Friday, July 31, 2009

28 Days Later (Graded)

It has been twenty-eight days since Jim, a young bicycle courier, was knocked off his bike and injured in a car accident. When he wakes up from his coma, the world has changed. London is deserted, litter-strewn and grim, and it seems the entire world has disappeared. The truth, however, is even more horrifying - a devastating psychological virus has been unleashed on the world, turning the population into blood-crazed psychopaths driven only to kill and destroy the uninfected. A bitter struggle to get out of the city with fellow survivors to a military encampment at Manchester follows - but there, their troubles are just beginning...

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Thursday, July 30, 2009

45365 (Movie Watch)

‘45365’ captures the complexities and ambiguities of one towns shared experience. It is a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people. Multiple storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at life in Sidney, Ohio.


Trailer HERE

The Baader Meinhof Komplex (Movie Watch)

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism & the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof & Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror & bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg

Trailer HERE

Crude (Movie Watch)

Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary tells the epic story of one of the largest & most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures. Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.


Trailer HERE

A Serious Man (Graded)

This is a story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem & a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife & Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more & more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions & become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Tron 2.0: Legacy (Teaser Trailer Release )

A virtual-world worker looks to take down the Master Control Program.

Teaser HERE

The Losers (Teaser Poster Release)

After being betrayed and left for dead, members of a CIA black ops team root out those who targeted them for assassination.

Grade: C +
Trailer HERE

Friday, July 24, 2009

Avatar (Poster 3 Release)

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language & culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other & the local culture for control.

Grade: B
Trailer HERE

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Movie Watch)

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom & to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor. But after 21 years in prison, Gekko finds himself on the fringe of the financial community & obsessed in trying to repair his ruptured relationship with his estranged daughter who happens to be engaged to the young trader is has partnered with.

Teaser HERE

Tron 2.0: Legacy (Movie Watch)

A virtual-world worker looks to take down the Master Control Program.

Teaser HERE

The Book of Eli (Teaser Release)

In the post-apocalyptic world of the book of Eli, civilization has collapsed & clean water has become the prime currency. Eli is a survivor who must fend off gangs & a brutal tyrant in this desolate wasteland. He is a alone in a fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.


Trailer HERE

Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Lovely Bones (Movie Watch)

In 1973, Susie Salmon is molested & murdered by a neighbor, George Harvey, a serial killer of young girls & women. She finds herself in Heaven, observing her family as they grieve for her. She also watches her killer who, having covered his tracks successfully, is preparing to murder again. Susie struggles to balance her desire for vengeance on Harvey & her desire to have her family recover from their loss.

Grade: B -
Trailer HERE

Ninja Assassin (Graded)

Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world is taken from the streets as a child & transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free & vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

Grade: D +
Trailer HERE

Shutter Island (Graded)

In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane & is presumed to be hiding on the remote "Shutter Island."

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Movie Watch)

A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Kruger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.

Grade: C
Teaser HERE

Waltz with Bashir (Graded)

One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet & interview old comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time & about himself. As Ari delves deeper & deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

Grade: A+
Trailer HERE

Castlevania (Teaser Poster Release)

It is the year 1691... The land of Transylvania has been at peace for 100 years & the peasants & villagers of the area have begun to purge their minds of the memories of the time when the land was blanketed by ghouls & shadows with the undead walking the earth for victims. There are those that remember this evil brought upon them by Count Dracula, destined to return every 100 years to plague the land has returned with forces from Hell. The people cry out for a hero - someone to defend them from the evil desires of the count. Thankfully, they don't have to look very far, for within the land of Transylvania the Belmont line still lives, as Simon Belmont, great-grandson of Christopher Belmont, takes up the legendary whip called the Vampire Killer, setting forth on a journey through the darkened countryside to the dark lord's castle.

Trailer Coming

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Alice in Wonderland (Teaser Release)

Tim Burton attempts one of the best loved stories of all time... Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', which first told the story of a young girl, who after following a rabbit down a hole, is transported to a strange world.

Grade: C
Teaser HERE

Bright Star (Movie Watch)

London 1818: A Secret Love Affair begins between 23 year old English Poet, John Keats, and Fanny Brawne, an out-Spoken Student of High Fashion. But with mounting resistance from all angles, love is all that remained.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Carriers (Poster 2 Release)

Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic on their way to a secluded beach in Mexico soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.


Trailer HERE

Mr. Nice (Movie Watch)

The life story of Howard Marks, a former teacher who achieved notoriety as a drug smuggler through connections with MI6, the IRA, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the DEA.

Coming: Feb 26, 2010
Trailer HERE

Monday, July 20, 2009

RED (Movie Watch)


Frank, Joe, Marvin, and Victoria used to be the CIA's top agents but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets.

Trailer HERE
Grade: B

The Box (Graded)

Norma Lewis & Arthur Lewis are a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal & irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world...someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma & Arthur find themselves in the cross hairs of a startling moral dilemma & must face the true nature of their humanity.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Kick-Ass (Comic-Con Poster & Clip Release)

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
Comic-Con Clip HERE
Teaser HERE

Friday, July 17, 2009

Taxidermia (Movie Watch)

A tale of three generations about a grandfather, a father & a son, linked together by recurring motifs. The dim grandfather, an orderly during World War Two, lives in his bizarre fantasies; he desires love. The huge father seeks success as a top athlete — a speed eater — in the post-war pro-Soviet era. The grandson, a meek, small-boned taxidermist, yearns for something greater: immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by stuffing his own torso. Historical facts & surrealism become intertwined magical realism.

Trailer HERE

White On Rice (Movie Watch)

Jimmy loves dinosaurs & sleeps on the top bunk. Unfortunately, Jimmy is 40, and shares the bunk bed with Bob, his 10-year-old nephew. Freshly divorced, Jimmy has moved in with his sister Aiko & her family while boldly searching for a new wife. His brother in-law, Tak, thinks he’s a disaster. And although Jimmy may lack social grace, he is convinced the best years of his life are just beginning. His plan seems like it’s all falling into place when Tak’s beautiful niece Ramona moves in. But once Jimmy sets his sights on her, he finds he has competition from his handsome co-worker Tim, and his intentions begin to go hilariously awry.

Trailer HERE

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Movie Watch)

Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox & all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox steals a meal from one of the three crooked farmers--Boggis, a chicken farmer, Bunce, who has a little bit of everything but only eats duck liver, and Bean, who farms turkeys and apples and subsists solely on apple cider. With his keen sense of smell, and the farmers' distinctive diets, Mr. Fox has no problem evading them but after so much treatment, the greedy farmers band together to end Mr. Fox.

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Graded)

Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano & become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. Before long, Jacques' bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend's wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light...

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Avatar (Poster 2 Release)

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language & culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other & the local culture for control.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Alice in Wonderland (Red Queen Poster Release)

Tim Burton attempts one of the best loved stories of all time... Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', which first told the story of a young girl, who after following a rabbit down a hole, is transported to a strange world.

Grade: C
Teaser HERE

Zombieland (Trailer Release)

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

Grade: B +
(Red Band) Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Losers (Movie Watch)

After being betrayed and left for dead, members of a CIA black ops team root out those who targeted them for assassination.

Grade: C +
Trailer HERE

Let Me In (Movie Watch)

Owen is a bullied 12-year old who dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Abby, a peculiar girl who can't stand the sun or food & to come into a room she needs to be invited. Abby gives Owen the strength to hit back but when he realizes what Abby needs in return he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in 1980's Colorado suburb of Littleton comes a tale of love.\

Graded: B -
Trailer HERE


Metropia (Movie Watch)

A futuristic look at a terrifying Europe where the world is running out of oil. A gigantic underground network is created by joining all the various undergrounds together underneath Europe. Roger from a suburb of Stockholm avoids the underground because he finds it disturbing. Sometimes when he is too near the underground, he hears a strange voice in is head.

One day Roger stumbles upon the truth that his life is controlled in every detail. In order to break free he combines forces with a young woman named Nina.

Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

The Book of Eli (Comic-Con Poster Release)

In the post-apocalyptic world of the book of Eli, civilization has collapsed & clean water has become the prime currency. Eli is a survivor who must fend off gangs & a brutal tyrant in this desolate wasteland. He is a alone in a fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.


Trailer HERE

Monday, July 13, 2009

Brothers (Movie Watch)

When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife & children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family.

Coming: Dec 4th
Trailer HERE

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Alice in Wonderland (Mad Hatter Poster Release)

Tim Burton attempts one of the best loved stories of all time... Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', which first told the story of a young girl, who after following a rabbit down a hole, is transported to a strange world.

Grade: C
Teaser HERE

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Flame & Citron [The Flame & The Lemon] (Graded)

Copenhagen 1944. While the Danish population hopes for a swift end to the war, freedom fighters Bent Faurschou-Hviid (23), a.k.a. Flame & Jorgen Haagen Schmith (33), a.k.a. Citron, secretly put their lives at stake fighting for the Holger Danske resistance group.

The fearless & uncompromising Flame is a confirmed anti-fascist dreaming of the day when the group will assemble & openly launch an armed counterattack at the occupying power. The more sensitive family man, Citron, used to work primarily as a driver for Flame, but now finds himself becoming more deeply involved in the group's work.

When their immediate superior, Aksel Winther, orders them into action against two German Abwehr officers, events start to get out of hand. Flame engages in conversation with the talented & intelligent Colonel Gilbert & for first time, Flame calls the soundness of the order he is about to execute into question while history spins out of anyone's control.

The film is based on actual events and eyewitness accounts from some of the people who experienced Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") & Jorgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron") at very close range.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

District 9 (Graded)

An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.

Grade: B +
Teaser HERE

Big Fan (Movie Watch)

Paul Aufiero is a hardcore Big Fan of the New York Giants football team who must struggle to deal with the aftermath & consequences after he is beaten by his favorite player.

Trailer HERE

Disney's A Christmas Carol (Poster 2 Release)

Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an old miser who must face Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Yet-to-Come, as they help to bring kindness to his otherwise cold heart. The Ghosts remind him of the man he used to be, the hard truth of what the world is today & what will happen if he does not strive to be a better man. Set around Christmas, the most joyous day of the year, Scrooge realizes the sharp contrast of his own personality.

Trailer HERE

The Collector (Movie Watch)

An ex-con in desperate need of money breaks into the country home of his wealthy employer in an effort to steal a valuable jewel. He soon realizes that his family has been abducted by a masked killer who has rigged the house with deadly traps.

Trailer HERE

Monday, July 6, 2009

The Windmill Movie (Movie Watch)

What if someone wrote your autobiography? 200 hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2001, leaving a lifetime of filmed memories, until his student and protégé, Alexander Olch began making a movie out of the pieces. Writing in his teacher’s voice, working with Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban & Richard’s wife - acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas - Olch steps into his mentor’s shoes and his past - to make a film that was impossible to make. An autobiography, that isn’t. A documentary which is fiction. A lifetime of questions, finally answered.

Trailer HERE

The Girl from Monaco (Movie Watch)

A brilliant & neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck. Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in & put everything back in order… Or will he?

Trailer HERE

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Lion’s Den (Movie Watch)

Sent to prison for allegedly killing her lover, Julia discovers she is pregnant & is sent to a high-security maternity ward to serve her time. Julia’s only concern now is her son. Her fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally; her mother Sofía, her opponent. One attempts to teach her how to be a mother; the other wishes to take over rearing the child. The film, shot in a real prison with inmates as extras, shines a light on a little known aspect of prison life: motherhood behind bars.

Trailer HERE

A Woman In Berlin (Movie Watch)

Set in 1945 during the Red Army invasion of Berlin. Women are victims of rape & devastation; one of them is Anonyma, who had been a journalist & photographer. In her desperation, she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. She meets a Russian officer Andrej, an encounter which develops into a complex symbiotic relationship that forces them to remain enemies until the bitter end.

Trailer HERE

Five Minutes of Heaven (Movie Watch)

Lurgan Northern Ireland, 1975. A low level civil war has been underway, with the IRA targeting British loyalists & the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. Alistair Little, 16 is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to be blooded. He & his gang are given the go ahead to kill a young Catholic man, James Griffin, as a reprisal & a warning to others. When the hit is carried out, Joe Griffin - the 11-year old little brother of the target - watches in horror his brother is shot in the head. Thirty years later Joe Griffin & Alistair are to meet, on camera, with a view to reconciliation. Alistair has served his sentence & peace may have been agreed to in N. Ireland, but Joe Griffin is not coming on the program for a handshake. Unbeknownst to the production team, he intends to stick a knife in his brother’s killer - live on air.

Trailer HERE

Dead Girl (Movie Watch)

When high school misfits Rickie & JT decide to cut school & find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned mental asylum, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a woman whose body has been stripped naked, chained to a table & covered in plastic. When both react to the situation in extremely different ways, the boys soon find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey that forces them to decide just how far they're willing to stretch their understanding of right & wrong and of the dead & the living.

Trailer HERE

Kick-Ass (Movie Watch)

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
Teaser HERE

Surrogates (Poster 2 Release)

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation & interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates.


Trailer HERE