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The Mechanic

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:54:12 +0000

Catch an advanced screening!

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:50:37 +0000

“Nobody puts Baby in a corner!”

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:28:01 +0000

sure.

Cowboys & Aliens Trailer

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:00:11 +0000

Green Lantern Trailer

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:12:42 +0000

Ryan Reynolds is Hollywood’s newest superhero, check the trailer for the Green Lantern.

Upcoming Movies: ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:25:55 +0000

From the director of the comedy ‘Meet the Fockers’, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd star in ‘Dinner for Schmucks’. Business executives bring guests to their monthly ‘dinner for idiots’. The biggest ’schmuck’ wins, hilarity ensues. Catch it in movie theaters July 23.

Later this year, Jack Black stars in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. A modern film version of the Jonathan Swift Classic. Expect this adventure in movie theaters December 22.

R.I.P, Dennis Hopper

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:55:14 +0000

“What the hell is wrong with freedom? That’s what it’s all about.” (Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider)

Cinco De Mayo Especial: Machete Bootleg Trailer!

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:40:26 +0000

You definitely do NOT want to mess with Danny Trejo…

Next Batman Movie Coming in 2012

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:05:12 +0000

For Batman fans anxiously awaiting a follow-up to the massively successful “The Dark Knight,” you’re wait will come to an end in 2012. On Friday, Warner Bros. scheduled the release for the latest installment of the Batman series for July 20, 2012. While details are scarce as to who the film’s main villain will be and the sort of approach the film will take, if it’s anything like “The Dark Knight,” it’s guaranteed to be absolutely phenomenal. Most of the casting hasn’t been announced, but we’re sure that Christian Bale will take time from being one of Hollywood’s most notorious A-holes to come back for another round in the black suit and the tricked out ride.

But the film will definitely be missing a little star power in the form of Heath Ledger. Though we have a few guesses as to who will be taking Heath’s place as the resident baddie (cough, cough Two Face please, cough, cough), it’ll be hard to replace the Joker.

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Barry Munday Movie Trailer

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:23 +0000

Sometimes it takes more than balls to be a man…

Get Him to the Greek Trailer

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0000

A spin-off comedy from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Russell Brand resurrects his role as sex-icon rock star in what looks to be another hilarious comedy from writer Nicholas Stoller. Jonah Hill and P. Diddy co-star as record company intern and executive.

Oscar Nominations 2010: Jeff Bridges is Best Actor Frontrunner

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:07:34 +0000

Bridges is favourite to finally land the Oscar on his fifth attempt.

The 60-year-old is considered one of the best actors never to win an Academy Award. He was nominated for The Contender (2001), Starman (1985), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1975), and The Last Picture Show (1972), and his role as The Dude in The Big Lebowski has become a cult classic.

In Crazy Heart he plays Bad Blake, a washed-up, alcoholic country singer. He also sings, and doesn’t do a bad job of it.

Bridges comes from Hollywood stock – he is son of the late Lloyd Bridges and brother of Beau, who appeared with him in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Telegraph

See the other nominees as well as best supporting actor and picture after the jump…

Actor in a Leading Role

* Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
* George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
* Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
* Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
* Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

Actor in a Supporting Role

* Matt Damon in “Invictus”
* Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
* Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
* Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
* Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Picture

* “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
* “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
* “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
* “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
* “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
* “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
* “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
* “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
* “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ Trailer

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:00:48 +0000

An all star cast is brought together for a modern day Back to the Future guy movie.

Plot:

In 2010, a group of unsatisfied men (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, and Craig Robinson) return to the ski resort where they used to party when they were younger and get thrown back in time to their younger days in 1986 in their Jacuzzi.

Source: Wikipedia

7 Futuristic Movies That Got It Right

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:10:59 +0000

Science fiction has been trying to predict what the future will look like and how it will come to be, since the days of Jules Verne. We still aren’t wearing silver jumpsuits or flying around on jetpacks like some movies have suggested, nevertheless, sci-fi can sometimes give us a glimpse of the world of tomorrow–and, occasionally, help to shape that world. For example:

7. Total Recall (1990) – Whole-Body Scanning

Total Recall, an Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle set in the year 2084, features an X-ray-style walk-through security scanner that displays the skeletons of the commuters who pass through it as well as the contents of their bags on a large screen. In reality, this type of whole-body scanning technology began to appear in airports in 2007. Modern body scanning can take the form of “backscatter” units, which use X-rays, and millimeter wave screening, which uses electromagnetic waves. However, both of these types of scanners show passengers not as skeletons but as nudes, leading to privacy objections from organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union. As of December 2009 there were 19 US airports that used millimeter wave screening, and the Transportation Security Administration had purchased 150 backscatter units to be installed in 2010.

6. Minority Report (2002) – Multi-Touch Interfaces

During pre-production for this neo-noir film, director Steven Spielberg and production designer Alex McDowell gathered together a group of prestigious intellectuals to come up with a plausible, coherent vision of what life might look like in the year 2054. One member of that team, computer scientist John Underkoffler, was tasked with designing a theoretical large-screen computer interface that could be controlled using hand gestures. In the movie, Tom Cruise memorably uses this interface to shuffle through video clips of psychic premonitions.

Today, existing multi-touch technology–such as that used in Microsoft’s Surface or Perceptive Pixel’s Media Wall–allows users to access data, transfer files and manipulate images and videos by intuitively moving one’s fingertips along a screen. The Surface and the Media Wall are still fairly exclusive and uncommon, but Apple’s iPhone has already made multi-touch available to the masses, albeit on a small scale.

5. Real Life (1979) The Running Man (1987) The Truman Show (1998) – Reality TV

Though these three films differ in terms of genre and tone, they all provided prescient commentary on the reality television genre, which would explode into popularity in the early 2000s. Albert Brooks’ satire Real Life follows a group of documentarians who film the everyday life of an American family and are frustrated by how dull the results are. Though this entry isn’t futuristic per se, it pointed out TV’s tendency to exaggerate drama long before any Real World shouting match. The Running Man, set in the year 2019, casts Arnold Schwarzenegger as a contestant on a popular TV game show in which convicted criminals are released into Los Angeles and hunted down by professional “stalkers.” The human suffering put on display is more extreme than that found in a Survivor elimination or botched American Idol audition, but there’s a kinship there nonetheless. Finally, The Truman Show imagines a program in which one man (Jim Carrey) has his day-to-day life broadcast nationally, à la The Real World or Big Brother.

4. The Terminator (1984) – Unmanned, Intelligent Hunter-Killer Aircraft

They were only glimpsed briefly in the first Terminator film, but they were there: Robotic planes that rained fiery death onto a human resistance movement. The scene featuring these machines took place in the year 2029. In real life, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already an integral part of the US military’s arsenal. The first combat-capable UAV, the MQ-1 Predator, was first used in 1995 during the Bosnian conflict, but is mainly designed for reconnaissance. It has since been joined by the MQ-9 Reaper, a drone designed especially for bombing runs. (And yes, it is actually referred to as a “hunter-killer” aircraft.) The American military has been using the Reaper in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2007.

3. Americathon (1979) – The Geopolitical Milieu

It’s a little surprising that this broad satire is out of print and nearly impossible to find, given that its cast includes such notable comedic actors as John Ritter, Fred Willard, George Carlin and Jay Leno. It takes place in 1998 and depicts an American government so financially insolvent that it has to stage a telethon in order to put the national coffers in the black. Besides skyrocketing US debt, the film also made several other accurate predictions, including the collapse of the USSR, China’s turn towards capitalism and superpower status, adultery in the White House and the rise of Nike as a powerful corporation. There’s even a jab at exploitative reality television when the telethon features a “mother-son boxing match.” (Anyone remember Celebrity Boxing?) To be fair, though, Americathon also predicted that Jimmy Carter would be assassinated, that the White House would be relocated to California and that Arabs and Jews would join forces to create a United Hebrab Republic. Can’t win ‘em all.

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Private Spaceflight, Voiceprint ID

No, we still haven’t achieved the casual, routine style of space commuting depicted in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi opus, but companies like Virgin Galactic are currently working to make sub-orbital and orbital travel available to private citizens. The film’s depiction of spaceflight even included some advances that would only later be incorporated into conventional air transportation, including personal in-flight entertainment (which would appear in the ’80s) and flat-screen television displays. 2001 also featured voiceprint identification technology, which would actually be developed in the mid-’70s, and videophones, which have in fact existed since the ’20s but never came into widespread use until recently (in the form of video-capable cell phones and internet programs like Skype). It’s true that people generally prefer not to use videophones for everyday purposes.However, people today do use videophones to communicate with faraway family members, just as the character of Heywood Floyd uses the technology in 2001.

1. The Star Trek series (1966-present) – Modern Technology

The Star Trek TV programs and films have prefigured or inspired so many of today’s technological achievements that it would be nearly impossible to list every instance. One of the most obvious examples is the ubiquity of computers–which at the time of the show’s inception were large, inefficient and uncommon–in the series’ 22nd-24th-century setting. Less obviously, the design of real-life flip (or “clamshell”) phones is directly based on that of Starfleet communicators. A company called Sakhr Software has created an Arabic-English speech translation app for the iPhone that functions similarly to Trek’s universal translators. Also, NASA recently developed a device which can be plugged into an iPhone and used to detect the presence of deadly gases in its environment, much like the fictional tricorder.

This isn’t to say that everything in the Star Trek universe has already come to pass. For example, we’re obviously a long way from galactic scouting expeditions or contact with alien life forms. Nonetheless, a lot can happen in a century or two. In a way, it’s comforting to know that some parts of “the future” may still be yet to come.

By Matt Hoffman, Mania

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:51:34 +0000

David Lee Roth Provides Voice-Over Howls for ‘Wolfman’