Check Out The Intriguing Full Trailer For Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER

Check Out The Intriguing Full Trailer For Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER


Check Out The Intriguing Full Trailer For Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT

Fruit Chan is easily one of the most interesting filmmakers working in Hong Kong today. Since he came to fame with his 1997 directorial effort Made In Hong Kong, he has made a number of films that have a very distinct Hong Kong flavor. His latest film, The Midnight After, appears to be his most ambitious project to date. It stars Wong You Nam, Simon Yam, Kara Hui, Janice Man, Lam Suet and Sam Lee in a post-apocalyptic Hong Kong. Synopsis: A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climbs aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse...

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Hey Australia! Win Awesome Anime From Hanabee!

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT

It's been almost two years since Hanabee made its public launch, and within this short time, the Australian anime distributor has already developed an amazing catalogue of titles that are both varied and exciting, and includes such fan favorites as Toradora!, Anohana, Bakemonogatari, Girls and Panzer, and Lupin The Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.To celebrate its second birthday, Hanabee is giving you, our dear readers, the chance to win one or more of its releases:  First prize: One winner will win three of the available titles from Hanabee's web store.Runner-up prizes: Two winners will each win one of the available titles from Hanabee's web store.For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these three simple steps:1) Write captions for the...

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Marko Zaror Returns As The REDEEMER

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:15 PM PDT

Our love for Chilean martial artist Marko Zaror is no secret around here. We've been raging fans since we first came across him in Kiltro - his first of three collaborations to date with writer-director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza - and have been excited to watch his career grow from winning awards at Fantastic Fest and Action Fest with his Chilean work through to his first forays into starring in US films with Undisputed III and Machete Kills. Heck, it was all the way back in 2008 that Twitch named Zaror one of the world's greatest unsung screen fighting talents and our opinion hasn't changed on that front one iota.Well, if you - like us - have been waiting for Zaror to step back into the...

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Vietnamese Musical THE TALENT Surprisingly Wins Golden Kite Award

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT

The Golden Kite Award (usually called the Oscar of Vietnam) has officially announced the winner. The Talent (original titled Thần Tượng) by first-time director Nguyen Quang Huy surprised everyone with six awards, including "Golden Kite for Best Feature Film", "Best Director:", "Best Supporting Actor", "Best Cinematography", "Best Production Design" and "Best film voted by the Press".The impresario-turned-director Nguyen Quang Huy also defeated veteran directors such as Charlie Nguyen and Victor Vu. With its story revolving about friendship and rivalry in the music business, The Talent isn't really the taste of the Vietnamese Cinema Department, which always honors war films made by government funding. But that musical drama won anyway, leaving a question mark about the unusual choice of the judges.Here is the full list...

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Review: EL CRIMEN DEL CÁCARO GUMARO, A Collection Of Lazy, Juvenile Jokes

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT

El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro was, on paper, a much welcomed movie for Mexican cinema. In a period when "art films" are winning prestigious awards internationally (i.e. Post Tenebras Lux and Heli at Cannes) and the number of film festivals keep growing in the country, a movie that pokes fun at "serious" filmmaking was just a matter of time. Pastorela's Emilo Portes teamed with Armando Vega Gil (bass player of the rock band Botellita de Jerez and writer) and renowned television comedian Andrés Bustamante to write a script full of pop culture references, current issues and many, many jokes that could function as hilarious entertainment and, at the same time, say something clever about the Mexican film industry. The movie, however, is far from being...

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Cinema Global Presents The Films Of Cao Guimaraes In Mexico City

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Cinema Global is a film event that in 2014, during its eighth edition, is part of Mexico City's biggest cultural celebration, Festival del Centro Histórico. The main Cinema Global event this year is a retrospective dedicated to Brazilian plastic artist and filmmaker Cao Guimaraes, offering feature length and short films, a master class, and a selection curated by Guimaraes himself (featuring the movies that influenced him). CAO GUIMARAES' FEATURE LENGTH FILMS The End of Endless (O Film do Sem-Fim, 2000) - March 17 (5 PM) at Casa del Cine & March 19 (6 PM) at Centro Cultural España en México Rua de Mao Dupla (2002) - March 21 (8:30 PM) at Centro Cultural España en México A Alma do Osso (2004) - March 18 (8:30...

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ND/NF 2014 Review: THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA Is A Ravishing Meditation On Our Relationship With Nature

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

As a lover of old, rustic folktales and being married to a descendent of an eastern European Jew, Baba Yaga holds a special place in my heart. Creepier and more twisted than the Grimm Bros' tales, Baba Yaga tells a story of a witch who lives in a hut that stands on giant chicken legs and eats children who get lost in the forest. In its many variations, the witch is often perceived as both venerable and monstrous.Jessica Oreck's ravishing new film is not a mere anthropological documentary on Eastern Europe. As with her first two beautiful films, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboy, Baba Yaga also falls neatly into region specific ethnographic study at first, this time, of the Slavic world....

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Contest: Win a DVD Copy of Kim Sung-su's FLU

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT

CJ Entertainment has offered up three copies of the outbreak thriller Flu and we're making it very easy to nab a copy. First off, here's the official synopsis: A deadly virus is unleashed on an unsuspecting public in the intense, violent disaster thriller Flu.It all starts when a human trafficker is infected with an unknown virus and dies in a Bundang hospital, covered in oozing red rashes and coughing up blood. Within hours the virus spreads all over the city and death goes viral as the body count rapidly rises. Medical professionals are in a panic over the mystery killer virus and soon the government orders the military in to quarantine the entire area -- no one gets in, no one gets out. Desperation and...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks NEED FOR SPEED, GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and ENEMY

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Aaron Paul makes his big budget big screen debut with Need For Speed, Wes Anderson's got another of his beautiful confections with Grand Budapest Hotel, and Denis Villeneuve takes a dark take on being endoubled in Toronto with Enemy.Video embedded below....

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Dare To Spot THE CREEP BEHIND THE CAMERA In This Trailer

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Once upon a time in 1964, there was an excruciatingly bad alien invasion film, one made with legendary ineptitude. And it wasn't the famous Plan 9 From Outer Space. This one was worse. It was called The Creeping Terror. Pete Schuermann's film The Creep Behind the Camera is about the making of The Creeping Terror, and especially about its director Art Nelson: a violently psychotic sex-and-drugs-addicted con-man, who used the production to swindle loads of money out of loads of people. The Creep Behind the Camera takes an interesting approach to chronicling its subject: a large part of the film is a dramatized comedy, starring Josh Phillips and Jodi Lynn Thomas, but there are documentary inserts in which the real people involved are interviewed. There...

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ND/NF 2014 Review: OF HORSES AND MEN Is A Delightfully Deadpan Comedy From Iceland

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Iceland's most celebrated theater director, Benedikt Erlingsson, makes a film debut with Of Horses and Men, a wry, episodic tales of love and death in a small community all reflected on the eyes of the much coveted Icelandic horses. The film garnered directing awards at San Sebastian and Tokyo Film Festival last year. Despite their short and stocky physique, Icelandic horses are much prized for their stamina and hardiness and still factor largely into the lives of the inhabitants of the island nation. It's springtime and love is in the air. The setting is a windswept rural town and it's everyone's business what others are up to: they spy on each other with binoculars and gossip, not in words as much, but their frowning, weather...

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