December 2007

Left for Dead

Left for Dead “Saw meets the spaghetti western in this heart thumping, adrenalin pumping joy ride” in a unique action horror film set in turn of the century Mexico. Albert Pyun teams with producer Michael Najjar to create the second film in his high-octane mayhem trilogy, which began with his cult classic, Mean Guns.

In Mean Guns: Left For Dead a desperate criminal and deadly posse find themselves trapped in the ghost town of Amnesty by a vengeful demon.

Oh, yes…the Mayhem is very good.

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Nefes

Nefes poster Nefes (Breath) is the story of a 40 men team commanded by a Captain. It tells the pains, happinesses and life struggle, of 40 soldiers who have been assigned to defend a relay station at the 2365 meter altitude Karabal hill, as they perform their duties.

The movie is based on a book called Guneydogu’dan Oykuler by H.Evrensel (Stories from the South East), which is a collection of stories based on memoirs of the people who have been affected by the terror problem in the South East region of Turkey.

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Found at Twitch, who also provided the synopsis

The Bank Job

The Bank Job poster In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London’s Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of a ‘D’ Notice, gagging the press.

This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.

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9 Lives of Mara

9 Lives of Mara poster Twelve-year-old Robin is in turmoil following the death of his mother. This is when she appears, an amorous intruder threatening to invade his home and bewitch his dad. This darkly sexual and mysterious woman appears hell-bent on becoming the children’s stepmother — something young Robin refuses to accept.

Encouraging him all the way is his best friend Larry, a foul-mouthed Iago to Robin’s Othello. Larry’s always on hand with a scary comic book or urban legend to further goad Robin in his murderous beliefs. But there is far more to both Larry and the intruder than meets the eye. Thus begins Robin’s inextricable path toward insanity and murder.

Using innovative visual techniques, director Balaji K. Kumar keeps us guessing with this slick and haunting Oedipal tale, 9 Lives of Mara, which speaks to our darkest fears of madness and malevolence.

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Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland

Wild West Comedy Show poster Vince Vaughn, star of the hit comedies The Break-Up, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Old School and Swingers, hosts a night of improvisation, stand-up comedy, and live performances by special guest stars.

Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show features stand-up comedy by national comedians hailing from the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and improvisation and sketch comedy featuring Vaughn and special guest stars. Hand picked by Vaughn to perform in the show are comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco.

In the fall of 2005, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights, Hollywood to the Heartland traveled over 6,000 miles across the country, performing 30 shows in 30 days. The entire tour, including performances, behind-the-scenes action, and interviews with Vince, the comedians and special guests, was captured on film. The film premiered to wide acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival. PictureHouse will be releasing the film in February 2008.

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Ulak

Ulak poster They were 6
One betrayed
5 were left
5 were killed
And became nothing
And one day
A messenger came from the old times
They were in deep than the deepest well.
Darker than the darkest heart.
There was no hope
And one day he came from far with secrets in his bag.
Told them the story of love, belief and courage.
The believers waited as there was one more (messenger) to come.

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Anamorph

Anamorph poster Detective Stan Aubray is brought back into investigative work to solve a series of murders similar in style to those of a serial killer he thought he put away in the past.. Shaping each crime scene and its victim to resemble a unique painting technique, where images are reflected and reversed, the killer taunts Aubray, evoking memories from the earlier case. As the elusive killer peels away the layers of Aubray’s life, an alternate version of the detective’s own history is eerily revealed, and doubts surface as to what really happened years earlier.

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Winter Tree

Winter Tree still Winter Tree is a dark fairytale telling the story of a twisted, ice-cold young man obssessed with the girl who lives in the woods. His obssession manifests itself in the form of a monsterous creature that emerges from the trees to devour the girl.

Using various animation techniques, Winter Tree combines stop-motion puppets with hand-drawn and digitally painted backgrounds.

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Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side poster From the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights. This disturbing and often brutal film is the most incisive examination to date of the Bush Administration’s willingness, in its prosecution of the “war on terror,” to undermine the essence of the rule of law. The film asks and answers a key question: what happens when a few men expand the wartime powers of the executive to undermine the very principles on which the United States was founded.

Incorporating rare and never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons, and interviews with former government officials such as John Yoo, Alberto Mora and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall (who wrote the first stories about the homicides in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan) and the families of tortured prisoners, the film dissects the progression of the Administration’s policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures, such as Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and others to the soldiers in the field.

In the face of thousands of prisoners passing through the system, an astonishing number of admitted homicides, and a hastily drafted law – the Military Commissions Act – that grants immunity to government officials for crimes against humanity while denying the fundamental right of habeas corpus to others, “Taxi to the Dark Side” forces us to ask why, in the face of so much evidence of the ineffectiveness of cruelty as a means of obtaining information, we sought to insist on its use? Have we, by pursuing such ruthless means, lost the moral high ground in the war on terror and made ourselves less safe? Even more important, have we compromised our own sense of humanity, our democratic values and our effectiveness as a world leader?

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The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Poughkeepsie Tapes poster In 2001, police in Poughkeepsie New York made a shocking discovery—ten bodies buried in the backyard of a residential house. Astonishingly, that was only the beginning.
Inside the home, police uncovered over 800 neatly organized videotapes detailing the exploits of one man’s decade-long crime spree. The most disturbing part of the find, was that the killer had filmed all of the footage himself—from his first moments stalking his victims to their last seconds alive.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes examines the homicides—incorporating interviews from criminal experts, testimony from the only victim ever rescued alive, and chilling footage shot from the killer’s own camera. All of which document the twisted path of a serial killer as never before.

Beginning in 1988, a wave of missing person reports and unsolved murders from New York to Pennsylvania, began to alarm law enforcement officials. Many of the strange disappearances and dead victims held similarities. Soon the authorities realized they were dealing with a serial killer. The hunt to identify and capture the killer was layered with troubling facts and haunting events, eventually ending at the house where the tapes were found. Unfortunately, the discovery left more questions than answers. Did the killer leave the tapes intentionally? Do the tapes hold hidden clues? Is he still active?

This film dares to show what has never been presented to the public before—the evidence, the puzzle, and the footage of The Poughkeepsie Tapes.

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