Angeles With More Humor Than Horror

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Truth in advertising is such a rare commodity that Big Ass Spider! gets one of its eight legs up on the competition because of it. Clearly, director Mike Mendez and his collaborators behind the camera completely buy into the idea of a cheerful, R-rated monster movie, something with the spirit of Joe Dante's Piranha or Lewis Teague's Alligator, both scripted in part by John Sayles. Those two movies updated 50s creature features for the more cynical crowd of the late 70s and early 80s, yet respected their varied inspirations as the stuff of which nuclear nightmares are made. Big Ass Spider! has fun with the idea of a giant spider terrorizing Los Angeles, mostly by centering the film around the unlikely heroic duo of expert...

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Win CURSE OF CHUCKY on DVD or Blu-ray (UK only)

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Chucky always creeped the hell out of me as a kid. Even before I'd seen any of the Child's Play movies, the concept alone sent me cowering. The idea that something as innocuous as a toy would come alive and try to do you harm was horrible (plus the 'Good Guy' doll was pretty freaky anyway). I had a similar problem with that clown under the bed in Poltergeist; I still shudder at the thought. With age I've come to hold the Chucky flicks with a a great deal of affection, the daftness and humour of demonic little Chucky mostly outweighing the scares... At Fantasia this year, Twitch's Justin Decloux found much to enjoy about Don Mancini's latest entry in the franchise, Curse of Chucky. If you like the...

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Review: TOAD ROAD Merges A Drug Drama With Urban-Legend Horror

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

In the tradition of mashing sub-genres together to get something entirely new and interesting, full credit goes to micro-indie avant garde chiller Toad Road for merging the wasted youth drug drama with the urban-legend horror flick. The experience of watching this quite vérité experiment is akin to taking the essence of Drugstore Cowboy and infusing it into the broth of The Blair Witch Project whilst dropping a mint-leaf of Picnic at Hanging Rock on the side for garnish. Using the syntax of losing oneself of those campfire wilderness spook stories as a metaphor for ever increasing drug use is wonderful in both concept and execution. Sara is the bright young thing, ripe as a peach and innocent to a degree who is played by Sara...

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Watch The Trailer For Yonay Boix's Spanish Indie THE ADVENTURES OF CAT-EYED LILY

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Set to premiere at the Sevilla International Film Festival in November, a first trailer has arrived for Yonay Boix's sophomore feature. A low budget indie that Boix describes as an experiment in punk rock filmmaking, The Adventures Of Cat-Eyed Lily should grab the attention of fans of life more on the cinematic fringe.Lily works at summer nights handing out flyers of a bar in downtown Madrid. Like many young people her age, Lily tries to project an image of somebody she really isn't: strong and independent, surrounded by many good friends, living the kind of life she wants and with high job expectations. But during one hot summer night the true Lily will come out; about to turn thirty, heavy drinker, barely making a living,...

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Review: BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD, A Great Doc To Revive And Learn More About Romero's 1968 Classic

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 11:00 AM PDT

While hard-core fans of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead might not learn anything new with Rob Kuhns' 75-minute doc Birth of the Living Dead, dare I say anyone with an interest in filmmaking will have a great time watching it. For connoisseurs, Kuhns offers a bunch of interviews with fellow experts who vividly revive the quintessential zombie film, while for newcomers there's a detailed account on how Night of the Living Dead was made and the impact it caused, with the man Romero himself open to tell his stories. Birth of the Living Dead is, at first sight, a making-of documentary, beginning when Romero was doing commercials in Pittsburgh together with people that eventually helped, in one way or another, for the...

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AMERICAN MUSCLE's Very NSFW Trailer Commands You to Suck The Nub

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Hit makers Snowfort Pictures have been on a hot streak lately with Cheap Thrills, Big Ass Spider and Jodorowsky's Dune all hitting the festival circuit in the last year. Up next is Ravi Dhar's directorial debut American Muscle. Currently in post-production, one producer called the action-thriller a "contemporary exploitation thriller." Here's more: Starring genre vets Nick Principe, Robin Sydney, Todd Farmer, John Fallon, Trent Haaga and Malice McMunn and set against the desolate landscape of California's Yucca Valley, the film follows a recently paroled convict hell bent on revenge against those whom he holds responsible for his incarceration...including his own brother. The film is hitting the sales block at next month's American Film Market and we've got an EXCLUSIVE look at the very NSFW...

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Review: ALL IS LOST, Robert Redford Adrift On An Unforgiving Sea

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT

It's very, very tempting to refer to Robert Redford's new film as The Old Man and the Sea. But that would be neither accurate nor fair, because All is Lost features an actor who is graceful and empathetic and intelligent and cunning and determined to survive, come what may, in complete ignorance of the number of years he has been breathing air on this planet. In his heyday, Redford carried around a reputation that he was more of a pretty boy than a real actor, someone who coasted to stardom on his good looks and surface charm, never clawing beneath the surface of the characters he played, and stayed at the top because of his winning smile and unwillingness to take risks. To date, he...

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Margaret Mead Film Festival 2013 Offers An Impressive Slate of Artfully Made, Provocative Documentaries From Across the Globe

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT

The 2013 edition of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the American Museum of Natural History's annual international documentary showcase, screens from October 17 through 20. If the films that I was able to preview are any indication, this year's selections are especially impressive. The theme of this year's festival is "See for Yourself." And that you'll be able to do plenty of, as you view fascinatingly eclectic representations of global cultures, touching on many aspects of the human experience, explored with great skill in narrative and cinematic techniques. In addition to the films, there will be talks, film installations, and live music performances, packing a great deal of activities in just four days.Here are some selections I especially recommend. For more information, and to purchase...

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Review: THE FIFTH ESTATE Showcases Benedict Cumberbatch And Little Else

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

The real draw for The Fifth Estate isn't the drama surrounding it but the enticing and almost albino-like visage of Benedict Cumberbatch railing in an Aussie accent about truth, justice, and the "mainstream media". If casting accomplishes much of the heavy lifting of any good work, then director Bill Condon at least did this part right. As Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Cumberbatch is excellent as always, making even the most awkward of prose presentable within the context of the narrative. It took a while for me to accept Daniel Brühl with a beard, but he too does an admirable job in an even more structured role, his character often providing little more than emotional beats or expositional narration. I admit it's unfair to completely slam...

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Donnie Yen and Zhao Wei To Appear At 4th Annual New York Chinese Film Festival

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Hey, New York, it's time for that other Asian film festival, one that's so star-packed, you'll wonder how you've missed it.  Since 2010, the New York Chinese Film Festival has quietly promoted some of the latest features from Hong Kong and the Mainland and hosted some of China's biggest names.  In previous years, superstars like Zhang Ziyi, Leon Lai, Aaron Kwok, Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung, Ching Siu-Tung, Han Geng and Vivian Hsu have graced the festival.  Though of a shorter duration than in previous editions, the 2013 NYCFF seems equally mighty. The 4th Annual New York Chinese Film Festival kicks off November 5th-7th, 2013.  This year, the excellent Donnie Yen {Ip Man, Sha Po Lang, Flash Point} returns to our shores to premiere Special...

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Watch The Trailer For Wes Anderson's GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT

Many love him. Many hate him. And after the runaway success of Moonrise Kingdom, director Wes Anderson is back with The Grand Budapest Hotel. Written, directed and produced by Anderson from an original story by Anderson and Hugo Guinness, The Grand Budapest Hotel features much of the familiar Anderson ensemble along with a batch of new faces including Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, 
Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, and Owen Wilson. Also, if the trailer is to be believed, it's shot mostly in a 4:3 aspect ratio and is absolutely bloody hilarious.THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a...

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Review: 12 YEARS A SLAVE Gracefully Examines Our Troubling Past

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 08:00 AM 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 McQueen's...

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Watch The Trailer For Can Evrenol's BASKIN

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Turkey's Can Evrenol has been a regular in the pages of Twitch ever since we caught wind of his horrifying short film The Chest way back in 2007 and Evrenol has been turning heads again this year with his latest short, Baskin.Shot independently in Istanbul, Turkey, during the height of the the police brutality and Gezi resistance that hit the headlines worldwide, the film revolves around four cops responding to a routine call and discover a Lovecraftian cult whose quarters hide the very horrors that should only belong in Hell!A selection at Frightfest, MotelX, Fantastic Fest and Sitges, check out the trailer for Baskin below....

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Review: HAUNTER Delivers an Enjoyably Tame Ghost Story

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Time is a fluid thing in the atmospheric Haunter, but it's set mainly in 1985. It's the day before Lisa's 16th birthday. It has been for a while. Lisa (Abigail Breslin) and her wholesomely plain family -- mother (Michelle Nolden), father (Peter Outerbridge), and little brother Robbie (Peter DaCunha) -- seem to be in a Groundhog Day situation, reliving this same day over and over. Only Lisa realizes it, though, along with its corollary: they're all dead. These facts are revealed early in Haunter, a good old-fashioned ghost story (with a few slight formula tweaks) from director Vincenzo Natali. His most famous films, like Cube (1997) and Splice, were far more violent and intense than this one which fits in the genre of gore-free PG-13...

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GRAVITY Mexico City Conference With Alfonso And Jonás Cuarón (Plus Photos)

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 06:30 AM PDT

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity opens in Mexico next Friday (October 18) and the director, together with his son and writer Jonás Cuarón, met with the Mexican press to present the acclaimed space film. Compared to Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim conference in Mexico City, Cuarón's was shorter and much calmer though also quite fun. It actually ended, unlike del Toro's, with the Mexican filmmaker signing DVDs and magazines for some journalists. Alfonso and Jonás discussed such themes as working with Sandra Bullock, casting George Clooney over Robert Downey Jr., Jonás' new short film and, I'm not joking, the difficulty that supposed filming Gravity in outer space. The thing is, sometimes the leading television networks in Mexico, which get to ask the questions in these events, don't...

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Warsaw 2013 Review: IDA, A Revealing Tale Of Faith And Human Frailty

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Polish cinema has been in a rather wretched state in the last few years to put it mildly, yet every now and then comes a picture that might seem special enough to restore faith in my country's film industry. The problem is that the 21st century Polish cinema is composed mostly of infantile comedies, clichéd romances or repetitive period dramas, the last being the most watchable genre of them all. Directors love to tackle the same topics over and over again, with mixed results, thus people don't really feel the urge to go to movie theatres anymore. To make a long story short, coming back to what I said at the beginning, I honestly think that Ida proves to be a truly rare find and...

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It's Donnie Yen Versus Ken Lo In Another Clip From SPECIAL ID

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT

How much fighting can there be left to see from upcoming Donnie Yen star vehicle Special ID? The onslaught of trailers and clips from the film continues and when they all look as good as this it's awfully hard to complain, though I do really hope that they're holding back some of the big stuff. This time out it's Donnie Yen versus Ken Lo. Check it out below....

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