Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Che: El Argentino (Poster Release)

The Argentine, begins as Che & a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support & an army to topple the U.S. friendly regime of Fulgencio Batista.

Grade: A
Leaked Spanish Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Trailers HERE

Monday, August 25, 2008

New York, I Love You (Movie Watch)

In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU - a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the city's heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn, the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself.


Coming: Oct 16th
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Good (Movie Watch)

John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children & a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism & prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices... with eventually devastating effect.


Trailer HERE

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Frost/Nixon (Movie Watch)

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

Trailer HERE

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Gran Torino (Movie Watch)

Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Vampire Weekend (Music to Hear)

If there's anything these upper crust New York kids have seemed to have learn comes from listening to African music, in today's bland overhyped popular music scene it's the difference between "Home Grown Talent" & "Corporate Marketing Hype" music: Vampire Weekend's debut album announces straight off that it's home grown. The first sound on the first song, "Mansard Roof", comes from Rostam Batmanglij's keyboard, set to a perky, almost piping tone-- the kind of sunny sound you'd hear in old west-African pop. Same goes for Ezra Koenig's guitar, which never takes up too much space; it's that clean, natural tone you'd get on a record from Senegal or South Africa. Chris Baio's bass pulses and slides and steps with light feet, & most of all there's Chris Tomson, who plays like a percussionist as often as he does a rock drummer, tapping out rhythms & counter-accents on a couple of drums in the back of the room.


And yet they play it all like indie kids on a college lawn, because they're not hung up on Africa per say -- a lot of these songs work more on a primal fun level, if you think back to when babies makes sounds to know they exist & or to self entertain. It all leaves behind nothing more than clean-cut pop & preppy new wave, tucked-in dress shirts, polo collars popped & English-lit courses long dropped but read on the side. Sounds good to me.

Visit Label Site HERE.

Role Models (Movie Watch)

Two power drink reps, who in order to keep their jobs, are forced to do community service & become mentors in the Big Brother program.

Grade: B 
Trailer HERE

Appaloosa (Movie Watch)

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Tale of Despereaux (Poster Release)

"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

Winged Creatures (Movie Watch)

A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a Los Angeles diner.

Coming: July 9th, 2009
Trailer HERE

Eagle Eye (Poster Release)

A young slacker and a single mom get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination.

Trailer HERE

W (Poster Release)

There are questions any definitive account of George W. Bush's presidency must answer, but one has in particular has dogged him from the very start: How can such a failure amount to such success?

Grade: B
Trailer HERE