The theme for this year’s B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival, held in the city of Breda in the Netherlands, is “Apocalypse.” So get ready to watch the world end dozens of different ways on Sept. 5-9 at various venues around the city.
The fun kicks off on the 5th with the German movie Hell by director Tim Fehlbaum. If you didn’t know, “hell” means “bright” in German and, given that title, this flick is set appropriately in a post-apocalyptic future where global warming has decimated the planet and surviving tribes battle for water and food.
Other post-apocalyptic visions include Milan Konjevic’s Zone of the Dead starring legendary zombie killer Ken Foree; Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro’s Bazillian underground hit Beyond the Grave about a world where magic and madness rule the world; and Rob van Eyck’s bizarrely twisted Afterman and Afterman 2.
Not all the...
The fun kicks off on the 5th with the German movie Hell by director Tim Fehlbaum. If you didn’t know, “hell” means “bright” in German and, given that title, this flick is set appropriately in a post-apocalyptic future where global warming has decimated the planet and surviving tribes battle for water and food.
Other post-apocalyptic visions include Milan Konjevic’s Zone of the Dead starring legendary zombie killer Ken Foree; Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro’s Bazillian underground hit Beyond the Grave about a world where magic and madness rule the world; and Rob van Eyck’s bizarrely twisted Afterman and Afterman 2.
Not all the...
- 9/4/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
On Monday, December 6 at 7:30, we’re playing the SXSW thriller Four Boxes. This is your only chance to see this engaging flick starring Weeds’ Justin Kirk.
A mystery thriller that impressed audiences at last year’s SXSW, Four Boxes is director Wyatt McDill’s first feature, and he comes out of the gate running with this tense retelling of Rear Window for the modern age.
Justin Kirk, who plays the lovable Andy on Weeds, stars as an estate liquidator just starting a new job. His partner and his ex-girlfiend are also in on the job. What they find in this house is a collection of mysterious and distressing objects – strange pictures with faces cut out, a box full of hollowed-out egg shells, a cryptic note left on a typewriter ribbon – that keeps them befuddled while they box-up and appraise the possessions of the recently-deceased home owner.
They also discover...
A mystery thriller that impressed audiences at last year’s SXSW, Four Boxes is director Wyatt McDill’s first feature, and he comes out of the gate running with this tense retelling of Rear Window for the modern age.
Justin Kirk, who plays the lovable Andy on Weeds, stars as an estate liquidator just starting a new job. His partner and his ex-girlfiend are also in on the job. What they find in this house is a collection of mysterious and distressing objects – strange pictures with faces cut out, a box full of hollowed-out egg shells, a cryptic note left on a typewriter ribbon – that keeps them befuddled while they box-up and appraise the possessions of the recently-deceased home owner.
They also discover...
- 11/29/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
Another week's gone by and that brings a new assortment of things to catch up with on DVD. Go back in time and battle with barbarians or relive The Exorcist with the recently released remastered version of The Director's Cut. Perhaps you might dive beneath the sea and visit a poorly constructed Atlantis? Whatever your taste (even if it's blood), there's something to be found in this weeks slate of DVDs.
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Arn: The Knight Templar
by Neil Pedley
Sweden is an odd little land, not unlike America in that they like stories about themselves and sod everyone else. Over there, the literary adventures of enigmatic homicide detective Kurt Wallander, for example, outsell those of Harry Potter. Sweden also has no movie studios perse, with virtually all funding trickling through the nepotistic iron fist of the Swedish Film Institute, which recently elected to shift it's focus to fewer films, but...
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Arn: The Knight Templar
by Neil Pedley
Sweden is an odd little land, not unlike America in that they like stories about themselves and sod everyone else. Over there, the literary adventures of enigmatic homicide detective Kurt Wallander, for example, outsell those of Harry Potter. Sweden also has no movie studios perse, with virtually all funding trickling through the nepotistic iron fist of the Swedish Film Institute, which recently elected to shift it's focus to fewer films, but...
- 10/28/2010
- by JPP
- JustPressPlay.net
Minneapolis-based Megan Huber and Wyatt McDill are producers, writers and directors of several short films, commercials and music videos. They also happen to be the husband & wife team who premiered their feature film debut, Four Boxes at the 2009 edition of the SXSW Festival, and are seeing their film be released on DVD as of yesterday. Filmed on a micro budget in 2006, “Four Boxes” explores society’s obsession with the internet, and blurs the line between factual and fictional creating a suspenseful atmosphere until the film's final act. Fascinated by the mysterious hooded character on the website fourboxes.tv, Trevor (Justin Kirk), Rob (Sam Rosen) and Amber (Terryn Westbrook) find themselves entangled in a web of reality and the internet. Relying on a dreary suburban location and a talented cast of actors, the film is part thriller, part drama and part social commentary based on the idea that what you see isn't always what you get.
- 10/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Minneapolis-based Megan Huber and Wyatt McDill are producers, writers and directors of several short films, commercials and music videos. They also happen to be the husband & wife team who premiered their feature film debut, Four Boxes at the 2009 edition of the SXSW Festival, and are seeing their film be released on DVD as of yesterday. Filmed on a micro budget in 2006, “Four Boxes” explores society’s obsession with the internet, and blurs the line between factual and fictional creating a suspenseful atmosphere until the film's final act. Fascinated by the mysterious hooded character on the website fourboxes.tv, Trevor (Justin Kirk), Rob (Sam Rosen) and Amber (Terryn Westbrook) find themselves entangled in a web of reality and the internet. Relying on a dreary suburban location and a talented cast of actors, the film is part thriller, part drama and part social commentary based on the idea that what you see isn't always what you get.
- 10/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"The Darjeeling Limited" (2007)
Directed by Wes Anderson
Released by Criterion Collection
Anderson's underappreciated trip to India on the backs of three brothers (Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson) who take a train the country to honor their late father gets a reexamination with this Criterion Collection edition that includes a new documentary, an audio commentary from Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, audition footage, a video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz, a chichat between Anderson and the late James Ivory about the film's music and Anderson's ad for American Express and the short "Hotel Chevalier" with Natalie Portman.
"As Good As Dead" (2010)
Directed by Jonathan Mossek
Released by First Look Entertainment
Andie MacDowell, Frank Whaley and Matt Dallas star as spurned cult members from the South who take a New Yorker (Cary Elwes) hostage years after they believe he's killed their leader in this thriller.
"The Darjeeling Limited" (2007)
Directed by Wes Anderson
Released by Criterion Collection
Anderson's underappreciated trip to India on the backs of three brothers (Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson) who take a train the country to honor their late father gets a reexamination with this Criterion Collection edition that includes a new documentary, an audio commentary from Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, audition footage, a video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz, a chichat between Anderson and the late James Ivory about the film's music and Anderson's ad for American Express and the short "Hotel Chevalier" with Natalie Portman.
"As Good As Dead" (2010)
Directed by Jonathan Mossek
Released by First Look Entertainment
Andie MacDowell, Frank Whaley and Matt Dallas star as spurned cult members from the South who take a New Yorker (Cary Elwes) hostage years after they believe he's killed their leader in this thriller.
- 10/12/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
SXSW is one of my favorite festivals of the year as it showcases some of the best and most innovative real independent films, and with this host of world premiers, it's also playing alot of Sundance material as well as genre fare from all over the world, many of which we've covered heavily in these pages.
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
- 2/2/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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