A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race.
Monday, 30 September 2013
Doomsday
A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race.
Tiltil
The plot of the movie unfolds through the testimonials of three young sisters: Uring (Pia Peron), the eldest, Luray (Sachi Sanders), next to the eldest, and Elya (Jean Andrews), the youngest who recount the grisly sexual molestation they experienced from their adoptive father Timo (Michael de Mesa).
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Disconnect
A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world.
The English Teacher
An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.
Saturday, 28 September 2013
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
A look at Wolverine's early life, in particular his time with the government squad Weapon and the impact it will have on his later years.
Love Blind
Matt is a photographer who specialises in erotic images of beautiful young women. He moves in with his buddy Nick, and becomes obsessed with his new model Channi, whose wild appetite for life challenges Matt's emotional shallowness. Matt's starightlaced girlfriend Sarah is also thinking about Channi, and is planning a threesome with Matt which might cause more than a few complications. Steamy moments are guaranteed.
Machine Gun Preacher
Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.
The Iron Lady
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
Friday, 27 September 2013
Curse of Chucky
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos.
Grave Encounters
For their ghost hunting reality show, a production crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital that's supposedly haunted - and it might prove to be all too true.
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Blood of Redemption
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the patriarch of the criminal empire is killed and his brother suspects that Quinn is behind it all. When he's released from jail he tries to escape the demons from his past, but that becomes an impossible task. Campbell, the ruthless new leader of "The Company" won't let him leave in peace. So instead of escaping them, Quinn fights back. He joins forces with his former henchman and friend, The Swede, and takes on his enemies head on.
Married People Single Sex The Return
Meet three couples with more than love on their minds. Each of them had an idea what they wanted from marriage, but ended up with something else. When passion fades, what will these six people do to spice up their romantic lives?
Drift
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.
Byzantium
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.
NEED FOR SPEED Trailer
Whenever I think about the state of video-game movies, I have to keep reminding myself that Spawn, Steel, Barb Wire and Howard the Duck all got big feature-film adaptations before Spider-Man did. With that in mind, here's the first trailer for the next very, very important gaming franchise to rate it's own movie, "Need For Speed;" which appears to feature Aaron Paul as the less interesting version of the guy from "Drive."
Y'ever see "student films" made by bro's who switched to Film Studies their sophmore year because their buddy showed them "Boondock Saints" and they thought they'd found their creative calling?
Well, I have - and they all have this same basic music and narration. So I understand if no one else finds this trailer gut-bustingly hilarious; but this looks like the first great comedy of 2014 to me. Can. Not. Wait.
Y'ever see "student films" made by bro's who switched to Film Studies their sophmore year because their buddy showed them "Boondock Saints" and they thought they'd found their creative calling?
Well, I have - and they all have this same basic music and narration. So I understand if no one else finds this trailer gut-bustingly hilarious; but this looks like the first great comedy of 2014 to me. Can. Not. Wait.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Cabin of the Dead
Ida and Albin are a happy couple. They set off to a cabin in the vast Swedish woodlands to have a fun holiday with their friends. But under the floorboards waits an evil from Sweden's dark past.
L'ennui
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
DC's Agents of G.O.T.H.A.M.
Wow, that didn't even take a day.
Effectively right after "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." had its premiere, Deadline landed the "exclusive" news that Warner Bros. is developing a comic-movie spin-off series of their own from "Mentalist" creator Bruno Heller. Surprising absolutely ZERO living humans, the DC franchise being spun-off... is Batman.
The title: GOTHAM. The pitch: The exploits of Commissioner Gordon in pre-Batman Gotham City... so, "Law & Order"/Criminal Minds"/"CSI"/etc but (presumably) with Batman villains.
Y'know what? That's actually a really good idea - and you can tell that Warners thinks so as well by the network in question: This is going to Fox instead of traditional DC-series home The CW, which indicates that Warners is confident that people might actually want to watch this show. Fans and pros alike have been talking about bringing Batman back to live-action television for awhile* (real talk: Between the Adam West show, "The Animated Series," both "Justice League" runs and "The Brave and The Bold;" episodic television seems to be where this character works best); and this is a great way of doing that without "lowering" their now Affleck-fronted cinematic cash cow to TV.
The big question, one imagines, is whether or not this will attempt to establish some kind of connection with the still-murky history of the new version of Batman set to debut in "Superman vs. Batman" - where they're already talking up the idea that he'll be a kind of grizzled "veteran" superhero in contrast to Superman's relative-newbie status. Not long ago that would've been an easy "no, Warner Bros. doesn't care about that;" but it's sounding more and more like the new Flash who'll be showing up on "Arrow" next season is meant to be part of the eventual "Justice League" feature, so who knows?
Continuity aside, one has to wonder what the setting for this is going to look like: James Gordon traditionally meets Batman either in middle-age or as an otherwise older man (he's a Commissioner, after all); so "before Batman" is a pretty long stretch of time. Will they go younger, with Sexy Fresh-Out-Of-The-Academy College-Age Officer Gordon learning the ropes? Middle-aged Detective Gordon? Older Gordon who'll meet Batman "any day now?" Maybe it's telling that Deadline's story only specifies that Batman won't appear - does that mean Bruce Wayne could? If so, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of logistical possibility to get Ben Affleck to throw on a three-piece suit and pull a sweeps-week cameo as "carefree playboy Bruce Wayne," hanging out on the periphery of this or that investigation while series regulars make unintentionally-ironic comments about his physicality, sleeping-habits, etc.
We'll see. Incidentally, "S.H.I.E.L.D." was good. Solid, good cast, sharp writing that only occasionally feels a little too Whedon for it's own good. Feels like almost every important character had two separate introductions - one for "this is X!" and one for "is it true about X's ominously-alluded-to mysterious backstory?," which would feel like too much ambition anywhere else but makes sense here. I'll have more to say about that tomorrow, so stay tuned.
*Young Bruce Wayne was supposed to become a part of "Smallville" at one point, but the character and storyline were rewritten into Oliver Queen instead once the run-up to "Batman Begins" got under way.
Effectively right after "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." had its premiere, Deadline landed the "exclusive" news that Warner Bros. is developing a comic-movie spin-off series of their own from "Mentalist" creator Bruno Heller. Surprising absolutely ZERO living humans, the DC franchise being spun-off... is Batman.
The title: GOTHAM. The pitch: The exploits of Commissioner Gordon in pre-Batman Gotham City... so, "Law & Order"/Criminal Minds"/"CSI"/etc but (presumably) with Batman villains.
Y'know what? That's actually a really good idea - and you can tell that Warners thinks so as well by the network in question: This is going to Fox instead of traditional DC-series home The CW, which indicates that Warners is confident that people might actually want to watch this show. Fans and pros alike have been talking about bringing Batman back to live-action television for awhile* (real talk: Between the Adam West show, "The Animated Series," both "Justice League" runs and "The Brave and The Bold;" episodic television seems to be where this character works best); and this is a great way of doing that without "lowering" their now Affleck-fronted cinematic cash cow to TV.
The big question, one imagines, is whether or not this will attempt to establish some kind of connection with the still-murky history of the new version of Batman set to debut in "Superman vs. Batman" - where they're already talking up the idea that he'll be a kind of grizzled "veteran" superhero in contrast to Superman's relative-newbie status. Not long ago that would've been an easy "no, Warner Bros. doesn't care about that;" but it's sounding more and more like the new Flash who'll be showing up on "Arrow" next season is meant to be part of the eventual "Justice League" feature, so who knows?
Continuity aside, one has to wonder what the setting for this is going to look like: James Gordon traditionally meets Batman either in middle-age or as an otherwise older man (he's a Commissioner, after all); so "before Batman" is a pretty long stretch of time. Will they go younger, with Sexy Fresh-Out-Of-The-Academy College-Age Officer Gordon learning the ropes? Middle-aged Detective Gordon? Older Gordon who'll meet Batman "any day now?" Maybe it's telling that Deadline's story only specifies that Batman won't appear - does that mean Bruce Wayne could? If so, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of logistical possibility to get Ben Affleck to throw on a three-piece suit and pull a sweeps-week cameo as "carefree playboy Bruce Wayne," hanging out on the periphery of this or that investigation while series regulars make unintentionally-ironic comments about his physicality, sleeping-habits, etc.
We'll see. Incidentally, "S.H.I.E.L.D." was good. Solid, good cast, sharp writing that only occasionally feels a little too Whedon for it's own good. Feels like almost every important character had two separate introductions - one for "this is X!" and one for "is it true about X's ominously-alluded-to mysterious backstory?," which would feel like too much ambition anywhere else but makes sense here. I'll have more to say about that tomorrow, so stay tuned.
*Young Bruce Wayne was supposed to become a part of "Smallville" at one point, but the character and storyline were rewritten into Oliver Queen instead once the run-up to "Batman Begins" got under way.
"AGE OF ULTRON" SDCC Teaser Leaks
You'll find out what I thought of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." tomorrow. Until then, here's a REALLY fortuitous "leak" that hit YouTube right around the same time the series was hitting TV. It offers more-or-less the first look at Ultron (SPOILER: He looks like Ultron.)
Predator
A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.
Maid in Sweden
Maid in Sweden tells the story of Inga, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who leaves her rural home to spend a weekend in the Swedish capital. An innocent with no experience, but with prodigious physical attributes, she has a series of romantic adventures as she throws off the frustrations of her small-town environment.
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The Departed
An undercover state cop who infiltrated a Mafia clan and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.
Insidious
Mad Detective
Country : Hong Kong
Year : 2007
Genre : Drama, Thriller, Investigation
Duration : 1hr 30mins
Director : Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai
Actors : Ching Wan Lau, Andy On, Ka Tung Lam
It is a psychological thriller movie about a rookie cop who investigates the case of a serial killer, with the help of an ex detective who has a special gift to sense peoples personality but is seen and live like a crazy guy. Story begins as an investigation on a missing cop but the cop's gun is linked to serial killing. Investigation style of the mad detective is rather amusing and quite interesting to watch really. Besides decent acting and story, the most plausible of all is the direction. The movie looks phenomenally great in the hands of Jonnie to and Wai Ka fai.... brilliant stuff and a very good entertainer.
Eden
Country : USA
Year : 2012
Duration : 1hr 30mins
Director : Megan Griffiths
Actors : Jamie Chung, Matt o'leary, Breau Bridges
Based on a true story happened in 1990s in Washington, USA - the movie centers the struggle of a Korean American girl Young Jae who was abducted and thrown into sex trafficking. The movie paces up with her plot to escape from the captivity guarded by guns and muscles. Movie throws quite an insight into the sex trafficking industry and the lives of the young girls who have no choice but to smile for the clients. Movie feels special having female director Megan Griffiths involved to help write the scripts for the movie and later steer it exactly the way the person involved experienced it.
Interesting movie with brilliant acting from Jamie Chung and a warm background scores make this movie, quite a watch.
Innocence is not Lost. Its Stolen