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Review: THE LAST FLOOR (OSTATNIE PIETRO), Unsettling Yet Incoherent

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Review: THE LAST FLOOR (OSTATNIE PIETRO), Unsettling Yet Incoherent

Review: THE LAST FLOOR (OSTATNIE PIETRO), Unsettling Yet Incoherent

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST

In Tadeusz Krol's latest psychological thriller The Last Floor (Ostatnie Pietro) one man's paranoia becomes ridiculously overwhelming when he accidentally discovers that the military unit he's been serving in for his entire life is entangled in a mysterious criminal affair. At almost exactly the same time, his wife's ex-lover shows up in the seemingly peaceful town. To make a horrible situation even worse, his son gets beaten up in school for the traditional, albeit very radical and discriminatory values to which his father strongly adheres.The man, an experienced Polish army captain Derczynski (Janusz Chabior), begins to lose his mind in a situation that requires nothing more than calmness and perceptiveness. It's a rather slow and cumulative process, but a relatively violent and horrifying one. He...

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Review: NO MAN'S LAND Exposes The Funny Side Of China's Dark Soul

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:50 AM PST

After nearly four years grappling with the Chinese censorship board, Ning Hao's darkly comic crime caper finally comes to the screen and proves largely worth the wait.Back in 2009, Shanxi-born filmmaker Ning Hao was shaping up to be one of China's most exciting young filmmakers. His 2005 feature, Mongolian Ping Pong, had proved a hit on the festival circuit, and his follow-up, the comedy caper Crazy Stone, was produced by Andy Lau and became a surprise domestic hit at the Chinese box office. The film helped launch the career of comedian Huang Bo, who also starred in Ning's next film, Crazy Racer, in which Ning continued to develop his style of employing different regional dialects, witty wordplay, slapstick humour and riffing heavily on well known Chinese...

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Review: THE RAILWAY MAN, A Difficult But Confused Adaptation

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:30 PM PST

Japan's involvement and subsequent denial in its atrocities of World War II has always been a difficult point to convey. The Railway Man, which is based on the incredible true account of soldier Eric Lomax, attempts to tell this story and honour his book and memory. Unfortunately the results are so middling and inadequate compared to the book, and so emotionless compared to the phenomenal searing tones of director Jonathan Teplitzky's previous work Burning Man, that it lets the complex story down considerably.The setting could be any time and place, given the lack of period detail, but it is in fact years after the war. Teplitzky's eye for vivid and emotional colour certainly does not go astray and from dreary England to exotic jungle, the colour...

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The Many Faces Of Andy Lau

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 05:00 PM PST

Throughout Asia, Andy Lau pretty much epitomises the term superstar. His popularity as an actor and a singer is immense, and indeed few people can match his on-screen charisma. A commanding presence in all his films, good and bad, Lau is always watchable. This weekend he's primed to set the Chinese box office alight once again, with the release of his latest action thriller, Firestorm, which we reviewed here (link). Below I've assembled a gallery of six close-ups of one of my favorite thespians to make a quiz. Click through the images and guess which six movies they're from. No competition, no prizes, just for fun. See how far you get without using IMDB. And I'll post the answers next Saturday (earlier if someone gets...

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Ambulante 2014: Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation, Music Docs And Vive Latino Lineup

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

Ambulante is Mexico's traveling documentary film festival, founded by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz. To be celebrated from January 30 to May 4, 2014 in twelve states of the country, the ninth edition of this fantastic festival is revealing little by little its content and so far everything looks quite promising. The lineup of the sections Retrospective and Sonidero (focused on music docs) has been already announced. The first one will be dedicated this time to Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation, while such films as The Punk Singer and the classic Stop Making Sense are part of the Sonidero section. Also confirmed is the selection of documentaries for the Mexico City music festival Vive Latino. In the gallery below you'll find details...

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Win A MAN OF TAI CHI Prize Pack Including A Signed Poster!

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

Keanu Reeves' directorial debut hit DVD and BluRay yesterday and to celebrate we've got one dandy prize pack to give away to a lucky Twitch reader. Included? The Matrix trilogy on Blu-Ray, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on Blu-Ray, Man Of Tai Chi on Blu-Ray and a Man Of Tai Chi poster signed by Keanu Reeves himself!You want your chance to win? Simple enough. Email me here and name the person The Matrix, Crouching Tiger and Man Of Tai Chi all have in common. Please include you mailing address....

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Destroy All Monsters: Wonder Gal

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

Is it fair play to discuss Gal Gadot's casting as Wonder Woman (announced last week for a role in Zack Snyder's untitled Batman vs. Superman project) in terms of body type? On first blush the immediate conversation around the size of Gadot's breasts seemed both crass and ridiculous. It was an online caricature of the fanboy archetype, writ large; to say nothing of being the exact sort of commodification-based categorization of female performers that runs riot across the film industry. After getting in a few slap-fights on Twitter last Wednesday night, I gave up and went home. To an extent, though, the critics pointing to Gadot's slender frame are raising a valid point of contention against the visual personality of the character she's playing. Depending...

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The Stack Holiday Gift Guide 2013 Part Two: Old Fogie Edition, Or: Remember THE MOD SQUAD?

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST

Welcome to part two of The Stack Holiday Gift Guide! This segment covers stuff that mom and dad and other older relatives might enjoy. Heck bring an open mind and discover some of the biggest TV shows from the 70s and 80s. Sketch comedy. sketchy dramas and the beginnings of laugh-track-less comedy await. Plus I wear a different Santa hat this episode!!!!!!ENJOY! The next episode of the Gift Guide will cover more recent ilm related box Sets including Warner Brothers James Dean, Batman, and JFK long boxes, The Bruce Lee Legacy Collection and more books, and knick knacks. ...

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