Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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- 5/27/2017
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
From the movie review site TheGoodTheBadandtheUgly.Ca, Sneak Peek the good, the bad and the ugly in director James Mangold's comic book adaptation "Logan", starring Hugh Jackman as Marvel Comics' 'Wolverine':
Michael Stevens For: The Good
"R-Rated for 'strong brutal violence and language', actor Hugh Jackman cuts like a knife, in the part he was born to play, carving his initials into another fierce performance as Marvel's mutant 'Wolverine'.
"In the near future, the scarred, 150 year old, adamantium-clawed 'Old Man Logan' is reduced to guzzling liquor and cranking drugs, while his self-healing regenerative powers continue to wane.
"Logan picks up petty cash in El Paso as a driver for hire, while hunkering down in an industrial plant on a stretch of the Mexican border.
"His hideout companions include the 'Nosferatu'-looking clairvoyant 'Caliban' (Stephen Merchant)...
"...and the foul, abusive, Alzheimer stricken 'Charles Xavier' (Patrick Stewart), slowly going out of his mind,...
Michael Stevens For: The Good
"R-Rated for 'strong brutal violence and language', actor Hugh Jackman cuts like a knife, in the part he was born to play, carving his initials into another fierce performance as Marvel's mutant 'Wolverine'.
"In the near future, the scarred, 150 year old, adamantium-clawed 'Old Man Logan' is reduced to guzzling liquor and cranking drugs, while his self-healing regenerative powers continue to wane.
"Logan picks up petty cash in El Paso as a driver for hire, while hunkering down in an industrial plant on a stretch of the Mexican border.
"His hideout companions include the 'Nosferatu'-looking clairvoyant 'Caliban' (Stephen Merchant)...
"...and the foul, abusive, Alzheimer stricken 'Charles Xavier' (Patrick Stewart), slowly going out of his mind,...
- 4/4/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Fans of classic film noir movies will not be disappointed in Cut To The Chase.
In the style of pessimism, fatalism, intrigue and plenty of twist and turns, director-actor Blayne Weaver’s Cut To The Chase delivers a fascinating film about a man who enters the underworld of Louisiana in order to search for his missing sister while being pursued by a notorious crime boss.
The film stares Weaver in the title role. Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow) and Erin Cahill (Power Rangers Time Force) also star in the film.
The film opens theatrically nationwide on February 28 and will be available on VOD/Digital download on March 7. A DVD release is set in August.
Lrm was granted the video to announce exclusively the behind the scenes interview with the lovely actress Erin Cahill. She talks about her role and experience in Cut To The Chase.
Check it out below.
In the style of pessimism, fatalism, intrigue and plenty of twist and turns, director-actor Blayne Weaver’s Cut To The Chase delivers a fascinating film about a man who enters the underworld of Louisiana in order to search for his missing sister while being pursued by a notorious crime boss.
The film stares Weaver in the title role. Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow) and Erin Cahill (Power Rangers Time Force) also star in the film.
The film opens theatrically nationwide on February 28 and will be available on VOD/Digital download on March 7. A DVD release is set in August.
Lrm was granted the video to announce exclusively the behind the scenes interview with the lovely actress Erin Cahill. She talks about her role and experience in Cut To The Chase.
Check it out below.
- 3/11/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Ex-cons will never have a peaceful life.
In the Blayne Weaver-directed Cut To The Chase, this Southern Noir thriller follows Max Chase, a man who has always been on the wrong side of the law, but his younger sister Isobel always ends up bailing him out of trouble. Until one day, she suddenly disappeared. The suspects end up being her abusive boyfriend, a District Attorney and the crime boss known as “The Man.” Fearing for his life and his sister, Max re-renters the dark crime world and being pursued by The Man’s enforcer. The only ally is with a manipulative female criminal, who apparently is also on the run from The Man.
The film also stars Weaver in the lead role. He is supported by Lance Henriksen, Lyndie Greenwood and Erin Cahill.
The indie thriller has received numerous awards in the film festival circuit. Cut To The Chase...
In the Blayne Weaver-directed Cut To The Chase, this Southern Noir thriller follows Max Chase, a man who has always been on the wrong side of the law, but his younger sister Isobel always ends up bailing him out of trouble. Until one day, she suddenly disappeared. The suspects end up being her abusive boyfriend, a District Attorney and the crime boss known as “The Man.” Fearing for his life and his sister, Max re-renters the dark crime world and being pursued by The Man’s enforcer. The only ally is with a manipulative female criminal, who apparently is also on the run from The Man.
The film also stars Weaver in the lead role. He is supported by Lance Henriksen, Lyndie Greenwood and Erin Cahill.
The indie thriller has received numerous awards in the film festival circuit. Cut To The Chase...
- 2/16/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
The Toronto-based sales agent on Monday announced the latest roster of international acquisitions under its 108 Madcap label.
Sales titles include American-Albanian crime thriller Cash Only (pictured), about a cash-strapped landlord whose troubles multiply when he steals money.
Parasites stars Robert Miano and centres on a group of privileged friends captured by a violent homeless gang.
The Triangle tells of four filmmakers who take their cameras into the Montana wilderness to document the mysterious inner workings of a young community with a secret.
2012 title Monsters In The Woods chronicles a micro-budget film crew in the wilderness who become prey to wild creatures.
Rounding out the slate are 2015 Macedonian human trafficking thriller Lazar, kidnap thriller Cut To The Chase, and horror tale Valley Of Ditches.
“We have acquired an impressive slate of amazing independent films to grow 108 Madcap’s offering,” said new acquisitions executive Larry Bain, who will lead 108 Madcap’s sales efforts.
“We continue...
Sales titles include American-Albanian crime thriller Cash Only (pictured), about a cash-strapped landlord whose troubles multiply when he steals money.
Parasites stars Robert Miano and centres on a group of privileged friends captured by a violent homeless gang.
The Triangle tells of four filmmakers who take their cameras into the Montana wilderness to document the mysterious inner workings of a young community with a secret.
2012 title Monsters In The Woods chronicles a micro-budget film crew in the wilderness who become prey to wild creatures.
Rounding out the slate are 2015 Macedonian human trafficking thriller Lazar, kidnap thriller Cut To The Chase, and horror tale Valley Of Ditches.
“We have acquired an impressive slate of amazing independent films to grow 108 Madcap’s offering,” said new acquisitions executive Larry Bain, who will lead 108 Madcap’s sales efforts.
“We continue...
- 10/31/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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From the director of Gomorra comes the deliciously odd adult fairy tale, Tale Of Tales. Ryan reviews a cult gem in the making...
Like The Princess Bride directed by Ken Russell, Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales is a full-blooded and decidedly adult fairy tale. Set in a quasi-medieval Europe of castles, four-poster beds, bulbous gowns, the movie relates a grimly comic set of interlocking fables.
It begins with a king and queen (respectively, John C Reilly and Salma Hayek) who turn to witchcraft in order to conceive a child, before lurching to the story of monarch (Vincent Cassell) who’s so sex-obsessed that he embarks on a romance with a peasant girl based purely on her angelic singing voice. You can probably guess the king’s reaction when he discovers that the peasant girl is actually far older and more leprous than he assumes.
Weirdest of the lot is the story of yet another king (this one played by Toby Jones) who rears a giant flea and then, for reasons far too complicated and wonderful to relate here, unwillingly marries off his lily white young daughter Violet (Bebe Cave) to a hideous ogre. You might think from these brief descriptions that there isn’t very much linking these surreal, dark and sometimes violent stories, but the realisation gradually dawns that each carries echoes of the last. A pair of siblings are reunited in one story, while a pair of sisters are divided in the next; one character becomes a royal over here, while a luckless heir is cast into a filth and misery over there. To loosely quote George Lucas, “It’s like poetry. It rhymes”.
A deeper meaning behind Garrone’s mad fantasy is harder to pin down. At first, it’s enough to simply admire his often stunningly conceived images: a character dining on crimson offal in an ice-white room. Toby Jones befriending his pet flea. Tale Of Tales brings us universal stories of birth, death, marriage and desire, but viewed through a uniquely strange filter. Dramatic irony is everywhere,and there’s a recurring theme about divisions: between old and young, rich and poor, life and death.
Relying less on obvious splashes of CGI than most mainstream fantasies, Tale Of Tales’ use of real European locations and physical effects set it apart from the likes of, say, Duncan Jones' Warcraft or Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies. There’s an earthiness to the creature designs and costumes that brings Tale Of Tales closer to the look and feel of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s underrated adaptation of Umberto Eco’s The Name Of The Rose, or maybe Paul Verhoeven’s American debut, Flesh + Blood. There’s also a hint of the matter-of-factness that made Garrone’s 2008 Mafia drama Gomorrah such compulsive viewing.
Where so many films leave us numbed by their swooping computerised vistas, Tale Of Tales keeps things at gut-level. There’s a wonderfully ominous funeral sequence which, thanks to some stunning competition and sound design, provides a captivating moment to pore over before Garrone suddenly shifts the action to a jarringly sordid moment elsewhere.
Cut to Alexandre Desplat’s lush score, Garrone’s film moves with between tones with ease. Some scenes have all the humour of a joke well told. Other moments in Tale Of Tales are gory on a level approaching Game Of Thrones. One sequence is genuinely terrifying. Inevitably, the film’s sheer weirdness won’t endear everybody - one or two people were checking their phones in the screening I attended. Those with a taste for the imaginative and the surreal will surely be bewitched by Garrone’s fairytale anthology, however, and there’s the strong possibility that Tale Of Tales will acquire cult status in years to come.
My advice? Cut to the chase and watch it in a cinema while you can.
Tale Of Tales is out in UK cinemas on the 17th June.
Movies Tale Of Tales Salma Hayek John C Reilly Vincent Cassell Toby Jones Tale Of Tales Matteo Garrone movie review Review Ryan Lambie 15 Jun 2016 - 06:17...
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From the director of Gomorra comes the deliciously odd adult fairy tale, Tale Of Tales. Ryan reviews a cult gem in the making...
Like The Princess Bride directed by Ken Russell, Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales is a full-blooded and decidedly adult fairy tale. Set in a quasi-medieval Europe of castles, four-poster beds, bulbous gowns, the movie relates a grimly comic set of interlocking fables.
It begins with a king and queen (respectively, John C Reilly and Salma Hayek) who turn to witchcraft in order to conceive a child, before lurching to the story of monarch (Vincent Cassell) who’s so sex-obsessed that he embarks on a romance with a peasant girl based purely on her angelic singing voice. You can probably guess the king’s reaction when he discovers that the peasant girl is actually far older and more leprous than he assumes.
Weirdest of the lot is the story of yet another king (this one played by Toby Jones) who rears a giant flea and then, for reasons far too complicated and wonderful to relate here, unwillingly marries off his lily white young daughter Violet (Bebe Cave) to a hideous ogre. You might think from these brief descriptions that there isn’t very much linking these surreal, dark and sometimes violent stories, but the realisation gradually dawns that each carries echoes of the last. A pair of siblings are reunited in one story, while a pair of sisters are divided in the next; one character becomes a royal over here, while a luckless heir is cast into a filth and misery over there. To loosely quote George Lucas, “It’s like poetry. It rhymes”.
A deeper meaning behind Garrone’s mad fantasy is harder to pin down. At first, it’s enough to simply admire his often stunningly conceived images: a character dining on crimson offal in an ice-white room. Toby Jones befriending his pet flea. Tale Of Tales brings us universal stories of birth, death, marriage and desire, but viewed through a uniquely strange filter. Dramatic irony is everywhere,and there’s a recurring theme about divisions: between old and young, rich and poor, life and death.
Relying less on obvious splashes of CGI than most mainstream fantasies, Tale Of Tales’ use of real European locations and physical effects set it apart from the likes of, say, Duncan Jones' Warcraft or Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies. There’s an earthiness to the creature designs and costumes that brings Tale Of Tales closer to the look and feel of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s underrated adaptation of Umberto Eco’s The Name Of The Rose, or maybe Paul Verhoeven’s American debut, Flesh + Blood. There’s also a hint of the matter-of-factness that made Garrone’s 2008 Mafia drama Gomorrah such compulsive viewing.
Where so many films leave us numbed by their swooping computerised vistas, Tale Of Tales keeps things at gut-level. There’s a wonderfully ominous funeral sequence which, thanks to some stunning competition and sound design, provides a captivating moment to pore over before Garrone suddenly shifts the action to a jarringly sordid moment elsewhere.
Cut to Alexandre Desplat’s lush score, Garrone’s film moves with between tones with ease. Some scenes have all the humour of a joke well told. Other moments in Tale Of Tales are gory on a level approaching Game Of Thrones. One sequence is genuinely terrifying. Inevitably, the film’s sheer weirdness won’t endear everybody - one or two people were checking their phones in the screening I attended. Those with a taste for the imaginative and the surreal will surely be bewitched by Garrone’s fairytale anthology, however, and there’s the strong possibility that Tale Of Tales will acquire cult status in years to come.
My advice? Cut to the chase and watch it in a cinema while you can.
Tale Of Tales is out in UK cinemas on the 17th June.
Movies Tale Of Tales Salma Hayek John C Reilly Vincent Cassell Toby Jones Tale Of Tales Matteo Garrone movie review Review Ryan Lambie 15 Jun 2016 - 06:17...
- 6/10/2016
- Den of Geek
Blayne Weaver’s film noir will also star Lyndie Greenwood, Erin Cahill, Patrick Day and Weaver himself.
“Lance Henriksen is one of the best character actors working today,” said Weaver. “So excited to have him join this cast of stellar actors in this unique southern film noir.”
Best known for his roles in Aliens and Millennium, Henriksen plays a mobster who pursues an ex-con searching for his missing sister.
Weaver’s previous films include 6 Month Rule (2011) and Weather Girl (2009).
Secret Identity Productions in association with Capital Arts Entertainment produces Cut To The Chase.
Mindy Bledsoe serves as producer with Chris Lyon, Mike Elliott, Joe P Genier and Rob Kerchner.
“Lance Henriksen is one of the best character actors working today,” said Weaver. “So excited to have him join this cast of stellar actors in this unique southern film noir.”
Best known for his roles in Aliens and Millennium, Henriksen plays a mobster who pursues an ex-con searching for his missing sister.
Weaver’s previous films include 6 Month Rule (2011) and Weather Girl (2009).
Secret Identity Productions in association with Capital Arts Entertainment produces Cut To The Chase.
Mindy Bledsoe serves as producer with Chris Lyon, Mike Elliott, Joe P Genier and Rob Kerchner.
- 8/11/2015
- ScreenDaily
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