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SXSW 2014 Review: A WOLF AT THE DOOR Huffs, Puffs, and Blows Sweet Love Goodbye

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SXSW 2014 Review: A WOLF AT THE DOOR Huffs, Puffs, and Blows Sweet Love Goodbye

SXSW 2014 Review: A WOLF AT THE DOOR Huffs, Puffs, and Blows Sweet Love Goodbye

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 03:30 PM PDT

In the fairytale classic  the Three Little Pigs, -- you guessed it -- three little pigs set out in the world to find their fortune. Things come to an abrupt halt, however, when an asshole big bad wolf comes into the picture to destroy everything they've literally built for their lives. This is also the setting for A Wolf At The Door, an intense drama about haste decisions and the inevitable consequences that follow.  Set in Rio de Janeiro, Wolf opens with a mother walking into her daughter's daycare to pick her up. Only problem is the daughter left with someone else without her consent. The cops are called and the daycare owner, mother, Bernando the father (Milhem Cortaz), and suspect / Bernando's mistress...

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Review: KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE Fails to Fly

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Kiki's Delivery Service started life as a 1985 novel by author Kadono Eiko, but it was the '89 Studio Ghibli version that brought fame to the little witch, particularly outside of her native Japan. Since that time the book has grown into a series, however it's the Miyazaki animation that remains the most well known. Kiki is one of the most popular characters in the great director's catalogue so it was a cause for excitement when this live-action version of the story was announced, surprisingly with one of the key figures in the late 90's J-horror movement at the helm, Juon's Shimizu Takashi. The film gets off to a positive start with the camera swooping down on the cliffside village in which Kiki is born,...

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Rotterdam 2014 Review: SORROW AND JOY Could Not Be More Aptly Named

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 02:30 PM PDT

(Ever loved something you expected to hate? THIS FILM!) This year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam dedicated a whole section of its "Signals" program to Danish director Nils Malmros. As I was not really aware of his work, this event would normally have passed me by entirely. But his newest film Sorg og Glæde aka. Sorrow and Joy suddenly stormed the festival chart, being praised by critics and the paying public alike. The audiences even awarded it a whopping 4.5 out of 5 as its average rating, securing this film the fifth place in the polls. I decided to check Sorrow and Joy out and was pleasantly blown away by it, this being one of the best films I've ever seen at the IFFR. So...

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SXSW 2014 Review: AMONG THE LIVING, A Horrifying Case of Boys Will Be Boys

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT

For many horror fans it feels like a lot of the most exciting contributions to the genre these days are coming from France.  This is, at least in part, thanks to Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury's 2007 shocker Inside, a home invasion thriller that takes the tired slasher formula to new highs, or perhaps, disturbing lows would be more accurate. What's perhaps most fascinating about the French new wave horror phenomenon, at least in Bustillo & Maury's case, is that much like The Rolling Stones had to teach America what to do with the blues, the cinema of Bustillo & Maury acts as a reinterpretation of American classics, filtered through a foreign perspective that takes bolder chances and plunges down darker rabbit holes. With their...

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Win Jeremy Lovering's IN FEAR On Blu-Ray!

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Having won raves at Sundance 2013, writer-director Jeremy Lovering's In Fear arrived on BluRay and VOD yesterday and we've got two copies to give away!In Fear is a tense psychological horror about a young couple's fight to make it through the night. Home invasion but in a car. In real-time. Tom (De Caestecker) and Lucy (Englert) are trapped in a maze of country roads with only their vehicle for protection, terrorized by an unseen tormentor hell-bent on exploiting their worst fears. Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.You want your chance to win? Simple! Just email me here and name...

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Take To The Skies With The Trailer For DOCTOR PROCTOR'S FART POWDER!

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Yes, Arild Frohlich's adaptation of Jo Nesbo's hugely popular children's book Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder hits Norwegian screens very soon and after a mock ad for the good Doctor's marquee product and a string of images from production the full trailer for the film has arrived, with English subtitles included.How far can a successful fart get you? Will it only lead to a good laugh, or could you possibly gain international recognition? The somewhat insane Doctor Proctor has accidentally invented the world's most powerful fart powder. When two kids from his neighborhood drop by for an unexpected visit, it becomes the beginning of an unusual friendship and a riotous business project. Well-behaved Lisa with her pigtails and tiny Nilly with his bright red hair decide...

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The Producers Of TROLLHUNTER Return With Road Racing Comedy BORNING

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 12:30 PM PDT

There have been a flood of fast car movies releasing around the globe in recent years for one very simple reason: The Fast And The Furious. The blockbuster franchise has been a huge hit all around the globe, leading local producers to scramble to put their own regional stamp on the formula in hopes of repeating that success. But when it comes to Hallvard Bræin and his upcoming Børning they've cast their eye a little farther back when looking for a touch point. Yup, Bræin and his producers - the same team that was behind Andre Ovredal's Trollhunter - aren't citing the Fast franchise on an influence on this one, preferring instead to nod to The Cannonball Run.The story revolves around an illegal road race...

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Check Out This Fan Film For THE RAID 2's Hammer Girl!

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Though Gareth Evans' The Raid 2 has not yet had a public release anywhere in the world it would appear at least one character has already made quite an impression. Fans have been chattering about Julie Estelle's role as Hammer Girl (that's her above) since the first images turned up, chatter which grew in volume when one of her signature sequences was previewed at London's Film4 Frightfest and the Toronto International Film Festival. And now she's been made the subject of a four minute fan film by Vlad Rimburg. Shot over the course of just a single day the results are pretty damn remarkable. As a credited producer on the actual film, I've got say I'm awfully flattered. As a fan, I'm awfully impressed. Check...

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NYC Happenings: A Tribute To Donald Richie Returns To Japan Society

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 11:30 AM PDT

If you know Japanese Cinema, especially pre-1980s, but certainly not excluding current generations of filmmakers, then you no doubt know the name Donald Richie. The American critic who adopted Japan as his home after the war, Richie was an instrumental force in introducing Westerners to both Japanese filmmakers and Japanese culture. He passed away last year at the age of 88. So, yes, while it's rare to have a tribute series to someone mostly labeled as a critic in the public's eyes, Richie was a scholar, historian, author and cinephile of the highest order. Japan Society in New York continues their Richie themed series starting March 13 and running through March 29.Last fall's Fantastic Five: Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Yanagimachi& Kore-eda, offered some of the finest...

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Destroy All Monsters: We Are Not True Detectives

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

I came to True Detective late. I batch-consumed episodes 1-5 while in the midst of my own existential crisis over the course of a weekend, a couple of weeks back - which, if you're going to do this show at all, I'd argue is the way to do it. I'm looking forward to revisiting the series as a complete piece in a year or so, watching all eight segments in a single run. I suspect that's the optimal viewing experience, existential crisis or no. Having arrived late, however, I missed a lot of the online experience of the show, which - I gathered peripherally - was eaten up by folks trying to "solve" the series' core enigma, either as mundanely as sorting out who had...

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Review: 09 Is A Found Footage Thriller With A Twist At The End

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

09 might be the first Chilean found footage thriller film, and it may be the most middling effort done whenever someone tries to break into this popular brand of pictures. Specially when the film's promotion is a lie, as its said in posters and then in the end of the movie, that is the first film made entirely using cellphones, and we know that is a lie, and even when they try to fix up things by saying it's the first movie 100% filmed with smart phones, they still think that the Chilean audience doesn't know better and tries to trick them with the gimmick, even being supported by a famous phone brand in the posters and at the start of the movie.So, besides the...

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Second Exclusive Trailer For Josh Zeman's KILLER LEGENDS Digs Into John Wayne Gacy

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Cropsey director Josh Zeman's latest exploration of dark true crime, Killer Legends, will soon be upon us with a sneak peak screening scheduled for Brooklyn's Nitehawk Cinema on March 13th prior to the premiere on Chiller March 16th at 8pm. And to get you into the mood, we've got a second exclusive trailer for you.Killer Legends explores the truth behind a quartet of popular urban legends - The Candyman, The Babysitter And The Man Upstairs, The Hookman and The Killer Clown - with this trailer focusing on the most notorious clown of them all: John Wayne Gacy. Take a look below....

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70s Rewind: 15 Favorite Vehicular Mayhem Movies

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT

With The Need for Speed racing into theaters this coming Friday, March 14, it's time to revisit my favorite movies with car chases from the 1970s, a particularly rich decade for vehicular mayhem....

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