Review: THE GIRL FROM THE WARDROBE, A Tragicomedy With A Lot of Heart

Review: THE GIRL FROM THE WARDROBE, A Tragicomedy With A Lot of Heart


Review: THE GIRL FROM THE WARDROBE, A Tragicomedy With A Lot of Heart

Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST

Bodo Kox's feature debut The Girl from the Wardrobe (Dziewczyna z szafy) may very well be the most tragicomical independent production to ever come out of Poland. It's a film that merges elements of reality and fiction in an utterly effective fashion, in order to penetrate and explore an vividly familiar, yet oddly inexplicable world where lost souls struggle to find their own sense of place.In its own quirky and ambiguously ironic manner, The Girl from the Wardrobe emphasizes that even though on the surface most of us might look happy with our lives, deep down we all long for closeness and safety that would make our existence seem worthwhile. I'm pretty certain that this may sound like a boring cliché of sorts, yet Kox's confidence and...

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Twitch's Best Of 2013 - Biggest Disappointment

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:00 PM PST

The year that was 2013 has almost run its course, so the time has come for Team Twitch to pool its ever-growing troupe of contributors from the four corners of the planet, gather its collective thoughts and pay special tribute to those films that have made a particularly strong impact over the past twelve months. No matter how grand a year it was at the movies, we all have those disappointing and diminishing experiences in the cinema. And those can still make quite the impact. Whether it was the latest tentpole production that dashed our hopes at a smart popcorn flick, a festival favorite or awards darling we just couldn't help but scratch our heads at, or a favorite director dropping the ball, here...

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Paul Rudd Is ANT-MAN

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST

Edgar Wright. Joe Cornish. Paul Rudd. Dream Team? No matter your stance on the Marvel movies, ya gotta hand it to Kevin Feige and his team for collecting all kinds of talented people to join them on their super hero escapades. And what of Ant-Man, their pint-sized hero? Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish have written the script, with Wright directing the big screen comic adaptation, but who shall be our man of ants?  Variety reports that Paul Rudd has raised his antennae to the part, though it is yet unclear which version of the hero he will play. Scientist Hank Pym was the original Ant-Man (also Giant Man), with criminal turned hero Scott Lang coming next, and then Eric O'Grady, a low level agent of S.H.I.E.L.D....

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Malaysia's BALISTIK Brings The Bang-Bang.

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:30 PM PST

Malaysian actor Rosyam Nor appears to be genetically predisposed to playing hard men. Gangster, cop, whatever ... he's just got one of those faces that seems to want to be attached to a body with an arm with a hand holding a gun. Good thing for us he's doing exactly that in upcoming action flick Balistik."Balistik" tells the story of Saga, a hired killer and mafia gang member. His high risk life forces Saga his wife Salina to leave him and their son. After six years, while on a mission, Saga crosses paths with Salina, but she is now the wife of Inspector Nizam, who was Saga's best friend while they were in the orphanage. Torn between his best friend and his duty to the...

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Watch Danny Trejo In An Exclusive Clip From VOODOO POSSESSION

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST

Danny Trejo might just be one of the hardest working guys in genre film. With appearances in films on a monthly basis, we might just get to a point when we watch a film and we are surprised that Danny does NOT make some sort of appearance in it. As his run in 2013 comes to an end, he is already taking part in over a dozen productions in 2014. To start the year off comes his appearance in Walter Boholst's haunted asylum flick Voodoo Possession. We have an exclusive clip to share with you.Imagine an insatiable demon that feeds on blood, thrives on pain, and reaches from beyond the grave to torment the living...and the dead. For believers and skeptics alike, there is nothing in...

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Be Repulsed By TORRENTE

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:30 PM PST

Torrente has a great big package and he'd like you to look at it. A four film package, that is, with the quartet of Santiago Seguro's massive cult hit comedies arriving on US streaming platforms yesterday. So if you want to be all sophisticated, like the audiences in Spain and across Europe that flock to these films in droves, here's your chance.The quartet of movies in the Torrente Package -- Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law (1998), Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella (2001), Torrente 3: The Protector (2005), and Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (2011) -- are each written and directed by Segura, who also stars as the repulsive, sleazy and frequently drunk "Torrente." An ex-cop who refuses to accept his expulsion from the police...

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Indonesian Indie THE SUN, THE MOON & THE HURRICANE Reaches For The Heart In First Trailer

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:30 PM PST

The Sun, The Moon & The Hurricane marks the first feature by young Indonesian indie film director Andri Cung after his directing gig in 3SUM, an anthology consisting of three short films with three different genres that released theatrically in Indonesia earlier this year.  His previous short film Red Umbrella is pretty impressive, winning Best Asian Short Film at Screen Singapore in 2011.Sendi Sugiharto (Lovely Man, Shackled), the executive producer, stated: "It's rare that a wonderful story, which has the right elements that touch your heart promptly, comes your way. The Sun, The Moon & The Hurricane is one of those projects".Here's the official synopsis.A story of one man's journey in finding and losing happiness, love and the meaning of life. How he witness people...

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New GIOVANNI'S ISLAND Trailer Looks Gorgeous

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 12:30 PM PST

Splendid! For those in the mood for something a bit more serious this holiday season, how about the new, hand-drawn, gorgeous-looking trailer for Production I.G.'s Giovanni's Island (Giovanni no Shima)? As our own Andrew Mack noted in September, Mizuho Nishikubo, Oshii Mamoru's long time animation director, is at the helm of the project, and it's a serious one, as the official synopsis makes clear: In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border of this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events. The film is...

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Jackie Chan Punches People, Blows Up Cars, Punches More People, Shoots Guns, And Punches More People In Second POLICE STORY 2013 Trailer

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

Bring on the old man ass whuppin'! Not to be outdone by Sly Stallone and his band of Expendables, iconic Chinese action star Jackie Chan - now pushing sixty years old - is bringing the goods with the upcoming Police Story 2013 and the freshly released second trailer makes it very clear that he's not messing around. No, Chan and director Shen Ding are going dark and violent here with their story of Chan as a mainland Chinese Interpol officer investigating a kidnapping case.While the first trailer was built around longer takes this second effort is a more staccato affair featuring lots of rapid cuts between punches, explosions, car wrecks, gun shots and all sorts of assorted mayhem. And, yeah, it looks pretty damn good....

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Bilbo, Smaug And Thorin Meet Dandalf The Disco Wizard

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST

Here we go, Hobbit fans ... Berlin based prankster Daniele Rizzo managed to land video interviews with stars Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Armitage (that'd be Bilbo, Smaug and Thorin) and, as per his normal lunacy, showed up in costume to conduct the interviews in character, this time as Dandalf the Disco Wizard.The beauty of Rizzo's efforts is in watching the candid reactions of actors in the midst of a long, numbing press junket in which they're asked the same questions over and over and over again struggle to keep up with the fact that there's an obvious madman in the room and all three of the interview subjects here are great fun. Freeman and Armitage roll with it immediately while Cumberbatch at first...

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Watch Indonesia's First President In SOEKARNO Trailer

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:30 AM PST

Soekarno (the original Indonesia spelling of now spell Sukarno) now on wide theatrical release in Indonesia tells the story of Kusno a frequently sick kid that comes to be Indonesia first president Soekarno, and his struggle to lead Indonesia to Independence. The iconic character played by Ario Bayu (Dead Mine, Java Heat) with Lukman Sardi (The Rainbow Troops, The Enlightener) serve as the first vice president and Maudy Kusnaedi (Garuda on My Chest) as Soekarno's first wife among other historic characters and great talent. The director Hanung Bramantyo (The Enlightener, The Verses of Love), one of the most prominent and hard working film directors in Indonesia, said "I want the young generation to be able to witness and comprehend Sukarno and his struggle for...

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THE DOUBLE: Watch A New Teaser For Richard Ayoade's Dystopic Comedy

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST

Though we're still waiting for a release date for Submarine helmer Richard Ayoade's adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Double we don't have to wait at all to get a little taste of what's coming with the Jesse Eisenberg vs Jesse Eisenberg starring flick thanks to the arrival of a new teaser.Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking...

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Twitch's Best of 2013 - Best Documentary

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

The year that was 2013 has almost run its course, so the time has come for Team Twitch to pool its ever-growing troupe of contributors from the four corners of the planet, gather its collective thoughts and pay special tribute to those films that have made a particularly strong impact over the past twelve months. In recent years, documentary filmmaking has taken off in ways nobody could have foreseen. In large part because of technological advances in the making and delivery of the work, now pretty much anybody with a smartphone and a laptop is equipped to be a documentarian. Add to that an inquisitive mind, an intelligent perspective and an engaging subject, and the world becomes your oyster. Below is a selection of the...

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Review: Bleak Slovak Drama MIRACLE (ZAZARAK) Triggers Pity For The New Lost Generation

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:30 AM PST

2013 was the Slovakian year of the dog. The bleak drama My Dog Killer toured the festival circuit making headlines for Slovak cinema with domestic production gearing up to tickle international audiences once more before the end of the year with a similarly grim drama hidden under the lyrical title Miracle. Miracle was planned for domestic release early in this year but after being selected at the prestigious Karlovy Vary film festival the official world premiere was held in famous Czech spa town. And it has continued to collect awards here and despite not making as much noise in the international press as did Mira Fornay´s drama. However, that does not reduce its quality. Miracle was written and directed by Juraj Lehotský (co-penned with grey...

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Review: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Roars

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

Tapping into a primal force that is mercifully unbound by decorum or good taste, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio tear up New York's financial district in their latest collaboration. The Wolf of Wall Street finds both director and actor baying at the moon, streaking naked for all to see their shortcomings and strengths, flexing their muscles and refusing to cower at the prospect of an unconventional narrative and an unrepentantly avaricious protagonist. Inspired by a real-life criminal, Jordan Belfort is a consummate salesperson. But he is also a particularly odious personality, a vile excuse for a human being who, early in his career as a stockbroker, developed a thickly-calloused disregard for his clients' financial fortunes; as long he profited, all bets were off. His thirst...

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: Watch The Epic First Teaser

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 07:15 AM PST

Simian chaos is coming and it looks epic. The first teaser for the upcoming Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes has just arrived and while the first in this series reboot already stood as one of the finest re-launches of a successful series ever - completely washing away the bad taste of the Tim Burton attempt - this looks to build on that success and push it even farther. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant...

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Destroy All Monsters: Why We Ship

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

While watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I had a moment of total clarity regarding why the people who don't really "get it" with these movies don't get it. A dwarf was talking to an elf in a dungeon under a palace carved out of a tree. Stacked vertically like that, the corner of balder and dash upon which high fantasy makes its mark feels about as lunatic as all the naysayers have been describing to me for years. The key to scenes like the one I've described, and indeed to its entire genre, is commitment. When Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel the Elf turns away from Aidan Turner as Kili the Dwarf, and speaks from a precipice of rock about her journeys...

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Madman Films To Share, Shock, Engage And Traumatise Your Family With This Xmas

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 06:30 AM PST

Ah film, you glorious feature length thing you. Gathered around your family this Christmas? Want to avoid the utter schlock and good cheer on television and outside your door? Look no further than these five alternative film releases that may make or break your friendships and relationships with loved ones this holiday season.Without further ado here's just some of the awesome recent releases on offer.Check out Madman's website for more information and to purchase these fine titles.This article delves into Madman's film releases, check out documentaries here and anime here!...

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The Stack Holiday Gift Guide 2013 Part Three: Boxie Boxes Edition

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST

Welcome to part three of The Stack Holiday Gift Guide! This segment shows me almost getting a hernia, driving the batmobile (sort of), yelling a lot and and examining the beautiful box sets Warner Brothers sent out. I also found one of the neatest books on the media history of the Hobbit and LOTR as well as no fewer than four hardcover comic collections that feature vintage horror. Oh, and I yell a lot...did I say that?!The next episode of the Gift Guide is a special one dedicated to The Criterion Collection. Zombie courtesy of Onnit...

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Twitch's Best Of 2013 - Best Festival

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST

The year that was 2013 has almost run its course, so the time has come for Team Twitch to pool its ever-growing troupe of contributors from the four corners of the planet, gather its collective thoughts and pay special tribute to those films that have made a particularly strong impact over the past twelve months.One could argue that the backbone of what many of us do at Twitch is made up of the myriad festivals we attend each year. While many may talk up Cannes, Toronto or Sundance, it's quite clear from our picks that great festival going experiences come in all shapes and sizes....

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