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Toronto 2014 Review: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS Is Lovingly Reverent Of The Ridiculous

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Toronto 2014 Review: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS Is Lovingly Reverent Of The Ridiculous

Toronto 2014 Review: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS Is Lovingly Reverent Of The Ridiculous

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 03:30 AM PDT

Mark Hartley's unofficial biography of Cannon Films impresarios Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus is equal parts reverent and dumbfounded in its depiction of these maverick Hollywood outsiders. Bottling the same level of ravenous reportage for Cannon's bountiful output as Hartley pumped into his Ozploitation expose Not Quite Hollywood, he again creates a roller coaster ride that is as crude, cocky and shamelessly entertaining as the films themselves.For many people of a certain age and cinematic inclination, Cannon Films holds a strange, almost hallowed place in their hearts, as the prime purveyors of a special kind of late-night schlock entertainment that was dumb, derivative and quintessentially eighties. Propelled by over-the-top action vehicles for such stars of the video age as Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and Jean...

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Toronto 2014 Review: RUN Finds Thrilling Drama In Fractured Character Study

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 07:32 PM PDT

Ivorian Philippe Lacôte's film Run is a brash fiction debut for this documentarian. The film begins with an off-camera assassination, and through a series of concentric flashback's we're told the story of Run. Part gangster and part activist, Run also proves to be a man with a complicated past and a strong moral code. With a narrative spanning decades, the film manages to travel through several modes, from hardscrabble drama and social commentary to a coming of age tale of a whipsmart street urchin. Entwined with the complicated history of social unrest that been fostered in West Africa for generations, the film highlights a rags to riches to (literally) rags story of this fascinatingly complex character. Newcomer Abdoul Karim Konaté plays the adult lead...

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Toronto 2014 Review: WILD, A Decent Film

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 07:01 PM PDT

Taking on another true story after his hugely successful Dallas Buyer's Club, Jean-Marc Vallée this time turns his lens onto the story of Cheryl Strayed, a woman with a past who takes it upon herself to hike hundreds of miles on the Pacific Coast Trail. Shooting from a screenplay adapted by Nick Hornby, the scribe behind films like High Fidelity and An Education, Vallée once again shows his prowess at maintaining a deep visual intimacy with his characters. Told through a series of flashbacks, the narrative rips Strayed's storyline apart like the pages of the books that she's culling after reading, saving weight along the journey. With each layer peeled off, each aspect of the journey is in some way illuminating of what Cheryl...

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Toronto 2014 Review: Kevin Smith's TUSK Gleefully Plays By Its Own Rules

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 02:00 PM PDT

"Why don't you ask him if he's going to stay? Why don't you ask him if he's going away? Why don't you tell me what's going on?" - TUSK, Fleetwood Mac Kevin Smith is many things to many people - stoner disciple, prurient podcaster, agitprop commentator, guerilla filmmaker. Yet at its heart the phenomena surrounding this larger-than-life cult figure boils down to one cause - Smith, above all, is a story teller. Go back to Clerks and you'll see the nascence of his Kibbitz-fueled cinema. The camera is plopped on a couple of characters that talk of (in Smith's words) "pussy and Star Wars", the entertainment derived from the freedom found when a bunch of people just shoot the shit about a given topic....

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Toronto 2014 Review: Winterbottom's THE FACE OF AN ANGEL Is A Meta-Narrative Thriller That Works

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

It's a dangerous thing to make a movie about making a movie. It's even more dangerous when the movie is about the writing process for the very movie the audience is watching. Not only is the meta-narrative difficult to pull off, but the stellar success of the film Adaptation makes for an obvious tough comparison. Apparently Michael Winterbottom doesn't give a damn. His latest film is exactly the kind of meta-narrative that few have pulled off as well as Kaufman/Jonze. But The Face of An Angel is not a copy of Adaptation. What it is, is an edgy true-crime thriller that keeps the audience guessing throughout. It's also quite good. Though officially a work of fiction, Winterbottom's film is based on the very well-publicized murder...

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NYC Happenings: "Also Like Life: The Films Of Hou Hsiao-hsien" Celebrates A Taiwanese Master

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 12:30 PM PDT

In a key scene of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1993 masterwork The Puppetmaster, in which the titular figure Li Tien-lu (who appeared in small roles in Hou's previous films) takes center stage to tell his story, Li explains why he named his puppet troupe "Also like Life." He says, "Puppets in performance are like people, so puppet plays are also like life." That key phrase also perfectly describes the consummate artistry of Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, who for over three decades has used real life, especially Taiwanese history and contemporary experience, as the raw materials for his inimitable cinema creations. Alongside directors such as Edward Yang, Hou was a key figure of the New Taiwanese Cinema of the 1980's, which brought a new sense of realism and...

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Check Out The Teaser For ENAKKUL ORUVAN Featuring Siddharth

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Last year Kannada filmmaker Pawan Kumar made a huge splash in the Indian independent feature world by successfully crowdfunding his second feature film, Lucia. The film made a big impression on the international festival circuit, and is commonly recognized as one of the finest Indian films of 2013. Now, the film has been remade in Tamil for an even larger audience as Enakkul Oruvan, starring the now ubiquitous Siddharth (Jigarthanda, Ko, Rang De Basanti, Midnight's Children), the rare Indian film star who moves fluidly between regional cinemas with very little problem.Lucia was the story of an insomniac projectionist who, in his desperation to find rest, comes across a drug guaranteed to help him sleep. However, he very quickly realizes that the effects of the drug...

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Watch The Gloriously Trippy Sci-Fi Short APHELION POINT

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 11:16 AM PDT

Anyone in attendance at last month's Film4 FrightFest in London would have been treated to a bevvy of brilliant short films (programmed by our very own Shelagh Rowan-Legg no less) in addition to a fantastic array of international horror flicks. Not to play favourites, but amongst those shorts making their inaugural bow at the event was the debut offering directed by Dan Auty (he of the now tragically retired Mondo Movie podcast). Aphelion Point will strike a chord with all those who love retro, atmospheric sci-fi as it follows a damaged space craft through deep space, hurtling towards a malevolent celestial entity. In true Solaris style, the closer the ship gets to this giant star, the stronger its grip, influence and power becomes over the few...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE WORLD OF KANAKO, Gloriously Irresponsible Filmmaking

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 10:02 AM PDT

The first two minutes of Nakashima Tetsuya's violent and unrelenting The World of Kanako are a litmus test on whether one should proceed. A frenetic orgy of editing non-sequitors, both assaulting and attention grabbing, occurs right before slamming into a stylized split-screen opening credits sequence right out of 1960s Nikkatsu cop movies but painted over with expletives and animated blood spatters. What follows is 120 minutes of uncomfortable, aggressive, and rigourously crafted filmmaking. Even up against the most extreme offerings from Miike Takashi and Sono Sion, this film feels like it is pushing the visual envelope to an endgame where this branch of Japanese cinema is ready to be pruned from the tree, lest it grow any further and kill the organism. I jest, but only...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks Toronto 2014 - NIGHTCRAWLER, TUSK, THE LAST 5 YEARS

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT

It's Toronto International Film Festival time, with a street level look at a few gems from this year's crop. Nightcrawler is dark and disturbing, Kevin Smith's Tusk is a strange and wild midnight tale, and The Last Five Years is a bittersweet musical, impeccably staged.Video embedded below...

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THE SCRIBBLER: Watch This Exclusive Clip And See Our Exclusive Stills Gallery

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT

With John Suit's adaptation of Dan Schaffer's graphic novel The Scribbler preparing to bow in cinemas and on iTunes and VOD on September 19, it is time for the promotions to roll out. We have been given an exclusive clip as well as a collection of stills to share with you.The Scribbler follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?The Scribbler stars Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Kunal Nayyar, Ashlynn Yennie, Eliza Dushku, and Billy Campbell. Watch the clip below, and...

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PLASTIC: Watch This Exclusive Clip From Julian Gilbey's Latest

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 08:01 AM PDT

Plastic is the latest offering from Julian Gilbey, the director of Twitch Film fave A Lonely Place to Die, as well as a segment in the upcoming ABCs of Death 2. You will be able to find his next action-oriented film in cinemas and on iTunes and VOD on September 26th. We have an exclusive clip to share with you. In it, Game of Thrones' Alfie Allen looks like he is putting some doubt in the mind of Sebastian De Souza (UK Skins) about their respective places in their growing gang of credit card schemers. We may have a review of the film closer to the release date. In the meantime, enjoy the clip, and maybe consider increasing the security of your credit cards....

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Toronto 2014: Music Video For SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT PEOPLE SHE KNOWS - "I'm Sick Of Everyone"

Posted: 08 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Even though I am a resident of the State of Texas in the United States, I feel a strange kinship with my friends in the Frozen North (i.e. Canada), especially this week, when the Toronto International Film Festival is dominating the news -- and certainly our site. But what of the independent Canadian filmmakers who are willing to make possibly rude yet even more probably very funny comedies? Shouldn't they receive a special tip of the hat? Indeed they do, which is why we are pleased to debut a music video from Songs She Wrote About People She Knows, a Canadian indie comedy that will amuse and delight you. (Probably. Who knows, really? Comedies strike different people in different ways, no matter their nationality.) Carol,...

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