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Review: The Beauty Of THE FATAL ENCOUNTER Is Only Skin Deep

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Review: The Beauty Of THE FATAL ENCOUNTER Is Only Skin Deep

Review: The Beauty Of THE FATAL ENCOUNTER Is Only Skin Deep

Posted: 08 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Following a slow few months, commercial Korean cinema returns to the spotlight with The Fatal Encounter, the first of the many period blockbusters that will inundate local theaters through to the end of summer. Following in the footsteps of the 2012 period blockbuster Masquerade (2012), The Fatal Encounter casts a major heartthrob (Hyun Bin) as a king in a tale of courtroom intrigue. In some ways, this latest commercial offering seems like the ideal film for the modern, consumer-centric Korea. The film was aggressively branded as the return of Hyun Bin (following his obligatory 21-month military service), offers a variety of features designed to entice the majority of the public, and dresses itself up with stunning production values. Yet, like many products available in today's...

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Teaser For Sono Sion's TOKYO TRIBE Brings The Crazy!

Posted: 08 May 2014 04:40 AM PDT

We make no secret of the fact that we are HUGE fans of Japanese director Sono Sion here at Twitch, and while his filmography is diverse and eclectic, nothing delights us more than the knowledge his adaptation of Inoue Santa's manga series Tokyo Tribe appears to continue in the same vein as last year's fantastic Why Don't You Play In Hell?While details are still relatively thin on the ground regarding the film's plot, the manga's narrative centres around the murder of a high level figure in one of the many gangs that vie for control of Tokyo's Shibuya district. The killing sparks a massive turf war between the different gangs, provoking much delirious no-holds-barred craziness, as the 38 glorious seconds of teaser below can attest....

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A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST: Hilarious NSFW Trailer And TV Spots

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:30 PM PDT

Oh my. I do not know who wins the prize for best line goes to in the new NSFW trailer and TV spots for Seth MacFarlane's comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West. Sarah Silverman once again gets a killer line in the trailer. But then there is also the line in the 'Diseases' TV spot that has me in tears as I write this. You will find both the aforementioned trailer and TV spot playlist embedded below. Just make sure your Bible is closed before watching any of these. ...

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Udine 2014 Review: MAY WE CHAT Is A Dynamic, Dark Youth Drama Bolstered By Three Great Performances

Posted: 07 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Emphasized by sugary and excessively colorful visuals, the beginning of Philip Young's May We Chat epitomizes everything that's most shallow about contemporary youth culture. Teenagers consciously trapped in a virtual realm take pictures of shoes, food, themselves, and communicate via smartphones in an inconceivably rapid and impressively efficient fashion.Even though the film initially looks like a showy and lukewarm pop-teen drama, it smoothly moves onto heavier grounds and delivers an unflinching, striking, and utterly convincing portrayal of the darkest side of a seemingly typical teenager's life, without ever losing its commercial appeal.While the rom-com-y title might be somewhat misleading, it's a very adequate play on the name of the enormously popular Chinese voice and text-messaging application WeChat. It's this practical yet addictive mobile app that...

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NYC Happenings: Watch QUEEN MARGOT in 4K Restoration Director's Cut

Posted: 07 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Famed French stage and film director Patrice Chéreau (Intimacy, Gabrielle, Those Who Loved Me Can Take the Train) passed away last October. Now Queen Margot, Chéreau's most commercially successful film, gets a 4K restoration treatment on its 20th anniversary and comes back to theaters, thanks to Cohen Film Collection. This timely release is a rare opportunity to experience what many consider as the most radical redefining act in the period costume drama genre ever, in 4K digital glory. Queen Margot 4K Director's Cut receives a theatrical run here in New York, May 9 - 15 at Film Forum. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel, Queen Margot tells a bloody chapter in French history when a war between Catholics and Protestants was raging. The main players in...

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Get Out Your Cleavers And Start Chopping With KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Trailer

Posted: 07 May 2014 12:30 PM PDT

Rampant what, exactly, you may ask of the title for Yoon Jong-bin's upcoming Korean action film. Luckily the first teaser for the historical action epic is here to provide some possible answers. It could be rampant swords, for example. Or rampant cleavers. Or rampant angry bald headed men. Rampant arrows, perhaps. Rampant bamboo. But most likely rampant stabbings. That's the one I go for.The year is 1859, feudal Joseon is plagued with numerous natural disasters, poor harvest, poverty, hunger and death. But the rich nobles are only concerned with their own wealth and continue to exploit and persecute the poor. In this dark period, KUNDO was a single shred of hope for the poor, an entity which can be the subject of fear to unjust...

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Watch A Fresh Trailer For Stuart Simpson's CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA

Posted: 07 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Life is hard when you're a socially awkward icecream man and Australian director Stuart Simpson has taken that simple idea and managed to turn it into something surprisingly resonant with his Australian cult hit Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla.We've covered this one in the past but with Monster Pictures taking it to the sales market in Cannes there's a brand new trailer for your perusal below.Awkward ice cream van driver Warren Thompson's only respite from his drab existence comes in the form of gorgeous soapie star Katie George. Besotted with the young actress, Warren can't help but imagine what life would be like with Katie at his side. After suffering another in a long line of savage beatings from local thugs, Warren's fragile psyche cracks under the...

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Peter Cilella And Richard Riehle Join Cast Of DEMENTIA

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Some familiar faces have joined the cast of upcoming indie Dementia with Twitch getting word of the complete cast on the latest from the producers of Contracted. All the details below:Peter Cilella (Resolution), Tony Denison (TNT's Major Crimes, The Closer), Steve Agee (Sarah Silverman Program), Morgan Peter Brown (Absentia), and Richard Riehle (Office Space) have been added to the cast of BoulderLight Pictures' "Dementia". They join Gene Jones, Kristina Klebe, Marc Senter, Hassie Harrison, Molly McQueen,and Graham Skipper. The plot is as follows: "After suffering a stroke, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret..."The film is directed by Mike Testin from a script by Meredith Berg. J.D. Lifshitz...

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Wild Bunch Launching SPRING BREAKERS 2, New Films From Paul Verhoeven And Gaspar Noe In Cannes

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT

While they've missed the chance to throw a 'boogaloo' into the title, French sales outfit Wild Bunch are looking to make a big splash in Cannes with the Jonas Akerlund directed / Irvine Welsh script Spring Breakers 2: The Second Coming as part of a slate of upcoming projects that also includes titles from Paul Verhoeven and Gaspar Noe.The Spring Breakers sequel pits the titular breakers - who may or may not include the original characters, in a story which Wild Bunch head Vincent Maraval descirbes as 'not a direct sequel' - against a militant Christian sect. The new Verhoeven - pitched by Maraval simply as 'perverse' - is an adaptation of Philippe Dejan's novel Oh! which sets up as a rape-revenge thriller while Gaspar...

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Destroy All Monsters: The Clothes Make The Spider-Man

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Do you remember that Seinfeld joke about how, with professional sports and their interchangeable rosters, we're never cheering for teams, but for clothes? So it is with The Amazing Spider-franchise. I don't know where the yardstick falls on these movies any more - of the five, only Spider-Man 3 seems like any kind of real achievement, though not likely of the sort the filmmakers intended - but I recall the hullabaloo surrounding the reveal of Andrew Garfield's new costume last year. "Much closer to the comic book!" As though that, in itself, were some stamp of adaptive fealty. (Read Eric's review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 here, and watch out for spoilers beyond this point.) The Spidey-suit is certainly splendid this time around. On an...

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