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

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