Friday, October 17, 2008

'Tis the Season for FRIGHTENING FILMS

October can be a spooky kind of month. Why not put a tingle down your spine with these frightful flicks:

Book Cover Bram Stoker's Dracula
By Coppola, Francis Ford
Oldman, Gary
Ryder, Winona
2008/03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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The vampire count of Transylvania seeks his lost love and the conquest of Britain by plague. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. ...More

Book Cover Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
By Branagh, Kenneth
Niro, Robert de
Carter, Helena Bonham
2008/04 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Dr. Frankenstein creates a soulless monster from cadavers and tries to hide it from his beloved. ...More

Book Cover Nosferatu
By Herzog, Werner
2001/01 - Image Ent.
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It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife, Lucy, begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale, wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula. The events that transpire slowly convinve Harker that he is in the midst of a vampyre. What he doesn't know, however, is the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of Nosferatu ...More

Book Cover Night of the Living Dead
By Romero, George
Jones, Duane
O'Dea, Judith
2008/05 - Genius Products
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People hide in a house from carnivorous walking corpses revived by radiation fallout. Directed by George Romero. ...More



Book Cover The Creature from the Black Lagoon
By Arnold, Jack
Adams, Julia
Denning, Richard
2008/07 - Universal Home Video
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Fossil hunters find, drug, lose and hunt a slimy gill-man in the Amazon. Originally 3-D. ...More

Thursday, October 16, 2008

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

High School Musical 3 is coming to theaters October 24th, but before going to the theaters check out past High School Musical films and other movies staring the cast.

Check out past High School Musical Films


Book Cover High School Musical
By Ortega, Kenny
2006/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
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The captain of the East High basketball team and the key member of the academic club shock the student body by teaming to audition for the upcoming school musical in a Disney Channel Original Movie that's all about being yourself and following your dreams. Troy (Zac Efron) is best known as the player who keeps the East High basketball team on the scoreboard. Of course, life isn't always about athletics, though, and as Troy slam-dunks on the boards, beautiful and brainy Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) is raising the reputation of East High as the key member of the school's successful academic team. Despite their outgoing natures, no one would ever peg Troy and Gabriella as theater types. When word gets out that this popular pair has secretly chosen to reach for the stars and try their luck on the stage, the students of East High are about ...More

Book Cover High School Musical 2
By Ortega, Kenny
Efron, Zac
Hudgens, Vanessa Anne
2008/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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School is out, and Troy and Gabriella are looking forward to a summer to remember, but Troy also needs to make bank so he can go to college. As it turns out, Sharpay, the self-proclaimed primo girl of East High, has her eye set on primo-boy Troy, and gets him a job at the country club her parents own. It looks great for Troy when Gabriella and the rest of the Wildcats are hired also, but when he gets preferential treatment from the club manager and others, it puts all of his relationships in hot water. ...More


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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

New Quick Flicks for the week of 8/12/08

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
By Spielberg, Steven
2008/08 - Paramount
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Hollywood icon Harrison Ford returns to the role of the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones nearly 20 years after he last donned the famous fedora and bullwhip to save the world from imminent peril. ...More

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War, Inc.
By Seftel, Joshua
2008/10 - First Look Home Entertain
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Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in War, Inc ., a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter in check. ...More

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
By Mungiu, Cristian
2008/10 - IFC Films
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In the last days of communism in Romania, Gabita, a young college student, wants to end her unplanned pregnancy. With the help of her best friend, fellow student Otilia, she seeks an abortion, illegal under the oppressive Ceaucescu regime. ...More





Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The International Documentary Association's picks for the 25 best documentaries of all time.

Book Cover Hoop Dreams
By James, Steve
2005/05 - Criterion
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This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA. ...More

Book Cover The Thin Blue Line
By Morris, Errol
2005/07 - MGM
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Errol Morris sets out to prove that a convicted hitchhiker did not kill a Dallas policeman in 1976 - and that the lowlife that fingered him did. Based on a true story. ...More

Book Cover Bowling for Columbine
By Moore, Michael
Moore, Michael
Clark, Dick
2008/01 - Tcfhe/MGM
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Activist filmmaker Michael Moore explores the reasons behind the high rate of gun-related violence in America in this critically-acclaimed, award-winning documentary. ...More

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New Quick Flicks for the Week of 10/7/08

Book Cover Before the Rains
By Sivan, Santosh
2008/09 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Set in exotic southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter (Linus Roache) falls in love with his alluring servant (Nandita Das), an idealistic young man (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past. Loyalties are tested and destinies decided as two worlds collide in this powerful and unforgettable drama. ...More

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Finding Amanda
By Tolan, Peter
2008/09 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
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Taylor Peters (Matthew Broderick) is a television writer and producer whose compulsive gambling, recreational drug use and drinking problem are jeopardizing his career and marriage. In a desperate attempt to save his marriage to Lorraine (Maura Tierney), he sets of to redeem himself by bringing home his 20 year old niece (Brittany Snow) who is living in Vegas and working as a prostitute. While there, he vows not to gamble a cent or drink a drop of alcohol. Alas the best laid plans... ...More

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The Happening
By Shyamalan, M. Night
2008/08 - 20th Century Fox
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An environmental crisis emerges that threatens to wipe out all of mankind. When people begin dying, Elliot Moore and his estranged wife, Alma, try to escape the unstoppable destroyer. As chaos spreads across the entire planet, Elliot and Alma struggle to figure out what is happening. ...More

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The Promotion
By Conrad, Steven
2008/09 - Weinstein Company
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Hoping to buy a house, grocery store assistant manager Doug applies for the manager's position at his chain's new location. Doug feels confident about getting hired until recent Canadian arrival Richard applies for the same job. In order to secure the coveted promotion, the competing employees go head-to-head in minor battles, often resorting to cruel behavior. ...More

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Taxi to the Dark Side
By Gibney, Alex
2008/09 - Velocity Thinkfilm
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Just days after an Afghan taxi driver picked up three passengers and never returned home, he wound up dead at Bagram Air Base, killed by injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers. Interviews, news footage and firsthand reports provide a gripping look at the case and the Bush administration's policy on torture. ...More

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The Visitor
By McCarthy, Thomas
2008/10 - Overture Films
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Widowed professor Walter Vale discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek and Zainab, squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped up in their lives when Tarek is thrown into a detention center. ...More

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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
By Dugan, Dennis
2008/08 - Sony Pictures
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Zohan is an Israeli counter terrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything—including faking his own death and going head to head with an Arab cab driver—to make his dreams come true. ...More