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Charlie Nguyen Joins CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON 2 As Action Director

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Charlie Nguyen Joins CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON 2 As Action Director

Charlie Nguyen Joins CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON 2 As Action Director

Posted: 27 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Right after the wrap of his new comedy Let Hoi Decide, Vietnamese media are reporting that The Rebel director Charlie Nguyen flew to New Zealand to work as the action director for the sequel of Oscar-winning martial art film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Former action director Yuen Woo-ping - originally doing double duty as both director and action choreographer - was initially reported to continue his work as choreographer with Nguyen just joining as additional pre-production support. But now it appears that Yuen has stepped away from the fight choreography role with Nguyen taking over on that front completely.  Michelle Yeoh will return to her roles, together with Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse in the leads. There's no official news about other cast, so it...

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Cannes 2014 Review: THE SALT OF THE EARTH Celebrates Photographic Art

Posted: 27 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

There are a few titans of narrative cinema - Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee come first to mind - who make documentaries that rival their feature film work. Another example is Werner Herzog, a filmmaker whose non-fiction films are still celebrated, but it's his docs that (deservedly, in my opinion) get the lion's share of praise.From the same school of filmmakers as the iconoclastic Herzog, Wim Wenders shares his compatriot's ability to seamlessly switch between doc and feature. If the only non-fiction film Wenders ever shot was Buena Vista Social Club, than he'd be rightly lauded as one of the best non-fiction directors of the last half century.In The Salt of the Earth, Wenders, along with his co-director (and son of the subject) Juliano Ribeiro...

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Melbourne 2014 Announces First Glance, Here Are The Highlights

Posted: 27 May 2014 06:30 AM PDT

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced a First Glance reveal of just some of the films that will be screening this year. Their website and key art along with it have been updated also (see link and image gallery below). A lot of the films announced are follow-overs from the Sydney Film Festival, but stay tuned after the jump for the media release and the films announced that I am personally excited for.With plenty of favorites from the festival circuit, MIFF will screen: Tom at the Farm, the FIPRESCI (Venice) award-winning thriller from Xavier Dolan.Boyhood, Richard Linklater's ground-breaking new film, which charts the development of a boy between the ages of six and eighteen, using the same actor in periodic shoots over 12 years....

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Australian Distributor Sharmill Films Acquires Cannes Palme d'Or winner WINTER SLEEP

Posted: 27 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Just announced today is the official acquisition of Cannes prestigious Palme d'Or winner Winter Sleep (check Ben Croll's excellent review here) in the Australian territory. This is an excellent, exciting and timely purchase for distributor Sharmill Films, fingers crossed it premieres theatrically here soon or is part of the Melbourne International Film Festival lineup....also acquired for Australian distribution is Swedish film Force Majeure (Turist), winner of the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard category.Winter Sleep, directed by the masterful Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), also won the FIPRESCI prize awarded by the international critics. The film is a Chekhovian meditation on marriage starring Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen.Executive Director of Sharmill Films, Natalie Miller AO, said she was...

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Be Charmed By Full Trailer For Darkly Whimsical Hungarian Fantasy-Romance LIZA, THE FOX FAIRY

Posted: 27 May 2014 05:30 AM PDT

If you detect just a touch of Jean Pierre Jeunet's Amelie in the DNA of Hungarian romantic fantasy Liza, The Fox Fairy I do believe that director Károly Ujj Mészáros would be just fine with that. Fox-Fairies are evil demons according to Japanese tales that rob the souls of men. Liza, the 35-year-old naive nurse, who wants to find the love of her life in Budapest, thinks she is one of them, since all men attracted to her die on the first date. Can Liza find a man who can survive her?It was a year and a half back now when we ran the first teaser for this one - back when the picture was still early in production - and with the VFX heavy...

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Van Damme Wraps POUND OF FLESH In China

Posted: 26 May 2014 10:00 PM PDT

Principal photography has just wrapped on Jean Claude Van Damme's latest martial arts thriller, Pound of Flesh, which was filming at ACE Studios in Nanhai, China under the direction of regular collaborator Ernie Barbarash (6 Bullets, Assassination Games). JCVD stars alongside British actor Darren Shahlavi, familiar to many from his work in Ip Man 2 and Mortal Kombat Legacy, as well as Hong Kong's Jason Tobin (Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift), Andrew Ng (The Man With The Iron Fists) and veteran performer Aki Aleong. The film also stars John Ralston, Charlotte Peters and Marsha Yuen. Produced by Kirk Shaw and Henry Luk, with Mike Leeder as co-producer, Pound of Flesh features fight choreography from John Salvitti, whose work with Donnie Yen has been highly praised in films...

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Review: A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST Strikes Comedy Gold

Posted: 26 May 2014 09:00 PM PDT

From the opening credits of director Seth MacFarlane's latest offensive and broad comedy, it is clear that he is wearing his Family Guy hat, although one can argue it is permanently affixed to his head.The ode to the woeful Wild West plays out with a big score by composer Joel McNeely, the big old style font shoots up on screen accompanying it with stunning cinematography that covers the mountain ranges of Arizona. As impressive as these credits are, they immediately recall a Family Guy special starring Brian the dog; both this and that are feature length forays into another time and place that are introduced the same way.MacFarlane himself appears on screen first as the 'pussy' protagonist, guiding us through his delightfully twisted version of...

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Sakaguchi Is RE:BORN In Reunion With DEATH TRANCE Helmer

Posted: 26 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Tak is back.After 'retiring' under confusing circumstances last year with multiple takes on what was actually happening floating around in various reports from inside sources, Japanese action star Sakaguchi Tak of Versus fame is headed back to the big screen. Sakaguchi's comeback comes with the appropriately titled Re:Born, a film that will reunite him with his Death Trance director and frequent fight choreographer / collaborator Shimomura Yuji. Scheduled for production in 2015 no plot details have been released thus far but Sakaguchi will be auditioning actors and fighters for the project in mid August and has just released the video below to spread the word. While much of Sakaguchi's work has been in the ultra low budget realm where he doesn't get to really compete...

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Watch The Beautifully Simple Teaser For Finnish Horror BODOM

Posted: 26 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Sometimes - most times, really - the simplest approach is the best one. And that's a principal firmly embraced by the Finnish creators of proposed horror film Bodom. Aiming for a 2016 release they've created a proof of concept trailer smart enough to recognize that when dealing with a familiar premise - the story revolves around a campground killing - it's all about the execution. and the execution on this is simple, elegant, and iconic. Pretty much perfect, really. Take a look below....

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Hey Canada! Win Double Passes For Sinister Cinema Presentation CABIN FEVER: PATIENT ZERO.

Posted: 26 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Our friends at Raven Banner Entertainment and Cineplex Entertainment will present Cabin Fever: Patient Zero this Thursday, May 29th, as part of their Sinister Cinema series. And Raven Banner wants to give five lucky winners across Canada one of five double passes for a screening near them. On top of that, here in Toronto, they want to give away two double passes and an invite to the Cabin Cocktail to meet director Kaare Andrews before the screening. Fangoria's Chris Alexander will be hosting a Q&A with Andrews after the screening. All you have to do is head on over to Raven Banner's Patient Zero page and watch the trailer. Then e-mail me the answer to my skill testing question here with the subject "I've got Cabin Fever" and...

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Cannes 2014 Review: WHITE GOD Unleashes The Hounds Of Allegory

Posted: 26 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Doggedly heavy on allegory, the film by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's White God (Fehér Isten) has a relatively simple premise - beware the comeuppance for those that treat badly those they believe to be inferior.At its heart, the film plays as if Samuel Peckinpaw [sic] directed The Incredible Journey, that Disney Animal film referenced in last year's Cannes hit Inside Llewyn Davis. The title was at first a mystery and mere pun, but appears to at least partially be a play on White Dog, Fuller's 1982 Dog fighting flick. A revenge fantasy from the canine perspective, this is part political polemic, part action thriller, with a climax that is equal parts hyperbolic and effective.The archetypes abound, be they in the notion of the denigration of...

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Get A Taste Of The Summer Movie Season With Our Video Mashup

Posted: 26 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT

For those of us not blessed with living in a year-round summer climate, I think we can all agree that this last winter has been a merciless horror show of sub-zero doom. But though there seemed to be no end to the torture, it's finally time for us to safely get our short-shorts out of the closet in preparation for sunshine and all the fixings that accompany the season of the fancy and the free. Perhaps the most in-your-face summer staple is the Hollywood blockbuster. Even the utterly indifferent can't avoid life-sized publicity such as the faux city carnage of Godzilla's recent campaign that actually closed streets to offer major cities a bemusing Universal Studios like attraction no one asked for. But while it's easy...

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Fantaspoa 2014: Award Winners Include DER SAMURAI, PROXY, And ASMODEXIA

Posted: 26 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

With the world premiere of Fantaspoa's own production, Jorge and Alberto vs the Neoliberal Demons (directed by the Quintana Brothers from Argentina), the tenth edition of this incredible Brazilian film festival reached to its end on Sunday night (May 25). Hundreds of films, many Q&A with the filmmakers, and such guests as Lloyd Kaufman, Richard Stanley, Frank Henenlotter, and Nacho Vigalondo, surely gave the fantasy cinema fans an unforgettable time in Porto Alegre. So after little more than weeks of activities, Fantaspoa finally announced the award winning films of this 2014 edition and now you can check them out in the gallery below. Full disclosure: I was part of the jury for the Zombie Apocalypse section....

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks MOMMY And CANNES 2014

Posted: 26 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Taking a moment to gush about Xavier Dolan's remarkable film Mommy taking home the Jury prize at the 2014 Cannes film festival.Video embedded below...

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Cannes 2014 Review: THE INCIDENT (EL INCIDENTE) Is One Of The Most Intriguing Mexican Films Of The Year

Posted: 26 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

In what it feels like the scene with the most personal dialog during the first half of Isaac Ezban's The Incident (El Incidente), the agonizing character of Amores Perros' Humberto Busto shares his thoughts about life in general. "Life is a long highway and what we pass along never comes back", he says to his younger brother while also regretting the fact that he never enjoyed the different stages of his own life and always wanted to be somewhere else. It's easy to connect with this kind of thought as life works in mysterious ways and sometimes you can recognize and appreciate a certain moment until it's long gone. In The Incident, however, things work in an even weirder way and what the characters pass...

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DVD Review: Urasawa Naoki's MONSTER, Episodes 46-60

Posted: 26 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

(Being inconspicuous: you're doing it WRONG!) While I have yet to hold the last few discs in my hands, Australian distributor Siren Visual has stuck the landing and managed to get the anime Monster on DVD in its entirety. The previous attempt to launch the Monster anime on DVD in an English-friendly version, on the other side of the globe, was stopped in 2009 after only 15 of the 74 episodes had been released. But that hasn't happened this time: the fifth (and last) boxset of Siren Visual's release is safely in storage, and on its way to shops as I write this. And a good thing that is too, as I have just finished watching the penultimate fourth boxset, which covers episodes 46-60. Time...

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