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Pedro Almodóvar has already caused quite a stir in Europe with Bad Education, his most personal movie to date. Not strictly autobiographical, the film is about the fates of two boys abused at a religious school in the 60s.

And now, thanks to Sony Classics, the film is getting a much deserved US release.

Celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar’s latest is a classic film noir set in Madrid, 1960 - 1980. Two kids, Ignacio and Enrique, discover love, cinema and fear in a religious school. Father Manolo, the school principal and their literature teacher, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three characters meet twice again, at the end of the 70s and in the 80s. The re-encounter will mark the life and death of some of them.

This film opens in New York and LA on November 19 and stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Fele Martínez.

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How To Disappear Completely is an 8 minute short film about a young photographer’s perception of the world around him. Disgusted and disillusioned by modern society he turns his back on it to photograph nature in the untainted countryside, happy with his philosophy that people can’t be bothered so why bother with them? It all makes sense until the day he sees a beautiful girl, and has to decide between his philosophy and the ills of a world he has left behind.

This simple film struggled through a two year curse to get made, enduring refusals for funding, complicated scheduling, freak weather, personal injury, working with wild animals, and multiple problems with locations; the film is a classic low budget indie triumph over adversity thanks to the support and dedication of it’s creators, who just had a simple story to tell.

How To Disappear Completely, a Coffee Films production, is appearing at festivals worldwide now.

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John Sayles’ latest film follows Dickie Pilager the frighteningly familliar, “user-friendly” candidate during his Colorado campaign to win office. When Pilager reels in a corpse while filming a political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires a former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O’Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family’s enemies.

Silver City is part satire and part sun drenched noir detective story (if such a thing exists) and, in the tradition such films, Danny’s investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.

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“Some men are changed by history, others make it.”

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry is a feature length documentary about character and moral leadership during a time of national crisis. Loosely based on the best-selling book Tour of Duty by Douglas Brinkley, Going Upriver examines the story of John Kerry and the key events that made him a national figure and the man he is today. The film places particular emphasis on his bravery during the Vietnam War and his courageous opposition to the war upon his return.

The film traces Kerry’s early life as a young man who chooses to enlist in the Navy and to go to Vietnam. The film reveals intimate, first person accounts of Kerry’s war service through his own private letters, his eloquent journal, and the vivid memories of the men who served at his side. When Kerry came home disillusioned by the war, he and his fellow Vietnam Veterans challenged Congress and the Nixon administration. As Kerry became a nationally known anti-war activist, the Nixon White House plotted to discredit his leadership, but significantly could find “nothing on him,” as Colson reveals via Watergate tapes. Despite Nixon’s attempt to undermine John Kerry’s political career during his 1972 unsuccessful run for US Congress, Kerry persevered, eventually winning election to the Senate and receiving the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.

Going Upriver director George Butler (best known for his highly acclaimed films Pumping Iron, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition) first realized Kerry’s importance to his generation and began documenting his journey in photographs in 1969, covering Kerry’s leadership of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), his early political campaigns, as well as intimate moments of his personal life. The film weaves together Butler’s extraordinary photographs with archival film, interviews with Kerry’s closest associates, and more contemporary images of the Senator at home and abroad.

As a Vietnam War hero and anti-war activist, Kerry’s story is at the center of a defining era in American history. More than a biography of John Kerry, Going Upriver is the story of an American generation that came of age in the tumultuous sixties and that has now come to national leadership at the beginning of a new century — when issues of war and morality once again hold center stage.

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The final Alexander trailer is now online at ComingSoon.net (and has been for a few days) and it really is one you don’t want to miss. Not surprisingly, it looks visually stunning and the battle scenes promise to be both huge and spectacular.

I can’t really do it justice here apart from sugesting that you try not to focus too much on Angelina Jolie’s middle European accent. And remember, anything with Brian Blessed in it has to be worth a watch.

Superhero Hype has an exclusive feature on Disney’s and Pixar’s The Incredibles, including two new TV spots, a new picture of Elastigirl in action, and profiles for each character.

In The Incredibles, Bob Parr used to be one of the world’s greatest superheroes (known to all as “Mr. Incredible”), saving lives and fighting evil on a daily basis. But now fifteen years later, Bob and his wife (a famous superhero in her own right) have adopted civilian identities and retreated to the suburbs to live normal lives with their three kids. Now he’s a clock-punching insurance claims adjuster fighting boredom and a bulging waistline. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top-secret assignment.

The feature is well worth checking out, but in the meantime here are the trailers.

TV Spot #1 - ‘Ever Wonder’

TV Spot #2 - ‘Super Powers’

And, going back a bit…

Original Teaser

First Theatrical Trailer

Second Theatrical Trailer

The Jizz Mopper is a 33-minute comedic look at a day in the life of an adult bookstore custodian.

Randy Cook stars as JM, an unmotivated man taking life one day at a time. When JM’s boss calls him into work on his day off, he reluctantly goes knowing that he may have to clean up after his most feared customer, Harry Johnson.

The Jizz Mopper is a raunchy new comedy that oozes with laughter, among other things. Director Mike Murphy gives new meaning to bathroom humour, politics and religion as this sidesplitting comedy goes where no comedy has gone before, literally.

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I really enjoyed Bride of Chucky. The film’s many sardonic winks to it its own franchise and a willingness to satirise not only the horror genre, but also the post Scream “ironic” horror genre made for a fun and frantic horror-comedy in which nothing was treated as sacred.

So it was with a bit of trepidation that I watched the trailer for the next film in the franchise, Seed of Chucky in which Chucky and Tiffany discover the joys of parenthood and go on a murder spree in Hollywood.

The trailer for Seed of Chucky managed to raise several smiles from me, including the line from John Waters. Yes, the John Waters.

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Project X is the temporary name of a Belgian lowbudget production that is currently in progress…
Locations are set in Antwerp and Ghent with a cast of unknown actors and beautiful actresses.

So far, they have three teaser trailers online…

Anne teaser
Anne is being forced to watch the killing of the models of the agency of Jim’s mother.

Zoë teaser
Zoë’s character is tied to a chair and killed with a razorblade.

Ishtar teaser
Here’s a sample of what to expect when Dolores discovers Jim’s secret …