Trade - Film, Movie - Trailer

Synopsis: Jorge (Cesar Ramos), a 17-year-old boy from Mexico, must illegally sneak into the United States in a desperate attempt to rescue his younger sister Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) after she is kidnapped by sex traffickers. In Texas, he meets a cop named Ray (Kline), and the two forge a close bond as they continue on the quest to rescue Adriana before she and her friend Veronica (Alicja Bachleda-Curuś) fall victim to the international underground of the sex trade forever.

Genres: crime, drama

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner

Producers: Roland Emmerich, Rosilyn Heller

Written by Peter Landesman, Jose Rivera

Starring: Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Paulina Gaitan, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Music by Jacabo Lieberman

Cinematography Daniel Gottschalk

Distributed by Lions Gate Films
Centropolis Entertainment

Release date: August 31, 2007 (USA)

Budget: $12,000,000 (estimated)

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Ten 'til Noon - Film, Movie - Trailer

Desription: Ten 'Til Noon (2007) is a crime thriller movie that has won awards at multiple festivals (San Francisco Independent Film Festival, San Diego Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival).

It is a taut crime thriller in the vein of Memento and Pulp Fiction with a structural signature of witnessing the same ten minutes from the often tense perspective of ten different characters.

Its official description is: Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what exactly happened...and why.

Directed by Scott Storm (graduate of the New York School of Visual Arts and classmate of Bryan Singer) and produced by Michael Creighton Rogers, Michael Mannheim, Gavin Franks, and Brian Osborne, Ten 'til Noon stars Morgan Freeman's son Alphonso and was shot during separate months on a shoestring budget with the help of countless crew and friend favors.

After a Los Angeles Premiere screening, Jon Voight's company, Crystal Sky, signed on to sell foreign and domestic distribution and the film opened theatrically in Los Angeles on March 30, 2007.

Genres: thriller, crime

Director: Scott Storm

Written by Paul Osborne

Starring: Alfonso Freeman, Rick D. Wasserman, Rayne Guest, Jenya Lano, Thomas Kopache

Music by Joe Kraemer

Cinematography Alice Brooks

Editors: Kalman Alexander, Scott Storm

Distributed by Radio London Films

Release date: March 30, 2007

Budget: $750,000

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Nancy Drew - Film, Movie - Trailer

Plot: Teen detective Nancy Drew (Roberts) accompanies her father, Carson Drew (Tate Donovan) on a business trip to Los Angeles, where she happens upon clues to a long-unsolved murder mystery about a beautiful movie star who was murdered years ago. Nancy (Emma Roberts) sees herself in a mirror murdering the movie star in her house. And meets a funny kid named Corky(Josh Flitter) who helps save the day.

Genres: adventure, thriller, crime, family

Starring: Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan, Kay Panabaker, Amy Bruckner, Daniella Monet

Directior: Andrew Fleming

Producers: Cherylanne Martin, Jerry Weintraub, Susan Ekins (executive), Mark Vahradian (executive), Ben Waisbren (executive)

Writter: Andrew Fleming, Tiffany Paulsen

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release date: June 15, 2007

The Lookout - Film, Movie - Trailer

Plot: In it, Gordon-Levitt plays a young man named Chris Pratt who is left mentally and emotionally handicapped after a traumatic automobile accident. Living with his blind roommate (Daniels), he spends his days going to rehabilitation classes and his nights working for the local bank.

One night Chris is befriended by an old classmate named Gary (Goode), who quickly introduces him to a life of partying and enjoyment while increasingly involving him in a plan to take advantage of Chris's position at the bank.

Genres: crime, drama, thriller

Director: Scott Frank

Written by Scott Frank

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode

Music by James Newton Howard

Cinematography Alar Kivilo

Editor: Jill Savitt

Distributed by Miramax Films

Release date: March 30, 2007

Ocean's Thirteen (Ocean's 13) - Film, Movie - Trailer

Plot: When Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) makes the mistake of building a hotel with one of Las Vegas’ most hated businessman, Willy Banks (Al Pacino), he gets cut out of the deal and ends up in the hospital after a heart attack. Danny Ocean (George Clooney) tries to help his old friend out by giving Banks a chance to restore Reuben’s share of the hotel, but Banks dismisses him without any regard. Six months later, with Banks’ investment thriving as the richest hotel in the city and the ultimate spot for high rollers, Ocean and his crew decide to bring him down. With the help of their former nemesis, casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), who is also out to settle the score against Banks, his fierce rival, they scheme to find a way to bankrupt Banks on his casino’s opening night. This time, they are not in it for the money, but rather for revenge.

Genres: comedy, crime, drama, thriller

Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Producer: Jerry Weintraub

Written by Brian Koppelman, David Levien

Music by David Holmes

Cinematography Steven Williams

Editing by Paul Jackson

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release date: June 8, 2007

Budget: $100,000,000

Official Website: http://oceans13.warnerbros.com/

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/

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 - 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.

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.

Film - Blue Streak + Trailer

Short Description: A thief turned ex-con poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.

Genre(s):action, comedy, crime

Starring: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, Nicole Ari Parker, Graham Beckel, Robert Miranda, Olek Krupa, Saverio Guerra and others

Film - Lord of War + Trailer

Description: The first and most important rule of gun-running is: never get shot with your own merchandise.

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Shake Tukhmanyan, Jean-Pierre Nshanian, Jared Burke, Eric Uys

Genre(s) Drama: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller