Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Dead Man Down (Movie Watch)

Two strangers, whose mutual desire for revenge draws them together, trigger an escalating trail of mayhem. 

Trailer HERE

The End of Love (Movie Watch)

When the mother of his two-year-old son Isaac suddenly passes away, struggling actor Mark is forced to grapple with his ability to grow up. As he kindles a relationship with a young single mother, he begins to realize that he can no longer remain in denial about the real-life consequences his choices have on Isaac. Set against the backdrop of Los Angeles, The End of Love is an intimate and stunningly honest portrait of a young father in transition between the life he’s been working for and the one that’s waiting for him.

Trailer HERE

Dark Skies (Graded)

Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matter in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Monday, February 4, 2013

Gravity (Movie Watch)

Two astronauts find themselves stranded on a space station after a disastrous accident wipes out the crew and most of the structure.


Teaser HERE

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (Movie Watch)

The town's most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants.

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You're Next (Movie Watch)

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

Trailer HERE

The Wolverine (Movie Watch)

While in Japan Wolverine, the man known as Logan, engages a mysterious figure and new enemy known as the Silver Samurai.

Trailer HERE

Pacific Rim (Movie Watch)

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Trailers HERE

The Lone Ranger (Movie Watch)

A famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes as native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice--taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

Trailers HERE

Kick-Ass 2 (Movie Watch)

The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.

Trailer HERE

The Place Beyond The Pines (Graded)

A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

Oblivion (Movie Watch)

A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race. The arrival of an unexpected traveler causes him to question what he knows about the planet, his mission, and himself.

Trailer HERE

The Gatekeepers (Movie Watch)

For the first time ever, six former heads of Israel's domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. Since the Six Day War in 1967, Israel has failed to transform its crushing military victory into a lasting peace. Throughout that entire period, these heads of the Shin Bet stood at the center of Israel's decision-making process in all matters pertaining to security. They worked closely with every Israeli prime minister, and their assessments and insights had - and continue to have - a profound impact on Israeli policy.

Trailer HERE

NO (Movie Watch)

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

 Trailer HERE

Upside Down (Movie Watch)

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

Trailer HERE

Iron Man 3 (Graded)

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?

Grade: B +
Trailers HERE

War Witch [Rebelle] (Movie Watch)

Komona is only 12 years old when she is kidnapped by rebel soldiers and enslaved to a life of guerrilla warfare in the African jungle. Forced to commit unspeakable acts of brutality, she finds hope for survival in protective, ghost-like visions (inspiring a rebel chief to anoint her "War Witch"), and in a tender relationship with a fellow soldier named Magician.

Trailer HERE

Saturday, February 2, 2013

The Bitter Buddah (Movie Watch)

The film takes an unconventional journey with a true “comic’s comic”. Eddie Pepitone, a startling voice in the alt-comedy scene, has been battling on-stage for over 30 years. Now in his fifties, he is attempting to take his comedy to the next level. Throughout the film, we follow Eddie as he struggles to break through his cult status while dealing with self-doubt, sobriety and a challenging past.

Teaser HERE

Like Someone in Love (Movie Watch)

A brief encounter between an elderly professor and a sociology student who moonlights as a high-end escort dispatched to the old man by her boss—one of the professor’s former students—the young woman finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records (like the one that gives the film its allusive title). Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student’s insanely jealous boyfriend; but as usual in Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characters—who conjure in one another the specters of regret and roads not taken—meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?

Trailer HERE

A Good Day to Die Hard (Movie Watch)

John McClane travels to Russia to help his son, Jack, who has gotten into trouble with the local authorities—but John soon finds that his son's arrest is just one small part of a wider terrorist plot that threatens the stability of the free world.

Trailer HERE

Only God Forgives (Movie Watch)

Julian runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation. Forced by his mother Jenna, Julian must find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

Trailer HERE

Lore (Movie Watch)

Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. Led by the eldest sibling, 14-year old Lore, they set out on a harrowing journey across a devastated country to reach their grandmother in the north. After meeting the charismatic Thomas, a mysterious young refugee, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she must learn to trust the one person she has always been taught to hate in order to survive.

Trailer HERE

The Playroom (Movie Watch)

In 1970s American suburbia, Maggie and her younger siblings spend the night telling each other stories in the attic. Downstairs, their parents put on airs and entertain guests over the course of a gin-soaked evening. The more they drink, the faster the artificial civility of the gathering deteriorates, and for the first time, the family is forced to confront the truth behind the betrayals and disappointments of their lives.

Trailer HERE

The Sorcerer and The White Snake (Movie Watch)

Based on an old Chinese legend about an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman. Until a sorcerer discovers her true identity and battles to save the man's soul.

Trailer HERE

Side Effects (Movie Watch)

A provocative thriller about Emily and Martin, a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist, intended to treat anxiety, has unexpected side effects.

Trailer HERE

Identity Thief (Movie Watch)

Unlimited funds have allowed Diana to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There's only one glitch: The ID she's using to finance these sprees reads "Sandy Bigelow Patterson"... and it belongs to an accounts rep who lives halfway across the U.S. With only one week to hunt down the con artist before his world implodes, the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson heads south to confront the woman with an all-access pass to his life. And as he attempts to bribe, coax and wrangle her the 2,000 miles to Denver, one easy target will discover just how tough it is to get your name back.

Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

Sound City (Movie Watch)

Deep in the San Fernando Valley, amidst rows of dilapidated warehouses, was rock n' roll's best kept secret: Sound City. America's greatest unsung recording studio housed a one-of-a-kind console, and as its legend grew, seminal bands and artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Metallica and Nirvana all came out to put magic to tape. Directed by Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and featuring interviews and performances from the iconic musicians who recorded some of rock’s greatest albums at the studio, Sound City doesn’t just tell the story of this real-life rock ’n’ roll shrine, it celebrates the human element of music as Grohl gathers some of rock's biggest artists to collaborate on a new album.

Trailer HERE

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III (Movie Watch)

Set in a stylized Los Angeles, we are shown Charles, a successful graphic designer, whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love, a perplexing beauty named Ivana, suddenly breaks off their relationship, Charles’ life falls apart and he swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. With the support of his loyal intimates— Kirby, Saul, and his sister, Izzy— he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with a life without Ivana. The experience begs the question: Is it possible to love and hate someone at the same time?

Trailer HERE

Django Unchained (Movie Watch)

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


Trailers HERE

Skyfall (Graded)

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 -
Trailers HERE

Cloud Atlas (Graded)

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Grade: A -
Trailers HERE

The Master (Graded)

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