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HEAR ME MOVE: Watch The Trailer For South Africa's First Dance Film

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HEAR ME MOVE: Watch The Trailer For South Africa's First Dance Film

HEAR ME MOVE: Watch The Trailer For South Africa's First Dance Film

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:00 PM PDT

Presented at the Durban International Film Festival prior to the December release of the completed film, the first trailer has freshly arrived for Scottnes Smith's Hear Me Move. Billed as the first ever dance film from South Africa the trailer appears to hold to the established format for the sub genre with the likeable underdog facing up against tough odds, but the use of regional dance styles should add a fresh feeling.Hear Me Move features energetic "sbujwa" and "pantsula" dance sequences, choreographed by the award-winning Paul Modjadji, that play out against the backdrop of a gritty urban Johannesburg seldom seen on the silver screen. Smith says, "We opted to focus on sbujwa and pantsula, our home grown urban street dances, because we wanted South Africans...

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Crowdfund This: Joe Zerull's THE NEWSCASTER

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Indie director Joe Zerull occupied a fair amount of space in these pages a few years ago with A Cadaver Christmas, a gleefully low budget holiday zombie affair that won itself a loyal following on the festival circuit and modest releases around the globe and now he's back and looking for help with his sophomore effort, The Newscaster. Zerull says that while there will still be some comedy elements here this one will be much more a horror with some dark comedy than the comedy-horror of his debut, as it tells the story of an aging newsman moonlighting as a serial killer.Want to know what he's capable of? Zerull has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the project with the pitch video including a good amount...

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THE FOUR 3: Gordon Chan's Fantasy-Action Trilogy Wraps With An Explosive Trailer

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Hong Kong veteran Gordon Chan is the quintessential journeyman director. He doesn't deliver high art but he knows what he likes and he knows how to deliver it. And what he likes most of all is crowd pleasing spectacle. Cue up the third and final entry in his The Four trilogy, a trio of martial arts fantasy films that in many ways merges the sort of story telling that drives superhero efforts here in the west with more traditional Chinese elements.Want to see Anthony Wong deliver a palm blast? You're in the right place here and with the finale effort hitting screens in August they're not holding much back with the theatrical trailer. Check it out - English subtitles included - below....

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Head Underground With The Teaser For Dark Norwegian Comedy PROLETAR

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 05:30 PM PDT

Expect to hear morefrom young Norwegian director Øyvind Holtmon over the next few years. His short film, Proletar, has been nominated as the best student film in all of Scandinavia and it's not hard at all to see why from the teaser.There's something going on down in the mines. Johannes is working double shifts, every day. His colleagues are whispering. Wife nagging. Boss laughing. Johannes used to turn his other cheek, but now there aren't any more cheeks left. Enough is enough. Stylish and shot through with dark humor this looks like quality on all fronts. Take a look below....

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Adkins, Jaa, Bautista, St Pierre And Newcomer Alain Moussi Star In Stephen Fung's KICKBOXER Remake

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 03:15 PM PDT

While it may fall to newcomer Alain Moussi to fill Jean Claude Van Damme's shoes in the Stephen Fung (Tai Chi Hero) directed remake of Kickboxer he's going to have some familiar - and dangerous - faces around him rounding out the cast with Tony Jaa (Ong Bak), Scott Adkins (Ninja), Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) and Georges St Pierre (UFC badass) rounding out the principal cast. And, really, with a cast like that, the only question is who gets to hit who and how hard?Aug 5, 2014 - Brian O'Shea, CEO of The Exchange, has announced and confirmed that in addition to having Dave Batista, star of GUARDIANS OF THE GLAXY, former UFC welterweight champion George St. Pierre, and Alain Moussi of X-MEN:...

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The Craft Goes To Sweden With The First Teaser For CIRKELN (THE CIRCLE)

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:30 PM PDT

You may have expected there to be a wave of young adult oriented fantasy film to arise in Sweden following the runaway international success of Let The Right One In but, surprisingly, there was not. Adaptations of the original author's other novels stalled out and very little popped up in terms of original material or adaptations of other books. But now there's one worth taking a look at with Levan Akin's adaptation of Mats Standberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren's Cerkeln (The Circle).The first in a series of novels known as the Engelsfors books - the first two are available in English translations with the third currently available only in Swedish - Cirkeln revolves around a group of teen girls who discover they are witches and...

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Guanajuato 2014: Film Awards Go To TODOS ESTAN MUERTOS, PARTY GIRL, And More

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:00 PM PDT

The Guanajuato International Film Festival 2014 came to an end last Sunday, August 3. Actors Ximena Ayala (The Amazing Catfish) and Gustavo Sánchez Parra (Amores Perros) conducted the closing ceremony the previous night (August 2) at the Auditorio del Estado, in which the festival awarded several films, both international and Mexican. During the gala, the director of the festival, Sarah Hoch, gave the first taste of the 2015 edition by announcing that Turkey is going to be the spotlight country. The top prize for a Mexican film went to Beatriz Sanchis' debut film Todos Están Muertos (They Are All Dead), while the festival circuit veteran Nicolás Pereda took home the Best Mexican Documentary award for El Palacio (The Palace). The Hamsters was cited for Best...

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Fantasia 2014 Review: THE HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:30 PM PDT

For all of us who feel Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump is a sentimental, condescending insult to cinema audiences everywhere, and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not a helluvalot better, we finally have an entry into 'the man who bumbles through history' nano-genre to call our own. Do not let the maladroit title fool you, Felix Herngren's big screen adaptation of the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson is a Swiss fucking watch in the plotting department, and savagely amusing in its come-what-may temperament. It sneaks up on you in similar ways as Jo Nesbo's Headhunters, even as it dazzles with the sweep of history.After a tone-setting and highly unfortunate incident involving a sweet kitty, a hungry fox, and a bundle of dynamite, one of...

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Cinemalaya 2014 Review: Milo Sogueco's MARIQUINA Maps Familial Heartbreaks With Astounding Elegance

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:01 AM PDT

In one sequence in Milo Sogueco's Mariquina, shoemaker Romeo (Ricky Davao, who inhabits the role with unabashed fragility) attempts to salvage whatever he can save in his warehouse from the flood. His teenage daughter, Imelda (Barbie Forteza, who inhabits the delicate role with laudable maturity) suddenly appears in the scuffle, wanting to help or at least express some concern over her father's misfortune. Romeo, flared by desperation in the face of the threat of ruin, coldly orders his daughter to return to her room and to leave everything to him. Mariquina is peppered with sequences like this, sequences that subtly expose the cracks and fissures in the relationship between father and daughter. In that particular flood sequence, Sogueco smartly reveals Romeo's enduring conflict and also his...

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Fantastic Fest 2014: First Wave Announced, Led By TUSK, ABCs OF DEATH 2, And Much More

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:25 AM PDT

The first wave of events for Fantastic Fest 2014 has been announced. I'm prejudiced, because I've been attending the film festival in Austin, Texas, for years and am thoroughly spoiled, but this looks pretty good to me. Fantastic Fest returns to the newly-rebuilt Alamo South Lamar location in Austin, and runs from September 18-25. Opening night will be marked by Kevin Smith's horror thingy Tusk -- a day before its theatrical engagement begins -- and the world premiere of anthology sequel The ABCs of Death 2. And then, of course, a food fight will follow, which is how most film festivals celebrate opening night of their 10th anniversary. Guests include many filmmakers and people like film critic Leonard Maltin, who will participate in a game called "MALTIN'S,"...

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Disney Doing A WRINKLE IN TIME With FROZEN Director Jennifer Lee

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Shiver my timbers. Madeline L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time is coming to the big screen, courtesy of Disney and Frozen director Jennifer Lee, according to Variety. Lee shared a writing credit on 2012's animated Wreck-It Ralph before writing Frozen and directing with Chris Buck. Since Frozen made about a kajillion dollars for Disney and promises to pump more millions into the studio bucket, she had her choice of projects, and A Wrinkle in Time was supposedly one of her favorite books as a child. Disney produced an adaptation of the book for television in 2003, but a decade has passed, which means no one in their target audience remembers that. Admittedly, I have not seen Frozen, and I am not a child, nor a parent, but...

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Melbourne 2014 Review: In TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT, The Dardennes Eschew Nothing

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:01 AM PDT

Why did Two Days, One Night work so well for me? It's not easy to explain. This is especially the case, considering this is my first experience watching a film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and the fact I know nothing about modern-day Belgium's working-class. Given this lack of knowledge, the film is a capsule, a bitter pill of ethical and moral dilemma that simply shows humanity for what it is, for better or worse.Two Days, One Night throws us into a troubled weekend where Sandra (the always wonderful Marion Cotillard) stresses about convincing her workmates to make a powerful decision. After a bout of depression, Sandra returns from a hiatus to her employment. Her manager and his boss, the unseen Jean-Marc have other plans, however, as...

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Melbourne 2014 Review: HAPPY CHRISTMAS Boosted By Its Characters

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Joe Swanberg directs and stars in an 'indie' family drama that is as equally generic as the non-descript title suggests. The free-formed plot involves a couple with a child; Jeff (Swanberg) and author Kelly (Melanie Lynskey) and the slight stress they endure when Jeff's seemingly irresponsible sister Jenny (Anna Kendrick) comes to live with them in Chicago after an apparently painful break-up. The film goes to no great lengths to show the ripples she creates and the very minute changes that take place. Regardless of the small nature of the film and its inherent anti-drama, the two female protagonists Kelly and Jenny mostly play very strongly off each-other and the gender slant the film has works well to explore modern relationships and family arrangements.The film...

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