Thursday, March 29, 2007

The Bourne Ultimatum (Graded)

Rogue agent Jason Bourne is still being hunted by the very people at the CIA that transformed him into a killer. Still suffering from amnesia & determined to finally learn of his true identity, he's lured out of hiding to make contact with a journalist named Simon Ross, who has been following his story. Throughout his research, Ross has gathered up valuable information about Bourne & Treadstone, the organization that trained him. That’s rather inconvenient for Noah Vosen, who is looking to start up a new organization under the codename Blackbriar that would follow in Treadstone’s footsteps. With intent to kill Bourne & the journalist before they expose the program’s embarrassing secrets, he sends agent Pam Landy to lead the search effort. Simultaneously, Paz, one of the remaining few living Treadstone assassins, is dispatched to take both Bourne & Ross out. In order to finally learn of his true origins & find some inner peace, Bourne will have to evade, outsmart & outmaneuver the deadliest group of highly-trained killers yet.

Grade: A
The Bourne Identity: A
The Bourne Supremecy: A
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Movie Watch)

The first installment in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, based on the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy, The Golden Compass is about a girl who travels to the far north to save her best friend, encountering shape-shifting creatures, witches & other fantastical characters along the way. In the second & third books, the action moves between parallel universes as the girl meets a boy from our world and they join forces to overthrow the repressive authority that rules everything.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Trailer 2 HERE


Monday, March 26, 2007

The Last Mimzy (Graded)


The Last Mimzy tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with the box's contents they begin to display higher & higher levels of intelligence & showing signs that something extraordinary is happening.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Day Watch (Movie Watch)

Day Watch begins & it is New Year's Eve of 2006, more than one year after the events of Night Watch. Anton Gorodetsky finds himself in the middle of an approaching conflict between the Light & Dark Others, who are still bound with an uneasy truce. Anton is still a Night Watch operative, now working with his trainee and romantic interest, Svetlana (the healer from Night Watch, now a Light Other). As his son Yegor has now become a Dark Other, Anton is forced to secretly destroy evidence of Yegor's attacks on normal people, which violate the treaty.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

28 Weeks Later (Graded)

Seven months after the Rage virus has spread throughout London & the British isles. The US Army has restored order & is repopulating the quarantined city, declaring that the war against infection has been won with the reconstruction of the country in mind. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited, but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret. When a carrier of the Rage virus enters London, the virus is not yet dead, & they unknowingly re-ignite the spread of the deadly infection, wreaking havoc on the entire population.


Grade: A -
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Watchmen (What to Know)











Zack Snyder's latest trailer for "300" contains a first glimpse from his upcoming film "Watchmen" based on the bible of comics from legendary writer Alan Moore.

"Watchmen" takes place during the time when super-heroes are banned, and one group of costumed heroes must resume their old identities & work together to save a doomed Earth from a mysterious force.

The picture that's featured in the trailer, which is above, is of Rorshach, the main character in the "Watchmen" comic books. Wearing the inkblot-like mask, he considers his true face, Rorschach has continued his one-man battle against crime long after superheroes became both detested and illegal. Rorschach’s views on good and evil are clearly defined and evil must be violently punished. He has alienated himself from the rest of society to achieve these aims.


Monday, March 5, 2007

Death Defying Acts (Movie Watch)

Based on true events during the escape artist Harry Houdini's 1926 tour of Britain, Death Defying Acts will follow Houdini's passionate relationship with a woman he encounters in Scotland.

Trailer HERE
















Friday, March 2, 2007

Paprika (Movie Watch)


29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.

Trailer Here