You owe yourself to give a film a chance beyond the first few minutes. Whether it is finding its own rhythm or for you to allow it to weave its web, the opening experience isn’t always going to be the best foot forward. That’s exactly how I felt while watching Stoker, Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut. In fact, I was caught by the mixed emotions I had felt towards the film afterwards. Somehow I had gone from gently laughing at the film to joining in on its zaniness about half way and downright enjoying myself by the end. In just under 100 minutes, Stoker grew on me by leaps and bounds.…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – FREE Advance Screening Passes To 'STOKER' in DALLAS, TX
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All winners have been notified. Thanks for your interest in Fox Searchlight Pictures‘ Stoker. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Go,See,Talk is partnering with Fox Searchlight Pictures to give 50 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (good for you +1 guest) to an “Advance Screening” of Chan-wook Park’s thriller Stoker starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode. The screening will take place in DALLAS, TX on Thursday, March 14th at 7:30PM. Winners will be notified no later than Wednesday, March 13th. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Click the poster above to get your PRINTABLE GoFoBo ticket…but it’s first come, first served so act fast!! Be one of the first 50 people to click the link and you’ll get to see Stoker before all your friends. Neat huh?…
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“The CineMagic 8-Ball” – In Theaters 03/01/13
When so many movies are released each week and trailers often seem better than the movie itself, what should one do? In this precarious situation, we consult the The CineMagic 8-Ball (TM) to help us see through the nebulous marketing haze. Doing so just might save us all a disheartening trip to the cinema and spare us the shelling out for $7 popcorn and ridiculous concession stand prices. See what the 8-Ball says about this week’s releases… ——————————————————————————————————————————————- 21 & OVER Straight-A college student Jeff Chang has always done what he was supposed to do. But when his two best friends Casey and Miller surprise him with a visit for…
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The Shape of Things to Come – GST’s Most Anticipated Films of 2013
We’ve closed the books on 2012 here at Go, See, Talk!– you can catch up on all of our individual takes on the year here, here, here, and here— and officially declared it “great”. That means that the time for retrospection has come and gone, and the time to look ahead has arrived. If 2012 turned out to be a banner year for film as an industry and as an art form, then what will 2013 bring? One short answer: a whole lot of science fiction. Indeed, nearly half of the entries on this list comfortably underneath that distinct storytelling umbrella, many of quite high profile, and that’s not even to…
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'Stoker' Official US Poster Gets Symmetrical & Dirty
If I have anything further to offer regarding Stoker, South Korean wunderkind Chan-wook Park’s first American venture, it’s marketing praise. Our cultural gatekeepers haven’t overlooked Park’s existence, so to call him an unknown quantity State-side would be something of a falsehood, but his name doesn’t have much meaning to the mainstream. So seeing Fox Searchlight go to work promoting the film, first with two teasers released in the fall, then with the international poster and a promo video in October, is something of a surprise, but the good kind of surprise– perhaps the best kind. Who doesn’t want to see one of their personal favorite contemporary directors get a good…
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We Don't Need to Be Friends: Stoker International Poster and Promo Clip
In the last month, we’ve seen the release of two different trailers for South Korean maestro Chan-wook Park‘s newest film, Stoker, and while three’s a crowd the newest preview footage for the production is too good not to share. Grant that I’m a massive admirer of Park’s work, and as far as I’m concerned just about anything released in the service of promoting his work is worth getting excited about; also grant that I’m capable of being objective, and so when I say that this is a pretty great video, I mean it with every ounce of sincerity I can muster given my clear bias. Have a look: Admittedly, some of…
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G-S-T Quick 5 – Best Action Melee Scenes
Let’s face it, when we walk into an action movie, we don’t want realism. We want our hero to be “10 feet tall and bulletproof“. We want him/her to know tons of bone crunching self-defense, walk through a battle unscathed and maybe, just maybe, if we’ve suspended all our disbelief, our hero will be able to walk on water. Now as action films go, pushing the envelope is a requirement, nay, obligation and most times, despite the lunacy of what happening on-screen, we always think bigger and better is the way to go…except in Transformers 2. Yet for as long as films have had that genre defining high action content,…
