Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Get Low (Trailer Release)

For the past forty years, Felix Bush has lived as a hermit deep in the Tennessee woods. His clothes tattered, his manner rough & his expressions buried behind a massive white beard, he's an unnerving figure when he stalks into town with his mule, shotgun in hand. Some say he's killed men with his bare hands. One day Bush walks into the local funeral parlor & announces to Frank Quinn, “'Bout time for me to get low. Down to business. I need a funeral.” More importantly, he wants a funeral party, an event that will draw all his friends & enemies to his shack in the woods for a final reckoning, & he wants to throw the party while he's still alive.

Trailer HERE
Clip HERE

A Film Unfinished (Movie Watch)

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes & cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presenting the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, probing deeper into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film. This is a film of enormous importance, documenting some of the worst horrors of our time & exposing the efforts of its perpetrators to propel their agenda & cast it in a favorable light.

Trailer HERE

Rango (Graded)

The story of a chameleon with an identity crisis.

Grade: A +
Trailers HERE

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Animal Kingdom (Graded)

Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals & equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city's streets. One senior cop, Nathan Leckie, must lure the cousin & youngest member of a criminal family, J, into the police fold to then shepherd him through a complex minefield of witness protection, corrupt cops, slippery lawyers & a paranoid vengeful underworld. J comes to realize that in order to survive he must determine how the game is played - he must somehow choose his place in this cunning and brutal animal kingdom. He must work out where he fits.

Graded: B +
Trailers HERE

Space Battleship Yamato (Movie Watch)

To save the human race once again facing the danger of extinction, the restored Yamato voyages in to outer space. The year is 2220. A black hole with a size 300 times larger than the sun approaches the Solar System & the earth is expected to be consumed. A transmigration to the Sairam Star begins & the first convoy led by Kodai Yuki departs the earth. But a mysterious fleet attacks the convoy & they disappear. When the second convoy meets the same fate, Kodai Susumu heads to the Sairam in the newly rebuilt Yamato.

Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE

Friday, June 25, 2010

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Movie Watch)

A documentary on the life and career of Joan Rivers, made as the comedienne turns 75 years old.

Trailer HERE

Don't Look Back (Movie Watch)

Jeanne a writer, married, with two children starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place. A photograph at her mother's house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman, Rosa Maria, she will discover the strange secret of her true identity.

Trailer HERE

Valhalla Rising (Graded)

1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor & together both he & Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, they board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets & the Vikings confront their terrible & bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

Thursday, June 24, 2010

RED (Graded)


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

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Social Network (Graded)

A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. The Social Network is about the evolution of Facebook, the online social network created in 2004 on the Harvard campus, and how overnight success and wealth changed the lives of the classmates, Napster co-founder Sean Parker and Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who created it.

Grade: A -
Teaser HERE

Friday, June 18, 2010

Dogtooth (Movie Watch)

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair & 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina begins spreading disorder throughout the household like fire. Next stop: rebellion.

Trailer HERE

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (Movie Watch)

Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He & his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's.

Trailers HERE

Let Me In (Teaser Poster)

A bullied young boy befriends a mysterious young girl female who moves into his apartment complex.

Graded: B -
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

Never Let Me Go (Graded)

What makes us human? Kathy, Tommy & Ruth live in a world & a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school & the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy & betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.

Grade: B
Trailer HERE

Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Movie Watch)















Lucy & Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.

Trailer HERE

The American (Graded)

Alone among assassins, Jack is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Larry that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town & relishes being away from death for a spell but when jack decides to take a step out of the shadows it may just be tempting fate.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Rum Diary (Movie Watch)

Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.

Trailer HERE

Babies (Movie Watch)

The adventure of a lifetime begins… Babies simultaneously follows four babies around the world – from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco. Re-defining the nonfiction art form, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.

Trailer HERE

The Mechanic (Movie Watch)

The story focuses on a highly-skilled but emotionally detached hitman who is planning to retire when a young man asks to be trained up in the profession. Only problem is that this new apprentice is the son of one of the Mechanic’s victims & may have more in mind than just a City & Guilds apprenticeship.

Trailer 2 HERE (Red Band)
Trailer 1 HERE

Monday, June 14, 2010

Redline (Movie Watch)

Red Line is about the biggest racing game of the universe & its only held once every 5 years... And naturally everyone wants to take part.

Teaser HERE

Somewhere (Movie Watch)

Johnny Marco, a Hollywood bad-boy stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont when he receives an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter. Their meeting challenges his lifestyle & forces him to make a choice.

Trailer HERE

Friday, June 11, 2010

The Borrower Arrietty (Movie Watch)

The story will take place in 2010 in Koganei, western Tokyo & like the novel will revolve around a group of creatures that live under the floorboards, and where a friendship is created between a human & the borrower Arrietty.

Teaser HERE

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Saving Private Ryan (Graded)

Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Frances Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller with select members from 2nd Rangers) to find & bring him home to his mother...

Grade: A+
Trailer HERE

Enduring Love (Graded)

On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. Just as they secure the balloon, the wind rushes into the field, and at once the rescuers are airborne. Joe manages to drop to the ground, as do most of his companions, but one man is lifted skywards. As Joe, Claire and the other rescuers watch this strangely beautiful sight, they see the man fall to his death. As survivors guilt eats at Joe and his relationship with Claire, one of rescuers feels a bond to Joe that may be the climax to the ordeal.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

Monday, June 7, 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (Teaser Release)

Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic & Hogwarts. Harry, Ron & Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work & find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat The Dark Lord. But little hope remains for them, so everything they do must go as planned.

Teaser HERE

Friday, June 4, 2010

The Human Centipede (Graded)

During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon who explains his mad scientific vision to his captives’ utter horror. They are to be the subjects of his sick lifetime fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, via their gastric system, and in doing so bring to life 'the human centipede'.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Ricky (Movie Watch)

When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, something magical & miraculous happens: they fall in love. After starting a life together, something truly extraordinary is added to the mix: a baby, they name Ricky. This miraculous child brings the young family challenges no parent could be prepared for…

Trailer HERE

Thursday, June 3, 2010

ThunderCats (TV Watch)

The ThunderCats, Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara along with Snarf return in a sweeping tale that combines swords & science boasting ferocious battles with the highest of stakes, the grand origin story of Prince Lion-O’s ascension to the throne & of those who would thwart his destiny at any cost. As the forces of good & evil battle each other in the quest for the fabled Stones of Power, Lion-O & his champions learn valuable lessons of loyalty, honor & mortality in every episode.

Trailer HERE

Thor (Costume Concept)

"Thor" spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

Leaked Extended Trailer HERE

The Walking Dead (TV Watch)

The Walking Dead tells the story of the years that follow a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe & secure home. The series goes on to explore the challenges of life in a world overrun by zombies who take a toll on the survivors, and sometimes the interpersonal conflicts present a greater danger to their continuing survival than the zombies that roam the country. Over time, the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death & some grow willing to do anything to survive.

On: AMC
First Look HERE

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Trailer Release)

Scott Pilgrim's life is so awesome. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, "between jobs," and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, roller blading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms. Flowers isn't covered in rose petals. Ramona's seven evil exes stand between Scott and true happiness. Can Scott beat the bad guys and get the girl without turning his precious little life upside-down?

Trailer HERE

Megamind (Trailers Release)

Supervillain Megamind imagines all his dastardly dreams coming true after defeating good-guy rival Metro Man, only to find life quite boring without an adversary. To fill the void, Megamind creates a new superhero, Titan, who also wants to be bad, forcing Megamind to switch sides.

Trailers HERE

Update:
Title change

Captain America: The First Avenger (Costume Concept)

A brave, yet mild-mannered young soldier named Steve Rogers, volunteers to undergo a series of experiments for a US army Super Soldier program. The military succeeds in transforming him into a human weapon.When a Nazi plot reveals itself Rogers must rise up & become the First Avenger, in order to save his country & stop his archenemy The Red Skull.

Teaser HERE