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Review: THE CONSTABLE Is Crime Fighting At Its Most Pedestrian

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Review: THE CONSTABLE Is Crime Fighting At Its Most Pedestrian

Review: THE CONSTABLE Is Crime Fighting At Its Most Pedestrian

Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:00 AM PST

Dennis Law's latest low budget actioner sees Simon Yam play a former CID sergeant itching to get back on the front lines. Despite some interesting ideas and a decent cast, The Constable is under-developed and poorly structured, never getting out of first gear.Sergeant Lam Kwok Keun (Simon Yam) is the Vehicle Commander of the Kowloon City Police Force, a modest position that keeps him off the streets and out of danger. Despite his cushy desk job, Keun can't help but get his hands dirty cracking cases on Hong Kong's streets, bringing down everyone from rapists to counterfeiters and even bank robbers, with little regard for his own safety. It transpires that Keun was formerly in the CID and transferred more than 10 years ago when he...

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Tarantino Talks To Leno About His New Western

Posted: 28 Nov 2013 12:00 AM PST

Quentin Tarantino was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno earlier this week, 20 years after his first appearance. He recalled that early nineties visit and, more interestingly, revealed the first details of his possible next film. It is not, as previously expected, Killer Crow, a WWII movie about a "bunch of black troops" and the last entry of Tarantino's so-called historical trilogy (following Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained). In the video below, Tarantino instead reveals he is returning the western genre ("but not a Django Unchained sequel") and his current writing process. ...

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LUPIN THE THIRD Live Action Feature To Open Next Summer

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 11:11 PM PST

It's been announced that a live action film of the hugely popular character Lupin III will arrive in the summer of next year. The first Lupin manga was published in 1967 and has continued to be hugely popular, spawning numerous anime, manga, films and games. The adventures of the master thief have already been converted into a live action film back in 1974, but the most famous big screen version, certainly outside of Japan, is The Castle of Cagliostro, the first feature film of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.Lupin the Third is to be directed by Kitamura Ryuhei, no stranger to adapting manga having helmed 2003's assassin adventure Azumi. Oguri Shun will star in the title role as Lupin III, the grandson of legendary gentleman...

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The Many Masterworks Of Takahata Isao

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST

This year, fans of Japanese animation were treated to not one, but two films from Studio Ghibli, as both of its founding fathers released a film of their own. In the Summer we had The Wind Rises by Miyazaki Hayao, and last week saw the premiere of The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Takahata Isao. Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao are two very good friends, who have worked together on animation projects many, many times, and who both founded the incredibly successful Studio Ghibli. Yet while almost everyone knows who Miyazaki Hayao is, Takahata Isao is nowhere near as household a name. And at 78 years of age, six more than the recently retired Miyazaki, it is unlikely we will see much new work from...

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Valdivia 2013 Review: NAOMI CAMPBEL, An Experience Of Intercultural And Transsexual Life

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST

It's common practice in the Valdivia Film Festival to have at least one Chilean film in the International Film Competition that they have, as opposed to the Chilean Film Competition. But this year it was different, it wasn't only two Chilean films that were selected to be part of the International Competition (Naomi Campbel and Volantín Cortao), but also both of them were birthed out of film school projects, that is, the films themselves (in one way or another) were the final exam for the directors and everyone else who helped them, and that is the main reason why both films have two directors. [Full disclosure: This Chilean film was made by students that came out from the same film school that I attended, this was once...

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The Stack: THE HOBBIT Extended Version, TANK GIRL, RUSSIAN ARK, And More

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST

This episode brings us up to date with our releases through November 26. The mix of old and new is exhilarating. The absolutely breathtaking Russian Ark makes its Blu-ray debut. Hannah Arendt does as well, telling the story of the woman who coined the phrase "banality of evil" in connection with Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Lastly, Roberto Rossellini's Il Generale Della Rovere makes a powerful debut on Blu-ray, telling the story of a war traitor who may have waited too long to repent.  Two great so-called guilty pleasures also hit Blu-ray courtesy of Shout Factory, and each has substantial extras. You could say that Tank Girl looks better than it deserves in hi-def, but only by ignoring the goofy smile that spreads over your face...

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Review: FOOSBALL (METEGOL), An Unpolished Adventure With Remarkable Animation

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST

Film history dictates that when it comes to sports movies the quintessential story is that of an underdog team or athlete going through all kinds of adversities to finally learn a lesson or win a trophy. It can be about soccer (Shaolin Soccer), basketball (Space Jam) or baseball (Moneyball) and work from that same premise. Juan José Campanella's Foosball (original title: Metegol) is a new entry in the long list of sports movies about underdogs yet it's not always about soccer or foosball. For a third of its time, Foosball acts as an adventure movie with fantasy and a plot that places the hero (a young boy named Amadeo) trying to rescue his best friends from the hands of a powerful villain. If this sounds...

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CAUGHT IN THE WEB: Chen Kaige Talks Cyber-bullying And Media Manipulation

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST

For thirty years, director Chen Kaige has exposed the ills and societal unrest left behind by China's Cultural Revolution in films like Yellow Earth and the Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine. With his latest film, Caught in the Web, the story of a young woman's momentary slip gone viral on the internet, Chen tackles the more modern threat of cyber-bullying, invasion of privacy and media manipulation.The Lady Miz Diva: Can you please tell us what inspired CAUGHT IN THE WEB?Chen Kaige:  Well, you know that China has probably hundreds of millions of website users, so it's well-developed. What happens on websites sometimes you can consider very positive; people using websites to disclose corruption. People always say that it's a great thing to do that work on...

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Review: HOMEFRONT, Jason Statham Squares Off Against Meth Dealers

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST

Some higher profile names than you might expect grace Jason Statham's latest outing as a lead. Produced and written (some time ago) by none other than Expendables stablemate Sylvester Stallone, Homefront is bolstered by an eclectic supporting cast that includes James Franco and Winona Ryder. Make no mistake though, this is still a typical Statham action movie at heart, and all the better for it. Pulling his gruff but likeable persona into play once more, Statham stars as the improbably named DEA agent Phil Broker. The recently widowed Broker is lying low in the Louisiana countryside with his daughter, after being outed as a snitch whilst working undercover in a drug-dealing biker gang. No sooner has he settled into his new home than his life...

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Destroy All Monsters: Katniss Everdeen's Utopia

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST

A girl like Katniss Everdeen has to travel a long way to become a hero - further than the Capital, or the Arena; she has to travel past the end of the world itself, into an unvarnished future iteration of society, where whatever the hell else is going on, nothing like this is going on. People will gravitate towards The Hunger Games: Catching Fire for its sophomore appearance of the best heroic character of the past decade (who also happens to be female), but the question I keep returning to is this: why does Katniss Everdeen have to wait till the end of the world? Neither of the archetypal heroes I grew up with were able to exist in the same time and space as...

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