The Trailer For The Other PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Thats PA2:TOKYO NIGHT

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Welcome to the Japanese PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2(:tokyo night)! You may think its a rip-off of Oren Peli's micro-budget world hit well its not, matter of fact its sanctioned and been made side by side with its American counterpart. This isnt a Japanese remake either but a seperete story running parrell with its counterpart. In the Japanese version the story sorrounds a Japanese student who went to USA and brought back a ghost from usa unleashing it on Tokyo!
The movie is due out in December and check out the first trailer above!

Trailer For FOODLAND

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FOODLAND is a tale of supermarkets, life spiraling out of control as well as show how pathetically stupid staff can be. Quietearth describe the movie as  "a cross between a coming of ager, a small town heist film and Kids in the Hall. Which is to say it looks distinctly Canadian." Well Im not Canadian so what there sense of humour is I couldnt tell you, best thing to do is check out the trailer!

Foodland follows a naïve grocery clerk, Trevor, as his life spirals out of control when he inadvertently helps his inept manger, Ian, rob the store. When the money is lifted off Trevor and Ian, they enlist the help of Glen, a slimy, incompetent detective, to retrieve the stolen cash. But events soon go awry and Trevor must now determine friend from foe, and get the cash back before it’s too late.

How time flies its barely been 5 weeks since UK’s premiere Horror film festival Film4 Frightfest has concluded that there annual Halloween all-nighter has been annouced! The event will take place on Saturday October 30th and like as usual the Frightfest organiser never disappoint and they have a cracking all nighter lined up for the lucky individuals who’ll brave the scares that will brace the cinema screen they sit in.


This years fest has cannibal girls from a ghostbuster, flying monsters scarring the living daylights out of several youths in a small airplane, haunted house,scares in the dark depths of the reef, Japanese crime and punishment which isnt a rendition of a literature classic, warning bells and plenty more to keep scare and wide awake through the event!

So you up for a scare? The event will take place at Empire Cinema 2 in Leicester Square London and the Tickets (which cost £50) are now on general sale and like any Frightfest event they will go fast. To book call 08 714 714 714 or go online to: http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk./ For full programme and timetable log onto http://www.frightfest.co.uk/

Offical press release and movie info after the break....

UK Trailer For THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST

This should have been posted last week but I never received it via email but thanks to TrailerAddict here’s the UK Trailer for THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST the concluding movie of the exciting Millenium Trilogy created by the Late Swedish Author Steig Larrson.

I hold my hands up Ive never seen The Girl Who Played With Fire, I tried in February at Glasgow Film Festival but I was unsucessfull in getting tickets, same goes with several other movies as well so recently my introduction to the movies started with movie 2. It may have not have been the best movie to start with as its a slow burner but it was still intense and exciting and like many movie trilogies its simply setting the movie up for its big finale.I do hope to check the 1st movie out before next month when the final movie arrives on November 26th.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest was directed by Daniel Afredson and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Jacob Ericksson, Georgi Staykov and Annika Hallin.

Trailer after the break...

RAINDANCE 2010: THE LAKE EFFECT Trailer

Since the start of my two movie blogs Ive discovered a rich tapestry of fantastic independent , world cinematic movies, discovering there is life outside mainstream cinema and personally at times I prefer it to the big boys. One Film festival which kicked off tonight in London is the Raindance Fillmfest and what I love about this festival is they showcase the great indie movies in and around the UK as well as the world, the give new talent a platform to showcase themselves and they do also give the ordinary person from the street a chance to enjoy some alternative movies too.
One movie which will have its world premiere will be THE LAKE EFFECT, a new movie Coming off its win at the Moondance Film Festival in Colorado, The Lake Effect has a stellar cast including Kay Panabaker (Fame), Ross Partridge (Baghead) and UK-native Tara Summers (Factory Girl). Part of the new crop of DIY filmmakers, director Tara Miele was eight months pregnant while shooting The Lake Effect, a film about parenthood.
Below is the trailer for the movie which will kick off on October 5th and 6th at Apollo cinema London. Also below is some new images as well the movies offical press release too.A big thanks to Jennifer Westin one of the movies Producers who sent me the email containing the info in this post.

Trailer For Icelandic Movie JITTERS (Oroi)

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Icelandic Teenagers living it large in Manchester with JITTERS (Oroi), not much happens in the trailer which can be seen as a good thing as theres too many movies who have trailers who spoil everything! Sad that the movie looks at teenagers evaluting life, depression, you may cringe but too many people take there lives and this movie sort looks at the devasting effect a suicide has on friends & family.

On a trip to England, Gabriel meets Marcus, a free thinking, rebellious teenager. After returning home, it becomes clear to his family and friends that Gabriel has changed.



A series of unfortunate events causes Gabriel's best friend Stella to take her own life. Devastated by Stella's death, Gabriel falls into a black hole of despair and begins to reevaluate his life, which ultimately forces him to reveal his agonizing secret.

Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Line Up Annouced

Today the line up for one of the new international film festivals on the circuit The Doha Tribeca Film Festival annouced by the Doha Film Insistute in Qatar.

 This festival is still in its infancy when it comes to festivals as this festival is about to hold its second annual festival which will take place over 5 days at the end of October, 26th until 30th.


The line up does look very tasty with 4 world premiere’s, a host of fantastic movies feature and short length from the arabic world along with a exciting diverse World cinema programme too. The festival will open with Rachid Bouchareb’s action-thriller, Outside the Law. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII and Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader, the inspirational story about an elderly farmer in a Kenyan village who wants to enroll in a local school and learn to read, this movie will close the festival ,the film stars Naomie Harris and Oliver Litondo.

Other Highlights include Matt Reeves Let Me In, Stephen Frears Tamara Drewe and Ahmed Ahmed’s directorial debut with the documentary Just Like Us.

The Press release was quite lengthy so Ive split it up into 2 parts with the first part after the break and very shortly the second part which contains the info on the movies already annouced...

Theatrical Trailer For Award Winning Documentary MARWENCOL

Thanks to everyone keeping the faith with the blog as well the Peoples Movies, its been a hard time for all, I'm doing my best with a new job and now very limited time to post and been let down by several people who offered to help out and basically stabbed me in the back.
 There is however one person true to his word and helped me out thats Cinehouse supporter Pierre who alerted me to this, the theatrical trailer for MARWENCOL. This is a documentary is about Mark Hogancamp a man who was brutally assulted and beaten to a pulp left for dead leaving Mark with Brain damage and massive loss of memory. The documentary catalogues Mark's fascinatiing unusal road to recovery by creating 1:16 scale fictional town of Marwencol set in WW2 all created in his backyard and watching the movie you can see he has become consumed in the whole town.
The movie is also further evidence that people's road to recovery from a pyshical injury & psychological scars are different and the so called 'convental' way isn't always the answer.Marwencol is a captivating movie which you deeply connect with Mark and you do have the feeling you are on that road to recovery with him, its sad but deeply uplifting.
The movie has won numerous awards including SXSW, Cleveland, Seattle and Comic-Con Best Documentary Awards, so if thats not proof to check this out  well enough said. IFC Films will release the movie in USA on October 8th but no word on the British release, hopefully cinematically but more likely to be direct to DVD, trailer after the break....

COMING BACK VERY SHORTLY

Hey guys been a hetic few weeks for myself as ive started a new job and my time is very limited, I havent stoped the blog, in the matter of fact the blog will be getting a makeover too as the blog is 1 year old!!! Hopefully not too long before you'll see the great new look.
Soon as ive sorted my timings out ill get right onto posting trailers at the blog.

thanks for your supoort
paul

Trailer For Gao Qunshu's WINDBLAST

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Gao Qunshu's WINDBLAST is looking like a bit of a revelation as in mainland China as its seems to be the country's first action crime thriller. You might say 'Really' yes it is and if you look at it Hong Kong though now part of China has been making these type of movies for a long time whilst China has been creating more traditional, historical epics which are fantastic too.
The movies plot sees 4 detectives with an unique skill all chasing a criminal who has escaped to the desert but there not the only fours tracking the criminal he also has to contend with 2 bounty hunters as well!
The movie stars Duan Yihong, Xia Yu, Wu Jing, Yu Nan and Charlie Young with the movie hitting the Chinese cinema's from October 28th and if things go well we can expect to see this on DVD around early 2011, trailer after the break...

Trailer For The King Of Vampires

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Is this Rambo with vampires? Iwonder its a trailer or looking at the length of it a promo trailer for KING OF VAMPIRES set in the darkest realms of the Cambodian rainforests I wonder if John Rambo will be around to kick some vampire ass?
trailer after the break.....

Revenge is Sweet in The Trailer For BOY WONDER

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“Beware the Hero,” is the tagline forMichael Morrissey's first feature movie as a director since moving from Producer BOY WONDER. This isn't your caped superhero movie or even your Kick-Ass/Defendor Hero wannabe movies, this is an straight up revenge movie and our 'hero' Sean Donavan (Caleb Steinmeyer) is a student by day but Vigilante at night.
Sean when he was younger witnessed the brutal killing of his mother and he grows up obessed in finding the killer that his 'split life' of student/vigilante start to blur and both start to collide causing him problem.Great editing for this trailer ehich backflips between past and present which keep the momentum to a possible big climax.
Trailer after the break...

TIFF 2010:Trailer for Sion Sono's COLD FISH

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If you loved LOVE EXPOSURE by Sion Sono you'll love his new one COLDFISH  a 'true-life serial killer story'which is to be previewed at this years Venice & Toronto Film Festivals and early signs that this movie is one of  his best and will eventually become his best work.
Trailer after the break....

Trailer For Stylish Vietnam Thriller INFERNO

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American born Vietnamese film makerVictor Vu heads back to his cultural homeland Vietnam to create the slick thriller INFERNO.
Vu made a name for himself with Spirits which like many of his other fellow vietnamese compadres pushed his countrys film industry into the world stage.
Inferno will be out in Vietnam on September 17th, trailer after the break...

SAIGON, DISTRICT 7. Heavy rain falls from the dark sky. A car speeds across an intersection and loses control, smashing into a delivery truck. The car flips through the air and explodes in flames. The man in the car is severely burned - his face completely disfigured. To make matters worse, he suffers from amnesia and cannot remember anything before the accident.

The man wakes up several weeks later in the hospital and learns that he is MANH, a wealthy real estate tycoon with connections with politicians as well as the underground world. Later, he knows he has a beautiful wife named Trang and a man who is assumed to be his best friend named Bao. He also knows that he has business relationship with a son of a powerful mafia family named Hung. And .... there is a mysterious young girl who always follow him with strange messages.

Manh finds that he is in a mysterious journey through the connections with various characters. As the stories told by them, the secrets of his life are gradually revealed. PAST & PRESENT connects...

In the effort to get his memories and piercing his broken life back together, the ugly truths behind his true face and the secrets from the accident come to light....

TIFF2010: Justin Lerner's Sweet Romance GIRLFRIEND

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After several sucessfull short movies Justin Lerner transides into festure lenth movies and GIRLFRIEND is his first venture and he has a perfect place to premiere the movie at next weeks Toronto Film Festival.
The movie is about Evan a down syndrome man comes into some money and decide to persue his dream his old school love Candy (Shannon Woodward). Candy is a pretty girl but she does lead a troubled life , big in debt and a single mother and on the verge of been evicted Evan rescues her and Candy feels she must repay in kindness but throw in the ex-boyfriend Twilights Jackson Rathbone and a triangle develops between the three.
Automatically you think its one of those afternoon melodramas you get every day on channel 5, well it is a melodrama but Lerner takes his tv style movie to something worth checking out.
Trailer after the break....

1975 Summer Of Love, Drugs & with another Skarsgaard in BEHIND THE BLUE SKIES

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There's a few families outthere that a whole line of their family tree in the film industry with Bridges, Sheens, Baldwins and now we have The Skarsgaard family with Billy (Son of Stellan) in Himlen är oskyldigt blå behind the blue skies.
The movie is an nostalgic look at one of Sweden's Criminal scandals and Hannes Holm movie could be the next movie from Sweden to make the waves internationally.
Behind The Blue Skies will hit the Swedish cinemas from October 15th, trailer after the break...

Martin escapes his alcoholic father for the summer job of his life at the exclusive Royal Yacht Club in the idyllic archipelago of Stockholm in 1975. He meets true love for the first time and is being groomed by Gösta, a playboy in the centre of high society.  Martin is inevitably drawn into one of the greatest scandal of all times in Swedish crime history.

Trailer For Mexican Western CHICOGRANDE

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To be honest Im not and never really been a western movie fan, ive tried and even the more modern day one I really cant get into but I can see how people love them like Felipe Cazals' western drama Chicogrande.
This movie has been chosen to open up the san sebastian festival and focuses on the American army during the Mexican revolution on pursuit of the legendary Pancho Villa. The trailer is actually in English but how much of the actual movie is in English is a good guess, trailer after the break....

Following the frustrated invasion of Columbus, Pancho Villa retreats, only to be injured in the leg by Carranza's troops in the city of Guerrero. The North Americans, on Mexican territory, launch a massive campaign to capture him dead or alive. Convalescent, Villa takes refuge deep in the mountains. Chicogrande, a young follower of Villa, is given the task of finding medical assistance and is prepared to give up his own life in the attempt.

TIFF 2010: Surreal Trailer For THE ADDER'S BITE

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What I love about international festivals is the bigger they are the more likely a trailer of some sort will appear online and the darker and surreal they are I seem to be a sucka for them and THE ADDER'S BITE Falls under the category.
Firas Momani The Adder's Bite is a short 9 minute horror-sci-fi inspired by the workings of  famous German philosopher Nietzsche and this movie looks at the relationship of humans and parasites and our dependancy on both the look is very gritty to reminds me of Lynch's Dark City.
The movie has picked up a few awards including one at the Montreal short film festival maybe it'll do it again in a couple of weeks with Toronto Festival? Check out the trailer and synopsis after the break...

I'M STILL HERE -Get's a UK Release

Optimum Releasing today sent me the UK Trailer for Casey Affleck documentary film based on his brother in law, everyones favourite mad man Joaquin Phoenix.
The movie is based on the 'lost year' of the troubled stars life where he basically gave everything up to persue a career as a rapstar under the wing of P-Diddy aka Sean Combs. The question you ask is this really a mockamentary? Or is it the downward spiral of a troubled actor who has mentally as well as pyshically let go of reality?
Whatever the movie is trying to be you'll laugh,cry, cringe and even you'll ask why?!
The movie will be out a week on Friday (10th) USA released by Magnolia Pictures but for UK its Optimum Releasing and will be out probably limited release on September 17th.

Trailer after the break...

The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Casey Affleck, I'M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I'M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.

I’m Still Here is released in cinemas on September 17.

tiff 2010:'Womantic' Comedy with the trailer for JUCY

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Billed as "a womantic comedy of platonic proportions" JUCY is one of the seven Australian movies to that have made the list for this years Toronto Fim Festival. Directed by Louise Alston is what you could call a womance which is how Johnathan Ross would say romance and is part two of a trilogy of movies  based on the directors quarter life crisi, mmmm?
Here's TIFF's offical synopsis, trailer after the break.....

Intense Experimental Arthouse movie - ANAPHYLAXIS Trailer

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ANAPHYLAXIS is an experimental/arthouse movie from British director  Ayman Mokhtar and we constantly here about big mainstream movies having certain scenes shot on front of a green screen and muted. The movie was actually filmed 3 years ago in 2007 but its taken 2 years to go through the post production and the world premiere was actually last november in Sao Paulo. A very unique looking film which looks like something Lars Von Trier may have created or as my friend said its like something out of a Bettlejuice movie set?! Trailer after the break

A successful doctor, content with life, develops a strange illness – anaphylaxis, a severe allergy to human skin. He tries to defy his illness, but his life is tuned upside down by his inability to touch people. He can’t function professionally, socially or intimately with his fiancée, whom he eventually loses.
Then he discovers that dead bodies don’t trigger his illness. He withdraws from life around him to work as a pathologist, dealing only with dead bodies. Life is calm until he encounters a woman’s dead body covered from neck to toe with writing. Intrigued, he starts to read.
She was a poet. Imprisoned as a wife and mother, she suffered postnatal depression. Writing was her solace, but she sought escape so much it became a dangerous obsessive compulsive disorder. They locked her in a psychiatric hospital to recover. When released, she was told not to touch a pen again. But she did – to end it all by writing her story on her skin, dying as a result.
Reading her story, the doctor discovers a profound bond between his experiences of solitude and those recounted in her tattooed words. The dead poet becomes the doctor’s only chance for a human connection before the next touch kills him. He reaches to her across the boundaries of death with one last act – of love.

TIFF 2010: Trailer and Images For John Sayle’s AMIGO

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A New trailer & images for John Syales AMIGO have appeared online thanks to Ropes of Silcon(trailer) and TIFF (Images).
The movie is an fictionalised account of the Philippine-American War which took place at the turn of 19th-20th century and even then they where causing atrocities around the world (wonder if George Bush’s ancestors where involved?), the war lead to the slow process of Philippines gaining there Independence.
Apparently this movie has grown out of a book ‘Sometime in the sun’ which never got published which originally started as a screenplay and now we have a film which is set for some sort of release in 2011 but you can see it at next months Toronto Film Festival.
The movie stars Joel Torre, Garret Dillahunt , Chris Cooper, DJ Qualls, Rio Locsin , Ronnie Lazaro, Bembol Roco . Trailer, synopsis and images after the break...

REVIEW:Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (L'ennemi public n°1 )

(This is a a repost of My review of the movie from The Peoples Movies Blog August 12th, 2009, reason for repost is due to the USA release of the movie which will be September 10th)

REVIEW: Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort)

 (This is a a repost of My review of the movie from The Peoples Movies Blog August 12th, 2009, reason for repost is due to the USA release of the movie which was Friday)

Chance to Catch a classic movie remastered BFI Presents The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)

The Great thing about independent &arthouse cinema's is the opportunity to visually experience cinematic masterpieces of generations gone by and thanks to BFI another classic movie comes to a screen near you.

Luchino Visconti’s sumptuous masterpiece The Leopard will be released in a breathtaking new digital restoration in cinemas nationwide. Backed up with a fantastic score, wonderful costumes with memorising scenes which makes you feel you will be part of the movie especially the fantastic ballroom you look anxiously to find someone to join you in the next dance.

Set in 1860-62, during the turbulent period of Italian unification, it tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family threatened by political upheaval. Starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon, it is one of the most beautiful epics ever made.  The Leopard is screening at the BFI Southbank, London throughout september as part of their Nino Rota season As one of the most successful of all film composers (who worked with likes of Fellini,  Coppola, Visconti and Zeffirelli)  a full range of Rota's films will be on the screen including The Godfather II and La Dolce Vita.

The movie was digitally remastered for this year's Cannes Film Festival and thanks to BFI the movie this weekend started its national tour of various cinemas up and down the country through out September into October and November.
For more information and a link to the movies trailer, you can find after the break...

TIFF 2010: Third Teaser For LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen has a third trailer just before its release in Hong Kong/China on September 23rd along with its premiere at Toronto Film Festival.
Donnie Yen plays the  iconic culture hero Chen Zhen and if your a fan of Chinese martial arts films you know Yen's the man when it comes to these types of movies. Bodies hit the floor when this one man wrecking machine is on the prowl and everything he does utter cool, missing Bruce Lee check out Donnie Yen but Im sure you already be doing that anyway?
Check out the synopsis and third trailer with English subtitles after the break...

Noomi Rapace in Family Drama Svinalängorna (Beyond)

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This weekend saw the UK/Irish release of The Girl Who Played With Fire was released and ever since the movies which all 3 have been made (The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest out in UK November 26th) Noomi Rapace has become one of the most wanted actress for her protryal of Lisbeth Salander. Its expected Rapace will soon take the step into Hollywood but before then there's still the matter of a movie on the homefront with Svinalängorna (Beyond).
The movie is set in the 1970's about a young womans experiences growning up in a household riddled with abuse and alcoholism, Rapace plays Leena who is now settled with her own family with her christmas shattered by the news of her mother is dying which rolls back the dark memories and first time visit to her mom in her adult life.
There's a great cast of Swedish actors (including Tehila Blad who plays a young Leena, she also played a young Lisbeth as well)  and despite the over dramatic trailer this is actually a very powerful drama which shows why Noomi Rapace is in demand by hollywood. The only shock is none of the big festivals have picked this up especially whose in it but Im sure it will be picked up some festival, however the movie is due to be released in Sweden on November 12th, trailer after the break...

tiff 2010: No Sonic Screwdriver’s here,Offical Trailer For WOMB

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The Playlist have posted online the trailer for the Benedek Fliegauf‘s indie drama WOMB. The movie stars Eva Green, the new Doctor Who Matt Smith , Lesley Manville, Peter Wright and Hannah Murray.
Rebecca (Green) has waited 12 long years to be with her childhood sweetheart again but only to loose him to an accident but now she can bring him back from the dead. The movie isn’t about a woman who can practice voodoo but the controversial look at cloning  and in this case human cloning and the ethical issues the cloning is raised.
The movie has a  mostly British cast with an Germany/Hungary/France produced movie which has been well put together highlighting the acting abilities of the movies main characters, I’m not Matt Smith’s biggest fan on the Doctor who side of things but outside the tardisI actually dont mind him as a actor. The movie does have a gentle charm to it but you do get the sense underneath the dark undertones of the movies subject matter.
Womb has just got itself a US distributor Olive Films so do expect somelimited release of the movie as for UK or Ireland no word yet but the next time the movie will be on a big screen will be next months Toronto Film Festival.
Trailer After The Break....

TIFF 2010: Trailer For Barbara Wong's BREAK UP CLUB (Fun sau suet oi nei )

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If it wasnt for the internet I wouldn't be here! Its a wonderful play you be educated with, entertained with but theres the darkside of the internet that makes you wish the thing was never invented. Barbara Wong shows us a way to abuse with her new movie THE BREAK UP CLUB.
The movie is about Joe a young guy who is devasted his girlfriend Flora has split up with him and Joe decides to join 'The Break up Club' to get over his heartache. By joining the club they say he'll be able to get back with Flora if he can break up another couple and his friend is who he braks up and Flora is back with him, then she breaks up again, comes back and off again. Its one hell of a emotional rollercoaster for Joe and whilst he does this he talks to a director (wong playing herself) about the club!
Despite the movie playing a little like a documentary it is actually a drama with some comedy and of course romance thrown in too! The movie was released in Hong Kong back in June so now its doing the rounds of the film festivals and the next port of call for the movie is Toronto in September, trailer after the break...

Have you just been dumped? What if there was a website that could get your loved one back? There is ! It is called BreakUpClub.asia. All you have to do is break up another couple that are happily in love. Just fill in their names and voila! Would you do it? Our hero Joe is at the computer, about to press ENTER...

TIFF 2010: Promo Reel For Zhang Meng's THE PIANO IN A FACTORY

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There's something of a charming feel about this movie despite been set in a backdrop of an steel works, I love the music too that gives the movie a real European edge even eastern european or even Juenet feel as the movies characters seem eccentric but also very likeable. Below after the break is a lengthy promo reel for Chinese filmmaker Zhang Meng's A PIANO IN A FACTORY.When you look at the setting of this movie it could really be anywhere as the world's industry is in decline and towns globally once thriving industrial centre are nothing more than a crumbling ghost town.
This movie will be playing at next month's Toronto Film Festival and you can check the promo reel and synopsis after the break....

Trailer For Zhang Yimou's THE LOVE OF THE HAWTHORN TREE

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Zhang Yimou maybe known to many as the director behind big budget movies such as Hero, The House Of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower but you really the trueYimou when he creates more human, senusal compelling movies like THE LOVE OF THE HAWTHORN TREE.
This movie tells the story of young love during the cultural revolution of China between a young man & woman of different economic backgrounds beautifully shot, masterfully told by a fantastic filmmaker. This movie will go down well in China as it celebrates a important part of the country's history and the movie will be released in China on September 16th.
Check out the trailer after the break....

TIFF 2010: From Farmer's Boy To Pimp Daddy Trailer for Irish Drama SENSATION

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When a Farmer Boy in Ireland is struggling to make ends meet what should he do? Get another that would be sensible but in the Irish movie SENSATION its a job but not job you think off.
Brendon Gleeson's Son Domhnall stars in the dark edged drama who gets a Call Girl they first start as clients then lovers business partners then co-defendents. Beautifully shot and you can see this movie when it premieres at next months Toronto Film Festival, trailer after the break...

Watch Paris By Night of the Living Dead Short

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OOH LaLa! Zombie's invade Paris this is a delayed short PARIS BY NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD shoulkd have been out 4 years ago simply due to been regarded as been bad. Now its complete in full, its okay but nothing special, check it out below.

Paris by Night of the Living Dead
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[REC] 2 Producers In Satanic Horror EXORCIMUS, First Trailer is here!

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"It's the season to be Exorcised La la la laaa!"  Old Nick and his disciples are bit of hot property in movieland at the momment with next week's release (Sept 3rd) Daniel Stamm's Last Exorcism (out now in USA), also The Night Chronicles Devil coming our way too and now we have another contender with EXORCISMUS.
The movie comes from the briliant mind of Manuel Carballo  who brought us [REC] and so Spain has brought us the one person cam zombie genre who better to delve into the underbelly of the Devil? Despite been released by Filmmax this is Carballo's first delve into the English speaking movies and in USA this movie is called The Possession of Emma Evans but in 2011 when the movie is due to be released again another similar movie of Possession of David O'Reilly, so now the main name is Exorcismus.
Expect this movie to enter the festival network very soon in 2010 early 2011, check out the new trailer after the break..

Fifteen-year-old Emma Evans is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don't understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions.

Life seems to be carrying on as normal, until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors´ tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers.

It all started off as a bit of fun, Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won't take long to surface.

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 ...

TIFF 2010: FUBAR II Madness Will Be Midnight Madness Heres the full trailer!

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If Bill&Ted was mashed up with Beavis and Butthead, what would the final result be? You would get Terry and Deaner aka FUBAR II!!The Canadian Cult flick is back for another dose of heavy metal madness from its two douche bags Terry & Deaner who are no-brainers, more interested in drink beer listening to metal music, having trash eviction parties, driving cars down snowbanks, the more insane you think the more likely these guys.
Beer, beer,beer,beer,more beer,beer,girls,beer,beer, beer, beer, girls, beers,rock music,beer, beer, girls, and did I mention Beer?
Honestly I didnt know much about this apart from its a cult hit in north America and the movie is due to have its debut at Toronto Film Festival before its release in Canada cinematically on October 1st.
Theatrical trailer after the break...

Sad News Perfect Blue/Paprika Director SATOSHI KON Dies Aged 47

News filtered through late last night that one of Animation & Japanese animation’s great filmmakers has died, Satoshi Kon director of Paprika and creator of Paranoia Agent at the age of 47.

The news filtered through twitter on Madhouse Anime Studio’s Twitter page that the Kon-san had passed away. Madhouse studios where in the forefront of distributing Kon’s work which also included Tokyo Godfathers, Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue all movies of the highest distinction and respected worldwide.

Satoshi Kon’s careerstarted first as a comicbook artist for Japanese Manga YOUNG Magazine before making his screenwriting debut for the Animated anthology Memories in a story called MAGNETIC ROSE an animation which included work from the animation master Katshiuro Otomo (Akira) who was a big inspiration to to Kon and gave him his first breaking working on various project including Roujin Z.

If anyone who said Animation and Movies are not in the same league think again, Kon work followed lifes tribulations, emotions,provoking peoples minds psychologically virtually every animation he created or was involved would transide into live action version easily simply because the characters he created where very human. His inspiration inspiration was seen worldwide not just in animation but in hollywood with Cristopher Nolan’s work been inspired greatly by Kon especially on Inception with Kon’s Paprika movie (check out the Inception/Paprika mashup trailer below).

Its beleived Satoshi Kon died of cancer weeks after his 47th birthday and we shouldn’t remember how the director died but remember him for his great legacy of films he has left us, celebrate his work. Its sad we may never see the light of his upcoming 2011 movie The Dream Machine possibly in memory of his work to the animation world. Rest in In Piece Satoshi Kon-San.

Check the short trailer retrospective of Kon's work after the break....

Second Trailer From Sergei Bodrov's YAKUZA'S GIRL (Doch yakudzy)

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A second trailer for Sergei Bodrov's YAKUZA GIRL (Doch Yakudzy) has another trailer which looks alot more polished than trailer one but it's just as impressive as the debut trailer, simply because it has Japanese action director/star Tak Sakaguchi in it!!!

Theatrical Trailer For Korean Slasher BEDEVILLED

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Jang Cheol-soo’s slasher/revenge movie has its theatrical trailer in time for its release and if your going to theBEDEVILLED Frightfest next week in london, on Monday 30th you can ctach this movie when it has its UK Premiere.
A while back I posted the promo trailer for this movie which came with English subs but now the trailer has been polished and edited up to a better professional standard and now doesnt have English Subs! 
The movie will open in South Korea in September, check out the new trailer after the break...

the tale of two women. One wants to escape to the idyllic island of Moodo, the other wants to leave it for the big city. Seoul banker Hae-won once visited Moodo to see her grandparents and had befriended Bok-nam a girl who still writes despite Hae-won never bothering to reply. But on Moodo again to regain balance to her life, Hae-won is shocked to see everyone treating Bok-nam like a slave. As practically the only young woman on the island, she is a plaything for the men and a workhorse for the women. But true to form Hae-won remains indifferent to Bok-nam’s pleas for help, not wanting to become involved in complicated situations. Then Bok-nam loses the only thing that had kept her going and finally snaps, a sickle in hand to mete out the bloodiest of revenge. - Frightfest

South Korea's Answer to Woody Allen Coming To UK: Hong Sang-Soo coming to UK for his Retrospective

He's Known to many in the movie world as South Korea's Answer to Woody Allen Hong Sang Soo in September is heading to UK to present his own rertospective.
On September 3rd at BFI Southbank London the Korean director will kick off a series of his movies( which offically start September 1st) which will include a onstage interview  with the man himself. His movies also will go on a tour around the UK with visits to Watershed Bristol, Showroom Sheffield, Cornerhouse Manchester, Broadway Nottingham, Glasgow Film Theatre, Queen’s Film Theatre Belfast and Quad Derby, with the tour lasting into December.
He maybe unknown outside of Asia but this year's Cannes Film Festival the director won his first major award with his latest movie Oki's Movie will be closing this year's Venice Film festival, these are two signs of how well respected the director is within the world film industry. This retrospective is a fantastic way to learn and experience movies from another country or as one experienced movie goer said to me "diverse your pallette", basically he meant think out the comfort box of Hollywood a little and embrace the wonderful movies world cinema has on offer and what better way you guys can start by taking in the retrospective of Hong Sang-Soo
Read the full press release of the director's retrospective plus info on on the movies on tour and i've included some trailers(all youtube links) as well, everything is after the break...

The el diablo he is called Mexico! Drugs and violence in Trailer for EL INFIERNO!

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Everybody must be loco down Mexico way, well they are in EL INFIERNO aka HELL! drugs, violence, body parts, guys with poswer tools, its el diablo at his best or should we say Luis Estrada in his latest movie. If you want some  black comedy with lashings of graphical violence but in a funny way Estrada's movie takes the rip out of the Mexican drug trade and Danny Trejo is nowhere to be seen!!!
Check out the trailer after the break...

Benjamin Garcia - Benny - is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the narco business, in which he has the first success of his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he'll discovers that criminal life does not always keeps his promises. Epic black comedy about the world of Mafia and organized crime, HELL helps us to understand what everybody is asking: What is happening in Mexico today?

FrightFest 2010: TheTrailer & Poster For THE DEAD

Second Trailer For Dante Lam's STOOL PIGEON

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Dante Lam's STOOL PIGEON is only days away from been released in Hong Kong so the last minute marketing brings a second and final trailer before its August 26th release. If you love Hong Kong action/thrillers like the way they used to do it when Woo ruled the waves well Dante Lam is your man! This is vintage Hong Kong Thriller at its best!, enjoy trailer after the break....

Senior Inspector Don Lee relies heavily on the information provided by stool pigeons in his job.

Barbarian is a painstakingly meticulous armed robber. Don needs an informant to infiltrate his gang. He recruits street-racer Guy. Guy provides information on Barbarian's next job, but Don is unable to effectively act on them until the final moment. Since Barbarian has not left any evidence, Don is pressured to convince Guy to become a witness for the prosecution.

Don promises to provide Guy with a new identity in another country, but the departure is beset by accidents and Guy only barely makes it to safety.

Haunted by his ruined relationships with his ex-wife and former stool pigeons, Don no longer wants to be part of a world that is one betrayal after another.

COMPETITION: 1 Pair Of Tickets For Metropolis at Movie On The Meadow at Cambridge Film Festival

Your Lucky Day - Short Movie

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Found this brilliant little short movie by accident whilst looking for new material for The Peoples Movies, it's called Your Lucky Day by Dan Brown and the story is about a  megaball lottery draw sends a convenience store spiraling out of control.Fantastically edited together as Ive said before if you want to make it into filmmaking bigtime create short movies and work hard as you will get notice, so watchout for this guy as he'll soon be taking that big step if hes creating movies of this qaulity! enjoy!

Need A Date? Help is on Hand with Cyrano Dating Agency Trailer

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Are you one of those people who just cant get a date to have a lovelife?Cyrano Dating Agency maybe the ones to help you! This is new movie from South Korea  about  the agency that  helps the clients but they move together working on secret missions. with their goal to work in the background and until now they've had 100% sucess until they meet Min-yeong.
He is mr unpredictable, got the qaulities but just bad at the dating but he has one lady in his sights Hee-joong, very loveable person  but when the agency sees Min-Yeong's profile panic stations trigger, can this be another sucessfull job for the agency?
It sound abosuletly crazy and if Hollywood attempted this movie it would just be so generic another Hitch probably, only the Asians can get away with making obsure movies sucessfully.
Cyrano Dating Agency stars Eom Tae-woong, Lee Min-jeong, and Park Sin-hye with the movie getting its release in South Korea on September 16th, trailer after the break...

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....

Teaser Trailer For Renai Gikyoku: Watashi to Koi ni Ochite Kudasai

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On September 25th in Japan Renai Gikyoku: Watashi to Koi ni Ochite Kudasai will be on national and below after the break you can check out the teaser trailer.
The movie is directed by Shôji Kôkami, and stars Kyôko Fukada as a talented screenwriter is suffering from a sevre bout of writers block and one day gets a visit from a happless television producer(Kippei Shiina) who is a big fan of her work to persuade her to write for him and he would do anything to get her to write script, In her reply she asks him to fall in love with her.

Trailer For Polish Arthouse Crime Thiller CHRZEST (The Christening)

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This movie is soon to make its international premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival CHRZEST (The Christening) by Marcin Wrona. 
Due to the artish style to this movie will make sure this movie will pick up a few accolades along the road when it does its rounds of the film festivals and I agree with this source of this trailer it does have a mixture of the movies Brothers mixed with History of violence. The whole movie looks to have click well together the cinematography, the intergation of the scenes into action into drama, so if your looking for a slighty different spin on the crime thriller movie, this could be the one to check out.

Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an interest in his wife... At the beginning the plan works out, but it becomes increasingly difficult for Michal to come to terms with it. Michal knows his deeply hidden past will inevitably come back to him, and Janek will have to make a decision, of which he will never forget the consequences.

Trailer after the break...

Micahel Madsen is a Wall Street Trader in KRACH

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There was a time when Michael Madsen would pop up virtually every big hollywood movie on the planet then suddenly he would dissappear of the face of the earth. Then a cult type movie would come out there he is again then vavoom, no where to be seen until now is in a French movie by Fabrice Genestal, KRACH.
With the world's economy in such a bad state it would be only a matter of time old school Wall Street trading movies from 1980's would be back on our screens, okay we Know Wall Street 2 by Olivier Stone is heading our way in October but the French look likely to beat him with this movie with Gilles Lellouche a Wall Street trader fired by his boss (Madsen) for loosing $millions and he decides to against Madsen.
Will this be any good? hard to tell maybe in Native France but as outside French speaking world probably not though Madsen does look like a real badass in this! Trailer after the break...

Jean-Pierre, recently retired, is a hypochondriac. Anne, his wife, is cheating on him with a former office colleague. His daughter Cathie, divorced and mother of a five-year-old son, lives with Philippe, a "fine" young man whom Mathieu, Cathie's gay brother, calls the "retard". After Jean-Pierre discovers a small spot on his hip, the family balance literally implodes.