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EXCLUSIVE: The Bloody UK Trailer For Miike's LESSON OF EVIL

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EXCLUSIVE: The Bloody UK Trailer For Miike's LESSON OF EVIL

EXCLUSIVE: The Bloody UK Trailer For Miike's LESSON OF EVIL

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT

After exploring more austere and epic projects, including 13 Assassins and Harakiri: Death Of A Samurai, Miike Takashi returned to his blood-soaked exploitation roots in fine style with Lesson Of Evil, the darkly comic story of a deranged high school teacher who starts offing his irritating, self-obsessed students.Our good friends over at Third Window Films have snapped up UK rights for the film, which will debut at Edinburgh's Dead By Dawn Film Festival, running from 24-27 April. Also debuting at the festival will be Third Window's other new acquisition, the equally wonderful Greatful Dead from Uchida Eiji. Both films will then appear at other festivals in the region ahead of a limited theatrical run before hitting Blu-ray and DVD later this summer 2014.Here at Twitch...

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THE GRANDMASTER Sweeps Asian Film Awards

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT

Wong Kar Wai's martial arts bio-pic of Ip Man, The Grandmaster, took home seven awards including Best Film at the 8th Asian Film Awards, hosted in Macau last night. Wong was named Best Director, while Zhang Ziyi collected the Best Actress prize. The film was also awarded for Best Composer, Best Cinematographer, Best Production Designer and Best Costume Designer.Elsewhere, Ritesh Batra was named Best Screenwriter for his drama The Lunchbox, while its star Ifran Khan was named Best Actor. Huang Bo took the Best Supporting Actor prize for Ning Hao's No Man's Land, and Yeo Yann Yann was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo.Jiang Shuying was named Best Newcomer for her work in Zhao Wei's So Young, Shin Min-kyung collected...

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Review: SABOTAGE, A Genuinely Gripping And Suspenseful Thriller

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:01 PM PDT

What's easy to forget about Arnold Schwarzenegger is that he excels in roles that maximize his strengths. His range may be limited, but make him the unquestioned leader of a hard-bitten team of DEA undercover operatives, give him a script filled with narrative intrigue and crackerjack dialogue, surround him with a seasoned cast doing unexpected things, and put him under the direction of the increasingly skillful director David Ayer, and the result is Sabotage, a genuinely gripping and suspenseful action-thriller. Ayer is the key. Like James Cameron, John McTiernan, and Paul Verhoeven before him, Ayer starts with a script, credited to himself and Skip Woods, that makes the most of Schwarzenegger's physical presence. His character here is John Wharton, aka Breach, whose tight-knit team spits...

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The Trailer For Kelly Reichardt's NIGHT MOVES Creates A Palpable Sense Of Paranoia

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PDT

Those that have kept abreast of the American Indie scene the last 8 years or so, should know full well that Kelly Reichardt is a writer and director of considerable power, even when working in such minimalist aesthetics. While Old Joy, Wendy And Lucy, and Meek's Cutoff are wildly different films in subject matter -- from old friends on a sojourn, to a homeless young woman, and a group of lost settlers -- they all center around a certain kind of dispossessed feeling, that is somehow wholly American, and indeed very strange and unnerving. Her latest film, Night Moves, stars Jessee Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard as a trio of environmental activists who plan to blow up a dam. The film played to good...

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New THE RAID 2 Restaurant Clip. This Is Why We Cannot Go Anywhere Nice Anymore.

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:30 PM PDT

Nothing ruins a perfectly good meal out like a bunch of bad guys with knives chasing after Iko Uwais. As this latest clip from The Raid 2 will prove...According to our lord and master Todd, who, as we have made you very well aware of by now, is a producer on this film, this clip falls into the film after that deleted gang fight scene would have been. Had it survived. Which is what a lot of people are having a really hard time committing to in this film if I do say so myself. Do I want to know where that broken bottle goes? Why yes. Yes I do. ...

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New Directors/New Films 2014 Review: SHE'S LOST CONTROL Gets Intimate

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Professional intimacy takes center stage in Anja Marquardt's She's Lost Control. 'She' in this case is Ronah (Brooke Bloom), a thirty something, confident,determined woman pursuing a masters degree who makes living as a sexual surrogate - arranged by her psychiatrist employer, she helps her clients who have physical and emotional intimacy problems by providing a safe mind space where they can explore physical intimacy. She's Lost Control is not some skin deep exploitation film about a sex worker, nor is it some romantic melodrama. Marquardt's brooding exploration has almost a look and feel of a clinical documentary. Ronah is a complicated woman. She gives everything to help bring out these damaged men from their shells. Yet her private life is less than ideal- she leads...

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It's Official: PHANTASM RAVAGER Wraps, Gets a Teaser Trailer

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:03 PM PDT

Earlier this week, the teaser poster for Phantasm: Ravager -- the fifth (and what's being called the final) film in writer-director Don Coscarelli's oddball indie horror series -- was making the rounds with rumors that Coscarelli had somehow finished production on the sequel in secret. Well, those rumors were half right: the Phantasm: Ravager shoot is complete, but without Coscarelli at the helm. Instead, for the first time in the series' history (as this morning's press release informs us), another director is sitting in the chair: animation director David Hartman, who's been working off and on with Coscarelli since 2002's Bubba Ho-Tep. This makes Ravager -- which Hartman co-wrote with Coscarelli -- his feature film debut, apparently shot around Southern California between 2012 and now. The lengthy...

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Interview: I Am DUNE - Frank Pavich on Jodorowsky's Unmade Masterpiece

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Jodorowsky's Dune -- a film that was supposed to have starred the likes of Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, Sting, Dali, and David Carradine, with a soundtrack by Pink Floyd, art by H.R. Giger, storyboards by Moebius, effects by Dan O'Bannon, and directed by psychedelic cult auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky -- never got made. But is it any surprise? With all of these heavyweight egos involved, it's not terribly difficult to see that if the smallest thing went wrong -- if one person didn't approve of the script, costume, co-star, etc., or if one was offended by the slightest provocation -- that it could all fall apart. Which it did. However, director Frank Pavich took all that might have been and crafted a hilarious (hear Richard Stanley...

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Are You Ready For The ZOMBIE FIGHT CLUB? All You Can Do Is Shrieking!

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Speaks for itself, really....

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Review: HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES, A Daring And Complex Portrait Of Childhood

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT

In childhood, those magical spaces and feelings of curiosity and wonder; those feelings and urges that could propel you to great heights and even greater adventures, sit so precariously close to what one can only describe as apocalypse: those weighted and unknown, yet utterly consuming spaces of ruin and desolation, ruled by fear and anger and pure destruction. To play in such spaces was to toy with power, perhaps an adult power, something that was tantalizing and terrifying. And yet, the grandest moments of our youths were neither pre, post or of the apocalyptic. They were of no space, or rather this space... the moment. The moment you found a dead bird in a rundown house. The moment you sped down the hill, using your...

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Michael Bay Attempts The Full-Nolan With First TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Trailer

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Good idea? Bad idea? Or just plain weird idea? I'm not sure which of those the idea of pushing the live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in The Dark Knight mold is but that's very much what producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman appear to have done with it, based upon this first trailer. The humor survives, thankfully, but just take a look at Leonardo up there. I have no illusions about this movie having been made to scratch the TMNT nostalgia itch of a forty year old guy such as myself but given that The Boy was home from school for lunch when I came across it I had the chance to try it out cold on the actual target market and...

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Review: THE RAID 2 Sets A New High Point For Violent Action Cinema

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

It was no hyperbole when we called The Raid: Redemption "the best action movie in decades." That film redefined martial arts cinema for the 21st century and announced Gareth Evans as one of the most exciting young directors working today. So it has been a tense two-and-then-some years waiting for a follow-up from Evans. Would taking the action outside of the lone building keep up the first film's wicked pace? Could a sequel replicate the form of the first film without feeling repetitive? Did Evans have the skills to tell a much broader story? Was it even possible to top the bone-crunching action of The Raid: Redemption? The answer to all of these questions is a resounding, "Fuck YES!" The Raid 2 is a full...

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Review: BREATHE IN, A Heartbreaking Romance

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Drake Doremus does one thing very, very well. He is a master at making the audience feel the emotions of his characters -- without relying on the typical protagonist story structure. His 2011 Sundance US Dramatic Competition-winning Like Crazy took us inside both ends of a long distance relationship, creating a palpable sense of desire, frustration, and, ultimately, love. It was also a true two-hander, with neither Anton Yelchin's Jacob or Felicity Jones's Anna being protagonists in the traditional sense. This same attitude towards storytelling is on display in Doremus's latest effort, Breathe In. While love is just as much the subject in this film as in Like Crazy, it's a very different kind of love on trial than the long-distance romantic love in that...

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Review: FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Delves Into A Mystery Well Worth Investigating

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

I became aware of Vivian Maier's beautiful photographs through my photographer friend about a year ago when he showed me a photo book he just purchased called Vivian Maier: Street Photographer. Those Rolleiflex medium format shot black and white photographs of people immediately grabbed my attention. He told me a very improbable yet amusing story about how Maier's work was discovered. In 2007, a young man named John Maloof, while doing research on his Chicago neighborhood, happened to come across a box full of 35mm still photo negatives at an auction house. He then discovered that the box contained amazing works of art. They belonged to a reclusive woman who worked as a nanny and housekeeper all her life. Ever since then, Maloof has been doing...

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The Friar's Club Comedy Film Festival Kicks Off April 1 With GRAVY! Win Tix To The Opening Night, Plus BORGMAN, WITCHING AND BITCHING, CHEATIN And More!

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Hey, New York! The Friar's Club Comedy Film Festival kicks off another quality year April first with the world premiere of James Roday's horror comedy Gravy and we've got tickets to give away for opening night plus other screenings throughout the festival!You want to check out Alex van Warmerdam's Borgman? Bill Plympton's Cheatin'? Alex de la Iglesia's Witching And Bitching? Eddie Mullins' indie hit Doomsdays? And, of course the aforementioned Gravy? We've got tickets for all of those to give away and all you need to do to claim a pair is email me here, tell me which film you want to see, and tell me a joke. Preferably a good one. Get to it!...

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Review: CESAR CHAVEZ Gets It Right

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT

I gotta admit that I was very skeptical going into this movie. There is something very dreadful about patronizing Hollywood biopics that makes me shudder. But with its largely Mexican-American cast and Mexican actor-turned-director Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Milk) directing, and for the fact it's the first biopic on Chavez, one of the most important labor activists in American history, I thought I'd give it a go. Surprisingly, Luna does an amazing job here, wisely concentrating on Chavez's biggest accomplishment in mid 60s through 70s -- as he goes back working in the field to organize, to the great California grapes strike, to hunger strikes to end violence on both sides. He doesn't whitewash his subject. Chavez's constant absence takes a toll on his...

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