Friday, July 31, 2009

28 Days Later (Graded)

It has been twenty-eight days since Jim, a young bicycle courier, was knocked off his bike and injured in a car accident. When he wakes up from his coma, the world has changed. London is deserted, litter-strewn and grim, and it seems the entire world has disappeared. The truth, however, is even more horrifying - a devastating psychological virus has been unleashed on the world, turning the population into blood-crazed psychopaths driven only to kill and destroy the uninfected. A bitter struggle to get out of the city with fellow survivors to a military encampment at Manchester follows - but there, their troubles are just beginning...

Grade: A +
Trailer HERE

Thursday, July 30, 2009

45365 (Movie Watch)

‘45365’ captures the complexities and ambiguities of one towns shared experience. It is a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people. Multiple storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at life in Sidney, Ohio.


Trailer HERE

The Baader Meinhof Komplex (Movie Watch)

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism & the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof & Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror & bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg

Trailer HERE

Crude (Movie Watch)

Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary tells the epic story of one of the largest & most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures. Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.


Trailer HERE

A Serious Man (Graded)

This is a story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem & a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife & Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more & more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions & become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Tron 2.0: Legacy (Teaser Trailer Release )

A virtual-world worker looks to take down the Master Control Program.

Teaser HERE

The Losers (Teaser Poster Release)

After being betrayed and left for dead, members of a CIA black ops team root out those who targeted them for assassination.

Grade: C +
Trailer HERE

Friday, July 24, 2009

Avatar (Poster 3 Release)

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language & culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other & the local culture for control.

Grade: B
Trailer HERE

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Movie Watch)

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom & to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor. But after 21 years in prison, Gekko finds himself on the fringe of the financial community & obsessed in trying to repair his ruptured relationship with his estranged daughter who happens to be engaged to the young trader is has partnered with.

Teaser HERE

Tron 2.0: Legacy (Movie Watch)

A virtual-world worker looks to take down the Master Control Program.

Teaser HERE