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Fantasia 2014 Review: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WILLIAM ZERO Has An Identity Crisis

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Fantasia 2014 Review: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WILLIAM ZERO Has An Identity Crisis

Fantasia 2014 Review: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WILLIAM ZERO Has An Identity Crisis

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 07:00 PM PDT

There seems to be some kind of movement out there where low-key indie dramas of personal tragedy cloak themselves in the veneer of heady science fiction concepts: films like Mike Cahill's Another Earth, James Byrkit Ward's Coherence, and what is perhaps the sub genre's peak, Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Spaceships, laser guns and time portals are replaced with hand-wringing, self-doubt and self-destruction; and plenty of metaphor.  William Blake and his wife Jules are a seemingly normal, over-worked, slightly distracted parents.  As The Reconstruction of William Zero opening moments unfold, he is distractedly scrambling to get to work, she is busy in the kitchen preparing a breakfast that nobody seems to want, and their son Kevin is itching to get out and enjoy the sunshine on his bicycle. This...

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Watch The Trailer For Jenna Bass' LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT

Jenna Bass' debut feature Love The One You Love has quickly emerged as a buzz title - arguably THE buzz title - at the Durban International Film Festival with chatter following the premiere of the gushingly positive variety and for those who want a taste beyond our recently published review, take a look at the trailer below.Across the city of Cape Town, a sex-line operator (Chi Mhende), a dog handler (Andile Nebulane) and a IT-technician (Louw Venter) begin to suspect that their romantic relationships are the subject of a bizarre conspiracy, involving their friends, family and possibly even greater forces. 'Love The One You Love's parallel stories question the ideals we hold too sacred: love, happiness, and the New South Africa, the pursuit of which...

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Durban 2014 Review: Kenyan Crime Thriller VEVE Is A Damp Misfire

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Though it boasts handsome production values and Tom Tykwer amongst its producer team, Kenyan crime thriller Veve is otherwise a catalog of missed and squandered opportunities, a thriller that simply fails to thrill thanks to a script overstuffed with unengaging subplots and two dimensional characters going through the motions of an overly familiar scenario and an utter lack of performers with any significant charisma. Back country politician Amos is the classic big fish in a small pond, a man of immense ambitions whose smooth and polished exterior covers a ruthless lust for increased power and money, both of which come via his involvement in the trade of veve (also known as khat), a relatively mild narcotic. Amos controls the veve supply in his region, the...

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Durban 2014 Review: LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE Is A Luminous, Perplexing, Engrossing Debut

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Kennel worker Sandile and phone sex operator Terri have an unusual problem: Their life together is too good. They're perfect together. Their friends say so, holding the duo up as the ideal to which they aspire. Sandile's mother is pressing them to get married. It's all too good to be true so it must be, right? There must be some dark force at work, something that explains Terri's restlessness and inability to tell her lover that she actually loves him.And then there's Eugene, the computer troubleshooter devastated by the departure of his girlfriend months - possibly even years - before. So trapped in his past that Eugene has left her side of the bed unmade from the day she left to preserve the illusion that...

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Spanish Actor Alex Angulo Dead At 61

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT

I hope someone in Madrid is dimming the lights on the Schweppes sign; that would be a fitting tribute to one of its best actors. Álex Angulo, star of films such as The Day of the Beast, Live Flesh, and Pan's Labyrinth, has died in a traffic accident in his native Spain. Likely best known to film audiences through his work with Álex de la Iglesia, this is a tremendous loss for Spanish cinema.Born in the Basque country, Angulo got his start in local theatre before moving to film in 1981 with Escape to Segovia (directed by Imanol Uribe). But it was his film with de la Iglesia that brought him to greater prominence. First, as one half of conjoined twins in Mutant Action, who...

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