Hired by some unsavory types to assassinate a senator, Machete is about to take the shot when he notices someone aiming at him & realizes he's been set up. Barely surviving the sniper's bullet, Machete is soon out for revenge on his former employers with the reluctant assistance of his old friend Benito Del Toror, who became a priest & taken a vow of nonviolence. If you hire Machete to take out the bad guys, make sure the bad guys aren't you!
Trailer HERE
...The "what?", "Who?" and "when?" of Johnny Neat's entertainment picks. See which make the grade.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Walking Dead (Series Trailer Release)
The Walking Dead tells the story of the years that follow a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe & secure home. The series goes on to explore the challenges of life in a world overrun by zombies who take a toll on the survivors, and sometimes the interpersonal conflicts present a greater danger to their continuing survival than the zombies that roam the country. Over time, the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death & some grow willing to do anything to survive.
AMC airing Oct 2010
First Look HERE
(Unofficial) Trailer HERE
AMC airing Oct 2010
First Look HERE
(Unofficial) Trailer HERE
Monsters (Teaser Release)
Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form, crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"... The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Grade: B +
Grade: B +
Let Me In (Graded)
Green Lantern (Teaser Poster Release)
In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan.
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
Sucker Punch (Teaser Release)
An epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time & place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real & what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences.
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Friday, July 23, 2010
Lovely, Still (Movie Watch)
With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life & love, Robert Malone braves the wintery snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger standing in his home. What begins as an odd & awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a romantic late life love affair that takes us on a heartfelt & wonderful journey which takes an unexpected turn.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Last Train Home (Movie Watch)
Working over several years in classic verité style, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China’s rural poor, Changhua & Sugin Zhang left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin—now a restless & rebellious teenager—both bitterly resents their absence & longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents. Emotionally engaging & starkly beautiful, Last Train Home’s intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China’s ascendance as an economic superpower.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Faster (Poster Release)
An ex-con heads out to avenge his brother's death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Tron 2.0 Legacy (Full Trailer Release)
Enemies of The People (Movie Watch)
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. The men & women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two – break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Middle Men (Movie Watch)
Like BOOGIE NIGHTS for the internet age, MIDDLE MEN is a comic look at the origins of the porn boom on the web. The oh-so-prescient Jack sees dollaA comic look at the origins of the porn boom on the web. The oh-so-prescient Jack sees dollar signs when he imagines the combination of the newly popular internet and the pornography industry, and he starts a lucrative business. But while Jack just wants to hold on to his normal life, he finds his existence invaded by F.B.I. agents, terrorists & the Russian mob.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Thursday, July 22, 2010
The Company Men (Movie Watch)
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward & Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Don't Be Afraid of The Dark (Comic-Con Teaser Poster)
Countdown to Zero (Movie Watch)
The documentary traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy or a simple accident.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Prince of Broadway (Movie Watch)
Prince of Broadway is the story of Lucky, a charismatic hustler eking out a living in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district. An illegal immigrant from Ghana, Lucky makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off brand merchandise. Life is good for Lucky, but his dreams are suddenly upended when a child is thrust into his world by a woman who insists the toddler is his son.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Smash His Camera (Movie Watch)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Marlon Brando broke his jaw & Steve McQueen gave him a look that would have killed, if looks could kill. To the celebrities he pursued, photographer Ron Galella was the beast who threatened beauty. As it turned out, he gave them a strange & lasting beauty they might never have known without him. Inherent in the story of this notorious paparazzo are the complex issues of the right to privacy, freedom of the press & the ever-growing vortex of celebrity worship. He sneaked around& invaded, bribed & held up his camera & shot till he dropped (or someone dropped him). His was the artistry of the sniper. Yet Galella found something essential in his real-life subjects, and he gave it permanence.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Stone (Movie Watch)
As parole officer Jack Mabry counts the days toward a quiet retirement, he is asked to review the case of Gerald “Stone” Creeson, in prison for covering up the murder of his grandparents with a fire. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man’s decision have profound & unexpected effects on them both.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Buried (Movie Watch)
Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Battle: Los Angeles (Movie Watch)
For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world - Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant & his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.
Teaser HERE
Viral Site HERE
Teaser HERE
Viral Site HERE
The Sicilian Girl (Movie Watch)
Based on the true story of Rita Atria, who at seventeen years old broke the Sicilian Mafia’s code of silence & testified against the “family business” after both her father & brother were murdered by a rival family at the betrayal of their own.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
No. 4 Street of Our Lady (Movie Watch)
This is the remarkable, yet little-known story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust. Cleverly passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer, Francisca was able to save two families who would surely have been killed by the Nazis.This film uses the diary entries of Moshe Maltz as a time-line to explore some of the painful moral & ethical dilemmas that acts of rescue & survival often entail.It also reveals how traumatic events of the past continue to play out years later.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Faster (Movie Watch)
An ex-con heads out to avenge his brother's death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
The Goon (Movie Watch)
Follow the misadventures of the Goon, a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary enforcer for feared mobster Labrazio. The Goon (and his sidekick Franky) often get tied up in "other machinations," run ins with ghosts, ghouls, skunk-apes, extra-dimensional aliens, mad scientists & often in relation to the evil zombie gangs under the command of the Nameless Zombie Priest.
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
The Hungry Rabbit Jumps (Movie Watch)
The Debt (Movie Watch)
In 1965, three Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced & a former agent must go undercover to get the truth.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Miral (Movie Watch)
Spanning the years 1948-1994, revolves around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and real-life Palestinian woman Hind Husseini, who started the Dar Al-Tifl orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Friday, July 16, 2010
Biutiful (Movie Watch)
This is the story of Uxbal. Devoted father. Tormented lover. Mystified son. Underground businessman. Friend of the disposed. Ghost seeker. Spiritual sensitive. A survivor at the invisible margins in today's Barcelona… Uxbal's story is simple: just one of the complex realities that we all live in today.
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Jack Goes Boating (Movie Watch)
Jack & Connie are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage & desire to pursue their budding relationship. In contrast, the couple that introduced them, Clyde & Lucy, who are confronting unresolved issues in their marriage.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
The Town (Movie Watch)
As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent trying to bring his crew down.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Wind in the Willows (Movie Watch)
Accounting the friendship of four friends (Rat, Mole, Badger & Toad) whose adventures test the very fiber of their loyalty, In Wind in the Willows we find the Animals join forces to save their land from a sinister plot that threatens to destroy an uneasy truce between the peaceful animals of the Willows and what remains of Mankind.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Farewell [L'Affaire Farewell] (Movie Watch)
In 1981, Colonel Grigoriev of the KGB (real name - Vladimir Vetrov), disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev, decides he is going to change the world…
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Due Date (Movie Watch)
High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a long road trip in order to make it to his new child's birth on time.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
The Exam (Movie Watch)
There is one question before them and one answer is required. If they try to speak to the Invigilator or the guard by the door they will be disqualified. If they leave the room for any reason they will be disqualified. Do you know the answer?
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Experiment (Movie Watch)
26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards & prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control. $2,500 for two weeks, it is easy-earned money. The study examines aggressive behavior in an artificial prison setting. At first the tenants are divided randomly into prisoners & guards, but soon the experiment really begins.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Movie Watch)
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Life During Wartime (Movie Watch)
Ten years have passed since shocking revelations shattered the world of the Jordan family, and now sisters Joy , Trish & Helen, each embroiled in their own unique dilemmas, struggle to find their place in an unpredictable & volatile world. The past now haunts their family both literally & otherwise, and jeopardizes the future.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Thursday, July 8, 2010
The Dark Fields (Movie Watch)
Skyline (Movie Watch)
After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Graded)
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process & earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. With a drug-using prostitute girlfriend, an alcoholic father, sister and their dog, run-ins with two older women, one's nephew who is a key witness to the murders, a well-connected John, gambling losses, gangsters & thefts of police property put Terence's job & life in danger & having hallucinations won't help. Looking for the big score to get out from under mounting debts & threats towards his and his girlfriend's lives he joins forces with a few drug dealers attached to his murder investigation. The murders may remain unsolved but a bad lieutenant gets worse.
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
Grade: B -
Trailer HERE
Monsters (Movie Watch)
Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form, crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"... The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Grade: B +
Grade: B +
The Green Hornet (Teaser Release)
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.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Winnebago Man (Movie Watch)
Revealing the story of Jack Rebney, the most famous man you've never heard of, an RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts were caught on video in 1988, and circulated underground on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown Internet phenomenon in 2005. The "Winnebago Man" clip has been seen by more than 20 million people worldwide and is regarded as one of the first and funniest viral videos. Jack Rebney is found him living alone on a mountain top, unaware of his fame.
Trailer HERE
Viral Video HERE
Trailer HERE
Viral Video HERE
Chernaya Molniya [Black Lightning] (Movie Watch)
One day workers on construction site for skyscrapers in Moscow discover Soviet underground bunker and old rusty Volga in it. One worker give it as a present to his son, an ordinary student of Moscow State University. Later he discovers that his rusty car is able to fly. He will be able to not only avoid traffic jams, but he unexpectedly finds himself the city's defender, mysterious fighter against evil.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Dali (Movie Watch)
Sucker Punch (Teaser Poster)
A little girl is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather & lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution & while there she starts to imagine an alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. Story is set in 1950's.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Let Me In (Trailer Release)
Megamind (Poster 2 Release)
Supervillain Megamind imagines all his dastardly dreams coming true after defeating good-guy rival Metro Man, only to find life quite boring without an adversary. To fill the void, Megamind creates a new superhero, Titan, who also wants to be bad, forcing Megamind to switch sides.
Trailers HERE
Trailers HERE
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