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Celluloid Screams 2014: More Of Those Creepy Kiwis, A Monster Romance, And Retro Royalty Highlight Full Roster

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Celluloid Screams 2014: More Of Those Creepy Kiwis, A Monster Romance, And Retro Royalty Highlight Full Roster

Celluloid Screams 2014: More Of Those Creepy Kiwis, A Monster Romance, And Retro Royalty Highlight Full Roster

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Boy oh boy, did the final weekend of October just get a whole lot cooler for the residents of Sheffield, England! We announced that The Editor, from members of Canadian outfit Astron-6, would be opening the festival. Well, they just announced their full lineup, and it is going to be a great weekend! It comes as no surprise that New Zealand horror flicks Housebound and What We Do In The Shadows will play there. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead's monster romance Spring will be making the trip across the pond. Screamers (I don't know what you call yourselves, audience, so I am dubbing you that) will also get to see Hollywood starlet horror Starry Eyes, horror comedy Suburban Gothic, and horror flick Creep out of the...

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SPACE CAT HOB: Be Amazed And Delighted By The Full Animated Short Film

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 09:00 PM PDT

At the beginning of the year we let you in on a small project by Paris-based animator Loïc Bramoullé called Space Cat Hob. The full six-minute short is now available and you can watch it below! Loïc spent two years making this short with his team, with no money during their spare time, and the results are amazing. Aside from the character design, I think where this short excels is in the alien world Bramoullé created. Distinctly alien but also gorgeous. Those little cat characteristics at the beginning are funny. Bramoullé  also adopts multiple perspectives when framing his action, so we get to go along for the ride as well. It is a marvelous six minutes (including credits -- be sure to watch the credits). ...

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Bell Media's The Innoversity Summit Pitch Competition Begins

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 08:00 PM PDT

Your head is buzzing. Buzzing, I say! You have ideas about the movie you want to make, and you could really use some free stuff to help make it happen. Well, we have good news for you! Bell Media's The Innoversity Summit is happening this fall on October 28 and 29, and part of the program is the annual Pitch Competition. The summit is accepting entries until September 20. If you have an idea floating around in your head and you would not say no to free stuff, like mentorships with industry leaders, money, equipment rentals, festival dates, and such, then you should submit that idea to the summit. Here is the official verbiage. Please note that Twitch Film is noted therein:Bell Media presents The Innoversity Summit...

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Toronto 2014 Review: MONSOON Paints A Brash, Beautiful Portrait Of India And Its Storms

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT

There's something primal about our fascination with storms, something connected for even the most urban of city dwellers to the enormous forces that shape our planet. It's no surprise that earlier civilizations named gods after these elements, and that for millennia the cleansing and chaos brought by heavy rain has shaped our very existence. There are few storms so tied to the survival of a good chunk of our species than the Indian Monsoon. It's a fickle storm, one that can drench and destroy one area while leaving another desiccated. It's a force so entwined with our condition that it's hard not to see anthropomorphised elements, aspects of malice or kindness, a system operating on a scope with a speed and ferocity that's near...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS Is On-Screen Music Theater Done Right

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 06:30 PM PDT

It's common knowledge that a pure musical takes more than a bit of suspension of disbelief. From the first notes, you kind of have to go with the flow, taking in the abstraction as it comes. On stage, this level of abstraction is often heightened by the stage design, the proscenium forming a canvas on which the performance takes place that's fixed in space, while the movement of the actors and the rise and fall of the music drives the performance forward. On film, you've got several options - do something that's documentary like, filled with shakycam movements and haphazard compositions, or go over the top kitsch, calling attention to the theatricality of the work. With >The Last Five Years, director Richard La Gravenese immediately...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Celebrates The Messiness Of The Universe, Concisely

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 06:00 PM PDT

James Marsh's eye for documentary is a welcome aspect to this biopic about one of the most recognizable scientists to have ever lived. Stephen Hawking is perhaps known more widely for his physical struggles, synthesized voice and pop culture appearances than he is for his scientific work, but for many he embodies the brilliant scientist, albeit one that has overcome astonishing odds to continue to be around to contribute to scientific discourse. The Theory of Everything is actually quite concise in its focus, following the young Hawking as he enters his doctorate program at Cambridge, and his burgeoning relationship with Jane Wilde. The film traces some of the usual paths of this type of biography, with the added element of physical deterioration that provides...

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Toronto 2014 Review: CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, Wild Vistas, Remarkable Performances, And Assured Direction

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 04:45 PM PDT

When I saw Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby in an arthouse theatre back in the mid-90s, I was totally unprepared for such raw and nihilistic filmmaking. A violent and dark film, it was clear from that one film that de Heer was a massive, fearless talent. The director, born in The Netherlands but an emigrant to Australia at a young age, has delved deeper into Australian and Aboriginal lore over the years, working with famed actor David Gulpilil on a number of projects, including 2002's The Tracker and 2006's Ten Canoes. The latter film provided one of my most interesting film festival experiences - a tale told in the indigenous language, due to a logistical hiccup the version we saw had no subtitles....

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Watch One Tough Granny In Clip From Brian Trenchard Smith's DRIVE HARD

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 03:00 PM PDT

We have a clip to share with you from Drive Hard, the latest from Ozploitation great Brian Trenchard-Smith. In the clip, stars John Cusack and Thomas Jane cross paths with a justice seeking granny. Former race car driver Peter Roberts (Thomas Jane) traded the winner's circle for a 9 to 5 job as a beginners' driving instructor. But his life shifts into overdrive when Simon Keller (John Cusack) hijacks Peter to be his getaway driver in a $9 million heist.Drive Hard is available on VOD as of last Thursday. It will also make pit stops in cinemas on October 3rd before crossing the finish line on DVD and Blu-ray on November 11th. ...

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Raven Banner To Distribute TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL: THE END OF THE END Animated Feature

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 12:35 PM PDT

Fans of the television show Todd & The Book of Pure Evil already know that there will be an animated feature film to wrap up any unanswered questions after the second season. They rallied behind the show and supported an Indigogo campaign over and above its goal. You can watch the campaign video below if you need to catch up. "Our fans rallied and we raised partial funding through an insanely successful Indiegogo campaign," stated director Craig David Wallace "giving our fans the ending they deserve - a full-length animated feature (with all new metal musical numbers) - that answers the age-old question "Gee, I wonder what happens next?"The original cast will return to voice their animated selves - including Alex House, Maggie Castle, Bill Turnbull,...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE EQUALIZER, A Quietly-Assured Thriller For The Masses

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Cool and slick -- no, no, let's make that uber-cool and uber-slick -- while also being uber-warm -- yet wistful, kind to strangers and hostile to unrepentant criminals who ignore "stop that, please," Robert McCall is a superhero for the post-post-post-modern world. He is polite and cheerful at his place of employment, a big-box retail establishment that stocks every imaginable item for the home and garden. He lives modestly in a small apartment, which he keeps clean and tidy. He does not, apparently, own a motor vehicle, preferring to walk and/or ride the bus to and from his modest neighborhood in Boston. He is happy to serve as a kind yet firm mentor for his younger, full-figured co-worker Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis), who wants to become...

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Toronto 2014 Review: SPRING Is No Sophomore Slump

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

"You saw me all fucked up and I am still here." So says Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) to his Italian girlfriend, Louise (Nadia Hilker), after discovering that her 'little secret' is well outside his comfort zone. It is this moment, well into the film, when Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson's Spring becomes something special. This is not the sweet notion that Evan, a nice California guy drifting through Italy while escaping a number of problems at home, is willing to make a serious commitment to a preternaturally attractive girl after only a few weeks in a foreign country. No, it is the staggering human trait that we can get acclimatized to the strangest things so incredibly fast if we are willing to accept and roll with the...

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Toronto 2014 Interview: Talking BIG GAME, Character Actors And 1980s Blockbusters With Director Jalmari Helander

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT

In between screenings of the ridiculously fun and Amblin-esque popcorn muncher Big Game at the Toronto International Film Festival, I managed to have a chat with Finnish director Jalmari Helander and his young star Onni Tommila. The young actor was a little shy (and a lot hungry) which belies his ultra-confident performance in the film, but the director knows exactly what he wants, and goes for it. Below is a slightly abridged transcription of our conversation, but rest assured that no "mother-fuckers" were bleeped out.Kurt Halfyard: Thanks for taking some time out between your two screenings to chat. So. That Midnight Madness crowd last night, that was something, wasn't it?Jalmari Helander: That was one of the nicest moments of my life. I cried probably something like 50...

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Toronto 2014 Review: SONG OF THE SEA Is A Timeless Delight For All Ages

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Irish animator Tomm Moore made - to put it mildly - a very large impression with his 2009 feature debut The Secret Of Kells, a gorgeous piece of work with rich storytelling high in adventure and genuine emotion that earned the film an Oscar nomination. And so, five years later, expectations could not possibly have been higher for Moore's follow up work Song Of The Sea. He exceeds them all.Ben's family is a small one, one marred by tragedy. Growing up on a lonely island where his father is a lighthouse keeper Ben was perfectly happy with just his puppy, his father and his mother who he adores with her wealth of stories and songs. But their happiness is broken with the arrival of youngest...

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Lund 2014: Full Lineup Reveals Creepy Kiwis, Nazi Zombies, And Some Good Old Cannibalism

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT

The full schedule for the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival was unveiled just before the weekend. We had previously announced that the festival already included highly sought after films like The Guest, The Babadook and V/H/S Viral. Well. if you head on over to the festival site and peruse the schedule you will see that the programmers have bulked up on genre greatness! There are simply too many to list here, so I will give you a quick summary. There will be a retrospective screening of Cannibal Holocaust. Other festival faves include Housebound, Cold in July, Why Don't You Play In Hell?, Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead, The Canal, It Follows, Open Windows, and Zombeavers! And the list just keeps on going. A quick count puts it...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE DEAD LANDS, An Epic Yet Intimate Action Journey

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT

As is often the case with a classical heroic journey, what you get out of the quest is often what you bring to it. With some humility and patience, you'll be rewarded; wanting rewards without putting in the work to earn them will result in disappointment. Toa Fraser's The Dead Lands is a slow burn, one that sprinkles moments of action and violence into what's really a quite convincing Campbellian heroic tale. This is a journey that takes its time, stopping along the way to explore issues of family, honor, and ancestral duty within the context of a young man thrust into circumstances that must make him a man. The film's archetypes are made overtly manifest, from the monster in the dark woods, the...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE CONNECTION Misses Its Mark

Posted: 07 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

The Connection (titled La French in its native county) has the makings of a great film, which is what makes the final product such a disapointment. Drawing upon the same case that was the basis for the William Friedkin classic, this companion piece to The French Connection should have it all - power, money, hubris, drugs, car chases, and exotic locales. As a kind of academic exercise it's telling what this film fails at in contrast to the 70's iteration. Where Friedkin's film is taut, with some epic set pieces (that car chase!), delightful dialogue -- "Pick your feet in Poughkeepsie!" and the amazing banter between Scheider and Hackman in their prime -- with this telling, we get an Oscar-caliber actor in Jean Dujardin...

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