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BOOZIE MOVIES HAS SEEN GODZILLA, AND IT'S GOT SOMETHING TO SAY. IT WANTS TO KILL YOUR DOG AND BABY TODAY!

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BOOZIE MOVIES HAS SEEN GODZILLA, AND IT'S GOT SOMETHING TO SAY. IT WANTS TO KILL YOUR DOG AND BABY TODAY!

BOOZIE MOVIES HAS SEEN GODZILLA, AND IT'S GOT SOMETHING TO SAY. IT WANTS TO KILL YOUR DOG AND BABY TODAY!

Posted: 16 May 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Short summary of long article, to answer your big question now. "Is Godzilla good?" No, not really. "Is it better than the 1998 remake?" Yes, but not really. Not by very much at all. Actually, maybe not at all. The 1998 version is kind of zany and fun in its own way. "How could you possibly say the 1998 film is better. You must be some flame war starting troll. I'm not interested in anything you have to say." That's fine. For everyone else, let me explain.PART I: NOSTALGIA IS A BITCH AND SO IS MUTOGodzilla fans are a special breed within the lexicon of nerd culture, although it might be best to take a step back before I elaborate. As Japanese as Gojira may...

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Unveils More Cast Via Instagram

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:40 AM PDT

Now that The Raid 2 and Killers are out in the wild, the talents behind those two awesome slices of Indonesian action are collaborating on the dark action thriller The Night Comes For Us, where things are shaping up very nicely indeed. The last time Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto collaborated was on the sensational Safe Haven chapter of V/H/S 2, and this time Tjahjanto is directing a script penned by the both of them, while Evans produces and handles action direction. Already on board are Joe Taslim and Yayan Ruhian, familiar faces to any pre-existing fans of The Raid who may be out there, as well as Hammer Girl herself, Julie Estelle. Now, via the production's official Instagram feed, we have a few more names to...

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Review: COMING HOME Trades Fascinating History For Underwhelming Romance

Posted: 16 May 2014 12:15 AM PDT

Zhang Yimou returns to his more humble, socially conscious roots, reuniting with former muse Gong Li for an earnest, if rather underwhelming, adaptation of Yan Geiling's The Criminal Lu Yanshi. While the historical significance of the story will resonate strongly with domestic audiences, too little context is given for its impact to travel into international markets, despite strong performances and big name appeal.In 1966, at the start of China's Cultural Revolution, professor and intellectual Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) was arrested and incarcerated in a work camp, along with millions of others who were deemed a bourgeois threat to Mao Zedong's grand scale power play. Ten years later, Lu escapes and attempts to reconnect with his wife, Feng Wangyu (Gong Li), but their daughter, Dan Dan...

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First Full Trailer For MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT Battles Giant Sand Bugs

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:30 PM PDT

The first full trailer for Monsters: Dark Continent paints a much bigger picture of what to expect from the sequel to Gareth Edwards' 2010 original. The teaser, released last August, did little more than establish the setting of the film in the Middle East. Now we get more context on the background of the characters in the trailer, as well as a different, harder-edged, yet still poetic mood than the dreamy, almost romantic atmosphere of Edwards' film. (My review here.) And the new synopsis (via Dread Central) makes the movie sound more like Apocalypse Now: Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the 'Infected Zones' have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival....

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Review: SX_TAPE? More Like SUX_Tape. Amirite? High Five!

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Can I just say something? SX_Tape is an awful, awful film. In the interest of appeasing the editorial gods, I will elaborate, however, I feel as though I'm getting dumber just for having to spend precious moments of my life thinking about the film beyond its interminable runtime.I'm no hater of found footage films, but then again, I'm also not the guy who seeks them out at the video store. Found footage, like any method, is simply a device. It can be used for good or for ill, and has delivered some of the scariest moments of the last two decades. However, [Rec] this is not. SX_Tape is a truly flaccid piece of lazy dreck disguising itself as a horror film.A couple trespass on the grounds...

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Fantaspoa 2014 Review: DEVIL IN MY RIDE, An Amusing Road/Buddy/Exorcism Movie

Posted: 15 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT

If The Battery approached the zombie movie with a very low budget but lots of fun and ingenuity, Devil in My Ride tries to do the same with the exorcism film. Gary Michael Schultz's first feature-length effort centers on more than two male characters, but it ends being mostly a buddy movie in which the two protagonists are on a road trip to Las Vegas. A mixtures of genres is certainly what Devil in My Ride offers. The movie kicks off with the presentation of Travis (Frank Zieger), an irreverent and carefree kind of character. Inside his beloved truck, the "Black Mama", Travis is having fun with some lady when he recalls a very important event he must attend: the wedding of his sister Doreen...

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Review: LAS ANALFABETAS (Illiterate), A Filmed Play That Remains Stage-Bound

Posted: 15 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Paulina García has become one of the most recognizable faces in Chilean cinema around the world, especially after starring in Gloria, which had a successful festival and theatrical run in 2013 and 2014. Now she is the protagonist of this new festival darling that is having a theatrical release in Chile. Garcia stars alongside the young Valentina Muhr, reprising the same roles they had in the play on which this film is based, which is a faithful cinematic adaptation. The bad news is that there's not much beyond that element.Illiterate tells the story of an analphabet middle-aged woman (played by García) who struggles every day with the outside world and her own disability, a thing that has made her shy away from society. Hence the main...

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LA Happenings: Herzog's NOSFERATU Haunts The Cinefamily In 35mm

Posted: 15 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Werner Herzog's take on the infamous Nosferatu is one of those rare instances where the remake of a seminal cinematic work (in this case F.W. Murnau's in 1922) is equally as mesmerizing as the first go-around. What's more is that Herzog made two versions of his beguiling and expressionistic Nosferatu. With financial backing from 20th Century Fox and an international cast consisting of a pre-Possession Isabelle Adjani, a young (and nearly fully haired) Bruno Ganz and the unparalleled Klaus Kinski as the vampire, Herzog shot major passages of dialog first in English (to appease those cigar chomping fat cats) and then in German. The result are two slightly different versions: Nosferatu The Vampyre and Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. So not only is The Cinefamily screening...

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Frontieres Co-Production Market At Fantasia Announces Its Third-Year Slate

Posted: 15 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Summer is coming.  And with that so does Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival. For the past couple of years, the festival has been shepherding genre projects together via the Frontières International Co-Production Market, which gives the opportunity for filmmakers to meet with international producers, sales agents and distributors looking for projects. In 2014, things expanded to the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, to focus on co-producing films across Europe.For its return to the Fantasia International Film Festival, from July 24 to 27, the official Frontières selection consists of a number of new projects, as well as a continuation of the following projects: DEAD NOON (Luxembourg)Director/Writer: Jeff Desom (1st Feature)Producer: Bernard Michaux - Lucil Film (SCHATZRITTER) EMERGENCE (Lithuania)Directors/Writers: Kristina Buozyte &; Bruno Samper (VANISHING WAVES)Producer: Leva Norviliene - Tremora...

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Cannes 2014 Review: MR. TURNER Paints A Blurry Picture

Posted: 15 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Mike Leigh's latest offering lustfully tackles the life, work and loves of Joseph Mallord William Turner, the legendary 19th Century British artist whose landscape paintings are revered around the world. It's a carefully constructed film, part performance piece and part biopic, that continues Leigh's tradition of providing rich and complex characters drawn upon the canvas of a greater tale.For those versed in this period of art history, Turner was an iconoclast, a painter who often turned calamity (slave ships, burning parliament buildings, etc.) into ethereal images. Small details were often buried in his almost diaphanous imagery, usually with much of the canvas dedicated to the pitiless magnitude of nature; swirling clouds or the tempestuous waves of the sea dominate the human elements of his paintings.If...

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Timothy Spall & Mike Leigh Bring British Painter To Life In Trailer For MR. TURNER

Posted: 15 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Mike Leigh's return to Cannes has created quite a stir. His new biopic Mr. Turner will debut at Cannes today - part of the Official Selection - and the first trailer is out to share with you. EOne will release the film in its native UK on October 31st and Sony Classics will release it in the US on December 19th, right in the thick of the great Oscar push. The synopsis for the film is taken from the Cannes program.'MR. TURNER' explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851).Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with...

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Review: WOLF CREEK 2, Nasty As Ever

Posted: 15 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

The wide-open, spectacular beauty of the Australian Outback beckons to travelers from around the world, which makes it the perfect setting for a movie about a serial killer. Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) roams the outback, searching for unwary tourists he can lure and/or drag back to his isolated lair, far from prying eyes, where he can torture them at his leisure before silencing their anguished cries forever. His modus operandi was established in Wolf Creek (2005), which concluded with him still on the loose. Wolf Creek 2 continues his story, fleshing out the character a tiny bit more, and further documenting his monstrous activity. While the first film slow built up its tension, the sequel explodes into action from its opening sequence. After that, the...

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Masters Of Cinema Bringing FAUST and THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI To Blu-ray!

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Great news for fans of German Expressionism - and let's face it, who isn't? Eureka Entertainment has announced that it will be releasing two of the most important films from this hugely influential movement in world cinema to Blu-ray and DVD on their Masters of Cinema label. F.W. Murnau's Faust and Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, perhaps two of the greatest silent horror films ever made, will both be made available on Blu-ray and DVD via the award-winning label later this summer. Caligari, which premiered in a glorious newly restored print at this year's Berlinale, will also be released in selected cinemas across the UK and Eire, and while the final dates have yet to be announced, Faust will be arriving in a dual format...

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Review: THE IMMIGRANT, Coming To America Is Gorgeous, But Slow Business

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

While heralded by a dedicated group of cinephiles in the U.S. (as well as most critics in France), director James Gray has always been more talked-about for his sure hand with actors and drama than for his visual style. Not that he hasn't shown before that he has more sense of mise-en-scene than many celebrated stylists (the rain-soaked car chase in We Own the Night comes to mind), but, perhaps because he's never been as showy as say, Martin Scorsese, or found it necessary to maintain a "signature" visual style from film to film, he's never been lifted to the mainstream upper-echelon of American nouveaux-auteurs. The Immigrant may change all of that. Here is, if nothing else, a gorgeous movie to look at. Bathed in...

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Fantaspoa 2014 Review: DARKNESS BY DAY (EL DÍA TRAJO LA OSCURIDAD), Solid Atmospheric Horror From Argentina

Posted: 15 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

The countryside of Argentina is the setting for Martín Desalvo's Darkness by Day (El Día Trajo la Oscuridad), a little horror film that rests almost entirely on its two main actresses, Mora Recalde and Romina Paula. They play Virginia and Anabel, two beautiful young women who, while related by blood as cousins, are quite different and not entirely familiar with each other. Darkness prevails in the wooded, foggy scenery of the film, and director Desalvo is not really interested in the gore or the thrills; this is all about atmosphere and the interaction between the two girls. The story kicks off when Virginia's father leaves their countryside house in order to visit his sick niece (Anabel's sister), who has been in bed for some time. Next...

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CALVARY: Watch Brendan Gleeson In The New Trailer

Posted: 15 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

After its debut at Sundance and a jury prize win in Berlin, everyone will be able to see John Michael McDonagh's Calvary in August. To help bide the time there is a new trailer to share with you. Calvary's Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kelly Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral -- and often comic -- problems, he feels sinister forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.Not only has McDonagh teamed up with Gleeson again, but...

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