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Hey Tokyo! Japan's Short Shorts Film Festival And Asia 2014 Kick Off This Weekend

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Hey Tokyo! Japan's Short Shorts Film Festival And Asia 2014 Kick Off This Weekend

Hey Tokyo! Japan's Short Shorts Film Festival And Asia 2014 Kick Off This Weekend

Posted: 30 May 2014 03:30 AM PDT

This year's Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2014 (SSFF & ASIA) will be starting today and running until June 15th in locations around Tokyo and in its own dedicated cinema, the Brillia Short Shorts Theater, in Yokohama. The festival was started by the actor Bessho Tetsuya as a way to exhibit and promote short films in Japan. Now in its 16th year, over 200 films will be shown from around the world across a range of categories, including International, Asia International and Japan, CG Animation and Music Shorts.Of the films on offer, the entries with the biggest stars immediately standout, and there's a lot of emerging talent from the UK managing to get famous names into their shorts, hoping to mimic the success of...

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Review: MALEFICENT Casts A Feminist Spell

Posted: 29 May 2014 10:01 PM PDT

Call her Beneficent. Rebooting the studio's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty into a live-action version suitable for the 21st century, Maleficent casts a strong feminist spell. "I don't think she's very happy," says one of the fairies in Walt Disney's original production of the classic fairy tale, referring to a character whose name means "harmfully malicious." And so the new film, based on a screenplay by Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Alice in Wonderland), seeks to explain exactly why she wasn't very happy. Irregardless of her given name, young Maleficent (Isobelle Molloy) is a joyful fairy, frequently flying through a magical land filled with magical creatures. It's a world that's somewhat reminiscent of Avatar, which is not surprising, because Robert Stromberg,...

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IN THE BLOOD: Win A Poster Signed By Gina Carano And Amaury Nolasco

Posted: 29 May 2014 06:00 PM PDT

Gina Carano's latest action film, In The Blood, will come out on DVD/BluRay combo pack next Tuesday, June 3. We have a poster, signed by Carano and her co-star Amaury Nolasco, to give away before then.All you have to do is e-mail us here with the answer to this skill testing question. What was Gina "Conviction" Carano's professional MMA fighting record? The contest is open to U.S. residents only and you can enter up to Midnight PST on Saturday, May 31. Please put In The Blood Poster giveaway in the subject title. ...

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A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES: First Trailer And Images Suggest Liam Neeson Needs A Different Set Of Skills

Posted: 29 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Ever since 2008's Taken, Liam Neeson has excelled in playing mature action heroes "with a particular set of skills." In the upcoming A Walk Among the Tombstones, however, it looks like he will display a different skill-set. He's playing Matt Scudder, a former NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator. The character was created by the highly-accomplished novelist Lawrence Block and has been featured in a long-running series of books. In this big-screen edition, Scudder is hired by drug dealer Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) to investigate the kidnapping and murder of his wife. The first trailer looks like Scudder's investigation will take him to dangerous places and lead to encounters with dangerous people. Scott Frank (The Lookout) wrote the screenplay and directed. The movie...

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Giveaway: Win A DVD Of Action Flick BEYOND THE TROPHY

Posted: 29 May 2014 01:30 PM PDT

We have five DVDs of Daniel Gillin's action flick Beyond the Trophy to give away. ARC Entertainment is releasing the film on DVD on June 3.Beyond the Trophy tells the story of men's obsession with power and how far they will go to claim the "prize".  Two rival gangs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, led by Gino (Robert Miano) and Cole (Michael Madsen), are vying for control.  Danny (Michael Masini), an LAPD undercover police detective, goes deep into gangland to infiltrate one gang to bring down both. Along the way, he becomes entangled with the beautiful and seductive Angela (Ali Costello), whose relationship with her husband Jake and mob leader Gino makes her the focal point of an intoxicating romantic equation-with deadly consequences. Her...

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First BOOK OF LIFE Trailer Looks Mexican, Sounds American

Posted: 29 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT

The first trailer for The Book of Life, produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez, looks like a fireworks truck crashed into a paint factory and exploded. And I mean that in a good way. That impression is confirmed by the first official images released for the film, via USA Today, which you can view in the gallery below. In the trailer, the screen is filled with colorful, eye-popping Mexican art, while all the characters sound American. It's a marketing approach that may pay off for 20th Century Fox, and I'm hoping that's all it is -- a marketing approach to appeal to the widest demographic possible, at least in the U.S. Channing Tatum and Zoe Saldana are billed as the leads, though...

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Giveaway: Win A DVD Of Drama A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY

Posted: 29 May 2014 12:30 PM PDT

ARC Entertainment will be releasing Michael Maren's family drama A Short History of Decay on DVD on June 10. And you can get your hands on a copy of your own simply by entering our giveaway right here! We have three copies to give away.Nathan Fisher (Greenberg) can't seem to quite get it together. He's a wannabe writer living in Brooklyn, temping at an ad agency while bouncing from plays to novels to screenplays without ever finishing anything. When his ambitious novelist girlfriend (Emmanuelle Chriqui), about to publish her first book, finally gets fed up and decides to leave him he resolves to get down to some serious work once and for all. But life intervenes. After getting a call that his father has had...

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SNOWPIERCER: New U.S. Trailer - "This Is Your Destiny"

Posted: 29 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Ahead of its North American premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Wednesday, June 11, a new U.S. trailer for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer has dropped. And, like everything else I've seen about the movie, it looks spectacular. Radius-TWC will release the full "director's cut" (finally) in the U.S. on June 27. ...

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Watch: Exclusive Twins Battle Clip From Juno Mak's RIGOR MORTIS

Posted: 29 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Our friends at Well Go USA are preparing for their June 6th theatrical launch of actor Juno Mak's (Revenge: A Love Story, Let's Go!) directing debut, the critically acclaimed rebirth of Hong Kong horror, Rigor Mortis. In preparation, though there's little that can truly prepare you for the awesomeness of this movie, they've delivered us a taste of what you can expect from the film in this clip, rather innocuously titled, Twins Battle. Prepare for badassness, and if you're curious, you can check out James Marsh's rave review from last year right here.Here is Well Go USA's synopsis of the film:A washed-up actor, desperate and suicidal, moves into a haunted apartment building where supernatural creatures, ghost hunters, taoist exorcists, and the souls of the undead are...

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Opening: ELENA, An Impressionistic Tribute To Memories

Posted: 29 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

It's a difficult job to create a film with a subject that is so close to its maker without coming across as a little too precious. Indeed, there are many moments in Elena that could be regarded as self-indulgent. But no one can deny that Elena is a breathtakingly beautiful, one of a kind documentary. Elena tells a story about a 20-year-old Brazilian actress who comes to New York to pursue her acting career. She leaves behind her younger sister Petra and mom. She falls into hard times. More than twenty years later, Petra Costa, now an actress herself, a filmmaker and a dead ringer for her sister, traces her big sister's footsteps in New York, trying to reconstruct who Elena was and also to...

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Opening: WE ARE THE BEST! Showcases Adorable Pre-teen Angst Set In The 80s

Posted: 29 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Two 13-year old tomboys, Bobo and Klara listen to punk, hate their sports loving classmates and think their parents are super lame. After seeing some rude old geezers practicing yucky rock songs at a local youth center (thank goodness for living in a socialist country), they spontaneously set out to form a punk band out of spite. But they don't know how to play any instrument and still want to maintain the time slots they signed up for so the old geezers won't get to play. Then they see Hedvig, a blonde, christian good girl who has been playing classical guitar at the school talent show to unresponsive, downright rude audiences, year after year. Hedvig doesn't have any friends. Bobo and Klara decides to forcibly...

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Review: NIGHT MOVES, A Tense Showcase Of Guilt And Paranoia

Posted: 29 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

When purchasing a used boat for an act of extreme vandalism, a young activist quips that she chose the one named "Night Moves" because it was better in her mind than "Sea Breeze" or "Heart's Ease." I tend to pay attention to the names of boats and films because they are usually chosen with care. This is doubly-true when the name of the boat also happens to be the name of the film. And I'll admit, part of me wants Kelly Reichardt's choice of names to be based on the Gene Hackman noir from 1975 (directed by Arthur Penn), which does indeed feature a sinking boat, along with a healthy dose of paranoia and confusion and stylish ineffectuality. It's certainly a better boat name than...

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