Friday, June 29, 2007

Watchmen (What to Know)


Here is the full list of actors who are currently rumored to be in "Watchmen."
















Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs/Rorschach
Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre
Patrick Wilson as Night Owl
Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan
Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian
Jeremy Irons as Moloch
Virginia Madsen as Sally Jupiter
Jonah Hill as Seymour
Henry Gibson as Mr. Figure
William Fichtner as Detective Fine
Noah Emmerich as Captain Metropolis
Gretchen Mol as Janey Slater
Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre


Beowulf (Graded)

The Old English epic poem, which is thought to have been written in the eighth century, chronicles the exploits of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the indomitable monster Grendel.

Grade: A
Trailer 1 HERE
Trailer 2 HERE

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Red Road (Movie Watch)

In Red Road, we find Jackie, works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.

Trailer HERE

The Brave One (Movie Watch)

New York radio host Erica Bain has a life that she loves & a fiancé she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded & her fiancé dead. Unable to move past the tragedy, Erica begins prowling the city streets at night to track down the men she holds responsible. Her dark pursuit of justice catches the public's attention, and the city is riveted by her anonymous exploits. But with the NYPD desperate to find the culprit & a dogged police detective hot on her trail, she must decide whether her quest for revenge is truly the right path, or if she is becoming the very thing she is trying to stop.

Trailer Here

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Hitman (Movie Watch)

Agent 47 has been educated to become a professional assassin for hire, whose most powerful weapons are his nerve & a resolute pride in his work. 47 is both the last two digits of the barcode tattooed on the nape of his neck & only name. Yet now the hunter becomes the hunted when 47 gets caught up in a political takeover. Both Interpol & Russian military chase the Hitman across Eastern Europe as he tries to find out who set him up & why they're trying to take him out of the game. But the greatest threat to 47's survival may be the stirrings of his conscience & the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a beautiful, damaged girl.

Grade: D
Trailer HERE

2 Days in Paris (Graded)

2 Days in Paris follows the relationship of a New York based couple; a French photographer Marion & American interior designer Jack- as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out,--they both came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English speaking parents', flirtatious ex-boyfriends' & Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone & conviction that French condoms are too small, only adds fuel to the fire.

Will they be able to salvage their relationship?
Will they ever have sex again?
Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing?

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Broken English (Movie Watch)

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is in a relationship, is married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown & a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.

Trailer Here

Cash Back (Movie Watch)

When Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own 'art' in dealing with the boredom of an 8hr shift. Ben's art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world & the people inside it,especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben's insomnia.

Trailer Here

This is England (Movie Watch)

Roland Rat, Margaret Thatcher; Rubik's Cubes, the Royal Wedding; aerobics, skinheads... It's 1983, & the schools are breaking up for summer. Shaun is 12 & a bit of a loner, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands War. On his way home from school where he's been tormented all day for wearing flares, he runs into a group of skinheads, who against expectations turn out to be friendly & take him under their wing. Soon Shaun discovers parties, girls, snappy dressing & finds some role models in Woody, Milky & the rest of the gang. But when an older, overtly racist skinhead returns home from prison, the easy camaraderie of the group is broken & Shaun is drawn into much more uncomfortable territory.

Based largely on his own experience as a youngster, this is Shane Meadows' most mature & fully realised film. Handling the complexities of masculinity, violence & race with sensitivity & a lightness of touch, it's hard to imagine a film that would better capture the mood of the time, or that could have any greater an understanding of the allure of being part of a gang.

Trailer HERE

Monday, June 25, 2007

I Sell The Dead (Movie Watch)

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