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Drafthouse Films Shares A Clip & New Poster For Abel Ferrara's MS .45

Drafthouse Films Shares A Clip & New Poster For Abel Ferrara's MS .45

Posted: 13 Dec 2013 01:30 AM PST

Drafthouse Films has been developing a habit of picking up cult oddities and giving them another theatrical run and remastered home entertainment releases. Today begins the theatrical run of Abel Ferrera's Ms .45. You will find it at Alamo Drafthouses all over Texas and a couple in New York, before the tour continues through Los Angeles and other cities starting on the 20th and on through the New Year. Ms .45 will also be released on VOD on March 25th if it does not come to a screen near you. Find the full release schedule here. Drafthouse Films has released a new clip, which you can watch below. Abel Ferrara's (Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York) 1981 revenge thriller classic Ms. 45 follows a mute garment-district seamstress...

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Watch Tom Cruise And Emily Blunt Fight Aliens In First EDGE OF TOMORROW Trailer

Posted: 13 Dec 2013 12:48 AM PST

Edge of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and is directed by Doug Liman. My initial reaction is that it looks like Source Code meets Starship Troopers. And I approach it with apprehension because I think the plot of the film is cool but I am having a real hard time with the exoskeletons. A silly detail, I know, but gosh look how clunky they are. Of course humans are losing the war.  The epic action of "Edge of Tomorrow" unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world.Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped...

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Review: SAVING MR. BANKS Banks on "Mary Poppins" Goodwill

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST

When observing the familiar corporate synergy just under the surface of Saving Mr. Banks, one might be inclined to judge it as something quite atrocious. But, while that is indubitably not the proper verdict, this "true history" of Walt Disney's late-in-life completion to his long running struggle to make the classic film Mary Poppins is not quite the jolly holiday it sets out to be, either. It is, nonetheless, something to stay awake for. Saving Mr. Banks is an enjoyable and well-crafted historical fiction that's biggest enemy isn't its sugarcoating of true events (of which its director John Lee Hancock, known for The Blind Side and The Alamo, is no stranger), but rather its own hang-ups on uncovering harsh truths in its own past. So is...

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Kid Oriented SciFi Adventure EARTH TO ECHO Evokes Amblin With First Trailer

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

We love us some Dave Green here at Twitch, the director of Meltdown and Ham Sandwich and Zombie Roadkill having won our hearts with a string of clever, heartfelt, and very, very funny genre bending shorts. Hell, the guy's responsible for unleashing zombie skunks and a time traveling sandwich into the world, how could we not love him?And now Green is making the leap to feature films with his debut offering, Earth To Echo. When a group of young friends begin to receive bizarre encrypted messages on their cellphones, they embark on an incredible adventure to discover the meaning behind these communications. Soon enough, they realize that the messages they are receiving are from a mysterious being from another world -  one who desperately needs...

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Watch Amazing SciFi Short MANIFOLD Now!

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:30 AM PST

Regular readers of Twitch should recognize the name of Anthony Scott Burns by this point, the Toronto based director and VFX artist having blown our minds with work like this. And like this. A huge visual talent, Burns made an appearance at Fantastic Fest 2013 with his latest work - a noir inflected scifi short titled Manifold.Produced with the backing of Canada's Bravofact, the complete short has now been released online for your viewing pleasure. Watch it big and crank the volume up, it's a good one. Stephen McHattie and Greg Calderone star....

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Exclusive Clip From BANSHEE CHAPTER: Be Careful What You Drink

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST

Available today via various Video On Demand platforms, Banshee Chapter is a thriller that looks to be rich in atmosphere, as suggested by an exclusive clip that we are happy to premiere. In the clip, Ted Levine gives a little speech to Katia Winter, the camera hovering around as he holds court. For more context, here's the official synopsis: On the trail of a missing friend (Michael McMillian) who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist (Katia Winter) - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer (Ted Levine, The Silence of The Lambs) -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin. A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction,...

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Watch The Gorgeous Teaser For SciFi Short SUNDAYS

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST

It was all the way back in June of 2012 that we first wrote about Mischa Rozema's scifi short Sundays.The occasion was the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to back the creation of the film and I was impressed enough with the visuals and pitch package that I threw down a few bucks myself and encouraged others to do the same. Money well spent. The first teaser for Rozema's creation has just arrived online and it looks every bit as good as I could have hoped.Shot on location in Mexico City with Brian Petsos in the lead the film posits a future in which computer power overtakes human intelligence and the consequences of that moment. Take a look at the fabulous teaser below and keep...

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Golden Globes 2014: 12 YEARS A SLAVE And AMERICAN HUSTLE Top The Nominations

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

The Golden Gobles have just announced the nominations for the 71st edition, to be celebrated on Sunday, January 12, 2014. Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave and David O. Russell's American Hustle got more noms than any other film, with five each, including best picture, director, actor and screenplay. Gravity, Captain Phillips and Nebraska are among the other pictures very well represented in the most notable categories. One surprise is not seeing Pixar as part of the best animated film spot since their presence was almost a given, though Monsters University was clearly not their best work. Animation aficionados should be happy to see Miyazaki Hayao's final movie The Wind Rises actually nominated for the best foreign language film award, together with the Palm d'Or winner Blue...

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Review: AMERICAN HUSTLE Offers Laughs, Lies, And Toupees

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

There is indeed something uniquely American about American Hustle, a loosely fact-based comic drama about chicanery, ambition, corruption, government bureaucracy, and good old-fashioned greed. Nearly everyone in it, from the self-admitted con men to the supposedly upright FBI agents, is conning someone else. Sometimes it's for reasons that are arguably altruistic (like tricking a criminal into helping you catch bigger criminals), and sometimes it's for personal reasons like love and jealousy. Either way, if there's one thing we Americans are good at, it's talking people into things. Originally, Eric Warren Singer's screenplay was called "American Bull****," which is even more to the point. The year is 1978. The hairstyles are big, the clothes are flamboyant. Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), a portly, disheveled fast-talker and inveterate...

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Review: HERE COMES THE DEVIL, And He's Looking For Sex

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

Here Comes the Devil is only the second film I've seen by writer-director Adrián García Bogliano, following a recent viewing of his "geriatric lunatics with nitroglycerine" horror movie Cold Sweat just a few weeks ago. Seeing both films in such close proximity caused me a small amount of psychic whiplash, given how the first movie was a seedy, sometimes silly work that careened from Saw-style torture scenarios in a decrepit mansion to an abrupt homage to The People Under the Stairs with sun-deprived boys replaced with nude, feral camgirls. And two years later, we have the (relatively) more sedate, though no less lunatic Here Comes the Devil, which goes for a more traditional psychological style of horror for most of its running time, punctuated by...

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Review: HOURS Puts All Its Dramatic Weight On Paul Walker's Shoulders

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

(Review originally published during SXSW in March 2013.) All human beings have a talent for one thing or another, and Paul Walker is a human being, so Paul Walker undoubtedly is good at something. But whatever it is, it's not acting. Acting is not the thing Paul Walker is good at. He's harmless enough in the Fast and the Furious movies, where little acting is required and where he has equally blank-faced scene partners (Vin Diesel, cars, etc.) to offset him, but it would be a bad idea to put him in, say, an emotional drama that's essentially a one-man show. Yet that's exactly what has been done with Hours, a dimwitted, unintentionally funny melodrama starring Walker as a man stuck in an abandoned hospital...

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Chow Yun Fat In THE MAN FROM MACAU Trailer: Flying Dice And Whirling Cards

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 05:30 AM PST

The first trailer for Wong Jing's The Man From Macau features Chow Yun Fat in a return to the world established in 1989's God of Gamblers. It is a crazy universe of flying dice and whirling cards, as the low-res trailer hints. Even without English subtitles, the spirit comes through, I think, but reading the rather lengthy official synopsis, via Film Combat Syndicate, certainly helps: Super Hacker "Show Hand" (Nicholas TSE) and Karl (Chapman TO) went to Las Vegas with their mentor, the retired swindler, Benz. They were there to visit Benz's old buddy Hendrick (CHOW Yun Fat), a renowned master-level conman who left behind his troubled past to work as a Security Consultant for a casino. Nobody had managed to cheat in his casino...

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Caesar Leads The First Set Of Posters For DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST

Twentieth Century Fox has unleashed the first set of character posters for Matt Reeves' Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and, trust me, you will not want to mess with these apes. Caesar looks more than ready to fight for his fellow apes and the whole thing is definitely one of the most anticipated blockbusters for next summer.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes stars Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and, certainly, the mighty Andy Serkis as Caesar. The film is set to hit theaters on July 11, 2014 and its first trailer is premiering next week (12/18). Meanwhile, check out the gallery with all four posters featuring Caesar and other apes. It's great stuff! A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar...

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WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE: Studio Ghibli's 2014 Film Will Be Adaptation Of Children's Novel

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:34 AM PST

Japanese film distributor TOHO unveiled its 2014 slate and announced that the next Studio Ghibli film will be an adaptation of Joan G. Robinson's children's novel When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie). This English-language book holds a special place on Miyazaki Hayao's 50 recommended Children's Books list. Here is its description (via Amazon):Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes...

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