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Review: Skins S7E01, Fire: Part 1 (Or, E4's Teen Drama Grows Up While Effy Encounters Difficulties At Work)
1 hour ago
The return of Skins for a seventh series of specials that gets us caught up with three of the characters from the first two generations of the show is such an unusual decision by E4 that it has drawn me back into a drama that I tuned out of back in Series 5. The notion of not only getting to watch the characters but the show itself really grow up is more intriguing than I'd expected it to be and, for the most part, "Fire" shows that Skins might just be able to live up to that promise.These first two episodes focus on Effy Stonem (Kaya Scodelario), a character who was defined by her mysteriousness throughout the early portion of the show and then became...
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Hey, NYC! Wanna Win Passes To Select Films Playing At Japan Cuts?
14 hours ago
I have a pretty good hunch many of you do.Good news then, as Twitch and the fine folks at Japan Society have teamed up to giveaway double passes to four films playing at this year's Japan Cuts, which in case you didn't know is the New York Festival For Contemporary Japanese Cinema.But what are the films that you could win passes to? Well, on July 11th at 6pm there's Takashi Miike's Lesson Of The Evil. Then on July 12th at 6pm, we have Sono Sion's new cut of his 1995 flick Bad Film. The Warped Forest (followup to Funky Forest and pictured above) plays July 14th at 12:30pm. Finally, on July 21st at 1pm: The Samurai That Night. All you have to do to enter...
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More Music, More Melancholy In New Trailer For Inside Llewyn Davis
15 hours ago
Honestly, I'm not sure why we actually need three trailers for Joel and Ethan Coen's look into the folk music world of early 60s NYC, but here we have yet again Oscar Issacs as a vagabond-troubadour giving us a slight ping of deja vu for just about every man with an acoustic guitar from that era. Granted, yes, the reasons are keeping the audience interested for that still far off December U.S. release, but there isn't much new to gleam here that any previous trailer didn't already give us. Still, lots to admire in mood, cinematography and production design. Not to mention the music.If you'd like to get a further sense of Inside Llewyn Davis, than you can read Ryland's review of the film from...
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The World's End Welcomes You To Newton Haven
16 hours ago
The end of the world is coming. And it's coming to Newton Haven first. 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub - The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.The arrival of Edgar Wright's latest will soon be upon...
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Nyaff 2013 Review: A Breakdown of Christian Linaban's Aberya
17 hours ago
aberya (n): Tagalog, from the Spanish word avería, meaning "damage, breakdown, malfunction"; mechanical troubleIs there anything more frustrating than sitting in traffic? How about sitting in random, inexplicable traffic during off-peak hours? Where every stop-and-go inch tries your patience? That's what watching the first 30 minutes of Aberya is like.To continue the traffic analogy, maybe you contemplate alternate routes, or abandoning your trip entirely. Or, if you're stubborn like me, you wait it out, as infuriating as that can be. Eventually you get to the cause of the hold up, and your slow motion world goes into even slower motion as you join the ranks of the gawkers. Maybe it's a broken down Pos, making you even angrier over the unnecessary rubbernecking. Or maybe it's...
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Giant Studio Ghibli Murals Unveiled In Japanese Theaters Today!
18 hours ago
Ahead of the upcoming releases of Miyazaki Hayao's Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) on July 20 and Takahata Isao's Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (The Tale of Princess Kaguya) this fall, giant murals (pictured above and as a bigger version in the gallery below) have been unveiled in 26 cinemas across Japan today. Each of the murals features images from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and all 20 feature films made by Studio Ghibli between 1986 and 2013. The sizes of the murals vary depending on the movie theaters, with the largest measuring 3.9m tall and 25.2m wide. The 21 films featured in the mural are (from left to right): Ocean Waves, Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa Castle in the Sky, Tales from Earthsea, From Up On Poppy Hill, Porco Rosso, Grave of the Fireflies, Nausicaa of the Valley of...
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Take Off, Eh!? Celebrate The Greatest Canadian Hoser Cinema
20 hours ago
Hoser (hōz ´әr): noun. 1. A clumsy, boorish person, especially an uncouth, beer-drinking man often clothed in a flannel lumberjack coat, Kodiak boots and a toque. 2. What you call your little brother when your mother isn't in the room. 3. A highly amusing subgenre of Canadian Cinema (i.e. Hoser Film) often containing a dark, yet poignant undertone.The Cinema of the Great White North is casually ignored by citizens of its own country and more often than not, the rest of the world with only a few points given for occasionally getting embraced in France. Many of the films made here are just American studio productions looking for tax breaks where production designers dress up Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto to look like cities south of...
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Third Window Films Goes Back To Korea With Boomerang Family And How To Use Guys With Secret Tips In 2014
1 July 2013 4:00 AM, PDT
In our original profile of the UK's Third Window Films, I addressed the lack of Korean releases and asked founder Adam Torel why this happened. He responded:i moved away from the Korean film scene as I felt it was moving away from my own tastes. I got into Korean cinema around 1999/2000 and thought my favourite year was 2001 where many great genre-mix-up films were released. I loved Korean cinema as I felt they were making their films for the Korean market and the tastes of their audience, but as Korean cinema became more and more popular in the West and Japan they started to make too many films for other markets.We at Twitch are thus happy to announce that Third Window films will give...
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Hey Australia, Win Tickets To See Keanu Reeves' Man Of Tai Chi In Cinemas!
1 July 2013 3:30 AM, PDT
Thanks to our friends at Magnum Films, we have Five double passes for Keanu Reeves' directorial debut film Man Of Tai Chi to give to our Australian readers! Man Of Tai Chi stars Tiger Chen, Karen Mok, Simon Yam and Reeves himself as the villain. You would have seen a number of movie trailers and production videos here at Twitch over the past few months, and if you live in Australia, now we are giving you the chance to score yourself a free double pass to see the film. For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Visit Magnum Films' Asian Cinema Facebook Page and Like it, and2) Email your name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]twitchfilm.netMan Of Tai...
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Blu-ray Review: Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia Entertainingly Blends Horror, Comedy and Romance
30 June 2013 8:00 PM, PDT
Horror is one of the most popular genres in Japanese cinema, manga and anime. Images of Sadako from The Ring should still be vivid in many people's minds. While not particularly scary, the high school horror anime series Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia introduces and explores some interesting concepts related to the genre, such as the idea that how the living experiences a ghostly spirit is driven by one's own impressions of it. In addition, this anime also has other elements of comedy and romance that together offer an enjoyable viewing experience. Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia is not for children. Besides the horror element, its main character Yuuko is a sexy ghost who likes undressing and being touched. Her romantic interest, Niiya, is a timid first year student...
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Films From Chile, Argentina and Cuba Among The Winners of Fidocs 2013
30 June 2013 7:00 PM, PDT
The week went by and Fidocs happened, and while there's still some movies that I plan to review, the festival is over and it was a cinema party, as always. With more than 90 films playing for six days, the organizers always had in mind that people should have the opportunity to see every movie they wanted to see. And so, this past Saturday evening, the winners of all the competitions were awarded. The most important winner is the one of the Chilean Competition; the prize was given to El otro día (The Other Day), directed by famed Chilean documentary director Ignacio Agüero (El diario de Agustín, Cien niños esperando un tren).Last year I had the chance to see the winning film, thanks to a friend,...
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Jim Kelly, Known For Enter The Dragon, Dead At 67
30 June 2013 5:32 PM, PDT
Jim Kelly, an International Karate champion and Bruce Lee's co-star in the seminal martial arts flick Enter the Dragon, died yesterday. Though there has been no official report of his death and the circumstances surrounding it have not been released, the announcement came via a post by his ex-wife, Marilyn Dishman, on her Facebook page. He was 67 years old. Kelly rose to stardom when he appeared alongside Bruce Lee and John Saxon in the 1973 Warner Bros. martial arts film. From there he went on to star in a handful of blaxploitation films, such as Three the Hard Way, Black Belt Jones, and Black Samurai. He seldom worked in film after the early 80s and went on to become a professional tennis coach in Southern California. Though his appearances in film...
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