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Magnet and XYZ Partner To Unleash The Evil Of XX On The World

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Magnet and XYZ Partner To Unleash The Evil Of XX On The World

Magnet and XYZ Partner To Unleash The Evil Of XX On The World

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

What's better than badass women making badass horror films? Are you ready for a new point of view? Magnet and XYZ Films are going to blast the doors off of the anthology horror vehicle with XX! Magnet is fully financing and has acquired worldwide rights to this collection of short films that is sure to challenge, scare, and inspire viewers. Contributors to the film are all female directors --- who will showcase female leads --- meaning that the world will get to see new work by Mary Harron (American Psycho), Jennifer Lynch (Surveillance), Jovanka Vuckovic (The Guest), and Karyn Kusama (Jennifer's Body). No casting news yet.    Judging from these ladies' past filmographies, I'm grateful that they'll have another terrifying outlet. Magnet, the tentacled genre arm of Magnolia,...

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Vancouver 2014 Review: WELCOME TO ME Stokes The Fires Of Disability Discourse

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:59 PM PDT

Kristen Wiig has been enjoying a lengthy run of success since leaving Saturday Night Live in 2012. Her humor is punctuated by awkward, uncomfortable stares, or lines delivered with more weight -- loneliness, sadness, regret -- than they seem to require. Thus, Wiig is right at home playing Alice Kleig, a woman with borderline personality disorder and delusions of grandeur, in Welcome to Me. Alice lives in a dingy Palm Springs, CA home that is appropriately decorated with all the hallmarks of an occupant with a severe mental disability: color-coded shelves, rows upon rows of VHS tapes with TV shows recorded onto them, and an overzealous collection of animal nick-knacks (in her case, swans). A voicemail from her psychiatrist (Tim Robbins, one of many famous...

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Defeat Your Own Fucking Jelly Beasts With These Hilarious Teasers For The Shnit International Short Film Festival

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:00 PM PDT

This year I've had the great pleasure of sitting on the jury for the Shnit International Short Film Festival where I had the task of wading through a TON of fabulous short films and pitting one against the other in a cage fight to the death until only three emerged that I could recommend to the jury president. Well ... that's not exactly how it happened, but that's what it felt like. And while I don't know yet who's actually winning I do know that this trio of festival teasers directed by Michael Matthews are far more fun than anything slapped together with friends and favours over the span of just a couple days has any right to be. Check out all three below....

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Brazilian Short Film PRAY Wins Viewster Online Film Fest Grand Prize

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:30 PM PDT

The winners of the third annual Viewster Online FIlm Fest were announced during the closing gala of the Raindance Film Festival in London last night. This year's theme was 'Be Afraid. Be VERY Afraid' and submissions of the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre came in from around the World. 500 films from 60 countries were accepted to participate in this year's festival. A final shortlist was decided by online viewers then the jury, comprising of cult film icon Udo Kier, directors Ted Hope and Timo Vuorensola, and actress Nora Tschirner, took over and picked the winner. You will find links for all five winning submission below!  First place and the top prize of $70,000 was awarded to Claudio Ellovitch of Brazil for the 2014 film Pray, his vision of...

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Watch The US Trailer For Antonio Tublen's LFO

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Antonio Tublen's Swedish microbudget scifi picture LFO was something of a dynamo on the festival circuit, punching way way above its weight as it won raves for its dark comedy, strong performances and clever script. And now US audiences are primed to get a taste with MPI releasing the film to VOD and DVD on October 28th.Robert (Patrik Karlson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared), an amateur sound engineer, spends hours in in his basement full of wires and oscillators experimenting with sound waves. After he finds a frequency that allows him to hypnotize people, he lures his attractive new neighbors into his house to act as test subjects for his discovery. Under Robert's control, the oblivious couple is manipulated into...

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What Is THE STATUE WHISPERS DEATH? Watch The Intriguing Teaser ...

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 02:30 PM PDT

While we can't say for sure what, exactly, The Statue Whispers Death actually is, this new thirty second teaser leaves us hungry to find out more. But here's what we do know: It's obviously got a heavy influence from classic Italian genre cinema and appears to be shot in Italy. It's got music by a band called Biblical. And it popped up in the Vimeo account of Toronto based director Sean Wainsteim, who has won awards for his music video work and documentaries while also having a number of critically acclaimed shorts out on the festival circuit over the years. But whatever it is, he aint sayin'.Check it out below....

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Latest DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Trailer Goes Red Band

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Justin Simien's indie satire Dear White People hits screens October 17th and while early teasers and clips have certainly let us know what the film's all about we certainly haven't gotten the full bite of the comedy until this latest red-band effort.The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) as head of a traditionally black residence hall sets up a college campus culture war that challenges conventional notions of what it means to be black. While Sam leverages her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show "Dear White People" to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House, outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), son of the university's dean (Dennis Haysbert), defies his father's lofty expectations by applying...

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Busan 2014 Review: LIVE TV Showcases Misogyny And Bad Filmmaking

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Found footage horror and digital age social themes combine to disastrous effect in the lamentable and stunningly offensive Live TV, a midnight film at Busan that'll make you wish you'd turned in early. A pair of chauvinistic jackasses record their exploits one evening as they seek out a target to bring back to a motel. The recording is being broadcast live on the internet and they goad viewers into spreading word of the show by acting like delinquent brats and treating women like trash. They eventually do find a girl that seems almost giddy at the prospect of being tag-teamed live by a pair of wealthy and misogynistic knuckleheads and together make their way to an out of the way motel with an eery vibe....

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Busan 2014's THE INSEMINATOR Banned In Vietnam

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 12:00 PM PDT

If you're in BIFF right now, you can see the poster of the Vietnamese independent film The Inseminator (Người truyền giống), along the streets of Busan. And if you have a chance, go watch it now because it's banned in Vietnam. Without any official document or speech from the Vietnam Film Department, it's just simply banned and the newspaper won't be able to talk about it.Here's the sypnosis and you may know the reason after reading it:Mr. Boi, who senses that his life is coming to an end, has been isolated on a remote mountain top with his intensely marriageable daughter and his mentally handicapped son. As he prepares for his death, his last mission is to continue the family's male lineage by finding a bride for his...

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Pretty Packaging: GHOST IN THE SHELL 1.0, And My Seven-Fold Double-Dip...

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT

("I can resist anything except temptation" - Oscar Wilde) See the image above? It is from Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell. To be more specific, it's from the original 1995 version. It is not in the revamped cut called "2.0" (where it was replaced with a cgi-generated 3D model), yet it is one of my favorite shots of the whole franchise. And, thanks to Manga UK, you can now check this image out in high definition, as last week they released a Blu-ray of the original "1.0" cut. Back in Summer 2008, I wrote an article about my love-affair with this film, an infatuation which made me buy it over and over again whenever a better version appeared. I ended that article with:...

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Sitges 2014 Review: MAGICAL GIRL, Dark, Twisted Magic

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Carlos Vermut's second feature Magical Girl recently won the Golden Shell at the a Sebastian Film Festival, as well as best director award, and deservedly so. Fun and disturbing, strange and yet somehow entirely plausible, the film tells the story of three different groups of people and their random connections, and how those connections lead to disaster. While it can be inferred as a commentary on and metaphoric examination of the current Spanish economic crisis, its richness and off-kilter tone and perspective have deeper meanings.Alicia has leukemia, and all she wants it to make it to her 13th birthday, and have a very expensive dress inspired by her favourite anime character, "Magical Girl Yukiko". Her unemployed father, Luis, will do anything to make her wishes come...

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Destroy All Monsters: "I'm That Cunt," Said The GONE GIRL

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Spoilers for Gone Girl, from one of six audience members who hadn't read the book beforehand. "You fucking cunt!" Ben Affleck's Nick Dunne spits at his wife, Amy Elliot-Dunne (Rosamund Pike) as he grabs her by the shoulders and bounces her head off the wall in Gone Girl's penultimate scene. Directed by David Fincher and written by Gillian Flynn (adapting her own novel), the scene is the payoff of two and a half hours of mounting pressure that Gone Girl has been precision-crafted to deliver to this point. Now we watch the pressure snap like an overwound spring. In his choice of that particular word, the last refuge of the irrevocably weak male, Nick is laying a cherry on top of the overwrought sundae of...

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Los Cabos 2014: Xavier Dolan To Visit Mexico And Present MOMMY

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Canada's enfant terrible Xavier Dolan is set to visit a Mexican film festival for the first time! Los Cabos is the festival that took the cake as it will host the Latin American premiere of Dolan's latest picture, Mommy, with the 25-year-old director in person. This gala is happening during the second day of Los Cabos 2014 (Thursday, November 13). Dolan's previous effort, Tom at the Farm, was warmly received in Mexico earlier this year when it was part of Cineteca Nacional's Muestra 56. Mommy itself had a very successful appearance at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, where it ended sharing the Jury Prize with Jean Luc-Godard's Goodbye to Language (our own Jason Gorber considers it as one of the best films of the year). Eventually,...

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