Cobb, a CEO, illegally dives into dreams to extract information. Fischer is a business-type who is soon to become the head of a company. When Cobb & his team attempt to influence Fischer to split his company in two, a man named Saito become privy to the scheme & blackmails Cobb. When Cobb's wife dies in her sleep things turn into a nightmare.
...The "what?", "Who?" and "when?" of Johnny Neat's entertainment picks. See which make the grade.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Paul Thomas Anderson (Director Spotlight)
From the debut of his short film Coffee and Cigarettes at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson firmly established himself as an auteur to watch. An ambitious film that focused on five characters interacting in a Las Vegas diner, Coffee and Cigarettes set the mold for his later films: multiple storylines, dazzling camerawork & a detailed emphasis on dialogue & character. Anderson was a brash & gutsy filmmaker who enjoyed tackling big themes – love, hope, family & redemption, all often combined in biblical fashion – while paradoxically allowing them to unfold intimately onscreen. Though his first feature-length movie, Hard Eight, failed to connect with most audiences & some critics, Anderson planted himself on the Hollywood map for good with Boogie Nights, a surprisingly affectionate look at the porn industry, as seen through the eyes of an eager & ambitious rising star. He followed this breakthrough success with the polarizing ensemble drama, Magnolia, and the wistful romantic drama, Punch Drunk Love, both of which underscored the fact that Anderson was at the top of his game. But with multi-Oscar nominated epic, There Will Be Blood, Anderson took a giant leap forward that planted him firmly in the company of Hollywood’s most elite filmmakers. Fans & Critics are awaiting his future film, The Master.
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Filmography List
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love
There Will be Blood
The Master
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Filmography List
List Info:
Coffee and Cigarettes
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love
There Will be Blood
The Master
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Daybreakers (Graded)
Knight & Day (Movie Watch)
A lonely woman's seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source.
Coming: July 2nd
Trailer HERE
Coming: July 2nd
Trailer HERE
Inception (French Trailer Release)
Cobb, a CEO, illegally dives into dreams to extract information. Fischer is a business-type who is soon to become the head of a company. When Cobb & his team attempt to influence Fischer to split his company in two, a man named Saito become privy to the scheme & blackmails Cobb. When Cobb's wife dies in her sleep things turn into a nightmare.
The Horde (Movie Watch)
North of Paris. In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, four corrupt cops go on a rampage in a condemned building serving as the mobster's hideout. Now trapped, the officers are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Unexpected alliances are made when their lives are threatened by the unthinkable.
Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE
Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Kick-Ass (Graded)
High school dweeb Dave Lizewski decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons but what's worse than that when the object of your infatuation believes you're gay & a former cop trying to bring down a druglord has trained his daughter to be a real lethal weapon is already in town?
Grade: A
Trailer/Interview HERE
Official Teaser HERE
Comic-Con Clip HERE
Leaked Teaser HERE
Grade: A
Trailer/Interview HERE
Official Teaser HERE
Comic-Con Clip HERE
Leaked Teaser HERE
Saturday, December 19, 2009
2012 (Graded)
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Graded: C
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Thursday, December 17, 2009
A Prophet (Trailer Release)
A young Arab man named Malik El Djebena is sent to a French prison where he becomes involved in a world he may or may not be ready for, but without time to think about his abilities to survive, survival is the only option he has.
Grade: A
US Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser 1 HERE
Teaser 2 HERE
Teaser 3 HERE
Grade: A
US Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser 1 HERE
Teaser 2 HERE
Teaser 3 HERE
Alice in Wonderland (Graded)
Tim Burton attempts one of the best loved stories of all time... Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', which first told the story of a young girl, who after following a rabbit down a hole, is transported to a strange world.
Grade: C
Trailers HERE
Grade: C
Trailers HERE
Clash Of The Titans (Graded)
By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess's former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Inception (Poster Release)
Cobb, a CEO, illegally dives into dreams to extract information. Fischer is a business-type who is soon to become the head of a company. When Cobb & his team attempt to influence Fischer to split his company in two, a man named Saito become privy to the scheme & blackmails Cobb. When Cobb's wife dies in her sleep things turn into a nightmare.
Grade: A +
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Friday, December 11, 2009
Feux Rouges [Red Lights] (Graded)
The love between couple Antoine & Helene is strained by married life, social & personal expectations & Helene's hectic job. Troubled by their situation, Antoine turns to alcohol, prompting Helene to threaten to leave him while at a bar one night. Intoxicated & upset, Antoine insists that Helene wait in the car, only to find her gone when he leaves. He goes after her & finds more than both care to remember.
Grade: A +
Trailer HERE
Grade: A +
Trailer HERE
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Iron Man 2 (Poster 2 Release)
Tony Stark will team with Nicky Fury for the Avenger project while SHIELD takes on the terrorist known as The Mandarin, a terrorist who has gotten hold of Stark's MK designs unleashing prototypes of the Iron Man suit.
Grade: A -
Teaser HERE
Grade: A -
Teaser HERE
Clash Of The Titans (Teaser Poster Release)
By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess's former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Youth in Revolt (Poster 2 Release)
Waiting for Armageddon (Movie Watch)
America’s 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world’s future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. This astonishing documentary explores their world - in their homes, at conferences & on a wide-ranging tour of Israel. By interweaving Christian, Zionist, Jewish & critical perspectives along with telling archival materials, the filmmakers probe the politically powerful & potentially explosive alliance between Evangelical Christians & Israel…an alliance that may set the stage for what one prominent Evangelical leader calls “World War III.”
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Friday, December 4, 2009
Saint John of Las Vegas (Movie Watch)
After a run of bad luck, John, a compulsive gambler, runs away from Las Vegas towards a normal job & life. Taking a nondescript position in an auto insurance company in Albuquerque, he tries to get ahead in the straight world, amid the ever-present temptations of scratch-off lotto tickets. When his boss asks him to accompany his top fraud debunker, Virgil, on an investigation of a dubious car “accident” near Vegas, John sees an opportunity to get a promotion despite gambling being in the air.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Brooklyn's Finest (Graded)
Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan is just one week away from his pension & a fishing cabin in Connecticut, narcotics officer Sal Procida has discovered there's a line he may have to cross to provide a better life for his wife & seven children & Clarence "Tango" Butler has been undercover so long his loyalties are beginning to strain between his fellow police officers & his prison buddy Caz, one of Brooklyn's most infamous drug dealers. With personal & work pressures bearing down on them, each man faces a test of judgment in one of the world's most difficult jobs.
Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Thursday, December 3, 2009
44 Inch Chest (Movie Watch)
Colin is devastated when his wife announces she's leaving him for a younger man, and ends up sprawled drunkenly amidst the wreckage of their final argument. His motley crew of old friends come rally to his aid, but their plot to kidnap the lover and push Colin into revenge is misguided and inept in execution.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Iron Man 2 (Poster Release)
Tony Stark will team with Nicky Fury for the Avenger project while SHIELD takes on the terrorist known as The Mandarin, a terrorist who has gotten hold of Stark's MK designs unleashing prototypes of the Iron Man suit.
Grade: A -
Teaser HERE
Grade: A -
Teaser HERE
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Book of Eli (Poster 5 Release)
In the post-apocalyptic world of the book of Eli, civilization has collapsed & clean water has become the prime currency. Eli is a survivor who must fend off gangs & a brutal tyrant in this desolate wasteland. He is a alone in a fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Wolverine / Iron Man Anime (Movie Watch)
Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Above & Below, you'll get a first glimpse at Iron Man and Wolverine, two of the planned four series.
Trailer HERE (Wolverine)
Trailer HERE
(Iron Man)
Trailer HERE (Wolverine)
Trailer HERE
(Iron Man)
The Lovely Bones (Graded)
In 1973, Susie Salmon is molested & murdered by a neighbor, George Harvey, a serial killer of young girls & women. She finds herself in Heaven, observing her family as they grieve for her. She also watches her killer who, having covered his tracks successfully, is preparing to murder again. Susie struggles to balance her desire for vengeance on Harvey & her desire to have her family recover from their loss.
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Road (Graded)
A father & his son walk alone through burned America on a Road. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other.
Grade: A++
Featurette HERE
Trailer HERE
Grade: A++
Featurette HERE
Trailer HERE
Mr. Nobody (Poster Release)
In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 120-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences & marriages he might have experienced but is it all a delusional man's retelling of what ifs or something more?
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Kick-Ass (Hit-Girl Trailer)
High school dweeb Dave Lizewski decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons but what's worse than that when the object of your infatuation believes you're gay & a former cop trying to bring down a druglord has trained his daughter to be a real lethal weapon is already in town?
Grade: A
Grade: A
Fight Club (Graded)
A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches & initially harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
Grade: A +
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Grade: A +
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Trick 'r Treat (Graded)
Sam, a mysterious pint-sized trick or treater with a burlap pumpkin mask, makes a 'friendly-reminder' to those who break the Halloween traditions. Nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack O' Lantern before midnight; a terrifying principal who loves to teach his son the true meaning of Halloween while moonlighting for his own adult fun; Laurie, a young woman dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, is stalked by a mysterious hooded figure at a local Halloween festival; a group of pranksters go too far & discover the horrifying truth buried in a local urban legend of a school bus massacre; & a cantankerous old hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick before the real trick or treaters arrive. Things turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety try to survive & enjoy the scariest night of the year.
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
The Wolfman (GRADED)
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate by his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother only to discover a horrifying destiny for himself. Something with brute strength & insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
Grade: C +
Trailers HERE
Grade: C +
Trailers HERE
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The White Ribbon (Movie Watch)
A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?
Coming: Dec 30th
Trailer HERE
Coming: Dec 30th
Trailer HERE
Crazy Heart (Movie Watch)
Bad Blake is a richly comic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero broken-down & hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road & one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
A Single Man (Graded)
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Salt (Teaser Poster 2 Release)
Evelyn Salt is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor & country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run. Using all her skills & years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture & protect her husband or the world's most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Kick-Ass (Teaser Release)
High school dweeb Dave Lizewski decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons but what's worse than that when the object of your infatuation believes you're gay & a former cop trying to bring down a druglord has trained his daughter to be a real lethal weapon is already in town?
Grade: A
Official Teaser HERE
Comic-Con Clip HERE
Leaked Teaser HERE
Grade: A
Official Teaser HERE
Comic-Con Clip HERE
Leaked Teaser HERE
Clash Of The Titans (Teaser Release)
By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess's former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.
Grade: C +
Teaser HERE
Grade: C +
Teaser HERE
Monday, November 9, 2009
Seven Days (Movie Watch)
Bruno Hamel is a husband & father. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie & their eight-year-old daughter Jasmine & like many happy people, leads an uneventful life, until a beautiful fall afternoon when his daughter is raped & murdered. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind, he plans to capture the 'monster' & make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in court, Bruno kidnaps the man later sending the police a brief message, stating that the rapist & murderer of his daughter is going to be tortured for 7 days & then executed.
Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE
Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Mesrine: Public Enemy No 1 (Graded)
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Salt (Movie Watch)
Evelyn Salt is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor & country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run. Using all her skills & years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture & protect her husband or the world's most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Graded)
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
V (TV Watch)
An extraterrestrial race arrives on Earth with seemingly good intentions, only to slowly reveal their true machinations the more ingrained into society they become.
Airing: 8pm Tues
Ep. 1-4 Nov, 2009
Ep. 5-? Mar, 2010
Trailer HERE
Airing: 8pm Tues
Ep. 1-4 Nov, 2009
Ep. 5-? Mar, 2010
Trailer HERE
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Graded)
Dastan is a street urchin in 6th century Persia. After showing valor in battle, he is adopted by the king as his heir, so the king's two sons will not fight over the throne. He eventually comes into possession of the dagger of time. Teaming up with Princess Tamina, they must rescue the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that controls time, from the hands of the villainous nobleman, Nizam who plans to control the world making everyone in it his demon slaves.
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Grade: C +
Trailer HERE
Thursday, October 29, 2009
A Serious Man (Graded)
This is a story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem & a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife & Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more & more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions & become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?
Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Grade: B +
Trailer HERE
Green Zone (Graded)
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller & his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped & treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Grade: B
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Grade: B
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Disturbing the Universe (Movie Watch)
In Disturbing the Universe, Emily & Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer William Kunstler. In the 1960s & 70s, he fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. & represented the famed “Chicago 8” activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer. To his daughters, it seemed that he was at the center of everything important that had ever happened. But when they were growing up, Kunstler represented some of the most reviled members of society, including rapists & assassins. This powerful film not only recounts the historic causes that Kunstler fought for; it also reveals a man that even his own daughters did not always understand, a man who risked public outrage & the safety of his family so that justice could serve all.
Coming: Nov 13th
Trailer HERE
Coming: Nov 13th
Trailer HERE
Collapse (Movie Watch)
Americans generally like to hear good news & believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil & fresh thinking will set the economy right. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism & hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst? Michael Ruppert, a former L.A. police officer turned independent reporter, is a different kind of American predicting the current financial crisis in his newsletter “From the Wilderness” at a time when most Wall Street & Washington analysts were in denial.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Green Zone (Movie Watch)
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller & his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped & treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Grade: B
Trailer HERE
Grade: B
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Cup of Tears (Movie Watch)
A scorned geisha creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall under a stasis of permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a once gifted samurai, & his companion Jin set out to find the cup & the one who can break the spell before inner turmoil erupts.
Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE
Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE
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