Tag "comedy"

First Poster Released For IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE

The Moon Nazis aren't done yet, apparently, as a sequel has been announced for Finnish scifi comedy Iron Sky. Titled Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and director Timo Vuorensola promises that the tone of this one will be "dark, crazier... More »

By Todd Brown

Chinese Only Trailer For Jet Li's BADGES OF FURY Aims Up-Kilt

Let there be no doubt about it. While the western marketing for upcoming Jet Li starring picture Badges Of Fury has done everything in its power to present the film as an action thriller, this is a comedy through and... More »

By Todd Brown

Watch The First Teaser For Matsumoto's R100!

It was just yesterday that word broke about Matsumoto Hitoshi's upcoming sex comedy R100 and, hey look! There's a teaser for it out there today! There's never any way to really tell what the creatively restless director of Big Man... More »

By Todd Brown

Watch A Gorilla Blast A Home Run In MR. GO Clip

As a joint co-production between Huayi Brothers of China and Showbox of Korea, its only natural that Kim Yong-hwa's Mr. Go will receive a heavy push as a must-see Pan-Asian summer blockbuster event in both countries. A "superstar" conference was... More »

By Al Young

AMERICAN BURGER Will Bring 100% Dead Meat Worldwide This Fall

As technology shifts we continue to see independent producers experiment with alternative models to bring their films to audiences worldwide. And while they're not yet saying much in terms of specifics the producers of horror-comedy American Burger are gearing up... More »

By Todd Brown

Jet Li Soars Into Action In BADGES OF FURY Trailer

Enlight Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for the Wang Zi Ming-directed/Po Chu Chui-produced action comedy Badges of Fury. In true buddy cop fashion, Jet Li as Huang Fei Hong is a hard boiled cop capable of delivering ass-kicking martial... More »

By Al Young

Second Teaser For Korean Gorilla Baseball Comedy MR. GO

The chances of Korean sports comedy Mr. Go successfully winning over the hearts and minds of the family-friendly crowd rest squarely on the broad shoulders of the Baseball-playing Gorilla, a CG character created through director Kim Yong-hwa's own studio Dexter... More »

By Al Young

Bow Before The KING OF APOLOGIES!

Meet Kuroshima Mamoru, apology instructor. When mishaps occur and you need to put things right, Kuroshima is your man. He'll give you the skills you need. Among his clients: A returned ex-pat who never learned to apologize properly; an underwear... More »

By Todd Brown

Pop Singers! Kung Fu! Glamor Shots! It's THE LEGEND OF TRIO MACAN!

Strange things can happen when pop stars make movies and that's even more true when they do so in a country predisposed towards making some rather strange movies in the first place. Enter Indonesian singers Trio Macan, stars of upcoming... More »

By Todd Brown

Antonio Tublen's LFO Will Control Your Brain With Science!

Sweden's Antonio Tublen wants to control your mind, and he has the exact tools to do it. It all comes down to sound, you see, specific frequencies that make the human mind incredibly open to suggestion. It's a fearsome power,... More »

By Todd Brown

Review: IT'S A DISASTER Is A Hilarious Situational Comedy

I hesitate to write anything more than a vague review because this is the type of film that is best seen without knowing anything about it. It begins with Tracy (Julia Stiles), and Glenn (David Cross) arriving at Emma... More »

By Alex Koehne

Watch An Exclusive Clip From Todd Berger's IT'S A DISASTER

Playing like a comedic response to Chris Gorak's 2006 indie disaster fave Right At Your Door, director Todd Berger's It's A Disaster drops a regular brunch date between friends into the end of the world. With a talented cast including... More »

By Todd Brown

Dallas IFF 2013 Review: THE BOUNCEBACK Thrives On Honest Awkwardness

Comedy can come from honesty, and that's The Bounceback's greatest strength. While much of the film is over the top with its antics, there's a crushing truth to the scenarios within that may hit you unexpectedly. Breakups are rarely... More »

By Bill Graham

Banjong Pisanthanakun's PEE MAK PHRAKANONG Posts Second Largest Thai Opening Ever

Apparently the staff at Twitch aren't the only ones who have been awaiting Shutter and Alone co-director Banjong Pisanthanakun's horror comedy Pee Mak Phrakanong. Nope. Tucked away in a review at Wise Kwai is the note that Pee Mak has... More »

By Todd Brown

THE ELEGANT GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO KNIFE FIGHTING Wants You To Keep Your Porn Safe

Because nobody enjoys a sore lumbar.... More »

By Todd Brown

The Producers Of HEADHUNTERS Present An Unlikely Hero In DETECTIVE DOWNS

If this one works, it's going to work very well indeed. But if it doesn't? Oh, dear ... if it doesn't work then a whole lot of people are going to be very, very angry.Norway's Friland Produksjon - the producers... More »

By Todd Brown

The Nose Knows In Exclusive Clip From STITCHES

There's a bad clown on the loose in Conor McMahon's Stitches and when a bad clown needs to seek out a naughty child, well, he uses what he has to hand, doesn't he?Ten years after a prank on his birthday... More »

By Todd Brown

Trailer For GO GOA GONE Signals The Beginning Of Bollywood's Zombie Apocalypse

India may be the last major film territory onto which cinematic zombies have yet to be unleashed, but that's all coming to an end very soon with a virtual flood of zombie films set to hit Indian cinema screens this... More »

By J Hurtado

Get Behind the Scenes of Korean Gorilla Baseball Comedy MR. GO

Just yesterday, Showbox unveiled the first teaser for their major summer title Mr. Go via Naver and now, there is a behind-the-scenes video via Daum that features the technical process of creating this CG character and integrating it in a... More »

By Al Young

Gorilla Hits a Baseball In MR. GO Teaser

Last week brought us our first look at Mr. Go, a Baseball-playing Gorilla headlining Showbox's new Korean comedy, but how does he look in action? Naver has the answer with the first 30-second teaser, featuring this CG character indulging in... More »

By Al Young

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Peter Martin, Managing Editor Dallas
Ryland Aldrich, Festivals Editor Los Angeles
James Marsh, Asian Editor Hong Kong
Brian Clark, European Editor Paris

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 3: EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL AND I'M TRIPPING BALLS

CHAPTER 6: THERE'S NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A PURPLE BEACH SMOTHERED IN MELTING TROMMETTES DURING A CRIMSON TINGED SUNSET ON THE FRENCH RIVERIA, HOLY SHIT I'M TRIPPING MY FUCKING FACE OFF.It's night. When the fuck did it become night? I'm naked. Where the fuck did my clothes go? I'm on... More »

Destroy All Monsters: I Think We've Been This Way Before, Mr. Spock

They can remember it for you wholesale, and they do. At some point, we licensed our pop cultural nostalgia to a handful of multinational conglomerates (well, to be fair, they always owned the licenses) and now they're selling them back to us - though, I guess, not at wholesale, but... More »

Interview: Twitch Talks to HANGOVER III's Ken Jeong

Ken Jeong may often play a lunatic on both big and small screen, but in person it's quite disarming to see just how calm and considerate he comes across. While he got his big screen start in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Jeong's real breakthrough was taking a small-on-paper role... More »

Hollywood Beat: Notes On Cutting The Cord And NBC's Genre Programs

I cut the cable cord last year, but I'm not always happy about it. I had to wait a year before seeing Season 2 of Game of Thrones, for example, and will have to wait to see Season 3 until next year. I only have to wait to see Mad... More »

Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update: Was asked to come in today and pick a few... More »