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Review: FIRESTORM Is Extremely Loud And Totally Insane

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Review: FIRESTORM Is Extremely Loud And Totally Insane

Review: FIRESTORM Is Extremely Loud And Totally Insane

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:36 PM PST

Plot takes a backseat to pyrotechnics and spectacle as Andy Lau squares off against a gang of ultra-violent thieves in Alan Yuen's absurdly over-the-top crime thriller.Following a string of domestic hits with homegrown thrillers like Nightfall and Cold War, Edko Films' latest offering is an outlandishly bombastic action flick that eschews almost everything in favour of staging never-before-scenes of carnage on the streets of Hong Kong. However, the over-reliance on computer-generated effects and the almost total absence of plot or characterisation, make Firestorm an incredibly loud, yet hollow experience.Andy Lau plays by-the-book Senior Police Inspector Lui, who becomes increasingly obsessed with taking down Cao (Hu Jun) and his gang of thieves after yet another audacious and bloody armoured car heist. When Lui's efforts to place...

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Disney Buys Rights To INDIANA JONES Films

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:45 PM PST

Whip it good, for Variety is reporting that Disney has taken control of another beloved franchise in the form of the Indiana Jones series.While this isn't a super surprise, given last year's Lucasfilm deal that saw the rights to the character go to the Mouse House, this at least overcomes one of the hurdles about actually getting a new film from the series out into theatres. It's not such a bad deal for both - Disney gets (had?) rights to all future iterations along with their marketing opportunities, while Paramount will continue to have the rights to distribute the first four films, as well as profiting in part on any future installments.So, basically, the gates are open for the new owners to do their thing,...

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Exclusive: Anna Paquin Takes A FREE RIDE

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:30 AM PST

Anna Paquin has earned herself a devoted following because of her winning performance as Sookie Stackhouse in HBO's True Blood, but she has not forgotten her indie film roots. She stars in the upcoming Free Ride as an enterprising young woman who enters the underground drug scene in Florida and discovers, according to the official synopsis, that "dealing drugs at the height of South Florida's smuggling heyday has its price. As law enforcement closes in on Christina and her drug operation, she must find a way to salvage the life she has desperately worked to repair before it all comes crashing down." As you can see from this exclusive image, she makes for a very arresting drug dealer. The film, written for the screen and...

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New To Netflix: Time, Terrorism, Wuxia, And Snowboarding

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

This week's entry of New To Netflix continues with more time travel. Cinema itself is kind of a time machine, so watch as I contort this notion. Transporting us back to a time and place, or at least an idea of such. Peter Chan's sumptuous Dragon (aka Wu Xia) uses time to visualize an investigator's thoughts on constructing past events. Steven Spielberg's Munich looks back at a particular moral conundrum in 1973. Jack Hill's Coffy offers the perfect fantasia of Blaxploitation in the same year. Robert Zemeckis' Back To The Future threatens incest (but remains light and charming) in a quaint notion of both the 1950s - and of the 1980s for that matter. Cloud Atlas says there is not much difference across the whole of human...

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Andy Serkis Prepping Motion-Capture ANIMAL FARM For 2014 Shoot

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

Andy Serkis, who has become everyone's favorite motion-capture actor thanks to his performances as Gollum in Peter Jackson's Tolkien films and as Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (pictured), is moving forward with his motion-capture version of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Speaking with Screendaily, Serkis provided more details on the project, which was announced in October 2012. "We've started pre-vis," Serkis said, "which in the virtual world in many instances means you've already started shooting the film." The plan is to begin principal photography in the third quarter of 2014, or, sometime between July and September. Serkis wants the film to be "entirely performance captured," so don't expect talking mouths on live-action animals. Instead, "it will all be generated by the interaction...

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Martin Freeman Is Ready For His Extreme Close-up, Mr. DeMille!

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug premiered in Los Angeles earlier this week, ahead of its theatrical release on December 13, so herewith a new quiz to celebrate the return of our indomitable hobbit, played pitch-perfectly by Martin Freeman. It was during the Lord Of The Rings years, from 2001 to 2003, that The Office first appeared, and for the ten plus years since I have seen nobody but Freeman as the inevitable Bilbo. While his role as Tim may have sparked this dream casting, it has been his rich and varied work in the intervening years that kept the dream alive. During this period he has been increasingly hailed in the UK, but has remained largely unknown to the wider world until recent roles...

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