15 February 2010
Trailer for British Indie post apoclayptic thriller THE LAST SEVEN
source HeyUGuys
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.
13 February 2010
Classy Crime-Noir POUTA (Walking Too Fast)
source TwitchFilm
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.
12 February 2010
The Dutch have a bad case of Ghosts in Zwart Water
source TwitchFilm
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
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 EncyclopediaHello 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
11 February 2010
Stellan Skarsgård stars as a "Gentle Man" in En ganske snill mann
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
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
source QuietEarth
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
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. - QuietearthSo 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 .
10 February 2010
THE SHOW MUST GO ON even at the end of the world
Source QuietEarth
"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?!
9 February 2010
Trailer for Simon Rumley's RED WHITE & BLUE
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
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