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Friday, September 30, 2011

Official Synopsis : Successful publisher Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Rachel Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived. When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann Paterson (Naomi Watts), a neighbor who was close to the family that died. As Will and Ann piece together the disturbing puzzle, they discover that the story of the last man to leave Will's dream house will be just as horrifying to the one who came next.

Official Synopsis : A mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett) and an ardent young Japanese warrior Yoshi (Gackt) both arrive in a town that has been terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and guided by the wisdom of The Bartender (Woody Harrelson) at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two eventually join forces to bring down the corrupt and contemptuous reign of Nicola (Ron Perlman), the awesomely evil "woodcutter" and his lady Alexandra (Demi Moore), a femme fatale with a secret past. This classic tale is re-vitalized and re-imagined in an entirely fresh visual context, set in a unique world that mixes skewed reality with shadow-play fantasy, a place where even the landscape can betray you.

Official Synopsis : Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a hilariously gory, good-spirited horror comedy, doing for killer rednecks what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies. Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house, who are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count. Tucker & Dale vs Evil has been a hit on the festival circuit, debuting at Sundance, and winning the Midnight Audience Award at SXSW, the Jury Prize for First Feature at Fantasia, the Best Director award at Fantaspoa, and the Best Motion Picture Award at Sitges

Thursday, September 29, 2011

While the 2008 comic book adaptation "Wanted" was met with a lot of enthusiasm both by critics and audiences alike, it seems that the idea of a sequel wasn't. After a very long period of uncertainty and because of Angelina Jolie turning down the chance to reprise her role from the first film, nobody thought that Universal was going to move forward with the sequel. All it took was one tweet to turn things around and rekindle fanboy hopes : "Michael and I were just hired by Uni to write WANTED 2". This was written by Derek Haas, referring to co-writer Michael Brandt and the message is quite obvious. Both Haas and Brandt wrote the script for the first "Wanted", so it seems Universal doesn't want to break up a winning team. It is unknown at this time if Timur Bekmambetov will return to direct. Haas recently declared that the sequel is "going to take off after the events of what just happened" and the story will "pick up Wesley a few years later and go back in for another round."



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Official Synopsis: Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Release Date: October 28, 2011 (US)




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Official Synopsis: Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can’t be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father’s closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.

Genre: Drama

Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, James Gandolfini, John Goodman, Viola Davis,

Director: Stephen Daldry ("The Hours", "Billy Elliot")

Screenplay: Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump", "Munich", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")

Not Yet Rated

Release Date: January 20, 2012 (US)



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Official Synopsis: After being dumped by his sexy girlfriend Beth, Joe (Kwanten) reluctantly decides to join Eric (Zahn) and his LARPing (Live Action Role Players) friends in the woods rather than stay behind and feel sorry for his newly single status. There he meets hot, ass-kicking, intimidating LARPer Gwen (Glau), and finds himself plunged into a surreal adventure wilder than he ever imagined when a make-believe wizard casts an all-too-real spell from an ancient book. That spell releases an actual demon with a taste for human blood -- and souls -- that starts systematically decimating the players in this suddenly deadly "game." Will our guys become the heroes they have been pretending to be before time runs out?

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Adventure

Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Summer Glau, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, Michael Gladis

Director: Joe Lynch

Screenplay: Matt Wall, Kevin Dreyfuss

Not Yet Rated

Release Date: TBA



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Official Synopsis: A couple are pursued by an evil spirit in their own home. In an attempt to unveil the mystery, they install cameras throughout the house to capture the strange paranormal activity occurring.

Genre: Horror

Starring: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Mark Fredrichs, Lauren Bittner

Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Screenplay: Christopher B. Landon ("Disturbia")

Not Yet Rated

Release Date: October 21, 2011 (US)



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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Official Synopsis: A couple are pursued by an evil spirit in their own home. In an attempt to unveil the mystery, they install cameras throughout the house to capture the strange paranormal activity occurring.

Genre: Horror

Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Starring: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Mark Fredrichs, Lauren Bittner

Release Date: October 21, 2011 (US)

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Official Synopsis: In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier.

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Release Date: November 11, 2011 (US)

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Official Synopsis: t’s a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can’t.

Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Clancy Brown, Doug Jones

Director: Don Coscarelli ("Phantasm", "Bubba Ho-Tep")

Screenplay: Don Coscarelli, based on a novel by David Wong

Not Yet Rated

Release Date: TBA



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Official Synopsis: A TV series focused on the world of horse-race gambling.

Genre: Drama

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Richard Kind, Kevin Dunn, Michael Gambon

Director: Michael Mann ("Heat", "The Insider")

Screenplay: David Milch ("Deadwood", "NYPD Blues")

Air Date: January 2012



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Official Synopsis: Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. He works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable.

Genre: Horror

Starring: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Dominic Borrelli

Director: Tom Six

Screenplay: Tom Six

Not Yet Rated 

Release Date: October 7, 2011



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Official Synopsis: "New Year’s Eve" celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hilary Swank, Jessica Biel, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Zac Efron, Sienna Miller, Lea Michele, Sofia Vergara, Abigail Breslin, Til Schweiger, Seth Meyers, Jon Bon Jovi, Josh Duhamel, Carla Gugino.

Director: Garry Marshall ("Pretty Woman", "Valentine's Day")

Screenplay: Katherine Fugate ("Valentine's Day", "The Prince & Me")

Not Yet Rated

Release Date: December 9, 2011 (US)



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Official Synopsis: AMERICAN TEACHER chronicles the stories of four teachers - Erik Benner, Jonathan Dearman, Jamie Fidler, and Rhena Jasey - who live and work in disparate urban and rural areas of the country. By following these teachers as they reach different milestones in their careers, the film tells the deeper story of the teaching profession in America today. The film shows us the experience of these four young teachers as they recognize the importance of what they do, and how much they love what they do, but ask: can I afford to continue to teach?

Genre: Documentary

Narration: Matt Damon

Director: Vanessa Roth (Won an Oscar for the documentary "Freeheld"), Brian McGinn

Release Date: TBA



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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Mimic (1997) - Director's Cut


Synopsis: From acclaimed director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labrynth, Hellboy) comes "a terrifying film of great elegance" (San Francisco Chronicle). Starring Academy Award© winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and screen favorite Charles S. Dutton (A Time to Kill) and Josh Brolin (True Grit) this electrifying thriller brings the epic battle between man and nature to life when a team of scientists discover a glitch in their miracle cure. With the power to mimic and destroy its every predator and the threat of an entire city's destruction, their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own. With the weight of extinction on their shoulders the team is forced to take matters into their own hands in this stylish hit that delivers heartpounding thrills from beginning to end.

Genre: Horror

Run Time : 112 Min.


A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 & 3 (1985 - 1987)


Synopsis:  N/A

Genre: Horror

Run Time : 183 Min.


Basket Case (1982)


Synopsis: Carrying a mysterious wicker basket wherever he goes, Duane Bradley checks into a flea-bag hotel in New York’s Times Square. What’s in the basket, you ask? Why, it’s Duane’s hideously misshapen Siamese twin brother, Belial. Together, they’re in town to hunt down and wreak havoc on the sleazy surgeons who separated them... With memorably gruesome scenes – such as the screaming woman with the scalpels stuck in her face – and some disturbing stop-motion animation, Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case is one of the most beloved, cheerfully demented cult classicks of all time. So go ahead and open the basket... if you dare!

Genre: Horror

Run Time : 91Min.


Footloose (1984) - Deluxe Edition


Synopsis:  Footloose jumps with spirit, dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score. It portrays the timeless struggle between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon) finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard (Chris Penn) and the minister's daughter (Lori Singer). A treasury of Top 10 songs-Kenny Loggins "Footloose," Shalamar "Dancing In The Sheets," Deniece Williams "Let's Hear It For The Boy," Bonnie Tyler "Holding Out for A Hero," and the Footloose love theme, "Almost Paradise."

Genre: Musical, Drama

Run Time : 107 Min.


Battling Butler / Go West (1925)


Synopsis:  BATTLING BUTLER (1926): Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes masculinity will blossom. Ironically, he is there mistaken for ''Battling'' Butler, a renowned prizefighter of firey temperament. To impress a young lady (Sally O'Neil), Alfred carries on the ruse by engaging in a laughingly inept training regimen, but his harmless charade is soon complicated by the untimely arrival of the true contender (Francis McDonald). When the long-awaited opportunity to prove himself a man finally comes, it is before the gloved fists of the boxer, who initiates a locker-room brawl. There, in a sequence of agonizing tension and delightful surprises, Battling Butler reaches its unforgettable climax. GO WEST (1925): In this hilarious classic Buster Keaton plays a hapless young man (aptly named ''Friendless'') who idealistically hops a freight train westward to meet his destiny, first in a teeming metropolis (where he is roundly trampled by rush-hour foot traffic) then into the ranchlands of Arizona. In the side-splitting course of his attempts at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling, and even dairy farming, Friendless finds himself enamored with Brown Eyes, a particularly affectionate bovine beauty from whose hoof he removed a painful pebble. LOADED with HOURS of Special Features !

Genre: Comedy

Run Time : 183 Min.



Synopsis: A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite a war so big that the TRANSFORMERS™ alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the AUTOBOTS™ must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the DECEPTICONS'™ all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.

Synopsis: Gavin (Charlie Hunnam, Cold Mountain) is on the ledge. Hollis (Terrence Howard, Crash), who just learned that he is not the biological father of his children, is tasked with talking Gavin down. Their conversation eventually reveals Gavin s deep-rooted conflict with his fundamentalist Christian neighbor Joe (Patrick Wilson, Watchmen), whose theological opposition to Gavin was intensified by Gavin s gay roommate and later by Joe s wife's infidelity. The negotiations take a drastic turn when Hollis learns that Gavin has a deadline, and his life is not the only one hanging in the balance. Writer/director Matthew Chapman (Runaway Jury) returns after a long hiatus to helm this unpredictable thriller that asks challenging questions about faith and reason; the nature of belief; and the value of human life.

Synopsis: Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours), is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sanchez—also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century’s most-wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of seismic political shifts around the world, and the magnetic Édgar Ramírez (The Bourne Ultimatum) brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half-hour version of Carlos.

Synopsis: Thrill anew to the visual splendor, thundering action and towering drama of this record-setting winner of 11 Academy Awards®* including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his Best Actor Oscar®-winning role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. Best Director Oscar® winner William Wyler masterfully grips the reins of an enduring and spellbinding spectacular.

Monday, September 26, 2011


In the past couple of weeks there have been lots of news regarding new reboots and remakes preparing to enter the pre-productions stages. Three of the most certain to be remade are "Point Break" (Yes, the bank-robbing surfer dudes movie), "Highlander" and (gasp!) "Scarface". The information regarding these three projects are scarce so far, but they are, at least, showing off some degree of certainty, as opposed to other projects. Read on to find out more about each of these remakes.



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Official Synopsis: The action in REC Genesis encompasses the events of the first two films and after the sense of claustrophobia previously experiences. The action now takes place miles away from the original location and partly in broad daylight giving the film an entirely fresh yet disturbing new reality. The infection has left the building. In a clever twist that draws together the plots of the first two movies this third part of the saga also works as a decoder to uncover information hidden in the first two films and leaves the door open for the final installment the future REC Apocalypse.

Genre: Horror

Starring: Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín, Javier Botet, Ana Isabel Velásquez

Director: Paco Plaza ("[REC]", "[REC]2")

Screenplay: Paco Plaza, Luiso Berdejo

Not Yet Rated

Release Date: March 30, 2012 (Spain)



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Official Synopsis: Successful publisher WіƖƖ Atenton (Craig) quit a job іn Nеw York City tο relocate hіѕ wife, Libby (Weisz), аnԁ two girls tο a quaint Nеw England town. Bυt аѕ thеу settle іntο thеіr nеw life, thеу discover thеіr perfect home wаѕ thе murder scene οf a mother аnԁ hеr children. Anԁ thе entire city believes іt wаѕ аt thе hands οf thе husband whο survived. Whеn WіƖƖ investigates thе tragedy, hіѕ οnƖу lead comes frοm Ann Paterson (Watts), a neighbor whο wаѕ close tο thе family thаt died. Aѕ WіƖƖ аnԁ Ann piece together thе disturbing puzzle, thеу discover thаt thе ѕtοrу οf thе last man tο leave WіƖƖ’s dream house wіƖƖ bе јυѕt аѕ horrifying tο thе one whο came next

Release Date: September 30, 2011 (US)

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Official Synopsis: Successful publisher WіƖƖ Atenton (Craig) quit a job іn Nеw York City tο relocate hіѕ wife, Libby (Weisz), аnԁ two girls tο a quaint Nеw England town. Bυt аѕ thеу settle іntο thеіr nеw life, thеу discover thеіr perfect home wаѕ thе murder scene οf a mother аnԁ hеr children. Anԁ thе entire city believes іt wаѕ аt thе hands οf thе husband whο survived. Whеn WіƖƖ investigates thе tragedy, hіѕ οnƖу lead comes frοm Ann Paterson (Watts), a neighbor whο wаѕ close tο thе family thаt died. Aѕ WіƖƖ аnԁ Ann piece together thе disturbing puzzle, thеу discover thаt thе ѕtοrу οf thе last man tο leave WіƖƖ’s dream house wіƖƖ bе јυѕt аѕ horrifying tο thе one whο came next

Release Date: September 30, 2011 (US)

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Sunday, September 25, 2011


The box-office this last week has been revived somewhat by the presence of four major new releases : "Moneyball" a sports drama based on a true story and starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, "Dolphin Tale" a family film about the friendship between a boy and a dolphin, "Abduction" a teenage spy thriller starring Taylor Lautner in his first ever lead role and "Killer Elite" a Jason Statham vehicle which also happens to star Robert De Niro and Clive Owen. Were any of these movies capable to take down last week's king at the box-office, "The Lion King (in 3D)" ? Read on to find out ?


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Official Synopsis: Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and six–year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who suplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah’s healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. His seemingly inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds Samantha, and provokes intolerance among co-workers, friends and neighbors. But the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within the community doesn’t compare to Curtis’s privately held fear of what his dreams may truly signify. Faced with the doomed proposition that his disturbing visions signal disaster of one kind or another, Curtis confides in Samantha, testing the power of their bond against the highest possible stakes.

Release Date: September 30, 2011 (US)

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Official Synopsis: Will Gerard (Cage) is happily married to beautiful musician Laura, played by January Jones. After a late night attack leaves his wife seriously wounded in hospital, the distraught teacher is approached by a mysterious stranger, played by Guy Pearce, who offers to settle the score on Will's behalf and save Laura the pain of a trial. As emotions are running high, Will accepts the offer. But he soon learns that revenge comes at a very high price.

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Carpenter, Harold Perrineau, Xander Berkeley

Director: Roger Donaldson ("The Bank Job", "Thirteen Days")

Screenplay: Robert Tannen

Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality

Release Date: October 13, 2011 (Hong Kong)



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Saturday, September 24, 2011



Official Synopsis: A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near future [the year 2020], where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

Release Date: October 7, 2011 (US)



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