October 2007
Monthly Archive
Monthly Archive
In MindFlesh, Chris Jackson is a gateway for obsessions to pass from the mind to the physical world.
To close the gateway he must face his childhood trauma before everyone he knows is killed by extraterrestrials.
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0 comments Wednesday 31 Oct 2007 | Paul | Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Based on author Philip Pullman’s bestselling and award-winning novel, The Golden Compass tells the first story in Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.
The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in an alternative world where people’s souls manifest themselves as animals, talking bears fight wars, and Gyptians and witches co-exist. At the center of the story is Lyra (played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards), a 12-year-old girl who starts out trying to rescue a friend who’s been kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as the Gobblers - and winds up on an epic quest to save not only her world, but ours as well. The Golden Compass stars an ensemble cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, and Ian McShane.
The film is written and directed by Chris Weitz and scheduled for a December 2007 release.
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0 comments Tuesday 30 Oct 2007 | Paul | Fantasy
According to Twitch:
Acolytes is a truly shocking tale of three teenagers who seek revenge against a brutal bully. However their plan goes drastically wrong and they unknowingly enter into the terrifying world of serial killers.
Inhabiting the shadowy cinematic territory of River’s Edge, Shallow Grave, Bully and Mystic River, Acolytes is a chilling mystery drama that takes the audience on a harrowing journey through the fragile and increasingly disturbing lives of five people.
Combining elements of the thriller and even horror genres, Acolytes is a twisting story that teases the viewer before making a final revelation that will leave the audience reeling.
Acolytes is that rare kind of film, designed to live on in the mind of the viewer long after its final haunting image is burned into their retinas.
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0 comments Tuesday 30 Oct 2007 | Paul | Thriller
Dogs of Chinatown is an artsy gangster action flick. This is the debut feature film written, directed and shot by Micah Moore. Production crew also includes Blake Faucette (producer), Jesse Knight (key grip) and Andy Coon (behind-the-scenes). The film features martial arts action by Eric Jacobus and Ray Carbonel of The Stunt People, a great choreography crew from San Fransisco. Eric Jacobus and Huyen Thi play star-crossed lovers caught in a dangerous affair while a war rages between the Italian Mafia and Chinese Triad.
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0 comments Tuesday 30 Oct 2007 | Paul | Action
Hell’s Furies, from Plausible Denial Productions and Terry M. West, is the story of Darla Swenson, a young woman recently released from a mental institution who returns home and is faced with a merciless band of blood thirsty bikers. Darla’s mother had been an infamous serial killer who preyed on bikers, and now they seek vengeance on Darla.
The film stars Jaime Winters, Rochelle Craft, Cisiany Olivar, Erica Williams, Brian Mulligan and many others.
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0 comments Tuesday 30 Oct 2007 | Paul | Exploitation, Horror
Awake is a psychological thriller about a common occurrence called “anaesthetic awareness,” a horrifying phenomenon wherein a patient’s (Hayden Christenson) failed anaesthesia leaves him fully conscious but physically paralysed during surgery. The patient’s charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
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0 comments Monday 29 Oct 2007 | Paul | Thriller
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a dangerous journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world’s shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure begins with a battle between the Sea Shepherd boat and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, Mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.
Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey. Each year 100 million sharks are caught to meet the demand for shark fin soup in Asia. Despite surviving the earth’s history of mass extinctions, sharks could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed. Destruction of shark populations is a major problem for oceanic ecosystems, and all life on earth, as 70% of our oxygen comes from life in the seas. Stewart’s journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world’s sharks into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.
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0 comments Sunday 28 Oct 2007 | Paul | Documentary
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed peoples lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joes life, Julien Temples film is a celebration of Joe Strummer before, during and after the Clash.
If you are in the US, Joe Strummer: the Future Is Unwritten hits cinemas on November 5th. If you’re in the UK, the film is already out on DVD.
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0 comments Sunday 28 Oct 2007 | Paul | Documentary, Music
Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all – itself.
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewellery store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank’s actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. Marisa Tomei plays Hoffman’s trophy wife, who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons.
A classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition of The Killing and Lumet’s own The Anderson Tapes, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is smart enough to know that we often have the most to fear from those who are near and dear.
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0 comments Sunday 28 Oct 2007 | Paul | Crime, Thriller
Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins writes, directs, and stars in this surreal tale of one man’s journey into a vortex where reality and dreams collide.
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) has lived his life in two states of existence - the world of reality and the world inside his head. Hired to rewrite a murder mystery, Felix is baffled when the characters from his movie show up in his life and vice versa. Felix tries to maintain his equanimity as reality and fantasy collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream.
Slipstream was an Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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0 comments Sunday 28 Oct 2007 | Paul | Fantasy