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Saw VI (2009)

2009-11-06T21:44:00.001-08:00

The Invention of Lying (2009)

2009-11-06T21:35:00.000-08:00

Into Temptation (2009)

2009-11-06T21:21:00.000-08:00

Hurt (2009)

2009-11-06T21:17:00.000-08:00

Released : 2009
Genre : Drama, Horror, Thriller
Starcast : Melora Walters, William Mapother, Sofia Vassilieva, and Jackson Rathbone
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Duration : 96 min
Size : 115 mb

Book Of Blood (2008)

2009-11-06T19:22:00.000-08:00

Star Trek (DVDRip) (2009)

2009-10-22T22:20:00.000-07:00

Synopsis :
In the year 2233, the USS Kelvin investigates a lightning storm in space, which the crew soon realizes is a black hole. A massive vessel, the "Narada", emerges, creating an alternate timeline. The Narada opens fire on the Kelvin, inflicting heavy damage. The Narada's captain, Nero (Eric Bana), hails the outmatched Kelvin and demands that its captain, Richard Robau (Faran Tahir), come aboard the Narada via shuttlecraft. Captain Robau agrees and hands command of the ship to his first officer, George Kirk (Chris Hemsworth). Robau orders Kirk to wait fifteen minutes for his signal or else evacuate the ship.

Robau is taken to Nero while the crew of the Kelvin monitors him. It is the Romulan captain's first officer, Ayel (Clifton Collins Jr.), who interrogates him first about a particular ship, which Robau does not recognize, and then about the whereabouts of Ambassador Spock, with whom Robau is also unfamiliar. Upon citing the stardate, Robau is impaled with a teral'n, a pronged blade weapon, by Nero, and the display of his vital signs on the bridge of the Kelvin instantly flatlines; Robau is dead. Kirk orders the Kelvin to open fire. As the situation worsens and he realizes that the damage to the Kelvin is compromising the lives and safety of everyone, he orders the crew to escape pods and shuttles, including his wife Winona (Jennifer Morrison), who is about to give birth.

Zombieland (2009)

2009-10-22T22:18:00.001-07:00

Synopsis :
Earth's population has been decimated by a virus, related to the mad cow disease, that turns everyone into flesh-craving zombies. Only a handful of humans remain, including Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a student at the University of Texas trying to make his way to his home town of Columbus, OH, where he hopes his parents are still alive. Columbus has long been an outsider and somewhat phobic, which he uses to his advantage in avoiding zombies. In fact, zombies are not his greatest fear: clowns are.

While walking down the highway, he encounters Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), driving an Escalade. He is trying to get to Florida and kill as many zombies as he can on the way. Tallahassee agrees to give Columbus a ride as far as Texarkana. When they stop at a grocery store in hopes of finding Tallahassee's coveted Twinkies, they fight off three zombies then find two teenage girls, Wichita (Emma Stone) and her younger sister, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) in the store room. Little Rock is
apparently bitten and asks them to kill her. Columbus gives Wichita his shotgun, which she then uses to rob Tallahassee and Columbus of their remaining weapons and the Escalade. Little Rock is fine, and she drives away with Wichita. Wichita and Little Rock have been on their own since before the zombie holocaust, using Wichita's good looks to swindle money so they could travel to Los Angeles.

Columbus and Tallahassee find a Hummer with a duffel bag full of guns, including Uzis. They drive west because Tallahassee wants to get revenge on Wichita and Little Rock. They eventually find the Escalade broken down but Wichita and Little Rock get the drop on them. After a standoff, they agree to travel together. Wichita and Little Rock hope to make it to an amusement park near Los Angeles that is rumored
to be zombie-free. Wichita confides to Columbus that she knows the rumor is bogus but she will do anything for Little Rock. Columbus, who is a virgin and a geek, begins to fall in love with the tough yet tender Wichita.

When they arrive in Hollywood, they dodge zombies and use a map of stars' homes to find Bill Murray's residence. Aghast that Little Rock has no idea who Bill Murray is, Columbus takes her to Murray's private screening room to watch Ghostbusters, and also to inquire if Wichita has a boyfriend.

Tallahassee and Wichita continue to look around and come upon a very much alive Bill Murray. He has managed to survive by disguising himself as a zombie, which allows him to to roam the city freely because zombies won't attack their own kind. After play acting scenes from Ghostbusters, they decide to scare Columbus as a joke. Caught off-guard, Columbus shoots and kills Murray.

During a game of Monopoly, Tallahassee breaks down and reveals that he lost his young son, Buck, to the zombies. While he and Little Rock take out their pain by shooting fine art, Columbus and Wichita get drunk. They almost kiss but are interrupted by Tallahassee. The next morning, Wichita and Little Rock leave, afraid that any further bonds will break their sisterly bond. They go the amusement park.

Believing it is deserted, they turn on the electrical power and enjoy the rides. However, the noise and lights attracts zombies from the surrounding area. The girls manage to get to temporary safety atop one of the rides Columbus announces he is going after Wichita and Little Rock. Tallahassee plans to go to Mexico but when he sees how pathetic Columbus is but impressed by his dedication, agrees to help him. They get to the amusement park and see that zombies have begun trapped Wichita and Little Rock atop the ride. While Tallahassee runs throughout the park to distract and kill as many zombies as he can, Columbus faces and dispatches the ultimate fear: a zombie clown. He then helps Wichita and Little Rock down off the tower.

Wichita embraces Columbus and tells him her real name.

The four of them realize they have made a new family and drive off looking for a new home.

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Surrogates (2009)

2009-10-22T22:13:00.000-07:00

Synopsis :
In the near future, humans live in isolation and only interact through robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. When several humans are murdered when their surrogates are destroyed, a cop (Bruce Willis) investigates the crimes through his own surrogate. After a near fatal encounter, the cop's surrogate is destroyed and forces him to bring his human form out of isolation and unravel a conspiracy behind the crimes.

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

2009-07-25T18:19:00.000-07:00

This is a crash-bang Bond, high on action, low on quips, long on location glamour, short on product placement.

Under the direction of Marc Forster, the movie ladles out the adrenalin in a string of deafening episodes: car chases, plane wrecks, motor boat collisions. If it's got an engine, and runs on fuel, and can crash into another similarly powered vehicle, with Bond at the wheel, and preferably with a delicious female companion in the passenger seat - well, it goes in the movie.

There are plenty of references to other Bond moments. A horribly dangerous skydive recalls The Spy Who Loved Me. A pile-up in Haiti which spills a macabre lorryload of coffins recalls the voodoo creepiness of Live And Let Die. And, most outrageously of all, the grotesque daubing of a female corpse brings back Goldfinger - though Sean Connery got an awful lot more mileage out of that sort of thing.

As in Casino Royale, the famous John Barry theme tune is saved up until the end; a baffling, decision, I always think, not to use this thrilling music at the beginning of the film.

Bond has hardly got his 007 spurs, when he's infuriating M, Judi Dench, with his insolence and insubordination. Out in the field, he's whacking enemy agents in short, sharp, bone-cracking bursts of violence when he should be bringing them in for questioning.

In theory, he is out to nail a sinister international business type: Dominic Greene, played by French star Mathieu Amalric, who under a spurious ecological cover plans to buy up swaths of South American desert and a portfolio of Latin American governments to control the water supply of an entire continent. As Greene, Amalric has the maddest eyes, creepiest leer, and dodgiest teeth imaginable.

Clearly, Bond has to take this fellow down. But he also wants to track down the man who took his beloved Vesper away from him in the previous movie: he is pathologically seeking payback, and to the fury of his superiors, this is getting personal. But it hasn't stopped him cultivating female company in the traditional, fantastically supercilious manner. His companions are as demurely submissive as ever. Olga Kurylenko plays Camille, a mysterious, smouldering figure, out to wreak vengeance on the corrupt Bolivian dictators who killed her family.

Britain's Gemma Arterton plays Agent Fields; she greets 007 wearing a trenchcoat with apparently little underneath, like some sort of MI6 strippogram. And she is the recipient of his ardour in the luxury hotel suite - that quintessential Bond habitat. This movie is, in fact, a reminder of how vital hotels are in Bond films, providing the essential narrative grammar: the checking in, the fight with the stranger in the room, the messages left at reception, the luxury cars lovingly photographed outside.

I was disappointed there was so little dialogue, flirtation and characterisation in this Bond: Forster and his writers Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade clearly thought this sort of sissy nonsense has to be cut out in favour of explosions. Well, perhaps that is what Bond fans want (not this Bond fan, though). But I was also baffled that relatively little was made of the deliciously villainous Amalric: especially the final encounter.

But set against this is the cool, cruel presence of Craig - his lips perpetually semi-pursed, as if savouring some new nastiness his opponents intend to dish out to him, and the nastiness he intends to dish out in return. This film, unlike the last, doesn't show him in his powder-blue swimming trunks (the least heterosexual image in 007 history), but it's a very physical performance. Quantum of Solace isn't as good as Casino Royale: the smart elegance of Craig's Bond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action. But the man himself powers this movie; he carries the film: it's an indefinably difficult task for an actor. Craig measures up.

CJ7

2009-07-25T18:14:00.000-07:00

If the new film CJ7 is any indication, writer-director Stephen Chow just might be Hong Kong's answer to Steven Spielberg. A sweet, funny fantasy film, it's the E.T. that Spielberg might have made if he came of age as a director in a time of CGI and, of course, providing he was weaned on a steady diet of Buster Keaton and Hong Kong action films. At the same time, it's absolutely a product of the Kung Fu Hustle helmer's cartoonishly creative storytelling, which means that Chow's latest does not seem destined to be embraced as readily as those of his stateside counterpart, even though CJ7 proves to be a singular work and a thoroughly satisfying experience.

In the film, Chow plays Ti -- a poor father who struggles to keep his son Dicky (Xu Jiao) fed, clothed and educated despite an ongoing struggle to stay employed by his fickle boss (Chi Chung Lam). Dicky is smart and possessed of plenty of self-confidence, but when he asks for a toy that Ti can't afford, his father trudges down to the junkyard to find a suitably cheap substitute. He returns with CJ7, named to invoke a superior version of the toy-store trinket that Dicky originally wanted, which at first seems like little more than a luminescent green ball. But after Dicky accidentally "activates" CJ7, he discovers that his new toy isn't merely an action figure or even a new pet, but a surprising and strangely magical solution to some of his family's problems.

Call them warnings or simply things to be aware of, but Chow's movies are not immediately for everyone, even if they are designed that way. In which case it's a good idea to know that: (a) Chinese films, even those that (in this case) ape American filmmaking techniques, follow different rhythms and storytelling traditions; and (b) the story requires a little breathing room, much as was the case with its predecessor Kung Fu Hustle, just to absorb thanks to Chow's oddball aesthetic. In other words, even given its superficial similarities to E.T. or other familiar properties, it's the sentiment that connects this film to its predecessor, not the sensibility, which means that audiences will relate to the feeling, but otherwise be able to enjoy a completely new fantasy.

RESIDENT EVIL 2: APOCALYPSE

2009-07-25T18:11:00.001-07:00

Alice awakens from a terrible sleep to find her worst fears realized--the bloodthirsty Undead, which she and the now-annihilated squad of elite military fought to destroy, have been unleashed on the city that surrounds the secret facility of the Umbrella Corporation. Discovering she was an Umbrella experiment, Alice has been bio-genetically enhanced with new strengths, senses and dexterity--and she will need them. In the heart of the ravaged Raccoon City, a small group of uninfected people, including Jill Valentine, a recently demoted member of Umbrella Corp's elite Special Tactics and Rescue Services team, and S.T.A.R.S team leader Carlos Oliveira, fight for their lives against swarms of Undead and the deadlier and faster Lickers. Running out of luck and resources, the group is rescued by Alice, and they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth. Their only hope lies somewhere within Raccoon City--Dr Charles Ashford, one of the leading scientists for the Umbrella Corporation, will help Alice and the others escape the city safely--if they find his daughter. Angie Ashford became separated from her father and now hides in fear. Alice, Jill and Carlos will have to fight their way through an army of Undead to save her. All the while, a secret weapon code-named Nemesis has been experimentally altered with greater modifications than Alice and has been programmed to track and destroy them. They will need all their strengths and skills to fight the battle of their lives against the mindless evil that has infected the city and the powerful forces that unleashed it on mankind

MESSENGERS 2: THE SCARECROW

2009-07-25T18:05:00.000-07:00

17 AGAIN

2009-07-25T18:01:00.000-07:00

At 17 Mike O'Donell was on top of the world; he was the star of his high school basketball team, and was a shoo in for a college scholarship. And is dating his soul mate, Scarlett. But on what's suppose to be his big game wherein college scouts are checking him out, Scarlett reveals that she's pregnant. Mike decides to leave the game and asks Scarlett to marry him which she does. During their marriage, Mike could only whine about the life he lost because he married her. So she throws him out. And when he loses his job, he returns to the only place he's happy at - his old high school. And while looking at his high school photo, a janitor asks him if he wishes he could be 17 again and he says yes. One night while driving he sees the janitor on a bridge and apparently jumps in and he goes after him. When he returns to his friend, Ned's house, where he has been staying, he sees that he is 17 again. He decides to take this opportunity to get the life he lost.

TERMINATOR SALVATION

2009-07-21T18:57:00.000-07:00

In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) to sign his body over for medical research following his execution by lethal injection. One year later, the Skynet system is activated, perceives humans as a threat to its own existence, and eradicates much of humanity in the event known as Judgment Day (see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines). In 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) leads an attack by the Resistance on a Skynet base. John discovers human prisoners and the plans for the development of a new type of Terminator incorporating living tissue, but is the only apparent survivor of the attack after the base is destroyed in a nuclear explosion. However, Marcus emerges from the wreckage of the base and proceeds on foot to Los Angeles.

John returns to Resistance headquarters located aboard a nuclear submarine and tells General Ashdown (Michael Ironside), the current leader, of his discovery. Meanwhile, the Resistance has discovered a radio frequency capable of shutting down Skynet machines. They plan to launch an offensive against the Skynet base in San Francisco in four days, in response to an intercepted "kill list" indicating that Skynet plans to kill the Resistance's command staff in four days' time. John learns that his own name is second on the list, following Kyle Reese. The Resistance leaders are unaware of Kyle's importance to Skynet, but John knows that it is because Kyle will later become his father (see The Terminator). John meets with his officer Barnes (Common) and wife Kate (Bryce Dallas Howard) and sends radio broadcasts to Resistance members and surviving civilians around the world.

Arriving in the ruins of Los Angeles, Marcus is saved from a T-600 Terminator by Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and his mute companion Star (Jadagrace Berry). Kyle relates to Marcus the events of Judgment Day and the ensuing war between humans and machines. Hearing John's radio broadcast, the three leave Los Angeles in search of the Resistance. They survive an attack by machines, but Kyle, Star, and several other humans are taken prisoner, while a pair of Resistance A-10s are shot down. Marcus locates downed pilot Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood) and they make their way to John's base, but Marcus is wounded by a magnetic land mine. Attempting to save his life, the Resistance fighters discover that he is in fact a cyborg with human organs, a mechanical endoskeleton, circuitry, and a partially artificial cerebral cortex. Marcus believes himself to be human, demanding to be released so that he can save Kyle from Skynet, but John orders his destruction. However, Blair releases him and helps him to escape from the base. During the resulting pursuit Marcus saves John's life from Skynet hydrobots, and the two form an allianceMarcus will enter Skynet's headquarters and attempt to disable its defenses so that John can rescue Kyle.

John demands that Ashdown delay the attack so that he can rescue Kyle and the other prisoners, but Ashdown refuses and relieves John of his command. However, John's soldiers remain loyal to him and he sends a radio broadcast asking the other Resistance fighters not to attack Skynet. Meanwhile, Marcus enters the Skynet base and interfaces with the computer, disabling the perimeter defenses and allowing John to infiltrate the cell block and release the human prisoners. The Resistance's disabling signal is revealed to be a ruse, and the command submarine with the Resistance leaders aboard is destroyed by a Hunter-Killer.

Marcus discovers that he was created by Skynet and has unwittingly fulfilled his programmed mission to lure John into the base to be killed. He tears out the hardware linking him to Skynet and leaves to assist John in battling a T-800 model 101 Terminator. John is mortally wounded during the fight, but succeeds in destroying the Skynet base by rigging several Terminator nuclear power cells to an explosive, detonating them as he, Marcus, Kyle, and Star are airlifted out. Kate attempts to save John's life, but his heart is too damaged. Marcus offers his heart for transplant, sacrificing himself to save John. Recovering, John radios to the other Resistance fighters that though this battle has been won, the war is far from over.

RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN

2009-07-21T18:54:00.001-07:00

Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson) is a cab driver in Las Vegas, who is picking up and dropping off passengers to the UFO convention at the Planet Hollywood Casino and Hotel. One of his passengers is Dr. Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino), a failed scientist who is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space.

The next day Bruno is approached by two large men telling him that Wolff would like to see him. After fighting them, Bruno drives off, later noticing two children, Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) sitting in the back seat of the cab. They tell him they need to go to a certain destination and are willing to pay all they have ($15,000) to get there. They lead him to a run down house in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke (Ciaran Hinds) is searching for information on the two aliens that landed some days earlier.

When they arrive at the house, the children tell Bruno that they will be re-united with their relatives soon. Before leaving Bruno hears a crash coming from the house. He is startled to find them hiding behind a couch. Though grateful for his concern, the children tell him they must continue their journey without him, as they can trust no one. Nevertheless, Bruno decides to follow them, which leads him to the basement of the house. There the kids are pursued and attacked by a strange creature as they retrieve an object in a plant. They manage to escape from this creature.

When leaving they are attacked by a "Siphon", a creature built to destroy a certain targetin this case the children. The Siphon pursues them until it causes a crash of his spaceship into a train, the creature survives, though wounded. The trio eventually find themselves in a small town, hiding. They explain to Bruno that they are aliens from an distant planet, who are sent to Earth by their parents because the government of their dying planet intends to attack and invade Earth so that their kind may live on there. They also explain that the object they obtained at the house contains the results of an experiment which their parents set up. The research from this experiment will save their planet without having to attack and invade Earth. However their planet's military prefer the idea of invading Earth and sent the Siphon assassin to stop them. They are next pursued by government agencies trying to retrieve the children for experiments.

They are joined by Dr. Friedman at the UFO Expo, who is familiar with outer space and travel. When the Siphon arrives, it prepares to attack but Sara uses her powers to knock him through a wall. At first the children are captured along with Bruno and Friedman. Nevertheless the two humans escape and come to rescue the kids. The Siphon causes a distraction by attacking the base. They manage to free the children and reach their ship. By running the Siphon over they can escape but the Siphon hangs on and gets on board. Bruno and Seth battle the Siphon in the lower sections of the ship, unmasking him in the fight. Finally, Bruno defeats the evil alien by knocking him out of the ship's airlock, which kills him. Nothing is mentioned about the fate of Henry Burke, though he was last seen disappointed and upset for his failure and was talking to his boss on the phone, with a possibly of getting fired. The kids drop Jack and Alex off and after a tearful goodbye, they head back to their ship, but give Bruno and Alex a device that will allow the kids to always find them. And Sara gives Jack the power to use his brain to the mind reading ability.

During the end credits, Bruno and Dr. Friedman (now a couple) are speaking at a UFO convention about their new successful book called "Race to Witch Mountain". The last scene shows them driving off in a car Bruno dreamed of getting honestly as he had mentioned to Friedman earliera Ford Mustang similar to that driven by Steve McQueen in ''Bullitt''. As they are about to leave, the device the kids gave Bruno before they left goes off, indicating that they may be returning

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DRIVEN TO KILL

2009-07-21T18:49:00.000-07:00

A young woman, intent on divorcing her abusive husband, attempts to set him up with a prostitute in a legal brothel in Nevada. Their trip is waylaid, however, when he stumbles upon stolen drug money and they are quickly pursued by both a biker gang and the mob.

TAKEN

2009-07-21T18:45:00.000-07:00

Luc Besson gets what action-craving movie lovers want. The French writer/director/producer figured out a few years ago that he could take edgy French directors, give them solid budgets (well, large by European standards, but small by American standards), shoot them in English with international stars (like Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Morgan Freeman), and sell them across the world for a huge profit. His latest endeavor, Taken -- all but completely ignored by distributor Fox -- seemed almost as if it were unceremoniously dumped in January once the rest of the world had seen it and pirated it online. But a funny thing happened. Audiences flocked to it week after week, making it one of the year's first hit films.

Taken is incredible, a tight, breathless thriller about a very dangerous man put in a very bad situation. When a retired Black Ops specialist (Liam Neeson) moves to Los Angeles to be close to his estranged daughter (Maggie Grace), he is forced to allow her to spend the summer in Europe instead, against his wishes, of course. But when she is kidnapped on that trip, all hell breaks loose. This man, adept at protection and acquisition, sets out to get his daughter back as quickly, brutally, and ruthlessly as possible. Set against a ticking clock, Neeson breaks bones, tortures suspects, and leaves a bloody trail of carnage as he makes his way to one hell of an explosive ending.

The film resonated with audiences who dug the revenge film/father-daughter vibe. And the Blu-ray seems to have been designed with that audience in mind. This is one of those great discs that includes both the theatrical cut and a slightly altered (more violent) extended cut. In addition there is a pretty standard making-of featurette, a look at the world premiere in France, two audio commentaries (one in French), and a cool side-by-side action feature that shows you action sequences from the movie while simultaneously showing digital footage of the on-set happenings making that scene.

The best feature, however, is an inventive digital counter on the top of the screen that keeps track of five very important film statistics. In one window we see a GPS location of where each scene is taking place, right down to the street level. This zooms in so we see the region, country, and city of each sequence. Then there are up-to-the second counters keeping track of the number of people Neeson has killed, the number of people he's injured, how much time he has left before he loses his daughter, and the distance he's traveled in the film in both miles and kilometers.

Meanwhile, various facts and statistics pop onto the screen in a very Pop-up Video sort of way, giving you real-world truths about Black Ops operators, their tactics and techniques. This feature also shows you where people are injured, what their prognosis of recovery is, and what their injuries would do to you in real life. And yes, when someone he injures succumbs to their injuries, the counter notes that too -- instantly. I LOVE this feature. It made watching the film a third time new and radically different.

This is an essential disc for action fans. Not only is it a fun, brisk, fat-free action treat, it is also one of the most clever discs I've yet run into. I have a buddy who owns the British version of the DVD and the Black Ops feature alone convinced him he needed to own this Blu-ray. I think that speaks volumes. This one will certainly take a cherished place on my shelf.

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

2009-07-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

On Christmas Eve in 1955, the adolescent Hellboy is preparing for bed and requests a bedtime story from his father, Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt). The professor tells Hellboy a legend about war between the humans and the people of the mystical realm. King Balor, leader of the magic elfin race, commissioned the creation of a "Golden Army," 70 times 70 magical mechanical soldiers. Balor received a crown that would allow him (or anyone with royal blood) to command the Army. The Golden Army attacked the humans with no mercy, and eventually Balor became consumed by regret. A truce was called between the warring factors; humans were given control of the cities while Balor's elves would keep to the forests. As a peace offering, Balor shattered his crown and gave one piece to the humans (still keeping two for himself). One of the few who did not agree with the truce was Balor's son, Prince Nuada. The Prince went into exile, vowing to return when his people needed him. And the Golden Army became dormant.

In the present day, a mysterious albino man (Luke Goss) is practicing swordsmanship. It is Prince Nuada, ready to return from exile. He is joined by the monster known as Mr. Wink (Brian Steele) who follows his commands.

A prestigious auction house is selling off several rare artifacts, including the humans' fragment of the Golden crown. Nuada arrives, takes the crown fragment and dispatches several mysterious creatures to dispose of the humans.

At the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Agent Tom Manning (Jeffery Tambor) has a meeting with Abe Sapien (Doug Jones). Manning is still mad at Hellboy; the B.P.R.D. is still an undercover organization yet Hellboy continues to let himself be seen in public. Abe explains that Hellboy's relationship with Liz Sherman is "tense" at the moment, which may be causing Hellboy's erratic behavior. At that moment, Hellboy (Ron Pearlman) is blasted through the wall of his room; his pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair) has become extremely angry and used her fire powers to send him flying.

Hellboy's team is called to investigate the incident at the auction house. Manning gives Hellboy a pack of Cuban cigars as a bribe in one last attempt to persuade Hellboy to be discreet in his work.

At the auction house Hellboy & the others learn that there are no survivors from the 70+ guests reported to be there. Abe searches through texts to find what might have caused such an attack. He finds boxes marked with a Royal Seal and uncovers an example of what the boxes might have contained: small, winged creatures known as "tooth fairies" because they feed on calcium. While using his psychic talents to try and find the creatures, Abe brings his hand close to Liz and senses that she is pregnant.

Hellboy and his fellow agents are suddenly swarmed by the ravenous tooth fairies. Liz activates her fire powers in a desperate attempt to burn out the creatures. The resulting battle sends Hellboy outside and in full view of news reporters. The BPRD is officially exposed to the world.

Meanwhile, Prince Nuada and MR. Wink come to speak with King Balor. Balor is content to let the truce between humans stand, and his daughter Nuala (Nuada's twin sister, Anna Walton) is in agreement. But Prince Nuada feels that humans are insatiably greedy and will soon force the mystical creatures into extinction.

Hellboy watches news reports about himself and the other agents on the evening news. Hellboy is delighted by all of it but Liz (secretly taking a pregnancy test) is furious about Hellboy making them public because she hates people "staring at her." Tom Manning tells Hellboy that Washington is sending down a new BPRD agent as a result of Hellboy's latest actions. Hellboy is less than thrilled.

Balor and Nuada continue their argument. Nuada refuses to back down; he will do whatever is necessary to make the magical world safe from humans. Nuada kills his father and takes the second piece of the crown. Nuala flees from her brother with the third and final piece.

Everyone at BPRD is awaiting the arrival of their new agent, Johann Krauss (voice of Seth MacFarlane). Krauss turns out to be a very strange entity; a containment suit proportioned like a man holding pure ectoplasmic energy.

Krauss inspects the remains of one tooth fairy. He injects it with a sample of ectoplasmic energy to temporarily return the creature to life so they might learn more. Krauss translates the creature's speak; it remembers troll languages and other commerce sounds. Johann realizes that the creatures came from the legendary Troll Market, a gathering place for magical creatures. Rumors suggest that the Troll Market might be located under the Brooklyn Bridge so Krauss takes the team to search for it.

Johann Krauss outfits the team with special time-dilation glasses that allow them to see through illusions put out by magical entities. They end up spotting a creature called a "fragglewump" who leads them right to the door of the Troll Market. Upon entering, Hellboy is delighted- he can walk among the Market's creatures and not feel like a freak or outsider.

Abe spots a hooded figure walking away and wearing the same sort of Royal Seal he found with the tooth fairies, so he goes to investigate on his own. The figure is Princess Nuala, who arrives at the Market's library to receive a cylinder hidden by her father. Abe follows her in and she confronts him. Nuala is revealed to have the same sort of psychic powers as Abe. They both learn about one another through hand gestures.

At that moment, Mr. Wink comes in and attacks Nuala. Abe encourages her to flee while Hellboy fights Wink. After an intense fight, Hellboy proves victorious. They speak with Princess Nuala, who explains that she has the last piece of her fathers' crown and the cylinder from the library which contains a map to the location of the Golden Army. Krauss is worried about bringing the princess back to BPRD because of regulations, but Hellboy argues against him.

Prince Nuada arrives soon after, furious at the loss of his companion. He releases a small seed, which Hellboy scoffs at. It suddenly and rapidly grows into a multi-tentacled creature; a forest elemental. Upon seeing the gigantic creature, Hellboy trades in his trademark "Samaritan" pistol for a gigantic six-barreled minigun nicknamed "Big Baby."

During the fight with the elemental, Hellboy saves a human infant from certain doom. But when the fight ends, Hellboy is taunted and jeered by the crowd for bringing danger to a child. The humans call "Hellboy" a freak.

Later on, Liz patches up Hellboy- who doesn't understand the humans' reaction. Liz tells Hellboy that she is leaving to "think." Hellboy automatically assumes that he has doomed their relationship and begs her to stay. Liz asks Hellboy to decide what he really wants- the world's approval or HER approval.

Abe has a conversation with Nuala, who explains that she is connected to her brother in a psychic link and now that Abe has shown her the BPRD location, Nuada knows where she is. Nuala hides the 3rd crown fragment in one of Abe's books.

In the locker room, Hellboy is confronted by Johann Krauss. Krauss wants Hellboy to start following orders, and warns Hellboy that if the 2 had to fight then Krauss would probably win. Hellboy, undaunted, asks why. Johann explains that Hellboy's temper is his worst flaw; he allows it to get out of control and get the best of him. Hellboy, proving Johann's point, smashes the helmet of the containment suit. Krauss' ectoplasmic energy takes control of the locker doors, smashing Hellboy several times before wandering off.

Hellboy meets with Abe, who is in the middle of listening to a collection of popular love songs. Hellboy realizes that Abe has fallen in love with the princess. The two best friends get drunk and begin contemplating their relationships. Abe is on the verge of revealing to Hellboy why Liz has been acting so different lately when Liz storms in on them, furious.

Nuada breaks into the BPRD, steals the map to the Golden Army and abducts Nuala. He also leaves a psychic message to Abe stating that if they bring the 3rd crown piece to the Army's location, he will spare their lives and release Nuala. Nuada finishes by stabbing Hellboy with an enchanted spear.

Despite the best medical efforts, the spearhead cannot be removed from Hellboy's chest (any attempt to pull it out forces the spearhead to move closer to Hellboy's heart). Hellboy, in pain, admits to Liz that she is more important than anything else in his life. Meanwhile, Abe finds the 3rd crown piece in his book.

Analyzing the remains of King Balor's map tells the BPRD that the Golden Army is located in northern Ireland. Liz wants to take Hellboy there to heal him, but Manning & Krauss are willing to let Hellboy die to keep the Golden Army from awakening. Liz berates Johann for his attitude, storming off.

Abe & Liz decide to take Hellboy without approval, desperate to heal their friend. Johann confronts them on their way out and to everyone's surprise he volunteers to help.

In Ireland, the group encounters a goblin who offers to lead them to the Golden Army for "something shiny." The goblin spots the spearhead shining beneath Hellboy's bandages and offers to help remove it if they give him the spearhead as payment.

The goblin brings them before a mysterious winged creature. It is the Angel of Death. The Angel knows Liz and Hellboy (calling him by his true name, Anung Un Rama) and has been waiting for them. The Angel cares not whether Hellboy lives or dies; but Liz begs for Hellboy to live. Despite the Angel's warning that Hellboy's survival will eventually bring about the destruction of Earth (and that Liz will suffer most of all because of that), Liz still asks for Hellboy to live. The Angel removes the spearhead and instructs Liz to give Hellboy a "reason to live." Liz kneels down and tells Hellboy that he is to be a father. Hellboy stands up, fully recovered but awestruck upon hearing Liz' news.

Their goblin guide leads the group to the central chamber of the Golden Army, where Prince Nuada waits with his hostage. Abe gives Nuada the last crown piece in hope of freeing Nuala, but the Prince betrays them and awakens the Golden Army.

Despite a valiant effort by Hellboy and the others, the 4900 Golden soldiers appear unstoppable. Hellboy then comes up with an idea; he challenges Prince Nuada for the right to command the Army. Nuala realizes that Hellboy (or Anung Un Rama) is born of royal blood and thus the challenge must be answered.

Hellboy fights against the prince across the entire chamber, at one point finally gaining the upper hand. But he refuses to take the Prince's life. As they fight, Nuala feels the wounds that Hellboy inflicts upon her brother. Nuada prepares to stab Hellboy in the back, but suddenly collapses from pain in his chest. Nuala is revealed to have stabbed herself in the heart in a final attempt to stop her brother. Abe goes to Nuala's side and confesses his feelings to her before she dies.

With Nuada dead, Hellboy is considered the winner of the challenge by default. He picks up the completed crown and hands it to Liz, who burns it-sending the Golden Army back into hibernation forever.

By this point, Manning and the other BPRD agents have caught up to Hellboy. Manning demands an explanation but instead Hellboy, Abe and Liz all hand in their belts, resigning from the BPRD (Hellboy hesitates only a moment to reclaim his "Samaritan" gun). Manning requests help from Krauss, but Johann merely tells him off and goes to join the others.

Hellboy suggests that he and Liz get a place of their own to raise the new baby. Liz stops him and says "Babies," holding up two fingers- a sign that she is carrying twins. Hellboy can only look on in shock and wonder.

DOOMSDAY

2009-07-21T18:32:00.000-07:00

The Mohawk-sporting villain of Neil Marshall’s futuristic action movie drives a Frankenstein car cobbled together from spare parts, decorated with human skulls and flayed skin. Marshall, likewise, lashes together elements from ’80s post-apocalyptic movies such as ‘Mad Max’ and ‘Escape from New York’ to create a supercharged monster of a movie. Parts cannibalised from other movies are bolted on with less success, but Marshall’s adrenalin-fuelled skill and enthusiasm propel the action forward with reckless abandon.

Twenty-five years after the Reaper virus prompted the quarantining of Scotland behind a modern-day Hadrian’s Wall, the disease resurfaces in London. The only hope for an antidote lies with a group of survivors found north of the border. At the behest of the government and her fatherly mentor, Department of Domestic Security chief Bill Nelson (Bob Hoskins), Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) and her crack team of soldiers are dispatched to bring back the cure.

Behind the wall, they find Glasgow presided over by post-punk impresario Sol (Craig Conway) and his tattooed tribe of Marauders; but after escaping through a hillside tunnel, they emerge into a medieval world ruled over by castle-dwelling tyrant king Kane (Malcolm McDowell). With Rhona Mitra’s cold-blooded heroine front and centre, the tense group dynamics and ensemble acting that served Marshall so well in ‘Dog Soldiers’ and ‘The Descent’ are less evident.

Still, the violent fight scenes, explosive set-pieces and retro-future settings fire the imagination. Appropriately, given its throwback pedigree, ‘Doomsday’ culminates in a car chase, accompanied by Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s apt ‘Two Tribes’.

DRAGON BALL EVOLUTION

2009-07-18T06:24:00.000-07:00

The King Piccolo Saga [Dragonball], also known as the Piccolo Daimaoh Saga (Demon Lord Piccolo Saga) is the penultimate saga from the anime Dragon Ball. It occurs after the Tien Shinhan Saga and precedes the Piccolo Junior Saga. It includes the battles between Goku and King Piccolo's sons, Goku's first encounter with the Samurai warrior, Yajirobe, Goku's quest to find the Holy Water, his final battle with young King Piccolo, and the birth of Piccolo JuniorAppearances also made by Yamcha and Bulma but regretably not Bwar or Oolong, nor even Krillin. Ox King and his Daughter Chi Chi are speculated -capricorntiger

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN

2009-07-15T06:05:00.000-07:00

When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers, Fonzie's jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from All in the Family. After stealing a security guard's ID badge, Larry (Ben Stiller) slips into the Archives of the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order.

A BEAUTIFUL MIND

2009-07-03T20:51:00.000-07:00

The mind is indeed a beautiful thing. It is the reason for our ingenuity, artistic originality and maybe even our humanity. What happens however when the mind works against us? When it tricks us into believing that what is not real to be the actual, destroying our sense of being? This is what “A Beautiful Mind” tackles, a thought-provoking film based on a true story with lots of brain behind it, but more importantly, lots of heart within it.

Russell Crowe is John Nash, a mathematical genius who sees life through numbers. We curiously watch him as he observes a pack of pigeons and tries to formulate an algorithm for their feeding patterns; or when John witnesses a mugging, and he sets up the incident as vectors and summarizing the event through complicated theorems and formulas. John basically wants to explain life’s behaviors through precise mathematical proofs, but his own behavior is somewhat enigmatic itself.

He is a bit of a loner, an anti-social scholar at Princeton University, scribbling equations on chalkboards and windows that only 0.001% of us will understand. Social interactions are not quite honed, as he tries to get a girl to go out with him, but the few words that he does say includes something about exchanging bodily fluids. In time however, John forms a few good friends, and even manages to have a girl, Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) fall for him.

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The film is set in the 1940’s, and the Cold War seedling is burgeoning. Mathematicians made the Allied victory possible, and their help is sought ought once more to help against the Russians. John has a knack for breaking cryptic codes and is hired by the government to interpret intercepted numerical messages sent by the enemy. He is involved in highly classified projects and has basically been transformed into a spy. However, the situation gets a bit gnarly as men in dark trench coats and fedoras begin to chase John. On top of that, it doesn’t quite help that he suffers from schizophrenia, a degenerative brain condition that causes John to hallucinate and slowly lose contact with reality. He must now depend on his human connections to help him get through the dilemma.

“A Beautiful Mind” is a love story, a biography and a spy flick wrapped up together in one package, and works quite effectively on all these levels. Written by Akiva Goldsman and Sylvia Nasar, along with the highly taut direction of Ron Howard, the film is tremendously engaging, despite running a bit too long. It has surprises that will keep you guessing, but most of all, it evokes drama that is heartfelt. Anchored by the strong chemistry between John and Alicia, his personal troubles sifting nightmares from reality becomes a powerful human struggle. A man who achieved greatness all by himself now needs the assistance of others to get through life.

The performances are reliably excellent from its two leading stars. “A Beautiful Mind” is getting a lot of clout for the Oscars with its multiple Golden Globe nominations, which might mean another nomination for Russell Crowe for Best Actor (which he won for “Gladiator” and NOT “The Insider”…still quite upsetting). Crowe is great as John Nash, although sometimes he looks a tad bit old for the part. The beautiful Jennifer Connelly is wonderful too as John’s love interest, and boy does she know how to pick a good script. She has been involved in some of the best movies within the last four years, including 1998’s “Dark City” and last year’s “Requiem for a Dream”. She exemplifies classic beauty and knows how to add passion to her character.

Overall, “A Beautiful Mind” is a very good film with its mind and heart in all the right places.

KNOWING

2009-06-29T18:40:00.000-07:00

Back in the late ’90s, Alex Proyas was a director that had earned himself a lot of admirers. He had two dark and visually stunning cult hits under his belt with The Crow and Dark City (the latter of which Roger Ebert continues to sing the praises of to this day), before he threw everyone a curve ball and he went in a completely different direction with the rock n roll coming of age movie Garage Days. He followed that with the disappointing Will Smith action sci-fi blockbuster I, Robot. Suddenly no one knew what to think of the guy anymore.

Five years later, Proyas has returned to his sci-fi/horror roots with a movie called Knowing, but with the plot shrouded in mystery and Nicolas Cage in the lead role, there was a lot of uncertainty surrounding the project. Could it possibly be a return to form for this talented filmmaker, or would it prove to be just another Nicolas Cage dud in the vein of Next, Ghost Rider or (god forbid) The Wicker Man? Well, although it’s no Dark City, let’s just say that the impending disaster that a lot of people predicted never actually comes to pass.

The movie opens in the year 1959, with an elementary school preparing to bury a time capsule containing predictions of the future as drawn by the students. One little girl is not drawing a picture, however. Instead she is furiously scribbling a series of strange numbers on the page, seemingly possessed. Fifty years later, the time capsule is opened and her scribblings end up in the hands of Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), son of astrophysicist John Koestler (Nicolas Cage). He has recently lost his mother in a tragic fire, and thinks that there may be some sort of puzzle in the numbers. His father thinks otherwise, until one night, after a few drinks he happens to notice a pattern in amongst the randomness: a list of major catastrophes around the world and the number of people who died in them. Even more alarming is the fact that not all of them have happened yet.

Needless to say, the first half of Knowing starts down a fairly predictable path where he tries to warn people but no one believes him; meanwhile his son starts to see eerie visions and hear whispers that are somehow connected. There are a handful of plot points that seem a little too convenient, and some familiar elements from other movies we’ve seen many times before, but the mystery continues to drive things forward.
Eventually there comes a point where the movie really throws down the gauntlet and proves that it might have something new to offer after all. You may have seen clips or heard about a certain plane crash scene in the movie, and all I can say is wow… this intense single-shot sequence of visual effects mastery could be on par with some of the more visceral continuous scenes in Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men. The movie actually has a few other jaw-dropping special effects set pieces that follow, many of which seem to have been withheld from trailers and commercials in order to avoid spoilers. It may actually be worth seeing the movie for these alone.

From here on in, the movie changes course and hurtles off in some unexpected directions, and you’ll either come along for the ride or find it a little too preposterous to process. Personally, I was hooked at this point, thanks in large part to the skillful direction of Mr. Alex Proyas. What Knowing reminded me of most was a really solid M. Night Shyamalan movie — not Lady in the Water or The Happening, but something harkening back to Signs and The Sixth Sense. I realize that this won’t be a selling point for everyone since Signs had its share of detractors, but the important point is that the atmosphere and suspense tend to override the thin logic in most cases. There is some really creepy imagery in this flick (what is it with Proyas and pale skinned people in dark trench coats?), and an overwhelming sense of dread that stems from a powerful score by Marco Beltrami.

The movie’s main weakness is, as expected, Nicolas Cage. With someone else in the lead role, this probably could have been a much more well-rounded film. Instead, we have to put up with Cage’s odd moments of overacting, where he fails to fully sell the half-crazed man who is shaken by the things he has seen, but also lays on the cheese during some of the more heartfelt moments with his son. It’s not nearly as bad a performance as some of his previous films, but it’s definitely inconsistent at best. The good news is there is one fun scene where he hits a tree with a baseball bat and challenges, “You want some?”. Believe me, it’s gold.

Fortunately, Cage’s cornball delivery does not ruin the movie. There are bigger things at work here. Knowing is a surprisingly effective (if somewhat disposable) thriller, one that requires a little imagination, but also one that doesn’t end up where you expect it to. (Trust me when I say that that this movie has very little resemblance to either Next or The Number 23.) If you’re the type of person who needs every loose end tied up and every little nuance explained, then Knowing may irk you. But considering that we’ve been subject to so many poor paint-by-numbers supernatural thrillers over the past few years, seeing one that is this enjoyable and this competently made is definitely a pleasure to behold. I don’t know if I’d say Alex Proyas has quite redeemed himself with Knowing, but at this point, he’s definitely back on my radar.

Film Twilight

2009-06-11T17:43:00.000-07:00

Vampires and the poor human beings who love them have been a hot onscreen item this season, as evidenced by HBO’s lurid hit series “True Blood” and the marvelous Swedish import “Let the Right One In.” For less discriminating palates, there’s the much-anticipated “Twilight,” a disappointingly anemic tale of forbidden love that should satiate the pre-converted but will bewilder and underwhelm viewers who haven’t devoured Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling juvie chick-lit franchise. Built-in femme fanbase will lend this Summit Entertainment release some serious B.O. bite, with Robert Pattinson’s turn as an undead heartthrob keeping repeat biz at a steady pump.

Having shown a real feel for the perilous social and emotional terrain of adolescent girlhood in her 2003 debut, “Thirteen,” Catherine Hardwicke seemed as good a director as any to steer this maiden adaptation of Meyer’s junior-Anne-Rice phenomenon. (Three more novels -- “New Moon,” “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn” -- have been released since “Twilight’s” publication in 2005, and the movie is nothing if not a prelude to future bigscreen sequels.)

But even with angsty rock songs, lurching camerawork and emo-ish voiceover at her disposal, Hardwicke can’t get inside the head of her young protagonist, Isabella “Bella” Swan (Kristen Stewart); consequently, Bella’s decision to get hot and heavy with a hot-and-hungry vampire, far from seeming like an act of mad, transgressive passion, comes across as merely stupid and ill-considered. The result is a supernatural romance in which the supernatural and romantic elements feel rushed, unformed and insufficiently motivated, leaving audiences with little to do but shrug and focus on the eye-candy.

Which is what Bella does when she first meets the brooding, intoxicatingly handsome Edward Cullen (Pattinson) at her new high school in Forks, Wash. Bella, a moody, intelligent teen who’s just moved from Phoenix to live with her police-chief dad (Billy Burke), is an outsider in this dreary little Pacific Northwest town. So are Edward and his four equally striking (if unnaturally pallid) siblings, who keep to themselves, go on regular camping trips and have an odd habit of never eating.

Bella finds herself utterly transfixed by Edward. (Judging by the screaming tweens in the audience at the screening caught, she’s not alone.) Yet devoid of the novel’s first-person narration, the chain of events laid out in Melissa Rosenberg’s screenplay -- Edward’s initial and inexplicable hostility toward Bella, his habit of rescuing her from contrived endangerment scenarios, their playfully barbed flirtation, his revelation of his identity as a self-controlled but still-lethal bloodsucker and, finally, their mutual surrender to their feelings -- proceeds with none of the inner logic necessary even for a tale of the fantastic.

Admittedly, it’s a relief that Rosenberg dispenses with Meyer’s often embarrassingly overripe prose (“His hair was dripping wet, disheveled ... his dazzling face was friendly, open, a slight smile on his flawless lips”), and pic’s selective rewriting of the rules of vampire lore (no coffins, no garlic, no fatal aversion to sunlight) does hold interest. There’s a fleeting moment when the two leads -- standing together in a secluded glade, their bodies circled by the camera -- come close to capturing the tale’s lush, swooning romanticism.

Stewart (seen recently and most impressively in “Into the Wild”) makes Bella earthy, appealing and slightly withdrawn, and British thesp Pattinson (who registered poignantly as the ill-fated Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) is every inch the deadly dreamboat. But as helmed by Hardwicke, the actors’ early, awkward interactions feel particularly forced, and the script gives Stewart virtually nothing with which to convince the audience of her transcendent love for a guy who’d just as soon drink her blood as jump her bones.

Burke steals a few scenes as Bella’s quietly dependable dad, as does the reliably sharp-witted Anna Kendrick as Bella’s busybody friend, Jessica. Questionable casting of some of Bella’s other classmates may rile purists, though Hardwicke and Rosenberg generate some laughs from the high school setting. Pic duly introduces Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a Native American youth who looks to rival Edward for Bella’s affections in future outings.

In an unwise departure from the book, pic dispels rather than increases the tension by showing random vampire attacks by a sinister trio (Cam Gigandet, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi), headed toward a showdown with Edward and his brood. Chase-thriller endgame seems to sputter to a halt when it’s barely begun.

Visual effects, used to convey the vampires’ superhuman strength, agility and resistance to gravity, are a mixed bag. Shot in moody, washed-out tones by Hardwicke’s regular lenser, Elliot Davis, pic makes the most of its Oregon locations .

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Camera (Deluxe color, widescreen), Eliott Davis; editor, Nancy Richardson; music, Carter Burwell; music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas; production designer, Dan Bishop; set designers, Camille Bratkowski, Tim Croshaw; set decorator, Gene Serdena; costume designer, Wendy Chuck; sound (Dolby/DTS), Glenn Micallef; supervising sound editor/sound designer, Frank Gaeta; re-recording mixers, Leslie Shatz, Marshall Garlington, Frank Gaeta; visual effects supervisors, Richard Kidd, Bill George, Jamison Scott Goei; visual effects and animation, Industrial Light & Magic, CIS Vancouver; special visual effects, Rez-Illusion; special visual effects and animation, Catalyst Media; stunt coordinator, Andy Cheng; assistant director, Jamie Marshall; second unit director, Cheng; casting, Tricia Wood, Deborah Aquila. Reviewed at the Grove, Los Angeles, Nov. 18, 2008. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 121 MIN.

Jessica - Anna Kendrick
Rosalie Cullen - Nikki Reed
Jacob - Taylor Lautner
Emmett Cullen - Kellan Lutz
Jasper Cullen - Jackson Rathbone
Mike Newton - Michael Welch
Billy Black - Gil Birmingham
Eric - Justin Chon
Angela - Christian Serratos
Mr. Molina - Jose Zuniga
Victoria/Nomad Vampire - Rachelle Lefevre
Laurent/Nomad Vampire - Edi Gathegi
Rene - Sarah Clarke
Gregory Tyree Boyce - Tyler
Ned Bellamy - Waylan Forge
Matt Bushnell - Phil

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Film Vacancy 2 : The First Cut

2009-06-04T17:41:00.000-07:00

One of the positives of VACANCY 2: THE FIRST CUT is that its existence suggests that the efficiently scary original, a box-office disappointment in theaters, found a wider audience on video—enough to encourage the production of this Sony Pictures direct-to-disc follow-up. Another is that as DVD sequels go, this one doesn’t shame its predecessor.

vacancy2dvdrevIt no doubt helped that producer Hal Lieberman and scripter Mark L. Smith both returned for the second round (while foreign import Nimrod Antal was replaced by domestic indie-film stalwart Eric Bross as director). This is another in the reductive trend of prequels that attempt to explain just why their murderers do what they do, but for the first 20 minutes, Smith seems to be onto something as he traces the evolution of his villains from voyeuristic pornographers to snuff purveyors. Gordon (David Moscow, the boy who became Tom Hanks in BIG, now grown up and styled—intentionally, it turns out—after Viggo Mortensen) and his buddy Reece (Brian Klugman) have a profitable little side business going at the Meadow View Inn, secretly taping the sexual shenanigans of visitors (“newlyweds and cheating husbands” provide the best shows, we’re told) and selling the cassettes. After playing a bit with our expectations for the first slaying, Smith introduces…Smith (Scott G. Anderson, “returning” from the original film), a trucker who brings a hot chick to the Meadow View and winds up brutally knifing her, all captured on video before Gordon and Reece’s initially horrified eyes.

They want to turn Smith in, but he offers them a better option: Since sales of their unconsented-to amateur porn are flagging, why not switch to snuff? There are some nicely tense and well-played moments among these miscreants, and the movie would have benefitted from playing out this side of their interaction even further. But of course, the film really needs to center on a small set of young would-be victims, and Gordon and Reece agree a tad too easily to Smith’s plot just in time for recently engaged couple Jessica (Agnes Bruckner) and Caleb (Trevor Wright), along with the latter’s pal Tanner (Arjay Smith), to pull in to take a break from their late-night drive.

From here, the storyline pretty much writes itself, though Smith deserves credit for trying to mix things up a bit. Rather than center on the claustrophobic terror of besiegement inside the motel, as in the first film, he moves the action outside and even to the house of a neighboring couple. The presence of Tanner, who’s your typical smart-mouthed African-American buddy, proves not as annoying as such characters can tend to be, and his simmering disapproval of Jessica and Caleb’s impending union helps spice up the scenario’s tension a tad. On the DVD’s extras, Bross cites Paul Greengrass and CITY OF GOD as influences, but fortunately VACANCY 2’s handheld camerawork avoids the jittery freneticism that has made similarly inspired films hard to watch.

All this may sound like damning with faint praise, and in the end, VACANCY 2 does eventually fall into its own trap of having to reprise what worked in its predecessor instead of truly breaking free into fresh territory. Yet on those terms, it has clearly been made with a little more smarts than usual, and stands above the flood of uninspired-to-wretched DVD follow-ups that genre fans have been subjected to in the last couple of years. The professionalism all around is reflected in the video/audio presentation, with a moody, high-contrast 1.85:1 transfer complemented by strong Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.

It’s a pretty sharp product for a movie that, as revealed in the extras, was shot in only 19 days. Given the low budget, it’s also rather impressive that the filmmakers constructed a complete motel set to shoot in, the creation of which warrants its own featurette—revealing that while some of the buildings were fully crafted inside and out, others were mere facades (since they’d only be seen at night). This segment contains the disc’s best anecdote, involving a YouTube video posted by a couple of kids who unwittingly broke into one of the fake-blood-streaked rooms. A separate making-of piece reveals more about the shoot and the design of the Meadow View—including the fact that the look of the latter took cues from, of all things, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.

On the DVD’s audio commentary, Bross makes further comparisons between VACANCY 2 and the classics NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and THE GODFATHER PART II, and it’s all rather highfalutin under the circumstances. But it does demonstrate that his heart’s in the right place, as does the fact that there’s more attention paid to the handling of the actors and their performances than usual on DVD-premiere talk tracks. The director is joined by Lieberman, executive producer Brian Paschal and stars Bruckner and Moscow, covering the shoot from all angles; Bross and Moscow have by far the most to say, while Bruckner is disappointingly quiet for the first hour. The DVD is rounded out by a brief collection of deleted scenes, including a moment of decision by Gordon that probably should have been left in.

Film diary of a sex addic

2009-06-04T16:47:00.000-07:00

Joseph Brustman's erotic drama Diary of a Sex Addict tells the tale of Sammy Horn (Michael Des Barres), a man whose sexual addiction forces him into situations where he risks the comfortable suburban life he has created for himself and his family. Rosanna Arquette, Nastassja Kinski, Ed Begley Jr., Alexandra Paul, and former gossip columnist A.J. Benza co-star in this sexually charged thriller. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
* Director: Joseph Brutsman
* Genre: Drama
* Movie Type: Addiction Drama, Psychological Drama
* Themes: Infidelity, Doctors and Patients, Crumbling Marriages
* Main Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Michael Des Barres, Rosanna Arquette, Ed Begley, Jr.
* Release Year: 2001
* Country: US
* Run Time: 93 minutes
* MPAA Rating: R

Film Knight Rider

2009-06-04T16:34:00.000-07:00

Knight Rider is a television movie which was created to serve as a backdoor pilot for the new Knight Rider television series, a revival of the series of the same name which aired during the 1980s. This film does not refer to either the Knight Rider 2000 film or the Team Knight Rider television series.

The film opens at night with several technicians from the power company answering a call at the home of Charles Graiman. He is suspicious, as he did not expect them until the next morning, but allows them inside. They soon reveal their hostile intent and threaten his daughter if he does not cooperate, and as the situation intensifies, Graiman collapses and dies from an apparent heart attack. While searching his home for hard drives containing the information they are after (for a defense project named Prometheus), they stumble across a car, which they try to stop, by shooting it, but are unable to before it drives away.

The next morning, Mike Traceur (Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, is awakened by his friend Dylan Fass to deal with two men who are attempting to collect a $90,000 gambling debt. Traceur's car breaks down when he attempts to flee, and the men threaten Fass's life if Traceur does not pay the debt.

FBI agent Carrie Rivai (Poitier) receives a call that Graiman, her long time friend, is dead and leaves her date, a woman she had just met the night before, to go investigate.

Sarah Graiman (Russo), a 24-year old Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, is lecturing a class on nanotechnology. Following the lecture, she receives a phone call from KITT warning her about the men attempting to abduct her, and instructing her to safety. Her pursuers catch her, but KITT arrives and rescues her. Sarah and KITT escape, and leave to track down Traceur, who turns out to be her childhood friend, and whom she was previously involved with but has not seen since he left home at 18. They find him at the Montecito Casino, playing poker to attempt to repay his debt. He is initially resistant when Sarah asks for his help, but agrees when she offers to pay his debt, and the two set out to find out what happened to Graiman, and discover who's after them.

Rivai arrives at Graiman's home, and is asked by the local sheriff (Chris Mulkey) to identify the body. She discovers it's not Charles Graiman, the real Graiman (Davison) having escaped through the woods and left a double in his place. Graiman makes his way to a house belonging to Traceur's mother, Jennifer (Susan Gibney). The two set off to a motel.

The men chasing them are revealed to be mercenaries for BlackRiver, (a security contractor inspired by Blackwater Worldwide). They are after a system that Graiman designed called Prometheus, which controls the entire U.S. defense network. The information needed to take control of the system is contained on Graiman's hard drives in the mercenaries' possession, but is encrypted, and only Graiman and Sarah know the encryption keys. KITT also possesses the data and the ability to access the system.

Graiman contacts Sarah and asks her to meet him at the motel. He advises Sarah to contact Rivai for help. When she does so, Rivai puts her phone in speaker-mode so that the sheriff can hear the location, unaware that the sheriff is working with the mercenaries.

KITT, Sarah, and Traceur arrive to find that the men have already reached the motel, but have yet to find Graiman, as he has checked into four different rooms. With the help of KITT's infrared sensors, Traceur finds Graiman and his mother and brings them to safety, avoiding the mercenaries. Jennifer and Graiman reveal to him that his father was a man named Michael Knight and that he drove the first KITT, forcing him to stay away from his family. Traceur is still absorbing the weight of this information, when they reach KITT, and find that one of the mercenaries is hacking into his system. Graiman asks KITT to shut-down to prevent further infiltration, and suggests Traceur drive the car manually.

As the group is preparing to leave, the mercenaries, now joined by the sheriff, find them, and shoot and kill Jennifer in the confrontation. Two of them and the sheriff take Graiman away and the other two are left to kill Traceur and Rivai and watch over Sarah and KITT. Traceur and Rivai overpower them, and Traceur and Sarah take KITT to chase after Graiman, while Rivai stays behind with Jennifer's body.

During the chase, Traceur and Sarah discover KITT's vulnerability to damage, due to the loss of his self-repair capabilities, when his system is deactivated. After exchanging fire, Traceur reactivates KITT with just enough time to activate his armor without allowing the mercenaries to completely hack into his system, and turns KITT directly into the mercenaries' path, causing a massive collision; KITT survives with no damage, while the mercenaries' SUV is heavily damaged by the impact. Graiman survives with minor injuries, while all his captors are mortally wounded or have been killed.

On the way to Jennifer's funeral, Graiman reveals that he's re-forming the Foundation, and offers Traceur the chance to drive KITT permanently, which he refuses on grounds of philosophical differences, saying "I just don't believe in the same things you do."

At the funeral, Traceur meets his father, Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), who tells him what Wilton Knight once told him on his death-bed, that one man can make a difference, and that he (Knight) was that man. They shake hands and as Knight prepares to leave, Traceur stops him and asks if they will ever meet again, to which Knight responds "I hope so."

The final scene begins inside an enclosed area with Mike behind KITT's wheel. Here, Rivai, Graiman, Sarah, and Fass bid him farewell and inform him of his new mission. Sarah kisses him goodbye, and a door opens behind him that shows a moving road. KITT drives out of the door/bay in reverse. The door is revealed to be the cargo hatch of a C-130 Hercules cargo plane, which then takes off. Mike switches to manual at KITT's indignation, turns KITT around, and drives away.

Film Angels & Demons 2009 (CAM)

2009-05-26T23:19:00.001-07:00

Angels & Demons is a 2009 American film adaptation of Dan Brown's eponymous novel. It is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, another Brown film adaptation, even though the novel Angels & Demons was published first and takes place before the novel The Da Vinci Code. Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Tom Hanks reprises the lead role of Robert Langdon, while director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman also returned.

The Roman Catholic Church mourns the death of the Pope in Rome. Until the College of Cardinals selects a new Bishop, Camerlengo Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor) assumes day-to-day control of Vatican City. Reporters, nuns, priests, and other faithful all crowd into Saint Peter's Square, waiting for the white smoke from the conclave. But the Illuminati, a 400-year old secret society of scientists, kidnap the four most likely candidates (preferiti) after the conclave goes into seclusion. The Illuminati threaten to brand and publicly execute them, choosing methods of murder linked to the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They do this as vengeance for "La Purga," when Illuminati members were cleansed of their sins and executed. The Illuminati also send a message to the Vatican demanding US$50 million. They then threaten to destroy the Vatican, using the highly explosive material antimatter.

The Vatican summons Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) from CERN to help them solve the Illuminati's threat, save the four preferiti, and find the hidden bomb. Langdon listens to the Illuminati message and deduces that the four cardinals will die at the four altars of the Path of Illumination. However, no one knows where these altars are located, but they are all somewhere in Rome. Langdon demands access to the Vatican Secret Archives to see the original copy of Galileo Galilei's banned book, as it contains clues to the Illuminati plot. Eventually, he is able to convince the camerlengo to grant him access. Using the clue from this book, Langdon, Vetra, and Inspector General Ernesto Olivetti (Pierfrancesco Favino) of the Vatican police start their quest across Rome.

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Film The Unborn ( 2009)

2009-05-26T23:12:00.000-07:00

The Unborn is a 2009 supernatural horror-thriller film written and directed by David S. Goyer. The film stars Gary Oldman as a spiritual advisor to a young girl (Odette Yustman) who is tormented by a dybbuk. The dybbuk seeks to use her death as a gateway to physical existence. The film is produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes. It was released in American theaters on January 9, 2009, by Rogue Pictures. Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) is plagued by nightmare visions of strange looking dogs, and an evil child with bright blue eyes.

While baby-sitting Matty, her neighbor's son attacks her with a mirror. After being hit with the mirror, Casey's eyes begin to change color, an optician explains that she is experiencing Tetragametic chimerism and Heterochromia. After questioning her father she learns she had a twin brother who died in the womb. Casey begins to suspect that the spirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin, being possessed by a dybbuk, wanting to be born so it can transfer to the world of the living.

Casey meets a woman named Sofi, who is revealed to be her grandmother. Sofi explains that she had a twin brother who was killed in Nazi experiments in Auschwitz when they were both just children (presumably having been experimented on by Josef Mengele, as Sofi describes him as looking like an angel and Mengele was often referred to as the Angel of Death). The boy was brought back to life by a dybbuk who intended to use his body as a portal into the world of the living. Sofi killed her twin to stop the dybbuk, and now it haunts her family for revenge. Sofi refers Casey to Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove the dybbuk.

The exorcism is performed, but things go awry as the dybbuk tries to stop Rabbi Sendak from completing the ritual. Several people are wounded and others are killed. The exorcism is finally completed, and the dybbuk is drawn back from the human world. Casey's boyfriend Mark is severely wounded and later dies with Casey by his side. Casey mourns him and she soon finds out that she is pregnant by him, with twins.

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Film Love Takes Wing ( 2009)

2009-05-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

Love Takes Wing is a Christian drama and the seventh TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It aired on Hallmark Channel on April 4, 2009.[1] Lou Diamond Phillips directed from a script by Rachel Stuhler, based on the book Love Takes Wing by Janette Oke.[1]

It is the seventh movie in an ongoing series that includes Love Comes Softly (2003), Love's Enduring Promise (2004), Love's Long Journey (2005), Love's Abiding Joy (2006), Love's Unending Legacy (2007), and Love's Unfolding Dream (2007). The eighth movie and final installment of the series Love Finds a Home aired April 11, 2009, one week following this movie.

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Film Echelon Conspiracy (2009)

2009-05-26T20:08:00.000-07:00

A young American engineer comes into possession of a cell phone that bestows unlimited wealth upon him, never realizing the danger posed to him by the device until security agents close in and start shooting to kill. Now, as a frantic chase across the continents gets under way, the stability of the entire world hangs in the balance. Shane West stars in a globe-trotting action thriller featuring Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce, and Martin Sheen. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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X-men origins wolverine (complete version)

2009-05-26T19:35:00.001-07:00

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics' fictional character Wolverine. It was released on April 28, 2009 in the Netherlands and worldwide up to May 1 2009. The film is directed by Gavin Hood and stars Hugh Jackman as the title character, along with Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, will.i.am, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch and Ryan Reynolds. It is a prequel to the X-Men film trilogy and is primarily set roughly ten to seventeen years before the film X-Men. The plot focuses on the violent past of mutant Wolverine - his time with Team X, meeting with Colonel William Stryker, the bonding of Wolverine's skeleton with the indestructible metal adamantium during the Weapon X program, and Wolverine's interactions with other mutants, specially a complex relationship with his brother Victor Creed. The film was mostly shot in Australia and New Zealand, with director Hood getting into conflicts with Fox's executives during production.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released to mixed reviews; critics praised Hugh Jackman's performance, but considered the film and its screenplay uninspired. It opened at the top of the box office, grossing $85 million domestically on the opening weekend, and has grossed over $300 million worldwide.

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Film FireProof (2008)

2009-05-26T19:23:00.000-07:00

Fireproof is a 2008 American Christian drama film by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sherwood Pictures. Stephen Kendrick directed the film, and co-wrote and co-produced it with his brother, Alex Kendrick. The supporting cast is made up of volunteers from Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, where the Kendrick brothers are associate pastors. The lead role Caleb Holt was portrayed by Kirk Cameron, and also starring were Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Stephen Dervan and Jason McLeod.

On a budget of $500,000, Fireproof opened in theaters on September 26, 2008, and was the highest grossing independent film of 2008, with $33,456,317 domestically. Reviews for the film were mixed, with many film critics giving generally negative reviews and Christians groups giving postive reviews. It was also released to DVD on January 27, 2009, with over $25,000,000 in DVD sales. The film also received the Best Feature Film award at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

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Kuntilanak Beranak (2009)

2009-05-26T18:11:00.000-07:00

Bimo obsession is to make the impression that an element of horror television with the concept that has not been there. Together with Mia, Aline, and they agreed akan Bobby reveals the story of a ronggeng missing. In time they will travel in search for the village where ronggeng is lost, one of their friends force them to participate. Finally, they all agree to come with them Dea.
In the village, no one would orangpun tells about events that make it disappear ronggeng

When they decided to go home, they go in someone is dumb, who would accompany them to the home ronggeng leaders. Aline is the mother of a psychic to see there is something wrong going on Aline. Aline ask his mother not to return ketempat it. Aline tells Bimo, but does not believe Bimo. They are still investigating the documentation and make the dancers ronggeng missing. With a home owned ronggeng force, they are entering. One by one they die

Finally, Aline lived and Mia and ronggeng dancers cause of death was still a nail embedded in the body of the dancers. Difficult choices that happen to Mia and Aline when trying to save themselves, whether with dead friends and help the dancers ronggeng to be free from the pin and die quietly, or go out and find a way out of the house ....
They choose the options that are difficult, when they put the meaning of friendship in their choice ....

Film Type:
Horror
Producer:
Zainal Susanto, Se
Production:
Partner Pictures
Duration:
90 Min

Cast & Crew
Players:
Aaron Garneta
Monique Henry
Dion Wiyoko
Vikri Grace
Melinda Ismi
Director:
Ian Jacobs
Author:
Inne Damar

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