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Ryan Gosling is Looking For a Fight in the Red Band Trailer For ‘Only God Forgives’
4 April 2013 6:05 AM, PDT
As a married man, I’m comfortable enough in my sexuality to say that Ryan Gosling is a handsome man. But it isn’t the Drive star’s good looks that makes this trailer for Only God Forgives so gorgeous and hypnotic. That honor can be bestowed to cinematographer Larry Smith. A frequent collaborator with Stanley Kubrick, Smith has given the same sense of balance and structure that the former director loved so much and has placed it in the violent underground world of Thai boxing that director Nicolas Winding Refn has created. I couldn’t help but recall the dazzling imagery from some of Wong Kar-wai’s films like Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love when watching this trailer. Of course, since this is the director of such violent opuses as Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Only God Forgives looks like if Wong Kar-wai decided to direct an ultra-violent exploitation film. »
- Michael Haffner
St. Louis: Win Advance Passes to ‘Trance’
4 April 2013 5:18 AM, PDT
Fox Searchlight and Destroy the Brain are pleased to invite you to an advance screening of the new film from Danny Boyle (director of 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours and Trainspotting), Trance. The screening is on Tuesday, April 9th. Read below on how to win passes.
Trailer
Synopsis
A fine art auctioneer mixed up with an underworld gang joins forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster and more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated.
How to Enter
Simply send an email to contests@destroythebrain.com with the subject reading “Trance” (without quotations) or click Here and we will choose from random and notify the winners on Monday morning!
Trance opens April 12th at Tivoli Theatre and Plaza Frontenac
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- Andy Triefenbach
Before ‘Evil Dead’ Director Fede Alvarez Unleashed ‘Mr. Big Balls’
3 April 2013 9:16 AM, PDT
Most people are aware of a short invasion film entitled Panic Attack! that garnered the attention of fanboys and studios alike a few years back. Constructing the entire short on a laptop, the undiscovered Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez produced one of the most talked about shorts to hit the internet in recent memory. But before Alvarez unleashed giant CGI robots,he and his writing partner made a short film that resembles more of the horror comedy style that might have been inspired by his future employer Sam Raimi. The project is called El Conjonudo (Mr. Big Balls) aka El Cojonudo: La Nunca Jamas Contada Historia De (The Never Ever Told Story of Mr. Big Balls), and the title is the least offensive element of this devilishly twisted short shot on 16mm. I won’t ruin anything more about what to expect – as the joy certainly comes from the shock-value »
- Michael Haffner
[Home Invasion] Blu-Ray & DVD Releases for April 2, 2013
2 April 2013 11:42 AM, PDT
Home Invasion is a weekly post every Tuesday which shows you what is being released on Blu-Ray & DVD today! We scoured through Amazon to bring you everything you might be interested in. Our Picks of the Week are releases that we are looking forward to checking out, have reviewed and/or were are Picks of the Week on the Dtb Podcast. All descriptions are courtesy of Amazon.com.
Price: $16.99
Click Here to buy the Blu-Ray
Click Here to buy the DVD
Highly Recommended – It was on Andy’s Top 10 list of 2012. Read our theatrical review as well. We even talked about it on the podcast!
It’s all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, »
- Andy Triefenbach
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