Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts to discover that much of the wizarding community has been denied the truth about the teenager’s recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort.
Grade: A -
Trailers HERE
...The "what?", "Who?" and "when?" of Johnny Neat's entertainment picks. See which make the grade.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Brooklyn Rules (Movie Watch)
In 1985 Brooklyn, three boyhood friends come of age on the streets where the violent have power. When one becomes enamored by the mafia lifestyle, all three friends are placed in grave danger as relationships and lives are threatened.
Trailer HERE
Michael Clayton (Graded)
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out & hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture & mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant & guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career & his life.
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Friday, May 25, 2007
Joshua (Movie Watch)
Fido (Graded)
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50’s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor & rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead & domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers & our domestic servants - a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control... but do they? Timmy Robinson doesn’t think so. At eleven, Timmy already knows the world is phony baloney - Mom & Dad just won’t admit it. Now ZomCon’s head of security has moved in across the street, & Timmy’s Mom refuses to be the only housewife on the block who doesn’t have a zombie of her own. When she brings a zombie servant home, Timmy discovers a new best friend & names him FIDO. Even though Dad has a bad case of zombie-phobia, Timmy is determined to keep Fido, even if he does eat the odd person...
Grade: B
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Music to Hear)
Sharing its title with a John Kennedy Toole novel, the Arcade Fire's second album is markedly different from its more cloistered predecessor: On Neon Bible, the band looks outward instead of inward, their concerns more worldly than familial & their sound more malevolent than cathartic. Angry, embittered & paranoid, but often generously empathetic in their points of view, they target the government, the church, the military, the entertainment industry & even the basest instincts of the common man.
The album grows like a flower that blooms into beautiful painting of the here & now with the help of colors like fear, anger & sadness the results shine of Hope & of talents that still invigorate one's soul & ears.The Neon Bible is the Holy right of the current musical landscape that still needs saving. Lucky for us the Arcade Fire are the preachers we need.
The album grows like a flower that blooms into beautiful painting of the here & now with the help of colors like fear, anger & sadness the results shine of Hope & of talents that still invigorate one's soul & ears.The Neon Bible is the Holy right of the current musical landscape that still needs saving. Lucky for us the Arcade Fire are the preachers we need.
La Vie En Rose (Movie Watch)
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf’s life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, Edith’s magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around the world. But in her audacious attempt to tame her tragic destiny, the Little Sparrow - her nickname - flew so high she could not fail to burn her wings.
Trailer Here
Peirrepoint: The Last Hangman (Movie Watch)
Following in the footsteps of his father & uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the ‘family business’ in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared & respected executioner in the country, hanging over 450 people in his lifetime. Living a double life as a master hangman, and a grocery deliveryman & loyal husband, Pierrepoint’s obsession to become the ‘Number One’ executioner in the country results in his selection as executioner for some of Britain’s most infamous murderers and Nazi war criminals. But this brings notoriety, shattering Pierrepoint’s guarded anonymity and turning him into a minor celebrity. When public opinion turns against capital punishment, Pierrepoint becomes a scorned man & is ready to give it all up, but fate has other plans in store for him. A devastating, true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s most notorious hangman.
Trailer Here
Trailer Here
Paris, Je T'aime (Graded)
In Paris, Je T'Aime, Celebrated directors from around the world such as the Coen Brothers, Walter Salles, Alfonso Cuaron & Alexander Payne etc have come together to portray Paris in a way never before imagined. Made by a team of contributors as cosmopolitan as the city itself, this portrait of the city is as diverse as its creators’ backgrounds and nationalities. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in the city LOVE, the vignettes go beyond the ‘postcard’ view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen.
Grade: B
Trailer 2 HERE
Grade: B
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The Dark Knight (What to Know)
Warner Bros Pictures has been updating the official "The Dark Knight" site on a regular basis. In just a few days, we have seen the Batman signal, a picture of Harvey Dent & even the Joker's face. Now the page where you can catch a glimpse of the Joker is gone and replaced with what looks like an Error page. However, if you highlight it, you will see a little message from the Joker. Click on the link below to check out the page. If you never got a chance to see what the Joker looks like, you can still check out that image right here right now.
Update: The message that's left by the Joker is a riddle. If you take all the "HA" out of the text, you will get "See You in December." Also, seeyouindecember.com has registerd as well, so stay tuned.
Monday, May 21, 2007
The Dark Knight (What to Know)
Warner Bros Pictures is continuing their "Dark Knight" campaign. Not only have they launched the official site, which features the Batman signal (theDarkKnight.warnerbros.com), and the Harvey Dent website (IBelieveinHarveyDent.com), but now the studio has launched a Joker site at IBelieveinHarveyDentToo.com, you can see Dent's promotional banner defaced. If you wait for a few seconds, you will slowly begin to see the Joker's face FINALLY. I think it works.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Day Night Day Night (Movie Watch)
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Friday, May 4, 2007
American Gangster (Movie Watch)
A drug lord smuggles heroin into Harlem during the 1970s by hiding the stash inside the coffins of American soldiers returning from Vietnam.
Grade: C
Trailer HERE
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