First Trailer Proves There's Still Life In VERONICA MARS

First Trailer Proves There's Still Life In VERONICA MARS


First Trailer Proves There's Still Life In VERONICA MARS

Posted: 04 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST

I love Veronica Mars. Wholeheartedly, unashamedly and somewhat obsessively. When the show first aied back in 2004 it was often mentioned in the same breath as The Wire as one of the best things on TV that nobody was watching. While Season 3 - when high school detective Mars (played by an impossibly spunky Kristen Bell) headed to college - couldn't quite match the levels of ingenuity and charm that its first two seasons offered, there was definitely legs in the material, and it was cancelled way too soon.After the show was axed, creator Rob Thomas presented Warner Bros with a feature film script, but the studio passed. In March last year, Thomas and Bell launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the $2 million budget,...

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New To Netflix: From Stanley Kubrick To Johnnie To

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

Welcome to a new year of streaming picks in differenct countries via the ubiquitous red digital envelope. This week's entry of New To Netflix is packed with diversity from around the world, available in markets around the world. There is one of the more underrated 1990s atmospheric horror pictures, a darkly brilliant Jim Carrey comedy from the same decade, a humourous Australian gem which focuses on that country's role in the moon landing in 1969, a sultry, sweaty and bonkers neo-noir from 2012, a folk music science fiction comedy from New York City, Paddy Considine's solid directorial debut Tyrannosaur, as well as classic Stanley Kubrick and Johnnie To.  ...

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International Trailer For Corbijn's A MOST WANTED MAN Promises Classy Thrills

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST

Soon to premiere in Sundance, director Anton Corbijn tackles John Le Carre with A Most Wanted Man, featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe and Robin Wright in key roles. Here's how the festival describes it:Anton Corbijn's adaptation of John Le Carre's psychological novel follows German spy Gunther Bachmann as he tracks down Issa, a suspicious Chechen-Russian immigrant on the run in Hamburg. Pressured by his German and American colleagues to capture and interrogate his suspect as a Muslim terrorist, Bachmann instead asks for more time to carefully track Issa's movements and his relationship with his German immigration lawyer, Annabel Richter. Using his secret contacts and keen skill, Bachmann uncovers a connection between a world-renowned Muslim philanthropist and a terrorist group and devises a plan...

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New Teaser For HBO's TRUE DETECTIVE

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST

HBO's Woody Harrelson and Matthw McConaughey starring drama True Detective premieres this coming Sunday riding a wave of hugely positive advance buzz and it's not hard at all to see why people are excited judging by the latest in a series of sterling teasers for the show.Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star as Louisiana detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, whose lives collide and entwine during a 17-year hunt for a killer, ranging from the original investigation of a bizarre murder in 1995 to the reopening of the case in 2012. Michelle Monaghan also stars as Hart's wife, Maggie, who struggles to keep her family together as the men in her life become locked in a cycle of violence and obsession.The latest trailer is below....

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TTTT: An American Film Geek's Top & Bottom 10 for 2013

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST

It all comes down to relationships. And 2013 yielded its fine share of memorable on-screen relationships: A man and his computer. A slave and his masters. A young girl and her repressive country. A child and her caretakers. A young woman and her city. It doesn't matter if the film is a narrative tale or a reality-based documentary, as evidenced by the fine batch of documentaries selected below, as well as others that I had no room to spotlight: (Blackfish, 20 Feet from Stardom.) A man and his town and business. A filmmaker and his foreign aid worker best friend. Ourselves and our shining propensity toward obsession. At the time of this publication, I'd seen 120 movies released in the 2013 calendar year. This list represents the...

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Watch A New Clip From Wes Anderson's GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 08:30 AM PST

With the world premiere of Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel at the Berlin Film Festival a little over a month away now a new clip from the film has arrived online. This one eschews the large ensemble cast and focuses squarely on Ralph Feinnes and his Gustave H character as he interviews the newly arrived lobby boy Zero Moustafa. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.  The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.Edward Norton, Mathieu...

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Exclusive FREE RIDE Clip: Anna Paquin Walks Into A Bar

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST

It's a bit disorienting to see Anna Paquin walk into a bar and not be surrounded by vampires and a shape-shifting boss, but this is not True Blood, it's Free Ride, and she's not Sookie, she's Christina, an enterprising young woman who enters the underground drug scene in Florida. Once she gains entry to the criminal world, she 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." Shana Betz wrote and directed the film, based on her own real-life experiences. Drea de...

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Twitch's Best Of 2013 - Best Film

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST

The year that was 2013 has 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. This is it, folks. The buck stops here. In the end, there can be only one - or at least, one each. These are the Best Films of 2013, according to our ever-growing band of writers and correspondents here at Twitch, so there is nothing left to say except enjoy and Happy New Year - here's to a cracking 2014....

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New Trailer For Donnie Yen's THE MONKEY KING Ruled By Special Effects

Posted: 03 Jan 2014 05:30 AM PST

(Updated with a high-definition trailer)With the upcoming release of Donnie Yen's The Monkey King in Chinese cinemas at the end of the month, a new trailer has arrived, which shows a lot more of the film's action and special effects. The Monkey King is directed by Soi Cheang (Accident, Motorway) and has an all-star cast including Yen, Chow Yun Fat and Aaron Kwok. It is based on the same source material as Stephen Chow's Chinese Odyssey and Journey To The West. With Chow's Journey To The West becoming the highest grossing film at China's box office in 2013, it will be very interesting to see how Yen's version performs.Check out the trailer below and see what you think!...

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