Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Perfect Stranger - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: As she goes undercover to crack the case of her friend's murder, a woman (Berry) gets caught up in the world of obsessive love online.

Genres: drama, thriller

Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis

Directed by James Foley

Produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Stephanie Langhoff, Daniel A. Thomas

Written by Todd Komarnicki, Jon Bokenkamp

Music by Antonio Pinto

Editor: Christopher Tellefsen

Release date: April 13, 2007

Monday, January 29, 2007

Meet the Robinsons - Animation, Movie - Trailer



Plot: Lewis is a brilliant inventor with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, a machine that will help him find his birth mother so they can become a family. But before he can find her, his invention is stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy and his diabolical hat and constant companion, Doris. Lewis has all but given up hope when a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson whisks our bewildered hero away in a time machine and together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected and unbelievable twist of fate.

Genres: animation, adventure, comedy, sci-fi

Starring: Spencer Fox, Jordan Fry, Zach Tyler Eisen, Gary Oldman, Harland Williams, Steve Zahn, Tom Kenny, Steve Anderson, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck

Director: Stephen J. Anderson

Producer: Dorothy McKim

Written by Michelle Bochner Spitz

Music by Danny Elfman

Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures

Release date: March 30, 2007

Official website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/meettherobinsons/

Reaping, The - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has since become a world-renowned expert in disproving religious phenomena. But when she investigates a small Louisiana town that is suffering from what appear to be the Biblical plagues, she realizes that science cannot explain what is happening and she must regain her faith to combat dark forces threatening the community.

Genres: horror, sci-fi, thriller

Starring: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

Producers: Bruce Berman, Steve Richards, Erik Olsen, Susan Downey, Herb Gains, Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis

Written by Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes, Brian Rousso

Music by John Frizzell

Editor: Colby Parker Jr.

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release date: March 30, 2007

Official website: http://www.thereapingmovie.com/

Blades of Glory - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: At the 2002 World Figure Skating Championships, rival world-class men's singles skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) disgraced their sport with an all-out brawl. Consequently, they were both banned from the men's singles competition for the rest of their lives. After three long, arduous years away from the sport they love, they attempt to put aside their differences and team-up in an effort to exploit a loophole in their suspension. It turns out that there is one category in which they can both still compete – pairs figure skating. Of course, that event is usually reserved for opposite-sex couples and the duo is sure to find fierce competition from rivals far more experienced at the art. Stranz (Will Arnett) and Fairchild (Amy Poehler), the uncompromisingly competitive reigning pairs champions, comprise one such team.

Genres: comedy, sport

Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Jenna Fischer

Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck

Producers: Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, John Jacobs

Written by John Altschuler, Craig Cox, Jeff Cox, Dave Krinsky

Music by Theodore Shapiro

Editor: Richard Pearson

Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount

Release date: March 30, 2007

Official website: http://www.bladesofglorymovie.com/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(TMNT) - Animation - Trailer



Plot: After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family: Leonardo has been traveling the world for the last year, honing his skills. Raphael has been scouring the streets at night as a masked vigilante, taking a page from Casey Jones' book. Michelangelo has taken a job as an entertainer at children's parties, with Donatello's assistance.[citation needed] Struggling to keep the family together, Splinter then realizes that strange things are starting to happen in New York. Tech-industrialist, Max Winters is beginning to amass an army of ancient, evil creatures to help him take over the world, and furthermore, has enlisted the help of Karai, carrying on the legacy of her deceased master, The Shredder, and the Foot Clan to achieve that goal. The Turtles must unite amongst themselves, and enlist the help of their old allies, Casey Jones and April O'Neil in order to put a stop to Winter's plans and save the world.

Genres: animation, action, adventurem, comedy

Starring: Mako Iwamatsu, Patrick Stewart, Zhang Ziyi, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Kevin Smith, James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, Nolan North, Mitchell Whitfield, Kevin Michael Richardson, Lawrence Fishburne

Director: Kevin Munroe

Producers: Thomas K. Gary, Galen Walker

Written by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Kevin Munroe

Music by Klaus Badelt

Editor: John Damien Ryan

Release dates: March 23, 2007 (USA), March 30, 2007 (UK)

Official website: http://tmnt.warnerbros.com/

Pride - Film, Video - Trailer



Plot: The year is 1973, and Jim Ellis, a college-educated African-American, can’t find a job. Driven by his love of competitive swimming, Jim fixes up an abandoned recreational pool hall in a Philadelphia slum with the help of Elston, a local janitor. But when the pool hall is marked for demolition, Jim fights back – by starting the city’s first African-American swim team. Recruiting troubled teens from the streets, Jim struggles to transform a motley team of novices into capable swimmers – all in time for the upcoming state championships. But as racism, violence and an unsympathetic city official threaten to tear the team apart, Jim must do everything he can to convince his swimmers that victory, both in and out of the pool, is within their reach.

Genres: drama, sport

Starring: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac,
Kimberly Elise, Evan Ross

Director: Sunu Gonera

Written by Kevin Michael Smith, Michael Gozzard

Release date: March 2007

Friday, January 26, 2007

Somebody Help Me - Film, Movie - Trailer

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Plot: The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young (Houston) and Darryl Jennings (Omarion) who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror and omarion lives

Genre: horror

Starring: Marques Houston, Omarion, Sonny King, Alexis Fields, Stephen Snedden

Directed by Chris Stokes

Written by Chris Stokes

Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment

Sunshine - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: Fifty years into the future, the sun is failing, causing mankind to begin dying out. A spacecraft with a crew of eight men and women is launched as a last hope, carrying a bomb the size of Kansas in order to re-ignite part of the sun. Seven years prior, a similar ship had been launched for the same mission, but contact was lost with the ship. When the crew of eight move toward the sun and out of radio contact with Earth, they experience accidents and discover the distress beacon of the ship that had been missing for seven years. At the end of their journey, the crew encounters the source of all life in the universe.

Genres: sci-fi, thriller

Starring: Rose Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis, Troy Garity, Benedict Wong

Director: Danny Boyle

Written by Alex Garland

Music by John Murphy

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release date: March 16, 2007

Official website: http://www.sunshinedna.com/

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Premonition - Film, Video - Trailer



Plot: Realizing that she has seen a premonition of her husband dying in a car accident, a housewife (Sandra Bullock) tries to prevent the accident from occurring in real life.

Genre: drama

Director: Mennan Yapo

Written by Bill Kelly

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long

Music by Klaus Badelt

Editor: Neil Travis

Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment

Release dates: March 16, 2007(USA), March 29 (Germany), March 30 (Italy), August 29 (Belgium), September 6 (Netherlands)

Lucky You - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

Genre: drama

Starring: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing

Director: Curtis Hanson

Producers: Denise Di Novi, Carol Fenelon, Curtis Hanson

Written by Eric Roth, Curtis Hanson

Music by Christopher Young

Editors: William Kerr, Craig Kitson

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release date: March 16, 2007

I Think I Love My Wife - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: A married man who daydreams about being with other women finds his will and morals tested after he's visited by the ex-mistress of his old friend.

Genres: comedy, romance

Starring: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres

Director: Chris Rock

Produceed by Fox Searchlight Pictures

Written by Louis C.K., Chris Rock

Release date: February 9, 2007 (USA)

Ultimate Gift, The - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: When his rich grandfather Red Stevens (portrayed by James Garner) died, Jason (Drew Fuller) thought he was going to inherit a piece of the oil man's multi-billion dollar estate. Things didn't quite happen that way. In order to get his share of the willed inheritance, Jason must complete 12 separate assignments within a year long period of time. Each assignment is centered around a "gift". The gifts of Money, Friends, and Knowledge are among the dozen that Jason must learn before he is eligible for the mysterious "Ultimate Gift" his grandfather's will has for him. Along the way, the movie spins a couple side stories that were not in the novel, adding a love interest, Alexia (Ali Hillis), and her daughter Emily, a mysterious girl (an up-and-coming Abigail Breslin who also co-starred in Signs and beat out Dakota Fanning for the role of Olive in Little Miss Sunshine) who has more to her than meets the eye. And as Jason works through these twelve gifts in twelve months, he comes to see Red Stevens as more than a deceased billionaire.

Genre: drama

Starring: James Garner, Drew Fuller, Abigail Breslin, Brian Dennehy, Brett Rice

Director: Michael O. Sajbel

Producers: Rick Eldridge, Jim Van Eerden

Written by Jim Stovall, Cheryl McKay

Starring: James Garner, Drew Fuller, Abigail Breslin, Brian Dennehy, Brett Rice

Music by Mark McKenzie

Official website: http://www.theultimategift.com/

Reign Over Me - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: Charlie Fineman (Sandler) has failed to recover from the grief of losing his family in the the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. After a chance run-in with Alan Johnson (Cheadle), his past college roommate who has since become a doctor, the painful healing process slowly begins.

Genre: drama

Starring: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Mike Binder

Director: Mike Binder

Producers: Jack Binder, Michael Rotenberg

Written by Mike Binder

Music by Dave Jordan

Editors: Steve Edwards, Jeremy Roush

Release date: March 9, 2007 (USA)

Official website: http://www.sony.com/reignoverme/

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Spider-Man 3 - Film, Movie - Trailer



Plot: Peter Parker basks in the spotlight with his public success as his superhero alter ego, Spider-Man. He plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson. When the police tell Parker and his aunt that new evidence shows Sandman as being responsible for killing Uncle Ben, Parker goes after the alleged perpetrator personally. As Spider-Man, he battles Sandman and his former friend Harry Osborn. During this time, astronaut John Jameson brings an "alien life force" back to Earth with him. The force forms a symbiotic relationship with Peter's costume, influencing his behavior for the worse. As a result, Spider-Man has to fight the villain within, until he finally tears the symbiote from his body. After parting from Spider-Man, the symbiote finds a new host in Eddie Brock Junior, and the resulting merger creates Venom.

Genres: action, adventure, sci-fi, thriller

Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, J. K. Simmons

Director: Sam Raimi

Producers: Avi Arad, Stan Lee, Laura Ziskin, Grant Curtis

Written by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, David Michelinie, Todd McFarlane, Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent

Music by Christopher Young, Danny Elfman

Editor: Bob Murawski

Release date: May 4, 2007

Official website: http://spiderman3.sonypictures.com/

Namesake, The - Film, Movie + Trailer



Plot: The Namesake describes the struggles between two first generation Bengali immigrants to the United States, Ashima Ganguli (Tabu) and Ashoke Ganguli (Irfan Khan), and their children, Gogol (Kal Penn) and Sonali (Sonia) (Sahira Nair).

The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Kolkata, India and settle in New York. Through a series of errors, their son's nickname, Gogol, becomes his official birth name, an event which will shape many aspects of his life. Gogol eventually meets and falls in love with two women, Maxine (Jacinda Barrett) and Moushumi (Zuleikha Robinson).

Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Starring: Tabu, Irfan Khan, Kal Penn, Zuleikha Robinson, Jacinda Barrett, Sahira Nair

Director: Mira Nair

Written by Jhumpa Lahiri, Sooni Taraporevala

Release date: March 9, 2007

Hot Fuzz - Film, Movie + Trailer



Plot: Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a top London cop. In fact, he makes everyone else around him look bad. As a result, his jealous colleagues conspire against him and have him transferred to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. His intense, testosterone-packed nights in the city have now been replaced by neighbourhood watch meetings and junior school appearances. Even worse, Angel is coupled with a new partner, the hapless, but well-meaning Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), who dreams of being like Mel Gibson. The two eventually stumble onto a series of suspicious accidents that suddenly make Angel’s life a lot more interesting. Motivated by the events and convinced of foul play, he now sees Sandford as a far less idyllic place than he originally thought.

Genres: comedy, action, crime

Director: Edgar Wright

Producer: Nira Park

Written by Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright

Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Steve Coogan, Timothy Dalton, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Paddy Considine

Distributed by Universal Pictures

Release dates: April 13, 2007 (USA), February 16, 2007 (UK)

Official website: http://www.hotfuzz.com/

300 - Film, Movie + Trailer



Plot: The film 300 is faithfully adapted from the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller in which Spartan King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the last man against Persian King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive army. Facing insurmountable odds, the Spartans' heroism and sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against the Persian invaders. The story is very loosely based on the famous Battle of Thermopylae which took place in the summer of 480 BC.

Genres: action, adventure, drama, history, war

Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Rodrigo Santoro, Andrew Tiernan

Director: Zack Snyder

Producers: Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann, Jeffrey Silver

Written by Frank Miller, Zack Snyder
Kurt Johnstad

Release date: March 9, 2007

Official website: http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Film, Movie - Zodiac + Trailer



Plot: A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (from imdb)

Genres: crime, drama, thriller

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Clea Duvall, Chloe Sevigny

Director: David Fincher

Written by Robert Graysmith, James Vanderbilt

Release date: March 2, 2007 (USA)

Official website: http://www.zodiacmovie.com/

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Film, Movie - Wild Hogs + Trailer



Plot: Woody (John Travolta), Doug (Tim Allen), Bobby (Martin Lawrence), and Dudley (William H. Macy), are four successful middle-aged suburban men, who find themselves frustrated with the pace of daily life. Their one collective dream has always been to become a group of bikers, and after some hesitation, they all decide to throw caution into the wind and go looking for adventure. All geared up, they hit the road on their Harley Davidsons, sometimes learning the ropes as they go along. The fun soon ends when the foursome stops at a small New Mexico bar and stumbles onto a real motorcycle gang called the Del Fuegos. When Del Fuegos leader Jack (Ray Liotta) decides to have some fun, the four friends must find a way to get out of their predicament.

Genres: adventure, comedy

Director: Walt Becker

Producers: Kristin Burr, Todd Lieberman, Brian Robbins, Amy Sayres, Sharla Sumpter, Michael Tollin

Written by Brad Copeland

Editor: Christopher Greenbury

Film, Movie - Shooter + Trailer



Plot: A marksman (Wahlberg) living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.

Genres: action, drama, thriller

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Rhona Mitra, Michael Peña, Kate Mara

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Producer: Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Written by Stephen Hunter

Music by Mark Mancina

Release date: March 16, 2007

Official Website: http://www.shootermovie.com/

Film, Movie - The Hills Have Eyes 2 + Trailer



Plot: The Hills Have Eyes 2 follows a team of National Guard cadets stopover at a desert outpost to deliver equipment to military scientists. They arrive at the research camp to find it mysteriously deserted, hearing a distress call on their walkies, they set off to investigate, thinking that they are heading out to simple rescue mission into the hills. They soon find a tribe of mutants, damaged by nuclear testing, who lie in wait for them. The mutants will then proceed to kill the cadets off, one by one, but not without losing some of their own.

Genre: horror

Starring: Daniella Alonso, Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Eric Edelstein, Reshad Strik, Michael Bailey

Director: Martin Weisz

Producers: Wes Craven, Johnathan Debin, Peter Locke

Written by Wes Craven, Jonathan Craven


Release date: March 2, 2007

Film, Movie - The Number 23 + Trailer



Plot: Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) finds a book that seems to be based on his life. While reading the book, he comes across details of a murder that hasn't happened in real life yet; as a consequence, he becomes obsessed with the number twenty-three and its ambiguous involvement with the murder.

Genres: drama, mystery, thriller

Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Paul Butcher, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra

Director: Joel Schumacher

Producers: Beau Flynn, Fernley Phillips, Tripp Vinson

Written by Fernley Phillips

Official Website: http://www.number23movie.com/

Comment:
I saw the preview for this film, and was pleasantly surprised. Carrey's performance in a "smart" thriller neither overshadows nor draws away from the experience.

The concept, while not entirely concrete in its execution, is refreshing to experience in this sea of sequels, remakes, "homages" and pointless bio-pics.

Virginia Madsen is also quite good, though she never (in my mind) got better than her role in Candyman.

Now the director. Thank goodness Joel Schumacher got into something serious and original. I had nearly lost hope for the man after his horrific Batman & Robin, but his noir-comedy piece works excellently. The Fingerling sequences have a rely cool hazy-noir-comic look that I hope remains the same in the final release. Also, his use of colors - the reds, browns, and other dark tones set the mood really well, though that may be more to the credit of the production designer. And seeing Jim Carrey play both characters - the likable dogcatcher-family man and the hardcore, take no BS, sax-playin detective BELIEVABLY only reinforces his staying power as a legitimate actor.

Film, Movie - Black Snake Moan + Trailer



Plot: When Rae, a wild child (and former victim of sexual abuse) wakes up after a night of partying, she finds herself in the home of Lazarus, a former blues player. Rae is attached to a 20-foot chain held by the well-intentioned Lazarus who intends to "cure" her of her nymphomania.

Genres: drama, romance

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, John Cothran Jr., Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson

Director: Craig Brewer

Producers: Stephanie Allain, John Singleton

Written by Craig Brewer

Music by Scott Bomar

Editor: Billy Fox

Official Website: http://www.moanmovie.com/

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Film, Movie - The Astronaut Farmer + Trailer



Plot: The film involves an astronaut (Thornton) who must give up the job he loves to save his family's farm. After giving up his dream job, he decides to try to build his own space craft with his own time and materials. He comes into interference as the government tries to stop him.

Genre: drama

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Bruce Willis

Director: Michael Polish

Producers: Len Amato, Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Paula Weinstein

Written by Mark Polish, Michael Polish

Music by Stuart Matthewman

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Film, Movie - Amazing Grace + Trailer



Plot: The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 18th century England, endeavoring to end slavery in the empire.

Genres: drama, thriller

Starring: Richard Bailey, Alex Blake, Martin Nigel Davey, Jazz Dhiman, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon

Director: Michael Apted

Written by Steven Knight

Music by David Arnold

Release date (USA): 23 Feb. 2007

Official Website: http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/

Film, Movie - Ghost Rider + Trailer



Plots:

This is the story of motorcycle stunt performer, Johnny Blaze (Cage), who agrees to become the host of a "spirit of vengeance" in exchange for the safety of his true love, but the price he pays is to be cursed with the avenging spirit that takes its form at night as a demon with a flaming skull on a motorcycle of hellfire...

--=--

In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles's nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.

--=--

Johnny Blaze has a dark secret - he is the Ghost Rider - who can grab you and force you to re-live tenfold all the sins you have perpetuated in your life... if there are too many sins, you'll burn up and incinerate. The Ghost Rider is unstoppable as he dishes out a hellish justice on his Hell-Cycle.

Genres: fantasy, action, thriller

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda, Donal Logue

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Producers: Avi Arad, Steven Paul, Gary Foster

Written by Mark Steven Johnson

Release date: February 16, 2007

Official website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/ghostrider

Film, Movie - Bridge to Terabithia + Trailer



Plot: Jesse is the only boy in a family of five children. His mother seems to favor his sisters and his father works in Washington, DC and doesn't have much time for him. Leslie's family, the Burkes, has just moved to this area in an attempt to start a new life. Both children are loners who don't fit in with their peers at school: Jesse is intensely interested in art, and Leslie's family does not practice a religion and doesn't own a television set. The two outsiders soon become close friends. Together, they create an imaginary kingdom in the woods near their homes, accessible only by a rope swing over a creek. They name the kingdom "Terabithia" and themselves King and Queen, and spend many hours there.

Jesse, who has a crush on his teacher, Miss Edmunds, does anything to be with her. The central crisis of the novel occurs when Jesse accompanies Miss Edmunds to an art show in Washington D.C., and Leslie goes to Terabithia alone. The rope breaks as she is swinging over the rain-swollen creek, and she hits her head and then drowns. Jesse can overcome his grief only with the strength and courage that his friendship with Leslie has given him.

Genres: adventure, family, fantasy

Starring: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Patrick

Director: Gabor Csupo

Producers: David Paterson, Lauren Levine, Hal Lieberman

Written by Katherine Paterson, David Paterson, Jeff Stockwell

Editor: John Gilbert

Release date: February 16th, 2007

Official website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/terabithia/

Film, Movie - Breach + Trailer



Plot: Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe) has just landed a dream job as a full-fledged FBI agent and has been handpicked to work under renowned operative Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) within a new division created to protect all classified FBI intelligence. In actuality, he is working under Special Agent Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney) and Special Agent Dan Plesac (Dennis Haysbert), who have been investigating Hanssen as a potential mole for the Soviet Union. Their case is of grave importance given the type of information he has access to. O’Neil must gain his new mentor’s trust in hopes that the traitor will eventually expose himself. Soon, O’Neil is risking his life as well as the life of his family as he and Hanssen become tangled in a dangerous game that pits them against one another.

Genres: drama, thriller, biopic

Starring: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney

Director: Billy Ray

Producers: Scott Kroop, Adam Merims, Scott Strauss

Written by Adam Mazer, William Rotko

Official website: http://www.breachmovie.net/

Film, Movie - Just Follow Law + Trailer



Plot: A freak accident causes a blue collar worker (Singh) and his supervisor (Wong) to swap souls.

Genre: comedy

Starring: Fann Wong, Gurmit Singh, Moses Lim

Director: Jack Neo

Film, Movie - Daddy's Little Girls + Trailer



Plot: The film is about an attorney Julia (Gabrielle Union) who falls in love with a financially challenged janitor Monty (Idris Elba), a single father of three children. The relationship hits a snag when the janitor's ex-wife comes back into his life and threatens to take away their kids.

Genres: romance, comedy

Starring: Tyler Perry, Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Tracee Ellis Ross, Terri J. Vaughn, Lou Gossett, Jr., Brian J. White, Malinda Williams

Director: Tyler Perry

Producers: Reuben Cannon, Tyler Perry

Written by Tyler Perry

Editor: Maysie Hoy

Release date: February 23, 2007

Official website http://www.daddyslittlegirlsmovie.com/

Film, Movie - Music and Lyrics + Trailer



Plot: A washed up singer (Grant) is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an admiring teen sensation. Though he's never written lyrics in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman (Barrymore) with a flair for words.

Genre: comedy

Director: Marc Lawrence

Producers: Marc Lawrence, Melissa Wells, Scott Elias

Written by Marc Lawrence

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant

Editor: Susan E. Morse

Release date: February 14, 2007

Film, Movie - Hannibal Rising + Trailer



Plot:This is the story of the monster Hannibal Lecter's formative years. These experiences as a child and young adult led to his remarkable contribution to the fields of medicine, music, painting and forensics. We begin in World War II at the medieval castle in Lithuania built by Dr. Lecter's forebear, Hannibal the Grim. The child Hannibal survives the horrors of the Eastern Front and escapes the grim Soviet aftermath to find refuge in France with the widow of his uncle, mysterious and beautiful Japanese descended from Lady Murasaki Shikibu, author of the Tale of Genji. Her kind and wise attentions help him understand his unbearable recollections of the war. Remembering, he finds the means to visit the outlaw predators that changed him forever as they battened on helpless during the collapse of the Eastern Front. Hannibal helps these war criminals toward self-knowledge even as we see his own nature become clear to him.

Genres: drama, thrille

Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Li Gong, Helena Lia Tachovka, Rhys Ifans, Kevin McKidd, Richard Brake, Stephen Walters, Ivan Marevich, Charles Maquignon, Dominic West

Director: Peter Webber

Producer: Dino De Laurentiis

Written by Thomas Harris, Thomas Harris

Editor: Pietro Scalia

Official website: http://www.hannibalrising.co.uk/

Film, Movie - Norbito + Trailer



Plot:Being an abandoned orphan, Norbit (Eddie Murphy) has always felt an overwhelming shortage of love. He never got it from Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy), the Chinese restaurant owner that raised him and simultaneously found time to torture him as he grew up. As a kid, Norbit finally got the attention he so desperately desired from Rasputia, an overweight girl that, in what seemed like a genuinely kind act at the time, adopted him as her boyfriend. Twenty years later, he is still the same meek, repressed guy and she (Eddie Murphy) is a monstrous bully of a woman. The two are now married, but Norbit is nothing more than a punching bag in the relationship. Secretly, he has fallen in love with Kate (Thandie Newton), one of his long-time crushes who represents an escape from his nightmare. As he schemes to find a way to be with her, he realizes that his wife is not the type of woman that will let him get away that easily.

Genres: comedy, romance

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newto, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews

Director: Brian Robbins

Producers: John Davis, Michael Tollin, Eddie Murphy

Written by Eddie Murphy, Charles Q. Murphy

Release date: February 9, 2007

Official website: http://www.meetnorbit.com/

Monday, January 15, 2007

Film, Movie - Goal! 2: Living the Dream + Trailer



Plot: After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid.

Genres: drama, sport

Starring: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Rutger Hauer, Nick Cannon, Frances Barber, Santiago Cabrera

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Producers: Mike Jefferies, Matt Barrelle, Mark Huffam

Written by Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Terry Loane

Film, Movie - The Messengers + Trailer



Plot: An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.

Genres: drama, horror, thriller

Starring: Graham Bell, Robert Benz, John Corbett, Michael Daingerfield, William B. Davis, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller , Dustin Milligan, Kristen Stewart

Directors: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang

Producers: Lou Arkoff, Joseph Drake, Nathan Kahane, Jim Miller

Written by Stuart Beattie, Todd Farmer, Mark Wheaton

Official website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/themessengers/

Film, Movie - Because I Said So + Trailer



Plot: Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder, a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Lauren Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Piper Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Mandy Moore) - who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper. In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Little does Milly know, however, that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him. Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...all in the name of love. In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?

Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Stephen Collins, Piper Perabo, Lauren Graham, Gabriel Macht

Director: Michael Lehmann

Producers: Paul Brooks, Jessie Nelson

Written by Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson

Film, Movie - Smokin' Aces + Trailer



Plot: Sleazy Las Vegas magician Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a former member of one of the largest criminal organizations in the country. In exchange for safety provided by the FBI under the Witness Protection Program, he has just agreed to testify against his former employer, Mafia boss Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin). When the news reaches Sparazza, he immediately offers up $1 million dollars to anyone that will bring him Buddy's heart. As word spreads quickly, FBI director Stanley Locke (Andy Garcia) sends agents Richard Messner (Ryan Reynolds) and Donald Carruthers (Ray Liotta) to Lake Tahoe to secure the witness. At the same time, Buddy's lawyers hire bail bondsman Jack Dupree (Ben Affleck) and ex-cops Hollis Elmore (Martin Henderson) and "Pistol" Pete Deeks (Peter Berg) to bring Buddy back to Vegas. With Sparazza's specialist on the case and a series of shadowy assassins also after him, Buddy has quickly become the most wanted man in the country. His last night out in the Tahoe casinos is about to be rudely interrupted as all the parties converge in one chaotic gathering of people that either want to protect him or eradicate him by any means necessary.

Genres: action, comedy, crime, drama, thriller

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Joseph Ruskin, Alex Rocco, Wayne Newton, Jeremy Piven, Ben Affleck, Peter Berg, Martin Henderson and other

Director: Joe Carnahan

Written by Joe Carnahan

Official website: http://www.smokinacesmovie.net/

Film, Movie - Seraphim Falls + Trailer



Plot: It’s been five years since the end of the American Civil War. Somewhere deep within the snowy mountains of the American West a lone figure - Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) sits in front of a fire, lost in thought. Abruptly, he is pulled out of his reverie by the echo of a Henry rifle and a bullet puffing into the snow inches from his head. With no time to react another shot rings out. It connects with Gideon’s shoulder and whips him to the ground. Instantly Gideon calculates his one chance of survival. To leave everything he owns and run for the cover of the nearby fir trees – his blood leaving a crimson trail in the snow… So begins the thrilling first act of Seraphim Falls, and the final stage of Colonel Morsman Carver’s (Liam Neeson) terrible revenge - to hunt down and kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. There will be many men dead before these two meet face to face, and only then will Carver fully comprehend the full cost of his undertaking. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit will take them both far from the comforts and codes of civilization and into the unforgiving wilderness. The emotional conclusion to this odyssey comes after a bloody climax in which both men are forced to confront their past and travel deep within the recesses of their souls.

Genres: drama, war, western

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Angie Harmon, Anjelica Huston, Robert Baker, Xander Berkeley, Courtney Taylor Burness, Scott Flick

Director: David Von Ancken

Written by Abby Everett Jaques, David Von Ancken

Film, Movie - Normad + Trailer



Plot: Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young boy is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes and free them from the Jungars.

Starring: Jay Hernandez, Mark Dacascos, Kuno Becker, Archie Kao, Jason Scott Lee, Ron Yuan, Azis Beyshinaliev

Directors: Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer, Talgat Temenov

Producers: Ram Bergman, Pavel Douvidzon, Milos Forman, Rustam Ibragimbekov

Written by Rustam Ibragimbekov

Official website: http://www.nomadmovie.com/

Film, Movie - Epic Movie + Trailer



Plot: Four orphans all from various backgrounds: including one who was raised by a curator at the Louvre (The Da Vinci Code), one who is a refugee from the Mexican "libre" wrestling (Nacho Libre), one who is a recent victim of snakes on her last plane trip (Snakes on a Plane), and the fourth a "normal" resident of a mutant "X"-community (X-Men: The Last Stand).

On their journey, the orphans visit a chocolate factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), where they find an enchanted wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (Narnia). In Gnarnia, they meet a flamboyant pirate captain (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), earnest students of wizardry (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) – and join forces with a wise and horny lion (Aslan from Narnia) to defeat the evil White Bitch (The White Witch from Narnia) of Gnarnia.

Genres: adventure, comedy

Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Tony Cox, Carmen Electra, Fred Willard, David Carradine

Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Producer: Paul Schiff

Written by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Film, Movie - Catch and Release + Trailer



Plot: A woman struggles to accept the death of her husband and the secrets he kept from her as she rebuilds her life.

Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Starring: Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith, Juliette Lewis, Tina Lifford, Georgia Craig, Christopher Redman

Director: Susannah Grant

Producers: Casey Grant, Josh Siegel, Matthew Tolmach, Jenno Topping

Written by Susannah Grant

Official website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/catchandrelease/

Friday, January 12, 2007

Film, Movie - Blood and Chocolate + trailer



Plot summary: The plot roughly follows the novel, except for the setting being moved from America to Europe and the main characters being adults in their 20s instead of teenagers. The central character Vivian is a member of a werewolf pack that has always found it necessary to preserve their secret by any means, including killing any human who finds out. Marriage between humans and werewolves is portrayed as being strongly discouraged, because of concerns that it will cause the secret to get out and attract werewolf hunters. The main plot point is that Vivian risks the survival of herself and her pack when she falls in love with a human man who is visiting from America.

Genres: drama, fantasy, horror, romance

Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere and others

Director: Katja von Garnier

Written by Ehren Kruger, Christopher Landon, Annette Curtis Klause

Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek

Editors: David Gamble, Emma E. Hickox

Film, Movie - Primeval + Trailer



Plot: A news team is sent to South Africa to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death

Genres: horror, thriller

Starring: Orlando Jones, Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Jürgen Prochnow, Gideon Emery

Film, Movie - Alpha Dog + Trailer



Plot:A drug dealer (Justin Timberlake) and his best friend (Emile Hirsch) party in Los Angeles on the road to becoming two of the country's most wanted criminals.


Genres: crime, drama

Starring: Justin Timberlake, Sharon Stone, Emile Hirsch, Anton Yelchin, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Foster

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Writer: Nick Cassavetes

Release Date Jan. 12, 2007

MPAA Rating R - for pervasive drug use and language, strong violence, sexuality and nudity.

Official site: http://alphadogmovie.com/

User Comment: I got a chance to see a screening of this at Sundance.

This movie sucks you in, seduces you, entrances you, then whacks you over the head with a baseball bat.

It starts off fairly annoying... bunch of pimply-faced white wanna-be's spouting rapid fire ghetto speak with rap music blaring in the background. Eminem would be proud. I thought to myself, "oh no, here we go to one dimensional city...".

But after a while these characters became very likable. These are REAL characters, living a really dangerous life style. The effect is similar in Goodfellas... they're so bad, so annoying, but fascinating, and free in ways ordinary people aren't. They do what they want, when they want and give you a bloody nose if you try and stop them.

There's a mood, an energy, a style that Cassavettes was able to capture and portray that made this film so far removed from any clichéd studio product geared toward teenyboppers. The film feels honest and genuine, and that's the difference.

At a certain point, after all the partying, and boozing and drugging, the film takes a turn for the worse and climaxes into a gut wrenching, horrible tragedy that left me (and the audience) stunned.

Overall it's an extremely well crafted film, definitely worth seeing.

And I almost forgot to mention the biggest surprise of all... Justin Timberlake. Forget what you know, forget N'SYNC, this guy is a real actor. I almost feel strange saying this, but it's true... He was stunning, almost stole the movie; crackled whenever he was on screen. He has all the right ingredients for a stellar acting career; charisma, screen presence, that separates him from the pretty faced phonies clogging the movie screens. Every moment he was on screen he was doing something that worked, and he makes it look easy, the most important trait a great actor has. I'll definitely be watching his acting career very closely from now on.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Cartoon, Movie - Arthur and the Minimoys + Trailer



Spot:10-year-old Arthur is living with his grandmother in a quiet country house. He has recently lost his grandfather, and doesn't see much of his parents. His grandmother entertains him by reading stories to him. One of these stories is about the fabled Minimoys, tiny fantastical beings living in harmony with nature in the very garden of his grandparents' house. According to these stories, the Minimoys are holding a wondrous and expensive treasure of rubies given by an African tribe to Arthur's grandfather. Furthermore Arthur has become enamoured with a picture of the princess of the Minimoys. Arthur's grandmother has been given two-day deadline to pay a large sum of money to a developer (played by Adam LeFevre) who has bought up her mortgage from the bank and plans to evict the two. Arthur takes it upon himself to find the rubies in order to pay off the debt. After stumbling across various clues written a few years previously by his grandfather, Arthur manages to find the key to the Minimoys' world. He discovers some Masai-esque men in his garden, who tell Arthur how to get into the Minimoys' world by way of shrinking down with the help of a telescope and the power of a full moon, and he changes his form into that of the Minimoys. When Arthur is down underground with the Minimoys, he learns of a danger to the little people's future — the plans of Maltazard, the leader of an army of mosquito-riding warriors living in nearby "Necropolis", who plan to conquer the Minimoys' by flooding their city. Thanks to, but also in spite of, Arthur, the Minimoys' colony is saved in the nick of time, and the 1000-year old (which is about the same age as Arthur in Minimoy years) princess fall in love. Arthur finds out his grandfather is not dead as suspected, but imprisoned in Necropolis. Together, they find the rubies Arthur's grandfather wrote about in his stories, and pay a part of it to the developer to save the house and land.

Genres: animation, family, fantasy

Voices: David Bowie, Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Penny Balfour, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Chazz Palminteri, Emilio Estevez, Snoop Dogg

Director:Luc Besson

Writeen by:Luc Besson, Patrice Garcia

Music: Eric Serra

Film, Movie - The Hitcher + trailer



Plot:Collegiate couple Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton) hit the road in a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, en route to spring break , but their pleasure trip soon turns into a waking nightmare after encountering the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean). The initial encounters with Ryder are increasingly off-putting for Grace and Jim, and they bravely fight back when he ambushes them. But they are truly blindsided when he implicates them in a horrific slaying and continues to shadow them. The open road becomes a battleground of blood and metal as, in trying to elude not only Ryder but also New Mexico State Police Lieutenant Esteridge's (Neal McDonough) officers, Grace and Jim must fight for their lives and face their fears head-on.

Genres: drama, horror, thriller

Starring: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough, Kyle Davis, Skip O'Brien, Travis Schuldt, Danny Bolero

Director Dave Meyers

Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller

Written by Jake Wade Wall, Eric Bernt

It will be released on January 19, 2007

Sophia Bush Hitcher MTV:

Cartoon, Movie - The Simpsons + Trailers



Description: The Simpsons Movie is an upcoming animated film based on the 1989 animated sitcom series The Simpsons. It is being produced by Gracie Films for 20th Century Fox with animation produced by Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios and is scheduled to be released worldwide on July 27, 2007. James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, and Richard Sakai are the producers and it is written by eleven of the television series' most prolific writers.

Genres: animation, comedy

Credited cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria



Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Film, Movie - The Assassination of Richard Nixon + trailer



Description: Sam Bicke (Penn), who is a salesman with a history of short-lived jobs, dreams of reuniting with his ex-wife Marie (Watts) and starting a business with a friend, Bonny Simmons (Cheadle).

When he begins working for a furniture company, his boss Jack Jones (Jack Thompson) encourages Bicke to become a better salesman by reading books such as Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking and listening to similar audio tapes. Jones also tells Bicke that he thinks Richard Nixon is the greatest salesman since he sold two election promises to the American people and reneged on them both yet remained in power.

Bicke has a business idea to start a mobile tire store, operating from a bus, with Simmons. During an interview for a small business loan, he begins to rant about how his brother's tire business was dishonest and how he couldn't tolerate that.

His unhappiness at his job grows, especially as Jones believes only in employing married men and Bicke is unable to convince Marie to pretend to be together for a company husbands-wives dinner. Bicke knows that his time at this company is running out and is relying on the small business loan being approved. He is unable to speed the process up when he arranges a meeting with the loans manager.

Watching the mailbox daily for a letter regarding the loan, he receives notification of the divorce from Marie and is upset that she didn't give them time to try to amend things. She has also moved in with another man.

He receives a letter from the loans company notifying him that they have turned down his application. He believes this is because they are racist, knowing that Bonny would be a partner.

Without the loan, he resorts to trying to deceive one of his brother's tire suppliers into giving him tires so he can start his business. It is unsuccessful and his brother (Michael Wincott) is waiting in Bicke's apartment to confront him and inform him that Bonny has been arrested for receiving stolen goods.

He descends into depression and insanity, blaming all his troubles on then-president Richard Nixon. Inspired by news reports of the February 17, 1974 actions of Robert K. Preston (who buzzed the White House with a stolen helicopter), Bicke plans to hijack an aircraft and to crash it into the White House. Stealing Bonny's pistol, he rushes upon an aircraft when he sees there are metal detectors and security. He shoots both of the pilots (one fatally) before demanding that a passenger fly the plane. A police officer shoots Bicke through the plane door window before Bicke decides to commit suicide.

The story of the hijacking eventually reaches the news, and the broadcast is seen on the televisions situated in the work places of Bonny and Marie his ex-wife. But as they pass the tv, they go about their business despite the fact that Sam's name is mentioned. The film ends with the image of Sam's forgotten ghost wandering and pacing his lonely apartment.

Some sources state that, in the course of making the film, the producers changed the spelling of Byck's last name to avoid offending any living relatives.

Genres: crime, drama, thriller

Starring: Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts, Jack Thompson, Brad William Henke, Nick Searcy

Director: Niels Mueller

Producer: Alfonso Cuarón

Some useful comment: I saw this film at Cannes and thought it was fantastic. There is not a flawed moment in the entire film. The performances are amazing and any intelligent film fan will see Sean Penn's performance as one of his best if not his very best ever.

Additionally, Naomi Watts is outstanding. She disappears entirely in her role as Marie and is almost unrecognizable from anything she's ever done in the past. Jack Thompson, the great Australian actor of Breaker Morant and Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith fame is stunning. I can't believe he hasn't been used more in the United States. Not to mention the always great Don Cheadle and others...

The story itself is chilling. This is one relevant film that everyone should see. I don't want to give anything away but suffice it to say that this film discusses with great depth and insight issues that are burning in everyone's minds these days -- terrorism, 9-11, powerlessness as a voting public, etc., etc.

This film is gripping from start to finish. It is a carefully crafted character dissection that takes you inside the mind and heart of Penn's character. The film couldn't have succeeded without Penn's brilliance. The art direction and cinematography are stand out as well as the editing which keeps the film moving at a very assured pace.

This film is as good as they come. It's the kind of film they used to make and I was thrilled to see that some filmmakers and actors had the courage to tackle such complexities as are tackled here.

Roger Ebert calls "Nixon" one of the best films at this year's Cannes film festival...Le Monde in France called it a near masterpiece and in Rome's largest paper they wondered why this film instead of Fahrenheit 911 wasn;'t garnering all the attention. I agree with all of them. Amazing what the director and cast were able to pull off, simply amazing.

This film is an absolute gem and a must see for any intelligent film-goer....It will become a classic...guaranteed.