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Review: THE WORD Explains The Mechanics Of Manipulative Revenge

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Review: THE WORD Explains The Mechanics Of Manipulative Revenge

Review: THE WORD Explains The Mechanics Of Manipulative Revenge

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:00 AM PDT

From the very beginning a deep sense of an impending tragedy pervades The Word (Obietnica), Polish filmmaker Anna Kazejak's naturalistic and somber coming-of-age thriller, creating a strangely disturbing yet thoroughly intriguing aura of uneasiness around the two main characters. A teenage girl (Eliza Rycembel) and her year-older boyfriend (Mateusz Wieclawek) are desperately trying to get in touch with their feelings and cope with a difficult situation that tore them apart in a matter of minutes. They're willingly distancing themselves from each other by means of modern technology and consequently stimulating various negative and positive emotions that lead them onto a path of radical choices and quiet self-destruction.The script makes the whole affair seem somewhat cryptic as it doesn't necessarily reveal the actual sequence of events...

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Watch High School Girls Kick More Ass In This New Look At HIGH KICK ANGELS

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Our first preview of the action movie High Kick Angels arrived last week in a promo video, but it was mostly a mashed-up video of fight scenes from other films, revealing only a few shot of actual footage and some training clip of the films cast. But this week Japanese action fans were treated to another promo with some actual action from the film, and it looks pretty awesome.  Each of these girls truly hold their own in an one-against-many situation. Even better is when fighting as a team, they become a force to be reckoned with.Martial artist-turned-filmmaker Nishi Fuyuhiko of High Kick Girl fame has gathered an impressive line-up of athletes from various background.  The team includes Karate champion Kanon Miyohara, Kyokushin black belt...

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Okinawa 2014 Review: FUKU-CHAN OF FUKUFUKU FLATS

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:00 PM PDT

Fujita Yosuke's bittersweet comedy Fuku-Chan of Fukufuku Flats reflects on themes of loneliness and love but never loses sight of its comedy heart, thanks to a wonderful central performance from Oshima Miyuki.Fukuda Tatsuo, 'Fuku-chan' to his many friends, paints buildings by day and solves the disputes of the off-kilter characters living in his apartment building at night. A kind-hearted man who goes out of his way to befriend and help those in need, it's hard to understand why Fuku-chan is so timid around women. All is revealed when a budding photographer named Chiho reenters his life, the architect of a terrible high school prank that destroyed a bullied little boy's confidence. Chiho is trying to atone for her past and sees an inner beauty in...

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Dallas 2014 Preview: Twitch Picks 12 Must See Films

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 01:30 PM PDT

The indomitable Dallas International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow night with the gala premiere of Fred Schepisi's Words and Pictures. Twitch will have (cowboy) boots on the ground with plenty of coverage from across the city. To jump start our coverage, we've got our Top 12 Must See Picks for you to peruse. There were plenty of great films that just missed the list such as Sundance hits Rich Hill, Obvious Child, The Overnighters, and Locke. Let us know what you're most excited for!...

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Scarlett Johansson Faces Off With Choi Min-sik In First Trailer For Besson's LUCY

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 01:15 PM PDT

Luc Besson likes nothing better than making things go bang and he's back to his old tricks, taking the director's chair to oversee a high profile international cast for the upcoming Lucy. Scarlett Johansson plays the title character, a young woman forced to work as a drug mule with a brick of narcotics embedded into her stomach. But when the drugs start to leach into her bloodstream ... well, they do something other than just making her high. Morgan Freeman provides addition US based firepower on the cast front while Oldboy himself (Choi Min-sik) glowers away. Danish star Pilou Asbaek (Borgen, A Hijacking) is reportedly in there as well.Take a look at the first trailer below!...

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The Gang's All Here In These EXPENDABLES 3 Character Posters

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 11:45 AM PDT

Want to get a good look at Sylvester's Stallone's veiny arm, Kelsey Grammar's fishing hat, Wesley Snipes' collection of knives and / or Mel Gibson preparing to say something unprintable? Then look no farther than this collection of Expendables 3 character posters featuring sixteen principal characters from the Patrick Hughes directed sequel. When we say the gang's all here, we mean it. They're all here. Check out the gallery below....

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Review: DOM HEMINGWAY, A Cheeky, If Slight, Gangster Character Study

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Petty gangster, safecracker, loud mouth, loose cannon, thief, deadbeat dad, pint guzzling, word-smithing, cat killing, thug Dom Hemingway is the type of guy you would have no tolerance for in real life, but generally gravitate towards on screen. Twelve years is a long time, but Dom did his time in silence to protect his betters, and after being set free of Her Majesty's Pleasure (I'm assuming not for good behavior) attempts to pick up the pieces of his life. While on the inside, his wife died of cancer, his daughter grew up and had kids, his boss got very, very rich, and his only friend in the world, Dickie -- a snappily attired Richard E. Grant, with his glorious hangdog face, shooting glasses, and shrugged...

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Destroy All Monsters: Pay the Writer?

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT

The news last week that Entertainment Weekly was kicking off a program to shanghai unpaid internet writers into their content delivery system didn't raise many of my hackles. This was only because my overall opinion of the future of journalism is so dismal that a mega-sized media corporation (Time Warner in this case) trying a maneuver like this has long seemed to me to be a question of "if," rather than "when." At least the branding seemed relatively pleasant: 'You'll be paid in prestige!' EW promised. I suspect prestige falls just slightly under actual folding currency in the ambitions of the bottom half of the internet's freebie opinion-spinners, and well above other ephemeral considerations like following one's muse, sticking it to one's father, or getting...

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Amy Adams Going Alien With Denis Villeneuve

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:33 AM PDT

Amy Adams, who gained experience dealing with aliens in Man of Steel, is in early talks to star in the science-fiction thriller Story of Your Life, to be directed by Denis Villenueve. According to Deadline, Adams would play an "expert linguist ... recruited by the military" to determine whether newly-arrived extraterrestrials are friendly (like Superman) or antagonistic (like Zod). It's based on a Nebula Award-winning novella by Ted Chiang, first published in 1998; Eric Heisserer wrote the screenplay; his credits include the scripts for the remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Thing, as well as writing and directing the recent Paul Walker vehicle Hours. Villenueve made a big splash with last year's one-two of Enemies and Prisoners, and his involvement suggests a thriller that...

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Review: THE RETRIEVAL Quietly Takes On Loss, Life, And Hope

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Chris Eska crafted the finely-honed, modern-day drama August Evening, which featured a resilient, stoic Mexican immigrant who dealt with life's challenges as they arose. The Retrieval is Eska's followup, and it's a similar, low-key, high-quality affair that etches portraits of two African-American men at different stages of their lives during the Civil War era. Specifically, the film follows Will (Ashton Sanders), an orphan boy on the cusp of adulthood, and Nate (Tishuan Scott), a man who is the target of a "retrieval." Will works under the terribly firm hand of his uncle Marcus (Keston John), who is a bounty hunter in the business of returning runaway slaves. Having (seemingly) no other viable choice, the 13-year-old Will obeys and assists Marcus in his nefarious activities, which...

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Review: THE INHERITANCE 2 (Dědictví aneb kurvaseneříká) Packs A Social Satire In A Time Capsule

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT

The year 2014 is certainly the year of sequels for Czech cinema. A beloved cult film, The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday, got a sequel (and several others are getting ready for a release), an event that only few would say will come true. When in 1992, Věra Chytilová, a prominent figure of the so-called Czech New Wave, made a film about a village drunkard-cum-millionaire, a lot of people thought she went out of her mind and that the bar of bad taste could not be dropped any lower. The contrary is the case, and over time, the film entered into the treasure chest of Czech films, gathered a great deal of fans and proved to be ahead of its era. Chytilová got the last laugh. In 2014, when she...

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