Happy 4th July! Here's the trailer for MENTENG KID a.k.a Little Obama

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Well July 1st was Canada day and today is independence day in USA, well here in uk we dont really have dadys like that. The last few years have been hetic in American/world politics and when Barack Obama became president to many he was a revelation move on a year or two people question if he was the right but personally not the president the American economy was alot worse off than thought, a bit like the British one (but we were daft to vote in a right wing government that doesn't know the difference between there arse & elbow!.
So lets role back the years a young Obama is living in Indonesia with his parents and LITTLE OBAMA (Obama Anak Menteng) is a new movie which was released this weekend in Indonesia. It is based on an adaptation of Damian Dematra's fictionalized book which young Barack may have done whilts he lived in the country, nothing offical but still makes for a decent movie!

Cult Chilean Director Nicholas Lopez tells us ...F*CK MY LIFE, new trailer

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Cult Chilean Film director Nicholas Lopez is feeling very nostalgic, romantic  and basically drunk with his new flick QUE PENA TU VIDA (Fuck My Life).
This romantic comedy is the one for the 'Facebook Generation', the generationof young people where everything that happens in your life has to be told online via Facebook or txt, they control your life, I can relate to this with previous job I had to work with younger people (early 20's) and everything they did was facebook this, facebook that. In this movie the guy of the movie  life seems to rotate getting laid even though he's unemployed and getting what he wants its good old Facebook! But his previous girlfriends/lovers are all over his page! He even had one lover thought she would be pregent as she stood on a used condom!
After the break you can watch the english subtitled trailer and as for the target audience Lopez want's well this movie will be a preview shown before the new upcoming Twilight movie in Chile! enough said!!!

TRUST ME ...Alexander Skarsgard want you to, trailer

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Here's one for the True Blood Fans, here is Eric Northman or better known as Alexander Skarsgard and maybe you haven't seen his native Swedish side, a side of him you may haven't thought of. The clue is in the picture above, he's in a kimono either he plays someone with a slight feminite side but more likely to be sexually (over)active!
TRUST ME (aka Puss) is a movie directed by Johan Kling which can be described as a comical intake of sex, drugs, alcoholism, misdemeanors, acne, voyuerism, cleptomania and pregancy, mmm sounds like life, full stop!
Like the source I haven't a clue what there on about but the kimono is a clue to some comedy. Alexander does have family in this movie in the form of his other brother Gustaf and I think we can say down to been in one of America's most popular tv dramas im sure we'll see the movie in subtitle sometime!
Trailer after the break...

Donnie Show Hollywood How To make a Martial Arts Suerhero movie (Green Hornet)

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I'm not a massive Martial Arts fan but there is a few martial artists cum Actors you have to show respect for because there so good. Donnie Yen is, he's probably number 1 box office smash in China and his latest movie Jing mo fung wan: Chen Zhen(Legend Of The Fist:Return of Chen Zhen).
If anyone thinks hollywood have got the suff when it comes to martial art superhero type movies like 2011's Green Hornet? Think Again Donnie shows Hollywood hows done with this movie and more I see of his movie Im sure ill be a 100% convert of martial arts flicks.

this is the real deal, check out the teaser trailer after the break and if your Chinese this movie you should check it out and you can do that on September 23rd.

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Trailer 2 For Feng Xiaogang's AFTERSHOCK

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Its days like this I'm greatfull where I live (Scotland) for the sake that earthquakes have a 1% chance of ever happening in my country. Lets go to China the biggest populated country in the world, it's 1976 Tangshan City in Hebei province on July 28, the world's worst earthqauke destroy's the area with a 7.8 on richter scale killing nearly 250,000 people and injuring just as many, its a tragic event. 

Feng Xiaogang's movie AFTERSHOCK is centered around this event following the tragic events through the eyes of a little girl. This is not a disaster movie as in the sense of fictional Towering Inferno, this is based on a true event which no one ever wants to see but tragically does occour, this is a weepie folks an emotional rollercoaster ride.
The movie is due out on July 22nd in china and will be the country's first produced IMAX movie and the poster on the left is for the American release  as in when it is I dont have or even if there's a UK release too, hopefully there will be.
Check the synopsis and trailer, Featruette 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.

Vincent Gallo Joins The Taliban in ESSENTIAL KILLING

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Vincent Gallo seems to have a trail of controversay folling him, he does pick the movies which will get the highbrow gossip mongering, follow your heart I say. Well this one will have the middle class rightwing America choking on their frappechinos with Jerzy Skolimowski's ESSENTIAL KILLING.

This one think Rambo First Blood minus the macho testoserone and the mai character been a Talaban member!

The Essence of Killing follows the story of a Taliban member (Gallo) who lives in Afghanistan, kills three American soldiers and then is taken captive by the Americans. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know.

Trailer For DEATH OF ALICE BLUE

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Indie horror comedy here with DEATH OF ALICE BLUE which Twitch describes it as a mixed up version of Arrested Development crossed with Edward Scissorhands, mmm maybe. Its low budget here and will be one of the movies which will travel more on festival circuit (which its doing right now) but it is getting a release in its native Canada in August.
check out the trailer after the break...