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First JU-ON: BEGINNING OF THE END Poster Arrives, Compare It With Its Predecessors

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First JU-ON: BEGINNING OF THE END Poster Arrives, Compare It With Its Predecessors

First JU-ON: BEGINNING OF THE END Poster Arrives, Compare It With Its Predecessors

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:30 AM PDT

It seems that things are moving pretty fast for Ju-on: Beginning of the End. Not two weeks have passed since the picture began filming and already a fresh new poster can be found on various Japanese outlets around the web. With the seventh installment in the series Ochiai Masayuki will undoubtedly try to revitalize a slightly worn-out franchise. Apart from the following description of the plot - which, by the way, looks oddly familiar - there's still not much information about the picture. Sasaki Nozomi will play Yui, a woman trying to uncover a mystery behind the cursed house, while Kobayashi Kai will star as Saeki Toshio, the legendary ghostly little boy.An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been...

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Check Out The NSFW Trailer For RECENTLY, MY SISTER IS UNUSUAL

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:30 AM PDT

Among the hardworking and constantly stressed Japanese citizens, one of the quickest and arguably most satisfying ways of escaping reality is indulging in manga. Within this billion dollar industry there's an unimaginable amount of genres - one more original than the other - perfectly suited to different needs. Take, for example, ecchi, a type of manga which doesn't focus on carnal acts (as opposed to hentai), but instead of that has many colorful sexual overtones hidden in the storyline.Following the success of Matsuzawa Mari's 2010 manga of the same name, Recently, My Sister is Unusual (ImoCho) revolves around a bizarrely erotic relationship between a stepbrother and a stepsister. The live-action adaptation is directed by first-time helmer Aoyama Yuki. Fashion model Hashimoto Tenka plays the leading role.Here's...

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Review: ENEMY Explores Villeneuve's More Unique Side

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 06:40 PM PDT

With film, things often come in pairs. Sometimes the doubles are explicit; some studio vying with another for a given plot, be it a tale of animated insects or impending asteroid impacts. Sometimes, the twinning takes the form of accidental synergy; say the back-to-back S&M Asian romps of Moebius and R100 that I experienced earlier this week.TIFF brought out a couple more shared connections. Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, whose previous, shattering work Incendies vied for an Oscar, had two films at this year's fest. The first, Prisoners (read Ryland's review) is a big budget, big studio, big concept thriller, showing to a mainstream audience the director's craft. Enemy is a much more subdued affair, yet also shares a key performer in the form of Jake Gyllenhaal. An entirely different film, Richard Aoyade's The Double (read Todd's review) also screened at this...

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SXSW 2014 Interview: Talking to CREEP's Mark Duplass And Patrick Brice

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 06:10 PM PDT

In introducing the following interview with actor/writer Mark Duplass and actor/director Patrick Brice about their new film, Creep, it would probably be advantageous to offer readers some context in the way of plot.  But it would best serve the audience to enter Creep with as little information as possible, as the film is a shocking feat that keeps viewers blissfully unaware of the unsettling directions around each bend.  Suffice it to say that Creep is one of my special favorites of the many films I've been fortunate enough to catch at the 2014 edition of SXSW. I aim only to whet appetites for what is surely one of the most interesting works from the already fascinating Mark Duplass canon. That the film's director, Patrick Brice,...

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Review: BAD WORDS Is Jason Bateman's Dark And Funny Directorial Debut

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 05:40 PM PDT

The career of Jason Batemen is rather fascinating. Rising from a sidekick on Silver Spoons early in his career, he stumbled through a number of films that his sister's sit-com sibling would pass on (including the truly egregious Teen Wolf Too). He showed up as a minor character in a few projects here and there but never really broke through until his starring role in Arrested Development showed a new generation of viewers the comedic skills of the actor.Of late, he's made a number of stinkers (ie., Identity Thief) but also lent his hand to some excellent projects like Tropic Thunder or Up In The Air. With Bad Words, we see Bateman taking the center stage, both as leading man and his debut as director. Yes, this is a high concept comedy, and one that...

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SXSW 2014 Interview: CESAR CHAVEZ Director Diego Luna and Actor Rosario Dawson

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Four years ago, Diego Luna sat down with the Chavez family and asked permission to tell the story of Cesar Chavez to world through film. "We sat down with Paul Chavez, Cesar's son, and explained to him why we felt the film had to be done and why with us," director Diego Luna told Twitch. In February, Cesar Chavez premiered at Berlin Film Festival and played to a packed Paramount Theater in Austin for SXSW filmgoers and activists, Chavez family members, people who were involved in the movement, and the stars of the film - Michael Peña (Chavez), America Ferrera (Helen Chavez) and Rosario Dawson (Dolores Huerta).Twitch: What was it like screening to such a passionate and involved audience?Diego Luna: It was the perfect mix...

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SXSW 2014 Review: THAT GUY DICK MILLER Shines A Light In The Shadows Of American Cinema

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Most film fans know the face, but very few know the name. Dick Miller is one of those guys we see in film after film, completely inhabiting the characters he's given for whatever brief amount of screen time he has. That Guy Dick Miller takes a look at the career and personal life of a man you've seen a million times, but can never quite remember his name.I will admit, up until two or three years ago, Dick Miller was an actor I didn't know by name. He was Mr. Futterman in Gremlins, one of the dodgy actors in Matinee, and any number of security guards, store clerks, police officers, and petty crooks in hundreds of films since the '50s. The guy may not have...

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Cast Out The Devil With The International Trailer For Marc Carrete's ASMODEXIA

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Marc Carrete's Spanish horror film Asmodexia is just putting the final buff and polish on its post production before rolling out to the international festival circuit and one of the consequences of its impending completion is the arrival of the international trailer.Eloy de Palma is an exorcist pastor roaming the darkest corners of the country with his granddaughter Alba. Their mission is to help those possessed by The Evil One, an infection of the soul that is spreading fast, especially among the most vulnerable members of society: children, mental patients, and drug addicts. There is also a mysterious cult following them, making it more difficult to help those in need. Each exorcism is tougher than the one before, and every battle with Evil reveals a...

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Review: THE COLD LANDS, Blink and You'll Miss a Terrific Performance From Lili Taylor

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Often, films challenge morals: what is right, what is wrong, and what happens when you pick a side. There are times, however, when nothing is resolved yet the question lingers throughout the film. This is the baffling case of The Cold Lands, an inferior case study on doing the right thing. The Cold Lands opens with a mother (Lili Taylor) giving her son Atticus (newcomer Silas Yelich) a history lesson in remote backwoods of Catskills. She is a woman who's grown self-reliant and wants that for her boy as well. They're always surrounded by nature, so everything to sustain life is right at their fingertips. Things take an unexpected turn, however, when the mother suddenly dies and Atticus takes off into the woods to live....

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Dog Watches TV, Bites Rapist In Clip From Sam Fuller's WHITE DOG

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Sam Fuller's classic thriller White Dog gets the Masters of Cinema treatment later this month, with a brand new dual format Blu-ray/DVD release hitting UK shelves on 31st March. The film stars Paul Winfield and Kristy McNichol in the story of a stray dog that is discovered to have been conditioned to attack black people. Fuller's controversial film, which questions whether racism is a treatable condition, or an untreatable problem, will be making its Blu-ray debut, courtesy of those good people over at Eureka Entertainment, and you can check out a clip from the newly restored version of the film below, to whet our appetites....

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Review: TEENAGE Is A Fascinating Look At The Emergence Of A Cultural Norm

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Who are these fickle lords of pop culture? Where did they come from? Though the awkward age has by now been institutionalized as a demographic concept with immense cultural power (see: Beiber, Demigod), "teenager" is a relatively new social concept that emerged during the war years of the early 20th century. The birth of the teenager as a political and cultural category is the subject of Matt Wolf's humanistic new documentary Teenage, and it's rare to see such an abstract concept presented in such a personal way. Consisting completely of archival footage (and footage made to appear archival) overlaid with voiceovers from anonymous once-teens, the film is executed with a deft aesthetic sensibility that renders most of its attendant nostalgia palatable. Everyone by now is...

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TAPED Director To Remake THE BIRDS For Michael Bay

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Variety is reporting that Diederick Van Rooijen has been hired to direct a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, The Birds, to be produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and Peter Guber's Mandalay Pictures for Universal.Van Rooijen is probably best known for his Dutch thriller Taped, which played at Fantastic Fest in 2012, and follows a young Dutch couple holidaying in Argentina, who go on the run from the local authorities after witnessing a cop commit murder.Platinum Dunes has been responsible for a number of remakes in the past few years, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and are now winding the clock back even further with this remake of Hitchcock's 1963 classic. No doubt Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor's...

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Review: THE ROCKET Shoots For The Heart

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT

The feature debut from documentarian Kim Mordaunt follows the plight of a young village boy in rural Laos, who is believed to bring bad luck to his family, and his efforts to win them back by entering a dangerous rocket festival. 10-year-old Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) has been branded as bad luck since the day he was born alongside a stillborn twin brother. Cited as the cause of all his family's misfortune, including the accidental death of his mother, Ahlo is finally shunned from the community when a new dam development ousts them from their homes. Ahlo seeks refuge with an eccentric outcast, Uncle Purple (Thep Phongam) and his young niece, Kia, but yearns for the love of his father. As the villagers prepare for the annual...

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