Movie poster of the week: TARGET EARTH

Exhibition Place!!!

BAD ROOMATE may have been my favourite short film that played Toronto After Dark this year, and now it's on the YouTube. Check out it's official press release below:



Hey Folks, James Gangl here, co-creator of Bad Roomate a freaky little stop-motion music video created on a pile of crap, $100 dollar point-and-shoot camera…

Here’s the deal… in August it was an official selection at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. It won Best Music at WILDSound’s “Best of Scary Movies” presented at the National Film Board… and now we want to share it with the masses!!

So… CHECK IT OUT ON THE YOUTUBE!!!


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If you want to learn more about the film, check out the handy-dandy press release attached and links of what other folks have said about it!

REVIEWS:

“contagious song charmed…” Shannon the Movie Moxie

“This one was hilarious… now I just wish I could find it to share with everyone.” The Film Reel

“Very Funny. I need to see it again. My brain didn’t quite get it. It was too entertained if that’s possible.” RenerdRadio

“…full of laughs, fun and WTF moments.” 10MoviesToSee.com

“It is a testament to what you can do with very little more than just a camera, while fuelled by booze and weed.” TheHorrorSection

INTERVIEWS:

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival

Happy Thanksgiving you American Basterds!

Peek at Hex

Here's a fresh peek at James Brolin as JONAH HEX in next summer's supernatural western. Official summary courtesy of Collider.com:

Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone…and anything. Having survived death, Jonah’s violent history is steeped in myth and legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the “other side.” His only human connection is with Leila (Megan Fox), whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah’s past is about to catch up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can’t refuse: in exchange for his freedom from the warrants on his head, he must track down and stop the dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich). But Turnbull, who is gathering an army and preparing to unleash Hell, is also Jonah’s oldest enemy and will stop at nothing until Jonah is dead. Based on the legendary graphic novel, “Jonah Hex” is an epic adventure thriller about one man’s personal quest for redemption against the vast canvas of the battle between good and evil.

So you want to make another Indiana Jones movie...

THIS is the only way you're getting my money again Lucas!!!

Movie poster of the week: EYEBALL

This, that, and the other thing...

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS is finally getting some love out in the world with it's release last Friday.
Ebert gives it 4 stars, if you were wondering, or still gave a damn about what he has to say.
Nerve.com thinks that Herzog is more bad-ass than Chuck Norris... I'd have to agree.
And Aint It Cool News held a poster design contest, check out the winner and a bunch of the other entries here, including the one below which I quite like.

I finally caught up with RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, as was mentioned in my movie-related resolutions for the new year as one of those 'big' films that I had missed theatrically, and thought it was great. I loved the use of a roaming camera doc-style approach to capture the weekend of a big family wedding and all the drama that ensues. And yes, a great performance by Bill Irwin made me a little weepy. I've also recent seen THE WRESTLER, which really didn't do it for me. Still no TITANIC.

So, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON was released last weekend to the utter giggly delight of teenage girls everywhere and made huge huge money. I've actually seen TWILIGHT, thought it was utterly dreadful. And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

io9 has a brief interview with Ryan Kavanaugh, producer on the Stephen Norrington penned and directed 'relaunch' of THE CROW, which is nearing the green light phase. Pretty much any remake/reboot/relaunch these days is gonna piss me off, so you'd think I'd be raging at this... Way back in 1994 when the original film was released, it was a touchstone of sorts, a perfect film for me and my black-clad cohorts. You could even say that it was my "TWILIGHT", as I was a huge fan of the comic book, and yes, had even dressed as The Crow for Halloween (back then I actually had the hair for the job!). I havn't seen the film the years, and at this point have no real interest, for fear that it won't hold up, but I do revisit the book every now and again, and it never fails to disappoint. Bad sequels starring Tara Reid, the completely forgettable tv series, and relaunches be damned, I'll always have the book.

Movie poster of the week: THE EVIL EYE

What are you afraid of again?

This is old news but I'm just catching up with it now, the Thai horror anthology PHOBIA, which screened at Toronto After Dark in 2008, has a sequel. Check out the trailer below, and a whole slew of posters over at Bangkok 1080

Will this KICK-ASS?

 
Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of Mark Millar's KICK-ASS comic book finally has some teasers, in the form of posters and a trailer.  Financed outside the studio system by Vaughn's own production company, we'll see how an R-Rated 'anti-superhero' movie even more obscure than WATCHMEN will fare with the everyday movie going masses.
 
Kick-Ass

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Movie poster of the week: RAW MEAT