Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep (1996) is showing November 30 - December 30, 2017 in the United States and December 6 - January 5, 2018 in most countries around the world.An action movie star from Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung (played by Maggie Cheung) arrives in Paris and right off the airplane, exhausted and jet-lagged, finds herself in the production hell of an arthouse film that she was hired to star in. The movie is a creative (allegedly) remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic silent series Les vampires, helmed by an aging New Wave director René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). Vidal, way past his prime, doesn’t seem entirely certain about what he is doing and why but he is adamant about his vision of Maggie as Irma Vep (an anagram of ‘vampire’)—an acrobatic thief whose tight black garment is for the remake’s...
- 12/5/2017
- MUBI
Relativity is actually moving forward with its new feature film adaptation of The Crow comic series. After all of the issues this film has gone through during its long development, I seriously never thought it would happen. But according to The Wrap, The Crow will be going into production in January 2017.
Three weeks ago it was reported that Jason Momoa will star in the film, which is being directed by Corin Hardy. I loved Hardy's fantasy horror film The Hollow and I hope that he brings that dark visual craziness to The Crow. The site confirms that Momoa has sealed the deal and will start work on it as soon as he's finished shooting Justice League.
As much as I like Alex Proyas' film adaptation of the comic, this new movie will be a more faithful to the comic. On top of that, The Crow creator, James O'Barr had...
Three weeks ago it was reported that Jason Momoa will star in the film, which is being directed by Corin Hardy. I loved Hardy's fantasy horror film The Hollow and I hope that he brings that dark visual craziness to The Crow. The site confirms that Momoa has sealed the deal and will start work on it as soon as he's finished shooting Justice League.
As much as I like Alex Proyas' film adaptation of the comic, this new movie will be a more faithful to the comic. On top of that, The Crow creator, James O'Barr had...
- 9/6/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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American Horror Story's shared universe aspect comes into its own this week with the fun return of a Coven character...
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1.11 Battle Royale
It took Ryan Murphy five seasons and a return to a familiar stomping ground to bring American Horror Story full circle. The recycling of Pepper last season was a nice touch, and the freak show or the asylum was a common destination for unfortunate microcephalics back in the dark days, so to have the character move from one to the other makes sense. However, there wasn't a lot of modern crossing-over, aside from using the same actors. That's changed with Hotel. Whether it's the La location or the modern setting, old familiar faces have been popping up (and usually dying horribly) within the confines of the Hotel Cortez.
Christine Estabrook's Marcie and Matt Ross's Dr. Charles Montgomery were surprise visitors,...
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American Horror Story's shared universe aspect comes into its own this week with the fun return of a Coven character...
This review contains spoilers.
1.11 Battle Royale
It took Ryan Murphy five seasons and a return to a familiar stomping ground to bring American Horror Story full circle. The recycling of Pepper last season was a nice touch, and the freak show or the asylum was a common destination for unfortunate microcephalics back in the dark days, so to have the character move from one to the other makes sense. However, there wasn't a lot of modern crossing-over, aside from using the same actors. That's changed with Hotel. Whether it's the La location or the modern setting, old familiar faces have been popping up (and usually dying horribly) within the confines of the Hotel Cortez.
Christine Estabrook's Marcie and Matt Ross's Dr. Charles Montgomery were surprise visitors,...
- 1/8/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Community season 6 returns to an activity it knows and loves: the meta-film referencing game of paintball...
This review contains spoilers.
6.11 Modern Espionage
“If I tell you, then I'll end up pretendsies-dead.”
We're far closer to the end of that “six seasons and a movie” thing than the beginning and somehow it felt like paintball might be the basis of a pretty decent movie. After all, season one's Modern Warfare was a watershed moment for the show and the following season's two-part finale A Fistful Of Paintballs and For A Few Paintballs More stand as two of the best ever episodes- the show is seldom more cinematic than when it's splattered with paint.
Aside from a cloying reprise at the end of the much maligned fourth season, Modern Espionage marks the first time we've seen it since then and it's not without reason. But far from the campus-wide carnage of previous games,...
This review contains spoilers.
6.11 Modern Espionage
“If I tell you, then I'll end up pretendsies-dead.”
We're far closer to the end of that “six seasons and a movie” thing than the beginning and somehow it felt like paintball might be the basis of a pretty decent movie. After all, season one's Modern Warfare was a watershed moment for the show and the following season's two-part finale A Fistful Of Paintballs and For A Few Paintballs More stand as two of the best ever episodes- the show is seldom more cinematic than when it's splattered with paint.
Aside from a cloying reprise at the end of the much maligned fourth season, Modern Espionage marks the first time we've seen it since then and it's not without reason. But far from the campus-wide carnage of previous games,...
- 5/19/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Simon Brew Jun 7, 2017
Here's our tribute to one of the best action movies ever made: a story of Nicolas Cage, a plane and a toy bunny...
"Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies. Coming home forever."
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Action cinema changed in 1999. The release of The Matrix unleashed a torrent of imitators, but also altered fundamentally the editing of movies in the genre. This came with a price. Action sequences became harder to follow. Character was relegated. The old style idea of pitting a movie star against some peril in extraordinary circumstances was seemingly less tempting. The Matrix had started something.
Well, that, or everyone just watched Con Air, and figured they couldn't top it. Because in truth, how could they?...
Here's our tribute to one of the best action movies ever made: a story of Nicolas Cage, a plane and a toy bunny...
"Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies. Coming home forever."
See related Ultra HD 4K Blu-rays, and pricing people out of a format
Action cinema changed in 1999. The release of The Matrix unleashed a torrent of imitators, but also altered fundamentally the editing of movies in the genre. This came with a price. Action sequences became harder to follow. Character was relegated. The old style idea of pitting a movie star against some peril in extraordinary circumstances was seemingly less tempting. The Matrix had started something.
Well, that, or everyone just watched Con Air, and figured they couldn't top it. Because in truth, how could they?...
- 4/7/2015
- Den of Geek
Here's our tribute to one of the best action movies ever made: a story of Nicolas Cage, a plane and a toy bunny...
"Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies. Coming home forever."
Action cinema changed in 1999. The release of The Matrix unleashed a torrent of imitators, but also altered fundamentally the editing of movies in the genre. This came with a price. Action sequences became harder to follow. Character was relegated. The old style idea of pitting a movie star against some peril in extraordinary circumstances was seemingly less tempting. The Matrix had started something.
Well, that, or everyone just watched Con Air, and figured they couldn't top it. Because in truth, how could they? One of the most quotable, enjoyable and wildly entertaining blockbusters of the 1990s, I can't think...
"Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies. Coming home forever."
Action cinema changed in 1999. The release of The Matrix unleashed a torrent of imitators, but also altered fundamentally the editing of movies in the genre. This came with a price. Action sequences became harder to follow. Character was relegated. The old style idea of pitting a movie star against some peril in extraordinary circumstances was seemingly less tempting. The Matrix had started something.
Well, that, or everyone just watched Con Air, and figured they couldn't top it. Because in truth, how could they? One of the most quotable, enjoyable and wildly entertaining blockbusters of the 1990s, I can't think...
- 4/7/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
I am not sure I expected that watching "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" would lead to my deepest conversation so far with my kids about divorce. Leave it to Tom Cruise. Not long ago, Toshi was pushing for more movies about spies. Anything, really. He has been reading about spies since I showed him his first Bond film almost two years ago, and since most of that series is inappropriate for him, he's been chafing, desperate to see something new. It was after screening it again just to double-check for any red flags that I decided to share "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" with them, and it was one of the best screenings we've had in a while. They're big Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton fans, and a big part of that fascination on their part comes from the idea that what they're looking at is "real." They understand that most of the time,...
- 12/4/2014
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
The Matrix changed everything. The monster hit of 1999, it went into the annals of movie legend and never released its talon-like grip on the pop-cultural zeitgeist. Everybody was talking about this film. It wasn’t just the groundbreaking set pieces and fighting that had audiences flocking in droves, however. This was an action movie that dared to be smart, thoughtful even, laying out the carpet for a new generation of hyper-charged blockbusters that challenged the audience’s intellect as much as its senses. As much as The Matrix played on the tropes of the genre, it had ideas above its station, majoring in philosophy and Lynchian nightmares. It presented fantastical and spiritual mythos as a backdrop to breathless viscera. Bullet-dodging nailed down the viewer long enough to ask some truly troubling questions.
This was the key to its success. Although they took their time to concoct a series of pulsating...
This was the key to its success. Although they took their time to concoct a series of pulsating...
- 4/20/2014
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
Review Paul Martinovic 10 Sep 2013 - 06:20
Breaking Bad's home straight is making for unparalleled television. Here's Paul's review of To'hajiilee...
This review contains spoilers.
5.13 To'hajiilee
Spare a thought for your humble reviewer: when you’re this emotionally invested in a show, it’s pretty hard to engage any kind of critical faculties when you eventually come to try to write about it. As I mentioned before in my review of the season four finale, it’s difficult to break down character motivations and ironic foreshadowing and thematic cohesion when you can’t hear anything over the sound of your own brain screaming “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck”. To be honest, this whole review thing would be a lot easier if I could just replace all these words with one big startled-looking emoticon.
I think the showrunners of Breaking Bad are well aware of this, however. There have been plot points and moments that...
Breaking Bad's home straight is making for unparalleled television. Here's Paul's review of To'hajiilee...
This review contains spoilers.
5.13 To'hajiilee
Spare a thought for your humble reviewer: when you’re this emotionally invested in a show, it’s pretty hard to engage any kind of critical faculties when you eventually come to try to write about it. As I mentioned before in my review of the season four finale, it’s difficult to break down character motivations and ironic foreshadowing and thematic cohesion when you can’t hear anything over the sound of your own brain screaming “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck”. To be honest, this whole review thing would be a lot easier if I could just replace all these words with one big startled-looking emoticon.
I think the showrunners of Breaking Bad are well aware of this, however. There have been plot points and moments that...
- 9/10/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Zack Snyder's announcement of the Man of Steel sequel could well provoke an almost theological controversy
It is surely the ultimate superhero question, the last Top Trump smackdown.
Godzilla and King Kong had their face-off; so did Alien and Predator. Now it's the turn of Batman and Superman. The annual Comic-Con convention – the compulsory venue for film companies to announce their comic-related projects and get the fanboys on board – created geek ecstasy with news of an unprecedented movie pairing Batman and Superman.
This is a follow-up to the recent Man of Steel film, again to be directed by Zack Snyder, featuring Henry Cavill as Superman but no casting yet announced for the caped crusader. (Christian Bale is not interested in returning.) Snyder said: "It's beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off."
It certainly is. And even if this movie ends on some finely calibrated note of ambiguous parity,...
It is surely the ultimate superhero question, the last Top Trump smackdown.
Godzilla and King Kong had their face-off; so did Alien and Predator. Now it's the turn of Batman and Superman. The annual Comic-Con convention – the compulsory venue for film companies to announce their comic-related projects and get the fanboys on board – created geek ecstasy with news of an unprecedented movie pairing Batman and Superman.
This is a follow-up to the recent Man of Steel film, again to be directed by Zack Snyder, featuring Henry Cavill as Superman but no casting yet announced for the caped crusader. (Christian Bale is not interested in returning.) Snyder said: "It's beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off."
It certainly is. And even if this movie ends on some finely calibrated note of ambiguous parity,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
HollywoodNews.com: As a film critic, I’m not supposed to want to see this one. I’m supposed to recoil in horror and the genuinely bad acting on display in the two trailers from lead Taylor Lautner. I’m supposed to roll my eyes at the apparent cynicism that comes with giving this untested (as in ‘open it yourself’) actor several action franchises on the strength of a supporting role in a popular series.
After all, I’ve complained about the same circumstances in regards to Jeremy Renner. But come what may, the film itself looks like a glorious throwback to the trashy, borderline exploitative cheese ball action thrillers that went away at the beginning of the last decade. And I do miss this stuff with a passion. If someone other than Lautner were in the lead (or if the previews made it apparent that Lautner gave a better...
After all, I’ve complained about the same circumstances in regards to Jeremy Renner. But come what may, the film itself looks like a glorious throwback to the trashy, borderline exploitative cheese ball action thrillers that went away at the beginning of the last decade. And I do miss this stuff with a passion. If someone other than Lautner were in the lead (or if the previews made it apparent that Lautner gave a better...
- 9/14/2011
- by Scott Mendelson
- Hollywoodnews.com
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