Friday, August 31, 2007

I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With (Poster Release)

James is a frustrated & underappreciated Chicago actor who lives with his mother & has only really wanted three things in life: someone to love him, a great part & to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses the title role in a remake of Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty to teen idol Aaron Carter & he sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting only to wind up at an ice cream parlor. There, he meets Beth who quickly wins his heart but will this cause James more problems than it solves? Or has he finally found someone to eat cheese with?

Trailer HERE

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Poster Release)

Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium, the 243 year-old eccentric who owns the store, bequeaths the store to her, a dark & ominous change begins to take over the once remarkable Emporium.

Trailer HERE



Grace is Gone (Movie Watch)

A young father, whose soldier wife has just been killed in Iraq, must deal with the lose while staying strong & caring to their daughters. Rather than tell their two daughters the news, he decides to take them on a cross-country road trip to an amusement park.

The story, inspired by a similar trip the film's director James C. Strouse made with his older brother & his two children several years ago, might just by the film that changes John Cusak into a true adult star capable of serious material.


Trailer HERE

Rendition (Poster Release)

Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi, embarks on a quest to find him at all costs after he mysteriously disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. Isabella desperately tries to track her husband down, while a CIA analyst at a secret detention facility outside the U.S. on assignment to observe the questioning of her husband by Egyption Police, becoming party to the man's unorthodox interrogation.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Cloverfield (Movie Watch)

The official site for the upcoming "Cloverfield" movie has been updated, but the new addition might be hard to spot. Apparently, if you just sit there for six minutes, you'll hear a loud roar of one of the monsters. It actually sounds like someone blowing into a large pipe, but I guess it's better than nothing. Thanks to our movie pals over at Previews you don't have waste six minutes of your life waiting for a roar, so click HERE to hear it now.

Grade: B +
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

No Country for Old Men (Restricted Trailer)

Based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug runners & small towns have become free fire zones. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin & two million in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - the aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama & broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible & as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.

Grade: A
Teaser HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

The Signal (Movie Watch)

It’s New Year’s Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year’s resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.

Trailer HERE

Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Graded)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford delves into the private life & public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic & unpredictable Jesse James plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money – & glory – riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life may ultimately come from those he trusts the most. Not your average Western & edited more times than most films, this gunslinging epic tells the tale of & the notorious outlaw Jesse James & the spineless, hero-worshipping "pal" Robert Ford who wants to be like him so much that he kills him.

This film has been sitting in the can for close to a year because of its tone and a three-hour running time, which caused several people to begin making edits, including Pitt. Some wanted a Clint Eastwood-style actioner while others were looking to make a dark, contemplative examination of fame & infamy which I hope it chose. In addition, test screenings reportedly fared poorly but since when do major movie goers know what's good from bad? Dukes of Hazard anyone?. Anyhow with its release date approaching, Warner Bros. Pictures has stated that the new film is "true to the source material (novel by Ron Hansen) and in keeping with the creative vision of its filmmakers." God I hope so.

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Self-Medicated (Movie Watch)

On the outskirts of Las Vegas, far from the bright lights of the Strip, 17 year-old Andrew’s life is spiraling out of control. Powerless to intervene as he backslides into drugs, alcohol, & violence, his mother decides to hire a private company to forcibly kidnap Andrew & take him to a locked-down (corrupt) psychiatric center for teens. As Andrew is subjected to the physical & emotional abuses of the program, something inside of him is re-awakened, & he decides the only way to get back on track is to face his demons head-on.

Trailer HERE

Ira & Abby (Movie Watch)

Is “I do” the only path to life-long love & Happiness? Ira Black is brilliant, neurotic, Jewish & has so many issues he can’t fit them into 12 years of analysis. Abby Willoughby is a free spirit who works in a gym & is better at solving her friends’ problems than selling memberships. When the two meet, the impossible happens: they fall in love, meet each other’s parents & decide to get married, all in a few breathless hours. And life is good, for a while, until a series of comic misadventures (multiple divorces, in-laws, affairs, exes, & too many therapists) force the couple to rethink their strategies.

Trailer HERE

Hannah Takes the Stairs (Movie Watch)

Over the course of one hot post-graduate summer, Hannah, falls precariously in & out of love. A breaker of hearts & chronically dissatisfied she finds herself drifting away from her newly unemployed boyfriend & drawn to two of her co-workers, Matt & Paul. Conceived without a traditional script, this triumph of improvisional acting was born from intimate collaboration between director & his cast.

Trailer HERE



Exiled (Movie Watch)

The time is 1998. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. For the jaded hit men, they wonder where this journey will end. Against this background of fin-de-siècle malaise come two hit men from Hong Kong sent to take out a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby. They soon find themselves in the throes of a dilemma when two of their former associates also show up, intent on thwarting them at every cost.

Trailer HERE

I'm Not There (Movie Watch)

When a man as well known as Bob Dylan, who really knows him?


I'm Not There is the highly anticipated biographical film about legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, which follows six distinct characters, depicting different stages of Dylan's life, embodying a different aspect of his life story & music. It's the first biographical feature project to secure the approval of the music legend.

Trailer Here

Right at Your Door (Movie Watch)

Right at your Door tells the tale of dirty bombs going off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud. With the fear in the air, what would you do for someone you love?

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Michael Clayton (Poster Release)

Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out & hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture & mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant & guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career & his life.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Lake of Fire (Movie Watch)

"Lake of Fire," a documentary, directed by Tony Kaye, the man behind "American History X", is a stark look at all sides of the abortion debate, including footage of procedures, the killings of doctors who have performed them

Kaye has been best remembered as the guy who sued the Directors Guild for $200 million, to change his name to Humpty Dumpty on the "American History X" credits after his cut was rejected. When his credit change request was denied, Kaye admitted to trying to change his name legally to Mr. Dumpty out of spite. In addition, he would refuse to talk to people on the phone, and when he needed to make an urgent phone call, he would go up to a phone booth, dial a random number & ask a total stranger to speak on his behalf. I guess that's part of his genius or is down fall.


Lake of Fire was made for more than $6 million over about 16 years, being released theatrically on October 3rd, with a possible three to four hour TV version to follow.


Trailer HERE

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Dedication (Movie Watch)

Henry Roth is messed up. A New York children’s book author who tells kids that Santa doesn’t exist, he hates sleeping with - and next to - anyone, including his girlfriend & must lay on the floor, usually with heavy objects on top of him just to feel safe. His motto is Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. “Dedication,” a modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children’s book series is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend & creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love & life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.

Trailer HERE

Lars and The Real Girl (Poster & Trailer Release)

Lars and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy of a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his Brother Gus & his wife Karen & they are stunned. They don’t know what to say to Lars or Bianca – because she is a life-size doll, not a real person & he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar who explains this is a delusion he’s created – for what reason she doesn’t yet know but they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars & the people around him.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Be Kind Rewind (Movie Watch)

In Be Kind Rewind, we find a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer, ­a little old lady with dementia,­ from realizing what has happened by recreating & re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. From Back to the Future, to Robocop, to Rush Hour, to The Lion King, Jerry & Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in the biggest movies ever made.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The Last Winter (Movie Watch)

In The Last Winter, we find an oil company's advance team struggling to establish a drilling base in the Arctic region of Northern Alaska that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear, but is it fear?

Grade: B +
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE


Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Lions for Lambs (Graded)

After releasing a very short teaser for "Lions For Lambs," we now get a more detailed trailer. The film consists of three interconnected storylines: A congressman who interacts with a journalist; an idealistic professor who attempts to inspire a privileged student in his class; and a third storyline about a pair of American soldiers wounded in enemy territory, the two of which were once former students of the Professor.

Grade: C +
Teaser Here
Trailer Here

The Kite Runner (Movie Watch)

An epic tale of fathers & sons, of friendship & betrayal, that takes us from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy to the atrocities of Taliban reign. This unforgettable story of redemption is based on the best selling phenomena "The Kite Runner."

Trailer HERE

Jumper (Movie Watch)

Based on the Steven Gould novel, "Jumper" follows a young man from a broken home who discovers that he has the ability to teleport. In his quest for the man he believes is responsible for the death of his mother, the kid draws the attention of the National Security Agency & another youth with the same abilities.

Trailer HERE

Reservation Road (Movie Watch)

A compelling tale of the lure of revenge & the power of redemption. The drama revolves around two fathers whose families & lives tragically converge with the death of a child. In the aftermath, Ethan & Dwight each react in unexpected ways as their families struggle to cope & an emotional reckoning looms.


Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Friday, August 3, 2007

Rendition (Movie Watch)

Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi, embarks on a quest to find him at all costs after he mysteriously disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. Isabella desperately tries to track her husband down, while a CIA analyst at a secret detention facility outside the U.S. on assignment to observe the questioning of her husband by Egyption Police, becoming party to the man's unorthodox interrogation.

Trailer HERE

The Nines (Movie Watch)

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways

Trailer Here

I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With (Movie Watch)

An overweight food connoisseur (Jeff Garlin) is surprisingly lucky with the ladies. Unfortunately though, he can't find a good one who will settle down with him and his obsession with eating.

Trailer HERE

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Iron Man (Comic-Con Poster & Teaser Trailer)

We just got the footage from Iron Man that screened at Comic-Con & suddenly disappeared from the web (youtube). Eitherway watch Iron Man make moves.

Though he commands a business empire & playboy lifestyle, Tony Starks still finds time to become "Iron Man," the living embodiment of decades of defense spending & innovation. Strapping on billions of dollars worth of state of the art armor & weaponary to fight evil, Tony begins to crack under the strain of his fractured lifestyle & must ultimately confront the one enemy he has never defeated... himself.

Grade: A -
LIMITED Time Teaser Trailer Here NOW!