Dan Huiting of MPLS.TV has been on a cinematic tear this summer. Here’s another great video from him and the rest of the MPLS.TV crew featuring the Twin Cities’ Communist Daughter. This live video was filmed on the roof of the Boxcar, a bar singer Johnny Solomon owns in Prescott, Wisconsin.
A TV sequel of Shane Meadows’ great feature This is England, featuring the same cast? Awesome.
This is England ’86 starts up on Channel 4 in the U.K. this Fall.
A look at Shanghai, from our (my) favorite director from mainland China.
Shanghai, a fast-changing metropolis, a port city where people come and go. After the Chinese Communists’ victory in 1949, thousands of Shanghaiers left for Hong Kong and Taiwan. To leave meant being separated from home for thirty years; to stay meant suffering through the Cultural Revolution and China’s other political disasters.
You may remember Rango‘s awesome teaser. Now here’s the full trailer, which looks very not good until the 1:30 mark. Then it looks kind of batshit crazy. Here’s hoping!
Rango is out . . . March 4? And it has two trailers already? Huh.
I figure I’m one of Paranormal Activity‘s biggest not-fans, but if you watch this Paranormal Activity 2 teaser closely, they’re either fucking up continuity or cleverly playing with mirrors. Which made me think of the greatest horror movie to play with mirrors ever, Poltergeist 3. Haven’t seen it? It’s kind of awesome. At least more awesome than Paranormal Activity.
Paranormal Activity 2 will probably be dumb on October 16.
This one’s for The Joe
Another new video from Rancid, this one from their excellent 2003 album Indestructible featuring the band playing live and hanging out in Japan. I don’t know what it is but Japanese kids pull off the UK ’82 punk look way better than white kids do.
From the recently released (in the U.S.) Close Calls With Brick Walls.
As the description points out, “ANDREW W.K. does all his own stunts in this action packed music video…”. Good to know.
Will Oldham was such a tremendous presence in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, I wish he would fall into the acting fold more often. Oh wait look, he has!
A meditation on friendship, human need and frailty, New Jerusalem explores the allure and limitations of modern utopian belief. Sean, an Irish immigrant to America, returning from a non-combat tour of duty in Afghanistan, finds his heart and mind in disarray. He befriends Ike, a strong willed evangelical, who endeavors to ensure his salvation. Inundated by a relentless fragility, Sean is confronted by a choice between the temptation of certainty and the chaos of the world around him.
New Jerusalem should be out by year’s end.
Replicating an awesome, classic genre style usually isn’t enough to excuse what appears to be a budget of $30. However, the RZA is awesome.
Wu-Tang vs. the Golden Phoenix is rumored to be on DVD ‘real soon.’
Catch the sequel to the great Spanish horror film in Minneapolis at the Uptown Theatre at midnight, July 9 & 10.
Epic!
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows pt. 1 is out November 19.
