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Sundance 2014: Jason Gorber's Cineplex Diaries

Sundance 2014: Jason Gorber's Cineplex Diaries

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST

In addition to regular reviews here at Twitch, along with the weekly Twitchvision sements, I had the privilege this year to provide coverage for 2014 Sundance Film Festival for Cineplex.com Over the 11 days of the fest (along with two pre-fest entries) I provided daily video blogs of what I'd seen during my time in Park City....

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Raven Banner Will Adapt Clive Barker's JACQUELINE ESS To Screen

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST

Clive Barker's short story Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament joins the growing list of film adpatations from Barker's anthology novels The Books of Blood. Previous film adaptations include Rawhead Rex, Candyman, Lord of Illusions, Quicksilver Highway, The Midnight Meat Train, Book of Blood and Dread. Toronto-based outfit Raven Banner Entertainment has optioned the story and will produce the film. Barker's Seraphim Films is on board to serve as executive producers. Jacqueline Ess tells the story of a beautiful woman with the ability to horrifically change people's body shapes simply with her mind. Her ability gives her the power to grant men the ultimate sexual experience, albeit one that always proves fatal. It's a story of sex, power, and the extremes that await us at the...

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Sundance 2014 Review: RICH HILL Is A Striking Look At Poverty In America

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:42 PM PST

When writing/directing team Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos focus their lens on three kids growing up in the ramshackle Missouri town of Rich Hill, it's not a pretty picture that is captured. Once a thriving mining village, now a veritable ghost town, with a staggeringly low population of barely over thirteen-hundred, Rich Hill is a graveyard of "Little Pink Houses" occupied by citizens slowly being choked to financial death by the noose of a stagnant job market. This begs the question, what future do the youth in such a place have? The documentary Rich Hill looks to answer this question.The film does this by following three kids:Andrew - The "good son" of the doc, Andrew is incredibly devoted to his family, doting on...

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Second Trailer For Christoph Gans' BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:30 PM PST

Christoph Gans' adaptation of classic fairy tale The Beauty And The Beast is nearing its French release - following a world premiere in Berlin - and today a second trailer for the fantastic fable has arrived online. What can the world expect in this one, beyond the star power of Vincent Cassell and Lea Seydoux? Gans has always been one of the stronger visual stylists working in France and this certainly seems to live up to that. Check out the new trailer below and let us know what you think....

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Sundance 2014: Twitch Wraps It Up With Our Reviews and Top Picks

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST

Perhaps one of the less headline-grabbing festivals of recent years, this year's Sundance Film Fest certainly had some stand out premieres from The Raid 2 to Boyhood. This year's festival will likely be remembered as the year of first and second time filmmakers breaking out. We've got it all broken down for you in our festival wrap up below with links to our previews, reviews, and interviews and some of our thoughts on the festival's offerings from all of those who attended. Previews Sundance 2014 Preview: US Dramatic, World Dramatic, & NEXT Competitions Sundance 2014 Preview - Documentary Sections Sundance 2014 Preview - Midnight, Premieres, & Spotlight by Sundance 2014: Twitch Raises The Curtain With 13 Must-Sees Reviews THE BABADOOK Is A Promising Debut From...

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Dante Lam's THAT DEMON WITHIN Hits US Screens Day And Date With Hong Kong Release

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:30 PM PST

Heads up, fans of explosive Hong Kong action cinema! Director Dante Lam has been king of that particular hill for a few years now and with his latest effort - That Demon Within - about to premiere in Berlin anticipation is running high for its appearance on western shores. And we're not going to have to wait long.China Lion have announced that they have acquired the film and will release theatrically in the US and Canada on April 18th - the same day as the film's Hong Kong release. Check out the teaser below....

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Get Behind The Scenes Of Indie Fight Flick UNLUCKY STARS

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST

We've been keeping a close eye on director Dennis Ruel and his indie fight flick Unlucky Stars around these parts for a good while now. And why not? The crowd funded effort boasts an impressive crew of highly skilled martial artists and a devotion to old school techniques that promises a very good time for fight fans.When Peru's Biggest Action Film Star and Jordan's newest rising talent find themselves pursued by a notorious Bookie, a couple of private investigators are forced to choose between their job and their conscience.With martial arts and comedy inspired by the golden era of 80s Hong Kong Action Cinema, "Unlucky Stars" is an exciting action packed ride that pays homage to the greats who paved the way.Dennis Ruel, Ken Quitugua,...

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Super Furry Animals Founder Gruff Rhys Travels To The AMERICAN INTERIOR

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 11:30 AM PST

Though best known as a musician, Super Furry Animals founder Gruff Rhys is turning out to be rather an interesting filmmaker as well. With his debut feature Separado! Rhys tracked the path of a distant relative into South America and he's doing something similar here, only this time headed to, you guessed it, the American Interior.In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was, as widely believed, a Welsh-speaking Native American tribe - The Madogwys - still walking the Great Plains.  During the course of an extraordinary adventure, Evans wrestled the largest river reptiles ever seen in the Mississippi, hunted Bison with the Omaha tribe, defected to the Spanish in St Louis, discovered imaginary volcanoes in...

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AVENGERS 2 to Shoot in Korea, Local Actress Cast as Villain

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

Joss Whedon's blockbuster sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron is planning to shoot some sequences in and around Seoul later this year. When news surfaced and caught fire in Korea last week it seemed like it might have been a rumor as actor Mark Ruffalo denied the news on his twitter account and Disney reps in Korea followed suit. However, now a local actress has been cast in a villain role and Incheon City (a satellite of Seoul) has confirmed that it will be used as a location in the upcoming film. 40 hopefuls auditioned in Korea for the part of the villain, and the coveted role in the film went to actress Kim Soo-hyun (not to be confused with the hot young actor who appeared...

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KILLERS Questions With Director Timo Tjahjanto And Stars Kitamura Kazuki And Takanashi Rin

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:30 AM PST

After it's world premiere at Sundance director Timo Tjahjanto brought his latest film, Killers straight over to Japan for a screening ahead of it's February 1st release. Tjahjanto, one of half of the Mo Brothers with his filmmaking partner Kimo Stamboel, was joined by the film's stars, Kitamura Kazuki, who plays charismatic killer Nomura, and Takanashi Rin who plays a young woman that the murderer feels he can identify with. The film follows two very different men, connected by the fact that they have both taken up the act of killing. Nomura lives in Tokyo where he picks up girls, and records himself brutally murdering them, after which he posts the videos online. Bayu lives in Jakarta where his marriage is in trouble and his...

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David Michôd's THE ROVER: Pearce And Pattinson Stumble Through The Wasteland In First Teaser

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST

Australia's David Michôd burst onto the international scene with his hugely acclaimed - and deservedly so - debut Animal Kingdom. An intense slice of urban crime, Animal Kingdom won Michôd comparisons to a young Martin Scorsese while in the process of winning Sundance and the success of that debut has left many - ourselves included - eagerly awaiting the arrival of his sophomore effort. And for that Michôd wrote a screenplay based on a story he developed with Joel Edgerton titled The Rover. In the leads are actors Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson. What's it about? They don't really want to tell you. Here's all that's being said in the official synopsis:10 years following the collapse of society, a man will go to any lengths...

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Eerie First Teaser For Gary King's Horror Film UNNERVED

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST

There are a great number of talented people working in the world of independent filmmaking today, and writer / director Gary King is one of them. I had the pleasure of reviewing his last film How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song and subsequently speaking with both him and star / producer Christina Rose. King's new film Unnerved has been made on a very low budget with a crew of only five people. He has reteamed with actor Mark DiConzo (whose performance in Joe Schermann Song impressed me greatly), and the rest of the small cast includes newcomer Katie Morrison and Elena Sanz (Radio London Movie). Consumed by grief after the bizarre death of their young son, Mallory and Frank find their marriage on the verge...

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Take An Exclusive Behind The Scenes Look At Jeff Barnaby's RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST

Jeff Barnaby's gritty debut Rhymes For Young Ghouls has won a good deal of love here at Twitch and with the Canadian theatrical release right around the corner - starting January 31st at the Cineplex Yonge & Dundas in Toronto and February 14th at the Vancity in Vancouver - we've got an exclusive behind the scenes look at the film for you.Here's how the Toronto International Film Festival described it:Set against the backdrop of the residential schools tragedy -- when thousands of Aboriginal children were separated from their families, culture, and language -- his much-anticipated debut feature Rhymes for Young Ghouls resembles an S.E. Hinton novel re-imagined as a surreal, righteously furious thriller. At the tender age of 15, Aila (Kawennahere Devery Jacobs) has taken...

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Review: THE HUNTRESSES Misfire in Poorly-Plotted Blunder

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:30 AM PST

Following the recent hits Masquerade (2012) and last year's The Face Reader, period films are set to make a big push into the Korean market in 2014 with at least six big Joseon era films poised to flood the market. Getting the ball rolling in the new year is the action comedy The Huntresses, a film initially set to debut last spring but rescheduled by distributor Showbox when the project needed more time to complete digital work in post-production. Entering a crowded Lunar New Year field alongside Miss Granny, Man in Love and Hot Young Bloods, the film is hoping to draw in family crowds with its fun premise and trio of female stars. Three girls are trained in martial arts and become the top...

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Watch The Full Trailer For Singapore Crime Thriller RE:SOLVE

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:01 AM PST

Billed as the first action crime thriller from Singapore, Randy Ang's Re:Solve opens in local cinemas on February 27th and we've got a full trailer - subtitles included - to follow the previous teaser.Singapore's first crime thriller follows Serious Crimes Unit Inspector Chen Shaoqiang (Chris Lee Chih Cheng) as he tries to figure out a series of daring armed heists and seemingly unrelated murders. Shaoqiang must revisit his troubled past as a member of the elite Special Tactics Unit, after a botched raid seven years earlier that shattered the unity of his team, taking the life of his mentor Wu Tianle (Sunny Pang). The resulting cover up destroys his relationship with Tianle's sister Wu Qizhen (Mico Chang Wei Chun).Shaoqiang's past collides with the present, as...

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Destroy All Monsters: What's Wrong With HER

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST

The thing that immediately skeeved me out about Her, which I presumed at the time (and still do) was the key element of the text, is only this: When Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) first "meets" his operating system, Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), she is an out-of-the-box piece of software. ("She" doesn't even have "her" voice yet - the initial voice is a pleasant male.) The nascent system asks Theodore three questions, the latter two of which are of a pathologically hilarious Freudian nature: what gender would you like your OS to be, and how was your relationship with your mother? - arguably the two questions by which we could, if we were able to answer them honestly, sort out our entire compass of adult relationships from puberty...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks Sundance 2014

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST

Here's a special Sundance edition of Twitchvision, where I broadcast from the lobby of the Yarrow Hotel in Park City, Utah. The first segment has talk of the opening films, including The Overnighters, Adam Wingard's The Guest, and Michael Fassbender in Frank. I also chatted about SAG awards and Oscar nominations that hit that weekend.The second segment talks about the award winners, including Whiplash, the "OZ meets Drumline" film that was a tremendous bunch of fun. Finally, I got to showcase the two major reasons I even bought a ticket in the first place, the long-awaited The Raid 2 and the Roger Ebert doc Life Itself.Videos embedded below....

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