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Review: Blood and Bone [2009] - dir. Ben Ramsey

2010-01-30T06:46:00.000Z

The last time 'urban' cinema had an authentic martial arts hero was in the 1970's in the 'super-fly' form of Jim Brown, for the past three decades 'chop-socky' action movies have been the exclusive preserve of caucasian or asian protagonists... until now! Finally this under achieving niche has a saviour in the majestic shape of 'Black Dynamite' himself Michael Jai White, and with Blood and Bone

Interview: Amber Moelter of ALM Talkies

2010-01-16T10:56:00.000Z

Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and raised in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Amber performed as an actor, dancer, and singer in America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. She trained at the Academy of Arts, QUT in Brisbane, Australia in Contemporary Dance and later at London Studio Centre, attaining a BA Honors in Theatre Dance (Musical Theatre). While in London she acted in

Review: The Hurt Locker [2009] - dir. Kathryn Bigelow

2010-01-10T15:48:00.002Z

It's been too many years since we last saw the words "Directed by Kathryn Bigelow", and I'm ecstatic to say they make a more than desirable homecoming with The Hurt Locker. Based on a script by Mark Boal, a former journalist who was assigned to a bomb squad in postwar Iraq, the consequent tale revolves around Jeremy Renner as Will James, a cavalier bomb disposal technician who seems to have an

News: Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy - Lands on DVD & BluRay 25th January

2010-01-06T11:14:00.003Z

From the creator of Family Guy and the co-creator of American Dad, comes a brand-new animated series of pop culture parodies, skewered stories and fabulously filthy fun nuggets. Uncensored, uninhibited and unbelievably hilarious, Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy is brimming with raunchy, twisted humour you can’t see on television anywhere and is available to buy on DVD from 25

News: MESRINE: Killer Instinct & Public Enemy No. 1 - Released on Blu-ray and DVD 25th January

2010-01-06T07:30:00.002Z

César Award winner Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises, Oceans Thirteen) and Academy Award nominee Gerard Depardieu (The Man in the Iron Mask, Cyrano de Bergerac) star in the critically acclaimed, award winning double feature MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT and MESRINE PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1 a lavish gangster biopic released together as a two disc special edition DVD set and single Blu-Ray disc on 25 January

Review: Patton [1970] - dir. Franklin J. Schaffner

2009-12-29T04:39:00.027Z

As General George S. Patton, George C. Scott is an actor playing another consumate actor. The television age birthed a new kind of media-savvy soldier, one who becomes, by appearing as a character on the six o'clock news, emblematic of freedom (Colin Powell or Norman Schwarzkopf are more recent examples). In WWII, few commanders were willing to put on a show like Patton; he was, in this regard,

Review: Clubbed [2009] - dir. Neil Thompson

2009-12-22T02:33:00.001Z

THERE’S a dubious morality surrounding the events of Clubbed, a supposedly true story based on the autobiographical novel Watch My Back by author Geoff Thompson. On the one hand, it seeks to empower the individual by overcoming fear (especially of violence), but on the other it seems to celebrate brutality and even involves one character getting away with murder (albeit with mitigating

Review: Intolerable Cruelty [2003] - dir. Joel & Ethan Coen

2009-12-18T18:03:00.001Z

The writer/director team of brothers Joel and Ethan Coen seems to have been sent from their strange planet to this earth to bring a message of delirious joy through the medium of film. Their singular vision of bungling criminals, hopeless misfits and doomed romantics, all supported by a grotesque menagerie of secondary characters, has proved to be a winning vehicle for some of the most memorably

Review: An Englishman in New York [2009] - dir. Richard Laxton

2009-12-13T12:19:00.001Z

Directed by Richard Laxton and written by Brian Fillis, An Englishman in New York attempts to cover the latter part of the legendary Denis Charles Pratt aka Quentin Crisp's life from his new found fame (following the release of the original TV drama covering his early life, The Naked Civil Servant) and his timely move to New York in 1980 at the age of 72 until his death two decades later. What

Press Release: An Englishman in New York

2009-12-08T02:11:00.001Z

BAFTA Award winner John Hurt (Alien, Outlander, V for Vendetta) delivers an outstanding, award-winning performance as he transforms himself once again to portray the outrageous and flamboyant Quentin Crisp in AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK, released on DVD by Momentum Pictures on 28 December. Picking up where the BAFTA Award winning classic The Naked Civil Servant left off, AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK

Review: Red Road [2006] - dir. Andrea Arnold

2009-11-21T16:18:00.001Z

Jackie works a job that many would find dull; she is a CCTV operator but one that gets a perverse kick out of watching others going about their everyday business; that is until a day in which a man appears on her monitor: A man from her past and one that she never wanted to see again. Now she has no alternative but to confront both the man, and the demons inside herself. So this is going to be

Review: Career Girls [ 1997] - dir. Mike Leigh

2009-11-15T23:36:00.010Z

Director Mike Leigh follows up his Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES with CAREER GIRLS, a bittersweet drama that deals with the passage of time between two friends. Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) were college roommates in London. Six years later, Annie is taking the train back into London to reunite with her friend. The resulting connection sparks flashbacks from the past,

Editorial: Coming Soon...

2009-11-15T22:48:00.006Z

OK so here's the list of upcoming reviews and editorials... Reviews Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Competition Winner review) Creep Career Girls Bloodlines The Usual Suspects Big Trouble in Little China South Pacific Editorials Billion$ God Trilogy Parts 2 & 3 The state of DVD extras Movie Marketing 10101100 - The Future The Christmas Competition... I will try and make sure I keep these coming

Review: Along Came a Spider [2001] - dir. Lee Tamahori

2009-11-11T23:36:00.008Z

Based on the first James Paterson novel to feature criminal profiler Alex Cross, the film opens with a police trap that goes catastrophically wrong and forces Cross into early retirement. He spends his days mulling over what might have been and making model boats. At a local school for kids of the rich and famous, a teacher has kidnapped one of the prodigious pupils and begins sending Dr. Cross

Review: Die Hard [1988] - dir. John McTeirnan

2009-11-10T21:31:00.006Z

It's Christmas Eve and New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is flying into Los Angeles. He's a nervous flyer, and as the plane lands the passenger sitting next to him suggests a tip: after the flight, he should take off his shoes and socks and make fists with his toes on the rug. A limousine has been sent to take John from the airport to the high rise offices of his wife, Holly (Bonnie

STOP PRESS... AVATAR ... $500M dollar travesty?

2009-11-10T21:20:00.006Z

OK... Ready?... Sit down... trust me, you will need to when you read this... Avatar (the big Crimble Release from James 'I wasted 6 years of my life for this?' Cameron) is estimated to have cost... $500 Million!!!! That's HALF A BILLION DOLLARS!!!! How much health care, housing solutions and welfare does that equate to I wonder? Read more here if you dare... http://www.manolith.com/2009/11/10/

Article: The Billion$ God Trilogy - Part 1

2009-11-09T04:44:00.009Z

In The Beginning [2011] - dir. Michael Bay Cast Adam - Zac Efron / Eve - Megan Fox / Voice of the Serpent - Nicolas Cage / Cane - Ben Affleck / Abel - Matt Damon / David - Liev Schreiber / Saul - Alan Rickman / Soloman - George Clooney / Noah - Sam Neill / Samson - Arnold Schwarzenegger / Ahab - Gabriel Byrne / Jezebel - Sharon Stone / Job - Tim Robbins / Moses - Russell Crowe / Abraham -

Review: Thunderbirds [2004] - dir. Jonathan Frakes

2009-11-08T14:11:00.006Z

Based on the cult British television show from the 1960s, Thunderbirds explodes into the 21st Century with this thrilling live-action version of the franchise. The International Rescue organization a team of highly organized law enforcers is the focal point for the movie. International Rescue is based on a remote desert island location, and is called into action whenever the world's sinister

Lost in La Mancha 2: Try Harder...

2009-11-06T14:12:00.003Z

Terry Gilliam Re-Starts THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE!!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. Let's hope the weather is better this time around :)

Review: Redacted [2007] - dir. Brian DePalma

2009-11-05T11:58:00.012Z

Director Brian De Palma, whose CASUALTIES OF WAR addressed a horrific tragedy that occurred during the Vietnam war, turns his attention to Iraq with an unfortunately similar tale. Inspired by true events, REDACTED follows a group of soldiers who are stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz) is an aspiring filmmaker who is intent on capturing his experience on videotape. His

Article: The Billion$ God Trilogy - THE PITCH!

2009-11-04T11:58:00.009Z

Elevator Pitch Picture this... "3 movies, 3 holiday release dates, imagine Moses meets Transformers, Jesus is Mr. White and The Devils Rejects on a global scale. A cast of thousands, 3 of the hottest directors on the planet, the greatest story never told (like this before)." The Reasoning With the imminent release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster spectacular 2012, and all the conspiracy

Review: Alfie [1965] - dir. Lewis Gilbert

2009-10-30T10:17:00.008Z

Alfie is a young man from the working classes of London. He is confident, charming, totally self-centered and very successful with the ladies; using them for his immediate pleasure without emotional involvement and leaving a trail of emotional devastation. His callousness toward these women contrasts with the delusion that he causes no harm; he is just teaching life's lessons. London was most

Review: The Big Empty [2004] - dir. Steve Anderson

2009-10-26T10:19:00.008Z

JOHN PERSON (Jon Favreau) is a 30-something struggling actor living alone and facing eviction from his unfurnished apartment in Hollywood. Behind on his rent and heavily in debt, he goes against the better judgment of his pretty neighbor GRACE (Joey Lauren Adams) and accepts an unsolicited offer from his strange neighbor NEELY (Bud Cort) to courier a blue suitcase up to the desert truck stop of

Review: Frenzy [1972] - dir. Alfred Hitchcock

2009-10-25T21:30:00.007Z

London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence. Hailed by many as Hitchcock's final great movie, Frenzy can certainly be described as a return to form after the disappointments of his

Review: Zulu [1964] - dir. Cyril Enfield

2009-10-21T10:20:00.006+01:00

Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first leading role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879--which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa--where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu warriors. ZULU is an exceptionally well-made and beautifully shot film from 1964 that demonstrates the