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DVD Review: The Paul Walker Vehicle VEHICLE 19 Is Fast And Thoughtful

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DVD Review: The Paul Walker Vehicle VEHICLE 19 Is Fast And Thoughtful

DVD Review: The Paul Walker Vehicle VEHICLE 19 Is Fast And Thoughtful

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 04:00 AM PDT

Michael Woods (Paul Walker) is eager to reconnect with his ex-wife. So eager in fact that he travels to South Africa where she works at the US embassy. As soon as he arrives he hires a car, is given the wrong one but wasting no time to meet with her he hastily accepts it. Over the course of a day Michael becomes embroiled in a crime ring, and kidnapping and murder all because of this seemingly mundane choice of wrong car, wrong time. His decisions lead to serious consequences and he must clear his name and right his wrongs before it is too late.Walker is the only actor on-screen for the most part and this gives Vehicle 19's story a personal slant. Within the crime narrative...

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China Box Office: SWITCH Primed To Send STAR TREK Packing

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:30 AM PDT

Star Trek Into Darkness holds on to the top spot at the China Box Office for a second week, but Jay Sun's action-packed spy thriller Switch arrives late in the week and already looks like a huge success. Rank Title Origin 3/6-9/6 Total (US$) Days on Release 1 Star Trek Into Darkness USA $12.73 $38.77 13 2 American Dreams in China China $8.27 $77.44 24 3 Switch China $8.01 $8.01 1 4 Colombiana USA $2.18 $2.18 3 5 I Love Hong Kong 2013 Hong Kong $1.59 $1.59 6 6 The Croods USA $0.89 $63.31 51 7 Iron Man 3 USA $0.53 $121.20 40 8 Happy Little Submarine 3--Rainbow Treasure China $0.41 $7.30 10 9 Oblivion USA $0.36 $23.86 31 10 Kuiba 2 China $0.35 $3.33...

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE Gets A First Preposterous Trailer

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 11:01 PM PDT

Yesterday we had our first glimpse at 300: Rise of an Empire, the prequel-parallel-squeakquel to Zack Snyder's epic graphic novel adaptation 300, with Sullivan Stapleton brooding on a poster, contemplating whether to catch that wave.Now comes the first trailer, which shows Snyder's style has been carried over 100% by new director Noam Murro. There's tons of slow-motion, lots of melodramatic speeches and even one-line by Stapleton, which a few repeat listens leads me to wonder whether he does a neutral Aussie accent in this like Russell Crowe did in Gladiator. The plot, if it matters, is as follows:Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster 300, this new chapter takes the action to a fresh battlefield--the...

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Announces An Impressive Line Up

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 10:32 PM PDT

A couple of days ago Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programmers teased us with the first news about some of the films (including Mood Indigo on opening night) they have selected for this year's edition of one of the oldest film festivals in the world, known for its superb appreciation of high-class cinema. Well the teaser was cool and all but the official line up, which has just been announced on their website, is simply top-notch. The selections surely put a smile on many cinephiles' faces, especially those living in the Eastern part of Europe. Comprised of eight distinct sections, the festival boasts many World, European, and Czech premieres. There are more than 180 movies to explore, including an impressive bunch of pictures that screened at...

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Justin Dix's CRAWLSPACE To Premiere in Melbourne at The Astor Theatre, With Q&A

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT

After screening at Sitges, Screamfest LA and a bunch of Australian festivals -- and helping director Justin Dix get the attention of Fox for his next film -- sci-fi thriller Crawlspace will finally have its hometown premiere at the glorious Astor Theatre on Sunday 7 July.Executive produced by Greg McLean, and with special effects by Dix's own FX company Wicked of Oz, Crawlspace stars the awesomely-named Ditch Davey (who really should play Dirk Pitt if they ever make another movie based on Clive Cussler's novels), Amber Clayton, Nicholas Bell, Peta Sergeant, Eddie Baroo, Samuel Johnson and Fletcher Humphrys.In CRAWLSPACE a group of elite soldiers infiltrate a top-secret underground military compound and find the facility is a testing ground for something sinister. In this space everyone...

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Hey, Australia, Win Tickets To See Jet Li's BADGES OF FURY!

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Thanks to our friends at Magnum Films, we have FIVE double passes for Jet Li's latest film Badges of Fury to give to our Australian readers! It's been a while since Jet Li has starred in a modern martial arts movie. Badges of Fury has Corey Yuen (Fong Sai Yuk / The Legend) as action choreographer, and Wen Zhang (Journey To The West), Michelle Chen (You Are The Apple Of My Eye), Liu Shi Shi (Sad Fairy Tale), Liu Yan (Painted Skin), Collin Chou (Flashpoint) and Wu Jing (SPL / Kill Zone) as co-stars. For a chance to win a double pass to see this film, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Visit Magnum Films' Asian Cinema Facebook Page and Like it,...

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Our Facebook Quiz Is About To Turn 100!

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 05:30 PM PDT

Way back when Twitch had its own separate forum, the most-trafficked topic used to be the screenshot quiz. The rules were simple: someone would post a screenshot, and the person who guessed the movie won the right to post the NEXT screenshot. And this went on for seven years, until well over a thousand films had been guessed. Then times changed: the forum went dead as people moved discussions over to social media. When our site upgraded last September, we decided to relaunch a new forum on our Facebook page. And what was the first topic we put on it? The screenshot quiz of course!!! We decided to reboot it fresh, with slightly revised rules, and with a winners list added for bragging purposes. No...

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Japan Cuts Unleashes Their 2013 Line Up!

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT

While this summer's asian cinema diet for NYCers is ample enough with the New York Asian Film Festival, one cannot forget their partner-in-crime at Japan Society and the concurrent awesomeness that is Japan Cuts. Entering its seventh year, Japan Cuts has proven to be the far more fascinating fest for me to explore as it continues to be the premiere U.S. platform for presenting the most diverse and interesting films coming out of Japan at the moment. There's going to be something for everyone with a taste for Japan, and/or cinema. The kid in me is keen on samurai fantasy The Floating Castle. The anthropologist in me is curious about the 80s economic-boom-to-burst-to-beyond flick A Story Of Yonosuke. So dive in and take a look....

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LIMA INDEPENDIENTE 2013: From Peru To Thailand, Local Fest Goes Global For Third Edition

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:30 PM PDT

It used to be that Peruvian film buffs had to solely make do with whatever was on offer at the local multiplex for their moviegoing needs. In recent years, a number of events have aimed to change all that, by introducing audiences to different types of filmmaking from Latin America and the rest of the world. Lima Independiente is one of these. This emerging festival was founded in 2011 by the Peruvian Association of Independent Cinema, a collective of directors, actors, writers and other industry professionals that embrace risk-taking in films. Their goal is to build an entire distribution system for smaller, more artistic films and make them readily available to local audiences. The festival is the perfect vehicle for this. In its third edition,...

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Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On Shyamalan, SHE'S ALL THAT and a Preponderance for Pigeonholing

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Part of the (heated) discussion about my take on After Earth surrounded the dicey proposition, popularized by the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd in the 50s, that a director's work is to be considered part of a continuous process of development, an oeuvre with authorial consistency.Frank Zappa called it "conceptual continuity", and he applied it to everything - his music, his films, even his interviews were part of an aesthetic whole. This notion that each disparate piece gets added up to form some sort of aesthetic/biographic lump, a project/object, is made murky by the other factors at play in artistic expression. Foremost, of course, is the need for the average artist just to have food on the table (or, in the case of much of the...

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Sydney 2013 Review: AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER Tells A Story Of Shocking Social Injustice

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Danis Tanovic, director of the Oscar-winning No Man's Land (2001), brings a shocking real story to the big screen with his latest film, An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker. The film was a great success at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix for Tanovic and Best Actor Award for Nazif Mujic, as well as Special Mention for Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It feels like a personal film and the subject matter is clearly one that is dear to Tanovic's heart.The film is a micro-budget docudrama that carries important messages. Shot on handheld camera, viewers get to take a close look at a socially underprivileged Roma family in Bosnia and Herzegovina living in conditions that...

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Michael Mann's Untitled Cyber-Crime Flick Has Started Filming

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 10:45 AM PDT

After Luck killed one too many horses on HBO and Public Enemies fizzed both narratively, visually and fiscally on the big screen, it looks like Michael Mann is getting back to a big old genre flick, presumably. Tentatively titled Cyber via the ever reliable IMDb (I kid, I kid) but not indicated as such in the press release, the film has started production with actors Tang Wei (Lust-Caution, Wu Xia), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and the always magnificent Viola Davis (Solaris, Doubt.) New Mann is always a thing to celebrate, and I already look forward to 2014 to catch whatever the maestro is in the process of cooking up....

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Finish Him! Keanu Reeves' MAN OF TAI CHI Gets An International Trailer!

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Keanu Reeves directorial debut Man of Tai Chi is fast becoming illuminated, with this second trailer showing plenty more footage and story from the anticipated tournament film. We even get a tiny glimpse of The Raid star Iko Uwais amid all the fighting. Check it out below....

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LA Film Fest 2013: Twitch Previews Downtown's Big Fest

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

It's LA Film Fest time once again with downtown's big fest kicking off tomorrow. Centered around LA Live's Regal Cinemas, this year's fest will again be an oasis of indie cinema in the epicenter of megaplex mayhem. We'll be taking you on a quick tour of the programs on offer at this year's festival. There are a ton of other films we can't cover, so be sure to check out the official catalog and keep your eyes glued to Twitch for plenty more from the festival. Galas ONLY GOD FORGIVES Straight from its bombastic premiere at Cannes, Nic Refn's Drive follow-up takes that film's similar course to the USA via an LA Film Fest gala premiere. While not everyone on the Croisette was a...

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Naomi Watts Smiles And Nods In First Teaser for DIANA

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:45 AM PDT

People of the world, loyal subjects, take your first look at Naomi Watts playing Diana, Princess of Wales; the People's Princess; Princess of Hearts; the Candle in the Wind. There's no dialogue, just plenty of shots to sell Watts as Diana, which means lots of recreating iconic scenes, lots of smiling and nodding, and of course that tremendous bouffant of blonde hair doing most of the work in bridging the gap.Directed by German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment, Downfall) Diana has been described as the "love story between a princess locked in a tower and an ordinary man," the man in this case being heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Kahn, that lasted from 1995 until a few months before her death in 1997, with her divorce from...

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Wright, Pegg, Frost To Visit The End Of The World For Australian Premiere Of THE WORLD'S END

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Well this is awesome - the Australian premiere of the final film in the much loved 'Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy' The World's End will be in Melbourne and Mr Edgar Wright himself is attending! That's not all - he brings the ever excellent Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with him!Get ready for a comedy invasion! Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Director Edgar Wright will be in Australia this July to celebrate the release of their eagerly-awaited new film; the final chapter in the 'Three Flavours Cornetto' trilogy, which includes 2004's breakout hit Shaun Of The Dead and 2007's cop-comedy Hot Fuzz.Fans will have the opportunity to see the trio when they walk the red carpet at the film's Australian Premiere on Tuesday July 16 at Melbourne...

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Epic SNOWPIERCER Trailer Finally Rolls In

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 08:26 AM PDT

Just this morning, the Korean distributor CJ Entertainment announced that their long-awaited sci-fi blockbuster Snowpiercer would be hitting screens on August 1st in Korea. Just a few hours later and we finally get what we've been dying to see: our first real glimpse of the film in what looks to be the film's main trailer.Expanding on the grimy environs and bedraggled passengers of the futuristic trains' back wagons that we've already seen, this trailer gives us a lot more of Bong Joon-ho's post-apocalyptic extravaganza. Director Bong previously mentioned in interviews that the various sets built for each of the train's sections were uniquely and intricately designed, and we can see what he meant here. Impressive CGI images also show us the exteriors of the train and the...

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Destroy All Monsters: HBO's GAME OF THRONES Is Better Than The Books

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 08:00 AM PDT

[Now that the third season of Game of Thrones is over, I'm going to look at the series in comparison to its source novels. I will not reveal any book plot information that has not already been revealed by the television series. I will mention the fourth and fifth books in Martin's series in a general sense but will not discuss story. As with all other pages of this site, DO NOT post book spoilers in the comments for this piece. They will be deleted, and we will be angry.] The show's better than the books. What seemed like a creative impossibility only two seasons ago is now as plain as the lack of nose on Tyrion Lannister's face. By the conclusion of season three...

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Review: Jodorowsky's THE DANCE OF REALITY Finds Magic In Brutality

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 06:30 AM PDT

When we first meet the young-boy version of Alejandro Jodorowsky in his new "imaginary autobiography" The Dance with Reality (La Danza de la Realidad), he is wearing a long blond wig and watching in terror as his dad brawls with two effeminate clowns under a colorful big top. So yes, anyone who worried that the Chilean master of surrealism might be dealing with "reality" in the objective sense of the word this time needn't have. Instead, Jodorowsky delivers a sprawling account of his formative years growing up in Chile that is weird, funny, brutal and ultimately, quite touching. It's The 400 Blows filtered through Voltaire and Fellini, with Jodorowsky's singularly bizarre sensibility keeping it anchored in a world removed any we've entered before (save for...

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