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  • 08 Aug

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    Trailer: A Lonely Place to Die

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    I am a big fan of Julian Gilbey’s white knuckle chase-film, A Lonely Place to Die (Kurt’s Review). It is a film that absolutely must be seen on the big screen in glorious 2.35:1 scope. I’ve caught this one at two different film festivals with very enthusiastic audiences (one of which, ActionFest, the won the award for best feature film.) While it has one more big stop on the genre-fest circuit, Film4Frightfest, before its commercial release in the UK in September, (note that Yanks and Canucks will have to wait for any sort of release in November or so) Kaleidoscope Entertainment have cut together a trailer that surprisingly isn’t all that spoilerish, unless you count the first act set-up, and really this one is all about the action and the pacing, not so much the plot.

    A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.
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  • 05 Aug

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    Nolan’s Catwoman looks a lot like Wimmer’s Ultraviolet

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    While I have no doubt that tone, acting and overall groundedness of Ms. Hathaway (many of us are fans of some of here recent films) will be just fine in the new Bat flick, I’m getting a big Ultraviolet vibe from this photo.

  • 04 Aug

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    Trailer: Resurrect Dead – The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

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    It is Zodiac meets Exit Through The Gift Shop filtered with an X-Files sensibility in one of the most pleasant surprises on the documentary front this year, Jon Foy’s Resurrect Dead (Kurt’s Review.) Structured like a mystery-thriller the doc offers a primer on the baffling 20+ year old history of the Toynbee Tile mystery: A series of linoleum tiles embedded in asphalt across the eastern seaboard, all the way down to a few cities in South America with a rather esoteric text message carved into each one. Resurrect Dead is well worth a look, whether or not you are a fan of documentaries or street art, mainly due to the plethora of interesting personalities and surprises along the way.

    Screenings in your area? Check here.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • 04 Aug

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    Trailer for Bekmambetov-produced The Darkest Hour

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    It’s been a while since we last saw a Timur Bekmambetov-directed film on this continent, and we’re going to have to wait a little longer to see if his visionary promise will ever translate into a fully well-executed film (perhaps Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter will be the one?), but in the meantime, he’s continuing to produce slick-looking sci-fi features for lesser-known directors. Next up, The Darkest Hour from director Chris Gorak, who actually has one quite well-received genre feature already under his belt in 2006′s Right at Your Door (Kurt’s Review), about a dirty bomb going off in Los Angeles. This time around, he’s got American teens (including Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, and Max Minghella) in Moscow, apparently the only survivors of a global alien attack. They have to figure out how to fight these aliens that remain invisible unless given away by electricity.

    I’ve been curious about the film since I first heard about it, but is it going to be more than your run-of-the-mill alien invasion flick? We’ve already had a few of those this year, and one of them (Attack the Block) seems to be pretty phenomenal. So check out the trailer for The Darkest Hour and let us know what you think. Do the electric aliens look cool? Do you think these party-happy kids have a chance? Am I alone in thinking it looks like a cross between Cloverfield and 28 Days Later, but with lightning aliens?

    The trailer is under the seats. The Darkest Hour comes out December 23rd.

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  • 04 Aug

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    The new Superman revealed. Does anyone care?

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    Well, we finally have our first look at Henry Cavill as Superman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming reboot Man of Steel. Whatever. Batman would kick his ass anyway.

  • 02 Aug

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    Trailer: Twixt

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    To be fair, I’ve not ventured into any of Francis Ford Coppola’s neo-revival (Youth Without Youth, Tetro), but they’ve not seemed as ‘straight up genre’ as Twixt does. Somewhere between In The Mouth of Madness and 1408 the film is stacked to the gills with interesting actors: Val Kilmer (and his ex wife, Joanne Whalley), Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning (that’s her covered in blood in the above poster), Ben Chaplin and David Paymer. While this doesn’t look half as strong or nuanced as Shutter Island, I’m certainly willing to give it a shot despite the cheap cinematography and poorly put together trailer that seems to be cribbing voice-over from Throw Mama From The Train, “The Night Was…Humid.”

    A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named “V.” Unsure of her connection to a murder in the town but nevertheless, he is grateful for the story being handed to him.

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  • 28 Jul

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    Trailer: Love Crime

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    As icy French thrillers goes, you could do far worse than Alain Corneau’s Love Crime. I caught the famous french director’s final film, just weeks after his death, at TIFF, and enjoyed the heck out of it. It appears that Sundance Selects label had a similar reaction and is giving it some sort of release. I say this because They have cut together and released a new trailer, albeit one which is very similar to its first English subtitled trailer from last march, on this time with more pounding music, more sex, and some critics quotes. Those looking for a twisty-turvy, women behaving really badly type of film would be well advise to catch this whatever way possible when it gets its theatrical, VOD or DVD release sometime in the near future.

    Dangerous Liaisons meets Working Girl in this deliciously caustic tale of office politics. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier as mentor and ingénue, Love Crime is a remorseless clash of two competing egos. With ambition and jealousy oozing from their pores, they achieve the magnificent feat of eating up the scenery while delivering highly understated performances as competitive colleagues who become bitter enemies. Corneau’s script is so tight it squeaks, with precise, propulsive scenes that are bitingly sharp and cut to the quick.

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  • 28 Jul

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    Trailer: The Ides of March

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    Cannot get enough of the ubiquitous Ryan Gosling? Here comes The Ides of March, an election campaign drama/thriller directed by George Clooney with about as many talented actors as you can squeeze into a movie: The aforementioned Gosling joins Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marissa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright and George Clooney himself in the role of the spotlighted political candidate. The film was penned by Good Night and Good Luck writer, Grant Heslov, who co-incidentally directed Clooney in the much sillier Men Who Stare at Goats.

    After seeing this trailer, I’d vote for Clooney (he always delivers a good speech on screen), even if a very charismatic Gosling is going to backstab him on the campaign trail. This is one of the many films in the initial volley of TIFF titles, so those in Toronto will have a chance to catch this in early September, meanwhile the film will get its official release on October 7th. Sony is wise to release this sooner rather than later as America is going to be quite exhausted with the rhetoric of the 2012 presidential elections by mid next year, and may not want to see a more idealized reflection of the national climate up on screen.

    The full trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • 28 Jul

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    Trailer: Red State

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    This trailer gives a fair bit of the feel for Kevin Smith’s Religious ‘thriller’ Red State and the variety of tonal changes in the film by outlining the gist of about 3 of the 5 ‘acts’ in the narrative. But the devil surely is in the details and you get a wonderful flavour of Michael Parks, Melissa Leo and John Goodman here. As I watched this trailer, loaded with Kevin Smith zingers, I suddenly realized that I liked the film more than my review (here) may indicate. Would I pay $60 for that film an a Q&A? Doubtful, as I have seen several of the the directors Q&A videos, but I would happily pay the usual $10 for a regular screening.

    The full trailer is tucked under the seat. *Warning, it is loaded with F-Bombs.
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  • 25 Jul

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    Trailer: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s INTRUDERS

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    As the resident 28 Weeks Later super-fan, it seams reasonable that it should fall to me to post the trailer for the next Juan Carlos Fresnadillo film starring Clive Owen, Daniel Brühl, Carice Von Houten and Kerry Fox. Now that is my kind of casting! It is a small movie shot in Spain, but since that country seems to be the mecca for high craft genre-filmmaking, and Fresnadillo has an ability to inject a lot of subtext into a horror-thriller (see also Intacto) I am quite excited to see the results.

    Two families whose lives are thrown off track by menacing apparitions: in Spain, a mother protects her son from a faceless stranger; meanwhile, in the UK, a young girl has terrifying dreams of Hollowface, a demon who becomes a real danger to the girl and her family. More than a simple tale of supernatural horror, Intruders is an intense psychological drama taking the family as its central theme.


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  • 25 Jul

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    New Cult: KILL LIST Trailer

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    It has been a banner year for the rebirth about horror films or thrillers about cults and satanists. After a week at Montreal’s Fantasia Film festival and seeing several variants on the subject, one could say it’s a new trend. And one not that has not coagulated in any serious way since the late 1970s early 1980s. Following Ti West’s House of the Devil, I say things are long over due. One film that was surprisingly absent at this years Fantasia, especially considering the cultish status of Down Terrace, was Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, which from talking to those who caught it at Cannes or SXSW, is a masterpiece of the genre, and the trailer at least popped up a little while ago. Unable to get to it in mid-festival, I’m posting it here now, in case you missed it.

    Eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer Jay, is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the dark, disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again – his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness.

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  • 25 Jul

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    Will Knights of Badassdom be badass?

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    Joe Lynch is good buddies with Hatchet and Frozen director Adam Green. His only completed directorial project so far is a straight-to-DVD sequel to Wrong Turn. That’s about all that I know about the man who was behind the camera of Knights of Badassdom, a movie that I want so very much to like.

    The film, which follows live-action role players (LARPers) who mistakenly conjure a succubus during a LARPing tournament, is stacked with tons of nerd-friendly actors. It has, most importantly, Row Three favorite and current Emmy nominee for Game of Thrones Peter Dinklage. Then there is Summer Glau of Firefly, Ryan Kwanten of True Blood, Danny Pudi of Community, Michael Gladis of Mad Men, Margarita Levieva of Vanished, Jimmi Simpson of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and, of course, the nerdiest of them all, Steve Zahn. The trailer is hard to gauge, but trailers usually are for these type of comedies. It’s not particularly funny, but the combination of talent and the 1980s B-movie plot are inspiring.

    Check out the trailer after the jump and don’t forget to weigh in with your own thoughts!

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