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Movie Mazzupial's Film Fest Hit List!

It’s that time of year again! No, not the Christmas. Puh-lease, that is so B.C. The Gold Coast Film Festival is just over a week away *cue excited squeals*. This year’s theme is `get some action’ and with the program announced last month, the GCFF is certainly delivering on that promise. There are 30 films playing over the seven day event and I’m not going to go through them all because, well, there’s 30. Here are a few highlights:

Let The Bullets Fly
The fattest man in international cinema, Chow Yun Fat, stars in this Chinese action epic that smashed records at their domestic box office. Let The Bullets Fly grossed a staggering 730 million Yuan (US$111.1 million), making it the highest grossing domestic film in China's cinematic history.

Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below
He has been touted as `the new Miyazaki’ and Makoto Shinkai’s new animated film leaves little doubt he’s a Japanese visionary. A coming of age story, the flick looks at young love amid a dark world of grief and personal loss. To read my chat with Shinkai last week, click here http://moviemazz.blogspot.com/2011/11/meet-new-hayao-miyazaki.html

Super
Not to be confused with Super 8, Superbad, Superman Returns, or the host of other films released in the past five years with `Super’ in the title. After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy (Rainn Wilson) transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills. The oddball comedy also stars Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon and Liv Tyler. Laugh out loud funny, Super will have you proudly leaving the cinema with your underwear on the outside of you pants.

Viva Riva
Contrary to popular belief, Michael Critchton’s Congo – about the eyeball eating gorillas and such – isn’t actually a Congolense film. With that fact bubble, I present the first film from the Congo in two decades – Viva Riva. An action film alike anything you’ve seen before, it looks at modern Congo the only way it can – through a crime story. Fresh off screenings at the Toronto, Berlin and South by Southwest films festivals, this is a rare cinematic event.

The Killage
One of a handful of impressive Queensland films playing at this year’s GCFF, The Killage is a horror/comedy from Brisbane filmmaker Joe Bauer. Full of gore and gags, this is must-see for genre fans. International readers can pick this up at the bunch of film festivals it’s playing including  

Attack The Block
It opened Brisbane International Film Festival last fortnight and it’s closing GCFF, which is fantastic news for local sci fi/horror geeks. I checked out this puppy at San Diego Comic Con in July and it’s up there with Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris for my favourite film of the year so far. Funny, tense, scary, and just f***ing awesome, Attack The Block is the directorial debut of Joe Cornish and produced by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot  Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim). It follows a gang of kids living in South London who have to defend their housing block from an alien invasion. Stay posted for my interview with Wright and the films star John Boyega (he’s the next Denzel, I’m telling you).

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