The Pulpmovies Trailer Park

Once again, the incomparable Aardman Animations have teamed up with Dreamworks, this time for Flushed Away.

Roddy (Hugh Jackman) is a decidedly upper-crust “society rat” who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat, complete with two hamster butlers named Gilbert and Sullivan. When a common sewer rat named Syd (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the sink and decides he’s hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the “whirlpool.” Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he’s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita (Kate Winslet), an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad (Ian McKellen) —who royally despises all rodents—wants them iced…literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin—that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Jean Reno).

Unlike the two company’s previous collaberations - Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit and Chicken Run - Flushed Away is a CG rather than a claymation movie. But the same look is there, along with the same broad British humour that made the previous films such fun to watch.

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Danish horror film, Rovdrift is currently in post production and and due to be released in the near future.

Laura has had the worst day of her life, everything’s gone wrong. On her way home from work a late night she catches a taxi, not realizing her day is about to get a whole lot worse…

From the trailer it all looks like very powerful stuff.

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High in the Appalachian Mountains and under a full moon, a timeless evil rises. An awakened predator whose savagery and ferocity are matched only by its insatiable appetite. Consumed by its legendary bloodlust, the creature begins the hunt for its oldest and most dangerous prey: Man.

Special Agent Jack Driscoll has seen this before. The beast is his obsession and his nightmare. Now, he and his new partner must race against the rising moon to save a group of unsuspecting campers.

Outmatched and unarmed, the frightened group must rally themselves to survive the night. As their numbers dwindle and their strength wanes, the group scrambles to answer the only question that will save their lives; how do you kill the unkillable?

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The King is Gael García Bernal’s first, very confident crack at English dialogue as a young man just released from the Navy, who seeks out the father he never knew (William Hurt), only to find that he is now the evangelical pastor of a thriving church in a prosperous Texas community. With a beautiful wife (Laura Harring), a seemingly innocent daughter and a son bound for bible college, the pastor wants nothing to do with the bastard son.

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I originally posted this way back in December 2004, but with a US release - as District B13 - on the way, it’s time for an update.

In the Parisian ghettos of 2013 there is no justice, no law and no rules.

Damien - a member of an elite police force specially trained in martial arts and weapons use for rapid intervention and infiltration in high-risk situations - takes on his most difficult mission yet to infiltrate a suburban sector controlled by a powerful gang in possession of a weapon of mass destruction in order to stop it from being used.

Banlieue 13 promises to be big, fast and explosive. So much so that that it has even been banned by a Begian cinema chain.

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Suspect was released last year in its native Belgium, but now it looks like it’s about to travel a bit further afield. And deservedly so.

Sandy (Zoe De Roovere) and her mentally disabled brother Jimmy (Elias Mentzel) live with their mother Nell (Karlijn Sileghem) and their stepfather Rob (Gene Bervoets). Sandy refuses to accept Rob as a father figure and when he puts her dog, the only living memory of her natural father to sleep, Sandy begins to isolate herself even further.

She soon finds comfort with Lydia (Ellen Ten Damme) a former social worker. Not long after their friendship begins, Sandy confides to Lydia about her nightmares, which all allude to sexual elements and centre on her stepfather. Lydia proclaims loudly that Sandy is yet another victim of sexual abuse.

As a result, Rob becomes the subject in a whole series of accusations and the public opinion grows increasingly convinced of his guilt. Suddenly Rob gets thrust into a public and media circus. But is Sandy really the victim or is she just a pawn in a series of events gone completely out of control.

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Aachi and Ssipak is an outrageous animated comedy. In another time and place, in a hyper-violent, drug-addicted world powered by human feces, Aachi and Ssipak are dim, ill-mannered outlaws like no other.

Aachi & Ssipak is a modern cyberpunk “Easy Rider,” filled with MTV-style images and hardcore excitement for the new generation, for those tired of generic, cutesy, family animation.

There is nothing I can add to that. Just go watch the trailer.

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Look Both Ways follows the misadventures of Meryl (Justine Clarke), a woman who sees disaster everywhere. Beautifully animated watercolors render her daily imaginings of train wrecks, muggings and shark attacks. One day Meryl is witness to a real accident that connects her to the lives of others affected by the tragedy.

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It looks like Brazillian drama Casa de Areia is about to get an international release as The House of Sand.

Áurea´s saga starts in 1910, when, in pursuing a dream she never shared, she arrives in a caravan at a labyrinth of sand in Maranhão, northern Brazil. Her husband, Vasco, believes this land to be prosperous and she is condemned to a life in this barren place, her only female company being her mother, Dona Maria. Pregnant and dissatisfied with her destiny, she
tries everything to find a way out.

She spends 59 years living with an imminent departure. At first Áurea is hindered by Vasco and is forced to live in a house on the top of a dune, until one day, alongside her mother, she witnesses the death of her husband, buried by his own insanity. With a mixture of both pain and relief, she believes herself to be free. But the truth is, her fate is in the hands of destiny.

Abandoned in the desert with her daughter, Dona Maria goes in search of a small settlement originally founded by runaway slaves. Here she meets Massu, who becomes an important companion for the two women. It is he who teaches them how to trade belongings for food. And salt, brought from afar by Chico, the only man able to come and go as he pleases, and whom Áurea clings to in the hope of leaving after she gives birth.

A girl is born, also called Maria. Nine years pass and Dona Maria is the first to realize that there is some sense to that place. But Áurea remains stubborn, only waiting for her daughter to grow up in order to face the journey. The possibility of realizing her greatest wish comes to life again with the return of the salt salesman. Just as everything seems set, Massu surprises them all by hindering their departure.

Desperate, Áurea runs across the sandy plains after Chico. Instead of finding him, she encounters Lieutenant Luiz, a young guide leading a group of scientists researching of the total solar eclipse in the region. In an emotional passage she is able to rescue her feelings, rediscover sex and is given a chance to restart her life. However, once again, circumstances beyond her will force Áurea to remain on the sandy plains. Alongside Massu, she discovers that she does belong here, after all.

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KatieBird *certifiable crazy person is now out on DVD.

KatieBird Wilkins, a woman with a passion for love, relives the events that lead up to her first killing during her final “session” with psychologist Dr. Mark Richardson, her doctor and lover. Director Justin Paul Ritter, in his directorial debut, weaves this disturbing tale of unrequited love and painful truth. Beginning in an urban apartment, the story traverses through past and present, taking you as far back as 1950s rural America.

What begins as a lovers’ spat between the Doctor and KatieBird soon becomes a chilling testimony of the relationships that molded her into a torturous killer. Before he can object the doctor finds himself chained to a bed and at the mercy of KatieBird.

She then begins to tell him the story of her childhood and her relationship with her father, Merl. Cared for and loved as a normal child, KatieBird discovered one day that there was much more to her father behind closed doors. And when she is hurt by the local high school heart throb, Merl takes her into his world and teaches her the only way he knows to seek out the truth.

Scared, confused, yet knowing this is the path that was meant for her, KatieBird begins to learn what was passed down to her father and her father’s father…the truth that can only be found through death. Soon she too has captured her first victim and begins to learn and understand what true and truthful pain is.

Hearing KatieBird’s testimony only confirms Dr. Richardson’s mounting belief that she is beyond being helped. Yet his twisted doctor/lover relationship with her keeps him mentally as well as, currently, physically bound to her. As Dr. Richardson loses control of the situation he learns far too late that he is to be her “last” victim…

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