Review: CUBAN FURY Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts |
- Review: CUBAN FURY Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts
- Gallery: GAME OF THRONES The Exhibition
- The Weekly Win: Anime Artistry With THE GARDEN OF WORDS Pack [Competition: Australia Only, DVD Or Blu-ray]
- The Kids Talk Film: DUNE
- New To Netflix: HOUSE OF CARDS Or Bust!
- Documentary Fortnight 2014: MoMA's Annual Showcase Offers Innovative, Challenging, and Beautiful Films
- Watch The First Trailer For TEAM BATISTA FINAL - KERBEROS NO SHOZO!
- Lovecraftian Short FRAGMENT 1890 Needs Your Love
| Review: CUBAN FURY Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts Posted: 16 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST  Romantic comedies have hit a bit of a slump in recent years, at least ones from big Hollywood and UK studios. The same patterns, cliched images, characters, and formulas have become predictable and dull. And in many ways, Cuban Fury doesn't escape this trap: a guy wants a girl who is out of his league, so must find a hook with which to compete with an obvious jerk in order to win the girl's heart. It's somewhat redeemed by good performances, a few scenes of witty banter and a non-traditional conclusion, but ultimately falls a bit flat.Bruce (Nick Frost) is a former teenage salsa champion who let a bad encounter ruin his childhood dream. Twenty-five years later, he falls for his new boss Julia (Rashida Jones),... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Gallery: GAME OF THRONES The Exhibition Posted: 16 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST  Labeled as a gift from HBO to the faithful followers, the Game of Thrones new exhibition kicked off yesterday in Mexico City and will last until Wednesday (2/19). However, there are no tickets left for today or the next three days as 18,000 lucky Mexican fans reserved all the available admissions weeks ago. More than 100 original artifacts from the series, including costumes, weapons and models, compose the exhibition, with the Iron Throne being the only replica. Fans are in for a real treat as the showing also brings Will Simpson's storyboards, a virtual reality "Ascend the Wall" interactive experience, and even a really cool dragon head from the upcoming fourth season. Game of Thrones The Exhibition will travel to six other cities during 2014: Austin... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST  Makoto Shinkai has been pushing the boundaries of anime as a pure artform through his humble yet emotionally rich features ever since he began his career. This week is the chance to win not only his new film The Garden Of Words on DVD or Blu-ray, but also a pack of his other works too thanks to Madman Entertainment.When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino. Older but perhaps not as much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages, they strike up an unusual relationship that unexpectedly... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:30 PM PST  Jodorowsky's Dune, in all its crazy ambition, may never have come into existence, but in the early 1980s, David Lynch, after turning down the job of directing the second Star Wars sequel, then titled Revenge of the Jedi, got the go ahead to make a big budget blockbuster out of Frank Herbert's sprawling novel. The resulting film has befuddled and confounded audiences in the ensuing three decades, and has also achieved a significantly passionate cult following. Willem (age 10) and Miranda (age 9) return to offer you an enthusiastic young perspective about the strangest of science fiction studio films. The marathon extended version with Alan Smithee given director's credit here is what they watched, and while they get a bit *SPOILERY* at times, there is far too much plot to make that... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| New To Netflix: HOUSE OF CARDS Or Bust! Posted: 16 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST  This weeks entry of New To Netflix starts with the elephant (or should we say donkey?) in the room, the new season of House of Cards, which went up in its entirety on Valentine's day. However, we've got a number of gems in this column that are available in the various red-envelope territories if the upscale 'TV' telling of dirty American politics by way of Shakespeare is not your thing.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST  The 13th edition of Documentary Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art's annual showcase of documentary features, short films, and installations, screens from February 14-28. The wide-ranging, international selection, as always, is very impressive, featuring films that are innovative, beautifully made, and challenging. These films often make use of dramatic, performance, and narrative techniques that are usually associated more with fictional features, expanding the documentary form and challenging the boundaries between nonfiction and fictional narratives. Contemporary art installation techniques also fascinatingly intersect with documentary practice in some of the films featured in this year's festival.Click through the gallery below to read capsule reviews of some notable films selected; for more information on these and other films in the festival, visit MoMA's website.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Watch The First Trailer For TEAM BATISTA FINAL - KERBEROS NO SHOZO! Posted: 16 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST  Team Batista returns with the third and presumably concluding installment based on the best-selling series of medical mystery novels by KaidÅ Takeru. Although two previous films didn't earn much critical acclaim, their considerable box office success in Japan was the main reason behind recent decision to continue with another adaptations, both on small and big screen.This time, apart from solving yet another seemingly unexplainable murder case, the famous team of highly specialized doctors will try to save their precious Tojo Medical University before the time runs out. Here is the synopsis:Kohei (Ito Atsushi) and Keisuke (Nakamura Toru) work with the government and Tojo Medical University as Trinity. The project is to create a new technological system to determine cause of death. They then receive a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Lovecraftian Short FRAGMENT 1890 Needs Your Love Posted: 16 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST  Attention fans of all things H.P. Lovecraft. We have found a project that you may want to lend your support to. German filmmaker Sascha Alexander Renninger is putting together a feature length anthology film based on the works of the famed horror author and is presently completing the second chapter, Fragment 1890. His first Lovecratian short film, Shadow of the Unamable, will be the first chapter. Renninger is presently raising funds to complete production of this second chapter. New England in the late 1920s. Dr. Barlow, head physician of the Greystone Asylum in the town of Arkham, is stunned when his young patient Morgan Derleth turns out to be psychic. Through her, he receives a cry for help from the down-and-out pulp writer Robert Blake.It seems... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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