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Review: Jeon Do-yeon Shines in WAY BACK HOME

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Review: Jeon Do-yeon Shines in WAY BACK HOME

Review: Jeon Do-yeon Shines in WAY BACK HOME

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:30 AM PST

Following a two-year break after the disappointing Countdown, Jeon Do-yeon makes an exceedingly welcome return to the big screen in Way Back Home. With a role that suits her to a tee and under the considered direction of Pang Eun-jin, fresh off last year's Perfect Number, Jeon is a marvel in what may well become an end-of-year hit for CJ Entertainment. In Way Back Home, Jeong-yeon and Jong-bae are a happy couple with a child who open an auto repair shop. But when Jong-bae's friend dies, whose loan he had signed as guarantor for, the family is plunged into debt. In the midst of financial despair, Jeong-yeon disappears, until she is caught with a suitcase full of cocaine in Paris' Orly Airport. Due to repeated...

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China Box Office: Ning Hao's NO MAN'S LAND Stakes Claim On Charts

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:30 AM PST

Finally released after a four year battle with the censors, Ning Hao's No Man's Land makes a huge debut at the Chinese box office, while The Four 2 and The White Storm ensure local product dominates. Rank Title Origin 2-8/12/2013 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1 No Man's Land China $21.97 $21.97 6 2 The White Storm HK/China $14.75 $27.88 10 3 The Four 2 China $14.21 $14.21 3 4 Gravity USA $8.02 $66.98 20 5 The Hunger Games：Catching Fire USA $2.65 $26.91 18 6 Epic USA $2.33 $6.05 10 7 Welcome to the Punch UK $0.64 $0.64 3 8 Thor: The Dark World USA $0.32 $55.34 31 9 Control China $0.20 $7.02 17 10 Escape Plan USA $0.17 $40.93 35 Originally shot in 2010,...

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Korean Box Office: ABOUT TIME Tops Slow Weekend

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:40 AM PST

A slow weekend for local releases saw just 26% of the 1.62 million admissions going to domestic product. Things were much rosier this time last year with 75% of 1.95 million admissions going to Korean films. Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 About Time (uk) 12/5/13 29.50% 477,262 569,878 568 2 Insidious: Chapter 2 (us) 12/5/13 13.30% 225,734 273,148 405 3 11:00 AM 11/28/13 9.40% 158,976 784,348 415 4 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (us) 11/21/13 8.60% 153,167 664,905 409 5 Marriage Blue 11/21/13 7.80% 128,680 1,097,786 358 6 Escape Plan (us) 12/5/13 6.80% 112,354 133,194 287 7 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (us) 11/21/13 5.90% 98,067 1,050,799 315 8 Friend 2 11/14/13 4.90% 78,392 2,920,249 331 9 Tumbleweed 11/28/13 3.70% 59,322...

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Tom Cruise Developing NEVER GO BACK For Jack Reacher Sequel

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 08:30 PM PST

When first annouced, Paramount's big screen adaptation of Lee Child's flawed action hero, Jack Reacher, was almost unanimously dismissed solely because Tom Cruise was cast in the title role. Bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the hulking army cop of the novels, it is understandable why die-hard fans might have been miffed. But when Chris MacQuarrie's film finally appeared last December it proved to be a tough, ballsy action thriller and one of the Cruiser's better performance in recent years. Unfortunately the release also coincided with another spat of real-world mass shootings in the States, so the film - which centres on a rogue sniper taking potshots at innocent civilians - wasn't given the marketing push it otherwise would have.Despite all that, however, Jack Reacher did manage...

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COMMUNITY: Season 5 Sees Jeff Winger Return To Greendale... As A Teacher

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 07:30 PM PST

Welcome back, Winger. Or should that be... welcome back, Harmon.When season 5 of Community was announced without Chevy Chase and with a mid-season departure for Donald Glover, plus the fact that Joel McHale's Jeff Winger had graduated last year, creator and recently reappointed showrunner Dan Harmon certainly had his work cut out for him. The trailer for the season premiere plays as such like a sitcom (in this case one called Mr. Winger), which is something Community has done really, really well in the past, because well, it is Community, after all. It's charming, it plays it relatively safe and appeases a lot of fans' concerns on how the season would be presented, and that's as this: After the failure of his own law practice,...

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SAIFF 2013 Review: TASHER DESH Turns Tagore's Yarn Into Psychedelic Spin-Art

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 07:00 PM PST

Bengali cinema's enfant terrible, Q, is not known for making films for the faint of heart or weak of mind. His latest film, an adaptation of a play from Nobel Prize winning Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore, is no exception. Tasher Desh may not be as sexually confrontational or vulgar as Q's breakout feature, Gandu, but it is nonetheless a piece of work to be contemplated as much as enjoyed by the more adventurous viewer.Much like Gandu, Tasher Desh follows its own rhythm, abandoning the traditional three act structure and all rules of dialogue. Rather than telling us a story, Q is putting us through an experience. A beautifully shot, impeccably scored, and at times completely infuriating experience. If you can make it through the first...

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BAD WORDS: Jason Bateman Uses A Few In The Red Band Trailer For His Directorial Debut

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST

When it comes to comedies (funny or otherwise) Jason Bateman just won't quit. And now he's getting into the director's chair for his feature debut, Bad Words. He's also starring in it as a 40-year old man who, having never passed the 8th grade, finds glory in winning children's spelling bees. The execution is decidedly crass, with Bateman berating children and then befriending one particular boy, teaching him the ways of life by doing donuts and introducing him to prostitutes. While the trailer's pedestrian at best, the movie itself could go either way. One interesting note, the film leans really far over into a sepia tone in its cinematography, which is... interesting? Well, check it below....

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Watch The First Trailer For The Wachowski's JUPITER ASCENDING

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 05:49 PM PST

Well. No one can say the Wachowski's do not dream big when it comes to filmmaking. The first trailer for their upcoming space opera Jupiter Ascending arrived today and it is every bit as ambitious as you would expect from the pair of filmmakers. Channing Tatum jumps around with pixie ears and Mila Kunis is drawn into an intergalactic power struggle.  Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things.  Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks.  Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does...

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THE RAID 2 Leads Sundance 2014 Premieres Announcement

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:50 PM PST

The excitement is palpable around these parts with today's announcement that The Raid 2 will be done in time to premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The follow-up to the best action film in decades promises a more fleshed out look into the incredible world that Gareth Evans gave us a glimpse of when The Raid first premiered at TIFF only 27 short months ago. It's time to dive back in and if the teaser is any indication, we are in for a wild ride. But that wasn't the only announcement out of Park City today (though you'd be excused for thinking so). Following up on the Midnighters/Spotlight/New Frontiers and Competitions/Next announcements last week, the Premieres and Documentary Premieres were fully revealed today. Other...

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EigaFest 2013 Review: THE APOLOGY KING Is A Manic, Absurd Ode To Empathy

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST

The difference between saying "I'm sorry" and an apology is the unlikely source of comedy (and some well-earned sentiment) in Nobuo Mizuta's madcap The Apology King. A collection of oddball vignettes prove that even the most fraught of international incidents just need a little helping of empathy and understanding to bring peace between strangers. Structured in a series of cases, The Apology King sees Tokyo Apology Center director (and seemingly its sole employee) Mr. Kurojima (Sado Abe, Kamizaze Girls, Yatterman) offering his apology services to his Japanese clients who've found themselves, for whatever reason, unable to make amends.* As a master of the doreza - the formal, forehead to the ground bow apology - Kuroshima promises the ultimate apology (for a modest fee). Whether it's...

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Toa Fraser Explores Maori Martial Arts In THE DEAD LANDS

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST

Best known for arthouse fare such as Dean Spanley, New Zealand director Toa Fraser will be taking a hard left turn into entirely different territory with his freshly announced new film The Dead Lands. And whatever lessons he learned about shooting choreography with his acclaimed ballet film Giselle - a selection of the Toronto International Film Festival - will be put to use with choreography of an entirely different sort.After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, Hongi - a Maori chieftan's teenage son - must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones. Vastly outnumbered by the band of villains, Hongi's only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden Dead...

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RINGU Director Teases His MONSTERZ

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST

Nakata Hideo - director of the original Japanese versions of The Ring and Dark Water - returns to screens in 2014 with Monsterz. A remake of 2010 Korean film Haunters, the film stars Battle Royale's Fujiwara Tatsuya as a powerfully gifted psychic who uses his power for crime before being drawn into a cat and mouse game with a man who appears to be immune to his abilities. You should be thinking big, kinetic action here but you don't really have to imagine it given that the first teaser has just arrived. Take a look below....

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Slamdance Announces Special Screenings, Beyond And Shorts

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:30 AM PST

Last week, the Slamdance Film Festival, now entering their 20th year, laid bare their competition slate of films for 2014. Today brings us the rest of their program. Rounding it out we have the always eclectic and well worth catching now expanded series of shorts, the special screenings which features Bill Plympton's latest Cheatin'. And then we have the Beyond program, which features second and third features from indie directors. Last year's Beyond slate proved to be rather fantastic with Adrian Sitaru's humorous metapysical ponderer Domestic and J.R. Hughto's romantic thriller Diamond On Vinyl leading the pack. At this point it is anyone's guess as to how this year's five films in Beyond will play, but it's great to get a clue. So get one...

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Oh, No! It's A TIME TRAP!

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

Beware young people with cameras for the future, one day, will be theirs. At least, it'll be the talented ones'. And one of those is Australia's Michael Shanks who - still in his early 20s - has already impressed with a string of fabulous music videos and video game themed videos and has just released the trailer for his homespun scifi short Time Trap.Marooned on a dead Earth, a lone space traveler must delve into the planet's history in order to find his way home.Low budget? Yes, and gloriously so. Take a look at the trailer below....

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Review: PARADOX ALICE, Low-Budget Science Fiction Gone Awry

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

'Oh cool, a low-budget sci-fi film about a guy who goes through a mysterious sex change in space while humanity dies far below! Sounds pretty interesting, right? Even if it's bad, it's bound to be weird enough to be compelling in some way...' Such was my mindset when approaching Eric Dapkewicz' debut feature, Paradox Alice. I liked the idea of a transgender protagonist, and I generally enjoy the sci-fi formula of inscribing contemporary anxieties into a futuristic objective reality. Imagine my growing dismay as this (already tenuous) enthusiasm slowly withered and died over the course of the two hours it takes for this film to insinuate its Christian-centered, cliché-ridden storyline into my once open and forgiving mind. In Paradox Alice, the universe is a dingy...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks Mandela And Movies

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 07:30 AM PST

Slightly different take this week, as the passing of Madiba has (justifiably) captured the world's attention, while the coincidental release of a film starring Idris Elba is set to make its wide release. We were to chat about other releases, but talk of Nelson Mandela, and biopics in general, took up our allotted time. We chatted about Under African Skies, the documentary by Joe Berlinger about the recording of the Graceland record, and the political and musical circumstances that surrounded that project. I do encourage those who may dismiss it as a mere music doc to take a look at it, it very much ties in with far more nuanced take on the latter part of the Apartheid regime, and how the culture of South...

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Now Streaming: Take A Gamble On BET RAISE FOLD: THE STORY OF ONLINE POKER

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

If you're in Austin, Texas, you can see it tonight, with producer Jay Rosenkrantz in person for a post-screening question-and-answer session, but if you're anywhere else in the world, you can take a gamble and watch Bet Raise Fold: The Story of Online Poker right this minute. Now, the gamble is that you might not like the movie. To mitigate that risk, let's start with the official synopsis: Bet Raise Fold: The Story of Online Poker is a coming-of-age story for an entire generation of young poker professionals. The film follows Danielle, a young mother from rural Minnesota who used online poker to support her family; Tony, a Las Vegas tournament pro who co-hosts the World Poker Tour on television; and Martin, a world-traveler from...

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Review: Diablo Cody's PARADISE Asks, What Happens in Vegas?

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST

What is partying, exactly? Images of clubs saturated in blue and magenta light, where well-coiffed dudes and sexy women grind slowly through rooms filled with people overjoyed with high-priced mixed drinks are so familiar that it would seem to take an incredibly naïve person to even ask that question. "The club" has acquired such a mystique that it seems like the habitat of a worldly god. Not religious? Want to live a fuller life? In America in 2013, partying is how we pray. This, at least, is how it appears to our naïve protagonist Lamb Mannerheim (Julianne Hough) in Diablo Cody's playful new film Paradise. Raised in a strictly religious household where she was forbidden the fruits of pop culture, Lamb renounces God after a...

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