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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
[The festival may be over but I'll be doing some FanTasia follow up over the next few days. Catching up on films I missed prior to my visit to Montreal]
Cody cannot get over the loss of his parents so he turns to science to bring them back. But his efforts to bring them back are keeping him away from those around him and those who care for him. His girlfriend has walked away and he risks losing his brother if he cannot do simple things like get him to school on time. Cody spends endless hours and the insurance settlement money to build a machine which he hopes will bring his parents back from the dead.
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Surely destined to be known as the other Facebook movie, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost's Catfish was a big hit at this year's Sundance. Sure, it may not have the gloss or glamor of David Fincher's The Social Network but what it does have is the true story of a true romance that existed online before moving into the real world and getting weird.
And now the first trailer for the film has been released for the mass audience and those who caught the film at Sundance are getting a bit upset. Why? Read the official synopsis and you may understand:
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Poor Jet Li, just a little guy surrounded by giants in Stallone's Expendables. For every one step they take he has to take two. Is it any wonder he feels like he deserves more pay?
With the film's release just around the corner a new clip from The Expendables has just arrived, this one a bit of a buddy moment between Jet Li and Sylvester Stallone. And just for good measure I'm also throwing in a previous clip featuring Jason Statham that we seem to have missed when it first popped up. Enjoy the rampant manliness.
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Although the theatrical run for the creepy documentary Cropsey continues to roll out, the team behind the film have worked out an additional way to watch it. Cropsey is available via video-on-demand through major United States cable systems like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, and Brighthouse.
Cropsey will be on VOD until August 12th so if you haven't seen it, check your local cable listings. You won't regret it. Be sure to check the Twitch archives for reviews and other details.
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Fans of cult cinema and science fiction, do yourself a favor and track down a copy of Peter H Brothers' Mushroom Clouds And Mushroom Men. A detailed study of the 'fantastic' side of the Godzilla director's filmography this lays out pretty much anything you could ever want to know about Ishiro Honda and the classic Tohoscope science fiction films he directed.
Starting with a biographical overview of Honda's life and work - his connections to Akira Kurosawa are a surprisingly overlooked aspect of his life - before moving on to a detailed breakdown of each of the genre oriented pictures in the Honda canon to give a full picture.
Working from the original Japanese editions of the films rather than the later US cuts, so as to present you with Honda himself rather than later interpretations and packagings of his films, Brothers lays things out in a richly detailed but very straightforward style. The goal is not to wow you with style or flowery prose but to pack in as much information as possible and Brothers does a remarkably good job. Meticulously researched and very detailed, this is must reading for fans not only of kaiju film but the development of Japanese pop culture as a whole.
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Come on now, Michael Bay, would it kill you to pay for an occasional oil change for your Transformers? They're not asking for much, just a bit of basic maintenance.
Heh.
What follows is something I just stumbled across at random, a television commercial from Filipino director Topel Lee. More heart in this single minute than in Bay's one hundred and fifty ...
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
No doubt about it, the full trailer for George Gallo's Middle Men reveals it to be almost certainly a Very Bad Film, with the capitals fully deserved. That said, the clip released today reminds that at the very least he had the good sense to cast Giovanni Ribisi, who is pretty much fantastic in everything he does but can't seem to buy a role in a decent film.
Seriously, people, Ribisi is one of the best character actors of his generation. He is fantastic. He has the ability to elevate mediocre scripts and the performances of those around him. And yet he does not work. And when fortune smiles upon him and he does work it is almost always in something mediocre at best. Perhaps this is penance for having done Gone In Sixty Seconds and The Mod Squad early in his transition to film - crimes for which some penance was certainly required, but his time is up and it's time to move on.
To the producers of Middle Men: Thank you for giving Ribisi a featured role. To everyone else: Now how about putting him in something good?
(Yes, I know he was just in Avatar.)
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Fabrice Gobert's Simon Werner A Disparu has two problems. First, though selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes 2010 it was programmed very late in the festival, in the waning days when many have already left and gone home for a nice, long nap. And so it was largely overlooked. And, second, it is saddled with sadly unimaginative sales agents who decided to ditch Simon Werner Has Disappeared - both accurate and highly evocative - as the international title in favor of the terminally bland and largely meaningless Lights Out.
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Written by tristancol
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
[Another catch up from this year's FanTasia film festival]
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
Career criminal John [Clayne Crawford] discovers the LAPD is in hot pursuit after robbing a bank. Even though he believes he has been careful not to link the crime back to him they know his name. They even know what kind of car he is driving. Desperate to get off the streets he cons his way into Warwick's [David Hyde Pierce] home. He pretends to be a friend of Warwick's, Julia, after reading a postcard in his mail she sent from Australia. Warwick seems friendly enough, if not a bit on the gentle and soft side. He offers a glass of wine, use of his phone to call John's 'Cousin' or the airline to locate his 'lost luggage', eventually inviting him to stay for a dinner party Warwick is hosting that evening.
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