Full WOLFCOP Trailer Promises Everything You'd Hope From A Movie Called WOLFCOP

Full WOLFCOP Trailer Promises Everything You'd Hope From A Movie Called WOLFCOP
Tribeca 2014 Review: ICE POISON, A Mesmerizing, Stark Depiction of Drugs and Poverty in Burma
Hot Docs 2014 Review: THE DARKSIDE Upholds the Tradition of Oral History
Trailer For Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD Charts Just That
Stanley Film Fest 2014 Dispatch: Days 1 & 2 Get Off To A Scary Good Start

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:00 PM PDT

From the title alone you probably already know if you want to see Lowell Dean's WolfCop. The only question is whether you'll be happy with the results when you do and here comes the full theatrical trailer for the cult action-horror-comedy and, oh yeah, it's got a whole lot of everything you'd hope for from a movie about an alcoholic werewolf cop.It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou Garou to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but lately things have taken a strange turn. Crime scenes seem oddly familiar. Lou's senses are heightened, and when the full moon is out, he's a rage-fueled werewolf. WOLFCOP is one cop's quest to become a better man...one transformation at a time.Coming to Canadian theaters June 6th,...

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Tribeca 2014 Review: ICE POISON, A Mesmerizing, Stark Depiction of Drugs and Poverty in Burma

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Grinding poverty and severely restricted life and economic choices push two impoverished denizens of Myanmar into drug dealing, and using, with predictably dire consequences in Midi Z's strong, stylistically assured third feature Ice Poison. As in his previous features Return to Burma (2011) and Poor Folk (2012), Midi Z sets Ice Poison in Lashio, the place of his birth, in the northern part of Burma, near the border with China, and home to large ethnic Chinese population. Midi Z shows us the side of the country that tourists are shielded from, with the lives of ordinary citizens struggling to survive. He does this with a deliberately paced, minimalist documentary-like aesthetic, with copious long takes building to mesmerizing effect, mirroring the way Midi Z's two central...

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Hot Docs 2014 Review: THE DARKSIDE Upholds the Tradition of Oral History

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT

I learned a new phrase while watching spiritual Australian documentary The Darkside. To take a 'stickybeak' is to pry around the premises and ask uncomfortable questions. A lady uses this phrase while talking about an Ouija board her and her family found on the beach one day (whilst having a stickybeak on said beach), and the dire consequences she feels this object had on her family for playing around with it: young deaths, alcoholism, mental breakdown and the like. The modern Aboriginal woman is gorgeously framed on her porch while an older family member (tantalizingly just out of focus) plays solitaire in the background, this vignette is one of about a dozen such ghost stories that director Warwick Thorton lovingly renders in the tradition of...

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Trailer For Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD Charts Just That

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT

An easy like during this year's Sundance was Richard Linklater's latest, and long in the works, Boyhood, which saw the Dazed And Confused helmer shoot the same cast over a 12 year period to chronicle the trials and triumphs (and more often than not little moments) of growing up. As a great admirer of Linnklater's work the film was a shining highlight of my festival, which you can read about more thoroughly in my review. As such, the thing on on my mind upon exiting the theater was: "when can I see this marvelous film again?"Well, for those in the U.S. that'd be June 11th, or thereabouts it being a limited release. Below is the first trailer, and while it aims for the heartwarming and...

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Stanley Film Fest 2014 Dispatch: Days 1 & 2 Get Off To A Scary Good Start

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT

The first two days of the Stanley Film Festival started with a strong turn out; hordes hungry for horror and international weirdness once again descended upon the Stanley Hotel (the fictional inspiration for The Shining's Overlook Hotel) for a fix of fun, macabre events, and bizarre cinematic madness. Here are a few words on the films that unspooled over the first two days....

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