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Review: SOMETHING IN THE WAY, A Dark Tale Of Obsession, Addiction And Faith

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Review: SOMETHING IN THE WAY, A Dark Tale Of Obsession, Addiction And Faith

Review: SOMETHING IN THE WAY, A Dark Tale Of Obsession, Addiction And Faith

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 10:00 PM PDT

Teddy Soeriaatmadja follows up the award-winning Lovely Man with this absorbing and shocking story of a young, porn-addicted taxi driver in Jakarta, who becomes fixated with the prostitute who lives across the corridor. Dividing his time equally between attending Koran classes at the local mosque and furiously masturbating to porn - both at home and in his cab - young Ahmad's solitary existence is interrupted when he encounters a beautiful young passenger, Kinar. On discovering that she is his neighbour and also a street walker, Ahmad dedicates his nights to watching her work, offering her a ride when necessary, and attempting to intervene when trouble rears its head. Comparisons between Something in the Way and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver are obvious and clearly intentional. From...

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Watch Tony Jaa vs Marrese Crump In A New TOM YUM GOONG 2 Clip

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Sahamongkol film has posted the second 3D clip for the highly anticipated Thai action flick Tom Yum Goong 2 on its official Youtube channel.  The clip showcases a fight scene with Tony Jaa, along with Jija Yanin (aka Jeeja Yanin) going up against rising American martial arts star Marrese Crump, who employs 52 Blocks or Jailhouse rock, a fighting style that was supposedly practiced and developed within the U.S. penal system.The theatrical release date in Thailand is October 23.  You'll find the clip (with optional 3D mode) embedded below....

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Cheerleaders, Catfights, And The English Civil War Part Of Full Ithaca Lineup!

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:30 PM PDT

The rest of the lineup for the Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival was announced today and if you are looking for something to heal those post Halloween blues then a trip to Central New York is in order, and you can thumb your nose at those Ivy Leaguers from Cornell at the same time. The following films are joining the already announced of Cheap Thrills, L.F.O.The movie, Confession of Murder, Demon's Rook, Bushido Man and I'm Divine.  This year's closing film will be All Cheerleaders Die. The rest of the slate is In The Name of the Son, Nothing Bad Can Happen, Ben Wheatley's A Field in England, OxV: The Manual, Doomsdays, Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play in Hell?, the movie that made Todd...

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Magnolia Snags U.S. Rights To Richard Ayoade's THE DOUBLE

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:00 PM PDT

A favorite of Todd's at TIFF, and sporting one of the niftiest little teasers of the year, comedian turned director Richard Ayoade's sophomore effort is coming to U.S. theaters sometime in 2014 thanks to the folks at Magnolia. Sounds the trumpets, here's an official plot synopsis:Jesse Eisenberg plays Simon, a timid, isolated man who's overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams (Wasikowska). The arrival of a new co-worker, James (also played by Eisenberg), serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.If ya need a little more, here's Todd on why Ayoade and his...

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Mondo Unveils New Universal Monsters Prints

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Fresh from his solo expo that took place in Austin last September, Canadian artist Jason Edmiston has some gorgeous new art pieces as limited screenprints from Mondo. coming up this Wednesday, October 15. Here's the press release: Over the course of the last year, Jason Edmiston has intricately hand painted several of the most famous Universal Monsters for two of our gallery shows. Working tirelessly with our screen printer, D&L, Jason has taken his incredibly detailed paintings and created layered files with which to accurately emulate their hand painted originals. Tomorrow, we will release screen prints of Jason's CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, THE WOLF MAN, FRANKENSTEIN and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN! These will go on sale tomorrow at Mondotees.com at a random time, as...

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The Stack: CHUCKY THE COMPLETE COLLECTION vs. THE VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION, Korean HORROR STORIES, IFC unleashes MANIAC on Blu and more...

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Welcome back to The Stack! Is anyone else thinking about anything other than Halloween at this point? I am finding it more and more difficult to plan my annual Hallow's Eve Movie Marathon. New films like Horror Stories from Artsploitation, and Maniac starring Elijah Wood are competing with my desire to see what untold clarity Blu-ray provides to classics, like 1963's The Haunting and In The Mouth of Madness. Oh well, I'll just have to watch 'em all and pray I don't wind up like poor John Trent covered in crayon crucifix's and laughing like a hyena at my own fascination with the horror genre. Either way I bet it will be worth it. The Blue Mite Returns shirt by Harebrained ...

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Watch Icelandic Zombie Short UNDYING LOVE Now!

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Before we begin let me just say that, yes, this is a shameless self promotion of my own short film that I did two years ago and I'm using Twitch, a site that I write for, as a platform to do so.Two years ago I wrote and directed my first short film with the help of some very gracious friends who lent me their time and effort for my little pet project. For years I had talked about how I wanted to direct something on my own but never really followed it through so when I found myself out of a job, broke as hell, semi depressed from a recent breakup and not really doing anything worthwhile with myself.I pitched this idea to my friend...

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China Box Office: YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE Detains Top Spot For 3rd Week

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Tsui Hark's fantasy prequel holds firm at the top of the Chinese charts for another week, while Hollywood's summer also-rans can muster little competition. Rank Title Origin 7/10 - 13/10 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1 Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon China/Hong Kong $16.77 $88.64 16 2 Now You See Me USA $9.81 $9.81 4 3 The Lone Ranger USA $5.98 $11.82 9 4 Love Will Tear Us Apart China  $5.21 $5.21 2 5 Inferno 3D Hong Kong/China $5.00 $19.53 14 6 Amazing China  $1.79 $6.30 14 7 Turbo USA $1.12 $18.14 26 8 My Lucky Star China  $0.72 $21.03 27 9 The Fox Lover China  $0.57 $4.97 16 10 Silent Witness China  $0.41 $29.26 31 Since storming to the top of...

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Sitges 2013 Review: MINDSCAPE Is An Intriguing Twist On The Classic Thriller

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Sigmund Freud described the human mind as a series of rooms. In each one, our psychological traumas and memories are hidden, and our subconscious keeps many of them locked. These strange rooms of the mind and their secrets are explored in Mindscape, Jorge Dorado's first feature film. It's an old-school Hitchcock-style thriller with some interesting sci-fi twists and narrative reminisence of films such as Vertigo, sustained by Dorado's assured direction and great performances by Mark Strong and Taissa Farmiga.Strong plays John, a 'memory detective', who can enter people's minds to help them recall details to solve crimes or investiage trauma. His own personal trauma, though, has meant a leave of absence, and he is brought back only to solve what seems to be a minor case....

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Review: CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, Austere Examination of Woman Under The Influence And Faith

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 11:00 AM PDT

With each new film, a controversial French filmmaker Bruno Dumont continues to fascinate me. His fixation with purity is quite unflinching, and his characters suffer for (or for the lack of) it. Camille Claudel 1915, an even more characteristically stripped-down, austere Dumont film, concerns 3 days in the life of Camille Claudel, a famed sculptress and one time August Rodin's mistress. She has been abandoned and committed by her family to a mental asylum where she would spend the rest of her life until death. Her younger brother Paul, a famous poet and writer with a strong Christian bent visits her during this time, not to rescue her, but ends up chastising her.Juliette Binoche, who continues to choose intriguing projects as she gets older, plays...

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Busan 2013: Highlights From The Tarantino And Bong Joon-ho Open Talk

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Nearing the last legs of the festival everyone received a nice jolt to the system when news quickly spread that Quentin Tarantino was dropping by Busan for an open talk with director Bong Joon-ho. If one is observant, Tarantino could be seen as representing the Weinstein stock, as insiders report on musings that Bong is extremely unhappy about the controversial edits to his latest film Snowpiercer. The talks then carried with them an exciting premise and opportunity for some conflict. How would the politics of this opportune open talk play out? Pretty tamely in fact, but that does not mean the talk itself was a waste of time. Both directors opened their cinephile hearts, raving about genre cinema, here are some gems from that hour long chat...

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Review: KILL YOUR DARLINGS Presents A Woefully Clumsy And Shallow Hagiography Of The Beat Generation

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Seldom, if ever, has a film taken such potent source material as does John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings and proven itself so completely and utterly clueless as to what to do with it. Krokidas here tackles the rise of the Beat generation, specifically Allen Ginsberg's entry to college, his early relationships with Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs and - much more to the point - the entire group's involvement with young Lucien Carr - to whom Ginsberg would eventually dedicate his signature work Howl - and Carr's killing of his older gay lover David Kammerer. A true story this lurid populated with such larger than life - and yet completely true life - characters would seem to be a sure hit, such fascinating material...

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Vancouver 2013 Dispatch: STRAY DOGS, AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS, And LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Stray Dogs, the perhaps-last-ever film from Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang, is a devastatingly sad, quirk-ily mysterious and slithery film. It's hard to pin down the details of the characters' (a father and his two young children) lives, how much time passes while we live with them, or how they came to be where they are (homeless in urban Taiwan, squatting in a dilapidated building). Yet Tsai's fearlessly long--likely breaking his own record, but I haven't checked--static takes immerse us uncomfortably in each moment, forcing us to forgo finding our plot bearings and simply experience this strange purgatory between pure cinematic magic and documentary-style realism. Those waiting for a classic Tsai musical number or an awkwardly funny sexual encounter will be disappointed, but the director has...

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Warsaw 2013 Review: Minimalist THE JAPANESE DOG Is A Feature Debut Worth Noticing

Posted: 15 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Being a huge fan of Japanese cinema I can honestly say that I was really intrigued when I carefully looked through this year's festival and saw a film entitled The Japanese Dog. After a few minutes I finally realized that it's actually a Romanian picture, which got me even more excited due to the fact that I've probably never seen a film produced in that particular country.Tudor Cristian Jurgiu's debut feature stars Victor Rebengiuc, one of the most famous Romanian actors, as Costache, an old widower and flood victim living in one of the country's rural villages. Forced to stay temporarily in a replacement house Costache is a conscious prisoner of a rather insipid everyday routine that is suddenly disrupted because of some surprising news....

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