TIFF 2010:Trailer For Koen Mortier's 22ND OF MAY

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Koen Mortier made a name for himself with his debut movie EX-Drummer a movie about disabled guys creating a  rockband who hire a local writer to play drums and all there new drummer can do is manipulate them. The movie gots a massive cult following worldwide and rightly so and now the Belgium director is back with a more shattering  movie 22 MAI (may) which is due to have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
The movie centre's arounda security guard called sam who is a guard at a small shopping mall that becomes a victim of a terrorist explosion, its a more somber affair than Mortier's previous movie and I really love the slow motion of the trailer as when life changing events happen they happen fast and reality doesn't sink in but if slow things down you start to get a feel of whats just happened! Check out the first trailer after the break...

... While everything around him is burning, Sam tries his best to help. He drags a woman outside against her will. She is screaming, struggling to get back inside to save her child. But Sam is already back on the scene, trying to rescue other victims, all of them just as helpless as he is. They are strewn over the floor, covered in blood, their clothes shredded to pieces, feeling utterly lost. As their cries turn into screams, Sam is overpowered by fear and panic. First there was the shock, then the realization of what happened. Without thinking, he starts to run, turning his back to the apocalyptic scene. He flees, running along the streets of a city that once felt as familiar as a friend, but now seems more like a dark monster ...

Trailer for Derek Kwok's FROZEN (Wai nei chung ching )

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First time I noticed the title of this movie I was expecting it was a Chinese remake of the Adam Green movie of the same which comes out in uk on October 1st, but this is completely different.
Derek Kwok's Frozen or Wai Nei Chung Ching is about a woman Cyronically frozen in 1989 to waken up 20 years later to find out her then newborn is older than her! We've seen many movies likes of Freaky Friday where kids swap bodies with children, but I cant recall a movie like this where the kid is now older than the parent though has been the odd time travelling classic movie such as Back To The Future where Marty meets his mum.
The movie does sound very interesting and does have the charm you expect from a chinese/hong kong movie intwined with some fantasy, I didnt expect to see those big hairstyles again (I was 14 in 1989 remember them well!!!)
Frozen is out in Hong Kong on September 2nd, trailer after the break....

Unsettling Trailer For Dutch Drama The Odd One Out (Vreemd bloed)

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About 11 years ago whilst at college I had a part time job at a well known British supermarket chain (wont name names but a tv chef in there ads likes his pukka) and how they worked and I was put in the butcher section. I really did hate cut things, blood out of the packaging and I'm not a vegetarian but the funny thing was the person I replace was a vegan! how could the girl work in such an environment!

When you watch VREEMD-BLOED (The Odd One out) who feel for Jere the youngest of a family of violent butchers, he is the odd one out, he doesnt want to be a butcher but he is forced to follow the family tradition. The whole trailer is like Jere's one big nightmare as he learns the cruelity at a young age the surreal trailer glides throug his life and after the openingyou think this will be a gorefest movie but it's not.

As they say never judge a book by its cover, trailer after the break...

Trailer For Lang & gelukkig aka HAPPILY EVER AFTER

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Above is the trailer for the crazy and surreal Dutch Comedy HAPPILY EVER AFTER (Lang & gelukkig) which is coming out in Holland around October time. The movie compiles some favourite all time fairytales such as littke red riding hood, cinderella mashes them all up for  contemporary times. The great thing is the ugly sisters are called Paris( &) Hilton, and bundles of corny humour with the music scenes have the characters singing current pop song & dutch hits, this is one crazy,crazy,crazy mucked up movie but we like it here at Cinehouse HQ!!!
just watch the trailer, mybe these parody movie directors should watch for some tips!!!

Brandon McCormack's Heartless:The Story of The Tinman Short Film

Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

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Found this beauty of a movie short at LiveForFilms site and its called HEARTLESS:THE STORY OF THE TIN MAN written&directored by Brandon McCormick . You think you may know the story of the Tin Man as in the character from Frank Baum's Wizard Of Oz, well watch this movie, its a retelling of a background story of the tin man very tragic emotional one of when the tin man was in love, human and had a heart. Very simple but also very dark caold story of a poor woodsman who wanted to marry a maiden of a wealthy family, movie has been realeased by Whitestone Motion Pictures.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Japanese TV Spots & Trailer

O.T.T Mutant Mayhem with Trailer to Benny Chan's CITY UNDER SEIGE

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When I think of Hong Kong Movies I think of good old fashioned crime/gangster thrillers like HardBoiled (John Woo) but I would never think I would see Hollywood style big action flicks with mutants that look like there in joke sumo sponge suits or if you pull at their arms & legs they'll be a stretch Armstrong. Well Benny Chan has went old school back to the 1980's eploitation  style movie with his new 70million Yuan blockbuster CITY UNDER SIEGE.
This movie does look like something out of a Spiderman or X-Men comic book and I beleive they where Chan's inspiration for the movie which can be described as over the top mutant action flick. They dont want to rule the world these mutants they just want to rob a bank and scary the living crap out of Hong Kong city whilst they do it!
I have to say this looks cheesy but fun! starring Aaron Kwok, Wu Jing, Colin Chou and Shu Qi the movie is scheduled for release in Hong Kong/China on August 6th, trailer after the break...

Classic Anime Goes Live Action with Trailer For SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO

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Unless you followed Anime or you can a remember a classic 'cartoon'  from your childhood called Starblazers (it's American name) you may not know about this but SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO is one of the classic 'Space Soap Opreas' and now 33years on the live action version is nearly with us and below is its first full trailer.

Takashi Yamazaki  will be a rich rich man as Yamato is so sacred to the Japanese like Coronation Street here in the UK, but like any national treasure you have to treat it with respect and make sure you dont spoil it.

The creators behind this movie are going big style on the special effects and what we see from the footage I'm mighty impressed! This will be a blockbuster movie in Japan and there lead been fromJapanese pop phenomenon SMAP, Takuya Kimura. 

For those not familar with Yamato you can look at it like a old school Battlestar Glactica but more darker as well as grimer.Check out the trailer after the break and this movie is heading for a December 1st release in Japan and due to the cult status the animation has in the West I do think we'll see a big following here as well.

English Subtitled Trailer for Go Shibata's DOMAN SEMAN

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This trailer is bordering on full on weirdness but we love that sort of movies here at Cinehouse HQ! DOMAN SEMAN is the lastest movie from Gô Shibata (Late Bloomer), well it actually I think its already been out in its native Japan but it'll premiere at next month's Asian Film Festival in New York on July 5th.

Doman Seman revolves around a lazy no-gooder Shinsuke and his homeless mushroon eating friend Tsutomu who are enlisted by a magical spirit who presents himself as Mr.Abe the Yakuza magican to do battle against the evil & greed of modern society. Mr.Abe with his new 2 recruits along with an army of pyshic children must track down a man who tracks dark energy down to a murder this man commited when he was a teenager.

Very bizzare, symbolistic even a little occult here Shibata say's he was inspired by the works of David Lynch (yes obscure) and Spanish  Alejandro Jodorowsky  to create his magical world of realism,mmm!

Check out the trailer after the break...

Trailer For ECILA, Alice aint in wonderland just grindhouse Noir!

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After easter pathetic Tim Burton Alice In blunderland movie I went off Alice as well as Tim Burton movies, theres always a new adaptation of the movie happening somewhere nothing original about it. However if you where approached with a version which goes in a direction you would never think of what would you do? Check it out!!!
Ecila is that adaptation which takes the main elements of Alice pushes the story into modern times, throws in some grindhouse fantasy film noir and we get one fine piece of indie film making!

Ecila will be premiered at Haiwaiian Film Festival in October, you can check Ecila's theatrical trailer below.....

Trailer For Chinese Anime KSITIGARBHA

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China isn't renowned for been a centre of producing animation,thats animation in the same frame and to the same qaulity as there neighbours Japan . Every so often there always comes a project which could match that qaulity of the Japanese anime masters and below theres a trailer for a movie that could be one of those projects, its called KSITIGARBHA.
The movie has been directed by Wu Hanqing and will be released by Beijing based animation house Vasoon. Visually it does look it does look really great, wait until half way when the action kicks in, the only doubt I have in this movie is the actual story is it good enough as you know a good story is usually a good movie (well 75% of the time!). There's a biggest religious feel to the movie especially Bhuddism  definately one of caution, I would love to get my hands on this movie and many other movies but Im only a blogger!
check out trailer after the break...

10-10-10 The World will become a dark place, Trailer for DARK WORLD 3D

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3D Seems to be everywhere personally I dont see the fantastic experience's we keep hearing about, maybe I've just chosen the worst movies to sample the '3-d' experience or I just the film studio's ploy to rip us all off more especially when the standard ticket is very pricey, I'm not paying £10 plus £3 for the glasses, anyway thats off my chest! Below is the first full trailer for Russian 3D Fantasy DARKWORLD.

The movie will be the first 3D Russian movie with real actors in it which sees a group of students awake some ancient magical being whilst on a antropoligist exepidition. Confused dot com here folks there also something about a meteorite shield as well and I know I had a dig at 3d as im not yet conviced after 5 3d made movies but watching this trailer I think we can it does look better if it's in 3d instead of 2d (reality).
have a gander let me know what you think....

A GIANT animation short

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I was a bit unsure how to give this post a title without giving it a dodgy title which sounded like a punt, anyway below is a sweet , simple short animation called GIANT. The movies are only about minute or more long and are part of a series which takes us through the world of giants with a few untold truths & conflict.
Each episode will focus on a different giant and so nice to see something thats kind to the eye, series created by Yann Benedi enjoy...

A New Trailer For Studio Ghibli's Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers)

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About 20  years ago its summer morning I get up switch on television I watch this animation which  just stunned me, beautifully drawn, well crafted story which memorised me and it wasn't until about 10 years later did I realise that animation I was watching was Laputa:Castle In The Sky. That day I woke up to Japanese animation and the magic of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
Anytime Anything new from Studio Ghibili is always worth a look and even when someone asks me 'Disney or Ghibili?' always Ghibli! Earlier in the year I posted the first teaser for Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers) and now another teaser trailer has appeared online. The movie is based on Mary Norton's The Borrowers classic story and the story is based around a family of tiny people who live hidden in a normal humansize house  surviving of 'borrowed' or discarded items.
The movie has been scheduled for a July 17th release in Japan but as for rest of the world no word yet but if they follow what they did for previous releases it could anything from next few months upto 2012 at least for UK & Ireland.

Tell us what you think of the trailer, what it after the break....

Watch The Beautifully Stunning TUNGIJUQ Short

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I trained to be a graphic designer and even though I never took the career up (simply due to lack of money to finish my university) I still have that creative eye and ocassionally create something graphically, but having that eye for detail I caught thisTingijuq

THE ROMANTIC - an Tim Burton/Edgar Allan Poe inspired animation

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If Tim Burton met Edgar Allan Poe down a dark alley and decide to create a animation THE ROMANTIC would be there outcome. The movie is directed (and written) by Michael Heneghan and if you happening to be in Boston today or on Tuesday you can check out the world premier of this at the Boston Underground Film Festival.
 Read the Synopsis and check out the trailer below;

The curious citizens that inhabit the wondrous land of Vauxhull believe the universe to be governed by four gods. There’s Po, the flirtatious and free spirited Goddess of Love; Pik, the macabre Lord of Hate; and Pjorrc, the God of Time, who diabolically plots over the earth from his clockwork fortress on the moon.



Lastly, there is Obble-Dee-Puh Puh, the God of All Gods and Creator of All Things. The shrouded king who sits comfortably upon a throne of ascendancy, controlling the destinies of all living things. Men live their lives whilst the gods provide them with the means to make them extraordinary. And there is balance.


But within this mythological world of autumn landscapes and peculiar creatures, a heartbroken young Romantic swears a vicious oath to free the human race from the omnipotent control of the otherworldly gods. Blaming the divine forces for the loss of a past love, Romance embarks on a vengeful showdown with the Holy Host. Along the way he befriends Patience, a crackpot alcoholic who fulfills the role of mentor to Romance’s hero. Together the two traverse the lands, romancing women and hunting the divine.


But the Gods have their own agendas, and some are more willing to part with their lives than others. As the romance enfolds, a macramé of horri c causality materializes, tying the major players together in a net of family relationships and betrayal. Elsewhere, a monstrous religious zealot by the name of Fat Daddy manipulates the human race into following his royal son and their conservative manifesto entitled The Poetic End. As Romance and Patience’s journey continues, it becomes more and more evident that the world is changing and there are forces both human and divine that will stop at nothing to determine the shape that this new world will embrace.

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The Romantic - First Trailer from Michael P. Heneghan on Vimeo.

Alice &the White Hair Short - Wyatt Dennys vision of the classic Lewis Carroll story

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If you are like myself very dissappointed on the recent Tim Burton version of Alice In Wonderland maybe this will cheer you up, well for the adults. Wyatt Denny has created a independent short where The Mad Hatter and co have been replaced sex,drugs and Russian Roulette in Alice & The White Hair.
Alice is now a callgirl and walkouts of clubs with guys who look like something out of a marylin manson video, The tea party is now a crazy game of Russian Roulette!!! This is an stylish, contemporary modern twist to the classic Lewis Carroll story, come to think of it the original was a bit of a strange affair as well!!!
Visually this is good stuff plenty of eye candy plus full of up to date effects which dont overstate the movie but just blend in nicely. This movie is 15 minutes long and does suit the style of this adaptation, so enjoy!!!


Alice & The White Hair A Film By Wyatt Denny from David Myrick on Vimeo.

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.

A new Teaser Trailer for Luc Besson's Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

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Via Allocine (Screenrush'sFrench  big brother) the second teaser trailer for Luc Besson's  Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec has debuted online.
In the first teaser trailer we didnt see Adele herself but now we get our first opportunity to see her, played by the beautiful looking Louise Bourgoin. Based on the popular French comicbooks by Jacques Tardi the movie follows the adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec a young roving reporter who will go to any lengths to achieve her aims. Taking on the Egyptian mummies, the police, monsters and other distractions including a prehistoric pterodactyl which you see glimpse of in the trailer. This is big blockbuster movies French style !
Apart from the director Luc Besson , Mathieu Amalric is known to British/Irish movie fans through his time with Steven Spielberg's Munich also Qauntim of Solace and more recently Mesrine movies.
No dates of when this will come to UK and Ireland but this monster of a movie will be out in France on April 14th, hopefully we can enjoy it no long after that!

Is this Willy Wonka reincarnated as a skater? MACHOTAILDROP Trailer