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Walking The Walk is a mocumentary which exposes the real lives of an eclectic ensemble as they go about creating their “big break”: A negligent father exposing his child to far too many things, two transplanted New York buddies breaking each other’s balls trying to figure it all out, a bizarre love triangle and a couple of the lamest star cameos you’ve ever seen.

Lacking the face of Tom Cruise or the body of The Rock, casting directors have never exactly beaten down Troy B. Evin’s door…So with the inspiration of his 8 year old (going on 35) son, Danny, Troy sets out to make his own movie on a seven thousand dollar budget…Can he do it?

With the help of his best friend and failed Management/Production Company partner, Felix Wojenski, Troy is on his way… In addition to themselves, the movie will feature their star client the Cuban Cannon Ricky Love, a happy go lucky 300 pound bald comedian/cab driver… Shane Roddick, the good looking stud with an attitude who can’t believe he’s been out here a whole year and hasn’t made it yet…

…But something is missing, oh yeah, there’s got to be a hot girl in the movie…No problem, well maybe a little problem… it’s hard to get good talent willing to show their breasts for deferred pay… but fresh off the boat from Minnesota , Troy finds the lovely Jeannie Window.

The result is both side-splittingly funny and inspiring. The frustration and angst of thousands of Hollywood stories come through in the emotions of the various characters in the movie, while the spoof of the big “reality” craze keeps you laughing through almost every scene.

For Evins, who wrote, stars in and directed the film, this movie is his very own moment when he stopped talking about what he wanted to do and be, and finally started Walking The Walk…

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We first meet Ben (Rupert Grint), a shy, bookish 17-year-old, as he begins a very unpromising summer vacation. While the other kids are out having fun, Ben spends these precious few weeks attending bible classes, having driving lessons with his overbearing and overly religious mother (Laura Linney) and helping out at a local old people’s home. It’s certainly not his ideal summer but, with a demanding, vigilant mother and a passive vicar for a father, Ben is anything but in control of his own destiny.

Ben’s absurdly straitlaced world is turned upside down when he gets a job assisting Evie (Julie Walters), an eccentric retired actress. Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once, Evie enters Ben’s life with a cataclysmic force. Suddenly caught between two worlds, Ben starts to gravitate towards his employer’s unconventional and often bizarre ways, even though it continually gets him into trouble with his mother.

Evie drafts Ben as her partner in a series of adventures, culminating in a camping trip that turns into a road trip when she cajoles unlicensed Ben into driving her to the Edinburgh Festival. Ben reluctantly ignores his conservative instincts and jumps behind the wheel.

What follows is a journey in which Ben and Evie help each other move forward in their radically different lives, as Ben is forced to confront how he was brought up and who he wants to be.

Driving Lessons opens in the US in October.

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I’ve been keen to see Andrea Arnold’s Red Road ever since I heard about it back in May. So thanks to Solace in Cinema for pointing me to the trailer on the London Film Festival website.

Jackie (Kate Dickie) works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.

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In Hokkabaz, Cem Yilmaz (probably best know outside Turkey for G.O.R.A.) plays Iskender, a stage magician who gets fired from his job and decides to go on a tour of Turkey accompanied by his best friend and unstable father.

The film is currently in post-production and is due to be released in Turkey on 20th October.

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(via Twitch)

The following synopsis for Italian horror film, Armageddon comes from Splatter Container via Twitch.

Unexpected floods and deluges violently hit throughout the planet. Soon it was the absolute paralysis of any activity or service. To the progressive social and economic disaster, strange epidemics follow that swiftly spread like an oil stain. In a few months, the contagion reaches worldwide proportions. Some infected people, even dead, still have some of their vital functions. These beings are subject to a devastating physical necrosis, they prevalently suffer from photofobia, have the strongest sense of aggressiveness and a proneness to antropothagy. Since the beginning, the mass media label them as vampires because of their new physical and behavioral characteristics that, in some ways, remind the features and gestures of the legendary creatures of the night.

A man tries to help these beings, sure of their harmlessness and primordial innocence. His name is Gabriel Melville, a priest. He will seek refuge in fortified areas of the outskirts in the hope of finding possible allies for his desperate mission. But the reality he will have to face is absolutely different, based on indescribable horrors, massacres and abuses of all kind. Melville will have to fight tirelessly, being forced, at the same time, to take under discussion even his own self, everything in which he believed and his faith, that at this point has become useless and obsolete in a context and world where the dichotomy between good and evil is by this time a faint utopia. After having acquainted with a bewildering truth, he will be forced to decide on remaining anchored to the old world and definitely die with it, or on embracing the new one and run into something of completely unknown and unexplored.

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Much as an actual Arbus photo transports us into strange and unfamiliar worlds, Fur travels through the looking glass to explore the transformation of a shy woman into a powerfully original artist. Nicole Kidman stars as Diane Arbus, a devoted wife and mother whose innate talents and dark obsessions are profoundly at odds with the conventional life.

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Visually, Christian Volckman’s Renaissance struck me as being a gorgeously minimalistic cross between Sin City and Immortel.

In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Cut off from the world for its own protection, the city has nonetheless continued to expand. Now, 21st century skyscrapers overlay centuries-old architectural masterpieces. And below street level, a sophisticated network of streamlined plazas push up against the city’s ancient, deteriorating tunnel systems. Casting a shadow over everything is the city’s largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to sell its primary export – eternal youth and beauty.

When 22-year-old Ilona (Romola Garai), one of Avalon’s most promising scientists, is abruptly kidnapped, Avalon calls on Barthélémy Karas (Daniel Craig), a Paris cop with a hard-fought reputation for finding anyone, no matterwhat sacrifices he has to make along the way. As the trail gets hot, Karas senses he’s not the only one looking for thebeautiful enigma, and every witness he digs up seems to turn up dead.

To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research – where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.

“Renaissance” is a bold never-before-seen vision of a stark near future drenched in hidden secrets and technological frontiers. Directed by Christian Volckman, Renaissance takes film noir to its most stylized edge, utilizing live actionmotion capture, animated in 3D and rendered in high contrast black and white to create a graphic novel come-to-life.

The look alone makes me want to see this film.

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Orphaned in 19th century war-torn Tokugawa Shogun period of Japan, Azumi is found and raised along with other orphans by Ji, the mentor. The Shogun, commission Ji to cultivate assassins to eliminate warlords before they can strike. Burdened with the cruel mission to kill friends and enemies alike, Azumi begins to question her fate.

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Al Franken: God Spoke is a cinema verite pursuit of Al Franken, shot over the course of two years, which follows the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned best-selling author and political satirist, from his highly publicized feud with Bill O’Reilly over Franken’s blockbuster Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them to his relentless campaign against George Bush and the Right Wing.

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A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement.

Jesus Camp follows a group of young children to Pastor Beck Fischer’s “Kids on Fire Summer Camp”, where kids are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God’s army and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into the intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America’s political future.

Scary stuff.

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