A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Grade: B -
Teaser HERE
...The "what?", "Who?" and "when?" of Johnny Neat's entertainment picks. See which make the grade.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Outside the Law (Movie Watch)
Three brothers who fight for Algeria's independence from France after World War II, after losing their family home in Algeria, are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs & boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Rabbit Hole (Movie Watch)
Becca & Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm & tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. While Becca finds pain in the familiar, Howie finds comfort. The shifts come in abrupt, unforeseen moments. Becca hesitantly opens up to her opinionated, loving mother & secretly reaches out to the teenager involved in the accident that changed everything; while Howie lashes out & imagines solace with another woman. The resulting journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other & a world that has been tilted off its axis.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Friday, October 22, 2010
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Graded)
The big-screen adaptation of legendary American journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he & his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... helped along in large part by the huge amount of narcotics & alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Unknown (Movie Watch)
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity & that no one (not even his wife) seems to believe him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tron Legacy (Final Poster Released)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (Movie Watch)
A vibrant portrait of the life & work of the Beat author & American icon, William S. Burroughs. This documentary breaks the surface of the troubled & brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of modern time. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer & drug culture in the 1950's. His novel Naked Lunch is one of the most recognized & respected literary works of the 20th century & has influenced generations of artists. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues & confidants.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Tiny Furniture (Movie Watch)
22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother's TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who's left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster & her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring & ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Biutiful (Poster & Trailer 2 Release)
Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
Monday, October 18, 2010
Restless (Movie Watch)
A 16-year-old terminally ill girl falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals & has the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII as his friend.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Green Hornet (Graded)
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.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Blue Valentine (Trailer Release)
The Kids Grow Up (Movie Watch)
Documentary filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street) has captured much of his daughter Lucy's life -- and their relationship -- on camera. Now his only child is 17 and preparing to leave home for college. Lucy's imminent departure is the springboard for The Kids Grow Up, a funny and poignant look at modern-day parenting.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
The Fighter (Graded)
Dicky was once known as "The Pride of Lowell" having gone the distance with the world champion Sugar Ray Leonard. However, after losing that fight, like the town of Lowell, Dicky's fallen on hard times. His boxing days are behind him & his life has become shattered by drug abuse. Younger brother Micky, meanwhile, has become the family's fighter & fading hope for a champion. Despite all of his work, Micky's career is failing losing fight after punishing fight. This is the true story of two brothers who, against all the odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that will attempt to unite their fractured family, redeem their pasts &, at last, maybe give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
Grade: A
Trailer HERE
127 Hours (Full Trailer Release)
Based on the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm trapping him in an isolated canyon in Utah where over the next five days Ralston examined his life & survived the elements to finally discover he has the courage & the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued.
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
All Good Things (Movie Watch)
This is a love story & a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s where Robert Durst is suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 & was never found.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
True Grit (Trailer + Poster Release)
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn, she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory & find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf catches him & brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE
Teaser HERE
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Tourist (Movie Watch)
Frank Taylor, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
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