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Cannes 2014 Review: THE ROVER Drives A Steady Course

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Cannes 2014 Review: THE ROVER Drives A Steady Course

Cannes 2014 Review: THE ROVER Drives A Steady Course

Posted: 25 May 2014 04:00 PM PDT

The Rover is a slow burn Western, a film with brief explosions of violence that are interspersed along a dry, dusty narrative landscape.Directed by Animal Kingdom's David Michôd, there's a cold, calculating air to the film that may put off some viewers.Guy Pearce plays the titular role, and it's played with a series of glances and grimaces during the introductory portion of the film. In a post-apocalyptic landscape, the man goes into a bar to grab a drink, only to have his car stolen by a bunch of bandits. Rescuing their abandoned vehicle, he sets off on a chase to recover his car.This is archetypical stuff, but between the clichés is a tremendous little character piece. Pearce is fantastic as the Eastwood-like lead, as prickly...

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Cannes 2014 Review: Soviet Hockey Movie RED ARMY Scores Big

Posted: 25 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT

The film opens with Viacheslav Fetisov in a crisp suit, taking a phone call. An exasperated director asks questions, while "Slava" stares at his phone, ignoring the interruption. It's as if a czar has been interrupted mid-bite at his feast. We stare at the powerful face of this man as he's clearly dealing with bigger things than, say, participating in this documentary we're all there to watch.Rather than feeling like he's done something rude, we are made to feel like interlopers. Such is the power of this man, the persuasion in those eyes that are intimately connected with the bureaucracy of the new Russia. The self-confidence is, in a word, intoxicating.As Slava continues his phone call, a truly ridiculous list of his accomplishments comes up...

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Watch The Teaser For Hong Kong Sci-Fi Project VIRTUS

Posted: 25 May 2014 02:30 PM PDT

FATface Production, the Hong Kong-based VFX studio behind Tai Chi Zero and Storm Warriors, ventures into its own independent sci-fi project, Virtus. The following teaser is in fact a proof of concept video but it's unclear if its for a potential feature length film or a short. There isn't much info about the project other than its directed by Kofai, a veteran visual effects supervisor at FATface. The film's Mech concept designer is Long Ouyang who recently designed the Green Goblin suit on The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  One thing's for sure, and that's it's loaded with high-concept robots with quality visual effects; a welcoming surprise in an arena not exactly known for this type of genre.  You'll find the 40-second PoC embedded below....

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