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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks DRACULA UNTOLD, KILL THE MESSENGER, And Turkey Day Movies

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks DRACULA UNTOLD, KILL THE MESSENGER, And Turkey Day Movies

Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks DRACULA UNTOLD, KILL THE MESSENGER, And Turkey Day Movies

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 07:49 PM PDT

We take a bite this week into Dracula Untold, find Kill the Messenger doesn't live up to the importance of its story, and talk turkey about Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Eraserhead in celebration of Canadian Thanksgiving.Video embedded below...

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Sitges 2014 Review: MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT, An Intense Yet Alienating Ordeal

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Four years after Gareth Edwards exploded onto the sci-fi scene with his inventive and industrious indie alien invasion flick Monsters, first-time director Tom Green delivers a sequel that bears little resemblance to the original, in tone, content or invention.Reportedly set 10 years after the events of the first film, Monsters: Dark Continent introduces us to a tight-knit unit of US Army recruits, headed to the Middle East to continue an unspecified conflict. Parkes (Sam Keeley) and his buddies ship out for their first tour, only to be greeted by Staff Sergeant Frater (Johnny Harris), a shredded and shellshocked commanding officer barely clinging to his sanity.Inevitably, the unit's largely irrelevant mission goes awry, and Parkes, Frater and the dwindling number of surviving teammates must successfully traverse...

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Warsaw 2014: NAME ME Zooms In On Abandoned Daughters

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Nigina Sayfullaeva's feature debut Name Me opens with 17-year-old Olya collecting the courage to look her biological father in the eyes for the first time. To ease the melodramatic atmosphere, she is accompanied by her easygoing, overly self-confident and fun-seeking friend, Sasha. Just before knocking on her father´s door, and after too much ado of Olya stressing about the potential personality of her biological father, her loose and present-minded friend suggests that she test her acting skills by switching roles. Mark Ziselson's camera brings us to sun-bathed Crimea, untouched by any military whatsoever with waves splashing ashore, a vacation area asking for teenage coming-of-age dreams to be shattered during summer holidays. The geography itself does not play a pivotal role within the plot, while in the light...

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Busan 2014 Review: The Wonderfully Surreal SELF-MADE Has More Than A Few Screws Loose

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Shita Geffen's Self-Made could be the strangest film I have ever seen. Part black-comedy, part surreal drama, and all feminist parable, the film follows two very different women as they inexplicably swap identities.This is vastly complicated by the locations where the women reside: Israel and Palestine. The first woman Michal (Sarah Adler) is a famous artist residing in Israel, an autobiographical slant on the director herself as later scenes reveal an almost meta-commentary on her previous films. The film starts with a long take of her slumbering next to her husband before her bed abruptly breaks and she bashes her head. This oddly jarring and blackly comic event spurs a delivery order at a faux-Ikea corporation for a replacement bed. Michal's day gets increasingly strange...

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Warsaw 2014 Review: FANTASIA, A Beautifully-Lensed, But Overly Familiar Chinese Indie

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT

In Wang Chao's Fantasia, one family's struggle to overcome a personal crisis, inevitably worsened by the father's progressive terminal illness, serves its purpose as a catalyst for the director to weave a tale of seemingly great social significance. Even though Chao's gorgeously lensed little indie fits perfectly into the description of the Chinese new wave, its strangely familiar and often perfunctory narrative structure doesn't really make the picture a standout example of this increasingly interesting cinematic movement.Zhao (Zhang Xu) is a loyal factory worker leading a peaceful life along with a loving wife and two children, until his world is completely shattered by a disease that causes him to underperform at work, which in turn leads to a very serious money problem. Desperation, anxiety and...

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Busan 2014 Review: KABUKICHO LOVE HOTEL, A Raunchy Charmer

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Kabukicho Love Hotel (better translated as Sayonara Kabukicho) is the latest urban-centric film from esoteric director Hiroki Ryuichi (Vibrator). Although the film contains the sprawling metropolitan malaise that permeates his contemporary films, this is a far more accessible and crowd-pleasing effort that plays as both charming and sexually charged. The famous red-light district of Kabukicho in Shinjuku is not glamorised or stylized, and yet the location is powerfully presented. The bright and cheery morning turns to the seedy night as the film is told in a 24-hour period.The film, an ensemble piece, follows various couples who, through fate or happenstance, are woven into a larger story set predominantly in a love hotel. Some of the characters already work there, like the down-on-his-luck hotel manager Toru (Sometani Shota) and...

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Watch SET FIRE TO THE STARS Trailer, Poetic Beauty And Trouble

Posted: 13 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Wales' most famous literary son, Dylan Thomas (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milk Wood) led a relatively short life, but a successful one, one that has not, until now, appeared much on screen. Set Fire to the Stars premiered earlier this year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and is set for release in the UK on November 7th.The film stars Elijah Wood as John M. Brinnin, an American poet and critic who is put in charge of organizing Thomas' first US tour. Thomas (Celyn Jones) proves more than a handful, and the two go into retreat, where Brinnin must save his hero and get him stateside.The film is directed by Andy Goddard (Torchwood, Downton Abbey), and rounding out an excellent cast are Shirley...

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