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Sundance 2014 Review: Wingard's THE GUEST is More Magnificent Midnight Madness

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Sundance 2014 Review: Wingard's THE GUEST is More Magnificent Midnight Madness

Sundance 2014 Review: Wingard's THE GUEST is More Magnificent Midnight Madness

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 11:00 PM PST

With the recent release of You're Next and contributions to the V/H/S and ABCs of Death horror anthologies, director-writer duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett are quickly becoming two of the most exciting filmmakers working in the genre space right now. This trend absolutely continues with their latest feature, a guns-blazing throwback called The Guest. Equal parts creepy, slow-burn horror and bloody, balls-out actioner, Wingard and Barrett again prove that best kind of genre movie is the one with which you can have the most outright fun. Set in a small prairie town, the story opens amongst a family grieving the recent loss of a military son. Dad Spencer (Leland Orser) is a middle management hack while Mom Laura (Sheila Kelly) is a lonely...

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New BLUE RUIN Trailer: The One With The Gun Gets To Tell The Truth

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:30 PM PST

A bruising tale of single-minded intensity, Blue Ruin tore up the festival circuit last year and is heading for release in theatres and On Demand in the U.S. on April 25, 2014. As the official synopsis puts it, the film "follows a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family." Mason Blair embodies the "mysterious outsider" with blunt force but also a haunting, weary, and ultimately poignant despair. Blue Ruin accumulates in power as it hurtles toward a devastating climax. Our own Brian Clark saw the film when it played at the Cannes...

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Daniel Wu & Nick Cheung Wrestle THAT DEMON WITHIN In First Teaser

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Dante Lam's hotly anticipated action thriller That Demon Within will have its world premiere at next month's Berlin International Film Festival, Emperor Motion Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for the film as well as a slew of new images.That Demon Within stars Daniel Wu as a cop who unwittingly saves the life of a vicious psychopath, only for his compounding guilt to send him an an obsessive and psychologically unbalanced path of vengeance as Nick Cheung's killer leaves a trail of dead cops and civilians in his wake. Andy On, Liu Kai Chi and a number of EMP's new faces star in what promises to be one of the year's most explosive thrillers. Check out the teaser and...

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Sundance Speed Dating with... LAGGIES Writer/Director Lynn Shelton and Cinematographer Ben Kasulke

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST

Laggies marks Lynn Shelton's sixth feature, four of which have premiered at Sundance, and her sixth collaboration with DP Ben Kasulke.Leading up to their premiere, I got to sit down with two long-time cold weather comrades and pick their brain with Twitch's new "Sundance Speed Dating" series of interviews that will be coming out throughout the festival run.Twitch: At what age did you know you wanted to be a filmmaker?Ben Kasulke: 16.Lynn Shelton: I was trying to decide between acting grad school after my BA in theater or film school. But I was to intimated with film school. I didn't feel up to the task quite yet. I knew probably at about 20, but it took way longer to get there.If you weren't directing or...

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New To Netflix: Ken Burns, Nuclear Power, Gina Carano and ROLLING THUNDER

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST

This week's entry of New To Netflix has documentaries and a healthy does of violence, both of which come together for the Oscar nominated feature, The Act of Killing. In many markets there is a compelling re-evaluation of nuclear power as the best case for our energy hungry planet. A number of Ken Burns' classics, dozens of hours of great documentary filmmaking, pop up in Canada.  Gina Carano can be seen punching and kicking her way through an A-list of male co-stars.  Major Charles Rane can be found in despair after the Vietnam War, and Captain John Carter finds himself a superhero after the Civil War.  Onwards....

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Sundance Speed Dating with... COLD IN JULY Director Jim Mickle

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST

Jim Mickle returns to Sundance for the second year in a row following his 2013 critical smash We Are What We Are, which also played at Cannes Director's Fortnight prior to its theatrical release this year by eOne. This year he comes to Park City with the film adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's cult novel of the same name starring Michael C. Hall, and we snagged him for a minute to grill him with our brand new Sundance Speed Dating line of questioning.Twitch: At what age did you know you wanted to be a director?Jim Mickle: I was 13. I was home sick from school and I saw Army of Darkness and I'd always sort of been in to sloppy B movies. It blew me...

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