For super-dog Bolt, every day is filled with adventure, danger & intrigue... at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet, a cross-country journey through the real world. Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats & powers are real and with the help of two unlikely traveling companions,a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens & a TV-obsessed hamster in a plastic ball named Rhino, Bolt discovers he doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero.
Trailer HERE
...The "what?", "Who?" and "when?" of Johnny Neat's entertainment picks. See which make the grade.
Friday, June 27, 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Movie Watch)
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" is 20th Century Fox's contemporary reinvention of its 1951 classic. Klaatu is an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments & scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor's appearance, a woman & her young stepson get caught up in his mission – and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described "friend to the Earth."
Grade C +
Grade C +
Trailer HERE
The Tale of Despereaux (Movie Watch)
"The Tale of Despereaux" tells the story of four unlikely heroes: Despereaux, a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human; Roscuro, a good-hearted rat who loves light and soup, but is exiled to darkness; Pea, a Princess in a gloomy castle who is prisoner to her father's grief; and Mig, a servant girl who longs to be a Princess, but is forced to serve the jailer.
Coming: Dec 19th
Trailer HERE
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Burn After Reading (Graded)
Ozzie Cox is CIA vet who is fired because he is an alcoholic. In taking revenge, he writes some inflammatory memoirs. Cox's soon-to-be ex-wife Katie steals the disc containing his memoirs, accidentally leaving it at the gym where it is found by a trainer Chad Feldheimer & the gym's owner Linda Litzke who believes they can use the info to blackmail Cox.
Harry Pfarrer is an oversexed, fanatically fit, lactose-intolerant federal marshall, who is sleeping with Cox's wife. He meets Linda via an online dating service & gets entangled in the blackmail scheme, when he stumbles across Chad breaking into his & Katie's house. In the end truth is relative.
Harry Pfarrer is an oversexed, fanatically fit, lactose-intolerant federal marshall, who is sleeping with Cox's wife. He meets Linda via an online dating service & gets entangled in the blackmail scheme, when he stumbles across Chad breaking into his & Katie's house. In the end truth is relative.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Stan Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008)
American special effects, make-up artist and film director. Stan Winston was best known for his work in the Terminator, Jurassic Park, Aliens and Predator series'. In his career he won a total of four Academy Awards & nominated six times for his work. Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned more than one effects studio, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets & practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well. Stan Winston passed away Sunday, June 15, at his home in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years with multiple myeloma. He was currently working on the next installment of the Terminator frachise after having worked on the recently released Iron Man. A spokeswoman reported that "Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family."
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Trumbo (Movie Watch)
Dalton Trumbo’s remarkable journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner is brought to focus in Trumbo. Bringing into light in the writer’s own indelible words, the film features performances of some of his extraordinary letters, clips from his films, archival & contemporary interviews with those who knew him best. The film illustrates how one man’s unerring belief in the First Amendment and the power of the written word-plus a drink or two-empowered him to fight back after being blacklisted by HUAC. Forced to write underground, letter writing became the chief repository of Trumbo’s extraordinary talents, and they serve as a wonderfully entertaining testament to his boundless intellect, acerbic humor, and staggering resilience.
Trailer HERE
Gonzo (Movie Watch)
Gonzo is a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure & gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more. Narrated by Johnny Depp.
Trailer HERE
Defiance (Poster Release)
Traitor (Poster Release)
A special operative, labeled a Traitor, is suspected of working with a terrorist group becoming the target of the U.S. government.
Special Agent Roy Clayton of the FBI likes to play by the rules, but he's about to find out that between moral night & day is a murky, perilous twilight. When the CIA & FBI begin to work together to unravel an international conspiracy, the spotlight falls on Samir Horn, an American Muslim & former soldier with apparent connections to any number of terrorist operations. Agent Clayton becomes consumed with discovering the truth about Horn. Is he a villain, an undercover hero or something in between?
Special Agent Roy Clayton of the FBI likes to play by the rules, but he's about to find out that between moral night & day is a murky, perilous twilight. When the CIA & FBI begin to work together to unravel an international conspiracy, the spotlight falls on Samir Horn, an American Muslim & former soldier with apparent connections to any number of terrorist operations. Agent Clayton becomes consumed with discovering the truth about Horn. Is he a villain, an undercover hero or something in between?
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Wanted (Movie Watch)
Bioshock (Movie Watch)
Jack is the lonely survivor of a plane crash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Making his way through the wreckage to a nearby lighthouse, he comes to discover a secret entrance to the city of Rapture; an underwater utopia now ravished by a genetic civil war. Guided by the mysterious Atlas, he will come face to face with the disfigured inhabitants, daunting security systems & the horrifying Little Sisters who stalk the halls of the under water city under the watchful eyes of their guardian Big Daddies. Following orders to get through the now desolate city filled with deadly complications and horrifying revolutions, Jack must brace himself as he witnesses the low depths that humanity has sunken to as he retrieves ADAM, the addictive substance that everybody needs to survive in this world... including him.
Coming: 2009
Trailer Coming Soon
Coming: 2009
Trailer Coming Soon
Kane & Lynch (Movie Watch)
Kane is an ex-mercenary on his way to death row. His last job was a disaster that saw his team getting (presumably) killed while he ran off with a fortune in diamonds & was soon caught by the authorities. Now heading to deathrow, his prison bus crashes, a massive shootout begins between the guards, Police & the escaping convicts. Kane is helped to his feet by Lynch, another deathrow inmate. The look in Lynch's eyes and the sadistic smile on his face tell Kane that he is not a friend & it soon becomes clear that this is not a rescue: it's a kidnapping.
Trailer Coming
Trailer Coming
Monday, June 2, 2008
Babylon A.D. (Movie Watch)
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