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Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: NORWAY, A Delightfully Odd Vampire Tale From Greece

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Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: NORWAY, A Delightfully Odd Vampire Tale From Greece

Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: NORWAY, A Delightfully Odd Vampire Tale From Greece

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 11:00 PM PDT

If you're craving electronic music, handmade sets and 80s cinema homages aplenty with your basic vampire lore, then Yannis Veslemes' debut feature Norway is one to keep an eye on. By no means a cult classic, the film is wonderfully weird in tone and tempo, heralding the arrival of a DIY talent that will surely conjure up even more fantastic treats in coming years.Our story takes place in a highly stylized Athens, Greece, circa 1984. Full of drug addicts, drunks, criminals and prostitutes, it's the perfect place for a vampire to spend the moonlit hours. As it goes, Zano, this tale's dancing blood sucker, is in town to meet his pal, Jimmy, the gravedigger. When Jimmy doesn't show at the local porn cinema for their...

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DVD Review: Ruggero Deodato's THE WASHING MACHINE

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT

(Dirty people apparently do not become any cleaner in a washing machine...) When you mention the name Ruggero Deodato, the first title which pops into mind will be the unbelievably infamous Cannibal Holocaust, and some aficionados might also mention The House at the Edge of the Park. But the man has been involved in many other films as well, and while the notoriety of his output cannot be disputed, he is a talented enough filmmaker for his films to include a little more than just shock-value. But some of Deodato's films can be hard to acquire. UK distributor Shameless released his sleazy thriller The Washing Machine on DVD last month (in a glorious piece of stunt-packaging), and it currently is the only legally sold English-friendly...

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Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: THE ABSENT ONE Chronicles The Infuriating Power Of Evil

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 06:00 PM PDT

Absolute evil exists in this world, and that is absolutely infuriating. When it's captured in a murder mystery whose premise sounds like a thousand other murder mysteries, that is either a blessing or a curse. When it comes to The Absent One (Fasandræberne), a Danish thriller directed by Mikkel Norgard, it's a blessing, even though my blood began boiling about halfway through and then caused hot air to blast out of my ears as I struggled to keep my emotions in check. My response, of course, is no guarantee that the movie itself will elicit that kind of reaction for anyone else. Yet it is attributable, in part, to the swirling combination of deeply felt emotions expressed -- or held in check -- by a...

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Hey, Toronto! Get Your Craven On With The Twitch-Curated Mini Retrospective! Tickets On Sale Now!

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Heads up, Wes Craven fans! Twitch is proud to present Wes Craven: Dreams, Screams And Nightmares - an eight film mini-retrospective of the horror master's work screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto from October 3 through October 21st. Included in the series? The Last House On The Left, The Hills Have Eyes, Swamp Thing, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, The People Under The Stairs, Scream and Red Eye.Tickets for all screenings are available now so head over to the official website for details and to order!...

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Watch The Complete WASTELANDER PANDA: EXILE For Free Now!

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Fresh from its premiere at Fantastic Fest the complete run of Victoria Cocks' post-apocalyptic web series Wastelander Panda: Exile is now available online for free viewing worldwide! Here's how I pitched the series in my Fantastic Fest program notes: The Apocalypse has come and gone; its survivors forming small communities for protection. Banished to the vast Wasteland, Isaac - a giant humanoid panda - sets out to find a young girl and reinstate his family into the Tribe of Legion. The idea is preposterous on the surface - a web series fusing elements of Mad Max, Lone Wolf And Cub and Zatoichi revolving around a walking, talking, sword fighting panda bear. It's the sort of thing that simply should not work, not at all, or...

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Scott Adkins And Dolph Lundgren Together Again In 4 TOWERS

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:30 PM PDT

News from a couple of sources, including the Scott Adkins Facebook Page (so you know it is true!), is that Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren are joining Gianni Capaldi on an upcoming action flick 4 Towers. Actress Kelly Overton (True Blood) is rumored to be a part of the production. A Serbian ex war hero, Viro, (Dolph Lundgren), takes hostages at a powerful company's dinner in an 11th century castle in a bid to capture the legendary stolen gold of Mussolini. Taking on Italy's tactical swat teams and an Interpol unit (Scott Adkins and Gianni Capaldi), he may have captured a hostage who could prove too much to handle. Intense combat, thrilling knife fighting and explosive action follows Viro as he attempts to escape with the...

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Flip van der Kuil Drunkenly Reviews Flip van der Kuil And Steffen Haars' BROS BEFORE HOS

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Shit, the guy sitting next to me is now drained. I think he's an Italian or something. He has as much as I drank half a bottle of vodka, but he's really bad. His eyes closed. Vodka was really tasty. I do not drink vodka often, but it was really tasty. This was indeed the dullest room I've ever been in. Viewing the previous two days ago, was really fat. Everyone was really twofold. That was really fat. Not now. I do not know what to write now. Oja a review of my own film. Steffen is really a fag. He sits next to me and looks at me and try to direct me. He can get the cancer. Bros before hos, what an oily...

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Camera Japan Festival Rotterdam 2014 Reveals Its Great Line-up

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 12:30 PM PDT

UPDATE: The festival has now released its full schedule, and has opened its ticket sales. Click this link for more details. This October, the Camera Japan Festival returns, starting as always in Rotterdam with its full selection, before travelling to several other locations. While the festival is primarily focused on Japanese films (more than 40 are in the program), there are always live performances, lectures, expositions and workshops about Japanese culture as well. Thankfully this always includes great food too! This year, the festival's theme is "J-Dream", meaning whatever is weird, fantastical or wonderful. The lecture topics include Japanese manga-architecture, and the fantastical elements in Japanese literature. For a taste of "J-Dream", just check out this year's poster... The films are mostly shown for the...

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Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: EVERLY Deserves Better

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Joe Lynch's latest, Everly, is a fairly standard shoot-em-up action movie. Think Die Hard. Both take place at Christmas (a seasonal assault in its own right), but instead of resourceful Officer John McClane fighting off a swarm of bad guys holding his wife hostage at the Nakatomi Plaza, we have hostage-as-heroine Everly (Salma Hayek) trapped and under siege in an apartment she can't leave, attempting to clandestinely shuttle cash to her mother and the daughter she abandoned before the bounty on her head is claimed. Everly has been held hostage for four years by the Yakuza, who just found out she has been working with the police. Realizing that her mortal time is limited, Everly's latent Mama Bear leanings manifest, and manifest hard: Determined to...

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Nikolas List Drunkenly Reviews Nikolas List's TOMBVILLE

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT

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KUNG FU JUNGLE: New Posters, Full Synopsis Emerge For Latest Donnie Yen Actioner

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Teddy Chen's Kung Fu Jungle (previously known as Last of the Best) will open on Hong Kong screens on 30 October, and Emperor Motion Pictures has released a brace of new moody character posters to further amp up the anticipation for the Donnie Yen action thriller.Yen plays a convicted killer and martial artist who offers his unique services to the cops, when a mysterious serial killer (played by mainland star Wang Baoqiang) starts going round Hong Kong murdering the city's most skilled fighters. Chen hasn't directed a film since 2009's Bodyguards and Assassins - after being replaced on The Guillotines by Andrew Lau - but has experience with action filmmaking and working with Yen. Hopefully Kung Fu Jungle will prove more successful than Donnie's recent slew...

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Nine Oscar Contenders And More At The Filmfest Hamburg

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Among a growing group of European film festivals showcasing movies that premiered earlier during the year, the Hamburg Filmfest is surely one of the most unbent and well-programmed events. This year, it will take place from September 25 to October 4. There are no less than nine Oscar contenders for the foreign film category. Among them appear such heavyweights as the Turkish Golden Palm winner Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Xavier Dolan's latest hipster-bliss Mommy, which is Canada's entry in the foreign film competition. Moreover, Hungary's Cannes darling and winner of the Un Certain Regard section, White God by Kornél Mundruczó, the Croatian comedy Cowboys by Tomislav Mršić, Pawel Pawlikowski's first Polish feature film Ida which has built up quite a reputation, guarantee...

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Destroy All Monsters: GOTHAM And The Cult Of "Before"

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT

"Before there was Batman, there was Gotham," the posters for Fox's new series bark. This is a molecular deconstruction of the Batman mythos taken at its most mundane. Coming up: an origin story for the Batarang (its horrible secrets laid bare!), followed by Alfred Pennyworth In The Army: The Movie. The cult of prequelology that has sprung up in the 15 years since The Phantom Menace has somehow failed, in all this time, to locate a single compelling reason why prequels should exist at all, besides the obvious, market-driven ones. Connecting a property to a preexisting property, in whatever chronological direction, makes good money. But otherwise: what the hell are they there for? I'm fonder of the Star Wars episodes I-III than most, and the...

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Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: I AM HERE Explores What Happens When A Biological Clock Pops A Spring

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

The concept of the early middle aged woman's biological clock is well established. It's expected that as childless women reach a certain age their body will begin to tell them that it is time. Now, obviously this is a gross generality, but in my own personal experience, it's a cliche because there is more than a grain of truth to it. Many men and women my age, that is to say early to mid thirties, begin to notice many of their female peers turning from footloose and fancy-free DINC's (double income no children) or singles, to frothing-at-the-mouth rabid baby-coveters. Director Anders Morgenthaler explores the illogical extreme of this archetype in I Am Here, a sort of biological thriller in which Kim Basinger's Maria takes her...

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