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