Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Raimi's Back




Sam Raimi,the director that brought us the Spider-man series has come back to his roots,horror flicks.Drag Me To Hell ushers Raimi's return to the genre in which he got famous.Namely the "Evil Dead" series.After seeing the trailer,I can firmly say Raimi still has the ability to scare the audience and make them laugh in the process.It opens On May 29,2009.

Mann's Enemy




Here comes another Michael Mann(Collateral) film,Public Enemies which stars Academy Award Nominee Johnny Depp,Academy Award Winner Marion Cotillard and Christian Bale.It tells the story of America's first "Public Enemy No. One",John Dillinger,during the height of crime in America in the 1930's.Check the trailer.The movie opens on July 1st.

Inglorious Tarantino...
















Check out the teaser trailer from Quentin Tarantino,the story of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" who are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the entire Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis soldiers and officers.The film opens this August

Extra tid-bit:The scar on Brad Pitt's neck will not be mentioned in the film. However, it hints that his character survived lynching, a common punishment in the early 1900's.

Wild Things


Here is a first look at the new Spike Jonze film "Where the Wild Things Are."It's sort of fun and scary at the same time.For the rest of the pics,click on the link....




http://www.usatoday.com/life/l090319_wildthings/flash.htm

Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Vatican disapproves Angels and Demon









The Vatican will probably call for a boycott for Angels and Demons,the big-budget follow-up to The Da Vinci Code by award winning director Ron Howard,saying that they "cannot approve" to a problematic film.However warnings have been said to the possible "boomerang effect" of such a boycott just like what happened to The Da Vinci Code.We will just wait to see what happens.It opens this May 15.What do you think?

Friday, March 20, 2009

It's raining food




Another animated movie based on a children's book.@Cloudy,with a Chance of Meatballs is based on the book by Judi and Ron Barret.It tells the story of a scientist trying to solve world hunger only to face the problem of over abundance.A highly anticipated movie where kids and grown ups can gt their tummy's full.It comes out September '09.

A Paulo Coelho Movie





Here's the first trailer to the movie adaptation of one of my favorite books of Paulo Coelho.

Meet Esther...



Check out the trailer for the Orphan,one of the anticipated frighteners of the year.Esther's one scary child.As you can see from the poster.

Transformers 2 Character Images















Here are first look at some of the new characters in Transformers 2.The Twins,Arcee,the pink motorcycle,the main villain of the movie The Fallen and Devastator.
Info:The "Fallen" mentioned in the title is a double-entendre: it refers to the Transformers who fell in the first film, but also refers to the Fallen, an apocalyptic god-like Transformer who appeared in the comic books.

Looking through Tim Burton's Eye while he looks through the looking glass





























Here's the first look at Tim Burton's vision of Alice in Wonderland.The images above show Alice(Mia Wasikowska) and The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp).The film has received a lot of buzz as well as positive comments from fans of story,critics and other directors.The film also stars Anne Hathaway,Helena Bonham Carter(Harry Potter's bellatrix Lestrange),Alan Rickman(Prof. Snape) and Michael Sheen(Lucian of Underworld.)The movie has a scheduled release for March 5,2010.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

500 days of Love found and lost?


For the lovers and hopeless romantics,I give you 500 Days of Summer.A story,not a love story,about a boy who falls in love with a girl who doesn't believe that true love exist.This film is a contender for Cannes and the Sundance Festival.It brings fresh eyes and ideas to the genre.Check out the trailer.Ex's will truly pop up in your minds after seeing it.

A Nelson Mandela Biopic

Here's a first on the set picture for the upcoming Clint Eastwood film, The Human Factor,a biopic for Nelson Mandela.The film stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. It takes a look at Mandela's life after the fall of the apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president where he campaigned to hold the 1995 Rugby World Cup.This based on the book,The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World by John Carlin.

Wild Things


A lot of fantasy films are in line this 2009.One of them is "Where the Wild Things Are" by Oscar nominated director(Being John Malkovich) Spike Jonze. The film is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story.It tells the story of Max,a disobedient child who one night went to bed without dinner and creates his own world. A forest world filled with ferocious and scary monsters the hail Max as their crowned king. Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker and James Gandolfini lends their voices for this fantasy filled dream.Diffenitely a movie for the family especially to the kids,naughty or nice.The movie opens this October.Be sure to look for it.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

 
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