They survived high school in Freaks and Geeks, went on the run to escape a dangerous drug lord in Pineapple Express and even faced the apocalypse together in This Is The End. And now, comedy kingpins Seth Rogen and James Franco are teaming up again in The Interview for their most perilous (and offensive) mission yet: to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Too far? Probably, but that’s half the fun. We’ve got a first trailer and propaganda poster for the flick, both of which make us very excited to check it out this fall.
In the action-comedy, Franco and Rogen star as a talk show host and his producer who travel to North Korea to interview Kim Jong-Un and prove themselves to be real journalists. Before touching down, however, they’re scooped by the CIA, which gives them the top-secret mission of killing the dictator. As you can imagine,...
In the action-comedy, Franco and Rogen star as a talk show host and his producer who travel to North Korea to interview Kim Jong-Un and prove themselves to be real journalists. Before touching down, however, they’re scooped by the CIA, which gives them the top-secret mission of killing the dictator. As you can imagine,...
- 6/12/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.
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Aliens of the Deep: James Cameron’s undersea science documentary introduces you to scientists whose enthusiasm is infectious and immerses you in its exotic environment in a way that makes you wish it would never end [my review] [at Netflix] Camp 14: Total Control Zone: the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean re-education camp reveals some 1984-level shit, except it’s worse, because it’s not fiction [my review] [at Netflix] Rabbit Hole: devastating drama about the impact on a couple after their young son is killed; excellent performances from Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart [at Netflix]
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12 Years a Slave: more horror story than historical drama, terrifyingly and heartbreakingly straightforward in the real-life nightmare it depicts; Oscar’s Best Picture for 2013 [at Amazon UK Instant Video]
new to stream
The Railway Man...
new to stream
Aliens of the Deep: James Cameron’s undersea science documentary introduces you to scientists whose enthusiasm is infectious and immerses you in its exotic environment in a way that makes you wish it would never end [my review] [at Netflix] Camp 14: Total Control Zone: the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean re-education camp reveals some 1984-level shit, except it’s worse, because it’s not fiction [my review] [at Netflix] Rabbit Hole: devastating drama about the impact on a couple after their young son is killed; excellent performances from Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart [at Netflix]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
12 Years a Slave: more horror story than historical drama, terrifyingly and heartbreakingly straightforward in the real-life nightmare it depicts; Oscar’s Best Picture for 2013 [at Amazon UK Instant Video]
new to stream
The Railway Man...
- 5/5/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Over the last 12 months, more and more people have become aware of the situation in North Korea, politically at least. On a more personal level, it is close to impossible for an American or European, living the relatively comfortable lives that we do, to fathom what everyday life is like in this autocratic nation. Camp 14: Total Control Zone – available now on DVD – tells the horrific tale of Shin Dong-Hyuk, born in one of the country’s death camps in 1983 and thought to be the only person to have escaped not only the camp but the country itself. Living with no knowledge of the outside world, Shin’s existence was unimaginable. “Our sole purpose was to follow the rules of the work camp, and then die.”
In Camp 14, director Marc Weise introduces us to Shin’s story through a series of candid interviews, not only with Shin himself, but also...
In Camp 14, director Marc Weise introduces us to Shin’s story through a series of candid interviews, not only with Shin himself, but also...
- 11/4/2013
- by Matt Seton
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix, Lovefilm, blinkbox, and BBC iPlayer.
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Great Expectations: a lively, vibrant retelling that feels very modern, with none of the stuffiness of a traditional costume drama [my review] [at Netflix] Pretty in Pink: John Hughes’ classic 80s high-school romance [at Netflix] Quartet: a lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older [my review] [at Netflix] Grabbers: Irish horror sci-fi comedy adds a few clever flourishes to a standard alien-creature tale [at Netflix]
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The Guard: hilarious fish-out-of-water cop comedy as Don Cheadle’s FBI agent must work with Brendan Gleeson rural Irish policeman [at Lovefilm] Smashed: powerful and unsentimental alchoholic-gets-a-wakeup-call drama, with a fantastic performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead [my review] [at Lovefilm]
new to stream
Camp 14: Total Control Zone: the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean...
new to stream
Great Expectations: a lively, vibrant retelling that feels very modern, with none of the stuffiness of a traditional costume drama [my review] [at Netflix] Pretty in Pink: John Hughes’ classic 80s high-school romance [at Netflix] Quartet: a lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older [my review] [at Netflix] Grabbers: Irish horror sci-fi comedy adds a few clever flourishes to a standard alien-creature tale [at Netflix]
new to stream
The Guard: hilarious fish-out-of-water cop comedy as Don Cheadle’s FBI agent must work with Brendan Gleeson rural Irish policeman [at Lovefilm] Smashed: powerful and unsentimental alchoholic-gets-a-wakeup-call drama, with a fantastic performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead [my review] [at Lovefilm]
new to stream
Camp 14: Total Control Zone: the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean...
- 10/9/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The only person known to have escaped from a North Korean re-education camp reveals some 1984-level shit, except it’s worse, because it’s not fiction… and, more’s the pity for humanity, not too terribly surprising. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is some 1984-level shit right here, except it’s worse, because it’s not fiction. Shin Dong-Huyk escaped from one of North Korea’s “re-education camps” — the only person known to have done so — and then to China, and then to South Korea. Now he works with U.S. human-rights organization Liberty in North Korea, sharing his firsthand experience of the worst totalitarian practices of the secretive regime with anyone who will listen. He shares them here, in a documentary by German filmmaker Marc Wiese, and the more he talks, the deeper the descent into real-life,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is some 1984-level shit right here, except it’s worse, because it’s not fiction. Shin Dong-Huyk escaped from one of North Korea’s “re-education camps” — the only person known to have done so — and then to China, and then to South Korea. Now he works with U.S. human-rights organization Liberty in North Korea, sharing his firsthand experience of the worst totalitarian practices of the secretive regime with anyone who will listen. He shares them here, in a documentary by German filmmaker Marc Wiese, and the more he talks, the deeper the descent into real-life,...
- 10/9/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
★★★★☆ Earlier this year, Joshua Oppenheimer's chilling documentary The Act of Killing (2013) recreated the events of the 1965 military coup in Indonesia. Approaching equally harrowing material, Marc Wiese's third documentary feature, Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012), places us within the barbaric prison camps of North Korea in an arresting tale of human endurance and the savagery of totalitarian governments. It's an undeniably hard watch, but the story it recounts is more than worthy of audience's attention. Shin Donh-huyk was a child born into such a camp, only freed after 23 years of psychological and physical abuse.
Shin's upbringing can only be described as traumatic, with his first childhood memory being that of a public execution. Now living in South Korea after the liberation of his camp, Shin recalls his past in a series of candid interviews that at times are almost too painful to listen to. We hear how his father...
Shin's upbringing can only be described as traumatic, with his first childhood memory being that of a public execution. Now living in South Korea after the liberation of his camp, Shin recalls his past in a series of candid interviews that at times are almost too painful to listen to. We hear how his father...
- 10/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Shin Dong-hyuk was born in a North Korean punishment camp, where he endured appalling brutalities until he escaped, aged 23. Now his story is told in a harrowing documentary
Documentary-makers generally tackle torture at a distance. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, for instance, introduced us to a charismatic killer from Indonesia's anti-communist genocide who dances the cha-cha on the rooftop where he murdered hundreds of victims almost 50 years earlier. Camp 14: Total Control Zone is different. The German film-maker Marc Wiese's film tells of horrors that could be happening as you read this, in North Korea, in prison camps so vast that they show up on Google Earth.
Some are "re-education" facilities, where the inmates can hope to be released after a period of hard labour and immersion in revolutionary doctrine. The "total control zone", however, is a life sentence, with death the only exit. Other, that is,...
Documentary-makers generally tackle torture at a distance. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, for instance, introduced us to a charismatic killer from Indonesia's anti-communist genocide who dances the cha-cha on the rooftop where he murdered hundreds of victims almost 50 years earlier. Camp 14: Total Control Zone is different. The German film-maker Marc Wiese's film tells of horrors that could be happening as you read this, in North Korea, in prison camps so vast that they show up on Google Earth.
Some are "re-education" facilities, where the inmates can hope to be released after a period of hard labour and immersion in revolutionary doctrine. The "total control zone", however, is a life sentence, with death the only exit. Other, that is,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Stephen Applebaum
- The Guardian - Film News
Daring Us To Complain: Wiese Shows Us North Korea From The Inside
Behind the heavily barricaded borders of North Korea lay a slew of labor camps that are home to those deemed as criminals of the state. Most of these 200,000 so called ‘criminals’ are interned for committing such crimes as defacing images of their now deceased supreme leader Kim Jong-il or other seemingly benign acts. Under constant surveillance, they must maintain obedience or risk being shot or violently tortured by the brainwashed guards. Shin Dong-Huyk was one of the countless unfortunates born within, but one of the very few lucky enough to escape alive. German director Marc Wiese chronicles Shin’s appalling life story in his penetrating docu feature debut, Camp 14: Total Control Zone, a tale so foreign to modern society that it almost seems the stuff of science fiction.
Sitting on the floor of his barren apartment, Shin...
Behind the heavily barricaded borders of North Korea lay a slew of labor camps that are home to those deemed as criminals of the state. Most of these 200,000 so called ‘criminals’ are interned for committing such crimes as defacing images of their now deceased supreme leader Kim Jong-il or other seemingly benign acts. Under constant surveillance, they must maintain obedience or risk being shot or violently tortured by the brainwashed guards. Shin Dong-Huyk was one of the countless unfortunates born within, but one of the very few lucky enough to escape alive. German director Marc Wiese chronicles Shin’s appalling life story in his penetrating docu feature debut, Camp 14: Total Control Zone, a tale so foreign to modern society that it almost seems the stuff of science fiction.
Sitting on the floor of his barren apartment, Shin...
- 9/11/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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