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Review: LAST VEGAS, Elevated By Actors Who Earn Their Money The Old-Fashioned Way

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Review: LAST VEGAS, Elevated By Actors Who Earn Their Money The Old-Fashioned Way

Review: LAST VEGAS, Elevated By Actors Who Earn Their Money The Old-Fashioned Way

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:03 PM PDT

Genial and amiable though it may be, the comic fantasy world of Last Vegas would barely be worth visiting were it not for the presence of its leading players. Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline are all senior citizens, past the age of 65, yet one might question their wisdom for participating in what appears to be an unofficial spin-off of The Hangover, sanitized for general audiences. The script is by Dan Fogelman, a jokester whose screenplay for Crazy. Stupid. Love. was once described as "fuzzy-headed and conventional, something you'd expect from a writer whose credits include the animated Cars, Bolt, and Tangled. The characters are not smart, modern 'toons, but the variety that populated 60s US TV shows in sub-moronic...

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It's A Slow Build: First Full Trailer For THE LEGO MOVIE

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 04:30 PM PDT

The film's still months away, but it seems I'm already running out of decent Brick-themed puns. Still, this first full trailer show that the clear nod to many Warner properties (including the obvious ones like Batman and Superman, and even to properties like The Matrix) might either prove to be the most obnoxious film ever, or something with Roger Rabbit levels of nerdy meta-textual fun. Time will tell. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the movie is set for release on February 7, 2014, featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, and many more. Until then, enjoy this latest burst of Brickmania....

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Synapse Films Licenses Argento's Ballet Nightmare SUSPIRIA For U.S.

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT

This announcement kind of speaks for itself, but it is the news horror fans didn't know they were waiting for! Synapse Films, one of the premier cult video distributors in the world, has licensed Dario Argento's masterpiece Suspiria for release on home video in the USA. Suspiria has been subjected to substandard Blu-ray releases in the UK and Japan, and I have been waiting for a company with a solid track record to take hold of this property and do it right. I couldn't have asked for a better result than Synapse. From their releases of classic Hammer films to sparkling HD restorations of '80s trash grime like Street Trash, Synapse has a spotless record when it comes to quality.No details have emerged regarding release...

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Trailer & Release Date for Wonderful SXSW Docu MAIDENTRIP

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Sometimes it just warms your heart to see a film finally getting the attention it deserves. It has just been announced that the wonderful SXSW Audience Award-winning documentary Maidentrip will be setting sail from First Run Features in New York on January 17th. This has been a labor of love by director Jillian Schlesinger and producer Emily McAllister and the release news is a huge step towards helping this film find its surely adoring audience. We've got the trailer for you below and you can read my review of the film here. Directed, produced and shot by a team of young female filmmakers, the new highly acclaimed documentary film MAIDENTRIP celebrates the accomplishments of the intrepid young woman Laura Dekker and brings her complex and...

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Review: THESE BIRDS WALK Delivers Emotional, Behind-The-Scenes Realism

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Striking a poetic cord, These Birds Walk finds a symbiotic naturalism between those filming, newcomers Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq, and those being filmed, the unwanted children of Pakistan. Pakistan, more than any other country, feels like an innocent bystander to the draconian war on terrorism, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong set of circumstances. The Taliban found harbor in its borderlands, and the U.S. military marched in and took advantage of a government with few options. None of this is directly addressed in this impressionistic documentary, but by focusing on the most vulnerable and credulous demographic, it documents the heartbreaking after-effects of the chaos imposed on Pakistan the past ten years. The behind-the-scenes setting is a safe home...

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DARKNET: Watch Vincenzo Natali's First Episode Now!

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali wants to give you a Halloween treat. Natali has been one of the driving forces behind Darknet - a sort of hybrid television and web series - and the first episode of the series (directed by Natali himself) is now available online for free viewing. The prototype season of Darknet consists of six episodes that weave together bite-sized servings of urban horror.  These episodes will appear exclusively in Canada on Super Channel, and segments will be made available to fans at the Super Channel and Darknet websites.  Darknet offers snippets of people's lives being interrupted by vivid instances of unexpected violence or shocking strangeness.  Shot in a visceral style that cranks up the creep factor, viewers become part of...

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Keanu Reeves And Tiger Chen Talk MAN OF TAI CHI And The Meaning Of Martial Arts Films

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Talk to Keanu Reeves and Tiger Hu Chen about their new film Man of Tai Chi? Whoa! Joking aside, it was a rare chance and one for which I was grateful. Reeves is a fascinating figure who has crafted a solid career for himself across a wide range of story types. My Own Private Idaho, The Devil's Advocate, Point Break, and The Matrix franchise couldn't be more different from one another. Yet Reeves has brought all those characters to life, and subverted the movie star paradigm he's often been saddled with by underplaying. Remember when everybody thought he'd be stuck making Bill and Ted sequels for the rest of his life? Man of Tai Chi gives him a chance to mug villainous and he has some genuinely...

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THE ABCs OF DEATH: Watch 26 Of Our Favorite Contest Entries!

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

With the sequel to horror anthology The ABCs Of Death now under way and the submission deadline to take a crack at claiming the letter M for your very own arriving today, we figured now is a good moment to look back over the submissions. With over 350 short films submitted - that's more than double the number of entries for the first film - this selection just barely scratches the surface but they do represent 26 of our favorites. Some are creepy, some are disgusting, some are hilarious, some are all of the above.Check out the complete range of entries here and let us know if we've missed any!...

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Review: THOR: THE DARK WORLD Is A Balanced, Loki Success

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Thor's second solo outing strikes a far better balance between the Earth-bound action and the dramas on his home world of Asgard, but beyond the strong set pieces and knowing humour, the plot and central romance fail to hit home.Marvel explores the aftermath of 2012's epic The Avengers for the second time this year, as Thor: The Dark World follows in the wake of Shane Black's incredibly successful Iron Man 3. Wisely, this film steers clear of those events, keeping the promise that each standalone film would give the franchise as a whole space to breathe, rather than each attempt to fulfil sequel duties for everything that had come before it.Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is returned to Asgard, and incarcerated in the city's dungeons. Thor (Chris...

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Review: ENDER'S GAME Is Not Worth Playing

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

I had some time during the generally tedious Ender's Game to let my mind drift, hearkening back to a time when I would have been genuinely excited to see this kind of film on screen. I'd have been a young teen, wanting to see myself as Ender, the kid that gets things that the adults simply cannot. He's the smart kid with balls of steel, taking the aggression of his brother and the empathy of his sister and cutting a heroic young figure that can literally be the saviour of his people.So, while all this stuff is being set up with dreary dialogue and murky visuals, I also spent time thinking of The Last Starfighter. I remembered how even as a kid I found that story...

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ZERO CHARISMA, THE GUILD, And The Odd Sensation Of Nerd Envy

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT

If I wanted to be really fancy and insufferable, I might start by remarking how interesting it was to catch Andrew Matthews and Katie Graham's Zero Charisma at New York Comic Con earlier this month: screening a film about gamers and geeks to an audience of gamers and geeks, with all the attendant potential for reflexiveness and blah, blah, blah. Except that would be a lie -- there wasn't much worth noting in that respect, at least not during the screening itself. The audience responded to the expert mix of goofy comedy and serious comedy as any demographic of the young and the smart might, and I have no way of knowing if its members "saw themselves" on the screen. Maybe that's because I was too...

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Hammer Horror Time: THE QUIET ONES Trailer Creates A Poltergeist

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 10:45 AM PDT

"What is the supernatural?" Jared Harris asks that question to kick off the first trailer for The Quiet Ones, due out next year from Hammer Films. Hammer enjoyed worldwide success with last year's The Woman in Black, and this trailer makes The Quiet Ones look like a classy, worthy followup, and will hopefully lean more on a spooky atmosphere than jump cuts and loud noises. According to the official synopsis: Inspired by true events,The Quiet Ones tells the story of an unorthodox professor (Harris) who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist. Based on the theory that paranormal activity is caused by human negative energy, the rogue scientists perform a...

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Ethan Hawke Takes The Lead In Amenabar's REGRESSION

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Though nobody seems to be willing to say what, exactly, Alejandro Amenabar's upcoming new feature Regression is actually about the quotes about 'primal fears' and 'suspenseful thrills' in the official announcement make it pretty clear that the director of The Others is headed back into over genre territory. And he's bringing star Ethan Hawke with him as the lead.With shooting planned for the spring, Regression is being presented at the American Film Market by international sales company FilmNation so hopefully we'll see some more details there. But, in the meantime, here's the official word at Variety....

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Review: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Rests Entirely On Matthew McConaughey

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 10:01 AM PDT

Given 30 days to live, Matthew McConaughey continues to sniff cocaine, drink hard liquor, and entertain sexually-unrestrained women in his wreck of a mobile home in Dallas, Texas, USA. McConaughey, an outsized personality with a magnetic smile, here plays a man named Ron Woodroof, an outsized personality with a sickly smile who was given a fatal prognosis in 1985. As Woodroof, McConaughey resembles a drumstick after the meat has been chewed off, his head and bushy moustache wider than his emaciated body. Yet he is living "the good life," as he would probably define it, doing whatever he wants whenever he wants, and with whomever he wants. He enjoys sex with women, but does not remember their names. He enjoys drinking and gambling with his...

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Josh Brolin Ties Up Kate Winslet: LABOR DAY Trailer

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT

The online, alternative trailer for Jason Reitman's new film has dropped at Slash Film, ahead of the theatrical version, and it reveals Labor Day to be, apparently, a straightforward drama with some suspense elements. Josh Brolin is an escaped convict who takes single mother Kate Winslet and her son Gattlin Griffith hostage over a long holiday weekend. Reitman adapted a novel by Joyce Maynard and directed. The trailer sets up the situation nicely, imparting a sweaty mood of tension without being oppressive -- note that Winslet gets tied up, but not the boy -- and suggesting a bit more to the story than a simple hostage standoff. The movie is due out in the U.S. in January....

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Tokyo 2013 Interview: Fukada Koji On His Rohmer-Inflected AU REVOIR L' ETE

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Director Fukada Koji is no stranger to the Tokyo International Film Festival. His first feature Hospitalité was awarded the prize in the Japanese Eye section in 2010 before going on to screen at many other film festivals. Au revoir l' été is Fukada's second feature, a drama which follows 18-year-old Sakuko as she takes a trip to a seaside town with her aunt, meeting an assortment of friends and acquaintances through which she comes to understand about life and love.The environment and setting felt integral to the story in this film. Where was the beach town in which the film was set? Do you have a connection to this location?There was no one town, we actually filmed in two different locations. I've always lived in...

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Review: MAN OF TAI CHI, Mildly Enjoyable, Completely Forgettable

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:00 AM PDT

It's not entirely a matter of being snarky to refer to Keanu Reeves' directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, as a vanity project through and through. Constructed as a showcase for martial artist Tiger Hu Chen, this is hardly the first time in the history of action films that an entire project has revolved around the unique athletic and choreographic talents of a given individual. Still, it's somewhat difficult to see what Reeves brings to the table, despite what appears to be at least capable direction in keeping with genre expectations, trading upon whatever is left from his Matrix-era clout and bringing another Yuen Woo-ping extravaganza to the big screen. This predominantly Chinese-language film has the feel of a second-rung Hong Kong action pic from...

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Review: THE CLOSED CIRCUIT Depicts A Tragically True Story Of Corruption

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:00 AM PDT

As many genre films have taught us over the years, in the ubiquitous and uncontrollable world of political corruption, evil rises with an opportunity. Given that such an opportunity finally shows its hideous face, a random high-ranking official, whose power might seem limitless and whose sense of morality went down the drain a long time ago, wouldn't hesitate to destroy even the most innocent people in order to gain something, whether it's a huge sum of money or just a chance for a personal vendetta. It's never easy to watch a picture that forcefully manages to imply the well-known and revolting, yet often purposefully hidden truth about corruption, its unrestrained appetite for destruction and the aftermath that almost always hurts only regular, law-abiding citizens.Being one of...

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