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Hong Kong 2014 Review: ABERDEEN Is Pang Ho Cheung's Most Mature Work Yet

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Hong Kong 2014 Review: ABERDEEN Is Pang Ho Cheung's Most Mature Work Yet

Hong Kong 2014 Review: ABERDEEN Is Pang Ho Cheung's Most Mature Work Yet

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:08 PM PDT

Pang Ho Cheung delivers a beautifully observed portrait of a modern Hong Kong family that fuses social commentary with fantastical imagery and his trademark cheeky humour to wonderful effect.In a notable shift in tone from his recent successes, Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung takes a more serious look at his home town in Aberdeen, and the myriad challenges facing its inhabitants, as experienced by the Cheng family. An increasingly despondent tour guide, Wai Ching (Miriam Yeung) wrestles with lingering grievances about her dead mother, while her doctor husband, Yau (Eric Tsang) has drifted into a steamy affair with his buxom young nurse. Meanwhile Wai Ching's brother Tao (Louis Koo), who tutors young women in using their looks to snare wealthy husbands, is struggling to accept...

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Giveaway: EVIL IN THE TIME OF HEROES, Billy Zane, Zombies, Action, Comedy, Horror, Promo Codes!

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:30 PM PDT

Not your average Greek art house drama, Evil in the Time of Heroes stars the inimitable Billy Zane in a tale of zombies featuring the apocalypse and Greek mythology. (?!) We have promo codes to give away to five lucky readers -- but only for those in the U.S. (No slur intended to our large global audience, which by and large is more handsome, intelligent, and in shape than those of us who live in the States.) As of Tuesday, March 25, the movie is available to watch via various Video On Demand platforms. According to our own Matthew Lee: It's ridiculous, frequently abandons any pretence of making logical sense, sticks two fingers up at audience expectations and includes Billy Zane, for no apparent reason....

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BARAIRO NO BUKO Trailer: Comedy Specialist Fukuda Yuichi Is Back With More Laughter And Hijinks!

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PDT

Here's a really good reason to get excited! It seems that Fukuda Yuichi, creator of such ridiculously entertaining action comedies as Kids Police and Hentai Kamen, has not one but two pictures set for 2014 release. Less than two months ago Twitch showed you the first teaser for his upcoming female superhero feature Joshi Zu. Now it's time to present the bizarre-looking yet strangely seductive trailer for Fukuda's slapstick outing Barairo no Buko (literally Rose-colored Buko). Sashihara Rino of the HKT48 fame plays a girl who falls victim to her own daydreaming and in result goes through a series of painfully hilarious events that involve shojo manga, Twitter, Johnny Depp's doppelgänger and a fancy wig.Clearly on a roll, Fukuda is quickly becoming one of the most...

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SXSW 2014 Leftovers: Top 5 Anecdotes & Asides From Linklater, Rodriguez, And More

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Like an avalanche of awesomeness, the 2014 edition of SXSW has washed over its attendees, leaving cinephiles to sift through the rubble and pick up the pieces of our lives. One of the inherent detriments of a film festival as excellent as SXSW is the vast array of films you only realize were must-sees after the fact. Thus the SXSW FOMO syndrome is a nightmare that comes with the territory - I still shudder whenever someone says to me "did you see Faults?". Twitch did a solid job this year of covering most bases, but in addition to our as-thorough-as-possible spread, there are always those bits of gold that slip through the fingers, whether in the form of a passing interaction, a nugget of wisdom...

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Seasonal Ruminations: Melbourne Cinematheque And Tarkovsky's Prose

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Regarded as amongst the few true poets of the cinema and, in the West, one of the greatest Russian director of the post-World War II era. A truly unique and influential body of work that is visually breathtaking, elemental, lyrical and metaphysical.Melbourne Cinematheque is a sublime curated mix of auteur and period driven cinema that aims to reignite the passionate and educate the eager. The next season sees them tackle the poetic prose of Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky. Highlights include dreamlike The Mirror, the metaphysical sci-fi Stalker and the haunting Solaris. Click through below for highlights of the program which runs from March 26 to April 9.Check out the Melbourne Cinematheque site to book your tickets (buy a pass) and support this staple of cinephilia....

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KUJIRA NO ITA NATSU: Watch First Trailer For Yoshida Yasuhiro's Coming Of Age Dramedy

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Set in an unnamed Japanese seaside village, Kujira no Ita Natsu (literally Summer of the Whales, although the official English title is still not known) is a coming of age dramedy that centers on Chuuya (Nomura Shuhei), a small-town boy who suddenly decides to change his environment and move to Tokyo in order to give his quiet life a meaning. However, due to an unforeseen flood of nostalgic memories of high school days spent with three best friends, Chuuya slowly begins to change his mind.Director Yoshida Yasuhiro has previously worked with young and relatively inexperienced Japanese actors on his two previous projects, Leaving on the 15th Spring and Enoshima Prism. He often films on location in lesser-known, natural areas around Japan, and casts local real-life...

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JIM HENSON'S CREATURE SHOP CHALLENGE Begins This Week

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Hot on the heels of the release of Muppets Most Wanted this past weekend, SyFy launches another reality competition show, Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge. Like all other SyFy reality competition shows before it, contestants will compete in creature fabrication challenges every week. Their creations are then put under a screen test and judged by an expert panel of judges. The panel includes Jim Henson chairman and son of the late Jim Henson, Brian Henson. Beth Hathaway is lead fabricator for K.N.B. EFX Group, which has done work recently on Inglorious Basterds, The Walking Dead, Django Unchained and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Kirk R, Thatcher started at ILM and is currently with Henson. He co-wrote Muppet Treasure Island, and directed television features The Muppets...

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Crowdfund This: Badass Luchador EL GIGANTE Needs Your Help

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT

México Bárbaro's Gigi Saul Guerrero has just launched, together with the company LuchaGore Productions, a crowdfunding campaign for her new short film, which promises luchador action, blood, guts and, like any great horror film, social commentary. El Gigante is "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a crazy Mexican twist", and comes from the mind of horror writer Shane McKenzie, whose book Muerte Con Carne (praised by Fangoria) is being adapted to film by LuchaGore Productions. Saul Guerrero and her team want to create a feature length film based on Muerte Con Carne and the short El Gigante is literally just the beginning as it deals with the first chapter of the book. There's a cannibal family on the Mexico-United States border hunting illegal Mexican immigrants,...

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New RAID 2 Trailer Lays A Beating

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Yes, we're late to the party on the new US trailer for The Raid 2 - it was that sort of weekend - but, well, there is one. And if you want to see prisoners beaten with sticks in the mud, baseball bats swinging, shotguns blasting and all sorts of other violent behavior then you've come to the right place. This has all of that, and quite a lot which has not been included in previous trailers. Take a look below....

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DVD Review: TOM HOLLAND'S TWISTED TALES - There Is A Tale For Everybody

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Tom Holland's Twisted Tales was a web series hosted by our friends over at FearNet. The 'Twisted Tales' are nine short films, all written and directed by Tom Holland (Child's Play and Fright Night). They are stories about revenge seeking technology, tales of morality, drug abuse and werewolves, survival instincts, and dancing vampires. As with nearly every anthology series out there, there are high notes and low notes. Mileage always varies and enjoyment of the shorts is purely subjective. Holland recruits a few familiar faces to genre fans. In these tales you will find A.J. Bowen (The Sacrament), who gets victimized by his GPS in Fred and his GPS. Danielle Harris (Stakeland) and William Forsythe (Boardwalk Empire) go tete-a-tete in the deal with the Devil tale To Hell With You. Ray Wise...

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Another Day, Another Uninspiring X-MEN Trailer

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT

It's at the minute and fifty second mark of the latest trailer for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days Of Future Past that the trailer gods were kind enough to make explicit what had been bothering me about it until that point. That's the point, you see, where the music begins to flagrantly nick from Clint Mansell's Requiem For A Dream score, aiming to achieve the same epic feel through imitation but not simply not executing it nearly as well. And that's the problem with the trailer as a whole. Yes, it's an improvement from the first efforts though it is still far from shaking the hyper melodramatic soap opera trappings. But the improvements are all nicked from other, seemingly better, movies with the execution a significant...

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Review: NOAH, Good Vs. Evil Is Not As Simple As It Sounds

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

With a length of little more than two hours, Darren Aronofsky's Noah is many things. It is an exploration of some of the themes the director already touched on in The Fountain, but it also functions as new territory for Aronofsky, mostly through its kick-ass action blockbuster side. Certainly, the main goal is to give a different approach to the biblical story of Noah's Ark and thus the film won't please everyone. That might be an obvious remark, but it really won't do it. For example, I don't see my grandmother, the last true Catholic person in my family, pleased to watch a colossal battle, echoing the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in the middle of Noah's tale. It seems Aronofsky is bringing the Bible to a...

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Watch The First Trailer For Yuasa's PING PONG

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT

In an intriguing match of talents, Mind Game director Yuasa Masaaki has taken the controls of a new anime adaptation of Tekkon Kinkreet writer Matsumoto Taiyo's hugely popular coming of age sports story Ping Pong.Already the subject of an excellent live action film by Sori Fumihiko, this new anime version promises to be very well worth seeking out. Matsumoto is revered amongst fans of intelligent, character based manga, for one thing, his work embracing youthful outsiders struggling to find their way through life with a style that is immediately recognizable while defying most of the conventions of mainstream manga. And in Yuasa, Matsumoto's written work finds a perfect complement in one of the most endlessly inventive and compelling directors working in animation anywhere in the...

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Watch Cute Girls Kick Ass In HIGH KICK ANGELS Promo Videos

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Back in 2009, High Kick Girl and Karate Girl producer Nishi Fuyukiko oversaw the introduction of karate prodigy Takeda Rina to great stardom in the Japanese martial arts genre. With an eye for discovering new talent, Nishi has assembled not just one, but a team of girls for his next project, High Kick Angels. Enter three more karate practitioners: Miyohara Kanon, Kawamoto Mayu, and Aono Kaede, plus ballet dancer Nagashima Hirona. Just like Takeda, these girls showcase much promise in their athletic abilities, judging by some footage from the videos. No word yet on the synopsis or release date. I'll be sure to keep a lookout on this as more news is available.You'll find the promo and some demonstration/training videos for each of the cast...

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Watch This Clip From WAR OF THE WORLDS GOLIATH And Enter Our Giveaway

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

With the theatrical release come and gone, it is now time to look ahead to the Blu-ray release of Joe Pearson's steam punk sci-fi animated adventure War of the Worlds Goliath. In anticipation of its release on April 1, we have a double treat for you! First, we have an exclusive clip from the film to share with you. You can watch that below. And, for our U.S. readers, we have a contest for you. One lucky individual will win a 3D Blu-ray and a poster signed by Joe Pearson and producer David Ambrowitz. Two other readers will win Blu-rays. To enter, just e-mail me your answer to the following skill testing question, "Where was H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds first published?". That simple. Put 'Goliath Giveaway'...

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The Kids Talk Film: ALIEN

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Imagine the opportunity to go back and watch Ridley Scott's Alien, for the first time again. Willem (age 10) got his first exposure to the horrific piece of science fiction as he continues his tour through the genre with his father (yours truly, and also the disembodied voice in the Kids Talk Film videos.) This one proved too scary for his sister Miranda (age 9) to attempt, so he flies solo in discussing the experience of long tracking shots down quiet corridors, dripping water and saliva, xenomorph life-cycles, and the keen suspense of not always seeing exactly what is happening. Twitch has been on the Internet long enough that many of its writing staff have children old enough to understand and consume media in a way...

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