Peter & Lorna, a couple & documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie. Intent on exposing her as a charlatan & freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective & each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld.
Trailer 2 HERE
Trailer 1 HERE
...The "what?", "Who?" and "when?" of Johnny Neat's entertainment picks. See which make the grade.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Avengers (Graded)
After Captain America is found and some of the greatest evils earth has seen make their move, the Avengers go into action. Some of the greatest heroes, Captain America, Iron-Man, The Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye and Nick Fury team-up, but will they be able to stop the global menace the likes of which have never been seen before?
Grade: A -
Trailers HERE
Comic-Con Teaser HERE
Grade: A -
Trailers HERE
Comic-Con Teaser HERE
Snowtown Murders (Movie Watch)
Based on horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999, the tale follows Elizabeth Harvey, a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. After her latest boyfriend displays pedophilic tendencies, she takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming an even more vicious predator into her home. John Bunting is the moral compass of a self-appointed neighborhood watch who, fueled by cigarettes & beer, cast judgments on those living around them. Bunting enlists his crew in acts of sadistic vigilantism on those he considers deviants, and in the process takes Elizabeth's son Jamie under his wing.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Movie Watch)
Set in the strange & oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, this is a tale set in a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies & Saturday morning cartoons.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Movie Watch)
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, fueling his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Aggression Scale (Movie Watch)
Four heavily armed hitmen & two unusual teenagers go to war over $500,000 of stolen cash at a home of one family.
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Bourne Legacy (Teaser Release)
With Jason Bourne going off the grid & back to civilian life as David Webb, a new agent, Kenneth Kitson, or Arron Cross, is dealing with the ramifications of the Treadstone conspiracy that continues to unravel but is he another victim?
Teaser HERE
Teaser HERE
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Midnight in Paris (Graded)
As a young couple engaged to be married experiences a profound transformation during their visit to Paris, the idealistic potential groom, with a romanticized view of the city, finds that there's plenty of truth to that old adage about the grass being greener on the other side or is it?
Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
Grade: A -
Trailer HERE
0000 (Movie Watch)
The mind of one man will galvanize a global revolution. His technology will birth a new era of human existence and social connection, but this great gift is rooted in dark tragedy. If he is to survive, he will need the help of many, and if we are to survive, our awareness must grow.
Teaser HERE
SFX Clip HERE
Teaser HERE
SFX Clip HERE
Price Check (Movie Watch)
Pete Cozy has found himself a house in the suburbs & a job in the pricing department of a middling supermarket chain. Pete's job allows him to spend quality time with his wife, young son and, despite the fact that they are drowning in debts, they appear happy. Everything changes when Pete gets a new boss, the beautiful, high powered, fast talking Susan Felders. With Susan's influence, Pete finds himself on the executive track. Something that both surprises & excites him. The more his salary increases, the more he has to perform at work... and the less time he gets to spend with his family. At the same time, his relationship with his boss begins to cross the line of professional etiquette. Both become enamored with one another - creating tension in the workplace & in his personal home life.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
28 Hotel Rooms (Movie Watch)
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist & a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she's married, and he's seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship & a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments--some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate--we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
The Kid With a Bike (Movie Watch)
When 11-year-old Cyril's father abandons him, Cyril obsessively tries to find his bicycle-- after all, his father must have cared about him enough not to sell that off, he reasons. Almost by accident, he becomes the ward of a kind hairdresser, a woman who seems surprised to find herself so determined to help him. With his wild, unpredictable behavior & his disastrous search for father figures, Cyril risks losing her--though she refuses to give up without a fight.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Silent House (Movie Watch)
A young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in & around the house. Through meticulous camera choreography the tension-filled tale is told in real time where the audience experiences it in a single uninterrupted shot.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Michael (Movie Watch)
Michael, a seemingly meek insurance agent, has a secret: he's holding 10-year-old Wolfgang captive in a locked room in his basement. Chronicling a five month period, the film reveals a tense portrait of how seemingly mundane lives can hide the darkest secrets.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
Pursuit of Loneliness (Movie Watch)
What happens when someone dies & there's no record of any next of kin? "Pursuit of Loneliness" looks at that deeply personal & interpersonal question when an elderly woman dies anonymously in a county hospital. Four central characters - a nurse, a social worker, the emergency contact person listed on the admission form, and an investigator for the public administrator - try to find the deceased woman's family over the next twenty-four hours. Slowly but surely we watch as her belongings & personal effects are gathered & accounted for and we witness the bit-by-bit eradication and extinction of an individual. In a world that values possessions & comparative wealth, this is a cautionary tale of the preciousness of community & the importance of family.
Trailer HERE
Trailer HERE
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