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The More The Better is one of three mockumentary features from Alter Ego Cinema.

This one - co-directed by Jessie Amos and Shane Ryan - focuses on a group of teenagers all set out to loose their virginity in the same night. “Who ever thought it would be so complicated?”

The Clip

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“Welcome to the Suck”

Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom.

Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit. An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, Jarhead is laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd.

An irreverent and true account of a war that was antisceptically packaged a decade ago, Jarhead is laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd.

Jarhead opens in the US in November and arrives in Europe in January 2006.

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What do you get if you bring Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike and Chan-wook Park together in one film?

You get Three… Extremes, an anthology of three short films from from some of Asia’s most accomplished directors that brings us unnerving tones, revenge and surreal shocks.

Watch the trailer, then go see the film.

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Here’s a new twist on a jaded genre. HellBent is is the first ever gay slasher film.

Taking place at the famed West Hollywood Halloween Carnival, there is a serial killer on the loose. A group of four gay friends will have to fight for their lives to make it through a night where flamboyant costumes, beautiful people, drugs, music, dancing and sex are everywhere.

A wild, relentless ride that combines winning and appealing characters, unexpected surprises, and shocking scares, HELLBENT is a refreshing new classic for the horror genre.

We shall see…

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WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

The Teaser

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Extended Bonus: Confessions of a Wal-Mart Hit Man

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Ah the 80s, a simpler time when unstoppable heroes - Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and even Jean Claude Van Damme - destroyed everything in their path.

Well, the 80s are back, and they’re Russian - in the form of Velvet Revolution.

Events of the film take place in both hemispheres. Presidents of countries, bosses of drug cartels, special agents and powerful secret service agencies from all around the world are the first hand participants of its events. The film begins with an account of a shocking yet quite ordinary skirmish - an average drug kin pin is beating one of his assistants with a golf club with a purpose of educating him, because the assistant’s cell phone was quite unlawfully confiscated by an overly diligent secret service agent.

The mutilated gangster understands the incommensurability of his guilt and the level of his fault, and becomes the first character who asks the question: What do we know about the world we live in? However, he won’t have the chance to contemplate on the answer. The agent, who took his property not thinking that a cell phone could be as dangerous as an atomic bomb, will seek an answer to this question.

The speed of the following events is equivalent to its entertaining content. Secret codes, solutions, pursuits, new victims… There’s no joke to this mystery: its unveiling will destroy all preexisting notions of international politics in the minds of the people.

Can’t wait.

The Trailer

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Making Of

Part 1

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Part 4

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I heard about Boy Eats Girl back in July, but all I could find out about the film was that…

The first zombie-parody-teen-love-splatter-movie since Shaun of the Dead provides ordinary Irish student and shy boy Nathan some awfully new urges he hasn’t experienced yet. But how to tell his new girlfriend Jessica to avoid him, when he’s literally dying for her and spreading a distasteful disease all over town?

But now there’s a website, a trailer and a fuller synopsis:

Seventeen year-old Nathan is in love with Jessica but he just can’t pluck up the courage to ask her out. To make matters worse, Samson the school bully is convinced that Nathan is making moves on his flirtatious girlfriend, Cheryl.

Then Jessica and Nathan’s best friends take matters into their own hands and set them up on a date. However, thanks to the interference of Jessica’s disapproving father, the plan falls apart. Mistakenly led to believe that Jessica is going all the way with local lothario Kenneth, Nathan ends up drunk and alone in his bedroom. One careless, but fatal, accident later.

But Nathan’s mother Grace is not about to let her son go. Seizing upon an old voodoo book she has discovered in the local church, Grace performs a restorative ritual on Nathan and brings him back to life. When he wakes up, Nathan is none the wiser. Except that now he can’t feel any pain, he has no pulse and he has a strong desire to eat human flesh.

That night, outside the school disco, Nathan is set upon by Samson. He loses control and takes a bite out of Samson’s ear. Spitting the flesh out, he runs home and barricades himself in his house. But now Samson has the need to eat, and is keen to sate his hunger. The infection is spreading, with horrific and bloody consequences for the whole neighbourhood.

As Grace races to find a way of undoing the voodoo spell, Nathan struggles to save his friends and gorgeous Jessica before he turns against them.

In ‘Boy Eats Girl’ the horror of school takes on a whole new meaning. Forget about the threat of the classroom bully, the anxiety of the rugby field or even the dread of being spurned by the girl you fancy; when your schoolmates develop a taste for human flesh it pays to know who your friends are, and what they’ve been eating.

Check it out, it looks like fun.

Trailer

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First TV Spot

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Second TV Spot

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I’ve just heard that Sony Pictures Classics are planning to re-release Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film, The Passenger. The film, which stars Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider, opens on October 28th in New York and November 4th in Los Angeles.

Originally released in 1975, The Passenger is, on the simplest level, a suspense story about a man trying to escape his own life. This haunting film is a portrait of a drained journalist, played by Jack Nicholson, whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. The film was shot on location and takes Nicholson on an incredible journey through Africa, Spain, Germany and England.

As with all of Antonioni’s work, however, there is another dimension. From beginning to end we are witnessing a probing study of the human condition. The protagonist’s fate reflects each individual’s own private thoughts about real and/or imagined destiny. The climax of the film, alone – a final sequence lasting seven minutes and taking eleven days to shoot is truly a synthesis of the movie and a tribute to the director’s art.

Antonioni, in talking about his motion picture, says: “I consider The Passenger my most stylistically mature film. I also consider it a political film as it is topical and fits with the dramatic rapport of the individual in today’s society.”

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Private was going to be Italy’s official entry for the 2005 Oscars. Unfortunately for director, Saverio Costanzo, someone forgot to mention that the Italian entry had to be in Italian - which pretty much excludes a film in which the dialogue alternates between English and Arabic.

Inspired by real events, documentary filmmaker Saverio Costanzo’s feature debut is a minimalist psychological drama about a Palestinian family of seven suddenly confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many ways reflects the larger ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel.

Mohammad, his wife and their five children live in a large, isolated house located halfway between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. The house, in the crossfire of the two sides, is a strategic lookout point that the Israeli army decides to seize, confining the family to a few downstairs rooms in daytime and a single room at night. Mohammad refuses to leave his home and, reinforced by his principles against violence, decides to find a way to keep his family together in the house until the Israeli soldiers move on.

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So the teaser trailer for Kevin Smith’s The Passion of the Clerks is online - and has been for a couple of weeks. And those cheerful types who still read AICN aren’t impressed.

And Kevin Smith has posted an absolutely brilliant response.

The Teaser

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The Teaser 2: For all the AICN folks that were pissing and moaning about the first teaser

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