June 2006
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Star Trek Intrepid: Heavy Lies the Crown is thought to be the only Star Trek fan film in production in the UK.
The plot centres on a group of civilians who want to colonise a planet on the far edges of the galaxy, but can only travel if they are accompanied by a Star Fleet vessel. The key theme is how the two groups work together in adversity.
The final edit is now in progress and the people behind the film are hoping to have it completed by the end of the year. Being a fan film, they aren’t intending to make any money from it, so it will be posted on the internet for free download.
0 comments Thursday 29 Jun 2006 | Paul | Science Fiction
It’s a pretty tall order to ask a six-year-old to suddenly take on responsibility for his own life. The questions facing Vanya are really tough: does he want to live a comfortable life as an adopted child of a loving family in Italy? After all, for an abandoned Russian child like Vanya it really doesn’t sound like a bad option.
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0 comments Thursday 29 Jun 2006 | Paul | Drama
Lady in the Water is based on a story originally conceived by M. Night Shyamalan for his children.
Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) has been quietly trying to disappear among the burned-out lightbulbs and broken appliances of the Cove apartment complex. But on the night that irrevocably changes his life, Cleveland finds someone else hiding in the mundane routine of the modest building – a mysterious young woman named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard), who has been living in the passageways beneath the building’s swimming pool. Cleveland discovers that Story is actually a “narf” – a nymph-like character from an epic bedtime story who is being stalked by vicious creatures determined to prevent her from making the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Story’s unique powers of perception reveal the fates of Cleveland’s fellow tenants, whose destinies are tied directly to her own, and they must work together to decipher a series of codes that will unlock the pathway to her freedom. But the window of opportunity for Story to return home is closing rapidly, and the tenants are putting their own lives at great risk to help her. Cleveland will have to face the demons that have followed him to the Cove – and the other tenants must seize the special powers that Story has brought out in them – if they hope to succeed in their daring and dangerous quest to save her world…and ours.
0 comments Thursday 29 Jun 2006 | Paul | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A teaser trailer for Kenta Fukasaku’s Yo-Yo Girl Cop is now online. According to Twitch:
A police detective working undercover at private school Seisen Gakuen is blown to pieces on the streets of Shibuya. The cop had been investigating students frequenting a popular underground website named ‘Enola Gay’, where information on everything from bullying to bomb-making is exchanged. One week earlier, a strange counter on the website began ticking down to some unmentioned event…. Meanwhile, a young girl only known as ‘K’ is brought back to Japan from New York against her will, and is assigned the codename ‘Asamiya Saki’ by the National Police Agency. Her mission: infiltrate Seisen Gakuen….
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0 comments Sunday 25 Jun 2006 | Paul | Action, Crime
Dog Bite Dog, from director Soi Cheang stars Edison Chen and Sam Lee as a monstrous hitman and a sadistic cop out to get each other. According to Kaiju Shakedown (via):
It’s shooting for a release later this year, and after watching a rough cut, I can say that it’s a hard-hitting movie that’s definitely not like anything else you’ve seen from Hong Kong this year. Forget slickness, forget cleanliness, forget kindness. Dog Bite Dog is like swallowing a handful of broken glass.
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0 comments Sunday 25 Jun 2006 | Paul | Action, Crime
It looks like the Passion of the Clerks title has been well and truly dropped, but a trailer for Kevin Smith’s Clerks II has turned up on Apple.
At the age of 33, New Jersey mini-mart clerks and best friends Dante Hicks and Randal Graves have it made - they work with each other, slack off all day, and get paid for it. But when the local Quick Stop that has been their entire life and livelihood suffers a cataclysm, Dante and Randal have to do the unthinkable: find new minimum-wage jobs.
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0 comments Friday 23 Jun 2006 | Paul | Comedy
Bollywood superhero film, Krrish is a sequel to the science-fiction hit Koi…Mil Gaya.
Krishna (Hrithik Roshan) is born with magical powers - a legacy from his father, Rohit Mehra.
Priya (Priyanka Chopra) comes into his life and becomes his world. When she beckons him to Singapore, he follows.
In Singapore, Dr. Siddhant Arya (Naseeruddin Shah), the megalomaniac scientist is on the verge of changing the future forever.
Only one man stands between Dr. Siddhant Arya and his destructive dreams.
To block his ruthless ambitions… Krishna must become KRRISH
And yes, there are song and dance numbers.
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1 comment Wednesday 21 Jun 2006 | Paul | Action, Science Fiction
Straight from the front lines in Iraq, The War Tapes is the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves. This is Operation Iraqi Freedom as filmed by Sergeant Steve Pink, Sergeant Zack Bazzi and Specialist Mike Moriarty.
The soldiers’ unfailing candor and honesty defines the heart of this film. The War Tapes is not afraid to show soldiers as fully complicated human beings –this is not reality TV, and it’s certainly not mainstream media coverage of the war. This is real war. These soldiers got the story the 2,700 embedded reporters never could.
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0 comments Tuesday 20 Jun 2006 | Paul | Documentary
Part drama, part documentary, Michael Winterbottom’s Road To Guantanamo is a terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the “Tipton Three,” in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal.
0 comments Sunday 18 Jun 2006 | Paul | Documentary, Drama
Brothers of the Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry and a dark inner life, the twins embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing Punk Rock.
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0 comments Thursday 15 Jun 2006 | Paul | Drama