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