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AICN & Twitch Present International Eye Candy! Jackie Chan in LITTLE BIG SOLDIER! 44 INCH CHEST! & Steven Seagal!!
German vampires, Norwegian gangsters and Steven Seagal! It can only mean one thing: it’s the new edition of International Eye Candy and it’s all loaded up with the latest from Jackie Chan, killer breasts and Russian flying cars. It’s a busy one this time so let’s dive right in!
How’s this for a bit of timing? After winning huge international claim for his based-on-a-true-story tale of high school fascism in THE WAVE, Germany’s Dennis Gansel has been prepping a young, female vampire film titled WE ARE THE NIGHT and the first teaser popped up on the eve of the new TWILIGHT film’s release. Coincidence? I think not. I also think this is going to be a whole lot harder edged than anything that other vamp film may muster up, so while this is very much a teaser with minimal footage, you may consider me teased and intrigued. And, yes, that’s the girl from Tom Tykwer’s PERFUME.
Find the WE ARE THE NIGHT teaser here
Any fans of Brit gangster flick SEXY BEAST out there? Because the writing team is back at their old tricks and while their new effort – 44 INCH CHEST – may not have any direct connections to their earlier work, the writing style in unmistakable and the cast features a number of familiar faces. They’re bringing things home this time, though, abandoning their crime caper approach for a pointed demonstration of why it may not be such a great idea to sleep with another man’s wife. Particularly when that other man is Ray Winstone and his friends are a bunch of low grade thugs. The first trailer for this one is freshly on the scene and, to accompany it, we’ve also got three mock dating service ads from John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Ian McShane.
Find the trailer here and the John Hurt promo here and the Tom Wilkinson promo here and the Ian McShane promo here.
You think the Coen Brothers have a dark sense of humor, do you? Well, then, allow me to introduce you to Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperäand and his film BAD FAMILY. It’s about, shockingly enough, a bad family and features what is quite possibly the most bleakly hilarious trailer / music video that I’ve ever come across anywhere. Really. Suddenly my own family seems pretty okay.
Join the BAD FAMILY here
Right. Time for some people to get punched and kicked and stabbed and blown up. We love us some kung fu here at International Eye Candy and the discerning kung fu viewer this holiday season is opting for upcoming Hong Kong effort BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, the big budget spectacle based on a fictional assassination attempt of real life historical figure Dr Sun Yat Sen with a cast that features virtually everyone who matters in Hong Kong duking it out on a massive 1:1 scale set of turn of the century Hong Kong. Earlier trailers have been designed to show off the production values and dramatic elements; this one’s all about the ass kicking.
Find the latest BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS here
Canada’s Kids In The Hall are back. Or, at least, they will be on January 12th when their new miniseries – DEATH COMES TO TOWN – premieres up here. The Kids freely acknowledge that they’re taking their inspiration from the UK’s League of Gentlemen on this one as they populate an entire town with their own bizarre creations and they’ve just dropped the first promo spot for the series. It’s geo-blocked to Canada only but that’s simple enough to get around and there’s also a lower quality bootleg version that’s freely accessible everywhere.
Find the DEATH COMES TO TOWN promo here
The second German entry in this edition of the IEC comes courtesy of commercial and music video director Michael Dreher’s feature debut THE TWO LIVES OF DANIEL SHORE. Klaus Kinski’s son Nikolai stars as the titular Daniel Shore, a man slowly losing his grip on reality. If there’s any English info out there on this one I haven’t been able to turn it up but it really doesn’t matter – even in German the trailer provides ample reason to be intrigued by this one.
Experience Daniel Shore’s TWO LIVES here
From Germany we head north to Norway where the producers of Nazi zombie comedy DEAD SNOW have set their sights on the gangster comedy with TOMME TONNER. Lots of familiar faces in this one as almost all of the DEAD SNOW cast turn up here, too, and are joined by Kim Bodnia and Slavko Labovic from PUSHER and Kristoffer Joner from NEXT DOOR. Mostly naked women, big bags of cash and lots and lots of gun fire. What’s not to like? IF the final shot is any indication, Bodnia has certainly been enjoying the experience ...
Find the TOMME TONNER trailer here
Of all the things I would expect to come out of Turkey I will confess that a western is not one of them. Particularly not a comedy western. But that is exactly what GORA director Cem Yilmaz has created with YAHŞİ BATI. I always say that Yilmaz is like Turkey’s answer to Mel Brooks, the writer-director-performer sharing with Brooks a love for the absurd and foolish coupled with surprisingly high concepts and if that comparison holds and GORA is Yilmaz’s SPACE BALLS then this is his BLAZING SADDLES. Yes, please.
Saddle up! Find the YAHŞİ BATI trailer here
While Jackie Chan clearly stopped giving a damn about the quality of his Hollywood films about a decade ago and will happily attach himself to absolutely anything here for the sake of a healthy pay check that, luckily for fans, is not at all the case for Chan when it comes to his work in Hong Kong and China. Here he’s a buffoon starring in a string of increasingly horrible pictures while there he is very much concerned with leaving behind an on screen legacy and looking for ways to age gracefully and transition into whatever will come next in his long career. He’s producing and shepherding along his own projects there now and the next to come down the line is the very impressive looking LITTLE BIG SOLDIER, one directed by up and coming mainland director Ding Sheng. Chan stars as a cowardly soldier who survives a massive battle only by playing dead and discovers that the only other survivor is an enemy general, who he attempts to then turn in in exchange for an easy retirement. Production values are great and this one actually looks like it’s got something to say beyond “Where’s my check?”
Find the first teaser here and the second teaser here.
From China it’s just a short hop over to Singapore, where we find the first trailer for KIDNAPPER – the latest thriller from prolific director Kelvin Tong. And if you don’t know Tong’s name yet, you will soon enough because his company is backing the upcoming sequel to Korean monster flick THE HOST. But this one? This one is a hard edged thriller about a poor taxi driver whose son is kidnapped and held for a ransom he cannot possibly pay thanks to a case of mistaken identity. Don’t pay? Here’s a bottle of your child’s blood. Mean, nasty and very smart.
Find the KIDNAPPER trailer here
For some thing completely different we now head to some place completely different: namely Iceland and Ragnar Bragason’s MR BJARNFREDARSON. In the director’s own words the title character is “a son, a father and a communist megalomaniac with a chronic compulsion to control his environment, yet at the same time unable to control his own life.” He has also proven so popular in Iceland that he has dominated three different television series’ and is now closing off the on-screen story of his life with his first big screen appearance. Not to worry here, the trailer is totally English-friendly.
Find MR BJARNFREDARSON here
Yup. It’s Steven Seagal. Because who doesn’t love Steven Seagal, really?
Is he still A DANGEROUS MAN? The trailer knows.
We’re approaching the end now, but before we get there it’s time for a stop in Russia where NIGHT WATCH and WANTED director Timur Bekmembatov has been producing flying-car flick BLACK LIGHTNING. Due for release at the end of this month the PR materials are coming fast and thick right now and the latest trailer looks absolutely fantastic. It’s a super hero film, basically, except the hero has no powers at all. All he’s got is a flying car. Which may not be the most practical thing to fight in but is pretty damn awesome nonetheless.
Find the new BLACK LIGHTNING trailer here
The penultimate entry in this edition of International Eye Candy goes to YASSY, a brand new seventeen minute short film from the creative team behind Japanese cult martial arts film DEATH TRANCE. DEATH TRANCE director Yuji Shimomura handles the action choreography on this one while writer Shinichi Fujita takes the director’s chair and proves himself more than capable of cooking up a compelling martial arts fantasy on a tiny budget. The entire film has been released online and – no worries – it plays with a mix of English dialogue and English subtitles, so if you can read this then the movie should make perfect sense.
Find YASSY here
And, finally, I promised you breasts and breasts I shall deliver. Or, if I’m telling the whole truth, I should really just say breast. Singular.
A big time hit when it screened at Sundance, short film BOOB – brought to us by a directorial duo who refer to themselves simply as Honest – takes the blending of sex and violence in the classical slasher film and pushes it out to its logical, ludicrous extreme. By making a breast the killer. Bloody and hysterical this one’s just fantastic stuff and they’ve just released the complete film to the public.
Find some BOOB online here
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Here! http://vimeo.com/8007642
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I watched the Herzog doc "My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski", and he's nuts...but the final scene of Klaus Kinski with the butterfly was beautiful and poetic.
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is ultra hot.
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Dec 06, 2009 2:35:59 PM CST
would be a nice to see a chinese epic that isn't the same....
by haterofcrap
...as every other chinese epic. its even worse than hollywood over in china with the same crap being done over and over.
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Cat people...I remember staying up late to see that one. On a somewhat related note, after looking at her imdb page, I saw that she was in Terminal Velocity with Charlie Sheen, then I checked out his page to see if he's been in any movies lately, and saw that they just wrapped Wall Street 2 and that the cast included Sheen, Michael Douglas, Shia Lebeouf, Josh Brolin, and Frank Langella. Lebeouf withstanding, that's a pretty fine cast and I'm curious to see how that film turns out.
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Unfuckingbelievable.
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So er, fuck you all!
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Uh, raising my hand over here. That is some seriously tired-ass shit, yo. No way around that. In fact, that's probably so obvious that it's the talkback version of shooting fish in a barrel, but I feel very strongly that it needed to be said. Seriously, Steven... even Van Damme and Lundgren have pretty much hung up their gloves. You need to call it a day. You ain't gettin' prettier with age, trust me on that.
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good.
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They make the best comedies in Hollywood.
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I don't know they took it down. It was a really awesome behind the scenes look and great hi res official trailer.
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Who cares? I don't. The names Seagall, van Damme, Lundgren and the new kid on the block Worthington: don't watch unless you're drunk, stoned or in some other way intoxicated.
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Twitch back-good.
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...I'm going to peruse this at length later, but that needed saying.
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Rockin Rolla, etc. It's always the same 20 or so overcast gobs. Not really great actors, they're just oversaturated and overrated. I'd love to see Uk film dare to use actors they've forgotten in these films. Won't bother listing names, as no one would know what the eff i'm talking about.
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Are the Vamps pale, sparkly, Mormon dogma spouting day walkers? After all everybody knows that's what real vampires are like.
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said he originally envisaged "sparkly" vampires but didn't think his readership at the time was progressive enough to accept the idea.He is pleased that Twilight has arrived to set the record straight. Fact.
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Works for me.
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But no angry, bitter Brits and Aussies like Jarv and Droid don't show up, does it count?
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I disagree. I love Brit crime movies. I just can't stand HIP Brit Crime movies. I think some cad called them Geezer Noir.
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Meaning they haven't gotten any worse. And between Rush Hour 1&2 and Shanghai Knights some have been pretty decent.
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Dec 06, 2009 8:11:59 PM CST
Even Van Damme and Lundgren have pretty much hung up their glove
by proman1984
Say what? Ever heard of Universal Soldier 3 or whatever? It's not even close to being true and both of them suck pretty hard.
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Seagal vs. Muslim fanatics must happen!!
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I'm officially off the band wagon.
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I could be a Steeler fan.
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They kicked the crap out of the Vikes and nobody is more surprised then me. Fuck I just lost $200 dollars though. Fuck the Vikes and that crying cunt Brett Fa-hav-ra.
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http://tinyurl.com/yf4q226
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I love yah, I'm glad you got back safely from over seas, and I love talking with you, but...
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Thank you.
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Now that they got Werewolves of the Moon and Cinematropolis?
See Harry, this is what happens when it takes you forever to put up a new Twitch. -
And I notice Therewolf and Sal_Bandito making a small cameo appearance. But everyone else?
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The English/Aussie have not got into work yet.
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Hehehehe.
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Just wait to Matt "The Face" Leinart comes back to "lead" you after Warner has another concussion. Let's see how much laughing you'll be doing then.
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Thanks for this much-needed dose of international entertainment, Todd.
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---if they can't beat the KC's of the world this year, they don't deserve the playoffs----
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--sorry Conti Pops looks like Favre reverted to last year's late season form. Am sure they'll be back---
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44 inch chest I will definitely give a look-see...
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The Raiders???????
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Lienart was good in that Titans game especially considering he only got 10% of the reps that week and was told he was starting the morning of the game. The Defense lost that game just like the Superbowl. The Defense doesn't have the killer instinct yet and sometimes they go fetal with inferior teams just like in the Superbowl.
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Is that supposed to be the sequel to Little Big Planet? Anyways Jackie, come back and make a sequel to Shanghai Noon/Night. It was your only Hollywood movie that was actually decent.
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Specifically passing D. We have a terrible secondary, and if by chance we play the Saints or somehow make it up against the Colts in the big game, we are F-U-C-K-E-D.
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Is that about DesBoobs?
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