After well-received preview screenings at the Toronto and Fantastic Fest film festivals, the fantastically nude Here Comes the Devil (2013) is finally hitting theaters! Our Skin Skout has confirmed that the Mexican thriller not only has copious amounts of nudity and sex, but some of the best slow-burn, ’70s style horror in recent memory! “Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro play parents Felix and Sol whose son and daughter inexplicably reappear after being lost overnight on a desolate, cave-riddled mountainside after a casual hike became every parent’s nightmare. The good luck and good fortune of their return soon changes, as the children’s behavior suggests ominous and unspeakable events the night the children were lost that continue even now.” Thanks to our pals over at Magnet Releasing we have an exclusive nude clip from the film featuring Dana Dorel and Jessica Iris . See the clip after the jump!
Also in Friday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs: The estate of author William Faulkner is suing over a quote used in Woody Allen ‘s Midnight in Paris ; Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi wins a major peace prize; And a preview of the weekend’s Specialty Release newcomers. Box Office Weekend Looks Soft with Holdovers Set to Outpace Newcomers Cloud Atlas , and Silent Hill Revelation may not gross more than holdover Argo . Teen comedy Fun Size and surfing drama Chasing Mavericks are also tracking soft, THR reports . William Faulkner Estate Is Suing Over a Quote Used In Midnight in Paris The Faulkner estate is suing distributor Sony Pictures Classics for copyright infringement, commercial appropriation and for violating the Lanham Act. In Midnight in Paris Gil Pender, the disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter played by Owen Wilson, says, “the past is not dead. Actually, it’s not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. And I met him, too. I ran into him at a dinner party,” Deadline reports . Stephen King Tale Heads to the Big Screen King’s fantasy-horror Mercy is an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story Gramma . British actress Frances O’Connor will star in the project that Peter Cornwell will direct from a script by Matt Greenberg. The story concerns a mother with two young sons who come to discover their ailing grandmother is a witch, THR reports . Iranian Filmmaker/Dissident Jafar Panahi Wins 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought The European Parliament awarded the prize to Panahi and a dissident lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh in a “message of solidarity and recognition to a woman and a man who have not been bowed by fear and intimidation.” Panahi’s films are known for their humanist perspective on life in Iran, often focusing on the hardships of children, the poor and women. He won the Camera d’Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, A.P. reports . Specialty Release Preview: The Loneliest Planet , Orchestra of Exiles , Pusher , The Zen of Bennett Two music-oriented documentaries are rolling out in this weekend’s Specialty arena. Tribeca Film Festival 2012 doc The Zen of Bennett will begin a slow release with the focus on legendary Tony Bennett. Orchestra of Exiles heads to theaters trailing the Israeli Philharmonic to various cities along with the film about its WWII origins. Sundance Selects will bow Julia Loktev’s long-time-in-coming The Loneliest Planet ,, starring Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg in a limited release. And Radius TWC will open its first pickup title Pusher in select cities, Deadline reports .
Friends, let me tell you about a little movie called Miami Connection : One part ’80s rock ‘n’ roll musical, another part martial arts extravaganza, this forgotten gem made in 1987 by future Tae Kwon Do Grandmaster Y.K. Kim is the cult pic of the year. When else will you ever see a team of multicultural orphan BFF rock musicians-slash-college students take on biker ninjas and economically frustrated rival bands in totally ’80s suburban Florida, complete with insanely catchy original tunes AND a throwaway plot involving “stupid cocaine?” I’ll tell you when: Never. The goodly folks at Drafthouse Pictures unearthed Miami Connection by accident after blind-screening a print bought for $50 from the internet. Miami Connection isn’t just bad-great, it’s got a real heart at its core, and that heart beats to the rhythm of ditties like “Against the Ninja” (sample mid-song chant: “TAE KWON/TAE KWON — TAE KWON DO!”) and “Friends Forever” (sample lyric: “Friends for eternity, loyalty, honesty/We stick together through thick and thin”). Their band name? Dragon Sound. In the spirit of awards season and to celebrate next week’s theatrical re-release of Miami Connection — its original run consisted of a handful of theaters in Florida in 1987, accompanied by critical and commercial rejection — Drafthouse has created a series of For Your Consideration ads. Movieline is proud to exclusively present for your consideration, for Best Song (yes, maybe of all time), “Against the Ninja” co-written and sung by the film’s leading lady, Kathee Collier: Collier is unfortunately very tough to Google for a “Where Are They Now” update, but Kim and the rest of Dragon Sound made it to Austin, TX in September for Fantastic Fest . Suffice to say it’s possible Collier single-handedly kept the ’80s in hairspray, pumps, and white lace bodysuits. I only hope she’s out there somewhere humming along and relishing in her memories as anyone who’s seen Miami Connection will be for months. Miami Connection opens in select theaters starting on November 2. For a full list of cities & dates visit http://drafthousefilms.com/film/miami-connection. To request a screening in your city through Tugg, visit http://www.tugg.com/titles/miami-connection. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
They are the most unlikely of collaborators: a fresh-faced, wholesome karate star barely out of her teens and the poop-obsessed director of Mutant Girls Squad (2010). But fate did bring Rina Takeda and Noboru Iguchi together, and the result is Dead Sushi (2012), the kooky horror-comedy that was one of our highlights of Fantastic Fest 2012. Rina stars as clumsy waitress/sushi nunchaku master Keiko, and while she doesn’t engage in the naked antics of her co-stars Aiko Hashiuchi, Maaya Morinaga , and Marin , she’s still managed to high-kick her way right into our hearts. We talked to Rina and Noboru through a translator in Austin, TX, and you can read the results after the jump!
Piper Perabo – or as we call her here at Skin Central , Piper Pair o’ boobs- has been on a skinterview spree for her new movie Looper (2012), and she’s been telling reporters that she was “freaking out” about her nude scene. What a coincidence, Piper, so were we! See the video after the jump!
There’s only one movie this week that’s both new and nude, but based on the buzz surrounding Looper (2012) after preview screenings at Toronto and Fantastic Fest, it’s the only movie you’ll need. Piper Perabo breaks a ten-year nude drought as a showgirl who does the horizontal tango with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt 24 minutes in, and trust us– when it comes out on DVD, we’ll be looping this one. Extensively. More after the jump!
There’s only one movie this week that’s both new and nude, but based on the buzz surrounding Looper (2012) after preview screenings at Toronto and Fantastic Fest, it’s the only movie you’ll need. Piper Perabo breaks a ten-year nude drought as a showgirl who does the horizontal tango with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt 24 minutes in, and trust us– when it comes out on DVD, we’ll be looping this one. Extensively. More after the jump!
We’ve seen a lot of movies this week here at Fantastic Fest, but there’s one in particular we’d like to spotlight for fans of pulpy, sexy action fun: Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012) from Chilean director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza . Bring Me the Head… captures the “anything can happen” spirit of classic exploitation better than anything we’ve seen since Hobo with a Shotgun (2011). Espinoza is a specialist in what he calls “LatinXploitation”, low-budget movies about assassins and vigilantes shot guerrila-style on the streets of Santiago. His use of ’70s style graphics and AfterEffects “film grain” isn’t unique in the Grindhouse (2007) school, but in Bring Me the Head… he adds a fun new element. The film is structured like a game of Grand Theft Auto, down to the matching font on the title cards that begin each new “mission,” a schtick that keeps the film moving at a brisk, exciting pace. Bring Me the Head… is the story of a hapless nightclub DJ who stumbles his way into a very dangerous mission: apprehending the assassin known as the Machine Gun Woman, played by Chilean TV star Fernanda Urrejola , in only 24 hours. The stunning, machine-gun toting Fernanda (left) is a masochist’s wet dream in this movie. She spends the entire film clad in a latex bra, hot pants, fishnet stockings, and spike-heeled stripper boots as she shoots, stomps and seduces her way from the bloody opening to the even bloodier climax.When Fernanda deep-throated a gun 32 minutes into the movie, an audible shudder ran through the theater. And if that’s not enough for you, Paloma Scheider and Salome Silva toplessly tango in a nightclub six minutes in, and at the Q&A Espinoza revealed that he had shot over an hour of topless tango footage for that one scene. You’re all right by us, Ernesto! Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman is currently on the film festival circuit, so if a screening pops up at a theater near you, we can guarantee you this: if you’re a regular reader of this website, you’ll love this movie. Read Ernesto Diaz Espinoza’s hilarious drunken review of his own movie over at TwitchFilm.com
Full disclosure right off the bat here, some die-hard Romney fans and those with hyper-sensitivity to the F-Bomb and haters of politics generally may not want to proceed, so if you do, go at your own peril. A tidy little vid starring Barack supporter-extraordinaire Samuel L. Jackson has hit the internet, and though a tad longer than the typical 30 second political spot flooding the airwaves in this election season, it is quite a bit more clever and funnier – though it helps if you’re a supporter of the incumbent, naturally. And while it is unabashedly supportive of Obama, the prez does not come in and say he “supports this message” like in most other political ads. In this version, Jackson invades a home of a quiet suburban family of lackadaisical Obama ’08 supporters to tell them to, “Wake the F**** Up.” The three-minute, forty-second video is sponsored by the Jewish Council for Education and Research and is a riff on a reading the Oscar-nominated actor did last year of a satirical “children’s book” called Go the F*** to Sleep , a charming little diddy that went viral. The book’s author, Adam Mansbach also wrote the script for the pro-Obama version of the story, which opens with a young girl who lies awake in her bed fretting that her complacent family will sleep the election away, when just four years ago they were taking to the streets. The video premiered on Yahoo! Little Suzie gets out of bed, but not far from sight is her political ally in-waiting with political rhymes and a final “Wake the F*** Up” as she traipses through her house encountering her listless family members. First off, she goes to her parents who are falling asleep watching TV in the living room. And like an angel, Jackson appears with a riddle urging little Suzie’s parents to get involved. Next she heads into her older brother’s room, who is sitting with his feet up on his desk. Suzie blasts her brother saying that the election is about their future and recalls how he was on the front lines in ’08. Her brother replies that all politicians are “the same” and like magic again, Jackson appears giving a friendly warning that goes something like this: “They’re all the same? Please! Obama’s sent SEALS to Bin Laden’s place, Romney sent jobs overseas. And how about that student loan overhaul? It’s going to save you thousands of bucks. Mitt will cut that sh** in a second. Hey dude, Wake the F*** Up!” Next she heads to her older sister’s room with more prose about planned parenthood etc., Jackson appears, gives his two cents with another riddle and another, “Wake the F*** Up!” And finally, it’s off to grandma and grandpa’s room who are, incidentally, proving that older folks do have good times, until they’re interrupted by you know who… Medicare is the big theme here, naturally, and one more “Wake the F*** Up!” [Source: Yahoo! News ]
It’s a good fall for ambitious movies. In the wake of the September release of Paul Thomas Anderson ‘s The Master , Warner Bros will open Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings’ Cloud Atlas to theaters on Oct. 26, and a trio of TV spots has begun building awareness of the film adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel. Check out the clips after the jump and stay tuned for Jen Yamato’s upcoming report on the film’s debut at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX on Wednesday night. Mitchell’s story featured six interconnected stories that spanned from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future. Judging from the TV spots, which feature Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugo Weaving, among other cast members, Tykwer ( Run, Lola, Run ) and the Wachowskis have remained true to the book’s central themes about the cyclical nature of life and the universality of human nature. What do you think? Follow Frank DiGIacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
