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Crewmember Dies On Set Of LONE RANGER

Crewmember Dies On Set Of LONE RANGER

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:18 PM PDT

Nobody likes to bring news like this. A crewmember with the production of Gore Verbinski's Lone Ranger has passed away in hospital after an accident on set during preparation for an underwater action scene. The crewmember was not a stunt person and the accident did not happen during filming. An investigation is underway as to determine the reason this terrible tragedy happened. Disney released the following statement... "We regretfully confirm that a Lone Ranger crewmember has passed away after being taken to a local hospital. Our hearts and thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this time, and our full support is behind the investigation into the circumstances of this terrible event,"...

Fantastic Fest 2012: This Is A Review For NEW KIDS NITRO, Homo!

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT

(See how the title of the article is noticeably more offensive than the one I did for its prequel? Well...) One of the biggest surprises moviewise last year was "New Kids Turbo", a full-length Dutch feature describing the chaos surrounding five anti-social characters from a series of short television sketches. That people tried to cash in on the popularity of these comedians wasn't surprising but the quality of the end product was: the film was absolutely frigging hilarious and far better made than expected beforehand. You can read my full review (this part of the sentence is a link) for a full account but rest assured I was mighty impressed, especially since it was a first full-length feature effort for directors Steffen Haars and...

Behind the Scenes on Hooper's LES MISÉRABLES

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:30 PM PDT

The more I see from Tom Hooper's follow up to his Oscar Winning The King's Speech, the more probable it becomes that he's assured of another best pic/best director nomination.Even if you despise such musical theatre pieces, it can't be argued that his take on the performance of this piece is unique. In this behind-the-scenes clip, we hear from the cast (Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, and relative newcomer Samantha Barks), as well as Hooper himself, as they detail a key element of the way they're producing this film.When the last trailer hit, the haunting performance of Hathaway immediately captivated with its immediacy. It seems this is a template for the entire show, as they're dropping the normal route (record months before,...

Stay Off The Ice! New HYPOTHERMIA Trailer

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:12 PM PDT

Due out on VOD and DVD on October 2nd James Felix McKenney's Hypothermia is set to rip out your throat with a hefty dose of Lake Man violence! We first caught wind of this frozen creature from beneath the ice back when we got out hands on a sales reel from Cannes. Ray Pelletier (Michael Rooker, The Walking Dead, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Slither) is looking forward to a quiet weekend of ice fishing with his family at the same peaceful lake they've been visiting for years. Unfortunately for the Pelletiers, the obnoxious big-city father-son duo of Steve and Stevie Cote has picked the same weekend to spend at the remote frozen spot. The fishermen quickly notice that the fish below the thick...

Review: TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE is a Stale Box of Cracker Jack Corniness

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 07:15 PM PDT

"Unpleasant." That is the word Mickey (Amy Adams) uses to describe her aged, curmudgeonly father (Clint Eastwood) in director Robert Lorenz' Trouble with the Curve, a dull, paint-by-numbers baseball feature that runs afoul of the far superior lines set by last year's Moneyball. Eastwood stars as Gus Lobel, a grizzled baseball scout for the Atlanta Braves whose relentless "Get offa my lawn!" old-man schtick so fiercely grated upon my nerves during the first five minutes (in which he roughly chastised an inanimate object - in this instance, his silent partner was a troublesome prostate), that any and all interest I may have had for him was effectively ground to dust. Unlike the breed of grumpy old men who somehow manage to endear and charm despite...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: SINISTER Aims for Subconscious Scares

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:30 PM PDT

True crime writing never pays. Ellison (Ethan Hawke) had a widely-acclaimed bestseller his first time out, but that was ten years ago. He hasn't been able to replicate that success, though he keeps trying, continually moving his family as close to the scenes of unsolved crimes as he can. He investigates the crimes, makes enemies of local law enforcement, and writes books that are meeting with diminishing returns. His wife Tracy (Juliet Rylance) is supportive, but her patience has its limits, and those limits are coming into sight. Mostly, she's worried about their two children, who have been constantly uprooted; young Ashley (Clare Foley) semms OK, but 12-year-old Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario) is manifesting signs of stress and anxiety. With these character threads established, Scott...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: HOLY MOTORS Shoots Past the Moon

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT

With so many serious, dramatic and even generic (see Lawless) films in competition at Cannes, director Leos Carax's Holy Motors came as something like a 100 mph gust of fresh air. In fact, this sci-fi/comedy/I-don't-know-what-to-call-it is such a wild, weird and joyful film that I wouldn't have been surprised if fireworks started going off in the theater 3/4 of the way into the film. It's that kind of experience. First, a bit of history about Carax: He emerged in the 80's as a poster-boy for new French cinema with the one-two combo of Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang, which both infused a romantic French New Wave style with a sense of punk rock abandon. His next film, Lovers on the Bridge took this style to its extreme, but went way over budget and schedule...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT

There must be something in the water in Eastern Europe because they have been cranking out some of the most confrontational films in the world for at least the last 40 years. The first major movement to get any kind of notice among cinephiles was the Czech New Wave back in the '60s, then there was the explicit aberrant sexuality of Yugoslavia's Dusan Makavajev in the '70s, the mid-2000's saw Hungary's attack on decency in György Pálfi's Taxidermia, and in the last five years or so we've seen the rise of the Serbian underground in the aggressively nasty A Serbian Film and The Life & Death of a Porno Gang. Well, now we can add Croatia to that list with the latest film from Branko...

TIFF 2012 Review: FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Let me be completely frank and upfront about this - the world could very much use a fine documentary about Angela Davis. She's a fascinating woman, extremely intelligent and eloquent. A continental philosopher who rose to a level of prominence within the American political left, her tale is a fascinating one on almost every level, even if one excludes the case that saw her run for months from the law.That said, this is not that documentary.Free Angela is extremely polished, there is no doubt. It's production values cannot be faulted, its key participants on first glance seem to be open and honest on camera. The film's biggest fault, however, is that in over 100+ minutes we don't have a single instance where the myth of...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: COMBAT GIRLS (KRIEGERIN)

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

I was lucky to be born half brown. I was just the kind of angry kid that would probably have fallen in with the wrong kind of people had I been born all white. Product of a broken home. Too smart for my own good. Forced to grow up too fast. Grasping for some kind of connection. It is people like me who end up being bamboozled by white supremacist Svengalis who promise a bond with brothers who'll never leave you and a purpose in life. The pattern of indoctrination into white supremacist hate groups is so predictable that it's almost funny. A wealthy man with a chip on his shoulder recruits a bunch of poor, troubled youths to do his dirty work for him....

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: FRANKENWEENIE 3D Barks But Doesn't Bite

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Tim Burton's return to stop-motion animation reanimates many of his favourite themes, from 50s Americana to Gothic horror, but fails to strike an emotional spark. It was back in 1984 when Burton, then a burgeoning young filmmaker in Disney's stable, produced a 30-minute live action short about a young lad named Victor Frankenstein who resurrects his dog in his parents' attic, following a fatal car accident. Originally intended to play ahead of a re-issue of Pinocchio, Frankenweenie was shelved after receiving a PG rating for its overall dark tone. Even back then, Burton had expressed a desire to develop the story into a feature film, but it would be another 28 years before that would come to fruition. Reuniting Burton with producer Alison Abbate (The...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: BLACK OUT Sparkles in a Darkly Comic Criminal Vein

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Is there anything more annoying than waking up in the morning to discover a gun -- and a bloody corpse -- in bed with you? On the day before your wedding? It's very tempting to describe Arne Toonen's Black Out as The Hangover with bullets and blood, but that would be inaccurate, because the Dutch film adds a layer of self-aware mockery and introduces a roster of aggresively colorful characters to an age-old plot. (I wonder: Did Adam wake up in pain one morning, rub his chest and then mutter, 'What did I do last night? And who is this chick?') Black Out immediately distinguishes itself by the cold analysis applied by Jos (Raymond Thirry), the groom to be, to the situation at hand....

L'Etrange 2012 Review: MANIAC Remake Doesn't Cop Out, for Better or Worse

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:09 AM PDT

Those worried that Franck Khalfoun and Alexandre Aja's Maniac remake was going to whitewash and water down their favorite 80s sleaze classic can rest easy. This updated, Los Angeles-set story of a disturbed man cutting off the scalps of women and taking them back to his mannequin collection at home is sadistic, unapologetic, gory and extremely well-directed. It's inventive on its own terms without betraying the original, and while some may still question the need for its existence, the film is honestly much more effective than I imagined possible when I first heard about the project. In fact, maybe it's too effective -- but more on that later. The maniac this time around is played by Elijah Wood, and while he does fine work, he...

First Shot From The Mo Brothers' KILLERS

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT

The Killers are coming.Having recently wrapped the Japanese portion of the shoot for their sophomore feature, Indonesia's Mo Brothers (Macabre) have released the first official still from the film. Say hello to Kazuki Kitamura as Nomura, one of the film's titular killers.Here's how the film was described in international co-production markets:KILLERS tells the brutal tale of two men, NOMURA (Kazuki Kitamura)  - a man in his late thirties whose picture perfect facade acts as a mask of his true identity as a seasoned sadistic serial killer - and BAYU (Oka Antara) - a young father unable to maintain his family life and career; causing his life to fall apart.Chaos rises as BAYU finds himself  drawn into NOMURA's murderous acts, eventually going so far as to...

A BITTERSWEET LIFE to Be Remade, Albert Hughes Takes the Reigns

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:35 AM PDT

One half of the directing duo behing Menace II Society, From Hell and The Book of Eli, Albert Hughes, is set to direct a fast-tracked remake of the seminal Korean gangster film A Bittersweet Life. Anthony Peckham, recently behind Invictus and Sherlock Holmes, has been brought in to polish the script. No word yet on cast or possible release date.There's been a awful lot of news surrounding Korean films being remade in Hollywood or Korean directors making their mark in Tinseltown lately but this is one development I can't get excited about. I'm generally not a fan of foreign films being remade (much less Korean ones) so I'm not one of the people who is excited for Spike Lee's take on Oldboy. However, I do...
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