Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Movie Watch)


The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.

Trailer Coming

Sunday, October 28, 2012

World War Z (Teaser Poster Release)

A U.N. employee is racing against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic.

Trailers HERE

Friday, October 19, 2012

Iron Man 3 (Teaser Release)

Brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man is confronted by an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

Trailers HERE

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

A Cat In Paris (Movie Watch)

Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico--a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion--as he evades captors & slips & swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat's two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures--and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue. Now cat & cat burglar must team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame.

Trailer HERE

Safety Not Guaranteed (Graded)

When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes hes solved the riddle of time travel & intends to depart again soon. Together, they embark on a hilarious, smart, & unexpectedly heartfelt journey that reveals how far believing can take you.

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Gangster Squad (Graded)


Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and--if he has his way--every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police & the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop... except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara & Jerry Wooters, who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.

Grade: C +
Trailer HERE

The Possession (Movie Watch)

Clyde & Stephanie Brenek see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits & ultimately devours its human host.

Trailer HERE

Friday, May 4, 2012

G.I.Joe: Retaliation (Movie Watch)

Framed for crimes against their country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated at the President's order, & the surviving team members face off against Cobra, Zartan, & the world leaders they have under their influence.


Trailers HERE

Take This Waltz (Movie Watch)

When Margot, 28, meets Daniel, their chemistry is intense & immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou, a cookbook writer. When she learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She & Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright & colorful like a bowl of fruit, the story leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, & our images of ourselves.


Trailer HERE

The Amazing Spider-Man (Graded)

Peter Parker, a normal nerdy teenager being raised by his aunt May & uncle Ben Parker, finds a clue that will change everything, but may help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. When his Uncle Ben is murdered & Peter is bitten by a radioactive spider giving him new found abilities his path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.

Grade: B
Trailers HERE

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Girls (TV Watch)

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant & cousins Jessa & Shoshanna.

On: HBO
Trailer HERE

Headhunters (Graded)

Roger is a charming scoundrel & Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

End of Watch (Movie Watch

This is a story centered on the long-term friendship & partnership between two L.A. police officers who accidentally step into crime scene way above their pay grade and have to survive the unrelenting streets of L.A. California without backup.

Trailer HERE

Total Recall (Graded)

As the nation states Euromerica & New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on.

Grade: C -
Trailer HERE

Friday, April 13, 2012

Surviving Progress (Movie Watch)

Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society? Or too much of a good thing? Based on the best-selling book A Short History of Progress, this provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major "progress traps" facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment. Featuring powerful arguments from such visionaries as Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking, Craig Venter, Robert Wright, Michael Hudson, and Ronald Wright, this enlightening and visually spectacular film invites us to contemplate the progress traps that destroyed past civilizations & that lie treacherously embedded in our own.

Trailer HERE

American Animal (Movie Watch)

When Jimmy finds out his best friend & roommate is leaving, he sees this as a betrayal of their perfect way of life. Over the course of a night full of drinks, drugs & women, the two men engage in a classic battle of wills as James prepares to enter the real world & Jimmy falls deeper & deeper into his world of isolation & make-believe.

Trailer HERE

Moonrise Kingdom (Graded)

On an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore; and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

My Winnipeg (Graded)

Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood & do things differently? Guy Maddin casts B-movie icon Ann Savage as his domineering mother in attempt to answer that question in a hilariously wacky & profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary or “docu-fantasia”, that inventively blends local & personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths. Covering everything from the fire at the local park, which lead to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads, to pivotal & factually heightened scenes from Maddin’s own childhood, all laced with a startling emotional honesty to create personal & truly unique cinematic experience.

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Keyhole (Movie Watch)

In a house haunted with memories, gangster & father Ulysses Pick arrives home after a long absence tow-ing the body of a teenaged girl & a bound & gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, & reaching his wife Hyacinth in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed & his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks & crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.

Trailer HERE

Looper (Graded)

In the future time travel will be invented, but it will be illegal & only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe, is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich & life is good... Until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Friday, March 16, 2012

Dark Shadows (Movie Watch)

In the year 1752, Joshua & Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass & Barnabas has the world at his feet--or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful & an inveterate playboy... Until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard. A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb & emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.

Trailer HERE

Fightville (Movie Watch)

Over the last decade, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has grown from a controversial no-holds-barred gladiatorial sideshow into a billion dollar phenomenon. MMA has eclipsed boxing as the dominant combat sport in the world, and is so popular that MMA fights regularly appear on U.S. network television - even as a longstanding ban remains in force in New York State. But far from Las Vegas, in sweat-soaked gyms and low-rent arenas across America, the big lights are but a dream.

Trailer HERE

Monday, March 5, 2012

The Deep Blue Sea (Movie Watch)

Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge & a free spirit is trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded & physically isolated.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Sound of My Voice (Movie Watch)

Peter & Lorna, a couple & documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie. Intent on exposing her as a charlatan & freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective & each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld.

Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE

The Avengers (Graded)

After Captain America is found and some of the greatest evils earth has seen make their move, the Avengers go into action. Some of the greatest heroes, Captain America, Iron-Man, The Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye and Nick Fury team-up, but will they be able to stop the global menace the likes of which have never been seen before?

Grade: A -
Trailers HERE
Comic-Con Teaser HERE

Snowtown Murders (Movie Watch)

Based on horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999, the tale follows Elizabeth Harvey, a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. After her latest boyfriend displays pedophilic tendencies, she takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming an even more vicious predator into her home. John Bunting is the moral compass of a self-appointed neighborhood watch who, fueled by cigarettes & beer, cast judgments on those living around them. Bunting enlists his crew in acts of sadistic vigilantism on those he considers deviants, and in the process takes Elizabeth's son Jamie under his wing.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Beyond the Black Rainbow (Movie Watch)

Set in the strange & oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, this is a tale set in a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies & Saturday morning cartoons.

Teaser HERE

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Movie Watch)

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, fueling his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

Teaser HERE

Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Aggression Scale (Movie Watch)

Four heavily armed hitmen & two unusual teenagers go to war over $500,000 of stolen cash at a home of one family.

Teaser HERE

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Bourne Legacy (Teaser Release)

With Jason Bourne going off the grid & back to civilian life as David Webb, a new agent, Kenneth Kitson, or Arron Cross, is dealing with the ramifications of the Treadstone conspiracy that continues to unravel but is he another victim?

Teaser HERE

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Midnight in Paris (Graded)

As a young couple engaged to be married experiences a profound transformation during their visit to Paris, the idealistic potential groom, with a romanticized view of the city, finds that there's plenty of truth to that old adage about the grass being greener on the other side or is it?

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

0000 (Movie Watch)

The mind of one man will galvanize a global revolution. His technology will birth a new era of human existence and social connection, but this great gift is rooted in dark tragedy. If he is to survive, he will need the help of many, and if we are to survive, our awareness must grow.

Teaser HERE
SFX Clip HERE

Price Check (Movie Watch)

Pete Cozy has found himself a house in the suburbs & a job in the pricing department of a middling supermarket chain. Pete's job allows him to spend quality time with his wife, young son and, despite the fact that they are drowning in debts, they appear happy. Everything changes when Pete gets a new boss, the beautiful, high powered, fast talking Susan Felders. With Susan's influence, Pete finds himself on the executive track. Something that both surprises & excites him. The more his salary increases, the more he has to perform at work... and the less time he gets to spend with his family. At the same time, his relationship with his boss begins to cross the line of professional etiquette. Both become enamored with one another - creating tension in the workplace & in his personal home life.

Trailer HERE

28 Hotel Rooms (Movie Watch)

While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist & a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she's married, and he's seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship & a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments--some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate--we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.


Trailer HERE

The Kid With a Bike (Movie Watch)

When 11-year-old Cyril's father abandons him, Cyril obsessively tries to find his bicycle-- after all, his father must have cared about him enough not to sell that off, he reasons. Almost by accident, he becomes the ward of a kind hairdresser, a woman who seems surprised to find herself so determined to help him. With his wild, unpredictable behavior & his disastrous search for father figures, Cyril risks losing her--though she refuses to give up without a fight.

Trailer HERE

Silent House (Movie Watch)

A young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in & around the house. Through meticulous camera choreography the tension-filled tale is told in real time where the audience experiences it in a single uninterrupted shot.

Trailer HERE

Michael (Movie Watch)

Michael, a seemingly meek insurance agent, has a secret: he's holding 10-year-old Wolfgang captive in a locked room in his basement. Chronicling a five month period, the film reveals a tense portrait of how seemingly mundane lives can hide the darkest secrets.

Trailer HERE

Pursuit of Loneliness (Movie Watch)

What happens when someone dies & there's no record of any next of kin? "Pursuit of Loneliness" looks at that deeply personal & interpersonal question when an elderly woman dies anonymously in a county hospital. Four central characters - a nurse, a social worker, the emergency contact person listed on the admission form, and an investigator for the public administrator - try to find the deceased woman's family over the next twenty-four hours. Slowly but surely we watch as her belongings & personal effects are gathered & accounted for and we witness the bit-by-bit eradication and extinction of an individual. In a world that values possessions & comparative wealth, this is a cautionary tale of the preciousness of community & the importance of family.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Detachment (Movie Watch)

Henry Barthes is a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. In finding an emotional connection to the students but also to fellow teachers, he finds that he's not alone in a struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious & loveless world.

Trailer HERE

Friday, January 13, 2012

El Sicario, Room 164 (Movie Watch)

In an anonymous motel room on the U.S./Mexico border, a Ciudad Juarez hitman speaks. He has killed hundreds of people and is an expert in torture and kidnapping. He was simultaneously on the payroll of the Mexican drug cartels and a commander of the Chihuahua State Police. There is currently a $250,000 contract on his life and he lives as a fugitive, though he has never been charged with a crime in any country. With his face obscured by a black mesh hood, he tells his story to the camera inside the very motel room he once used to hold and torture kidnapped victims. Aided only by a magic marker and notepad, which he uses to illustrate and diagram his words, the sicario (hitman) describes, in astounding detail, his life of crime, murder, abduction and torture.

Trailer HERE

Front Line (Movie Watch)

Toward the end of the Korean War, an uneasy ceasefire is ordered, but out on the Eastern front line of the Aerok Hills, in an expanse of land called the Aero.K, fierce fighting continues. A race to capture this strategic point to determine a new border between the two Koreas is the ultimate prize. At the Eastern border stands the "Alligator Company," known to be the best soldiers on the front line. They are the only unit to have survived the worst battle of the war at Pohang. When a South Korean bullet is found in the dead body of a company commander, Lieutenant of Defense Security Command Kang Eun-Pyo is ordered to investigate Alligator Company for the murder. Upon arrival, Kang Eun-Pyo is immediately shocked at the state of the soldiers, the conditions on the front & the presence of Kim Soo-Hyuk, a former friend he believed to be dead. With a truce promised for years but no end in sight, one man struggles to make sense of a crime in the face of countless lives sacrificed for war.

Trailer HERE

Lula, Son of Brazil (Movie Watch)

Based on the book by Denise Parana, Lula, Son of Brazil is a richly produced, deeply moving story of the early years of Brazil's most beloved president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Not to be construed as a film about a politician, or a president, this is more to the point an incredible story of perseverance, family, love, honor, resilience, heroism... a story so fantastic, that it could work as fiction.

Trailer HERE

Moonrise Kingdom (Movie Watch)

On an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore; and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Sinister (Movie Watch)


a struggling crime novelist, whose desire for a new story leads him to the site of a horrific family murder. However, his investigation threatens to put his family in harms way as something still resides in the house that may be the key to learning the truth about the past murders.

Trailer Coming

Friday, January 6, 2012

Bourne Legacy (Movie Watch)

With Jason Bourne going off the grid & back to civilian life as David Webb, a new agent, Arron Cross, is dealing with the ramifications of the Treadstone conspiracy that continues to unravel.

Teaser HERE

Skyfall (Movie Watch)

Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Grade: A -
Teaser HERE

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Thin Ice (Movie Watch)

Mickey Prohaska is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife & escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story -- all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. But Mickey's attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith with a volatile temper dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a madcap spiral of danger, deceit & double-crossing.


Trailer HERE

Pacific Rim (Movie Watch)

When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.

Trailer Coming

Django Unchained (Movie Watch)

With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Trailer Coming

The Master (Movie Watch)

A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as "the Master" whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.

Grade: A -
Trailers HERE