Watch The Trailer For HOUSEBOUND Smash It In The Face

Watch The Trailer For HOUSEBOUND Smash It In The Face


Watch The Trailer For HOUSEBOUND Smash It In The Face

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT

All set to have its Canadian premiere at Fantasia in Montreal on August 3, the Kiwi comedy horror Housebound will debut in U.S. cinemas and on VOD and iTunes on October 17. A new trailer is available, which you can find below. Here is how the film is described on its Fantasia page,Restless delinquent Kylie (Morgana O'Reilly) finds herself in juvenile court and gets the proverbial book thrown at her. Sentenced to house arrest in the home she grew up in - and would prefer to never revisit - Kylie returns to live with her absurdly doting mother Miriam (NZ comedy legend Rima Te Wiata) and her schmucky boyfriend. She also finds herself living with a decidedly unfriendly spirit who seems to be every bit as...

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London Indian 2014: ANIMA STATE Is A Transient Trip Through Modern/Medieval Pakistan

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Every country, every civilization, and every culture deals with its own set of crises of faith, crises of identity, and the clash between reactionaries and radicals. Pakistan's struggles are no different, although what exactly those struggles are will change depending upon who you ask. The establishment seeks to concentrate power among its elites and to solidify the nation's religious Muslim identity. The younger generation, the Slackistanis, are trying to use their new tools to connect to the rest of the world in a secular way. Both sets of Pakistanis are having their own pains, largely to do with one another. Hammad Khan's Anima State takes this cognitive dissonance and turns it into a guided visual essay through Pakistan's past, present, and future, and the end...

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RUROUNI KENSHIN: KYOTO INFERNO Releases Major Extended Preview Before International Premiere At Fantasia

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT

An enormously popular manga comic and anime, Rurouni Kenshin is such a successful franchise, that it was hardly a surprise when someone made it into a live action film. What WAS a pleasant surprise though, was how good the film turned out to be when it got released in 2012. A great cast and uncommonly high production values made for an impressively entertaining adaptation, able to win over rabid fans as well as the general public. In fact, Rurouni Kenshin was enough of a hit to get two sequels greenlit, to be made back-to-back. The first of these is Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, which will have its world premiere on the first of August in Japan. And then, as always, begins the long wait for...

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Poster Premiere For Frontieres Market Project TURBO KID

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT

While we'll certainly be seeing many more projects successfully launched and driven through the production process via the Frontieres Co-Production Market at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal - with a second Frontieres event now also attached to the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival - the first fruits are nearly upon us with directing collective RKSS offering Turbo Kid now deep into post production. And we've got the first poster art for you below.TURBO KID began its life as a short film submission to THE ABCs OF DEATH entitled "T is for Turbo", directed by Canadian filmmakers François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, collectively known as RKSS (Roadkill Superstar). Production partners met at the first edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival's Frontières International Co-Production...

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Hooray For Hollywood! Running Out Of Options

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

As it's been a while both since I both (a) subjected you all to my Tinsel  Town insights; and (b) talked about some of the building-blocks of Hollywood business practices, I figured now was a good time to kill two birds with one stone. Today, executives in Hollywood compete desperately with one another in the desire to sound more like Economist articles than old Army Archerd columns -- their "impressive metrics" replacing yesteryear's "boffo box-office". In many ways, it's not so much a culture-clash as it is the more traditional game of Hollywood players indulging in rounds of make-believe -- in this case, entertainment as a business just like any other. The fallacy of this reveals itself most potently any time the heads of these...

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The Many Faces Of Andy Serkis

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

This week, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes premieres, starring Andy Serkis in, if the accounts are to be believed, yet another brilliant example of performance capture. By now, he can rightfully be called the world champion of this new artform. He's surely the most famous performance capture artist ever, since he made history as Gollum in the three Lord of the Rings films. But even without performance capture, Andy Serkis is a pretty awesome actor in his own right, and has had quite some memorable roles using his own face. So once again, I'm going to use a gallery of eight close-ups of one of my favorite thespians to make a quiz, so click through the images and guess which eight movies they're...

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On TV: Chiller TV's 5 STATES OF FEAR, Touring America One Fear At A Time

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Well. This is an unexpected surprise. Chiller TV's second Chilling Visions anthology 5 States of Fear, the follow-up to last year's 5 Senses of Fear, shows a remarkable improvement in the quality of filmmaking and storytelling. Any preconceived notions I had before watching this anthology, no doubt set by the lackluster 5 Senses last year, were quickly dismissed by the time I was into the second short. The idea behind the anthology series is that each short is based on a human fear. This time around the fears are Ego Death, Separation, Mutilation, Extinction and Loss of Autonomy. Sandy, by Brett Simmons (Husk and Monkey's Paw) is the quickest of all the shorts. An unfaithful husband's past comes back to exact revenge upon him. It may be...

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