Watched this on Christmas Day! Great action movie, witty as well – highly recommended.
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Jan
02
Dec
29
Iron Man 2
More hard action from the toughest super hero of the decade.
Dec
18
Catfish
Dec
15
Dec
06
Sep
30
Tony Curtis RIP
One of the Greats. I feel very sad – he takes you back to when you were a kid – The Great Race, Spartacus. Those were the days.
He died on Wednesday night 30 September 2010 at home in Nevada, aged 85.
Here’s a link to Tony Curtis biography and some of his movies
Sep
24
No Country for Old Men
What a great movie from the fabulous Coen brothers. Who would have thought this was the same pair that made ‘Oh Brother Where Art Thou?” From the opening scenes of mysterious slaughter to the finale the tension, violence, and yes, humour, never lets up. Totally engrossing, and one of those movies you WANT to watch again.
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Sep
17
Kick-Ass
When Dave Lizewski, an ordinary teenager, sets about trying to become the no-power vigilante Kick-Ass, he soon discovers he’s not alone. But he’s out of his depth – a fearless and highly trained father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit Girl, have declared war on New-York mafioso, Frank D’Amico. As Kick-Ass and his new found friend, Red Mist, get drawn into their no-holds-barred world of bullets and blood, the stage is set for a final showdown – in which the DIY hero will have to live up to his name…or die trying. Watch Kick-Ass online.
Jul
11
The Wolfman
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
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Jul
09
Invictus
From director Clint Eastwood, “Invictus” tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
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Jul
08
Percy Jackson and The Olympians – The Lightning Thief
Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school – but that’s the least of his problems. The gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life – and they’re not happy. Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, Percy and his friends must embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true thief, save Percy’s family, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.
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Jul
05
Up in the Air
With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.
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Jun
30
The Lovely Bones
The extraordinary story of one girl’s life and everything that came after, Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is filled with thrilling suspense, hope and the redeeming power of love. When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. But now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg and Susan Sarandon.
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Jun
26
Ninja Assassin
A young ninja turns his back on orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan.
“…at the start i thought i was wrong to rent this movie because of the over use of blood, but as you got into the film it became very well done, e.g the flashbacks. Overall a fine movie worth watching if you dont mind a bit of blood…”
Jun
23
The Descent Part 2
Emerging from the cave system alone, distraught and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Sceptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah’s psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O’Herlihy) doesn’t waste time. Along with his partner Rios (Krysten Cummings), and their cave rescue team Dan (Douglas Hodge), Greg (Joshua Dallas), and Cath (Anna Skellern), Vaines forces Sarah back into the caves to help the rescuers find her friends.
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Jun
18
Jun
09
Sherlock Holmes
On a quest to solve a string of mysterious and brutal murders, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his trusted ally Watson (Jude Law) plunge into a world of dark arts and startling new technologies, where logic, and a good right hook, are the best crime fighting weapons. Explosive action, baffling mystery and astonishing intrigue follow the two in a race to uncover and foil a terrifying plot that threatens to destroy the country. Director Guy Ritchie helms the all-action adventure reintroducing the great detective to the world. Robert Downey Jr. is the new Sherlock Holmes!
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Jun
05
Carriers
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.
May
12
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Adapted from Jon Ronson’s best selling book, “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is from the production team behind “Goodnight and Good Luck” and stars Hollywood heavyweights Ewan McGregor (“Trainspotting”, “Star Wars”), George Clooney (“Michael Clayton”, “Burn After Reading”), Kevin Spacey (“American Beauty”, “Se7en”) and Jeff Bridges (“The Big Lebowski”, “The Fisher King”).
A reporter (McGregor) trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent (Clooney) who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end the war as we know it.
May
11
Paranormal Activity
Based on true events, this portrays the story of Katie and Micah, a carefree couple who become haunted by an unseen presence in their house. They decide to investigate the increasingly bizarre and escalating intrusions by setting up a video camera to capture evidence of the demonic presence in their house, only to find much more than they ever imagined.
May
10
A Night at The Roxbury
Two brothers, Steve and Doug, never seem to make it on to the list of cool dudes who inhabit the guest list of the Roxbury Club. When Richard Grieco involves them in a slight motor vehicle accident to avoid complications he invites the pair in..
May
07
Saxondale
Tommy Saxondale regards himself as a maverick and a free-thinker and takes every opportunity to impart his wisdom to his young assistant Raymond. And as well as Pharaoh ants, mice and occasionally moths, Tommy has to battle with snowboarders, pigeon-loving activists… and people who talk about property prices.
While Tommy enjoys talking about himself, training Raymond in the mysterious and deadly art of pest control, and sharing a few life lessons, Raymond has little choice but to listen. He lives in Tommy’s spare room and gets an uncomfortably close view of Tommy and Magz’s sparky relationship.
Tommy knows his own mind and isn’t afraid to speak it. Unfortunately, those around him don’t give him quite the level of respect he feels he deserves.
Starring Steve Coogan
WARNING: This programme contains adult humour and strong language.
May
05
Happy-Go-Lucky
Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a 30-year-old Londoner with a bright outlook on life. She loves her job, she loves her friends, she loves her freedom. Mike Leigh‘s film follows her over a few weeks one spring as she learns to drive and embarks on a new romance.
May
04
Law Abiding Citizen
Jamie Foxx stars as an assistant DA who finds himself at the mercy of a spiteful vigilante (Gerard Butler) hell-bent on avenging the death of his wife and daughter, whose murderers are set free due to legal loopholes.
Apr
29
Role Models
Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in Role Models as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn’t look half bad.
Surrounded by annoying do-gooders, Danny struggles with his every neurotic impulse to guide Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) through the trials of becoming a man. Unfortunately, the guy just dumped by his girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) has only sarcasm to offer a bashful 16-year-old obsessed with medieval role play.
Apr
28
Death Proof
Two separate pairs of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his “death proof” cars to execute his murderous plans.
Another must see extravaganza from the maverick Quentin Tarantino
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Apr
27
Avatar
James Cameron’s epic tells the story of an ex-Marine (Sam Worthington) who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.
Apr
26
Downfall
Not since G.W. Pabst’s 1956 effort, ‘Letste Akt’ (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader, Adolf Hitler. Breaking a long-standing taboo, the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has made a film that has sparked much debate in Germany and the rest of the world.
Downfall features an astonishing performance by Bruno Ganz as history’s most notorious figure. Providing an unprecedented and controversial insider’s perspective, the film is a gripping insight into the madness and desperation of Hitler in the final hours of the war as the Russian Army closes a ring around Berlin. Beautifully photographed and brilliantly acted, this tour de force is at once dramatic, harrowing and remarkably authentic.
The basis for the screenplay by writer-producer Bernd Eichinger came from two key sources: Joachim Fest’s book “Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of The Third Reich”, the recognition that the horrifying epic of Hitler and his people during his twelve years in power was reflected in those last twelve days in the bunker; and the memoirs of Hitler’s private secretary, Traudl Junge, in Melissa Mueller’s book, “Until The Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary”, which provided an invaluable insight into the character of the man, and those final, fatal few days of the war.
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| Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Kohler,Heino Ferch | |
| Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel |
Apr
23
Harry Brown
Michael Caine returns to the vengeance-fuelled chills of GET CARTER for this contemporary thriller in which he seeks to avenge the death of an elderly friend. Marking his feature film directorial debut, Daniel Barber presents a London that’s a million miles away from the picturesque beauty of holiday brochures but instead a hellish city where menace lurks in the shadows of its streets. When his friend is brutally murdered by a group of disaffected youths, ex-serviceman Harry Brown (Caine) takes the law into his hands, vowing to hunt each of the culprits down…
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Apr
22
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl
Based on the popular diary of the anonymous sex worker known only as Belle de Jour, and starring Billie Piper.
Apr
21
3:10 to Yuma
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
“Thoroughly enjoyable film, traditional western, great story line keeps you watching throughout, would definitely recommend to all.”
Starring Christian Bale and Russell Crowe
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Apr
16
Mean Girls
Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about “survival of the fittest”. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.
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Apr
15
He Was A Quiet Man
A troubled loner and intent on killing his colleagues and himself, Bob Maconel is easy to dislike. As he plans to put a revolver to his head and the heads of those around him he drops the bullet. While on the floor searching for it someone else in despair of life with the same plan beats him to it. As he emerges a hero he discovers the one colleague he actually liked was severely wounded. Through her company can he discover pleasure in life or is he destined to live a life of despair?
Starring Christian Slater
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Apr
14
The King of Kong!
In 1982, Billy Mitchell, the “Gamer of the Century,” set a score of 874,300 points on Donkey Kong, a record which many in the gaming world thought would never be broken – until Steve Wiebe not only surpassed the record but ended up with a thought-to-be-impossible 1,000,000 points. In the months that followed his feat, Steve and Billy engage in a cross-country duel, filled with publicity, scandal and frustration, to see who could set the highest score and ultimately become the King of Kong!
“Entertaining… THE KING OF KONG becomes a gripping, you-are-there chronicle of a sports challenge in which a malevolent insider is pitted against a good-guy interloper” Box Office
“This transfixing and often laugh-out-loud doc is a straightforward tale of good versus evil” Time Out
Apr
13
Cirque du Freak – The Vampire’s Assistant
A boy unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares. 14-year-old Darren was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That’s the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty.
Apr
12
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
In this outstanding Oscar winning, psychological and political thriller, we get a fascinating insight into the lengths and depths that the East European government went to in order to keep tabs on the lives of its population in the 80s. When cold and brutal official Wesler is given the task of spying on acclaimed playwright Dreyman and his actress girlfriend, he relishes the task, knowing that if he uncovers subversive behaviour he will gain favour with his boss. But the longer he listens in on the couple, their friendships, passions and ideas, the more he realises that his own life and the harsh political regime are lacking in colour and joy in many respects. Slowly he begins to doubt the morality of his job and politics. As the lines between orders and compassion become blurred, Wesler becomes more involved with his subject, walking a dangerous path between his duty and his new found reality.
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Apr
09
A Serious Man
The film starts with a prologue set in 1800s Poland, a Yiddish couple expecting a guest to dinner whom the wife thinks died last year, that serves as a perfect flavour of what to expect from the next 100 minutes: funny, dark and with a pervading sense of doom that slowly takes hold and grips like a vice.
From there the film jumps forward to follow Larry Gupnik, a husband, father, and University professor, who seems to have done the right thing all his life, only for it now to unravel on him at every turn. His wife leaves him for an overbearing new lover who moves into the family home and forces Larry into a motel, his career at the University is under threat, his brother is being investigated by the police, and his kids are either smoking pot or can’t stand him.
“A Serious Man is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film”.
“The Coen brothers have done it again – quirky, enthralling, fabulous”
For biogs and filmogs: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Apr
08
A Guide to Recognising Your Saints
The film is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in The States, during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints.
Dito (Robert Downey Jr.) is a successful writer in Los Angeles. One day, after being urged by his mother and his friend Nerf, Dito visits his childhood home, Astoria, New York because his father has suddenly become very ill. The film switches back and forth between the present and flashbacks with Dito’s memories in the summer of 1986.
Apr
06
The Informant!
Mark Whitaker (Matt Damon) is a high-ranking executive working for Lysine development company ADM. Whitaker has knowledge of the company’s involvement in a price-fixing scandal, and decides to do something about it. Before he even figures out exactly what he’s gotten into, Mark finds himself working as an undercover informant for the FBI. The only problem is, his involvement in the corporate scandal might just be a little bit thicker than he initially indicated. Can he possibly bring ADM down without bringing himself down with it? For that matter, can he even complete his undercover activities without completely blowing the FBI’s carefully-constructed case against the corporation?
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Mar
31
Hidden
Hidden stars Juliette Binoche as Anne, middle class and married to Georges. They live in an affluent Paris suburb with their 12 year old son. Everything is hunky dory until a video tape arrives…
“…an uneasy atmosphere through clever use of video, long takes, shifting points of view, flashbacks and static camera shots used to unnerving effect”
“The performances are superb…there are some terrific sequences here. There’s also a censor-baiting moment where a chicken gets its head cut off, which will hopefully make it past the BBFC’s scissors, given that it’s a dramatically relevant moment”
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Mar
26
Amelia
Hilary Swank stars as legendary flying pioneer Amelia Earhart whose solo flight round the world in 1937, the first ever, captured the imagination of everyone and cemented her place in history. Also starring Richard Gere.
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Mar
25
Mesrine – Killer Instinct – Part 1
Vincent Cassel puts in an enthralling acting performance in this fast-paced action biopic of France’s most notorious bank blagger. Based on a true account which Mesrine himself wrote in prison.
Mar
24
Driving Aphrodite
An American tour guide in Greece discovers herself, and possibly love, when she least expects it. A charming romantic comedy from the star and writer of global blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Mar
23
The Peacemaker
After a train crash in Russia which results in a nuclear explosion, Dr. Julia Kelly works out that it was no accident. Special Forces Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe is summoned to investigate. They learn that the instigators of the train crash into each other had sold a bomb to a terrorists. Devoe and Kelly set out to find them before they detonate the bomb in the US.
Stunning action sequences, great acting from Clooney and Kidman, a bit of romance, a bit of humour – you can’t go wrong.
Mar
22
Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)
Penelope Cruz stars in ‘Broken Embraces’, the latest film from Spanish genius director, Pedro Almodóvar.
Mar
17
9
“…a stunning thing to look at”
“…rattling monsters, hectic battle sequences, “9” shows remarkable imagination and visual integrity.”
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Mar
15
Jackass 2.5
Disgusting even by Jackass standards. There’s more puking in this movie, more farting, more accidental (and intentional) crapping and more bollocks in this movie than in any other Jackass movie, and this one is only an hour long!
While it is the most hit-or-miss of the Jackass films, when it hits, it hits hard.
Mar
12
The Hurt Locker
Oscar winning film about bomb disposal boys in Iraq from director Kathryn Bigelow.
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Mar
11
Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee’s latest picture takes a look at the origins of the Woodstock festival in New York in August of 1969. It is based on the autobiography of Elliot Tiber, the son of two Russian Jewish immigrants who maintain a not very successful farm in upstate New York. James Shamus wrote the screenplay together with Tiber, which is a delightful one. The film gets great support from the outstanding performance of Imelda Staunton as Eliot’s mother Sonia and this is an actress who truly is able to play a wide variety of roles and still remain unique in every one of them.
Taking Woodstock is about Woodstock, the people who surrounded the event, as any mass event that is about a main attraction that brings everyone together. It is as such an excellent human-interest story that is warm and entertaining.
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Mar
10
Castaway
Great modern take on the Robinson Crusoe myth. We’ve all wondered how we’d cope marooned on a desert island. Tom Hanks gives a bravura performance as the eponymous castaway.
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Mar
08
Fantastic Mr Fox
The film Fantastic Mr Fox is as good as the book and more, with creative story lines and new scenes, this is sure to be a winner with all the family!
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Mar
05
Supernatural
The show follows brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, who travel across the country in a black 1967 Chevy Impala investigating and combating paranormal events and other unexplained occurrences, many of them based on American urban legends and folklore as well as classic supernatural creatures such as vampires and ghosts.
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Mar
04
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs has a off-beat structure, cunningly moving back and forth in time to uncover details about the characters, hardened criminals who know little about each other. Jo has got them together to do a simple blag, and has allocated them colour-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to hide their identities (even from themselves). But something has gone awry, and their planning hasn’t worked. One by one, the surviving blaggers make their way back to their planned warehouse hideout. There, they try to work out the chronology of the monumental cock-up, and to identify the grass among them who squealed to the cops.
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Feb
27
Get Carter
Classic, brutal British crime melodrama. Sex and thuggery unlimited. Britain’s finest gangster film.
Starring Michael Caine at his laconic but menacing best. Directed by Mike Hodges.
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Feb
26
Audition
One of the best and most controversial horror films of the last decade from director Miike Takashi. The story of a romance that descends into terror.
Feb
25
The Firm
Football gang member wants out…but it ain’t that easy. If you thought today’s footie bad boys were well ‘ard, think again.
Back in the 1980s, football gangs were referred to as firms and their members were called casuals because of their clothes, usually trainers and tracksuits. The Firm is a remake of Alan Clarke’s 1980s TV classic.
Feb
24
Tony
Tony lives in a run-down part of London, jobless, friendless just wanting to fit in. His only company comes in the form of the ultra-violent 1980s action movies he watches repeatedly day after day on VHS. Tony does have one hobby, however: luring people home and brutally murdering them…
“Fantastic film. Clearly dogma-influenced and if you like those you’d definitely want to see this. As much about London (and being lost in it) as anything else. Very well done uneasy mix of dark humour mixed with bleakness and hard edge. Surprised it got such a low critic’s rating. ”
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Feb
23
Jennifer’s Body
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Megan Fox is the cheerleader from hell serial-killing her classmates. Who can save her?
Feb
21
A Clockwork Orange
“Alex’s adventures are a kind of psychological myth. Our subconscious finds release in Alex, just as it finds release in dreams. It resents Alex being stifled and repressed by authority, however much our conscious mind recognizes the necessity of doing this.”
Stanley Kubrick‘s own take on his “hero” in 1971.
Starring Malcolm McDowell with Warren Clarke and Patrick Magee
Feb
20
Dr Who – The Classic Series – 1964-1984
Free classic Dr Who episodes from 1964-1984. Watch classic Dr Who episodes online now for free – legally, reliably and safely through Blinkbox.
Here are links to brief biogs of the actors who have appeared as Dr Who over the years:
William Hartnell – Patrick Troughton – Tom Baker – Peter Davison
Feb
19
The Seventh Seal
Classic movie about a Crusader Knight returning home disillusioned with life. His journey home is punctuated with chance meetings and events which in turn appal and encourage. If you thought director Ingmar Bergman was all moody non-action, think again.
Starring Max von Sydow
Feb
18
Aliens in the Attic
Kids on a family holiday repel an attack by child-sized aliens hell-bent on world destruction. Meanwhile their parents remain blissfully unaware of the battle raging around them.
Feb
17
Dark Water
Yoshimi , a divorced mother, moves with her daughter into a cheap apartment in a Tokyo suburb, in a pretty creepy and derelict old building. Nasty damp patches on the walls have a spooky life of their own, stuff oozes from the ceiling and foul water pours from the taps…but his is just the beginning of this scary, creepy classic movie nightmare.
Directed by cult film director Hideo Nakata
Feb
16
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Nerd dates hottest girl in school. Starring Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet) of Heroes.
Feb
15
Heroes
Save the cheerleader, save the world. Travel back to the past like Hiro and watch Season 1 online.
Feb
14
Friday the 13th
It all goes horribly wrong at Camp Crystal Lake…30 years on, the original “Slasher Film” has to be in your collection.
Feb
12
The Vampire Diaries
High school girl torn between two vampire brothers.
Feb
11
Seven Days of Grace
Gentle wacky comedy about a down-on-her-luck actress who inherits her father’s Italian restaurant. With 3 other women friends she tries to make the restaurant a success with hilarious consequences.
Starring Stephanie Beacham of recent Celebrity Big Brother fame, Lesley-Anne Down, and Olivia Hussey.
Feb
10
The Soloist
Journalist finds down-and-out former classical music prodigy living rough on the streets. A strong friendship grows resulting in life-changing outcomes for both of them.
Starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jnr.
Feb
09
Zebra Lounge
Wife-swapping goes horribly and horrifically wrong…stars Stephen Baldwin of Celebrity Big Brother. Zebra Lounge is a very good sexual adventure. The plot makes this movie a must see. The acting could be better but it’s a great story line with an amazing plot.
Feb
08
Peep Show
Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. It features the antics of two sexually frustrated twenty-somethings, Mark and Jeremy. In a twist, the characters are seen entirely from their own points of view (in fact, a working title for the programme was “POV”), and the protagonists’ (often embarrassing) inner monologues are revealed. This show mines the same cringe based humour that The Office used to such effect.
Feb
07
Vinnie Jones’ Toughest Cops
Vinnie Jones has found his niche in watching overseas police forces deal with levels of lawlessness not seen on British TV since The Sweeney.
Shocking, highly absorbing and utterly engrossing, the viewer comes face to face with the criminals from hell. Discover the intense training programme devised for only the toughest of cops and join them on patrol as they protect and serve their communities and lay down the law on the gangs who terrorise the innocent.
Feb
05
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola‘s epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone’s family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture.
Feb
04
Imagine That
A powerful financial executive whose career was sent spiraling down the drain due to sudden lack of confidence finds the answers to his inexplicable setback in an imaginary world dreamt up by his young daughter in a fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy
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Feb
03
Heidi Fleiss – Hollywood Madam
You’ve seen her in Celebrity Big Brother, now see what made her a celeb.
Feb
02
The Invention of Lying
Starring and written by Ricky Gervais, the film is set in an alternate universe version of a small American city in which not only does no one know how to tell a lie, but they’re moved to speak each truth that pops into their heads.
Feb
01
The Collector
The Collector is a supernatural drama about a soul-collector who gets permission from the Devil to try to save the souls of his “Clients” during their last 48 hours on earth…
Morgan Pym looks 30, but was born in 1322 AD, a monk who sold his soul to cure the woman he loved of the plague. But when his deal ended 10 years later (as all deals with the Devil do), she died, and Morgan went to work for the Devil collecting souls, rather than go to Hell himself.
650 years later, Morgan begins to rediscover his own humanity, and makes a new deal with the Devil, which allows him to try to help his clients make amends for the bad luck caused by their bargain. Morgan often fails, but never gives up trying to prove that everyone, no matter what they’ve done, can earn redemption…perhaps even himself.
Sexy AND Creepy – it’s hard to do both – but here it is.
“I’ve been doing this for 650 years. I know the rules.”
“While you’re out, pick up some marshmallows. We can roast them when your client goes to hell.”
Jan
31
Shameless
- “Not to be missed” – The Times
- “The best new dramedy of the decade”
“No words could sufficiently express the very goodness of this”
“Genius” – The Guardian
Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbours. Shameless tells the story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits – and humour – on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won’t admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family.
Jan
30
The Boat That Rocked
In 1966—British pop music’s finest era—the BBC played just two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio played rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people—over half the population of Britain—listened to the pirates every single day.
Recently expelled from school, Carl (Tom Sturridge) has been sent by his mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather, Quentin. (Bill Nighy). However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated by an eclectic crew of rock ‘n’ roll DJs.
They are led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman)—big, brash, American, god of the airwaves, and totally in love with the music. He’s faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost)—ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny; Simon (Chris O’Dowd)—super-nice and searching for true love; Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom)—enigmatic, handsome and man of few words; Wee Small Hours Bob—the late night DJ, whose hobbies are folk music and drugs; Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke)—possessor of the smallest intelligence known to mankind; On-The-Hour John (Will Adamsdale)—the newsreader; and Angus ‘The Nut’ Nutsford (Rhys Darby)—possibly the most annoying man in Britain.
Life on the North Sea is eventful. Simon finds the woman of his dreams and is married on the boat?only to be left by his bride the next day. Gavin (Rhys Ifans) returns from his drug tour of America to his rightful position as greatest DJ in Britain and, in doing so, clashes with the Count. And Carl discovers the opposite sex and who his real father is.
Meanwhile, pirate stations have come to the attention of government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) who is out for the blood of these lawbreakers. In an era when the stuffy corridors of power stifle anything approaching youthful exuberance, Dormandy seizes the chance to score a political goal and The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act is passed in an effort to outlaw the pirates and remove their ghastly influence from the land once and for all.
What results is a literal storm on the high seas. With Radio Rock in peril, its devoted fans rally together and stage an epic Dunkirk-style hundred boat rescue to save their DJ heroes. Some things may come to an end, but rock ‘n’ roll never dies. Directed by Richard Curtis.
Jan
29
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918 to the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
Jan
28
Smoking Aces 2 – Assassins’ Ball
The director of Smokin’ Aces brings you back into the adrenaline-pumping world of blood, bullets and bad-asses. Packed with insane mercenaries, sexy assassins and more of the fan-favourite Tremor family.
Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is a disabled F.B.I. penpusher who’s found himself an assassination target with no idea why. With a top team of agents to protect him, Weed is relocated to a secure location under a jazz club. As the time for Weed’s murder draws closer, assassins from all over the globe queue up to stake their claim to the multi-million-dollar booty, including nasty Finbar McTeague (Vinnie Jones), sexy Ariella Martinez (Martha Higareda), master of disguise Lazlo Soot (Tommy Flanagan), and the crazy Tremor Family (including Michael Parks and Autumn Reeser). However, for Agent Baker (Clayne Crawford), pieces of the Weed mystery don’t make sense, giving him only seconds to work out friends and enemies before the bullets start flying.
Jan
27
(500) Days of Summer
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl.
Meet Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), wants to be an architect but is currently mooching around in L.A. as a writer of greeting cards. In strolls his boss’s new assistant, Summer (the glorious Zooey Deschanel), and Tom falls head over heels. For her, valuing her independence, their affair is a laugh. For him, raised on Brit pop and a total misinterpretation of The Graduate (he’s sure it’s a happy ending), it’s luuurrrve. So when she gives him the elbow, firmly but with affection, you feel his real suffering.
Jan
26
Dance Flick
“Dance Flick” is a satirical jab at musical/dance films focusing on a naive girl who uses dance to achieve her dreams, and the street smart guy who helps her along the way. A rich, white girl from the suburbs finds herself on a series of misadventures when she moves to the mean streets of the inner-city.
“Dance Flick” is a hilarious new comedy that brings together the talents of two generations of the Wayans family.
In “Dance Flick,” a young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles.
“Dance Flick” sends up the dance movie genre, including such recent hits as “Step Up” and “You Got Served.”
Jan
25
Free TV – Hustle
The series follows a group of con artists who specialise in “long cons” – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confidence tricks.
Jan
23
The Untouchables
Prohibition in the United States has led to an organized crime wave in the 1920s and early 1930s. Various gangs bootleg vast amounts of alcohol and control their businesses with violence and extortion. The problem is most serious in Chicago, where gang leader Al Capone (Robert De Niro) has almost the whole city (even the Mayor of Chicago) under his control, and supplies poor-quality liquor at high prices. Treasury Department agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) is put in charge of leading the crusade against Capone and his empire. Ness’s initial strategy is to conduct raids using a large squad of uniformed officers, but his first attempt fails when he breaks into a warehouse storing umbrellas (although it is implied by Capone’s reaction to the newspaper headline about Ness’ mistake that it was indeed a liquor warehouse, but his men had been tipped off by one or more corrupt officers). Browse other films directed by the great Brian de Palma.
Jan
20
Funny People
George Simmons is a famous stand-up comic, who learns that he has a terminal illness and less than a year to live. He meets Ira, a struggling comedian at a club where both are performing. George hires Ira to be his personal assistant and opening act at his gigs. They develop a close relationship as George helps Ira with his career and Ira helps George come to terms with his karma. Then George learns that his disease has gone into remission and an ex comes back his life, with the result that he’s inspired to re-assess what has value for him and what really gives meaning to his life.
Jan
17
Wrong Turn 3 – Left for Dead
A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured cannibals.
It’s hunting season in the deep back woods for Three Finger and his family of hideously deformed inbred cannibal hillbillies! The fight for survival is futile and each successive killing is more gruesome than the last as the cannibals relentlessly stalk a group of attractive young hikers and a group of escaped convicts after their bus crashes on a remote country road.
Probably one of the most underrated horror film series “Wrong Turn,” and the sequels feature a group of deformed West Virginia hillbillies who have turned to cannibalism to satisfy that burning hunger inside.
Jan
10
Land of The Lost
Will Ferrell stars as washed-up scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, transported back through time. A long time. Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable intelligence to enable him to survive in a parallel universe full of wandering dinosaurs and mythical creatures from beyond our world—a place of incredible sights and mammoth comedy known as the Land of the Lost.
With him for the adventure are research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a gung-ho survivalist (Danny McBride) named Will. Harrassed by T. Rex and hunted by painfully slow reptiles known as Sleestaks, Marshall, Will and Holly must rely on their only friend —a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone)—to find their way out of this alternative world. Escape from this supposedly humdrum expedition gone haywire and they’re heroes. Get left behind, and they’ll be forever languishing in the Land of the Lost.
Jan
07
Transformers – Revenge of The Fallen
The plot revolves around Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons, having visions of Cybertronian symbols, and getting hunted by the Decepticons under the orders of their long-trapped leader, The Fallen, who seeks to get revenge on Earth by finding and activating a machine that would provide the Decepticons with an energon source, destroying all life on the planet in the process.
Despite Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen receiving negative reviews from film critics it was a box office success, achieving the highest Wednesday opening gross in history, bringing in $62 million in North America and close to $100 million worldwide; this is also the second-highest opening day gross of all time, behind only The Dark Knight‘s $67.8 million. It is currently the third highest-grossing film of 2009 worldwide (behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
Jan
06
Public Enemies
In the action-thriller Public Enemies, Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the fascinating and factual story of infamous Depression bank robber John Dillinger (Depp), the charismatic bank blagger whose daring raids made him the most wanted of J. Edgar Hoover’s newly formed FBI and its top G-Man, Melvin Purvis (Bale). Dillinger was a folk hero to much of the downtrodden people of the time. No one could stop him. No gaol could hold him. His charm and bold prison breaks made him almost loved almost everyone from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to the US public who hated for the banks that had sent the country spiralling down into the Depression. (No relevance to today then…)
But while the exploits of Dillinger’s gang, later including the madman Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) excited many, Hoover decided to capitalise on the pursuit of Dillinger as a way to promote his Bureau of Investigation into the federal law enforcement agency that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One. Hoover despatched Purvis, the “Clark Gable of the FBI”, to sort it out. Nevertheless, the Dillinger gang outthought and outfought Purvis’ men in manic chases and firefights. Only after recruiting a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly enrolled as agents) who were real gunfighters, and planning and executing a notorious betrayal from the infamous “Lady in Red” on the Chicago crime boss Frank Nittiwere, were Purvis and the FBI able to catch up with Dillinger.
Jan
05
Watchmen
300‘s Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ highly acclaimed graphic novel Watchmen to the movie screen. Set in an alternate universe in the mid 1980s, the film’s world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war between America and Russia is imminent. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian, a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country’s last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach. His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl , Ozymandias , Sally Jupiter, and her daughter, The Silk Spectre.
Jan
04
I Love You Man
In “I Love You, Man,” a comedy from John Hamburg (“Along Came Polly,” co-writer of “Meet The Parents,” “Meet The Fockers,” “Zoolander”), Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd, “Knocked Up” “The 40 Year Old Virgin”) is a successful estate agent who, after getting engaged to the woman of his girlfriend Zooey, (“The Office’s” Rashida Jones), realises that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to sort this out, going on a series of strange and awkward “man-dates,” before meeting Sydney Fife (Jason Segel, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”), a charming, assertive bloke with whom he quickly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter’s relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancée and his new found “mate,” in a comedy that explores what it truly means to be a “friend.”
Jan
02
Eastwick – The TV Show
Based on the book by John Updike and the movie The Witches of Eastwick, the series follows three women who find themselves suddenly gifted with very unusual powers when a mysterious (and strikingly goodlooking) man arrives in their small New England town.
The X-Files director/producer David Nutter magics up a demonic blend of ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘Charmed’. Eastwick is bursting with romance, mysterious goings-on and devilish charm, displaying a compelling vision of the ultimate in wish-fulfilment fantasies.
Dec
31
X-Men Origins – Wolverine
Heroic Hugh Jackman breathes the fire into X-Men Origins – Wolverine with a vengeance! This pulse-pounding action thriller sinks razor-sharp adamantium claws into the mysterious origins of Logan/Wolverine: his epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and the ominous Weapon X program that unleashes his primal fury. Along the way, Wolverine also encounters legendary new mutants, including Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Gambit (Taylor Kitsch). Youll go berserker for this deeper, darker, more-spectacular-than-ever chapter of the X-Men saga!
Dec
28
Watch Blood: The Last Vampire Online
A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.
Blood The Last Vampire - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon meets Blade meets Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Dec
24
Inglourious Basterds
“Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s Nazi-era ode to the power of cinematic historical revision, won the Screen Actors Guild’s biggest award on Saturday night for movie ensemble acting — something of a surprise win for the film that featured an international cast of stars, first-timers and unknowns.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
“Inglourious Basterds” is composed of two intertwined stories broken into chapters combining fictitious and factual historic events. The two stories, the tragic tale of orphaned Jewish girl Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) and that of an oddly funny group of American soldiers, called “the Bastards”, create introspections into the meaning of glory, destruction, and propaganda.
Familiar faces are scattered throughout the film from creator of “the Office” B.J. Norvak to “Austin Powers“ star Mike Myers. The standout performance of Lieutenant Aldo Raine, played by the always-evolving Brad Pitt, is both comical and clever and the role of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa, Christoph Waltz, is so evil that, within the scope of the film, he some how manages to overshadow Hitler.
While the film is visually graphic, it is the ideas of violence rather than explicit visuals that litter the film. These violent scenes, from scalping to strangulation, are more dramatic than visually accurate.
Click here to watch online Inglourious Basterds
Dec
22
Brittany Murphy
1977 – 2009
Brittany Murphy died on the morning of December 20, after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived.
She was 32.
A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department reported.
Brittany Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Her time of death was listed as 10:04 AM.
Brittany starred in such films as “Just Married,” “8 Mile,” and “Girl Interrupted.” Murphy was reportedly fired from last film, “The Caller,” after reports she was problematic on set.
She had been ill with flu-like symptoms in the days before she died and prescription medications were taken from her home, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Monday.
Tests are still being conducted to determine what killed the 32-year-old star, who collapsed on Sunday in the bathroom of her Hollywood Hills home.
Paramedics tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The flu-like symptoms were reported to authorities by members of Murphy’s family.
Assistant chief coroner Ed Winter said an autopsy has been completed on Murphy’s body, but a determination of the cause of death won’t be made until the office receives the results of other tests, including toxicology and an analysis of the brain and other organs.
This typically takes four to six weeks, Winter said, adding that examiners found “no evidence of trauma to the body.”
Police also said there was nothing suspicious about Murphy’s death.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
“The sudden loss of our beloved Brittany is a terrible tragedy,” her husband, Simon Monjack, and her family wrote in a statement. “She was our daughter, our wife, our love, and a shining star.”
Born in Atlanta on Nov. 10, 1977, Murphy grew up in New Jersey and moved to Los Angeles with her mother to pursue an acting career. She broke into the business in the early 1990s with small roles in various commercials, TV series — including Frasier and Party of Five — and movies.
8 Mile highlight
Her part in Clueless led to larger projects and her role in 8 Mile led to wide recognition. “That was the difference between people knowing my first and last name as opposed to not,” she said in an interview in 2003.
Murphy also found work in voiceovers, including voicing the character Luanne on the animated series King of the Hill as well as Gloria the penguin in Happy Feet.
She is due to appear in Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, set for release next year.
Throughout her career, Murphy mentioned her mother as being the bedrock of her success.
“When I asked my mom to move to California, she sold everything and moved out here for me,” Murphy said in 2003. “I was really grateful to have grown up in an environment that was conducive to creating and didn’t stifle any of that. She always believed in me.”
Before her marriage to Monjack, she dated Ashton Kutcher, who co-starred with Murphy in the romantic comedy Just Married.
Kutcher posted a Twitter message Sunday morning about Murphy’s death: “2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine. My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany’s family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon.”
Dec
18
Knowing
“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome.
The plot involves the most fundamental of all philosophical debates: Is the universe deterministic or random? Is everything in some way preordained or does it happen by chance? If that questions sounds too abstract, wait until you see this film, which poses it in stark terms: What if we could know in advance when the Earth will end?
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one of the students, a mysterious girl who seems to hear whispered voices, fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fast forward 50 years to the present: A new generation of students examines the contents of the time capsule and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB MYLES. But it is Caleb’s father, professor TED MYLES (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the document’s secrets, he realizes it foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. This gripping supernatural thriller charts one man’s faltering steps towards belief in the ultimate order of the universe even as he finds himself surrounded by mounting chaos. With the reluctant help of DIANA WHELAN (Rose Byrne) and ABBY, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the cryptic prophecies, Ted’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice.
Directed by Alex Proyas.
Dec
17
Bruno
“A bear ate all of my clothes except for these condoms”
Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.
Sacha Baron Cohen made the world laugh until they were literally sick with Borat, as the crude, racist, mockumentary that made fun of real-life racists became a world wide phenomenon. Bruno injects the same formula into the debate over homosexuality, as Cohen’s latest creation, swishy Austrian fashion journalist Bruno, pushes his interview subjects into looking like gay-bashing bigots!
The sequence where Bruno enrolled at the Alabama National Guard, filmed at the Alabama Military Academy in Fort McClellan, Anniston, went undetected until a young cadet who recognized him from Borat, notified elder officers who were unfamiliar with the actor!
Dec
16
2012
Roland Emmerich has done it again. After destroying half the world in ‘Independence Day‘ and ‘Godzilla’, the destruction-meister has set his sights on all of Mother Earth in what is probably one of the most anticipated films of the year.
’2012′ cashes in on the Internet-stirred fears of an end-of-the-world prediction for Dec. 21, 2012, a prediction often attributed to the Mayans, whose calendar ended on that date. But leave it to Emmerich to figure out in what ways and how doomsday arrives (no spoilers, here). Suffice to say that this demolition derby is breathless.
Don’t worry about a coherent plot line or nuanced characterizations. That’s not why you’re going to see this one. ’2012′ exists to stimulate your eyes, ears and brain with nonstop big-screen excitement. The critics know this and generally have given the film kudos for what it is: one big WOW.
Synopsis
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth’s core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world’s population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world’s leaders race to build “arks” to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world
Dec
15
Star Trek (2009)
Those prepared to hate the reboot of STAR TREK–whether they’re diehard fans or those in the anti-sci-fi camp–may be convinced to lower their shields after seeing this fun, action-filled film. Best known for creating mythology-driven series like LOST, J.J. Abrams has imbued his version with the elements that have made his shows such mind-bending entertainment while still keeping the soul of the saga intact. STAR TREK begins with an attack by an impossibly advanced Romulan ship captained by the tattooed, snarling Nero (Eric Bana). Among the survivors is the infant version of James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), who grows up to wreak havoc on the Iowa countryside. When Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) meets an adult Kirk, he encourages him to join Starfleet, giving him the opportunity to meet Spock (Zachary Quinto), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), and the rest of the characters audiences have loved for decades. Abrams has assembled a fine cast who seem to be aware of their predecessors but never resort to impressions. Both Quinto and Pine do a fine job with their portrayals of Kirk and Spock, and Karl Urban couldn’t be better as Leonard McCoy. The supporting players–Simon Pegg (Scotty), John Cho (Sulu), and Anton Yelchin (Chekov)–all capture the essence of what drove their characters, though their screen time is limited. STAR TREK manages the nearly impossible: it pleases hardcore fans with plenty of in-jokes and references (and an appearance by the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy), but it doesn’t alienate newcomers with tons of technobabble. The action and effects rank with any other top-tier summer blockbuster, but there’s plenty of humor to balance the excitement. For anyone who (wrongly) felt he had to hide his trekker tendencies, this undeniably cool version of STAR TREK offers a chance to wear the “geek” label with pride.
Dec
13
GI Joe – The Rise of Cobra
GI Joe
An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer
GI Joe is a noisy, frenetic, CGI-laden blockbuster that exists to advertise a range of paramilitary toys, but compared to its peers (ie, the dreaded Transformers movies) it’s orchestrated with tremendous skill.
The plot is insanely complicated, and yet somehow it all fits together. Similarly, there’s a colossal number of characters, and yet they’re all distinctive, and the actors have fun with their roles. If you’re an 11- year-old male it could be the best film you’ve ever seen…
Dec
12
Where the Wild Things Are
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
Spike Jonze has fearlessly plunged ahead to weave whimsical movie magic to bring Maurice Sendak’s 1963 “Where the Wild Things Are” to the screen.
The story, as millions of children and grown children know, tells of a rambunctious boy, sent to bed without his supper, who then encounters fearsome-looking but surprisingly gentle creatures when his bedroom turns into a mysterious forest. The film does surmount one of its two difficult challenges: Through puppetry and computer animation, the filmmaking teams have successfully put a world of childhood imagination on the screen.
Dec
11
Twilight – New Moon
As my girlfriend said when I sent her the link: “I WANT TO SEE THAT”.
For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realise their troubles may just be beginning.
In Twilight – New Moon, after Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a minor accident during the festivities results in Bella’s blood being shed, a sight that proves too intense for the Cullens, who decide to leave the town of Forks, Washington for Bella and Edward’s sake. Initially heartbroken, Bella finds a form of comfort in reckless living, as well as an even-closer friendship with Jacob Black. Danger in different forms awaits.
Dec
10
The Machinist
A bleak and chilling mood piece, The Machinist gets under your skin and stays there. Christian Bale threw himself into the title role with such devotion that he shed an alarming 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznik (talk about “starving artist”!), a factory worker who hasn’t slept in a year. He’s haunted by some mysterious occurrence that turned him into a paranoid husk, sleepwalking a fine line between harsh reality and nightmare fantasy–a state of mind that leaves him looking disturbingly gaunt and skeletal in appearance. (It’s no exaggeration to say that Bale resembles a Holocaust survivor from vintage Nazi-camp liberation newsreels.) In a cinematic territory far removed from his 1998 romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland, director Brad Anderson orchestrates a grimy, nocturnal world of washed-out blues and grays, as Trevor struggles to assemble the clues of his psychological conundrum. With a friendly hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and airport waitress (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) as his only stable links to sanity, Trevor reaches critical mass and seems ready to implode just as The Machinist reveals its secrets. For those who don’t mind a trip to hell with a theremin-laced soundtrack, The Machinist seems primed for long-term status as a cult thriller on the edge. –Jeff Shannon
Dec
09
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Click on the poster for a trailer of Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past. The book helps him excel at Potions class and teaches him a few dark and dangerous ones along the way. Meanwhile, Harry is taking private lessons with Dumbledore in order to find out about Voldemort’s past so they can find out what might his only weakness.
Dec
09
Dec
05
The Uninvited
Click on the poster for a trailer of The Uninvited
They say you can never go home again…because you never know when the ghosts of murders past are waiting to shatter the present. Such is the case in THE UNINVITED, an eerie and not-so-family-friendly entry in Hollywood’s ongoing fascination with remaking Asian horror films. Based on the South Korean chiller A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, the film first introduces us to troubled teen Anna (Emily Browning) as she prepares to be released from a psychiatric institution. Having witnessed the accidental death of her ailing mother, and having been saved from a subsequent suicide attempt, Anna knows that the road to recovery will be long and bumpy. Making the path more treacherous is the presence of Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), the mother’s nursemaid who has now become Anna’s father’s soon-to-be wife. Already bound by their resentment of her, Anna and older sister, Alex (Arielle Kebbel), come to suspect Rachel of foul play when Anna is visited by the ghost of their dead mother. But as Anna and Alex prepare to reveal who Rachel really is, a more terrifying truth threatens to emerge and destroy the family forever. Directed by the Guard Brothers (Charles and Thomas), THE UNINVITED benefits from a strong mix of both established and up-and-coming actors. The result is a briskly paced tale of revenge that will leave viewers guessing until the final, fatal twist, and prove the validity of that other old saying: Every family has a skeleton (or more) in its closet.
