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    Talk Amongst Yourselves

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  • 30 Mar

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    Friday One Sheet: More Prometheus

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    Even after last week’s showcase of the Adam Rabalais designed Alien One Sheet, a certain Ridley Scott directed sci-fi feature remains on the brain. This week we have a series of very high quality fan made designs for Prometheus, yes they are fantastic, particularly the accenting of the yellow. You’ll find three more tucked under the seat.

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  • 29 Mar

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    ACTION FEST!!!!!!!!!!!! 2012!!!!!!

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    It will be a bit of a Canadian invasion of Asheville’s ActionFest 2012, as RowThree folks – the Mamo boys, and no shortage of other Toronto movie peeps – travel down south for movies, mayhem, and meals! (Oh the meals we shall partake of! Asheville has damn good eats.)

    But let us keep the focus on the films: Highlights include Swedish black-comedy, Headhunters (Kurt’s Review), Bobcat Goldthwait’s bullet-laden satire of the US of A, God Bless America (Kurt’s Review), Danny Trejo kicking but as a surly senior vigilante, Badass, the recent Canadian hockey dramedy, Goon and Peter Chan’s martial arts epic, Wu Xia.

    The festival, which runs April 12-15, has recently debuted their trailer online (see below) and announced a some of their line-up (tucked under the seat).

    ActionFest will also honoring legendary stuntman Mickey Gilbert (Ben Hur, The Wild Bunch), MMA goddess turned actress Gina Carano (Blood and Bone, Haywire) and fight choreographer J.J. Perry (Warrior).

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  • 23 Mar

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    Friday One Sheet: Blood, Acid, Semen (Alien)

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    OK, so Prometheus is on the brain, and therefore, so is Ridley Scott’s original science-fiction, Alien; of which the 2012 film is very much a prequel by the looks of things. Here is a handsome, and rather unique take on poster-izing the 1979 masterpiece, emphasizing the dichotomy of clean metal and sticky organic that seem to merge together for the iconic creature design. I not only quite like this poster, but also love a lot of the other one sheets created for classic science fiction and horror films by designer Adam Rabalais.

  • 22 Mar

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    Quote of the Day: Rosenbaum on what ‘Cult-Film’ means Today

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    “One of the problems inherent in using the term “cult” within a contemporary context relating to film, either as a noun or as an adjective, is that it refers to various social structures that no longer exist, at least not in the ways that they once did. When indiscriminate moviegoing (as opposed to going to see particular films) was a routine everyday activity, it was theoretically possible for cults to form around exceptional items — “sleepers,” as they were then called by film exhibitors — that were spontaneously adopted and anointed by audiences rather than generated by advertising. But once advertising started to anticipate and supersede such a selection process, the whole concept of the cult film became dubious at the same time it became more prominent, a marketing term rather than a self-generating social process.”

    This is an excerpt from Jonathan Rosenbaum’s sharp little piece on Joe Dante, here.

  • 22 Mar

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    Vintage Cronenberg is back with Cosmopolis Teaser

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    After detouring into period setting and psychoanalysis with A Dangerous Method, the more aggressive, violent and contemporary David Cronenberg is back: Hand shootings, eye stabbings, monsters running amok downtown. This looks like the most aggressive and genre-ish work the filmmaker has made in years. I am reading the Enter The Void stylings of the titles in this trailer as a good sign. And yes, Robert Pattinson looks great here.

    Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Matthieu Amalric, Juliette Binoche, Kevin Durand and Jay Baruchel round out an impressive supporting cast. Cosmopolis is based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name:

    Eric Packer, a 28 year old multi-billionaire asset manager, makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan in order to get a haircut. Covering roughly one day of time and includes highly sexed women and the theme of father-son separation. Packer’s voyage is obstructed by various traffic jams caused by a presidential visit to the city, a funeral procession for a Sufi rap star and a full-fledged riot. Along the way, the hero has several chance meetings with his wife, seeing her in a taxi, a bookstore, and lying naked in the street, taking part in a movie as an extra. Meanwhile, Packer is stalked by two men, a comical “pastry assassin” and an unstable “credible threat”. Over the course of the day, Eric loses vast amounts of money for his clients by betting against the rise of the yen. Packer seems to relish being unburdened by the loss of so much money, even stopping to make sure he loses his wife’s fortune as well, to ensure his ruin is inevitable.

  • 19 Mar

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    Trailer: The Sound of My Voice

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    “I just feel like we are in over our heads.” “Yea, That’s investigative journalism.”

    Undercover reporters, cults, and possible time travelers abound in this indie drama/thriller. The Sound of My Voice not only turned some heads at 2011′s SXSW & 2012s Sundance, it stars indie science-fiction favourite Brit Marling (Another Earth) as the enigmatic and charismatic cult leader. There is definitely a claustrophobic vibe to the tone and cinematography here. The trailer is below.

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  • 17 Mar

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    Prometheus Trailer

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    “Prometheus has landed!” Yes, there is pretty much no doubt left at this point that it’s an full-blown Alien prequel.

  • 16 Mar

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    Talk Amongst Yourselves

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    A good read. Talk amongst yourselves

  • 16 Mar

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    Friday One Sheet: Southern Fried Chicken (Killer Joe)

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    Clearly, the poster design art is maximizing on the element that everyone will be talking about after the see this truly batshit-crazy William Friedkin film (written by the same guy who wrote Bug). It’s a fun/cheeky poster design for a fun/cheeky film that I cannot wait to revisit. (My TIFF review is here.)

  • 15 Mar

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    Total Recall is Total Recall

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    A very short Taiwanese spot for the Len “Underworld” Wiseman remake of Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall confirms that this remake is indeed going to look a lot like the 1990s film. I’ve never read the Philip K. Dick novel, and 30 seconds of action is not a lot of footage to judge things, but the whole thing at this point feels expensive and lazy and redundant. Colin Farell stars, John Cho cameos. See the spot below.

    (It may be gone from Youtube, but France has your back. )

  • 12 Mar

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    Trailer: On The Road

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    A day or two late with this, but I was on the road myself (ba-ching!) Walter Salles’ adaptation of the famous and iconic Jack Kerouac beat-travelogue, “On The Road,” strangely keeps the name changes of all the characters; the book’s definitive republishing “The Original Scroll” loses all Dean Moriartys and Carlo Marxs and Sal Paradises and puts back in everyones real name.

    Judging from the trailer and overall cast of the film it is certainly not anything like the faces and places that went through my brain upon reading the novel, but there is a hazy-dream quality that cinema imparts to these things that has in no way dampened my enthusiasm for the property. Not the showiest of trailers, but it gets the job done (in terms of fueling interest) better than, say, The Rum Diaries.

    Sam “Control” Reilly, Garett “Tron” Hedlund star in the film, while Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Terrence Howard, Steve Buscemi, Amy Adams, and Alice Braga all pop up over the course of Sal and Dean’s adventures.

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