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Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst Wants To Remake Icelandic Flick METALHEAD!

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst Wants To Remake Icelandic Flick METALHEAD!

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:00 AM PST

So what do you get when you combine the front man from 90s rap metal Limp Bizkit with the Icelandic art-house drama Metalhead? Frankly, we don't know, but if Fred Durst has his way, he could be heading up a remake of Metalhead before we know it. The news item states, "According to Davíð Óskar Ólafsson, one of the producers, Durst connected with the film. He grew up in the American countryside, with heavy metal and experienced many of the same things and as the main character in the film when her relative dies in an accident."Somebody has been doing a lot of inner reflection and talking about his feelings lately. It was just announced last week that Durst is developing a drama for The CW called...

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Review: Strong Scenes Doth Not a Narrative Make in Genre-Hopping COMMITMENT

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:00 AM PST

Following on from this year's Secretly Greatly, another action-drama featuring Korean idols playing young North Korean spies who stay undercover in the south only to be targeted by their homeland, Commitment announces itself as a medley of genres, as commonly witnessed in commercial Korean film. Both works hail from Korean studio Showbox, but while Secretly Greatly starts out as a neighborhood comedy-drama, this new effort reserves its opening beats strictly for the thriller genre. After his father's failed mission in the South, Myung-hoon and his sister are sent to a prison camp in North Korea. Accepting his own mission as an undercover spy to protect his sister from further harm, Myung-hoon infiltrates the south, where he poses as a high school student. He ends up...

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Watch The Final Trailer For Keith Sicat's WOMAN OF THE RUINS

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:00 AM PST

Keith Sicat's Woman Of The Ruins is one of the more intriguing entries in this year's CinemaOne Originals series from the Philippines, presenting a seeming tale of resurrection with dark overtones. The first teaser was a wonderfully atmospheric bit of work and that has now been followed by an equally strong trailer that dips a bit more into the story.Years after a cataclysmic event, a woman presumed dead reappears on an island. Her return sparks religious fervour and fear among the inhabitants.Alessandra de Rossi, Arthur Acuña, Elizabeth Oropesa, Peque Gallaga, and Chanel Latorre star. Take a look at the new trailer below....

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Are Kurylenko, Gadot & Yung Testing For Wonder Woman?

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 11:30 PM PST

Variety is reporting that its sources claim Gal Gadot (Fast & Furious 6), Elodie Yung (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) and Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion) are all currently testing for a role in Warner Bros' upcoming Batman-Superman film, and the role is most likely that of Princess Diana of Themyscira aka Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman.Right now the studio is remaining tight-lipped on exactly what the role will be, but with the casting call going out for a "tall, brunette, athletic and exotic" female, all the signs are pointing to Wonder Woman finally making her big screen debut in the current DC Comics universe. Apparently recent rumours that Thor's Jamie Alexander might also be in the running have been ruled out due to her ongoing Marvel commitments.If these...

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Review: PARIS COUNTDOWN Serves Up French-Noir Comfort Food

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 08:59 PM PST

A routine flavor sensation for genre movie buffs who have become acquainted with the wave of dark crime ficks originating in France over the past few years, Paris Countdown (original title: Le jour attendra, or, literally, "day wait") serves up a familiar-tasting dish. And no wonder: the producers of this film also helped bring forth the notably doom-laden Point Blank and A Gang Story. The latter picture was based on the book Pour une poignée de cerises, a sprawling true-life account of a famed French criminal outfit, co-authored by Edgar Marie, who is making his directorial debut here. Marie's screenplay is original only in that it is not based directly on any other sources. Together, Marie's writing and directing are best described as cool and...

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FUKU-CHAN OF FUKUFUKU FLATS, A New Way of Producing and Distributing Japanese Cinema

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:30 PM PST

Japanese comedies have never been the easiest films to market in the west. Whereas anime, horror, and classics from famous directors have a ready made fan base, non-genre fare and comedy is a tough sell. A new and unique production team is hoping to change all that by making their first film an international success and laying the groundwork for other, similarly-made, independent fare to follow. The film is Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats and the co-production team consists of Adam Torel of Third Window Films (UK), Sabrina Baracett and Thomas Bertacche of Tucker Film (Italy), James Liu of Joint Entertainment (Taiwan) and Stephen Holl of Rapid Eye Movies (Germany) along with the Japanese distributors. The combined weight of the group and the established networks of...

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The 10th Annual South Asian International Film Festival Announces Its Lineup!

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST

I feel very fortunate to have been able to cover New York's SAIFF for the last three years, and this fourth go around looks like it's going to be as great as ever.Yesterday SAIFF 2013 announced its complete line up, including special presentations and having seen a couple of the films already, I'm very excited for anyone who gets to attend in person. Leading the selections are Amit Kumar's Monsoon Shootout, a film I programmed for Fantastic Fest 2013, India's controversial Oscar submission Gyan Correa's The Good Road, Q's psychedelic return to narrative features, Tasher Desh, and Richie Mehta's Siddarth, a film that premiered to unanimous praise at TIFF this year.Twitch will be covering the festival again this year, so you can count on reviews...

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JANE GOT A GUN, Lynne Ramsay Gets A Lawsuit

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST

Back in March, the news got out that the production of the western Jane Got A Gun had hit a rather severe snag on its first day of shooting: director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin) never showed up, leaving the cast and crew stranded. The weeks that followed were rife with rumors and accusations, both from supporters of Lynne Ramsay on one side and supporters of producer Scott Steindorff on the other side. Within a day, Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) stepped in to take over the directing duties, ensuring the survival of the film. With some delays and cast changes (Michael Fassbender left and got replaced with first Jude Law, then Bradley Cooper, and finally Ewan McGregor), Jane Got A Gun indeed wrapped...

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Cineteca Nacional's 55 Muestra: Twitch's Top 10 Picks

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST

Cineteca Nacional's 55 Muestra Internacional de Cine begins its activities tonight in Mexico City with a special free screening of the recently restored 35mm print of Julio Bracho's classic Distinto Amanecer (aka Another Dawn), which is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The Muestra is Christmas in advance for Mexican cinephiles and, like I said in a previous piece, this year's lineup is one of the very best in recent memory. And now Twitch has ready for you a selection with 10 must-see films from it! Out of the 22 titles the Muestra 55 offers I have seen only 9 so far, so the picks displayed in the gallery below are both recommendations and some of the most anticipated films.For prices and schedule, visit the official site....

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Bollywood's Greatest Adventure Returns To The Big Screen With SHOLAY 3D In January 2014!

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST

This is Bollywood.There is no film that has more deeply ingrained itself into the Indian collective consciousness as Ramesh Sippy's epic Eastern Western, Sholay. Initially a critical and box office failure, the film quickly became the all-time highest grossing film in Indian history thanks almost entirely to word of mouth publicity in 1975. Since then, the film has become a cultural cornerstone, one of those films that everyone can quote from front to back, a film that is referenced in hundreds of other films over the past forty years. While the film and its cast are revered and have turned from characters on screen to folk heroes, its fate in terms of the physical elements has been less that optimal. For years the film has...

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

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST

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 The...

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ROBOCOP: America Is "Robo-Phobic" States New Trailer. Then Things Go Boom

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 10:45 AM PST

Money is the name of the game. And a product that the American people can believe in is the path to said money... at least that's according to the big wig business types played by Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton in the new trailer for José Padilha's 2014 version of Robocop. While the trailer continues to do what a trailer for a studio action picture is expected to do, there are those among us who try and dig a little deeper, trying to scavenge some notion on the military-industrial complex and the role of corporations. Is that reaching? Maybe, but certainly the cynical, tongue-in-cheek attitude of many of the humans in the trailer lends itself a certain satirical air that is encouraging... and was...

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Marvel Teams Up With Netflix For 4 New Shows (And A Mini-series)

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST

Daredevil is headed to the small screen. With Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones to follow close behind.After weeks of speculation on the who and where, Marvel announced today that the recently reacquired Daredevil will be getting a fresh start in serial show fashion, starting in 2015. It's a bold, but not at all unexpected move on the part of Marvel and their parent Disney. After all Netflix has been gaining steam on the original programming front, to the point where the press release for these shows cites them as "the leading Internet TV network". Plus Disney starts using Netflix as their first-run home video platform for many of their other properties starting in 2016. At any rate, The deal calls for at least...

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Review: FINDING MR. RIGHT Sees Tang Wei Back In Favour

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST

Tang Wei scores big at the mainland box office with this comedy drama about a spoilt mistress who must hide out in the US and reconcile her lifestyle when she becomes pregnant with her lover's child. All has been forgiven, it seems, as Tang Wei - once banned from making films in China after her role in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution - has sat comfortably at the top of the box office charts in China for four consecutive weeks with her latest film, Finding Mr. Right. Shot almost entirely in the USA, the film stars Tang as Jiajia, mistress of rich Beijing businessman Mr. Zhong, who is shipped off to Seattle when it is discovered she is pregnant. In order to avoid a scandal back...

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AFI Fest 2013: Twitch Picks 13 Can't Miss Titles

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST

The days are getting shorter and LA temperatures are dropping into the mid-70s. Yes, it's fall and that means AFI Fest is here. The Hollywood-set festival kicks off tonight with the opening night film Saving Mr. Banks and closes next Thursday with Inside Llewyn Davis (our review). Here are 13 more "Can't Miss" picks for your viewing pleasure....

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Review: IT'S ME, IT'S ME, A Surreal Farce On the Nature of Identity

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST

A comically surrealist farce on the nature of identity in the digital age, Miki Satoshi's latest film It's Me, It's Me features an impressively energetic and remarkably varied multiple performance by J-pop star Kamenashi Kazuya as the central character, or should I say, characters. Imagine the John Malkovich multiplication scene in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's Being John Malkovich stretched to feature length, and you begin to get an idea of the rather freaky nature of this film. It's Me, It's Me starts out as broad, quirky comedy, but becomes gradually darker and more violent in the later passages as the implications of its premise are more deeply explored and the complications become literally murderous. Hitoshi (Kamenashi Kazuya) is working a dead-end job at a...

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Talking THE BOOK THIEF With Emily Watson, Sophie Nélisse, And Director Brian Percival

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST

Based on the bestselling novel by Markus Zusak, The Book Thief shows us World War II through the eyes of a young, illiterate German girl. I spoke with Oscar-nominated actress Emily Watson, director Brian Percival and 13-year-old star Sophie Nélisse about filming this different view of history. Emily Watson Q: Rosa's such a memorable character. How much of her did you read on the page and how much of her came from your imagination? Emily Watson: Well, she's very full in the book; she's a full very character. I relished the opportunity to go somewhere and be quite unpleasant and I think that that was very necessary for the beginning of the movie because you're seeing everything from Liesel's point of view. You want her...

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Review: GO FOR SISTERS Is an Easy-Going Character Drama from John Sayles

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST

Few filmmakers are more legitimately "independent" than John Sayles, who has now written and directed 18 features since 1979 (Return of the Secaucus Seven) without studio backing. His latest, the affable character drama Go for Sisters, while not an outstanding or distinctive achievement, is a perfectly good addition to the Sayles filmography, energized by three central performances that have a lived-in, likable vibe to them. Our heroine is Bernice Stokes (LisaGay Hamilton), a tough-minded but not unsympathetic Los Angeles parole officer with little patience for nonsense. "I listen to people sugarcoat their bulls*** all day," she tells her public-defender boyfriend as he tries to ease his way into a "we're breaking up" speech. The bulk of her job entails sitting behind a desk and hearing...

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Interview: John Sayles Talks GO FOR SISTERS

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST

Go for Sisters, a new film by director/writer John Sayles, the godfather of American independent cinema (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Brother from Another Planet, Lone Star, Limbo), is just as I expect in a John Sayles film; beautifully written, beautifully acted, mature and always relevant -- the qualities so rare in mainstream American cinema these days. Recently I had a chance to talk to him briefly on the phone about his new film, Edward James Olmos and the country's immigration reform debate.Twitch: Can you tell me the origin of GO FOR SISTERS?John Sayles: Chinese smugglers of illegal immigrants are called Snakeheads. There was a case in New York where the head of this organization got indicted for human trafficking. She was operating in...

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EXCLUSIVE Interview: Bong Joon-ho On Casting SNOWPIERCER (Part 2 of 3)

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST

Last week, Twitch was gifted the opportunity to spend an hour talking to South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho about his hugely-anticipated science-fiction thriller Snowpiercer. The film opened in Bong's homeland back in August, where it quickly became his most succesful film to-date, selling upwards of 10 million tickets. While the specifics of the film's release in the rest of the world are still being ironed out, and were discussed in part one of this interview, we also talked about the incredible cast Bong has assembled for his first English language production. Impressive for a $100 million Hollywood studio flick, how did Bong get Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton and Ed Harris, alongside his Korean regulars Song Kang-ho and Ko Ah-sung, together for his $40 million production, shot...

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