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Review: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Chooses Not To Compete, And Succeeds

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Review: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Chooses Not To Compete, And Succeeds

Review: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Chooses Not To Compete, And Succeeds

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:02 PM PDT

Michael Bay gets his hands on another beloved property from our childhoods, but as producer of a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature his signature influence is somewhat muted. Director Jonathan Liebesman instead delivers a superhero adventure pitched squarely at the kids, with Megan Fox and William Fichtner providing human support alongside a quartet of mo-capped anthropomorphic reptiles, and the results are goofy, juvenile, shambolic, but admittedly quite entertaining.This year's blockbuster season has proved one of the most formidable and competitive in recent years, with a string of grand scale, franchise-driven juggernauts taking the box office by storm. For a troubled property like Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which has never found a truly comfortable home in any medium, it's been...

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Canadian Feats Added To Toronto 2014 Slate Incl. Astron-6 Midnighter THE EDITOR & Tierney's PREGGOLAND

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:00 PM PDT

The Toronto Int'l Film Fest announcements keep coming. This week the fest has dropped a bevy of new features that all come from native daughters and sons of Canada. The films are slotted in among a number of programs and include the 10th Midnighter The Editor directed by Manborg himself Matthew Kennedy and Father's Day co-director Adam Brooks (remember this?). Also on the list are new films by Xavier Dolan, Ruba Nadda, and Jacob Tierney. Here's the full list. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS An Eye for Beauty (Le règne de la beauté) Denys Arcand, Canada - Toronto Premiere Luc, a talented young architect, lives a peaceful life with his wife Stephanie in the stunning area of Charlevoix. He has a beautiful house, a pretty wife, dines often...

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Tokyo 2014: EVANGELION Creator Anno Hideaki To Be Honored

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Evangelion fans might want to start planning a pilgrimage to Japan in October, as the Tokyo International Film Festival has announced it will be screening a huge showcase of the works of one of the country's leading animated filmmakers, Anno Hideaki. The program will pay tribute to the man who cut his teeth as an animator on Studio Ghibli's debut feature Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, working under Miyazaki Hayao, before going on to write and direct the enormously popular series Neon Genesis Evangelion, throughout its many television and film incarnations. The tribute will include work from throughout the filmmaker's career, including television work, short films, promo videos, and, of course, all his major theatrical releases, including 1990's Nadia The Secret of Bluewater and 1997's Neon Genesis...

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THE DROWNSMAN Coming To Canada, Courtesy Of Anchor Bay

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:01 PM PDT

Shortly after having its world premiere at Fantasia in Montreal, Chad Archibald's slippery horror flick The Drownsman has been picked up by Anchor Bay for distribution in our fair nation.Toronto, ON - Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada and Breakthrough Entertainment are excited to announce the release of The Drownsman in the Canadian home entertainment market. This news lands just as the film celebrates its world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and is part of a new wave of independently produced horror films. Be sure to keep your eyes and ears open for release plans and dates....

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THE GUEST Trailer Starts Polite, And Then Gets Bloody Rude

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:35 PM PDT

Yes, yes, yes! I haven't loved everything that director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett have made -- A Horrible Way to Die and You're Next being the most notable -- but I very much like the new trailer for The Guest, which begins on a very polite note before exploding into a thousand billion suns. Heading to U.S. theaters on September 17, The Guest stars Dan Stevens as a war veteran who visits the family of a fallen colleague. He is kind, considerate, and helpful to the single mother and her two teenage children, right up until one of them gets into trouble, and then the hidden aspects of his personality come to the fore, as in, "Yowza!" Stevens convincingly portrayed an upstart addition to the...

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PiFan 2014 Review: GIOVANNI'S ISLAND, A Moving Tale of Post-War Survival

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:10 PM PDT

Director Nishikubo Mizuho's ode to post-war survival, Giovanni's Island (Jobanni no shima), offers a heartbreaking account of the struggles of two brothers, as the world they grew up in changes around them, amidst the aftermath of the Second World War. Junpei and his younger brother Kanta live on the island of Shikotan in Northern Japan. Raised by their stoic, serious father and elderly, fisherman grandfather, they find nightly escape from the daily drama of rummaging for food and the threat of bombs through reading 'Night on the Galactic Railroad', a fantasy novel featuring a train that shuttles through the stars, and from whose main characters, Giovanni and Campanelli, the boys received their names. When the war ends, everything changes as the Russians arrive to take control, marking...

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Cinemalaya 2014: Carlos Siguion-Reyna's HARI NG TONDO (WHERE I AM KING), A Crowdpleaser With Some Semblance Of Substance

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:30 AM PDT

There are at least two disparate movies in Hari ng Tondo (Where I Am King), Carlos Siguion-Reyna's first feature film in more than a decade. The first movie is the one written by Bibeth Orteza, which was followed faithfully by Siguion-Reyna. Orteza is a veteran screenwriter whose most recent works are television sitcoms or sitcom-like crowd drawers like Nobody Nobody but Juan (Eric Quizon, 2009), Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote (Tony Y. Reyes, 2010), and My Little Bossings (Marlon Rivera, 2013). Her best scripts, however, are the ones directed by Siguion-Reyna, like Ligaya ang Itawag Mo Sa Akin (Call Me Joy, 1997), Ang Lalaki sa Buhay ni Selya (The Man in Her Life, 1997), and Kahapon, May Dalawang Bata (Yesterday Children, 1999). Her...

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Review: DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS Stirs Good Memories, But Not For Very Long

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of Gods is a really fun entry in Toriyama Akira's beloved universe that's just not up there with the most memorable ones. It manages to capture the absurdist essence of Dragon Ball very well, but disappoints in the other important regard. If you don't expect one epic Dragon Ball Z confrontation like those you grew up with, say Goku vs. Freeza or Gohan vs. Cell, you shouldn't end up dissatisfied with it. However, the premise (as well as the title with "battle" in it) speaks to both fans and newcomers equally: Goku is about to protect planet Earth once again as the threatening God of destruction Bills (aka Birusu) wakes up. Everything leads to this face-to-face duel so one should expect...

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The WONDERBROTHERS Need A Miracle In the Charming First Trailer

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Meet the Wonderbrothers (Wonderbroeders), a quintet of Dutch priest who - it must be said - are not particularly good at priestly things. Unless, of course, you consider the age old traditions of brewing beer and then drinking said beer to be priestly things. But they're a well meaning, likeable lot whose live are thrown into disarray when they learn that their church will be sold for redevelopment and they will lose their home unless they can come up with a sizeable amount of cash. Clearly the Brothers need a miracle. Billed as from the creators of hit Dutch underdog comedy The Marathon - which mined similar comic territory with its tale of the blue collar workers of a mechanic's shop running a marathon to...

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Destroy All Monsters: Can You Make A Movie About The Han Solo Character, Or Not?

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:01 AM PDT

In Guardians of the Galaxy, five Han Solos walk into a bar. (Or a prison. And one of them is a tree, and quite a sweet one at that - not Han Solo-ish at all.) By the end of the film, these five outer space adventurers emerge as the heroes of their own story, "a bunch of a-holes" as the voice of Darth Maul puts it, not a peasant/pleasant Luke Skywalker among them. As space opera goes, it's fairly refreshing, though it's hardly the first instance of the Han Solo character being the lead in a movie like this. Comparisons between Guardians of the Galaxy (read Jason's review here) and Firefly/Serenity have been free-flowing in the fan press, and if Serenity were the inception of...

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BREASTMILK: Out Now On VOD And iTunes

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 07:01 AM PDT

Now for something completely different. Though we dabble in the world of documentary film, I do not know if any of us had Dana Ben-Ari's Breastmilk on our radars as of late. But it exists and it is available now on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, and directly through the website www.breastmilkthemovie.com, where you can also buy the DVD and other breast-related products. You can watch the trailer below. Breastmilk, the new documentary by first-time filmmaker Dana Ben-Ari, is an unflinchingly provocative, humorous, informative and inspirational exploration of just how, when and why the next generation gets fed. The film dives into the fray of what really happens among new parents - those who want to breastfeed, those who can't breastfeed and a whole culture caught up...

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