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Review: SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR, Where Broken Dreams Go To Die

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Review: SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR, Where Broken Dreams Go To Die

Review: SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR, Where Broken Dreams Go To Die

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, like its sibling film 300: Rise of an Empire, is a sequel few were clamoring for. The first film from 2005 set the tone for these Frank Miller adaptations, strongly graphical with a melange of animation and live action that has characterized the films from both series. While the first Sin City was brash enough to premiere in official competition at Cannes, this second outing holds fewer airs. It's in many ways grittier and more tawdry, and in many ways it's the better film for it. Story-wise, we get a similar episodic structure, a bunk of lunkhead guys moping around with death wishes while a bunch of fast talking women steal their hearts. Mickey Rourke's return as the...

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Film4 FrightFest 2014 Is Under Way! Watch The Day One Video Diary!

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 06:45 PM PDT

UK genre fans are off to the races with the 2014 edition of the Film4 FrightFest under way and, once again, erstwhile video bloggers Chris And Phil are there chronicling the event with daily video diaries. Day One's subject? Most of the attention goes to Adam Wingard's The Guest. Check it out below....

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Toronto 2014: THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Gets A New North American Trailer

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 04:00 PM PDT

This upcoming first half of September, the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 will happen again. And one of the many treats there will be The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, the Studio Ghibli film by founder Takahata Isao. As Cameron Bailey describes in his write-up on the TIFF webpage: Isao Takahata is a co-founder of Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli, maker of timeless animation classics. Although he is not as widely known in the West as Hayao Miyazaki, Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, and Pom Poko represent the best of what animated features can do: invite us into a world where anything is possible. His new film, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, revisits a familiar Studio Ghibli theme, telling the story of a...

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Review: ROOT (RAIZ) Is Somewhat Literal In Its Symbology

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 02:01 PM PDT

The winner of the Chilean Competition in last year's Valdivia Film Festival, Raíz (Root) managed not only to get chosen to participate in many festivals from Latin America and beyond, but also snagged a Chilean distribution deal, something that doesn't happen too often with award winning films from Chile.But thanks to new deals made between the government, the distributors, and the big cinema theaters, we now have a steady and strong feed of Chilean movies on the biggest and also the smaller cinema chains in the whole country, and thus, with those numbers, maybe Chilean filmmakers may aim for bigger and wider audiences.Nevertheless, when one tries to scan the landscape of Chilean films from recent years, many times you'll find that there are many kind...

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Opening: THE ONE I LOVE Offers Smart, Very Funny Couples Therapy

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 01:03 PM PDT

"I doubt I will laugh out loud more at a film this year," wrote our own Kurt Halfyard after seeing The One I Love at Fantasia a few weeks ago. Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss star in a new film by Charlie McDowell. Mr. Halfyard stated that the film "made me smile so hard at times my face actually hurt. I burned fucking calories with the enjoyment of this movie. The One I Love contains enough insight and humour (not to mention, utter engagement) in its neo-Twilight Zone execution, that you may never have to visit the self-help section of the bookstore, ever. This is the mandatory date movie of the year." And what of the plot? Sophie and Ethan are several years into their...

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Check Out This Sweet Poster For LOST SOUL - THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY¹S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 12:32 PM PDT

Check out this sweet poster for the upcoming documentary Lost Soul - The Doomed Journey Of Richard Stanley's Island Of Dr. Moreau! Designed by nasties artist Graham Humphreys. Humphreys popped up the other day when we share the posters he did for Canadian horror flick The Editor. The filming of the ill-fated 1996 version of H. G. Welles' THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU is the stuff of legend. For the first time since he was unceremoniously escorted off his longtime dream project, Richard (HARDWARE) Stanley reveals in detail his spectacular original vision and how it was all ripped apart at the seams. Cast members including Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider and Rob Morrow, executives and producers Robert Shaye, Edward R. Pressman and Tim Zinnemann, concept artist Graham...

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Review: ARE YOU HERE, Still A Work In Progress For Matthew Weiner

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 12:02 PM PDT

As a huge fan of Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, I've been eagerly anticipating his feature film debut, and so was disappointed to hear about the negative critical reaction to You Are Here when it debuted at the Toronto film festival last fall. Weiner has since indicated that the film was unfinished. He edited it further, reshaping the material, and the refashioned project has been dubbed Are You Here (no question mark), which makes no particular sense. Without having seen the first version, I can't comment on the changes, but I can describe the new version as a movie that plays as though it's a work in progress ... that makes no particular sense. Owen Wilson stars as Steve Dallas, a TV weatherman in Annapolis, Maryland....

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Review: THE POSSESSION OF MICHAEL KING, It's Not Real Until You Try It On Yourself

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 11:01 AM PDT

Michael King does not believe in God. Michael King does not believe in the Devil. Michael has taken it upon himself to prove that any spiritualism is wrong and when he does that, humanity can move on with their lives and not be chained down by frivolous notions like life after death and such. His motivation is the death of his wife. Samantha. He blames a fortune teller because his wife followed her advice, which he claims is the reason for her accidental death. So he starts by visiting her and we are given a hint of premonition as to Michael's fate in his journey into debunking spiritualism. So Michael goes after the blackest of black magic. The stuff that people are scared of, he says. And...

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Review: LOVE IS STRANGE, A Modest And Delicate Tale

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Before watching the latest movie by writer/director Ira Sachs, I realized that I'd never seen any of his previous work. After watching Love Is Strange, however, I resolved to see everything he's ever made. My initial impression was that Love Is Strange was aping a classic. Indeed, the premise is remarkably similar to Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey's 1937 drama, which follows the travails of a longtime married couple who fall on hard times and must separate in order to live with their children. It's intended to be a temporary arrangement, but, as anyone who has ever dealt with aging parents can testify, it quickly becomes a hardship for the children. Much the same fate befalls Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina), a...

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Review: TO BE TAKEI Is Okay, By George

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:01 AM PDT

George Takei (pronounced Tak-AY, not Tak-EYE or Tak-EEE - and don't you forget it!) has a speech he often gives. It's a formal speech about the persecution his family experienced in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, that briefly funnels into an impassioned urging for gay rights. At some point in there, Star Trek is mentioned. This also summarizes the new George Takei documentary, To Be Takei. Japanese internment camps, gay rights, and Star Trek - it's pretty safe to say that those who know Takei best from his popular Facebook comedy posts will be getting a different Mr. Sulu. But nevertheless, To Be Takei is well-edited and easily digestible, even for a straight Caucasian non-Trekker such as myself. Don't get me wrong, a sense of...

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Exclusive Stills From Nick Cave Documentary 20 000 DAYS ON EARTH

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT

A strange and beautiful beast of a film, I had the chance to catch Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 20 000 Days On Earth while attending the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa last month. The one non-African viewing I allowed myself while there, this was time very well spent, a film I imagine would be equally compelling viewing whether or not you were already a fan of its subject, Nick Cave, given the unusual approach to the material. This is no talking head documentary, you see, and is arguably more of a performance art piece than it is a documentary at all, given how clearly Cave himself deliberately shaped what is on screen, but the end result is a fascinating look into the mind...

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Opening: 14 BLADES, Marking The Return Of Donnie Yen

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:01 AM PDT

More than four years after it opened in Asia, Daniel Lee's 14 Blades is finally coming to America, marking the return of Donnie Yen as a martial arts hero. Right off hand, I have no idea why it took so long for the movie to hit the U.S. market, and I have no idea why Radius/TWC decided that this particular movie was the right one to push out now. I'm sure it had nothing at all to do with the recent, entirely unexpected success of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer from the same company (?!). In any event, the movie will open in a small number of theaters on Friday, August 22, ahead of a more usual home video release about two weeks later. As it happens,...

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Exclusive Interview: Twitch Talks THE F WORD/WHAT IF With Michael Dowse

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT

When I called Michael Dowse for our interview, I tried hard not to sound like a crazy person. I admit that I've been a bit vocal about his films on Twitter, and believe (without any sarcasm or irony) that a decade from now his name will be associated with the great directors that have come out of Canada. There's a deftness to his filmmaking that's refreshing, a wonderful blend of the silly and the serious that's often so hard to pull off. I first recognized the spark of genius when Fubar 2 played as part of TIFF's Midnight Madness programme back in 2010. While the first film was juvenile and silly, the sequel was in many way astonishing - yes, it's a stoner comedy,...

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