Thursday, August 6, 2009

Walt & El Grupo (Movie Watch)

Walt & El Grupo chronicles the amazing ten-week trip that Walt Disney & his hand-picked group of artists & filmmaking talent (later known as “El Grupo”) took to South America in 1941 at the behest of the U.S. Government as part of the Good Neighbor Policy. Within just three short years after the phenomenal success of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the Walt Disney Studios experienced a chain of financial challenges that ultimately led to the infamous animators strike. Also during this time, the Roosevelt administration had growing concerns about Nazi & Fascist influence in Latin America, and the rest of the world was slipping further into war. In stark contrast to these trying times, Disney and his colorful group of artists found themselves on a lively trip full of hope and discovery as they explored various South American cities saddled with an unusual assignment.

Trailer HERE

Bright Star (Poster Release)

London 1818: A Secret Love Affair begins between 23 year old English Poet, John Keats, and Fanny Brawne, an out-Spoken Student of High Fashion. But with mounting resistance from all angles, love is all that remained.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

An Unlikely Weapon (Movie Watch)

1/500th of a second to get the shot… a lifetime to forget it. Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, 6 American Presidents, and virtually every cultural and historical figure of the last 50 years. History would be changed through his lens. But the photo that made Eddie famous would haunt him for his entire life.

Trailer HERE

I Sell the Dead (Trailer & Poster Release)

19th century justice has finally caught up with two of the craftiest grave robbers in town. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, body-snatcher Arthur Blake tells his life story to the peculiar Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes. As the whisky flows Arthur's tales get stranger & stranger. From their graveyard discoveries of vampires & zombies to tales of vicious gang rivalries with the infamous House of Murphy, Arthur's confessions are the stuff of legend. Whether pillaging in fog drenched grave yards or plotting on blood soaked coast lines, Grimes & Blake leave no graves unturned. Their colorful & peculiar history is one filled with adventure, horror & mayhem that threaten to drag all involved down into the very graves they're trying to pilfer.

Teaser HERE
Trailer HERE

The Lovely Bones (Trailer Release)

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

Vampire's Assistant (Poster Release)

A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire.

Trailer HERE

Monday, August 3, 2009

The Killing Room (Movie Watch)

Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago. As the study gets underway, the group is presented with a series of questions, & given a finite window of time in which each individual member must submit a unique numerical answer. At first, the participants all assume that the subject who gives the most obviously incorrect answer will be removed from the experiment, though it doesn't take long for the group to realize that the correct answer isn't always the answer that the researchers are looking for.

Trailer HERE

True Blood S2 (TV Watch)

The Sheriff of Area 9 has gone missing & Eric wants him found. Requesting the help of Sookie from Bill is going to be a problem but for Eric getting his way is how it is played & finding Area 9's Sheriff is too personal for him to allow. Despite being his Sheriff, Bill does not care to help Eric but he just might have his hands full if all goes according to someone else's plans. Tara is still trying to find her way after being & disowning her once alcoholic mother, but is marry Ann really the kind free spirit she claims & Tara believes her to be? After losing the one girl he ever loved, Jason is trying to find a new path with the Vampire hating Fellowship of the Sun church group but will his old ways lead him to trouble? Sam Merlotte is dealing with a lot, a colorful staff, his past & himself but will being who he is be good for him or fatal?

Grade A
On: DVD/Blu-ray
Trailer HERE

Sunday, August 2, 2009

True Blood (TV Watch)

Following the creation of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. Sookie Stackhouse is a telepath & waitress at Merlotte's in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, owned by Sam Merlotte, with a secret of his own. One night, Sookie meets Bill Compton, a handsome 173-year-old vampire who has returned to Bon Temps following the death of his last remaining relative. As she cannot hear his thoughts, she finds it easy to be in his company & things go down hill from there.

Grade A +
On: DVD/Blu-ray
Trailer HERE

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Trailer 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