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The great thing about running movie blogs is some of the fascinatiing movies that are been released around the world and may soon head your way. South America is one continent that year after year provides movie fans worldwide with some stunning, impressive movies we could do a whole website just on south American movies but we dont have the time. But what they are very good at is creating some fantastic hig end Crime dramas and Colombia especially seems to be one of the big forerunners of the genre.
Below is an trailer forLA SANGRE Y LA LLUVIA (Blood & Rain) directed by Jorge Navas a crime drama about 2 people Jorge & Angela who meet on a rainy night both searching there reason of life. Jorge is an taxi driver distraught due to his brothers recent death to the hands of a group of criminals and Angela, an artist an anmesiac hooked on cocaine. The loniless and the void of danger caalled Bogota (Colombia) that will lead both souls to a dark redemming enounter.
If you are American and happen to be in Manhattan, NY between April 21 until May 2nd Blood & Rain will be playing at the festival, as for any cinematical release I dont have any information, check out the trailer below:
If you love all thing absurd dark and damn right obscure ala Coen Brothers you should check out the trailer below for Portugese MovieEMBARGO.
The black comedy was directed by António Ferreiraand is about a hot dog salesman with an invention thats going to revolutionize the shoe industry but he has one one problem he's stuck in his car and cant get out. The Coens would love this script but if this movie does well in its native Portugal dont be surprised if Hollywood comes knocking on the door and buys the rights to it.
enjoy the trailer which is after the offical synopsis.
Nuno is a man working at a hotdog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno tries desparately to sell his machine, obsessing for the success that would help him get the things he wants out of life. When Nuno is mysteriously confined to his car, he misses the once in a lifetime chance to finally produce his invention, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
Great Kills Roadtells the story of a mans journey to find his ex-wife and his metally handicapped son. He must go to New York City to search for her and the film shows an foreigner trying to cope with the sheer scale of New York metropolis and this I can relate to. Coming from Scotland the largest city in my country is Glasgow (1.5 million) and I have worked and travelled many times overseas and last summer I travelled to China to Guangzhou a medium sized city for the country and it was 12.5 million, 3 times biger in the whole population of Scotland!!! Its even daunting at times even going to London (which I have to go to in 2 weeks), its the small fish in a big pond! Great Kills Road is an intimate Family drama and at times feels like a documentary but the trailer below does show that but eventually the trailer does shift gears into a intriguing piece of work. The movie has been a big popular movie when it networked the Dutch Film festivals receiving very positive views, like the source of this post I have tried to get more information on the movie but have been unable to.
Great Kills Road is directed by Tjebbo Penning, check out the trailer below:
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Argentina are a country reknowned for creating many crime thriller movies by the dozen, its like the countries filmakers where born to make these movies and below is an exceptional movie called Cano Dorado(The Golden Gun).
Many Argentian thrillers seem to be very slow paced, stylish ala arthouse but Cano Dorado directed by Eduardo Pintois very much different, raw in your face and full of energy very refreshing for the country's movie industry and I would have no quarrels of watching this, great stuff.
Here's the movie's synopsis which was posted on TwitchFilm:
This is the story of Panceta, a young laborer from one of the poorer suburbs in Greater Buenos Aires. He lives with his mother, a widow, who greatly misses her husband, as does Panceta his father. Panceta's life is focused on his work: he's taken over his fathers forge, as well as working at a pipe factory. But his ambitions to make money have made him turn to manufacturing home-made guns and selling them in the outlying districts. Inexperienced and unaware of the danger, he is challenged by the local mafia.
One night when delivering his guns he meets Clara, a young girl working at the local community hall. They fall in love and decide to run away, going off in a freeing boat trip along the river. A man in love becomes an easy prey for his enemies, especially for Tacom, a powerful local mafia boss.
What had begun as a game turns grey and ever darker - the consequences are tragic and tormenting.
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When I first saw this I thought someone was taking the piss, but no SUCKjust looks a fantastically funny comedy directed by Rob Stefaniuk. Basically its a story about a failed band who will do anything to become famous and rich of course they do, they all become vampires!!!
The movie has a polethra of musical talents involved icluding Iggy Pop! Alice Cooper who just looks at home in this movie and even vegan proud Moby as a character called Beef! oh I forgot the king of modern B-Movies Malcom McDowell is in it with a great dirty eye patch, this just look silly but also a fun movie as well.
This movie debuted at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and has did the rounds at a few other festivals hopefully this year maybe the odd UK or Irish festival as well. Talking of festivals it will be one of the many movies playing at the SXSW Festival which kicked off today in Austin Texas USA.
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Above is the trailer forKenneth Bi's upcoming movie GIRL$, a movie about 4 teenage girls who get involved in prostitution for various reasons and all experiencing different outcomes. The movie tackle a subject Bi is not reknowned for working on but looking at the trailer it does look a style we expect from the director, a well made crafted movie.
The movie is to be premiered at Hong Kong Film Festival and movie is also the first serious role for Jackie Chan's son Jaycee.
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Today in Uk and Ireland movie 1 of the sucessfull Millenium Trilogy by Swedish author Steig Larsson will hit the cinemas. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a thriller about a neice of an wealthy businessman who disappeared 40 years ago and her body is never found . He hires a disgraced journalist and a ruthless tattooed hacker to investigate as he believes his neices murderer is been hidden by members of his own dysfunctional secretative family, the Vanger Clan. As the Journalist and hacker link the girls disappearance to a number of grotesque murders they unravel the dark & disgraced family, questions are asking how far will the journalist and hacker go to protect themselves.
The hacker Lisbeth Salander is played by Noomi Rapace and our good friends at Screenrush caught up with Noomi and had a chat about bringing her character to life, Lisbeths origins and having to peirced for the role.
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It was the movie name that caught my attention LIKE THE MOON ESCAPING FROM THE CLOUDS by Korean director Jun-IK Lee. The movie is an martial arts drama and when you do see the poster as well as the trailer you will automatically will think of Zaitochi as the main protaganist in the movie is a blindman with a sword. There will be some inspiration from the Japanese story but according this trailers source the inspiration comes from a Korean Manwhaa type of Korean comicstrip/manga.
Martial arts movies do have a international appeal and Jun Ik Lee wants to get more recognition for his work outside Asia and with this he has a good chance of soing so. He has already had a financial success with Wang-ui namja (The King And The Clown) now he wants worldwide recognition.
With the release of Clash Of The Titans only a few weeks away where we'll see Gemma Arterton in action but a few weeks later on April 30th Gemma will be appearance in a lesser known movie called The Dissappearance Of Alice Creed.
The movies sees Arterton as Alice a daughter of an millionaire who is kidnapped and held to ransom by 2 men played by the excellent Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes, Heartless) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Damn United). At first Alice is terrified of her captor ex-cons Vic & Danny but realisation kicks in and she knows she has to fightback in order to survive.
This little UK indie thriller is full of more twists and turns than the Amalfi Drive in Italy but what we do like about this movie is Eddie Marsan playing a sadistic evil vilian. The Disappearance of Alice Creed will be out in UK & Ireland on April 30th and check out the UK trailer and a clip below...
Offical synopsis: Two men - one in his twenties, the other nearer forty, both intensely focused on the task at hand - line the inside of a transit van with plastic. Shopping, they buy a drill, a mattress and other supplies. In a small flat they assemble a bed for the mattress and staple foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom. Then, their meticulous preparations complete, they kidnap a young woman. They drag her from the street into the back of the van and, with a bag over her head and ball gag in her mouth, take her back to the flat, tying her to the bed in the room they have converted into a prison cell.
The kidnappers are Danny (Martin Compston) and Vic (Eddie Marsan), two ex-cons planning to make a mint on the ransom for the young woman. The younger, nervier of the two, Danny defers to the more experienced Vic, who acts with a steely conviction. Their hostage is Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), daughter of a rich businessman, chosen by Vic and Danny as their passport to a better life. Terrified and immobile at first, it soon becomes clear that Alice isn't about to let her captors use her as capital without a fight. As determined to escape as Vic and Danny are to succeed, Alice enters into a battle of wills which strains the already fractious relationship between the two men. As the deadline for the exchange draws nearer, all three are brought close to breaking point, with Vic and Danny's foolproof plan descending into a desperate struggle for survival.
A taut, emotionally intense thriller, the debut feature from writer-director J Blakeson eschews genre convention, generating tension from the sexual and psychological ties that bind captive to captors. Produced by Adrian Sturges (The Escapist), the film stars Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Prince of Persia), Eddie Marsan (Happy Go Lucky, Sherlock Holmes) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road).
Found this fantastic looking animated short called VOLTAGE from Brazil's Bam Studios created by Filippe Lyra and William Paiva.
Not much information on this animationapart from first impressions a stunning visual, wonderful looking character designs and just all round brilliant story & animation by 2 talented animations. Looking at the aboive still it just looks stunning, hopefully we'll see more animation from BAM hopefully in near future, enjoy...
