The Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, Joins PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

The Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, Joins PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES


The Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, Joins PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Matt Smith, who rose to fame as the eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who, is joining the cast of Burr Steers' adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, according to  The Hollywood Reporter. He joins a cast already filled with Lily James (Downtown Abby), Sam Riley (Control), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), Bella Heathcote (Dark Shadows), and Douglas Booth (Jupiter Ascending).The movie is a horror-comedy spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Our heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper class home, and chafes at the stiff societal ways of 1800's England. Instead, she feels that she should help defend the countryside against the onslaught of a horrifying zombie plague.Smith will play Mr. Collins, a parson who is on the look-out for...

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Toronto 2014 Review: ST. VINCENT Delivers Vintage Bill Murray

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Not everybody watches quite as many films as some of us. There are those where getting out to a theatre isn't a weekly (or, in my case, daily) occurrence, where the schlepp of getting there, standing in line, getting a ticket, and spending a few hours in a darkened theatre requires a bit of patience and a lot of conviction. Normally there are event films that draw people in, big spectacles that just can't be replicated at home. Then there are the arty films that are still accessible, not something that's too dour or experimental to seem out of place at the multiplex, but still a film with bite, perhaps something melancholic with a darkly humorous streak to it. St. Vincent is a perfect...

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Watch This Short Now: DAYBREAK, A Stunning, Violent Look At Pre-Teen Life

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

That moment before puberty... it's as if you were falling down a bottomless pit, only you know you're, someday soon, going to hit the bottom. It's out of time, out of mind, of the body, a foreign body. Your body... That, in a nutshell, is Ian Lagarde's short film Daybreak.For those of you who saw Denis Côté's Vic + Flow Saw A Bear, you may recall Lagarde's name as he was the cinematographer of that film. But in addition he's been amassing a nice little body of work as director with Daybreak taking the crown. Premiering at Toronto in 2013, I caught the film at Slamdance last January, where it went on to win their top short film prize. And for good reason. It was...

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MICGénero 2014 Presents The Lukas Moodysson Retrospective In 35mm

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT

During its ongoing third edition, the International Film Festival with Gender Perspective (MICGénero) is presenting a fantastic retrospective dedicated to Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson, who might be best known in Mexico for directing last year's marvelous punk rock/coming of age movie We Are the Best! If you are based in Mexico City, this is a unique chance to explore Moodysson's cinema through 35mm prints of four of his films, plus a Blu-ray screening of We Are the Best! (35mm prints were never made for this film). The Lucas Moodysson retrospective starts today, September 17, and ends on Sunday, September 21. All of the screenings are going to take place at Le Cinéma IFAL, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. Check out the complete schedule (information...

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A Homecoming Turns Violent In Gritty UK Thriller PLEASURE ISLAND

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

You can never go home again, not really. That's the basic premise of Mike Doxford's UK thriller Pleasure Island, the reality being that either home has changed enough, you have changed enough, or both have in your absence that it's never really the same thing. And in this case the changes lead to violence.Ian Sharp (Band Of Brothers) stars as a man returning home from a stint in the military to discover that his hometown has been overrun by a criminal element. And when an old flame is threatened ... well, things go badly.Besides that lovely poster art to the left we've also got a first look at the trailer for the film. Check it out below....

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Fantastic Fest 2014: Twitch's 12 Most Anticipated Films From Our 12 On-Hand Contributors

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Hallelujah! It is Fantastic Fest time once again! The fest kicks off tomorrow, and what's more, Austin's ridiculously fun genre festival is back at its spiritual home of the Drafthouse South Lamar. You might say we are a little excited. Twitch will be representing en force with 12 (count 'em, 12) contributors on hand to celebrate. We'll have plenty of reviews and coverage of all the great events throughout the week. To start things off, we've asked everyone to choose just one movie they are extremely excited about at the fest. So here they are, Twitch's 12 most anticipated films of Fantastic Fest 2014. Tell us what you're most excited to see, and be sure to say hi if you're hanging out in Austin....

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Review: CANTINFLAS, A Romanticized Biopic

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Actor Óscar Jaenada might be Spanish but he was the perfect choice to play the role of Mario Moreno, also known as "Cantinflas," one of Mexico's most beloved and legendary comedians. In Sebastián del Amo's Cantinflas, Jaenada delivers a performance that is pure gold; though the film is far from being a home run in every single aspect. The biopic tackles several facets of Moreno and is structured as two main storylines. We follow rookie producer Mike Todd (played by The Sopranos' Michael Imperioli) in his attempt to bring to life the so-called biggest, most spectacular film ever (that would be 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days); and on the other hand, we have the humble origins of Moreno and the eventual creation and...

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Destroy All Monsters: The Last TIFF

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT

My time as an attendee of the Toronto International Film Festival has nicely overlapped the transition from Festival Then to Festival Now, which I'd argue has taken place over just about exactly the last fifteen years, the same period for which I've been a regular festival-goer. Oh sure, I got press-ganged into a couple of rush screenings of flicks from Israel and Vietnam that I can't clearly recall at the 1996 festival, at the behest of a couple of York University film professors who probably hadn't completed their lesson plans and just wanted the students to fuck off for a few more weeks in September so they could catch up. But for the most part, I started attending TIFF in 1999, starting with Midnight Madness...

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Watch An Exclusive Behind The Scenes Clip From The 40th Anniversary Remastered Release Of Tobe Hooper's TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has reached the grand old age of fortyand a freshly remastered version of the film hit shelves on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital download yesterday to celebrate. What are fans getting? Well, the original film looking as good as it did the day it first hit screens, for one thing, but also some quality bonus features and we've got a taste of one of those with the exclusive clip below. Take a look!...

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