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MINERS SHOT DOWN: South African Mining Massacre Doc Premieres At One World Film Festival

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MINERS SHOT DOWN: South African Mining Massacre Doc Premieres At One World Film Festival

MINERS SHOT DOWN: South African Mining Massacre Doc Premieres At One World Film Festival

Posted: 05 Mar 2014 01:30 AM PST

Renowned South African documentary producer and director, Rehad Desai, has premiered his second feature, Miners Shot Down, at the 2014 One World Film Festival in Prague. The film revisits events surrounding the August 2012 Marikana mine massacre, during which police opened fire on protesting miners, killing 30. The event shocked South Africa and the world, hearkening back to violence seen during the country's dark history of Apartheid, and raising troubling questions about state power and corporate exploitation. The film retraces events chronologically, from the build up of tensions to the tragic denouement. Unedited news footage, testimonials and interviews combine to reveal a story quite different from that seen during the events, making this is an important contribution to what may well prove a watershed moment in...

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First Teaser For Wuxia Fantasy THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM

Posted: 05 Mar 2014 12:30 AM PST

China's most stunning leading lady Fan Bingbing is set to not only bewitch audiences with her gorgeous looks, but will also unleash her cold hearted scorn in Jacob Cheung's wuxia fantasy epic The White Haired Witch Of Lunar Kingdom. Its tells a love story amidst a rivalry between sects with Huang Xiaoming starring opposite of Bingbing.  The supporting cast include Vincent Zhao, Wang Xuebing, Shera Li, Mark Du, Nicholas Tse and Kevin Yan. Tsui Hark is onboard as artistic director.Based on the classic martial arts novel by Liang Yusheng, it evolves around a pair of star-crossed lovers -- a devilish outlaw (Fan Bingbing) and the righteous Taoist leader (Huang Xiaoming), and their love that could change the fate of the nation.The film is scheduled for...

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It's Official! EXPENDABLES 3's Patrick Hughes To Direct Screen Gem's Remake Of THE RAID: REDEMPTION

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 08:15 PM PST

It has been running around the rumor mill for a while now. Today Sony/Screen Gems crossed the T's and dotted the I's and Patrick Hughes, director of the upcoming The Expendables 3 and the terrific Red Hill, is officially signed on to direct their remake of Gareth Huw Evans' international action hit, The Raid: Redemption. The new script was written by Out of the Furnace scribe Brad Inglesby. Original Raid producers XYZ Films (this includes our lord and master, Todd Brown) will produce this new film. Evans is on board as an executive producer. And the original fight choreographers and Evans regulars, Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian, will help bring the pain to Hughes' film. With this much of the original talent involved in this new project...

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Greatness. STAGE FRIGHT Trailer Mixes Music, Mirth, And Bloody Madness

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 06:10 PM PST

Nothing in life is guaranteed, but from the first trailer for Jerome Sable's Stage Fright, I am willing to predict that he has absolutely nailed a great horror-comedy musical. Sable made the short The Legend of Beaver Dam several years ago, a film that absolutely floored me because it captured the spooky spirit of a campfire tale and then infused it with a very funny musical twist. Official synopsis-wise, Stage Fright follows up in that same spirit: Starry-eyed teenager Camilla Swanson wants to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a Broadway diva, but she's stuck working in the kitchen of a snobby performing arts camp. Determined to change her destiny, she sneaks in to audition for the summer showcase and lands a lead role...

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Exclusive BOYS OF ABU GHRAIB Clip: Soldiers At The Campfire

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 01:30 PM PST

The dramatic war thriller Boys of Abu Ghraib will arrive in U.S. cinemas on March 28th. We have an exclusive clip to share with you and have included the domestic trailer as well for your perusal. From the Producers of "Blood Diamond" and "The Last Samurai," this dramatic war thriller follows soldier Jack Farmer (Luke Moran) from small town America to Iraq's most infamous prison, Abu Ghraib, where he's tasked with guarding the Army's highest priority detainees. Pressured by his superior (Sean Astin) into using harsh techniques on a seemingly innocent detainee (Omid Abtahi), the seductive allure of war quickly turns to a haunting reality that threatens to break him. Based on the true events that shocked the world in 2004....

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SXSW 2014: Watch The Teaser For Midnighter STARRY EYES

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 12:30 PM PST

All set to have its world premiere in less than a week at SXSW, midnighter horror film Starry Eyes is looking to wow audiences next Monday in Austin. In anticipation of its debut, a teaser trailer has dropped to give you a taste of what is in store. Starry Eyes tells the story of Sarah Walker, a determined and desperate actor who would do anything to land her first big role. Unfortunately this leaves her prey to a satanic cult who has been operating as Hollywood's gatekeepers since the Golden Age. They have the power to make her a star, but it comes at a terrible price.What follows is an occult tale of paranoia and possession that explores themes of transformation, body horror and a woman...

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Exclusive OTHER MONTHS Clip: The Rabbit in the Basement

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PST

Set to make its world premiere at SXSW this coming weekend, Nick Singer's Other Months tackles a familiar subject, but promises to shake things up a bit. Here's the description by the festival: Nash spends a year drawing into himself, becoming troubled by his work and disillusioned with his romantic prospects -- until a return home forces him to confront his inertia. Through pulsing dance floors, flooded basements, and strangers' embraces, Other Months takes the audience on Nash's journey of restraint and release. A character study, a visual poem, a headspace, and a feature film, Other Months is broken into three parts, each section correlating to a different time of year in tone, setting, and theme. Moving to the beat of its images as much...

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Preview: Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2014 Packs A Punch

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PST

The 19th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films' celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek in New York, March 6 - 16. It consists of 24 feature films making their New York, United States or North American premieres. The lineup includes new works from established masters like Bertrand Tavernier, Agnès Jaoui, François Ozon, and Jacques Doillon; critics' favorites Serge Bozon, Michel Gondry, and the Larrieu brothers. Alongside these known names are the key figures of what has been called France's next New Wave: a whole raft of emerging talents, including first- and second-time directors Ruben Alves, Sébastien Betbeder, Guillaume Brac, Thierry de Peretti,...

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Tribeca Announces Competition and Viewpoints Lineups

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 09:20 AM PST

We brought you news on Tribeca's Opening Nighter a few days back. Now the Manhattan fest has announced the first half of their main lineup with all the films in the World Narrative Competition, the Documentary Competition, and the out-of-competition Viewpoints section. The films are a diverse selection from all points on the globe including David Mackenzie's UK prison drama and TIFF hit Starred Up, Talya Lavie's Israeli dark comedy Zero Motivation, Frédéric Tcheng's French fashion doc Dior and I, and the this year's Golden Bear winner at Berlin, Diao Yinan's Chinese murder mystery Black Coal, Thin Ice . The full list follows. What are you most excited by? World Narrative Feature Competition Brides, directed and written by Tinatin Kajrishvili. (France, Georgia) - North American...

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Watch An Exclusive Trailer For Josh Zeman's KILLER LEGENDS

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PST

Back in 2009 director Josh Zeman created something of a stir with his dark and disturbing documentary Cropsey, a deconstruction and exploration of the real life basis of an urban legend from his home town. And Zeman is back now and mining similar territory with his upcoming Chiller backed follow up Killer Legends.Along with producer and co-host Rachel Mills, Zeman here looks into the historical basis for four urban legends: The Candyman, The Babysitter And The Man Upstairs, The Hookman and The Killer Clown. Want a taste of what's coming? We've got an exclusive Killer Legends trailer for you here. Titled Imitation of Death, this one focuses on the Hookman segment of the film and the so called Moonlight Murders that occurred in Texarkana in...

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Hooray For Hollywood! New Red Carpets and Old White People

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST

The SWAT snipers are climbing down from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum roof, traffic is resuming its normal sluggish flow at Hollywood and Highland (the 25-foot anti-blast wall now deconstructed) and soft sobbing and the repeated mantra of "It was an honor to be nominated" is wafting gently down from the hills above Sunset Boulevard. It's springtime in Hollywood and all is right with the world. Please forgive me if I seem a little giddy today. See, today is my FAVORITE day of the movie-making year and it isn't because we "finally" know who won the Oscar for this or that -- it's because "award" season is finally over (at least until the shot-across-the-bow of Cannes in May, but let me enjoy...

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Exclusive Clip From THE VISITOR: You'll Need Seat Belts to Watch It, Says Lance Henriksen

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PST

Available today on Blu-ray and DVD, The Visitor is one of the most delightfully weird movies I've ever seen. And, in an exclusive clip, the great Lance Henriksen confirms one of my suspicions. In my review, I commented: "I wonder how well any of the Italian crew spoke / understood English. This was the time period [1979] when Italian productions cobbled together cast members with name recognition from across North America and Europe, and perhaps that would help explain why so much of the story appears to have been lost in translation." Henriksen addresses that point, as well as his general approach to the film in the clip below. (I won't spoil it for you.) As to the movie itself, well, plot summaries are besides...

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