Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (What to Know)

One year after the incredible events of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the Kings & Queens of Narnia find themselves back in that faraway wondrous realm, only to discover that more than 1300 years have passed in Narnian time. During their absence, the Golden Age of Narnia has become extinct, Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines and is now under the control of the evil King Miraz, who rules the land without mercy.

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Movie Watch)

After an ancient truce between humankind & the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above & the one below defies his bloodline & awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator & his marauders. They may be misunderstood, but when you need the job done right, it's time to call in Hellboy & the B.P.R.D.. Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows & an unknown destiny that beckons him.

Grade: C +
Trailer HERE



Deep Water (Movie Watch)

This is the stunning true story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968. Battling treacherous seas & his own demons, Crowhurst almost immediately comes apart as he faces the isolation of nine months on the high seas. Part adventure yarn/part metaphysical mystery, "Deep Water" is an unforgettable journey into one man's heart of darkness.

Trailer Here

Hitman (Poster Release)

The first poster was a very understated reminder of the movie's intellectual property, but now we get a brand new one that gets into what we cn look forward to. Although I fear it might fall into 16yr action, ala Tripple X. Woe is us, if proven true.

The movie revolves around Agent 47, who has been educated to become a professional assassin for hire, but the hunter becomes the hunted when 47 gets caught up in a political takeover. Both Interpol & the Russian military chase the Hitman across Eastern Europe as he tries to find out who set him up & why they're trying to take him out of the game.

Grade: D
Trailer HERE

Whiteout (Movie Watch)

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, uncovers the first murder ever in the Antarctic just as the sun is about to set for six months. She must catch the killer before he leaves the ice or be stuck there with him in the dark for six months.


Trailers HERE

Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, one of the masters of cinema whose brooding & incisive studies of the human psyche won international acclaim, & three Oscars, died Monday at age 89.
Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, his daughter Eva Bergman told Swedish media. A cause of death wasn't immediately available, but according to friends, he had never fully recovered from an October hip operation.
Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" (1960), "Through a Glass Darkly" (1961) and "Fanny and Alexander" (1982) won the foreign-language Academy Award. The director also won the Irving Thalberg Award as well as the Directors Guild of America's D.W. Griffith Award for lifetime contribution. In addition, he was nominated for Oscars multiple times in the writing and/or directing categories.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Lust, Caution (Movie Watch)

Director Ang Lee’s new film, following his Academy Award win for directing “Brokeback Mountain,” is an espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai. Asian cinema icon Tony Leung (“Hero,” “In the Mood for Love”) stars as Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure in 1940s Shanghai. Tang Wei, a rising star in mainland China, makes her feature film debut as Wang Jiazhi, a young woman who gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with Mr. Yee.

Trailer HERE

The Mist (Movie Watch)

Three-time Oscar-nominee Frank Darabont ("The Green Mile," "The Shawshank Redemption") reunites with horror-master Stephen King to write & direct this chilling adaptation of the author's original short story "The Mist".

Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton & a small town community come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick & unnatural mist. Local rumors point to an experiment called the 'The Arrowhead Project' conducted at a nearby top-secret military base, but questions as to the origins of the deadly vapor are secondary to the group's overall chances for survival. Retreating to a local supermarket, Drayton & the survivors must face-off against each other before taking a united stand against an enemy they cannot even see!

Grade: B
Teaser HERE

The Incredible Hulk (Photo Release)

During the panel for "The Incredible Hulk" at Comic-Con, Edward Norton revealed that he loves the comic books so much that he actually wrote the script for the movie, despite everyone believeing it was the writer of "Fantastic Four"!? Now that shocking news turned out to be a good one in my opinion it turns out we got another shocker, The Hulk himself. The first image of the Hulk has been revealed, showing what direction the filmmakers are going for.

The image is of a very sad character, with very human features. He's obviously not as green as the hulk in the 2003 Ang Lee version. Plus during the same panel, Norton actually mentioned that the goal is to have him be as real as possible. In this re-do, Bruce Banner lives in the shadows, scouring the planet for an antidote. Upon returning to civilization, Banner is ruthlessly pursued by The Abomination -- a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline & aggression whose powers match The Hulk's own.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Southland Tales (Graded)

Director Richard (Donnie Darko) Kelly was at the San Diego Comic-Con yesterday promoting his latest sci-fi film "Southland Tales." Many people are pretty excited to finally see the film, since this is the man that gave us "Donnie Darko." But also because "Southland Tales" has gone through many delays, negative reviews from the Cannes Film Festival showing, and re-shoots after Sony put in extra funding for some much needed special effects.
Kelly stated at the Comic-Con that, "[We made] a lot of editorial changes in terms of restructuring the order of scenes, We re-recorded all of Justin Timberlake's voice-over & we added, like, 90 new visual-effects shots. It was truly like a work of progress." He also added that the movie has been cut by 20-25 minutes from its initial cut, which was nearly three hours long.

Grade: F
Trailer HERE

Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Teaser Poster)

Paramount unveiled the first teaser poster of "Indiana Jones 4" during Comic-Con, which showed a few painted pictures of Indy from previous films. That was ok, but now we got another teaser poster that actually has something to do with the movie.
This poster is a Comic-Con exclusive that will be very difficult to get. For all you Indy fans out there, the number written on the crate matches the number on the crate that appears in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." At the end of the film, it was placed in an undisclosed government storage facility. It is crate number 9906753, one of thousands, gathering dust in a top secret warehouse. So, is there a connection between the two films?

Stay tuned for more information and promotional material to come from Comic-Con, especially regarding Indiana Jones.


Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Friday, July 27, 2007

Superbad (Graded)

Two socially inept teenagers are about to graduate high school. For their whole life, they have always been like two peas in a pod & have developed a grossly over dependent friendship. However, they've now been accepted into different colleges & are forced, for the first time, to contemplate life apart. Evan is sweet, smart, & generally terrified. Seth, on the other hand, is foul-mouthed, volatile, & obsessed with the topic of human sexuality. This is the story of their misguided attempts to reverse a lifelong losing streak with the ladies in one panic-driven night... that awful, humiliating night you cherish for the rest of your life.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

Drillbit Taylor (Movie Watch)


After being harrased by a school bully, two teenagers hire a former soldier of fortune as a bodyguard, only to find out that he has his own agenda.


Trailer HERE

Sweeny Todd (Movie Watch)

A wrongfully imprisoned barber in Victorian England sets out to seek revenge on the judge who imprisoned him. The plot is foreshadowed in the first lines of the opening number: "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd./His skin was pale and his eye was odd./He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard of again."


Grade: C -
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

The Midnight Meat Train (Graded)

When his latest body of work, provocative, nighttime studies of the city & its inhabitants, earns struggling photographer Leon Kaufman interest from a prominent art gallerist, she propels him to get grittier & show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space. Believing he's finally on track for success, Leon's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany, the subway murderer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable. With his concerned girlfriend Maya fearing for his life, Leon's relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further & further into the bowels of the subways & ultimately into an abyss of pure evil, inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.

Grade: D
Trailer HERE

The Best Friend (Movie Watch)

François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He's arrogant, self-centered and harsh, and they don't believe he knows the meaning of friendship. His business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce his best friend, she will let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers.
Having accepted the wager, François naively tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. Moving through Paris, he keeps encountering a trivia-spouting, big-hearted cabbie named Bruno. Bruno's chatty, lowbrow ways grate against François's designer temperament, but he covets the other man's easy way with people. He convinces Bruno to teach him how to make friends and sets about learning the "three S's" – being sociable, smiling and sincere – though they don't come easy. Ultimately, François victory will depend on Bruno's naiveté in playing along, but what's the cost of cheating at friendship?

Trailer HERE

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Doomsday (Movie Watch)

In "Doomsday," a deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.

Grade: C
Trailer HERE

Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Comic-Con Poster)

Paramount handed out this gem to attendees of Comic-Con in San Diego. It's simply a painted collage of Harrison Ford as Indy from previous installment(s).
The Poster is a cool gift but a few scenes from the movie, like a teaser trailer, would be better. Anyhow stay tuned to see what Paramount Pictures has planned for the event & whether we will get more than just this simple poster.
Very recently, a rumor got out that this film is part of a trilogy, which would bring Ford back for two more movies. Lucasfilm of course quickly shot that down stating, "That's purely a rumor. Idle chatter among Internet fans."

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Southland Tales (Movie Watch)

Set in the year 2008, in a futuristic Los Angeles landscape, a socially, economically & environmentally dysfunctional society is on the verge of an apocalypse following a nuclear terrorist attack on Texas a few years earlier. An action star named Boxer Santaros, who has suddenly been stricken with amnesia, teams up with his new porn-star girlfriend Krysta Now to write an illuminating screenplay about the impending apocalypse. Krysta is actually quite a savvy businesswoman that is using him to help advance her career as a mainstream talk show host. Both of them have secret lives that the other one is not aware of and in Boxer’s case, even he no longer remembers who he is due to the memory loss. Meanwhile, Baron Von Westphalen has invented an intricate machine that solves America’s energy crises, but may ultimately lead to the destruction of the entire world. And either one or both of the twin brothers Roland & Ronald Taverner might hold the secret to a vast conspiracy. The stories of these people as well as many others intertwine over a ghastly heat wave during a Fourth of July weekend.

Grade: F
Trailer HERE

Lars and The Real Girl (Movie Watch)

A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Feast of Love (Movie Watch)

From venerable, multiple Academy Award winning director Robert Benton comes a kaleidoscopic ode to love in all its funny, sad, sexy, crazy, heartbreaking & extraordinary facets. This thoroughly modern version of a Midsummer Night’s Dream erupts in a tight-knit Oregon neighborhood as local professor Harry Stevenson witnesses love whipping up mischief among the town’s residents- where all their stories intertwine into one remarkable romantic fable.

Trailer HERE

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Poster Release)

The Golden Age finds Queen Elizabeth I facing bloodlust for her throne & familial betrayal. Growing keenly aware of the changing religious & political tides of late 16th century Europe, Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King Philip II--with his powerful army & sea-dominating armada--determined to restore England to Catholicism. The film tells the thrilling tale of an era... the story of one woman's crusade to control love, crush enemies & secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world.

Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

Monday, July 23, 2007

Valkyrie (Rubicon) (What to Know)

United Artists Has released a picture of Tom in character for their film "Valkyrie," a suspense thriller which is based on real-life events, Cruise plays German officer, aristocratic Claus von Stauffenberg, who led the daring July 20th plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 by planting a bomb in Hitler's bunker.

Persepolis (Graded)

Persepolis is a poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious & outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE


My Blueberry Nights (Movie Watch)

A young woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of memorable characters along the way.

Trailer HERE

Friday, July 20, 2007

No End In Sight (Movie Watch)

The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, No End In Sight is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. No End In Sightexamines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy - the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military - largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today.

Trailer Here

The Darjeeling Limited (Movie Watch)

Following the death of their father & disappearance of their mother, three American brothers take a journey through the vibrant & sensual landscapes of India to re-forge family bonds. The journey comes in a form of a train trip, all set up by the oldest brother, Francis, who wishes to reconnect with his siblings. But when their behavior causes them to be kicked off the train, they are forced to learn much more about themselves & India than they ever expected.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Valkyrie (Rubicon) (What to Know)

United Artists announced the start of principal photography today in Berlin on "Valkyrie," a suspense thriller based on the true story of the daring German officers' plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. Tom Cruise stars as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the heroic attempt to bring down the Nazi regime & end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler's bunker.

The Hottest State (Movie Watch)

Adapted by Ethan Hawke from his own novel of the same name, The Hottest State is a bittersweet romance that distills the joy, pain, erotic highs & emotional lows of first love. Days before his 21st birthday, William, an actor, meets & quickly falls madly in love with Sara, a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room to a snowbound weekend in Connecticut to a sweltering homecoming in the hottest state of all - Texas - in the pursuit of Sara. His stubborn & sweetly innocent quest to find someone who loves him as much as he loves her may not lead to happiness, but surely leads to newfound maturity.

Trailer Here

The Hurt Locker (Movie Watch)

An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.

Grade: B +
Trailers HERE

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Watchmen (Comic-Con Poster)

"Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" – which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?"

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

Tekkonkinkreet (Movie Watch)

In Treasure Town, orphans Black & White rule the mean streets through violence and terror. These lost boys are direct opposites: Black being a streetwise punk who embodies everything wrong about the city, while White is a innocent dope, out of touch with the world around him. Together, they're unstoppable as they take on petty thugs, religious fanatics and brutal yakuza. But when a corporation called "Kiddy Kastle" tries to tear down and rebuild Treasure Town to fit its own goals, the boys must save the soul of their beloved city, that is if they can save themselves from inner demons. Based on Taiyo Matsumoto's serialized manga "Black and White."

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

No Country For Old Men (Graded)

Based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug runners & small towns have become free fire zones. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin & two million in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - the aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama & broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible & as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.

Grade: A-
Teaser HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

Monday, July 16, 2007

King of Kong (Movie Watch)

Follows a middle school science teacher as he battles a hot sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong.

Trailer Here

Dans Paris (Movie Watch)

"Dans Paris" sees Paul returning to his family, depressed & suicidal after the break-up of his relationship, to live with his divorced father & younger brother. While his carefree sibling & doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his aloof mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy. Left in the house to talk to his brother’s girlfriend & brood, he begins to realize that while things haven’t gone according to plan, one can always find something to live for.

Grade: B -
Teaser Here
Trailer Here

Gone Baby Gone (Movie Watch)

“Gone Baby Gone” (from the acclaimed author of “Mystic River.”) is an intense look inside an ongoing investigation about the mysterious disappearance of a little girl. Two young private detectives are hired to take a closer look at the case & soon discover that nothing is what it seems. Ultimately, they will have to risk everything — their relationship, their sanity, & even their lives — to find a little girl-lost.


Grade: B +
Trailer Here

Ghosts of Cite Soleil (Movie Watch)

An epic portrait of a family and a culture torn apart by poverty and violence, Ghosts of Cite Soleil is a powerful and unsettling documentary that takes us inside the lives of the notorious gang leaders who dominate the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil, one of the most desperate communities in the Western hemisphere. The film follows two of the gang leaders, who happen to be brothers, and are also aspiring rappers. The foot soldiers of these gang leaders are known as chimeres (or “ghosts”) & it was those ghosts whom former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is said to have employed to silence his opponents. Filmed in the months leading up to Aristide’s overthrow in 2004, the film captures the smoldering tensions between the two rival gang leaders, and their love for the same woman, set in a city the United Nations has declared the most dangerous place on Earth.

Trailer Here

Friday, July 13, 2007

10,000 B.C. (Movie Watch)

It was a time when man and beast were untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the earth. A time when ideas and beliefs were born that forever shaped mankind. 10,000 B.C. follows a young hunter on his quest to lead an army across a vast desert, battling saber tooth tigers and prehistoric predators as he unearths a lost civilization and attempts to rescue the woman he loves from an evil warlord determined to possess her.

Grade: F
Teaser HERE

Rocket Science (Movie Watch)

In Rocket Science, Hal Hefner is an average sophomore at Plainsboro High School in New Jersey. He stutters and suffers the daily indignities of a typical teenager. With only a little encouragement, Hal falls in love with the star of the debate team, Ginny Ryerson and finds himself suddenly immersed in her ultra competitive world of high school debating, with its players, its politics and its own set of rules.

Trailer Here

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Bee Movie (Movie Watch)

Bee Movie is the comedic tale of Barry B Benson, a graduate bee fresh out of college, who is disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice - making honey. On a chance opportunity to go outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by a woman, Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, Barry's eyes are opened to the world of humans & he soon discovers that people partake in the mass consumption of honey. Armed with this information, Barry realizes his true calling in life & decides to sue the human race for stealing the bees' honey. As a result, the bee & human communities get involved in ways they never had before, each one of them pointing a finger at the other. Barry gets caught up in the middle & finds himself with some very unusual problems to solve.


Trailers HERE

Death Sentence (Graded)

When John Hume's son is killed by a group of gang-bangers his life is torn apart. His one salve is that the killer was caught at the crime scene, but when the justice department offers up 6 months in prison, he knows there must be something better, something that will allow his family to move on. Surprising himself, he retracts his testimony as the lone witness, essentially killing the case, & begins to look for another means for justice. It comes to him in the form of violence, which gives him a relief he's looking for but puts his family on a path towards a death, a Death Sentence.

Grade: D
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Lions For Lambs (Movie Watch)

In Lions For Lambs, we find a powerful & gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics & a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war. Directed by Academy Award winner Robert Redford, the story begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian & Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, & attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved & distraught. Now, as Arian & Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian & Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian & Ernest’s fates. As arguments, memories & bullets fly, the three stories are woven ever more tightly together, revealing how each of these Americans has a profound impact on each other & the world.

Grade: C +
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE

Cloverfield (Movie Watch)

Just when you thought the secret trailer played in front of "Transformers" was the biggest mystery around, Paramount went ahead and released the official version. The funny thing is that the studio spent lots of time making sure that the bootleg ones are taken off the many sites that had them, just to give us the official one days later. At this point, very little is known about the movie, even the title is still yet to be announced. (Cloverfield is the working title). According to rumors, we will not know much more about this flick for a while, since even the actors don't have any idea what the plot is about. All we know is that it is not Godzilla, but is still a monster movie.

Grade: B +
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

The Pit and the Pendulum (Movie Watch)

This short is a stop motion animated adaptation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story.

Trailer Here

Sicko (Movie Watch)

Sicko deals with the problems of the American for-profit health insurance & pharmaceutical industries. Its main message is that publicly-funded health care is a better model than the present US health-care system because the present system is designed to maximize profit by minimizing the care delivered to patients.

Trailer Here



Iraq for Sale (Movie Watch)

The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.


Trailer HERE

Margot at the Wedding (Movie Watch)

Acclaimed Academy Award-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale," "Kicking and Screaming,") brings to life a sharply observed portrait of a family in distress. His latest project is an unflinchingly honest story about coming to terms with one's family and oneself, a journey that is both funny and heartbreaking.

Trailer HERE

Quantum of Solace (Movie Watch)

Continuing on from the events of Casino Royale, Bond is once again on the track of the Lords Resistance Army in
the 22nd Bond adventure which will be released by Columbia Pictures on May 2, 2008 with Daniel Craig reprising the role of the legendary British secret agent.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

The Dark Knight (Joker Second Teaser & Poster)

In an interview with The Star Ledger "The Dark Knight" star, Christian Bale, revealed that a third "Batman" film is a definite possibility. "The script leaves room for a very interesting follow-up, too," Bale says of the potential for a third film. "I think we could take it somewhere else." This comes as no surprise, since "Batman Begins" earned $372 million worldwide in theaters alone & revitalized the entire franchise. Plus the villain count in "The Dark Knight" is rising with the addition of The Scarecrow to Harvey Dent & The Joker; there are just so many directions the story can go but wow is this poster proof that doubting Nolan's directorial choices. I would have preferred Jude Law as the Joker, after seeing proof with his turns in AI & Road to Perdition. Oh well, even though Batman & Superman (as the revamped General Zod) passed on Jude we'll at least get him well casted in Watchmen.

Grade: A -
Teaser 1 HERE
Teaser 2 HERE
Trick Page HERE