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After.life (2009)
9 November 2009 1:46 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Written by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo & Jakub Korolczuk
Featuring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long
Review by Hal MacDermot
Do the dead live, or are the living dead? What does it mean to be dead anyway? Great questions, but I’m not sure if Agnieszka Wojtowicz really manages to answer them. After.life is her first feature, a psychological thriller, and despite some top notch talent in the persons of Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long, the film never lives up to potential. Liam Neeson’s performance as scary funeral-director-guy is the saving grace...
Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up after a car accident and finds herself being prepared for burial in Eliot Deacon’s (Liam Neeson) funeral home. It seems that Eliot has a gift for conversing with the dead, and that’s why he can talk with her. He tells us that his role is »
- Superheidi
AFI La 09: Review of After.Life
8 November 2009 3:22 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Writers: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo & Paul Vosloo & Jakub Korolczuk
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 5 out of 10
Do the dead live, or are the living dead? What does it mean to be dead anyway? Great questions, but I’m not sure if Agnieszka Wojtowicz really manages to answer them. After.life is her first feature, a psychological thriller, and despite some top notch talent in the persons of Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Jason Long, the film never lives up to potential. Liam Neeson’s performance as scary funeral director guy is the saving grace.
Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up after a car accident and finds herself being prepared for burial in Eliot Deacon’s (Liam Neeson) funeral home. It seems that Eliot has a gift for conversing with the dead, and that’s why he can talk with her. He tells us that his role »
Thurman keen for 'Kill Bill 3' training
6 November 2009 7:58 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Uma Thurman has revealed that she is keen to begin training for the upcoming third Kill Bill instalment. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino recently confirmed that the follow-up will be out in cinemas in 2014. The actress, who starred as martial-arts trained The Bride in the first two films of the franchise, equated her previous regimen to "basic training in Vietnam". However, she admitted that she has grown lazy since the last movie completed filming in 2004. She told Empire: "They train you so hard that when you come to shooting, it's actually quite comfortable. It's not the same as real kung fu and I could not defend myself now if someone (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Thurman Eager To Shape Up For Kill Bill
5 November 2009 11:21 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Uma Thurman can't wait to begin work on the next Kill Bill movie - because the intense samurai training she endures for the films push her into the best shape of her life.
The actress spent months mastering her martial arts skills with professional stuntmasters to play The Bride, a killer assassin, in the first two instalments of Quentin Tarantino's action franchise.
And she's ready to kick off the gruelling sessions for a third time - after reverting back to her lazy ways since filming wrapped.
She tells Britain's Empire magazine, "They train you so hard that when you come to shooting, it's actually quite comfortable. It's not the same as real kung-fu, and I could not defend myself now if someone picked a fight! It was a transforming experience; I was part of a fight team for almost nine months, and that changed my life. They taught me to work harder than I had ever done before, physically, and it's an incredible thing to discover that your breaking point is actually much higher than you think. It's a great gift.
"It did change my life back then. Not that I'm changed still; I'm back to being the bum that I was! But I do miss it, and hopefully I'll get back on the stick one day. I'd never pushed myself to those extremes before. It was like surviving a kind of war; it felt like basic training in Vietnam. It was an emotional and physical thing - the envelope of the work sprawled and grew and changed, almost out of control." »
Guttenberg alert: Disney preps ‘Three Men and a Bride’
4 November 2009 8:20 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Whatever was old is apparently new again as Disney will reunite the cast of Three Men and a Baby for Three Men and a Bride.
“Disney’s developing Three Men and a Bride,” said original star Steve Guttenberg. “That’s going to be a smash. A smash hit. They’re bringing everybody back for that. Nobody knows about it. I’m the first to talk about it.”
1987’s Three Men and a Baby starred Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg as bachelor friends forced to raise a baby together after she is left on their doorstep by a desperate mother. The trio reunited three years later for Three Men and a Little Lady.
For Guttenberg, he hopes that studio interest in ’80s films don’t end at Three Men.
“It’s definitely time for another Police Academy. And I think they could make another Cocoon,” says the 51-year-old. “They »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (Film Review)
3 November 2009 3:27 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Note: This review does contain minor Spoilers
Cheerfully gory and revolting, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever is the fun sequel to Eli Roth's cult classic that recently made it's debut on the last night of Screamfest L.A.
Starting immediately after the events of the first film, Paul (top-billed Rider Strong in a two-minute cameo) climbs out of the creek with the virus eating away at him, and he's promptly mowed down by a schoolbus (hardly a 'spoiler', having been revealed in the film's marketing materials).
The bottled water company from the first film delivers drinks contaminated with the flesh-eating virus to a local high school, where likable John (Noah Segan) and his nerdy friend Alex (Rusty Kelley) attend class. John has an unrequited crush on Cassie (Alexi Wasser), but is afraid of her angry kickboxer boyfriend.
By the plot, you can see the sequel is a classic John Hughes movie set-up, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
Film School 101: Protagonists
1 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
First off I need to apologize for the tardiness of this entry. I was infected with the swine pandemic and was unable to do anything but utter “Bbbbraaaiiinsssss…” feebly from my bed. Now I’m up and about again, so here we go.
One of the first things to do when making your movie is figure out who your main character is going to be. Now, you may pick your plot first and then figure what kind of protagonist you want or you may pick your characters and write about what they do – it all depends on your style of writing. In either case, understanding your protagonist(s) is very important since these are the people whom the plot revolves around, who we will come to know and love and who we will follow for the next 120 minutes. They will be our tour guides through your movie so you have »
- Marco Duran
Top 10 Bloodiest Scenes in Film
31 October 2009 8:43 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Blood: The Last Vampire fights its way to Blu-ray and DVD November 2. The movie is a slick and stylised English adaptation of the hugely popular cult hit anime series of the same name. The movie is full of blood and gore, so in celebration of this release, we have compiled a short list of some of the bloodiest films to date. Chances are, if you loved these films and relished the blood, then you will love Blood: The Last Vampire. The name speaks for itself!
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
It is clear to see that Blood: The Last Vampire sticks true to its gory genre. In many of the scenes, Saya is surrounded by a group of demons. The creativity of their deaths is the winning factor here, for example in one scene she decapitates a demon by throwing a metal grate at it, and slices another in half to create an upward blood fountain, »
- David Sztypuljak
Movies That Make Me Think of Halloween
30 October 2009 9:51 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Recycled Film Experience! I wrote some of this in advance -- years in advance in fact -- to free up time to enjoy this costume crazed holiday. I originally published this list in 2005, but I've tweaked it some. Plus, not all of you were around in 2005. Herewith, the top 12 movies that remind me of Halloween. It's a top ten list and it's not even Tuesday. I'm so generous.
12 The Batman franchise (1989-2008)
In 1997 I went out Halloween clubbing as the Uma version of Poison Ivy. Whenever you dress up as a movie character the year the movie comes out, you'll have competition. There was another Poison Ivy there but I buried her, I promise. I had the horns and all the details, see. It was the longest I ever spent getting ready for Halloween (which is saying something): glue guns, orange wigs, fake foliage, you name it. I don't try as hard anymore. »
- NATHANIEL R
Natural Born Killers Unrated Director’s Cut Blu-ray Review
30 October 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When you walk into Natural Born Killers, you wonder what drugs the makers were taking. And maybe for a little bit you might want to partake as well, but it’s probably best to not. Regardless of one’s sobriety whilst watching Natural Born Killers, there is no denying that is both a trip and a ride, which is fair enough as much of it is a road picture. My review after the jump.
The film follows Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis); two kids in love with a taste for murder. The film starts with them running havoc over a diner, and from the get go, Stone gets a great comic sensibility, with the deaths exaggerated to Looney Tunes sensibilities, but like someone who has experienced death up close, he seems unable to romanticize what they’re doing, his director’s eye makes you also feel queasy in partaking. »
- Andre Dellamorte
Villains We Love: Elle Driver
30 October 2009 1:35 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
There are villains we love, and villains we'd love to be -- at least fictionally, imaginatively within our own little dream worlds. These are worlds where we don't have to really kill anybody or do anything bad, but can just lather ourselves in their badassedness, especially as the time ticks down towards Halloween. For me, there's probably no villain I'd rather mimic than Kill Bill's Elle Driver, California Mountain Snake.
I was mesmerized when Daryl Hannah whistled her way into the hospital in the sexiest and coolest white suit known to man, only to change into something as equally cool -- taking the nurse look so far that there's even that bright red cross adorning her white eye patch. Cool song, cool clothes, and cool fighting style. If Uma didn't do such a great job, I would've been rooting for Elle the whole time.
Of course, every time I »
- Monika Bartyzel
Michael Madsen -- Go Big or Go Homeless
27 October 2009 10:07 PM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Being broke usually means it's time to make sacrifices, but not for Michael Madsen -- dude declared bankruptcy, then allegedly racked up $80,000 in unpaid rent on a mansion ... and now faces eviction.According to docs filed last Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the owner of Michael's luxury Malibu home claims the "Kill Bill" actor skipped out on his $20,000/month rent four months in a row ... and now owes $80,000.If he doesn't pay up, Michael »
Yuen Woo-ping Preps his Garnet on the Golden Sand
27 October 2009 9:49 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Sure, the title may not sound like it’s got buckets of martial arts fun waiting for you (”Garnet on the Golden Sand”???), but consider the director involved: Yuen Woo-ping. Westerners will know him as the guy who made the martial arts in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” and the Wachowskis’ “Matrix” movies look credible, while Asian film enthusiasts will know him more as the man behind such kung fu kickassery as “Drunken Master”, “Iron Monkey”, and Stephen Chow’s “Kung Fu Hustle”. Now the legendary director is set to direct the American-Hong Kong co-production “Garnet on the Golden Sand”. So what’s the deal with this not-very-kung-fu sounding “Garnet on the Golden Sand”? Written by Jun Tan, the film is set in the 17th century, and follows a European merchant and two Chinese swordsmen who are recruited by the leader of a prosperous trade town along the Silk Road »
- Nix
Inglourious Winners Score a Bounty of Tarantino Prizes
27 October 2009 3:47 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Congratulations on everybody who entered MovieSet’s “Elite Director Sweepstakes - Taratino Classics” sweepstakes! It’s really cool to be able to ship these prizes to fans of this renegade director. Don’t worry if you didn’t win, there will be Many more opportunities to score great movie prizes in upcoming sweepstakes and contests.
Here are the winners and there enthusiastic commentary:
Grand Prize:
Geoff K. of Columbus, Oh scored this massive list of Qt goods:
1 “Inglourious Basterds” art-photo signed by Director Quentin Tarantino 1 “Reservoir Dogs” 15th Anniversary DVD 1 “Pulp Fiction” 2-disc ollector’s edition DVD 1 “From Dusk till Dawn” collector’s series DVD 1 “Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof” - extended & unrated 2-disc special edition DVD
Geoff shared these enthusiastic sentiments:
“Wow, thanks so much — I’m thrilled to have won! You guys have some amazing giveaways for movie lovers, but this is the one I really hoped to win, »
- Dave
Girls on Film: Villains Without Strong Heroines Aren't Very Fun
26 October 2009 6:50 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Even at a young age, I drew definitive lines for myself when it came to horror movies. I swore off the Friday the 13ths because the first not only plagued me with nightmares since my sneaky eyes caught it at a way-too-young age, but it also helped give me a healthy fear of the rural darkness. Yet I adored the Nightmare on Elm Street series -- whether I was watching the film drastically cut for Saturday afternoon TV or renting the flicks in their full horrific glory. It was campy fun, and I always figured that a mixture of laughs and horror was the magic mix that made things interesting. But there was another reason I made a distinction, one that didn't become clear until much later in life.
I adored Debbie Stevens and Alice Johnson, Sydney Prescott and Tatum Riley because they didn't just scream and quiver -- even if they didn't survive. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Uma Thurman Says Kill Bill: Vol. 3 Is "Going To Be Awesome"
26 October 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
With nearly 40 feature films on her resume, actress Uma Thurman is at a point in her career where she can pick and choose her movie projects. In a recent interview with Parade, Thurman said that choosing roles is a very different process for her now that she is a mother.
You feel much more conflicted. I think I really struggled with that conflict. Sort of like, "What's worthy enough to interrupt my kid's life to take them on the road with me while I do a movie?" Now, I just try to balance it. I probably overthink things, but I try to do the right thing. I just do my best. Any working mother will tell you it's the same. I think every working mom is kind of a superhero. I think we all are.
Thurman also confirmed that she has been in talks with Quentin Tarantino about reprising the »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Diane Kruger Joins New Dark Castle Production
26 October 2009 6:43 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
In any other film besides Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, actress Diane Kruger’s performance would have shined through and gotten her a great deal of attention in the public eye. Instead, the film is filled to the brim with great performances, and Kruger’s role as Bridget Von Hammersmark may get overlooked next to Brad Pitt’s Aldo Raine or Christoph Waltz’s Hans Landa.
Now, Kruger will be joining The Boat That Rocked (aka Pirate Radio) and Mad Men star January Jones in Dark Castle’s production of Unknown White Male.
According to Variety, the film centers around “a man (to be played by Liam Neeson) who awakens from a coma to find that someone else has assumed his identity, and no one, including his wife, believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.” Jones is the wife in »
- John Cooper
A Conversation with Zoe Bell
26 October 2009 2:11 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
An accomplished stunt performer whose journey to Kill Bill was chronicled as the subject of the excellent documentary Double Dare, Zoe Bell has become a fixture in genre fare not only for her impressive stunt skills - but also her acting chops.
After a leading role in the Grindhouse installment Death Proof, Bell's recent work includes Bitch Slap (screening at our Trinity Of Terrors this weekend), a starring turn in Angel Of Death, and the most recent Tarantino effort Inglourious Basterds. Jason Anders recently sat down with bell for a discussion about her craft.
Ja: Let's start off with talking about the film Death Proof, and your initial reaction to the script by Quentin Tarantino which had you playing yourself. You originally thought this was a joke, right? Zb: Well no, I didn't think the movie was a joke. He was on his way over to my house with the script, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jason Anders)
The Week in Film: What will fly at the box office? And what won't?
23 October 2009 2:13 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Editor's note: This week we're welcoming Mike Wong on board to write our weekly movie column.
Another week, another set of movies. Hard to believe it’s already nearly November when the Oscar-bait starts being dangled, and unless you didn’t see any movies last week, I’m sorry to say it’s a good week to stay home or do something not movie related.
The first of the wide releases this week is Amelia starring the swanky Hilary Swank in a movie that almost no one was waiting for. This biopic about Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic, seems to have flown out of the Hollywood machine with every cliché and formulaic fixture intact. Currently scoring a 22% on Rottentomatoes.com, I’ll wager that it’ll probably experience some serious turbulence in the box office.
Starring Cherry Jones as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard Gere as her husband, »
- Raiden251
Trailer: Yuen Woo-Ping’s True Legend
22 October 2009 2:53 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
In 1978 he achieved his first directing credit on the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, starring Jackie Chan, then quickly followed with the similar Drunken Master. The films were smash-hits, launching Jackie Chan as a major film-star. He went on to work with such figures as Sammo Hung in Magnificent Butcher (1979), Yuen Biao in Dreadnaught (1981), Donnie Yen in several films including Iron Monkey (1993), and Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in several films including Tai Chi Master (1993) and Wing Chun (1994). His work, particularly his action choreography on Fist of Legend (1994), attracted the attention of the Wachowski brothers, who hired him as the kung-fu choreographer on The Matrix (1999). The success of this collaboration, plus his action choreography on the following year's hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, made him a highly sought after figure in Hollywood. He went on to work on the Matrix sequels and Kill Bill (2003). It's been 12 years since Yuen Woo-ping, »
- Ricky
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