March 2008

Welcome To Detroit

Poster Set in the beautiful and mysterious National Forestry of Oregon and inside the cold, white walls of the Oregon State Mental Hospital, Welcome To Detroit is a film more of unknown delivery and suspense rather than graphically visual violence. Not knowing what dark things are waiting around each corner and questioning if those visions are even real will translate the cold blue breathe and high amber flames of W2D.

Enter Jane… a young female driven by fear, hatred and an innocence that haunts her and all who cross her path. Yet something about her is so intoxicating, so primal and so endearing that her uncanny ability to befriend anyone she meets in undeniable.

As the story unfolds Jane cannot distinguish reality from nightmare. On October 13, 2006 Jane awakes in a mental hospital, her hands and feet strapped to a table surrounded by the whites walls of question. Jane is convinced she has recently been abducted and psychologically abused by what seems to be the ultimate madman. She soon befriends a cast of characters employed by the Oregon State Hospital building a vengeful alliance from tales of her horrific experience in the hands of her captor. After counseling and rehabilitation Jane soon returns to the place where her worst fears and nightmares came true…Detroit, Oregon. Upon returning to face those fears and find out what continues to plague her, Jane begins to unravel a twisted tale of lies, paranoia, vigilanteism and pure dementia.

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Blood + Roses

The poster Blood + Roses, the first feature from Simon Aitken, is the story is of a couple who are going through marital problems. They are in Cornwall to patch things up when a vampire comes on the scene and takes a liking to the wife.

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Redbelt

Poster Set in the west-side of Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops and special forces types, Redbelt, is the story of Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai’s code.

Terry and his wife Sondra (Alice Braga), struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry’s life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.

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I Sell The Dead

I Sell The Dead 19th Century justice has finally caught up with grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of guillotine looming over him, young Blake does what many do when they prepare to meet their maker, he confesses his sins to a priest.

Arthur recounts for Father Duffy his fifteen years as a young boy stealing trinkets from corpses to their rise as hunters and traders of those that just won’t accept their place in the ground.

The colorful and exciting history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with peculiar horror, and vicious professional competition that ends where it begins - the grave.

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Idiots and Angels

Screenshot Bill Plympton’s Idiots and Angels is a dark comedy about a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself—which manifests itself in a pair of angel wings that just won’t go away.

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The Unwinking Gaze

The poster The Unwinking Gaze offers a unique, behind-the-scenes insight into the recent working life of Tibet’s would-be saviour and revered world icon the Dalai Lama.

The Unkwinking Gaze was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China. David and Goliath is played out in front of us as the world’s emerging superpower and the Dalai Lama walk a tightrope over an issue of global importance.

‘The Unwinking Gaze’ is not 3 years in the life of the Dalai. It is his life’s work in 3 years. This film takes you inside the Titanic struggle of one of the great spiritual and political figures of our time, as he tries to lead his people to a peaceful resolution with China.

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War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

War of the Worlds 2 poster War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave is the sequel to the knock-off in which the aliens return to complete their plan of human domination, launching a second wave of attacks that threaten to destroy what is left of humanity.

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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls

Not the Indiana Jones poster Filmed on location in South Africa, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls is a retelling of H. Rider Haggard’s classic novel King Solomon’s Mines, featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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Epitaph

Rather dull Epitaph poster Epitaph (Gidam) begins in the year 1942: the Korean capital of Kyung Sung is occupied by the Japanese and the Anseng Hospital lies in the center of the city, representing the twin glories of Japanese Imperialism and western modernization. But mysterious things are happening at the hospital: An intern is bound by his parents to marry a girl whom he never met, but instead is romantically drawn to a corpse; A traumatized little girl, the lone survivor of a horrific car crash, is tortured by bloody visions and a married couple, who are doctors, desperately try to manage their colleagues’ behaviors but find themselves investigating a series of brutal murders. But as the stories unfold and obsessive loves are revealed, the hospital and its staff descend into a darker abyss which they may never return from.

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The Canary Effect

The Canary Effect poster Delving deep into the often misunderstood and frequently over looked historic realities if the American Indian, The Canary Effect follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the Indigenous people of North America, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing affects on present day Indian country.

Featuring interviews with the leading scholars and experts on Indian issues including controversial author Ward Churchill, the film brings together the past and present in a way never before captured so eloquently and boldly on film.

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