Riviera Maya 2014 Brings NYMPHOMANIAC, R100, A TOUCH OF SIN And More To Mexico! |
- Riviera Maya 2014 Brings NYMPHOMANIAC, R100, A TOUCH OF SIN And More To Mexico!
- Review: Tamil Terror PIZZA Deserves A Slice Of The Action
- The Weekly Win: Rock Doc A BAND CALLED DEATH + T-shirt pack! [Competition: AUSTRALIA Only, DVD]
- Review: POMPEII Erupts With Volcanic Mediocrity
- Watch An Exclusive Clip From Indie Comedy LOVE & AIR SEX
- Review: JACK STRONG, A Full-Bodied And Suspenseful Spy Thriller
- ND/NF 2014 Includes Aussie Horror THE BABADOOK And Farsi Vampire Western A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
- Human Penis Wanted. Watch The Bizarre And Hilarious Trailer For THE FINAL MEMBER.
- Review: HOLY GHOST PEOPLE Sadly Slips From Scary To Silly
- SXSW 2014: Trailer Debut for Suicide Dramedy SEQUOIA
- Check Out The New Trailer For Supernatural Horror JINN
- Review: BLACK OUT Sparkles In A Darkly Comic Criminal Vein
- Review: THE WIND RISES Flies Into Fantasy, While Bound To Reality
- Documentary Fortnight 2014 Review: CAMPAIGN 2, A Revealing Examination of the Absurdities of Japanese Politics
- Review: OMAR, A Heart Pounding Thriller And Tragic Love Story Set In The Occupied Territories
- Interview: Hany Abu-Assad Talks OMAR And The Purity Of Cinema
Riviera Maya 2014 Brings NYMPHOMANIAC, R100, A TOUCH OF SIN And More To Mexico! Posted: 21 Feb 2014 03:00 AM PST After announcing the Mexican selection for its 2014 edition, the Riviera Maya Film Festival has revealed the full lineup and boy oh boy it is bloody amazing. Many highly anticipated films will premiere in Mexico during the festival, such as Nymphomaniac, R100, A Touch of Sin, Blue Ruin, Under the Skin, Hard To Be A God, Blind Detective, Michael Kohlhaas, and I could go on and on. Riviera Maya 2014 takes place in Quintana Roo, Mexico from March 9-15, and all screenings are absolutely free. Five sections conform the festival and you can check out the films of each one in the gallery below. For additional information, visit the festival's official website.... |
Review: Tamil Terror PIZZA Deserves A Slice Of The Action Posted: 21 Feb 2014 02:30 AM PST It's not the easiest thing in the world for general film audiences to adjust to the tropes and accepted suspension of disbelief that popular films demand. As a result, I find myself handing out more caveats than accolades. A great many of my reviews of mainstream Indian films follow a similar trajectory. A film may be great in the context for which it was designed and to the audience for whom it was made, but the very touches that make it a blockbuster in India often keep it from landing squarely with any other international audiences. I like to think of myself more as a curator of Indian films that a critic, my job is to point out the ones that have the potential to... |
The Weekly Win: Rock Doc A BAND CALLED DEATH + T-shirt pack! [Competition: AUSTRALIA Only, DVD] Posted: 20 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST The first African American punk band? You better believe it, and their story is as intriguing and engaging as you would expect.Here is our review of the film.Here's the synopsis:Before the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early '70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death's music - and band name - too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album.Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A... |
Review: POMPEII Erupts With Volcanic Mediocrity Posted: 20 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST In Pompeii, the ancient Roman city of the title (circa 79 A.D.) is about to be destroyed all over again; this time for fun and profit! The second half of director Paul W.S. Anderson's (known for all those Resident Evil movies) attempt at delivering a respectable historic disaster picture is so much quaking and rumbling that one might be inclined to check behind a crackling pillar or two for the ghost of Irwin Allen (the 1970s "Master of Disaster" responsible for The Towering Inferno). Colosseums will crumble, smoking lava streaks will awesomely shoot by leaving a deathly smoke trail hanging in the sky, and scores of extras dressed in bedsheets and belts will run for the safety of the nearest green-screen. But no one is safe... |
Watch An Exclusive Clip From Indie Comedy LOVE & AIR SEX Posted: 20 Feb 2014 01:30 PM PST With Bryan Poyser's indie comedy Love & Air Sex now available on VOD and in select theaters Twitch is pleased to offer up an exclusive clip from the film.When brokenhearted Stan (Michael Stahl-David, CLOVERFIELD) flies to Austin for the weekend in hopes of "accidentally" running into his ex-girlfriend Cathy (Ashley Bell), he arrives to find their best friends Jeff (Zach Cregger, "The Whitest Kids U Know") and Kara (Sara Paxton) in the middle of their own vicious breakup. Before too long, battle lines are drawn - and with the Air SexWorld Championships in town, anything can go down.Take a look at the clip and official trailer below.... |
Review: JACK STRONG, A Full-Bodied And Suspenseful Spy Thriller Posted: 20 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.- Winston Churchill Wladyslaw Pasikowski's Jack Strong tells the gripping true story of colonel Ryszard Kuklinski (Marcin Dorocinski), one of the most controversial figures in Polish Post-World War II history. Hailed as a global hero, Kuklinski single-handedly declared and waged a secret war against Communist oppression, risking his and his family's life for the sake of national security. Pressured by his own conscience and by an increasing threat of a nuclear holocaust, he realized that the only way to save what's left of his exhausted country is to go undercover. From a soldier blindly carrying out orders he turned into a spy working for the US government. Communist called... |
Posted: 20 Feb 2014 12:30 PM PST The good folks at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center and the Museum Of Modern Art have just announced the lineup for the 43rd edition of New Directors/New Films, their eclectic series featuring works from first and second time feature filmmakers. And this year is quite a doozie.Those who followed our Sundance coverage, or were there themselves, will recognize more than a few titles, including genre offerings The Babadook (Todd's review) and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (my review). Also on tap are The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears, from the Amer directing duo Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Richard Ayode's The Double, and two films that made my top 20 favorites of 2013: Ben Russell and Ben Rivers' beguiling avant-garde doc... |
Human Penis Wanted. Watch The Bizarre And Hilarious Trailer For THE FINAL MEMBER. Posted: 20 Feb 2014 11:30 AM PST Some things are simply too strange to be anything else but true. Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math's acclaimed documentary The Final Member is very much one of those things.Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland-a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle-boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every "thing" in between. Lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggi's world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic... |
Review: HOLY GHOST PEOPLE Sadly Slips From Scary To Silly Posted: 20 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST For the first hour or so, Mitchell Altieri's Holy Ghost People is a tense backwoods thriller centered around a small charismatic Christian community somewhere in the Appalachian mountains. Once that hour is up, though, things turn a bit wacky and the film devolves into something significantly less tense and more simplistic. A film is only as good as its ending, and Holy Ghost People really had me going up until the ludicrous finale that conjures memories of some other great films, just rehashed and with less style. What went wrong? Just enough. However, there is more to the film than just the last fifteen minutes, which is perhaps why that last section is so frustrating. Holy Ghost People begins in a trailer, naturally, where the... |
SXSW 2014: Trailer Debut for Suicide Dramedy SEQUOIA Posted: 20 Feb 2014 10:30 AM PST One of the standout titles on the SXSW Narrative Spotlight lineup is Andy Landen's feature debut Sequoia. Starring Aly Michalka and Dustin Milligan alongside Todd Lowe, Demetri Martin, Sophi Bairley, and Joey Lauren Adams, Sequoia is the story of a troubled girl with a terminal disease that heads to the woods to call it quits on life, only to meet a dashing young man along the way. We've got the synopsis below followed by the trailer for your viewing pleasure. Set amid the epic grandeur of the California's Sequoia National Forest, SEQUOIA is drama-romance with a breakout performance by Aly Michalka (Former Disney Channel actor, CW's Hellcats, Easy A, pop music sister act Aly & AJ). Aly stars as a lively young woman with a... |
Check Out The New Trailer For Supernatural Horror JINN Posted: 20 Feb 2014 10:15 AM PST Writer-director Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad's indie horror film Jinn is gearing up for an April 4th release and has released a new trailer to whet the appetite for this supernatural tale drawn from the folklore of the Middle East.In the Beginning, Three were Created...Man made of Clay.Angels made of Light.And a Third...made of Fire.From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries, almost washing away the evidence that a third ever existed. This third race, born of smokeless fire, was called the jinn. Similar to humans in many ways, the jinn lived invisibly among us... |
Review: BLACK OUT Sparkles In A Darkly Comic Criminal Vein Posted: 20 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST Is there anything more annoying than waking up in the morning to discover a gun -- and a bloody corpse -- in bed with you? On the day before your wedding? It's very tempting to describe Arne Toonen's Black Out as The Hangover with bullets and blood, but that would be inaccurate, because the Dutch film adds a layer of self-aware mockery and introduces a roster of aggressively colorful characters to an age-old plot. (I wonder: Did Adam wake up in pain one morning, rub his chest and then mutter, 'What did I do last night? And who is this chick?') Black Out immediately distinguishes itself by the cold analysis applied by Jos (Raymond Thirry), the groom to be, to the situation at hand. As... |
Review: THE WIND RISES Flies Into Fantasy, While Bound To Reality Posted: 20 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST Anticipation levels are always high with the release of a new Studio Ghibili movie, and even higher when the director and writer is the father of the company and man behind its best works, Miyazaki Hayao. While Miyazaki's previous two works, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo contained fantastical elements and were based on stories for children, The Wind Rises (aka Kaze Tachinu) is a fictionalized biography of engineer Horikoshi Jiro, who designed the Zero fighter aircraft, which was devastatingly effective in the early days of World War Two. As a result of its 1920's/30's real world setting and overtones of the coming war it is stylistically reminiscent of Takahata Isao's Grave of the Fireflies, though it's not quite as harrowing as that masterpiece. The film... |
Posted: 20 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST As the title indicates, Kazuhiro Soda's latest film Campaign 2, the fifth of his self-described "observational documentaries," is a follow-up to his 2007 film Campaign, which followed Kazuhiko "Yama-san" Yamauchi's 2005 run for a city council seat in Kawasaki City, Japan. That campaign proved successful, but after one two-year term in office, he fell out of favor with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the political machine that backed his election, and left politics for a few years. Campaign 2 documents Yamauchi's return to the political process; he was driven to do so by the 2011 Fukushima disaster and his anger at the politicians unwilling to discuss nuclear power as an issue in their campaigns. He begins his campaign just a few weeks after the disaster.In contrast... |
Review: OMAR, A Heart Pounding Thriller And Tragic Love Story Set In The Occupied Territories Posted: 20 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST With Omar, this is the second time Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (His previous effort, Paradise Now, ended up winning a Golden Globe only.) Even if you take away the political aspect, the film works as a superb noir that is as compelling as The Departed or any number of great undercover policiers of the West. Abu-Assad is a great storyteller. He doesn't have to resort to a satire to illustrate his point. Everything feels very real and immediate in Omar. And the 30-foot high concrete security wall speaks more volumes about the absurdity of the situation in which people engage themselves in the Occupied Territories than any political soapbox speech.If Paradise Now served in... |
Interview: Hany Abu-Assad Talks OMAR And The Purity Of Cinema Posted: 20 Feb 2014 06:09 AM PST Hany Abu-Assad's Omar, a political thriller and a love story set in the Occupied Territories, is Palestine's official entry for this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This is Abu-Assad's second nomination in that category since Paradise Now (2005). As a lover of cinema, Abu-Assad not only talked with me about Israeli-Palestinian issues but also the global cinema influences on making Omar and fiction as the pure form of expressing human condition in our media soaked society.Twitch: First of all, congratulations being nominated for the Academy Award for the second time.Hany Abu-Assad: Thank you.You've made RANA'S WEDDING, PARADISE NOW, and OMAR in the Occupied Territories. How hard is it to shoot a film there logistically and politically? Life under the occupation is always difficult.... |
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