This animation very much created in a neo futurist style ala Fritz Lang, very clean style, montone pallete . It is a French movie and there's no subtitles but the animation is very minimal in talk so its still worth a check if you dont speak French anyway.
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Dramedy seems to be the big thing these days in movieland if its not action comedy and here is the trailer for upcoming indie dramedy PAPER MAN.
The movie stars Jeff Daniels who plays a failed middle aged writer who forms a unlikely friendship with a 17 year old girl played by Emma Stone and both go through life with their imaginary friends; Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds) and a fellow teen called Christopher (Keiran Culkin). The pairs relationship does come with much disapproval from his wife(Lisa Kudrow) and his ' superhero friend'.
There isn't a release date yet for this movie in UK and Ireland but there will be a limited release stateside from April 23rd.
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I'm not the biggest martial arts fan in the world I could probably could only name one or two of the big names within the movie genre but in the last few years since enhancing my knowledge of movie Tony Jaa.
The Ong Bak franchise has helped to get him worldwide recognition from fans all around the world and recently the trailer for the 3rd movie has debuted online, you can see it below. The movie has plenty of blood, sweat, over the top action just plain old madness and fun to watch if your a diehard martial arts fan or even if you want pure escapism from the outside world check this out!
Looking like the movie is scheduled for a May5th release in Thailand as for the rest of the world it might get some sort of coverage through certain cinemas if not on the small screen via DVD.
I caught this movie back in mid-february it kicked off my Glasgow Film Festival season for me and it is an very enjoyable movie and refreshing to the pallette especially with the amount of crap coming out of Hollywood these days, so when something thats a little bit different comes along its just nice to watch whatever the genre or country is comes from. Heartless is about Jamie a young guy (played by Jim Sturgess) who has an large birthmark on his face, he feels ashamed, hes picked on by the local youths. He would do anything to get rid of the birthmark and he gets his chance when he meets a demon (might be the devil?) who gives him a chance of new face but when you deal with the devil, theres a price to pay…you must kill someone.
Trailer gets you into the thick of the movie, very intense, provoking but also sad as well, all in a very good movie with a brilliant cast to back it up. Timothy Spall, brilliant Eddie Marsan,Noel Clarke, Clémence Poésy and Joesph Mawle as the demon.
The movie is getting a limited release in the UK & Ireland on May 21st, which is a shame and as for USA no news yet but possibly IFC may pick it up giving the movie some coverage stateside.
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Below is an superb little short called THE GIFT created by Carl Erik Rinsch the man whom last year was nearly directing the Alien Prequel but it caused an uproar within the hardcore fanbase of Aliens. I usually post any great shorts on this blog but because this was so good I decided to do it first on my mainstream blog.
The movie is part of the Parallel Lines Comeptition ran by Phillips and The Gift is the story of an Robot manservant who flees the police through the streets of Moscow. This little gem of an movie is one of 5 other movies in the competition , all are directors of Ridley Scott’s commerical wing RSA and he has judged all the movies, you can check out the rest of the movies here at the Phillips website. Do check this movie out as Warner and Fox according to Heat Vision arefighting it out to persuade Rinsch to make this short movie an full length one!
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A Few months back I posted the teaser trailer for this movie Wai dor lei ah yut ho (Dream Home). The movie was in post-production period but that long road is nearly over as the movie will be out next month in Hong Kong (13th May), so when the release date comes out a full theatrical trailer usually follows and its below.
This is an slasher movie, so you'll be expecting a little bit of blood and guts here, well no. Possibly something to do with the laws in Hong Kong but more likely to tease the viewer to check the movie, like the recent Expandable trailer that gave away the actual Willis &Scwharznegger cameo i'm sure they dont want to spoil things here.
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During my teens into early twenties my highlight of the weekend was heading upto Glasgow city centre to the comic book shops to my latest dc or marvel comics which eventually came manga and anime. Every day I would try source out new stuff but as time went by I lost interest mostly down to lack of money to buy what I like, but more recently I have started to rediscover anime once again and like my movie education I want to rediscover my anime/manga again.
Above is a second trailer forYuasa Masaaki's YOHJOHAN SHINWA TAIKEI a fantastic looking anime, with first look at the first character I thought I was looking at Japan's version of Desperete Dan! But what we get here is an fine example of great Japanese animation that graphically looks alternative but still with distinctive anime traits. it seems Masaaki shifts his drawing style per project which is sometimes a good thing but can be negative as well but on first impressions this is great stuff and a example how how talented the artist is. Yohjohan Shinwa Taikei is an anime made for Japenese TV which will be starting soon and all I can say is brilliant stuff...give me more!!!
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