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Yubari 2014 Preview: Twitch's Most Anticipated Movies

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Yubari 2014 Preview: Twitch's Most Anticipated Movies

Yubari 2014 Preview: Twitch's Most Anticipated Movies

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:00 AM PST

This Thursday sees the opening of the 2014 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival way up in the wintry climes of Hokkaido, Japan. Christopher O'Keeffe and I will be pulling on our long-johns and heading out into the snow to savour one of the most eclectic and bizarre programmes of independent genre films anywhere on the festival circuit. The festival's big ticket Special Invitation programme features a raft of top flight Hollywood offerings that have yet to receive a theatrical release in Japan, including 12 Years A Slave, Frozen and This Is The End. However, we're far more interested in the domestic offerings, which include Fantastic Fest alumnus Greatful Dead from Uchida Eiji, and Mizuochi Yutaka's The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom, adapted from the novel by...

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Video Premiere: No One Is Safe From The NIGHT GIANT

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST

After a great festival run that included Fantasia, Toronto After Dark, Vancouver, and Raindance, Aaron Beckum has is making his enjoyable black and white noir/comedy short Night Giant available for all to watch and we've got the exclusive debut for you here.. What happens when an orange juice drinking patsy realizes he is being hunted by a Night Giant? Naturally, he seeks out the help of a dubiously qualified Giant Hunter and you get, NIGHT GIANT, the new black and white short film from Aaron Beckum. It's a noir-ish and unpredictably deadpan sci-fi comedy just released today after a very successful Festival run. Aaron Beckum is a filmmaker, artist and musician. His short films have screened internationally and won several awards including an Achievement in...

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Watch The US Trailer For Tony Jaa's THE PROTECTOR 2 (aka TOM YUM GOONG 2)

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:30 AM PST

Tony Jaa is headed back to US shores with the impending release of The Protector 2 (aka Tom Yum Goong 2 aka TYG 2) on iTunes March 27th prior to a theatrical run starting May 2nd.And that can mean only one thing: A new trailer cut to feature as much of the film's minimal English language dialogue as possible. Plus people being punched. Boss Suchart is the owner of an elephant camp. When he is murdered, all evidence points to Kham (Tony Jaa), who was seen with the victim before he died. Kham is forced to run as the police launch a pursuit. Meanwhile, the twin nieces of Boss Suchart (Jija Yanin Wismitanan and Teerada Kittisiriprasert) are out for revenge. But luck is on Kham's...

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Harold Ramis Dead At 69

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST

Harold Ramis, a writer, actor and director who participated in the creation of some of Hollywood's most funny, vital and downright raucous works of the past 40 years, passed away last evening from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels. He was 69.  Many kids of the 80s and 90s (myself included) will remember Ramis for his performance as Dr. Egon Spengler, the Ghostbuster with a penchant for collecting spores, molds, and fungus. Ramis' Egon was a deep thinker that played perfectly off of, and grounded, Bill Murray's game-show-host wit, Dan Akroyd's child-like zeal, and Ernie Hudson's no-bullshit demeanor. But Ramis brought a lot more to the world of Ghostbusters than the deadpan Egon, as he was...

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Tom Hardy In Talks To Play Legendary Twin Gangsters

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST

LA Confidential writer Brian Helgeland is looking to bring the story of twin London gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray to the big screen as writer and director of Legend, and he's got a star in mind to do it. Screen are reporting that Tom Hardy is in talks to play the identical twin brothers who gained infamy throughout the 50s and 60s before being arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968. Should he sign on, Hardy will play both brothers with production aiming to start in London later this year....

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Watch The Striking Trailer For Black And White Russian Scifi HARD TO BE A GOD

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST

Aleksei Yuryevich German's Hard To Be A God feels like an artefact from another time, a striking black and white exercise seemingly dropped from another world. Which is appropriate, really, given that it's about life on another world. Based on a novel by the Strugatsky Brothers - also responsible for the source material behind Tarkovsky's Stalker - German's final film premiered posthumously this year in Rotterdam, where they described it like this:The planet Arkanar looks like a medieval hell ruled by totalitarian evil. A messenger from Earth has a mission to introduce humanitarian ideas, unaware that they don't always work. A stunning black-and-white fresco of a world that lost its chance to be saved. A farewell from one of the greatest Russian filmmakers.Alexei German, who...

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Trailer: NEKO NI MIKAN, A Kore-eda-esque Family Drama

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST

From Toda Akihiro (Hana no Fukuru) comes a family drama that seems very much influenced by Kore-eda Hirokazu's brilliant body of work. Neko ni Mikan (literally Tangerines on Cat, although the English title is still not known) tells the story of a family, whose life takes a chaotic turn after the arrival of a stranger. Kurokawa Mei (A Story of Yonosuke, Killers), known for her many performances in Japanese films and dramas, plays the leading female role, opposite Daito Shunsuke (Crows Zero, Ace Attorney), one of Japan's teenage heartthrobs.Here's the synopsis found on the film's Eigapedia page:Tomohiro brings his fiance Machiko to his hometown of Aridagawa, Wakayama to visit his parents' home. However, Tomohiro's family life is quite chaotic. His younger brother Takashi hasn't been attending school, his...

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After Watching THE RIGHT ONE Trailer You Won't Be Able To Sleep

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 08:30 AM PST

The Right One is a love story set in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Even Julia Roberts traveled half of the world to find love there in Eat Pray Love. Yes, I'm talking about Bali. Heck if it works for her it must be work for us here in Indonesia, So here's the new romance from director Stephen Odang, with cast Tara Basro (Killers) & Gandhi Fernando (California Solo) as the love birds. Here's the official synopsis i get from IMDB; Two people cross-path their entire life and only fate decides their future. There you go, I bet fate decides they get together in their future, or maybe not, I don't know until i watch it right? And of course you...

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Rotterdam 2014 Review: THE CREATOR OF THE JUNGLE Stuns With Its Subject

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST

(If Tarzan had had a handyman, his name should have been Garrell...) Documentaries are an interesting sub-category within films, because their "watchability" can be entirely caused by coincidence, if the director is lucky enough. Jordi Morató didn't need either luck or coincidence though, as the subject of his film The Creator Of The Jungle is plenty interesting all by itself, and actually brought its own existing archive of footage with it already. The subject here is a Spanish eccentric named Garrell, and the structures he has made in a small forest for the past 45 years. See, this Garrell started playing in the forest as a teenager, building tree houses and such, and basically never stopped. And in all those years he became really, REALLY...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks POMPEII, 3 DAYS TO KILL, TIM'S VERMEER And THE WIND RISES

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 07:30 AM PST

Kind of a dreary week, with the Pompeii failing to erupt and 3 Days To Kill a different kind of disaster. The Wind Rises hits theatres more widely, and while some adore this (last?) film by Myazaki I found it to be a tedious bore.On the other hand, opening wider this week is the glorious and magical Tim's Vermeer, the extraordinary doc by Teller (and Penn!) that months after I saw it at TIFF continues to fill me with wonder....

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Three Exclusive Pics From Upcoming Franco-Italo Horror PHANTASMAGORIA!

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

As production has wrapped up on the upcoming Franco-Italo horror anthology Phantasmagoria we have been given three exclusive images to share with you. The first is of Italian actor Venantino Venantini, from such films as City of the Living Dead and Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye. The second is a pair of sexy heels and the third is of newcomer Maya Dolan. I find myself constantly drawn to the third image for some reason. Must be the architecture of that villa in the background. Yeah. Must be. February 24, 2014 - Take a look at Venantino Venantini (City of the Living Dead, Ladyhawke, Contraband, Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye) as « GrandPa » in the upcoming sensation of horror from France and Italy Phantasmagoria,...

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