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Mórbido Fest 2013: Award Winners And Closing Night Festivities

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Mórbido Fest 2013: Award Winners And Closing Night Festivities

Mórbido Fest 2013: Award Winners And Closing Night Festivities

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 05:00 PM PST

Sunday evening saw Mórbido Fest 2013 in Pátzcuaro, Mexico come to a close, and here I am reporting it on Wednesday evening. Yes, that's how bat shit amazing and triple A crazy things were (also I had to travel back to L.A.). So let's get to it, click through the pic of the Teatro Emperador below for more -- All images courtesy of Paulo Vidales, one of Mórbido's official photographers, except the final image which is by me.       ...

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Mórbido Fest 2013 Review: HOUSE OF LAST THINGS, A Different Kind Of Ghost Story

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

A small boy clutches a yellow balloon as if it's a security blanket. A young woman cuts open an apple only to find a golf ball inside. Her teenage brother watches in fright as a photo of a loving couple morphs into that of two coffins, side by side.These are just a handful of the fantastic images from Micharl Bartlett's House Of Last Things, a ghost story that behaves far differently from most other recent American fare that have chosen to play in such supernatural realms. Though the film is at times still quite creepy, and always persistently strange, Bartlett's story is refreshingly absent of evil and any real terror, gruesome or otherwise. For as much as it is a ghost story House Of Last...

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Review: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Kicks It Up A Notch, Sets the Stage For A Grand Finale

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST

Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a great read if you're into that sort of thing (reading), and it's shrewdly constructed. The first book, memorably adapted last year into a star-making vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence, focuses on the Hunger Games themselves, an event in a dystopian future America in which two children from each of the 12 districts are put into an arena and forced to fight to the death. (It's like American Idol, only fun to watch.) But the book also lays the groundwork for a larger story, one that's not just about one girl's harrowing experience in the Hunger Games but about the government that requires it and the popular uprising that is bound to come. That groundwork is important because it establishes...

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Interview: Spike Lee On OLDBOY - Don't Call It A Remake

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST

Don't call it a remake: writer, director, online provocateur, and recent Kickstarter entrepreneur asks that audiences consider his Oldboy a "reinterpratation" of the source material. "John Coltrane did not perform the same song that Julie Andrews sang in The Sound of Music," he told a group of journalists in a roundtable assembled at the W Hotel. "Many people have sung 'My Funny Valentine,' but when Miles Davis plays it, it's different." Lee's entered yet another new phase in his career, which began with smaller, socially-conscious dramas like She's Gotta Have It, interspersed in recent years with documentaries (he was also promoting his Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth), and flirtations with mainstream fare like Inside Man. The director sees Oldboy as yet another reinvention of his personal...

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It's Not Easy Being Mean In First Trailer For MUPPETS MOST WANTED

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST

There's a frog on the loose and it's not the one you think. Yup, The Muppets are back for more with the first trailer of Muppets Most Wanted and it's loaded up with lots of frog, a bit of pig, an exploding scientist and Ricky Gervais being less irritating than is his wont these days. Check it out below!...

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MUSHISHI Returns In January With New Hour Long Special

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST

Put all thoughts of Otomo Katsuhiro's live action adaptation of Urushibara Yuki's manga Mushishi out your head. It's not very good. We know. But the Nagahama Hiroshi directed anime series? That's an entirely different matter and Nagahama is returning to direct a new hour long Mushishi special titled Mushishi: Sun Eating Shade to air in Japan on January 4th.The 'mushi' of the title are a sort of primordial life form, something pre-plant or animal. Their so basic, in fact, that they often exhibit abilities that appear to be magical and the series follows a young man - the titular Mushishi - who is expert in such matters and intervenes when mushi somehow impact on human affairs. It's a surprisingly contemplative series with episodes often playing...

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Iwaki Hitoshi's PARASYTE To Become Two Part Live Action Film In Japan

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST

It was back in 2005 that New Line Cinema acquired the feature film rights to Iwaaki Hitoshi's popular scifi-horror manga Parasyte with an eye to having The Grudge helmer Shimizu Takashi direct and English language adaptation. The story revolves around a teenage boy whose hand is infected by an alien parasite, giving it strange, often uncontrollable, and always rather violent powers. Which would be a bad thing in most circumstances but given that the alien parasite's have taken over the minds of most people the alien-hand actually gives him a fighting chance to survive in a world gone mad. With its story of bizarre mutations and teen on teen violence it's not too hard to draw comparisons between Parasyte and the long stalled big screen...

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CinemaOne 2013 Review: Whammy Alcazaren's ISLANDS Has All the Awkwardness, Charm, and Honesty of a Love Poem

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST

The easiest thing to do is to either stop at faulting or praising Whammy Alcazaren's ambition in mounting Islands, a deeply personal meditation on the complexities of loving. The film is hardly about the director's ambition. It is more about his humility in communicating how imperfect he is as a person in love. The film, despite its visual elegance, has the affecting awkwardness of a juvenile poem. Like a poem, it is replete with obvious metaphors, from the solitary spacemen to the despondent hunter, that pertain to one nagging idea: the inability to communicate love. Its stanzas are all beautifully composed. They are fragile sequences, all carefully designed to evoke a somber mood. In a forest, a hunter longs for the love of a princess...

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North American Trailer for THE WIND RISES Leaves Us Adrift

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST

The North American trailer for Miyazaki Hayao's "Farewell Masterpiece," The Wind Rises spends a lot of time telling you to see it, rather than truly showing you much: images with little context or explanation, with the dialogue silenced. This is a pitch that will likely only appeal to folks who already know what the movie is about. Le Sigh.The film centres around Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of Japan's World War II Zero Fighter plane. It charts his life and dreams, his education and work, some of his major contributions to Japanese aviation, and also the courtship and marriage to his wife of fragile health. The film spans nearly half a century and muses on when a creative artist of any stripe should step down and...

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Tokyo Filmex 2013 - Full Lineup Announced

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST

This Saturday sees the start of the Tokyo Filmex 2013 Festival. The festival concentrates on promoting works by young filmmakers from across Asia in its Competition Section while the Special Screenings offer ten new films from around the world. Every year Filmex hosts a couple of interesting Special Programs, and this year they are focusing on French director Jean Gremillon, showing three of his films from the late thirties and early forties, and Japanese auteur Nakamura Noboru. It is Nakamura's centennial anniversary and three of his films will be shown with newly commissioned English subtitled prints to celebrate. The director's 1963 film Twin Sisters of Kyoto and 1967's Portrait of Chieko were both nominated for Best Foreign Language Academy Awards. Check out the full festival...

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EXCLUSIVE: Full Trailer For Aussie Neo-Giallo Feature SORORAL

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST

A little while back, Twitch brought you the exclusive teasers for Sororal, Australia's first neo-giallo feature from the creative team at Nakatomi Pictures. And now, we have an exclusive full trailer to show you. Enjoy!Cassie (Amanda Woodhams) is tormented by horrific visions that follow her from her dreams into her waking life. The troubled artist copes with this curse that isolates her from the outside world by committing her violent visions to canvas. Cassie's life is thrown into further disarray when it is revealed that her visions are depictions of real life murders. As her friends and family start turning up dead, Cassie realizes that her link to the killer works both ways and if she is to survive, she must unearth her family's carefully...

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Destroy All Monsters: It's Time To Get Over "The Truth"

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST

This is not a political column, nor does it have any ambitions to become one; but I admit that it's been difficult (as a Toronto-local pop culture writer) to find anything in the sphere to talk about this week that hasn't been drowned out by the monstrous (and surprisingly pop cultural) noise coming from our City Hall. This week also falls in the gully between two of the fall's biggest Hollywood releases, Thor: The Dark World and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. All is quiet at the box office. What am I going to write about, The Best Man Holiday? Since this is not a political column, let us for the sake of argument declare that it's credibly demonstrable that Rob Ford frequently lies; but...

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Watch Acclaimed Indie Short MEAT ME IN PLAINVILLE

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST

Greg Hanson and Casey Regan's short film Meat Me In Plainville has been on an extensive global our since premiering at the PiFan festival in Korean in summer of 2012 but with its traveling days now over the short has arrived online for viewing by you, our future food source.A father tries to reconnect with his daughter as they escape their small town before their dream home descends into a nightmare of crazed cannibalism.At 27 minutes it's long by short standards but it's a good one. Take a look below....

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