A Prophet sweeos the board at the French Film Awards

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over the weekend in France was the Cesar Awards one of the countries leading Film awards ceremonies. Like in the Bafta's in UK there was one movie that swept the board and it was Jacques Audiard’s A PROPHET.
On the night the prison drama won a total of nine awards including best picture, director, original screenplay, cinematography also star of the movie Tahar Rahim picked up 2 for best actor and most promising actor awards. The movie was up for a amazing 13 awards losing only 4 of the awards which is an fantastic achievement for any movie of any size or country.
The 9 awards rounds off a wonderful 12 months for  Audiards movie when it comes to winning trophies ,having already scooping  the Grand Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, plusfor best director (Jacques Audiard), best actor and breakthrough actor (Tahar Rahim), best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup), Best Screenplay (Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit), best cinematography (Stephane Fontaine), best editing (Juliette Welfling), and best art direction (Michel Barthelemy). With the Oscars only 7 days away winning the best foreign movies would be the ultimate prize.

In the  Best  Foreign  Movie Award (Non-French movie) Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino won the award over Avatar, Milk, I Killed Your Mother, Wite Ribbon, SlumDog Millionaire and Town Called Panic. Here's the full winners list:

Best Film
“A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Director
Jacques Audiard, “A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Actor
Tahar Rahim, “A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Actress
Isabelle Adjani, “Skirt Day” (La journée de la jupe)
Best Supporting Actor
Niels Arestrup, “A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Supporting Actress
Emmanuelle Devos, “In the Beginning” (A l’origine)
Breakthrough Actor
Tahar Rahim, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Breakthrough Actress
Melanie Thierry, “One for the Road” (Le dernier pour la route)

Best First Film
“The French Kissers” (Le beaux gosses), Riad Sattouf, Anne Dominique Toussaint
Best Original Screenplay
“A Prophet” (Un Prophete), written by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Mademoiselle Chambon”, written by Stephane Brize & Florence Vignon,
Best Foreign Film
“Gran Torino,” directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary
“Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno,” directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea
Best Original Score
Armand Amar, “The Concert” (Le Concert)
Best Cinematography
Stephane Fontaine, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Best Editing
Juliette Welfling, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Best Art Direction
Michel Barthelemy, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Best Costume Design
Catherine Leterrier, “Coco Before Chanel” (Coco avant Chanel)
Best Sound
“The Concert” (Le Concert)
Best Short Film
“C’est gratuit pour les filles,” directed by Claire Burger & Marie Amachoukeli

Blog Update

hello all and once again many thanks for all your support for my blog. I know there's been certain things taking a little longer than expected like the menu and the blogs other pages, I wont bore you with excuses but apoligies for taking forever. I thought I would let you know that today and this week I will be working on those pages and hopefully this time next week they will look a lot better than before. I am also considering rechanging the look of this blog again maybe in line with the other pages as I had add the pages in manually usung outside free webhost, but ill let you know later. So check out the other pages other the next week or two.
Well today is the end of the glasgow international film festival with the world premiere of LEGACY a indie thriller starring The Wire star Idris Elba as an ex black-ops soldier returning home full of redemption of a botched up operation in eastern europe and finds himself stuck in a rundown Brooklyn motel. Funnily enough the movie was mostly shot in Glasgow, Scotland simply due to the movies studio been based there, I was unable to get a press pass for the premiere, though ill try see if I can get a screener and review it. The movie was directed by nigerian born Londoner Thomas Ikimi and I this years festival has been an overall sucess. In its 6th year its sales figures have went from 6,000 to over 25,000 which is absolutely fantastic as this festival is not regarded as one of the big ones though give it a few years and the festival will breathing dow the neck of its neighbouring city (only 36 miles away) Edinburgh which is regarded as a big festival.
Overall ive been able to see some great movies on the screen or through screeners and i've been able to see scottish premiere of Gentleman's bronco, heartless also Until The Light Takes us, Kakera, Evagellion 1.0, Frozen (european premiere) Whip it, Bad Lieutenant which will be reviewed over the next week or two and you'll the reviews here and on the peoplesmovies blog.

Indie Hit Thriller DON MCKAY gets trailer

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Last years Tribeca Film Festival there was an hit and that was the indie thriller DON MCKAY. The movie stars
Thomas Haden Church a high school janitor who returns home 25 years later after receiving a letter from ex-girlfriend Elisabeth Shue stating she is dying. When he returns everything isn't what it seems and gets more than he bargains for.
In the USA the movie possinly will be called The Moment Of Truth but whatever its called its an debut release Jake Goldberger an darkly comic affair which will be released in April by Image Entertainment. As for any chance of an release in UK & Ireland there's no information but a trailer is now here and you can watch it below.

SXSW 2010: Equestrian Sexual Response teaser trailer

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Below is an a teaser trailer for a short film Equestrian Sexual Response which is a movie short about a young girl called Molly and her awakening to puberty. In this world her closest friend is her horse Red  at her father's stable and she returns home from school to find that her dad has got a an stud horse to impregenate Red and she arrives in shock to see it happening. This is Molly rude awakening as well graphic introduction to the birds and the bees which she cannot decipher and as her family life collapses around her there's a whole new ball game called life awaiting ahead of her.

The trailer is crafted well and show's youngsters find out about lifes tribulations in many varied ways but as we all know we've got learn about the birds and the bees one day. The movie has been directed by Zeke Hawkins and Zeke has created a fairly decent adaptation of the Courtney Stephens screenplay which you can enjoy during March's SXSW festival in Austin Texas. 

Jean Reno looking back at his best with L'IMMORTEL (22 BULLETS) Trailer

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 Jean Reno was to introduced to Hollywood in 1994 when Leon (The Professional) and also introduced Natalie Portman. Like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Jean Reno & Luc Besson seem to have a similar connection of seeming to work together very  well, so after several years of not working together and both people seemed to have went different directions. As Reno's career seem to be going knowhere like many big foreign stars these days.
Like Jackie Chan, Jean Reno has went back to his roots and working again with Besson though it be in his production studio Europa Corp and L'IMMORTEL (22 BULLETS). It puts Besson back in the lead as Charly a Ex-Marseille Mafia who went  straight for 3 years living a quite life with family & wife, but one day he was left for dead with 22 bullets in his body.  There's only one man who would have any reason to kill him was Tony Zacchia and he's made one mistake thats not kill him.
Below is the theatrical trailer for the movie and with it been released by Europa Corp there's a great chance the movie will be released in UK & Ireland through the arthouse cinemas. As for release date it'll be released March 24th in Belgium and France.

Dead Sno directors new flick...Kurt Josef Wagle And The Legend of the Fjord Witch,

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You wonder if the nazi-zombie horror Dod Sno (Dead Snow) wasn't a hit would we have been blessed with crazy mad world of  Tommy Wirkola? probably not. We've had Tomme Toner a gangster spoof and now we have Kurt Josef Wagle And The Legend of the Fjord Witch.
This is a spoof piss take mocumentary taking the rip out of the current trend of Paranormal Activivty/[REC]/Blair Witch project movies, the one person shooter movies. When you see the name of the movie the biggest clue is there is a mock and boy Tommy know how to make these look so good even when the above trailer is not subtitled! It was done on the cheap as well as quickly but we dont care this looks fun!

Lena Dunham's TINY FURNITURE Trailer

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I can sort of relate with Aura the main protaginist in TINY FURNITURE, just finished college/university got a degree you return home hopefully start a newlife . Things aren't going great at home with your artist mum & teenage sister but most off all no job abd no friends. I went down to england to manchester to university get a degree then when things were over I went home, no job,  and who where my friends had there own lives things moved on, bored and getting on everyones nerves.
Tiny Furniture is written, directed and stars Lena Dunham plays Aura and the film starts at a critical stage of her life stuck  no direction and very unhappy. Believe it or not her on screen mum and sister are her realife family so you can say this is a "real-life" tragic-comedy drama. What I do like about this is it publicises our lives seemed by ruled by the social networks of youtube, facebook, twitter, then again this blog wouldn't exsist!
The reason for the SXSW logo is that I could find a photo for this movie and the movie is been played at the festival which takes place in Austin, texas USA starting on March 12th.

MICMACS: Jean Pierre Juenet Interview

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Only a few days left of the Glasgow Film Festival despite my disappointment of myself unable to get to see majority of the movies I wished to see I have to say it has been a fantastic festival .The festival kicked off big style with MICMACS directed by Jean Pierre Juenet and some of you will know who he is others maybe not.
French director has brought us some eccentric but wonderfull movies that have grace the cinemas in his native country along with around the world, movies like Amelie, A Long Engagement, Delicatessen, City of The Lost Children and oddly enough Alien Ressurection his only break into Hollywood.
His latest Movie Micmacs follows the story of a man called Brazil who watches a drive by gang shooting which nearly ends in tradegy for him when a  gun from one of the gang falls to the ground and he is shot in the head. After recovering Brazil with his oddball selection of friends create a plan to destroy the 2 weapons manufacturers involved in the gangwar.
Our good Blog buddy friends at Screenrush caught up with the director and had a little chat about his new movie and you can watch the video interview below and under that is the UK trailer for the movie as well.

More about this movie

trailer for Russian Artic Drama Kak ya provyol etim letom (How I Ended This Summer)

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Below is an trailer for the Russian movie Kak ya provyol etim letom  (How I Ended This Summer).

The movie is directed by Aleksei Popogrebsky and was one of the many premieres shown at the Berlin Film Festival this year and because of that the trailer below has English Subtitles.
The movie is about A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere.

This is movie is on the borderline of nearly been a thriller due to its edginess but what ever you grade it does look good. I dont have any information on when the movie will be out in Russia or even if it'll get any play outside Russia either. 

Survive the wilderness if you can in DEADFALL TRAIL

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Its like the old song "When you go into the woods your in for a big surprise!" and this is what you could say about Roze's new indie Horror-Thriller DEADFALL TRAIL.
Below is an clip and trailer for this movie which seems to be a survival of the fitest in the woods, blood, guts and all. Too much scary stuff happening in the woods always best to stick to mass populated areas (though if it was a zombie flick I would chance it in the woods!!).

Check out the trailers and the movies website, this movie looks scary but great stuff!

Synopsis:
John, Julian and Paul enter the Kaibab National Forest for a three-week survival trip and peyote vision quest. The only items they take with them are a knife, a bottle of water and a garbage bag each. A week into their journey a disastrous turn of events changes everything and the men are forced toultimately confront the darkest corners of their morality and mortality. Battling the elements and each other, the quest becomes make it out of the forest alive.- source offical website

Bloodbath from copper|post on Vimeo.


Deadfall Trail "Trailer" from copper|post on Vimeo.

English trailer for Koji Masunari's WELCOME TO THE SPACE SHOW

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Sometimes in Festivals the Youth movie section can sometimes be more appealing than the main part of the festival and Berlin Festival was no different. Like the Glasgow festival Japanese movies has played a big part of Berlin's festival and one of those movies is by Koji Masunari and his latest project a family sci fi adventure animation WELCOME TO THE SPACE SHOW.
Read the synopsis and then enjoy the trailer which has english subtitles.

synopsis:A tiny mountain village in a remote woodland region. Five primary school kids have come together in this idyllic spot in order to spend their summer holidays at a camp. At first the children enjoy carefree days amidst unspoiled nature far away from adult supervision. But their life changes dramatically when they come across what they believe to be a small dog, badly in need of help. The creature - known as Pochi - turns out not to be a dog at all but an alien on an important mission. It seems there is a mysterious substance on earth that is coveted throughout the universe. Pochi had almost found it but was so badly injured during a fight that he had to give up his search. Thanks to the children's help, the alien survives - and decides to reward them generously. "Where would you most like to travel?" is the question Pochi puts to his rescuers. Their answer is prompt, if vague: "As far as possible!" Pochi suggests they try the moon first of all, and so, the alien whisks away the kids to the satellite next door. This marks the beginning of an absolutely amazing adventure. During the course of their travels they discover that the substance coveted throughout the universe is in fact also integral to Japanese cuisine - and it just so happens that one of the kids has some of this mysterious substance in his pocket. - taken from Twitchfilm post 

Trailer for sleek indie cyberpunk movie FRAME 137

Frame 137 Teaser from Judd L. Tilyard on Vimeo.

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Above is the new trailer from Judd Tilyard's new cyberpunk flick FRAME 137. This sci-fi movie is based on a story created by The Crow creator James O'Barr  (with his permission) which was first seen in the comic book Dark Horse Presents.

This movie has been created in a way you dont see much of these days in cinemascope (or a Lomo Anamorphic Lens camera) and amazingly made over just a weekend. The movies main protaginist is 10 year old Sam Ransom  playing Johnny Z  and amazingly did all his own stunts including the wire work & fire breathing. This is only a minute long teaser and you can see the many inspirations this movie has been inspired by: The Matrix, Equillibrium and I even see elements of the classic Anime Trigun as well.

As for release info, there's nothing yet, there's not even word it will be released  which means it'll more likely to travel around this years festivals.

Aussie Black Comedy MONGREL'S CREED trailer

Mongrel's Creed Trailer 2009 from lulabelle on Vimeo.

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Here at Cinehouse HQ we do love our movie/animated shorts of all genres but I know its silly but when a short is as 11 minutes long do you need to make an trailer? why not just post the whole short? I appreciate movies of all lengths have to be promoted so whats this one all about?

Mongrels Creed is set in the future in the dark depths of an rehab centre and the hero of the short Gravel must approach his superior officer Mr Cod and persuade him not to let his friend from been reprogrammed. The movie has been directed by Tom Noakes with the backing of the Australian Film/Televison and Radio School and we have to agree this ones a topper!!!!

Trailer for Spanish Chiller Juega Conmigo (Play With Me)

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Above is the trailer for Spanish Juega Conmigo (Play With Me) directed by Jorge Jaramillo and Luis Fernando Mora. There's not alot of information on this movie apart from the little info Dread Central (who also struggled) could get. This creepy indie flick is about an very disturbed killer who has an mentality of an child, though its not alot sometimes litttle tidbits can just be as good as getting everything on a plate at once, it keeps the curiousity going.
I have no idea of when this movie will be out but I'll assume it will be sometime 2010 and if we're to go by the horror/thriller movies from Spain thats gone by Im sure this one will be a cracker!

SXSW '10 Swiss Sci-Fi getting royal teatment at fest, watch trailer

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Here's some news from QuietEarth for any sci-fi fans going to next months SXSW festival in Austin Texas. Swiss Sci-fi movie CARGO will be getting its American Premiere at the festival either 17th or 18th March in the festivals "Spotlights Premieres" which means you will watch it in the cinema's biggest screen.
According to Quiet Earth this movie deserves the big screen treatment and looking at the trailer I have to agree.

synopsis:Since the organically collapse of the earth, the largest part of humanity in that lives all, in yard less overfilled room stations.  The single hope to escape this chaos, is RHEA, a heavenly planet, 5 light years of the earth removes.
The story of CARGO plays on the come down room freighter KASSANDRA, on its way to the remote station 42: The young doctor Laura is as only awake on board.  The remainder of the garrison: deep-frozen in the cold sleep.  Laura will have overcome not until four months its long layer.  During its daily control gears through the ghostly empty ship, Laura has more and more the feeling to not to be alone on board.  A reconnaissance mission in the dark and icy freight room ends in a fiasco.  The remainder of the garrison is woke.  A Katz- and mouse game begins, in which is nothing so, how it appears.  What do the mysterious freight containers and who conceal or what yet on board is?  - taken from movie website

The Exploding Girl Trailer

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Below is the trailer for Bradley Rust Gray's THE EXPLODING GIRL, a coming of age tale of  Ivy a young girl who suffers from Epilepsy but is struggling to have feelings for her boyfriend. To make matters worse her friend Al decides to crash and stay with her.

The trailer is wonderfully shot and protrays the worries of life as an young adult and during last summers festivals it did get positive reviews from all who seen it. I dont know if they'll be an UK/Irish release via the independent cinemas but there will be a limited release in USA from March 12th.

Is this Poland's version of Eternal Sunshine?? WJONA POLSKO-RUSKA trailers

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The source of this trailer describes this movie WJONA POLSKO-RUSKA (Snow White and The Russian Red) as Poland's version of Eternal Sunshine of The Mind, Im unsure. First impressions from the poster I think more like an Trainspotting esque movie but as they say never judge a book by its cover, so you have to say the basis of the story is where the Eternal Sunshine links come from.

This movie tells the story of Silny a hardline nationalist who is anti semtic, racist and a homophobe whose girlfriend leaves him but he soon meets up with satanist Angela. the duo hang around drug dependant nobodies in a environment which can only be described as nihilistic.

The movies story comes from 18 year old writer

Dorota Maslowska who has caused a big stir with his novel simply due to the content and the movies leading character's stance of life. Anyway watch the trailers and you can decide for yourselfs.

Benjamin Heisenberg’s DER RAUBER Trailer

source QuietEarth 

DER RAUBER (The Robber) is the second full length feature from new German director Benjamin Heisenberg and stars Andreas Lust as Johannes Rattenberger in a true story of an Athelete who became obbessed with robbing banks as a "hobby".

Even during robberies he still thinks like an athelete by measuring his heart rate, stamina and efficiency. Even hidding his passion from his girlfriend  he needs to get his regular fix of heists but he has no goal and like an athlete he must always be alert and on the go.

Like our source QuietEarth I dont know much about the story of Rettenberger apart from the movie is based on a Martin Prinz novel about the athlete who was knicked named "Pump Gun Ronnie". The movie is part of the Berlin International festival  which is currently happening in the city at the moment.

The movie is actually an Austrian movie and according to Imdb the movie is due to be released in Austria sometime this month so it may already be out, anyway check out the trailer below:

Trailer for British Indie post apoclayptic thriller THE LAST SEVEN

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Above is the teaser trailer for British Indie thriller THE LAST SEVEN  which stars Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Daisy Head, Sebastian Street, Rita Ramnani, John Mawson, Ronan Vibert and Danny Dyer. .

The movie is set in London after an cataclysmic event leaves only seven people left in the world (just all happen to be in London!). No one has a clue what happened and as they try to come to terms of the event  they dont realise that there's something nasty tracking them!!

Right away you can see films like I Am Legend and 28 days later  have inspired this movie and the teaser does what it does does n't give you much away. The only quarrel I have with this, is there isnt any household names with Tamer Hassan and Danny "F*****g" Dyer not really crowd pullers, but it does look ok just  just wondering how good it'll do? Possibly would do better as a TV mini/ one off drama?

The movie is the directoral debut from Imran Naqvi and I dont have a release date but Ill think it'll be very soon in UK as its advertising as winter 2010 and will probably come out as a limited release.

Classy Crime-Noir POUTA (Walking Too Fast)

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Nothing better than a old style crime drama set behind the former iron curtain, full of conspiracies, backstabbers and 'missing' persons. I have a friend who now lives in Scotland and was in Slovakia (then part of Czech Republic) and she would tell me about how bad it was and even simple things we take for granted it would have been a miracle then, so a crime genre during the cold war is perfect setting.

POUTA (Walking Too Fast) is the latest movie from Czech director Radim Spacek which is based in 1982 Czechoslovakia when the country was ruled by a totalitarian regime and Anton is an secret Police member. Bored of life, bored, uneasy of the current regime at time seen as pyschopathic he breaks the rules he has followed for many years by not as civic or political statement but a rebellious statement of boredom. Anton is also fascinated with a girl called Klara not through love but for a chanel of escape but his passion sees him up against the people he works for and works against

POUTA is out now in Czech Republic.

The Dutch have a bad case of Ghosts in Zwart Water

 

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How times to people need to be told about old houses and ghosts! ZWART WATER is an Dutch movie by

Elbert van Strien

and sees a family movie into an old b ig house which in its attic has an ghost which is attracted to the young daughter of the family and preys on her. Ok this isnt an original story the ghost thing has been done a million times but what splits good movies from bad is how they execute the story, we expect certain things with a supernatural story but the way you present it is got to be unique.

This is the first trailer for the movie and it does build up the mood and tension of the movie and even throws in a few disturbing images to start off those brown trouser moments. Zwart Water will be out on national release in Holland from March 11th.

A Single Man Review

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Here's a review I posted on my other blog ThePeoples Movies From  Travis at The Movie Encyclopedia for this review. He has done several reviews for the blog and I appreciate his contribution, As Single Man comes under the label of Independent Movie I can post on CineHouse as well. Please do check out his blog and to get there read his review and then click on the review source link.
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A SINGLE MAN

by Travis, The Movie Encyclopedia

Hello I am the movie encyclopedia and if no one else will see it, I will.

Tom Ford is a name that most women know by heart. Guys scratch there heads and gays rejoice in one of their idols. Tom Ford has been a very influential stylist and designer for a long time but everyone has to evolve. So evolve Ford did but instead of doing a runway show on Lifetime or Bravo he decided to make a movie based on an under appreciated Christopher Isherwood novel called a Single Man.

A Single Man is the story of George. It's November 30, 1962 and its the day he says he is going to commit suicide. He is a British professor who is struggling after his partner died suddenly 8 months ago. George is fixated on the past and thinks his future is an empty void. He plans on meeting with his best friend Charley for dinner buts gets sidetracked by a Spanish prostitute and a young student who becomes fixated with George.

If this film looks like Mad Men then don't be surprised when I tell you it was made with the same phenomenal production team behind it. Tom Ford financed the movie himself and hired the best people he could to help him out. It shows in everything in the film. Everything LOOKS authentic and time appropriate. Everything feels like the 60s and it adds a lot to the film. Colin Firth's George is brilliant. While Firth isn't exactly on my radar as a great actor (I did like him in Bridget Jone's Diary though) this almost totally changed my mind. His performance is deep, thoughtful and he really pulls you in with his performance. Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode add a lot to this movie as well. While both their parts are a bit smaller they do mean a lot to the plot and add some serious depth.

This film is one that is really style AND substance. It mixes all of it together to create a deep, well acted masterpiece. I recommend this to anyone who likes a little flair with their film.

MY VERDICT: OWN IT

MOVIE RATING: 4 out of 5

Stellan Skarsgård stars as a "Gentle Man" in En ganske snill mann

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Alot of people may not recognise who Stellan Skarsgard is, some of you may recognise him but may not remember what he was in. You may know him as Bootstrap Bill from Pirates of Carribbean (Wil Turner aka Orlando Bloom's screen dad) or even again as Bill from Mama Mia... aagh that guy!!!

Well he is an established actor and does alot of movies in Hollywood as well as his native tongue (well scandanavian) and here's the first trailer for his latest En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle man). The movie sees him play Ulrik a man whose just out of jail after doing 12 years for killing his wife and now out he considers either trying to reconcile with his family or go after the people who stitched him up.

Reading the synopsis from IMDB he's not a gentle man and this comedy Ill expect to have a bit of violence in it as it could be either a revenge movie or simply a reconcilation flick which could bring a few metal wounds.

The movie has been directed by

Hans Petter Moland who has been regarded as the "Ridley Scott of Norway"  though not as prolific and definitely still unknown on the international circuit though with Stellan Skarsgard (soon to be father of Thor in Kenneth Brannagh's THOR) in the movie that could all change.

Movie out in Norway on March 19th

Teaser for Turkish Big Bother inspired thriller EV

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Last year we had Deadset  UK's homage to Big Brother with zombies waiting for the contestants when they finish, a few days ago we got another spin on the Big Brother with the Coatian The Show Must Go On. And now the Turks have got in on the game with EV when a simliar type of Big Brother type show is stopped dramtically when a gunman takes the contestants hostage creating a reality hell!!!

Wow! Even though I'm glad of not having to put up with Big Brother no more its actually great we are seeing different movies/tv dramas based of the show which actually spin off the idea of how pathetic but how true to life of Big Brother is watching you.

EV is actually the name of the famous Turkish national television channel the fictional show is based on and this movie comes from the brothers Alper & Caner Özyurtlu in their directoral debut and at the looks of QuietEarth post these brothers are highly thought of in Turkey and going with what we see from the teaser Im not surprised.

Below is an trailer with English subtitles and you wont have to wait long to see this if your from Turkey as its released nationwide on February 26th.

Cigarette (Girls) Do Kill

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Not much I can say about the trailer for this arthouse fantasyesque movie. Its the future 2035 to be precise and based around Cori Dials character of Cigarette Girl.
Back early to mid last century you could go to a theatre, cinema, dance hall and you would always find the cigarette girls with there tray of cancerous kill sticks for sale. Well this is the future where smoking is completely banned apart from the smoking section, read the long synopsis from Imd and written by the movies director John Michael McCarthy:

Synopsis: In the near future laws against smoking have increased to the point where you must live in a certain part of town called the Smoking Section if want to smoke cigarettes. Once you have passed the line of demarcation you just know you've crossed the tracks because things get a little grimier, a little more industrial. The sky is a little blacker. The mood is heavier. Someone might get hurt. Cigarettes now cost $63.49 a pack, yet the money derived from this tax obviously isn't going toward this dystopian corner of the city. If you travel there to smoke or to buy (because it is also illegal to buy on the 'clean' side of town) there are several options, but the main place is the Vice Club. There you will find old fashion Cigarette Girls like our heroine with no name. The Vice Club was actually a cigarette factory built in 1935 and designed by the very best deco influenced architects. The original owners even installed a giant 50 foot long Iron cigarette on top of the building that tipped into an gigantic ashtray. One hundred years later that cigarette is cancer coated with rust but still tilts back and forth - if the wind is strong enough, making a horrible squeak on it's axis that is heard through out the city. Cigarette Girl becomes an angel of death when she stops smoking and starts killing on the third day to alleviate her acute psychological withdrawal manifested primarily by the ghost of a cowboy who is always on her back to keep smoking. Cigarette Girl would rather kill than smoke. - IMDB

There's lots of connection nowdays with smoking and prices of cigarettes so you may relate to this. No idea of release date or  where you'' see it, expect Film festivals especially ones which show more alternative movies.

Ground Control to Major ZONAD...Here's the full trailer

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Last Week we gave you the teaser trailer and this week its the full trailer for Irish comedy ZONAD .

From beyond the very limits of our imagination comes a stranger. Who is he? What is he? And why is he so thirsty? These are the very questions asked by the inhabitants of Ballymoran, a sleepy village nestled deep in the Gilhooly mountains when they discover a “visitor” in their midst. - Quietearth

So if anyone says to you Irish movies are dull think again after you see this. I do hope this gets a run in UK as its a bundle of laughs, when you can have fun and have a little pot at your nation you are game for a laugh. Zonad is got the humour that got Father Ted tv series popular in the 1990s and if you like that you'll like this.

No dates of an UK release but Zonad will be released nationwide in Ireland from March 17th .

THE SHOW MUST GO ON even at the end of the world

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"The show must go on" how many times have your heard that phrase when people put so much hard work into things and they end up in defeat or embarrasment? THE SHOW MUST GO ON is the name of Croatian director Nevio Marasovic new movie.After many years of pathetic television programme called Big Brother finished and no more Davina Macoll Marsovic had for years thought of an Big Brother inspired movie with a big budget apocalypse setting. His jaw must have dropped and heart stopped when Charlie Broker's  DEAD SET bet him to the game, which had big brother contestants surviving a zombie holocaust.

However Marasovic has went one step ahead and still have the Big Brother contestants but now they must face an all out war which looks like it'll be an Nuclear Bomb will trigger off or has already so its grim outside and time to face reality and survive. I think Deadset coming out wont ruin this movie as they only share the Big Brother part, This does look very good. Hopefully someone nice outthere could send me a screener?!

Trailer for Simon Rumley's RED WHITE & BLUE

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Below is a teaser trailer for the highly antcipated RED WHITE & BLUE by English movie director Simon Rumley. He made a movie a few years ago which the memories came flooding back, well some 'I remember watching that!' it must have been one of those 3 in the morning can't get to sleep moments lets watch Film4, that movie was The Living and The Dead . I remember it due to actor Leo Bill who I remember from 28 Days later as the silly soldier cook prviate Jones. What Ive read of this new flick Red white & Blue it sounds violent, brutal and explicit.

The movie is playing SXSW Fest  next month in Austin Texas, USA and stars
Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller and Marc Senter . Have a read of the synopsis (possibly spoilers in it) and then watch the trailer, but be warned dont watch at work or around minors or anyone who will be easily offended:

synopsis:In Austin Texas, the lives of three young people Erica, Franki and Nate intertwine in a fateful, tragic way and head down a rocky and violent road to heart-rending oblivion.


Erica (Amanda Fuller) lives rent-free in the local co-op, but spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin. Damaged, emotionally withdrawn, never really connecting with anyone, and sleeping with multiple men is just what she does until she meets the older and mysterious Nate (Noah Taylor), working in a hardware store, but with an honorable discharge from Iraq.


Despite his quiet air of danger, Nate's the only guy who doesnt seem to want to get her into bed at the first opportunity, and the two form a hesitant bond. But one of Erica's casual sexual encounters is about to bite back.


Franki (Marc Senter) is a young, hot-headed wannabe rock star trying to make it big. Looking after a sick mother and estranged from his longterm girlfriend, Franki shared Erica with his buddies one drunken evening. A shocking twist of fate is all it takes to throw his already crazy world into a spin, and in Frankis eyes there is only one person to blame...IMDB

Is Penelope Cruz feeling Melanchonic for Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia'

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Has Lars Von Trier found his leading lady for Melancholia? According to various sources from the Playlist article Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is the one.

The reports say Von Trier and his assistant Anders Refn have told Danish television they have always had Cruz on their mind and she'll lead the line in the movie which will explore the pyschological view of an disaster.

It is said the movies budget will only be around $5million mark with shooting for the movie to happen in Sweden, as in when it'll happen no one knows but it'll be sometime this year as they plan to show the movie at the Cannes 2011 festival.

The name of this movie Melancholia comes from the name of the planet which will threaten earth's existance as its looms closer to our blue little planet. 'This is going to be a pyschological drama with sci-fi elements to it'states Von Trier ' with no happy endings' he also says. This is getting me very excited as I do love science fiction and movies with a element of sci-fi and too many movies always end with a happy ending so it's going to be good to see a bad ending! if like Antichrist do expect something even more bizzare and twisted for the ending and bring the shock and excitement he brought at last years festival well we are all in for a treat.

If Penelope Cruz is going to take the part I do hope she knows what she's getting into just ask Nicole Kidman, Emily Watson, Bjork or Bryce Dallas Howard what they think none have ever returned to work for Lars Von Treir again all. Peoplem like to say we torture ourselves in certain ways to achieve certain things as in Lars Von Treir he definintely "tortures"  people but only improvised in front of the camera.

Hong Kong Rom-Com teaser LOVE IN A PUFF

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we heard about all the school fallouts with Ho-Cheung Pang on his Dream Home Horror movieset over rights, well here's the teaser trailer for the RomCom movie he made whilst he waited for the outcome to be solved, its called Love In A Puff.
Stars Miriam Yueng and Shawn Yue  who share a ciggerette during a break at work, soon as the light up a romance seems to blossom between them in the admist of loudmouth & foul mouth co-workers. With in time they seem to move away from the rest of the crowd virtually into there own alleyway and the conservation wanders into the trival matters of the bizzare group of people around them.
mmmmm, love works in mysterious ways, aaaaaggghhh!!! well I wish it would work for me minus the ciggies!!!

Theatrical Trailer for Belgium's AMER

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When I was invited to the press Launch of This years (month's) Glasgow Film Festival I was so eager to see the programme for The Frightfest @ Glasgow (UK's biggest horror/fantasy festival) apart from [Rec]2, Splice and Frozen it was that Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani's homage to all things Giallo AMER was going to get its U.K premiere as well!!!
Both directors will be attending  to present the movie and I'm still waiting on my press passess which im hoping that I get a pass to see this. Over the years Ive came to love everything Italian inspired from my best schoolfriend, to a ex-girlfriend, to the food and actually working in Sorrrento Italy as well. Through these times ive met great people as well as many movie fans more die hard than me who introduced me to alot of classic horror/thrillers I wouldnt have looked at before including Giallo. From there my passion has grown.

Amer just looks so brillant! stylish, classic but modern enough to keep any modern thriller/horror fan happy, anyway less of me read the synopsis and enjoy the trailer!

synopsis:Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her? - IMDB

Frightfest Link: FrightFest@Glasgow

Dutch Animated Short PIVOT now online

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Pivot is perfect proof that animation doesnt have to be the glizty  effexts with very detailed graphics to be visually pleasing as well as entertaining. This little short from Holland  uses minimal to great effect in details, colours, very basic but effective low-polygon style. Created by Kevin Megens, Floris Vos, Arno de Grijs and André Bergs with music sound from Alex Debicki.

The story is simple one about a man who was taking pictures and witnessed a murder happen. He also is able to get one of the killer and has to run for his life, but things turn for worse when the hunted becomes the hunter with a very dark sad ending.


Pivot from Pivot on Vimeo.

First Glimpse at Studio Ghibli’s Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers)

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Here's the new fantastic teaser trailer for Studio Ghibli’s next released project Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers).
If you know Japanese cinema you know when animation (or anime) is released its a major thing and even more when its Studio Ghibli well its even bigger!!!The animation has been directed by Studio Ghibli’s youngest ever director (36 years old) Hiromasa Yonebayashi who has worked on the work by the great master Hayao Miyazaki’s classics Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. This is his directoral debut and if this is like the studio’s other work it will do well. The animation is based on the Mary Norton Book The Borrowers with the great man himself writing the screenplay.
Miyazaki and Isao Takahata his long time friend and partner have looked at creating the book for over 40 years and it must have been a great honour for Yonebayashi when they passed the project to him.The movie is due a Summer release in its native Japan, July 17th but for UK and Ireland we will probably have to wait at least 1 year or more if we do get a cinematic release date, USA possibly less.

synopsis: 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. - imdb

KnA teaser
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Arthouse Horror in THE DEFILED

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What I love about this trailer is the retro/classic feel it has to it. Fans of cult horror movies will like the look of this movie THE DEFILED. This arthouse movie is written and directed by Julian Grant and when you look at it its like its stuck in a visual time warp between Noseferatu and Night of the Living dead, which you see in the above photo.Verbally there is only one line in the whole of the movie which is not alot as its a 100minute feature but visually and storywise its an very intriguing peice of work, the trailer is only 30 seconds long but you do get a sense of the movie is all about.

synopsis:

Set in a near distant future where an N1HI style of virus has decimated the populace, an infected man, his new-born child and an enigmatic beauty must seek food and shelter in this world-turned-wrong. - imdb 

The Defiled - First Trailer from Julian Grant on Vimeo.

Indie Sci-Fi short LEAP

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We love our short films here at Cinehouse and here's one called LEAP. This indie sci-fi short was created by Dan Gaud and this is an great little short which packs alot of punch and shows enough evidence to be good alot longer than 7 minutes.
The story is about a young who discovers he can pass into a parallel dimensions by falling from great heights. Apart from the early hiccups this little movie is an diverse solid creation, tell us what you think, enjoy...


Leap from Dan Gaud on Vimeo.