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Del Toro Cancels The Apocalypse Once More. PACIFIC RIM 2 Slated For April 2017!

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Del Toro Cancels The Apocalypse Once More. PACIFIC RIM 2 Slated For April 2017!

Del Toro Cancels The Apocalypse Once More. PACIFIC RIM 2 Slated For April 2017!

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:00 PM PDT

Guillermo Del Toro has been hinting at ideas for a sequel to his giant robot versus kaiju flick Pacific Rim for a while now. Thursday night it was announced that Legendary Pictures has committed to making a follow-up, and they have scheduled a release date for April 7, 2017. "The characters I love will return," del Toro told BuzzFeed in an exclusive new statement. "Raleigh, Mako, Newt, Gottlieb and who knows, maybe even Hannibal Chau - but we are taking them into a fresh territory that will display amazing sights and battles. The first film set the stage and now we're ready to have a blast."Despite a mixed reception from fans and critics the first film did moderately well, taking in $411 million globally. And with Godzilla taking...

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Review: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Is The Film Michael Bay Was Born To Make

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT

Like the film I'm talking about, this is going to take a bit to get through. My advice for both film and review: Sit back, and enjoy the ride.Transformers: Age of Extinction is, if one wants to rank such things, the most Michael Bay-y film that Michael Bay has ever made. If the auteur theory suggests that the authorial intention must come through even the industrialized machinery of film production, and that the director's unique voice and vision can be traced project-to-project as a coherent whole, then Bay's often preposterous films do genuinely have a signature consistency in keeping with this notion.Few filmmakers have been so delightfully overt in their coddling of the Id. From Bad Boys through to Armageddon, he has often eschewed common sense,...

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Review: NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN, A Haunting Primer On The Nature Of Faith

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Faith is a funny thing. Anyone can have it. You don't have to be smart. You can be utterly brilliant. Mature. Immature. It really doesn't matter. The point is that if you have it, it's yours. It literally belongs to you, to do with as you please. Katrin Gebbe has made Nothing Bad Can Happen, a movie about a certain kind of faith, the kind that is powerful to carry someone through difficulty, self sacrifice, loneliness. Whether the character whose faith is in question is wise or unwise, is up to viewers to decide. The character's faith is not. Or rather, the character's faith is absolute. Tore is a young man, an epileptic, whose presumably broken past has led him to a small group that...

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Exclusive: Isaac Ezban Reveals Casting, Plot And Shooting Details For THE SIMILARS (LOS PARECIDOS)

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban got back from this year's Cannes Film Festival, where his - very, very good - debut feature length film The Incident (El Incidente) premiered, and immediately began working on the pre-production for his next project, the science fiction effort The Similars (Los Parecidos). Movie theaters in Mexico lack genre cinema but Ezban is working his way up to solve that problem, and now Twitch is proud to reveal the first details for The Similars. First of all, we've got the casting announcement: The cast for The Similars (Los Parecidos) is formed by Gustavo Sánchez Parra (Matando Cabos, Amores Perros), Cassandra Ciangherotti (Tlatelolco, Verano de 68, Cantinflas, Even the Rain, Viaje Redondo), Fernando Becerril (KM 31: Kilometre 31, Depositaries), Humberto Busto (Amores Perros,...

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Uruguay's Luis Suarez Bites In New Lee Hardcastle Claymation

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Luis Suarez is so far the most controversial footballer of Brazil's 2014 World Cup. He scored a couple of goals and Uruguay reached the second round, but now Suarez won't be able to play the Cup anymore as FIFA suspended him today for nine games and four months. The reason? On Tuesday, June 24, he bit Italy's Giorgio Chiellini! That's right, Suarez bit again. In an avalanche of memes and jokes, director Lee Hardcastle has created the most elaborated piece based on the Suarez World Cup incident: a 20-second claymation! Hardcastle spent 10 hours recreating Suarez's new bite with clay, and now you can watch the result....

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SNOWPIERCER: Tilda Swinton Delivers An Inspirational Speech In New Clip

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:45 PM PDT

Tilda Swinton's got a little something going on in this new clip from Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, a wee bit of righteous indignation as she informs Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and the rest of the lower class insurgents in this post-apocalyptic tale just how disappointed she is that they would dare to rise up against the powers that be.In this sci-fi epic from director Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Mother), a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet.  The final survivors board the SNOWPIERCER, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. When cryptic messages incite the passengers to revolt, the train thrusts full-throttle towards disaster.Check out the new clip below!...

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Get Stomped By The NYAFF 2014 Trailer!

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Brace yourselves, New Yorkers! The 13th edition of the New York Asian Film kicks off tomorrow and things are going to get crazy. I mean, look at the header image. That's how these guys roll. And if you prefer your promotional images to be of the moving variety, well, don't you worry, they've got themselves a brand new festival trailer that we're proud to share with you. Check out the festival website here and check out the trailer below!...

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Six New Stills From Ghibli's WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:30 PM PDT

With a release for Yonebayashi Hiromas's adaptation of Joan G. Robinson's children's novel When Marnie Was There approaching Studio Ghibli have posted a series of new stills on their Twitter account over the past couple days with more promised to come soon. Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House,...

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THE ROVER Giveaway! Win A Poster Signed By Pattinson, Pearce And Michod!

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

David Michod's post-apocalyptic follow to Animal Kingdom, The Rover, is in theaters now and Twitch is very happy to have a signed poster for the film to give away to one lucky reader. Michod and his two leading men - Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson - have all signed this thing and all you need to do to have a chance to win is write me here and name the film in which Pearce starred as a drag queen. Please include your mailing address. Winner will be drawn at random.THE ROVER, David Michôd's highly anticipated follow-up to ANIMAL KINGDOM, is set in a world 10 years following the collapse of society. The rule of the law has disintegrated and life is cheap. The film follows...

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AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR: Watch The Trailer For The Latest From THE PACT Writer / Director

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Formerly known as Home, the latest from the writer-director of The Pact has got itself a new title and a new trailer leading up to its VOD release August 8th and theatrical run September 12th from IFC Midnight.When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property.  When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web -- and has sinister plans for both of them.At The Devil's Door stars Naya Rivera, Ashley Rickards and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Checkk out the trailer below....

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Review: SNOWPIERCER, A Singular And Breathtaking Cinematic Experience

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Cinema is a medium of motion and if anyone understands this, it appears to be Bong Joon-ho, whose visionary new work is a demented and stunning thrillride. In his first production outside his native South Korea, Bong has delivered his most ambitious project yet, and proves more than capable of handling an international, multilingual cast and a large budget. When a global warming solution backfires, the Earth is enveloped in a new Ice Age which almost annihilates the human race. The few thousand survivors live aboard a lone train that perpetually circumnavigates the otherwise dead planet. The train's creator, Wilford, leads from the engine at the front, while the tail is inhabited by low class citizens. Each day they are subjected to humiliating atrocities, and...

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COLD IN JULY: Watch The UK Trailer For Jim Mickle's Gritty Thriller

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:30 PM PDT

Quite possibly the most widely acclaimed US director to not yet break through in a significant way on his home soil, Jim Mickle boasts multiple selections to Cannes and Sundance on his resume without a single one of his films receiving a wide theatrical release on US soil. Which is baffling, really, as he's gone from strength to strength as his work has evolved and while he certainly doesn't cater to mainstream multiplex tastes you'd have thought that the Fox Searchlights of the world, at least, would have taken notice by now. But this is beside the point. Mickle's latest effort, the dark thriller Cold In July, releases in the UK tomorrow and there's a new trailer on the scene showcasing the grimy world inhabited...

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Preview: New York Asian Film Festival, Still Crazy After All These Years

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT

A mainstay in the NYC cinephile scene for thirteen yeas, the New York Asian Film Festival could be called an institution, but can something that is often so much fun as NYAFF be called as such? In short, yes. Despite the fact that we here at Twitch get to review a lot of their films before they hit western shores, it's hard to argue that NYAFF is anything less than the premiere North American destination for contemporary Asian cinema and rare offerings from the past. While some audiences crave the more boisterous genre offerings the festival is often celebrated for, there's always a little bit of everything, for all kinds of tastes. From the twisted horror of Rigor Mortis to the heartwarming drama of The...

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Álex de la Iglesia's Docufiction On Footballer MESSI Gets A Trailer

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:30 AM PDT

"Thank God that (Lionel) Messi exists", says legendary Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff at the end of the first trailer for Messi, Álex de la Iglesia's documentary/dramatization dedicated to the current Argentina national football squad and FC Barcelona leader. The Spanish filmmaker behind The Day of the Beast, Perdita Durango and Witching and Bitching has gathered former and current football players, journalists, and people close to Lionel Messi, in order to discuss the career of one of the all-time greatest footballers. Aside of Cruyff, in the trailer we get to see César Luis Menotti, Andrés Iniesta, Gerard Piqué, Jorge Valdano (who also wrote the film), and Javier Mascherano, as well as some other people I don't recognize but that are closely-related to Messi.De la Iglesia also filmed...

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Sono Sion Band Makes Tokyo Debut

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Here at Twitch we've been sharing all the latest info on Sono Sion's upcoming release Tokyo Tribe (due for release August 30th here in Japan) but it seems the busy director's already underway with his next project, and a second career, having performed for the first time with his band at a packed show in Tokyo last weekend. The Sono Sion Band consisted of the man himself on vocals, Hasegawa Masaru on bass, Tanimoto Yukimasa on drums, model IZUMI playing keyboard and actor Okuno Eita (Roadside Fugitive) playing guitar. They were joined on stage during the set by special guests and fellow actors Gou Ayano playing guitar and Hasegawa Hiroki, who was last seen in Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell? In between songs Sono...

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EXCLUSIVE! ETERNITY: THE MOVIE, The Music Video That Wants To Make Love, Not Just Sex

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Oh the 80s. For a while there anyone who grew up in them pretty much skipped that decade during conversation. "The 70s were so awesome and funky and then Smells Like Teen Spirit came along in '91 and EVERYTHING CHANGED AND GOT LOUDER!" "Woah woah woah there, Pickle. What about the 80s?" "Hm? Well, yeah, they were there. But no one talks about them".Well, we are about to "wake you up before you go go" about your day. We have your first look and the 80s musi-comedy Eternity: The Movie which will open in select cinemas in the U.S. and Canada mid-October. 80's cult musi-comedy ETERNITY: THE MOVIE  kicks off awesome campaign with official 80's music video; announces theatrical release datesToronto-  Ahead of it's Los Angeles...

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First Teaser For THE GUEST, Latest From The YOU'RE NEXT Duo

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett's thriller The Guest made quite an impression on our Festivals Editor Ryland Aldrich when he caught their latest at Sundance. You can read his full review at the link but this is what he had to say about the film right off the hop....director-writer duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett are quickly becoming two of the most exciting filmmakers working in the genre space right now. This trend absolutely continues with their latest feature, a guns-blazing throwback called The Guest. Equal parts creepy, slow-burn horror and bloody, balls-out actioner, Wingard and Barrett again prove that best kind of genre movie is the one with which you can have the most outright fun. We could not agree more with Ryland. He would...

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Fantasia 2014: Second Wave Announced, Tobe Hooper's Lifetime And Abel Ferrarra Closes The Fest!

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT

As the Twitch writers jostle for position among ourselves to get you the best coverage of this year's festival the second wave of films have just been announced and it is gearing up to be a great Summer in belle province. There are a lot of titles in this announcement familiar to Twitch readers, Vigalondo's Open Windows. Archibald's The Drownsman. Abrahamson's Frank. Korean action flick No Tears for the Dead. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch's Starry Eyes.On top of that Fantasia has also announced that Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacare, will be receiving A Lifetime Achievement Award For Fear Pioneer. And another genre icon Abel Ferrera's Welcome to New York (Ferrera directed genre greats Bad Lieutenant and MS 45) will be the closing film this year.  Welcome to...

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Review: BEGIN AGAIN Reinvents The Movie Musical With A Little Bit Of Street Magic

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT

I know magic when I see it, when I feel it, when I hear it. John Carney's marvelously understated, dexterously graceful Begin Again contains at least three sequences that are absolutely, unexpectedly magical. Frankly, after a single viewing, I'm not prepared to dissect those scenes in detail, and doing so would constitute unfair spoilers, anyway, and I won't do that. Suffice it to say that, like every other scene in Carney's new feature, a spiritual sequel of sorts to his outstanding drama Once (2006), the magic is conjured up by acts of musical purity. That's not to say I was transported, necessarily, by the music itself, a scruffy amalgam of folk guitar, tremulous voice(s), and pinpoint backing musicians. Rather, it's that Carney has captured apparently...

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Review: HELLION, The Devastating Sounds Of A Family Falling Apart

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Dark, brooding, and testy, Jacob is a typical 13-year-old boy. He dreams of motocross racing. He looks after his younger brother. And he ignores his alcoholic father, who is prone to outbursts of anger as he struggles to raise his two boys after the loss of his wife and their mother. Telling its story without demons or monsters, except those that arise from within, Kat Candler's absorbing drama Hellion exerts a quiet, compelling power. Far too often, the dynamics of a dysfunctional family are portrayed as commonplace in the current cinema, yet each domestic unit is composed of different and variable elements. Recognizing and respecting the disparity between families helps to distinguish Hellion from its dysfunctional brethren. Really, it comes down to resilience under pressure,...

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Review: SIDDHARTH, A Beautifully Tragic Portrait Of India

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT

It is every parent's worst nightmare: You entrust your child to the care of another and when the allotted time for their return arrives, they simply do not. They're just gone and you're left not knowing where or how or if they will ever return or what you could have done differently. And for Mahendra it is even worse. Being an uneducated, illiterate man barely scraping together enough for his family's daily needs as it is -- hence sending away his young son Siddharth to a factory operated by his brother-in-law's distant cousin to help support the family -- he has few resources to call upon, no allies in high places, cannot use a computer to conduct any research, cannot even take time away to...

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