Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Thaw (Movie Watch)

A deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization. One-by-one they are infected & one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice...


Trailer HERE

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Planet 51 (Movie Watch)

The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

Trailer HERE

Thursday, January 22, 2009

State of Play (Movie Watch)

Stephen Collins is a fast-rising United States Congressman with ambitions to become his party's presidential candidate. This goal is threatened after his mistress (a former research assistant) is found dead in suspicious circumstances, while right-wing opponents to Collins' campaign for social reform attempt to use the scandal to kill his political career. During a probe into a series of seemingly unrelated murders, Cal McCaffrey, an investigative journalist & Collins' former campaign manager, finds himself tasked with solving the case which is bigger than it's seemingly small parts.


Trailer HERE

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Chocolate (Movie Watch)

Chocolate tells the tale of an autistic girl with an interesting set of skills looking to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out her father.

Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE

(500) Days of Summer (Movie Watch)


This is the story of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl doesn't. When Thomas falls hopelessly in love with Summer, it's a hopeless situation when Summer doesn't in love.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Informers (Movie Watch)

Published in 1995, Bret Easton Ellis' collection of loosely connected short stories captures a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.


Trailer HERE

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Kick-Ass (Leaked Teaser)

High school dweeb Dave Lizewski decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons but what's worse than that when the object of your infatuation believes you're gay & a former cop trying to bring down a druglord has trained his daughter to be a real lethal weapon is already in town?

Grade: A
Leaked Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Bronson (Movie Watch)


In 1974, a misguided 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawed off shotgun & a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended & originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement & grabbing the title of Britain's most violent criminal.

Trailer HERE

Monday, January 12, 2009

Good (Poster 2 Release)

John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children & a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism & prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices... with eventually devastating effect.

Trailer HERE

9 (Movie Watch)

In a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened, a group of sapient rag dolls, living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9, who displays qualities that may help them to survive.

Grade: B
Trailer HERE

Blessed Is the Match (Graded)

Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, she joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal - first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save Hannah. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

The Hurt Locker (Poster 2 Release)

An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.

Grade: B +
Trailers HERE

Coco Before Chanel (Movie Watch)

In an orphanage, silently standing next to a perfectly made bed, is a frail and slender ten year old girl with thick black hair. Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco, and her many lives. The story of the path taken by Coco from her obscure beginnings to the blinding lights of Paris.

Trailer HERE

Friday, January 9, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen

The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons deciding to return to Earth with force. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatron's body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox who revives him using his own spark. Now Megatron is back seeking revenge & more Decepticon reinforcements on the way, the Autobots with reinforcements of their own, may have more to deal with than meets the eye.

Grade: D
Trailer HERE

Los Cronocrímenes [TimeCrimes] (Graded)

Hector is an ordinary man who's moving to a new house with his wife. One evening, while he's looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm with scissors. Then a chase starts, leading Hector to a series of choices that lead right back to himself.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Che: Guerrilla (Graded)

In El Argentine, Che & a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support & an army to topple the U.S. friendly regime of Fulgencio Batista. In Guerilla , Che travels to Bolivia as a freedom fighter - as the man who brought communism to Cuba - making his way secretly through the forests under an assumed name, building his band of guerrilla fighters as he goes onto to challenging the corrupt ruling classes to an end.

Grade: A -
Trailers HERE
Teaser HERE
Leaked Spanish Trailer HERE