Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Afterschool (Movie Watch)

Robert is a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school. When he accidentally captures on camera the horrible death of two girls, he’s tasked with memorializing their lives in a film meant to be used to speed up the school’s healing process. For some, this exercise only deepens the trauma.

Trailer HERE

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Graded)

Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox & all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox steals a meal from one of the three crooked farmers--Boggis, a chicken farmer, Bunce, who has a little bit of everything but only eats duck liver, and Bean, who farms turkeys and apples and subsists solely on apple cider. With his keen sense of smell, and the farmers' distinctive diets, Mr. Fox has no problem evading them but after so much treatment, the greedy farmers band together to end Mr. Fox.

Grade: A +
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Crazies (Poster 2 Release)

A plane crashing & letting loose a biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems for a little town in Iowa. Bouts of insanity in the populace are leading to murder and rioting, until the US Army turns up - and things really start going to hell.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Grave of the Fireflies (Graded)

Setsuko & Seita are siblings living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city & make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father's destiny as a soldier is unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads & food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, hunger is upon them & their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Blind Date (Movie Watch)

While struggling to reconnect after the death of their daughter, a married couple construct an elaborate game of pretend on a series of blind dates, hoping that they will be able to openly talk about the state of their relationship in the wake of tragedy.

When controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot & killed in cold blood in 2004 by a religious fundamentalist angered over the portrayal of Islam in one of his short films, the idea to remake three of his favorite films in English, with Hollywood stars, was born. This is the second film in said trilogy, after Steve Buscemi’s Interview.

Trailer HERE

Kiling Kasztner (Movie Watch)

Rezso Kasztner saved thousands – and paid with his life. True stories rarely contain a historic mystery, a courtroom drama, a political murder & a family saga, but all can be found in the contentious story of Rezso Kasztner. In Nazi occupied Hungary, Kasztner, a Jew, dared to negotiate face to face with the architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann. While the Nazi killing machine was at its peak, Kasztner secured a rescue train for 1684 Jews from Budapest & bargained for tens of thousands of more lives. It may have been the largest rescue of its kind during the Holocaust, more than were saved by Oskar Schindler. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collaborator in a trial & verdict that divided a nation & forever stamped him as the “man who sold his soul to the devil.” He was ultimately assassinated by Jewish right wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957. Was Kasztner a heroic rescuer of Jews or a villain colluding with the Nazis? Through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner’s assassin, Ze’ev Eckstein & a chilling meeting between the killer & Kasztner’s daughter, Zsuzsi, audiences finally can decide the legacy of this forgotten man.

Trailer HERE

Monday, September 28, 2009

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Teaser Release)

A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Kruger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.

Grade: C
Teaser HERE
Exclusive Clip HERE

The Book of Eli (Trailer 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

Friday, September 25, 2009

Disgrace (Movie Watch)

David Lurie, twice-divorced & dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, Melanie & does nothing to protect himself from the consequences, he is dismissed from his teaching position & goes to live with his lesbian daughter Lucy, who shares a farm in the Eastern Cape with trusted black worker Petrus. For a time, his daughter's influence & natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. In the aftermath of a vicious attack by three black youths, he is forced to come to terms with consequences, changes in society, as well as his personal disgrace.

Trailer HERE

Tôkyô Sonata (Movie Watch)

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Trailer HERE

Lorna's Silence (Movie Watch)

Sokol & Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money & a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie who needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver & aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport - and pay a hefty price to Fabio & Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.

Trailer HERE

Wichita (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, 2010
Trailer Coming Soon

Monday, September 21, 2009

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Movie Watch)

Two men set about their business in silence, stealing a van, buying tools & materials to strip & fit a dowdy two-room flat. With an air of brutal efficiency, it's clear they have more sinister intentions than mere home improvement, particularly when they start on the soundproofing & attach a bed to the floor. They soon don masks & pack guns, before seizing a young woman on a deserted suburban street, throwing her in the back of a van, & taking her back to be handcuffed to that bed. Now the question is what do they want?


Trailers HERE
Clips HERE

Leaves of Grass (Movie Watch)

An Ivy League philosophy professor is lured back into his home town by his twin brother for a doomed scheme against a local drug lord that unravels his life.

Coming: Dec 25th
Trailer Coming Soon

Disney's A Christmas Carol (Poster 3 Release)

Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an old miser who must face Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Yet-to-Come, as they help to bring kindness to his otherwise cold heart. The Ghosts remind him of the man he used to be, the hard truth of what the world is today & what will happen if he does not strive to be a better man. Set around Christmas, the most joyous day of the year, Scrooge realizes the sharp contrast of his own personality.

Trailer HERE

31 North 62 East (Movie Watch)

A psychological political thriller, tells the story of a British Prime Minister who gives up the position of an SAS unit in Afghanistan to ensure a UK £80 billion arms deal goes through – thus assuring his re-election. All soldiers in the SAS unit are thought to have died, until 2 months later, when one of them (a female Captain in the SAS) is found by Italian special forces & returned to the UK.

Trailer HERE

Van Diemen’s Land (Movie Watch)

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce & his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared & dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth. In 1822, eight convicts escaped in a fateful bid for freedom. This band of Irish, English & Scottish thieves were immediately hurled into chaos as their plan failed and they were thrust into the heart of a harsh & foreboding landscape. With little food or equipment they battled a merciless enemy - the unforgiving, barren land - a land where God wields an axe.

Trailer HERE

Get Low (Movie Watch)

For the past forty years, Felix Bush has lived as a hermit deep in the Tennessee woods. His clothes tattered, his manner rough & his expressions buried behind a massive white beard, he's an unnerving figure when he stalks into town with his mule, shotgun in hand. Some say he's killed men with his bare hands. One day Bush walks into the local funeral parlor & announces to Frank Quinn, “'Bout time for me to get low. Down to business. I need a funeral.” More importantly, he wants a funeral party, an event that will draw all his friends & enemies to his shack in the woods for a final reckoning, & he wants to throw the party while he's still alive.

Trailer HERE
Clip HERE

Harry Brown (Movie Watch)

Harry Brown is an elderly widower & ex-British marine who has lived to see his neighborhood overrun by violent gangs, drugs & crime. When his best friend Leonard is brutally murdered & the gang leader responsible walks free, Harry finds himself snapping. Soon, his desire for revenge leads to the unlikely vigilante facing up to the young thugs, with terrifying results.

Trailer HERE

The Fourth Kind (Poster 2 Release)

A UFO sighting is referred to as an encounter of the first kind…When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind…Contact with extraterrestrials, is an encounter of the third kind…The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document... Until now. The 4th Kind is a fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Nome, Alaska, where—mysteriously since the 1960s—a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered.

Trailer HERE

Friday, September 18, 2009

Agora (Poster 2 Release)

4th Century A.D. Egypt Under the Roman Empire. Violent Religious Upheaval in the Street of Alexandria Spills Over Into the City's Famous library. Trapped Inside its Walls, the Brilliant Astronomer Hypatia & her Disciples Fight to Save the Wisdom of the Ancient World. Among Them, the Two Men Competing for Her Heart: the Witty, Privileged Orestes & Davus, Hypatia's Young Slave, Who is Torn Between the Secret Love for Her & the Freedom He Knows can be His if He Chooses to Join the Unstoppable Surge of the Christians.

Trailer HERE

The Trotsky (Movie Watch)

Leon Bronstein, a teen who believes he is a reincarnation of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. He's determined to duplicate every aspect of his life, including being exiled and ultimately assassinated.

Trailer HERE

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Lying (Movie Watch)

When a long weekend brings four women together in the countryside, each of them is forced to navigate the depths of social interaction as virtual strangers. How well do we really know the friends we make in adulthood? And in the age of lies, what can be made of the person who tells untruths so small they serve no obvious purpose?

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Paranormal Activity (Movie Watch)

After a young, middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

Trailer HERE

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Peter and Vandy (Movie Watch)

This is a love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, Peter and Vandy go from strangers, to pie-eyed lovers, to a twisted & manipulative couple… just not in that order. They leave us asking what most couples ask themselves, “How the hell did we get this way?” We see them through everyday scenes in their life together. Trying to have sex… Meeting for the first time… Having dinner… Small, seemingly disconnected moments, but moments we all recognize. These moments are what relationships are comprised of. Ordering food. Picking a movie. In these moments we see who people really are. We all imagine going back in time & watch ourselves falling in love. Imagine if you could watch your first date with that significant other & hear the exact words you were saying. Chances are those words would be a lot different than you remember… and a lot more revealing.

Trailer HERE

Monday, September 14, 2009

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Movie Watch)

High profile lawyer, Martin Hunter has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars & is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist, C.J. Nicholas begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney’s perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat & mouse with Hunter, C.J. frames himself as a murder suspect to catch the corrupt D.A. in the act. Romantically involved with C.J. but unaware of his assignment, Assistant D.A. Ella becomes caught between her boss’s political ambitions & C.J.’s dangerous expose. As mounting evidence stacks up against both men, Ella’s own life becomes threatened as she discovers incriminating proof that puts the fate of both Nichol’s innocence & Hunter’s reputation in her hands.

Trailer HERE

Precious (Poster 2 Release)

Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved & generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect.

Trailer HERE

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Men Who Stare at Goats (Poster 2 Release)

Inspired by a real life story you will hardly believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter encounters an enigmatic Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. Reporter Bob Wilton is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady, a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls, & even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program’s founder, Bill Django, has gone missing & Cassady’s mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance’s far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search but what will they really find?

Trailer HERE

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Black Dynamite (Movie Watch)

This is the story of 1970's action legend Black Dynamite. When "The Man" murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Expendables (Movie Watch)

A team of mercenaries head on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

Trailer HERE
Grade: C

Anti Christ (Poster 2 Release)

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts & troubled marriage. But nature takes its course & things go from bad to worse.

Trailer HERE

Gatchaman (Poster 2 Release)

In the year 2001, Earth is under attack by a terrorist organization named Galactor, which is waging a destructive campaign of conquest & terror using super-high technology in the form of bizarre & supremely powerful war machines. United Nations' forces are helpless to stop this menace, but Prof. Nambu of the International Science Organization has a counter-force of his own: the Science Ninja Team, a team who operate with a bird theme & have fighting skills that are a match for any foe, regardless of numbers or firepower.

Coming: 2010
Trailer HERE (Bootleg)
Teaser HERE (Bootleg)

Up in the Air (Movie Watch)

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert - someone who fires people for a living - whose cherished life on the road is threatened by young hotshot just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he's met the frequent-traveler woman he never thought he'd meet.

Coming: Dec 4th
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Poster Release)

Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox & all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox steals a meal from one of the three crooked farmers--Boggis, a chicken farmer, Bunce, who has a little bit of everything but only eats duck liver, and Bean, who farms turkeys and apples and subsists solely on apple cider. With his keen sense of smell, and the farmers' distinctive diets, Mr. Fox has no problem evading them but after so much treatment, the greedy farmers band together to end Mr. Fox.

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Where the Wild Things Are (Graded)

The story follows the adventures of Max, a head-strong young boy who leaves home after having a fight with his mother -- only to find himself in a mysterious forest bordering a vast sea. Misunderstood and rebellious, Max sets sail to the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns.The adventure film will use a unique process to bring the story to life, incorporating the most dynamic elements of voice performance, live-action puppetry and computer animation.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Teasers HERE

The Road (Poster 3 Release)

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

Capitalism: A Love Story (Graded)

Capitalism: A Love Story explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown & take a comical look at the corporate & political shenanigans that culminated in what is described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country” - the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Movie Watch)

Temporary Synopsis: A comedy based on the book by David Foster Wallace, and an all-star ensemble cast including Krasinski, Will Arnett, Bobby Canavale, Dominic Cooper, Max Minghella, Timothy Hutton, and Julianne Nicholson.

Trailer HERE

Astro Boy (Poster 3 Release)

Astro Boy tells the story of a powerful robot boy created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. Our hero journeys to find acceptance in the human world, ultimately discovering true friendship as he uses his incredible powers to help others & save Metro City from destruction.

Trailers HERE

Youth in Revolt (Trailer 2 Release)

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick, awkward 14-year-old teen, sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity, but does he have change to do it?.

Trailers HERE

Bronson (Poster Release)

In 1974, a misguided 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawed off shotgun & a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended & originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement & grabbing the title of Britain's most violent criminal.

Trailer HERE

Inception (Movie Watch)

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

House of The Devil (Movie Watch)

In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Green Hornet (Movie Watch)

Britt Reid, son of wealthy newspaper publisher James Reid, is a playboy who inherits a media empire after his father dies. After meeting his father's employee Kato, who is more than he appears, Britt realizes they are not using their abilities to their fullest deciding the two should become crimefighters, taking on the identity of the Green Hornet. With the help of his new secretary, Lenore Case, they discover Russian criminal Benjamin Chudnofsky controls the city's criminal underworld. Chudonfsky, paranoid that he is losing his edge, unites all of the city's gangs to seek out the Green Hornet.

Grade: B +
Teaser HERE