Friday, December 30, 2011

God Bless America (Movie Watch)

Loveless, jobless & possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun & decides to off the stupidest, cruelest & most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage & disenfranchisement in this scathing & hilarious attack on all that is sacred in the United States of America.

Trailer HERE

Goon (Movie Watch)

Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.

Trailer HERE

In Darkness (Movie Watch)

Based on a true story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, who one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Movie Watch)

Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative & influential figures in music & fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre- and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged performance art with rock music. Celebrated by critics & art historians as a progenitor of "industrial music", his innovations have transformed the character of rock & electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand the boundaries of live performance have radically altered the way people experience sound in a concert setting. But that's just the preamble to the story. Defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology. In 2000, Genesis began a series of sex reassignment surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye (nee Jacqueline Breyer), who remained his wife & artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act of devotion, and Genesis's most risky, ambitious & subversive performance to date: he became a she in a triumphant act of artistic self-expression. Genesis called this project "Creating the Pandrogyne", an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third. This is a love story, and a portrait of two lives that illustrate the transformative powers of both love & art.


Trailer HERE

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Graded)

Bilbo Baggins is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins & Orcs, deadly Wargs & Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters & Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East & the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, they must first escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever known as Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected & useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.

Graded: A -
Trailers HERE
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Perfect Sense (Trailer + Poster 2 Release)

A life affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in these turbulent times as Falling in love isn't the easiest thing in the world, especially when that world is coming apart at the seams.

Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

The Dark Knight Rises (Graded)

When a darker evil descends upon Gotham, Bruce Wayne must come to terms with his alter ego & his history in protecting the city's inhabitants.

Grade: A
Trailers HERE

Prometheus (Graded)

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Expendables 2 (Movie Watch)

The Expendables are back & this time it's personal... Barney Ross, Lee Christmas, Yin Yang, Gunnar Jensen, Toll Road & Hale Caesar with newest members Billy the Kid & Maggie Aboard are reunited when Mr. Church enlists the them to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney & his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong & one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc & shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time -- six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way....

Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Wrath of the Titans (Movie Watch)

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus, the demigod son of Zeus, is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman & the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods & the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans & their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades & Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus' godly son, Ares, switch loyalties & make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans' strength grows stronger as Zeus' remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth. Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda, Poseidon's demigod son, Argenor & fallen god Hephaestus, Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans & save mankind.

Trailer HERE

Monday, December 19, 2011

In the Land of Blood and Honey (Poster 2 Release)

A female Bosniak war victim having a complicated love affair with a Serbian war criminal.

Trailer HERE

King of Devil's Island (Movie Watch)

A teenager accused of murder is sent to an island reform school where the director torments the boys, but it's only a matter of time before he plots a cruel revenge.


Trailer HERE

Addiction Incorporated (Movie Watch)

In 1980, a young scientist named Victor DeNoble was hired by a major tobacco company. Fourteen years later, he was testifying in front of Congress that, despite the sworn testimony of the industry's chief executives, nicotine was addictive... and the research he did could prove it. If you think you know the story, if you think you know the science, and if you think you know Big Tobacco's next steps, this incendiary documentary will prove you wrong on all counts.

Trailer HERE

Casa De Mi Padre (Movie Watch)

Armando Alvarez has lived & worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul shows up with his new fiancee, Sonia & pledges to settle all his father's debts. It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over, but when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, the Alvarez family finds themselves in a full-out war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Newlyweds (Movie Watch)

Buzzy & Katie are a newly married couple living a seemingly conflict-free life. But when Buzzy's damaged & impulsive half-sister Linda arrives at their doorstep expecting to stay for an indefinite period in their Tribeca loft, her antics threaten to disrupt the couple's commitment to an "easy" marriage. Meanwhile, with Katie's sister Marsha projecting suspicions of her own husband's infidelity onto Buzzy, will the couple's formerly trusting & insulated life be able to withstand the dysfunctions of their respective siblings?

Trailer HERE
Single mother France, a blue-collar worker who loses her job when the local factory in her French seaside town closes down, is faced with having to support her three children. With no job prospects in sight, France enrolls herself in a housekeeper training program & lands a position cleaning the Paris apartment of handsome but cocky power broker Steve who just may have been responsible for her old employers closing.

Trailer HERE

Sleeping Beauty (Movie Watch)

Experience this coolly shocking retelling of the classic myth that poses its heroine as a rarified sex-worker, confronting ideas of feminine sexuality with bravado & precision.

Trailer HERE

Rampart (Movie Watch)

Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown is a Vietnam vet & a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" & asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right & wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal & emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins & his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate.

Trailer HERE

The Cabin in the Woods (Graded)

A group of five friends going on a quiet cabin retreat scratch the surface of something so massive and horrific that they can only begin to fathom what might possibly be going on just as time quickly runs out.

Trailer HERE
Grade: A