 | Zombie Strippers - Trailer Worldwide media sensation JENNA JAMESON and Nightmare on Elm Street’s ROBERT ENGLUND star in ZOMBIE STRIPPERS. When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemo virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhino’s, a hot underground strip club. As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie stripper, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back? Also featuring ROXY SAINT (of the Goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts) and Ultimate Fighting Champion TITO ORTIZ, ZOMBIE STRIPPERS is a sexy, bloody, hilarious good time! Directed by: Jay Lee Starring: Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Roxy Saint |
Zombie Strippers – Trailer
April 4th, 2008Bangkok Dangerous – Trailer
April 4th, 2008 | Bangkok Dangerous - Trailer The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard …just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house. Directed by: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang Starring: Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Charlie Young, Panward Hemmanee, Nirattisai Kaljaruek |
Anamorph – Trailer
April 4th, 2008 | Anamorph - Trailer When a reclusive detective (Willem Dafoe) is drawn into the case of a serial killer who is enacting anamorphosis - a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective - only with human bodies; he is thrust into a dark and unsettling underworld that threatens to reveal the secrets of his tormented past. Directed by: H.S.Miller Starring: Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall |
My Brother Is an Only Child – Trailer
April 4th, 2008 | My Brother Is an Only Child - Trailer MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD, which was presented at this year’s Cannes and Toronto film festivals, reunites director Luchetti with longtime collaborators Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli, best known as screenwriters of the highly acclaimed “The Best of Youth.” Set in a small Italian town in the 60’s and 70’s, the film tells the story of two brothers who want to change the world – but in completely different ways. The elder, Manrico (Riccardo Scarmaccio), is a handsome, charismatic firebrand who becomes the prime mover in the local Communist party. Accio, (Elio Germano) the younger, more rebellious brother, finds his own contrarian voice by joining the reactionary Fascists. What starts as a typical tale of sibling rivalry becomes the story of the polarizing and paralyzing politics of those turbulent times and, the rift between the brothers is further intensified when Accio realizes that he loves his brother’s girlfriend, Francesca (Diane Fleri) who, like everyone else, is blind to Manrico’s increasingly dangerous ideas. An intensely cinematic and incredibly incisive film about the dreams and disillusionments of the 60’s and 70’s, MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD is set in the exact era of the groundbreaking early classics of Bernardo Bertolucci and Marco Bellochio. Not only does Luchetti pay explicit homage to those films – “Before the Revolution,” “Fist in the Pocket,” and “China is Near” – he comes very close to matching their beauty, intelligence, and youthful exuberance. Directed by: Daniele Luchetti Starring: Riccardo Scarmaccio, Elio Germano, Diane Fler |
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April 3rd, 2008I’m headed east for a very long weekend, so updates are unlikely until Thursday.
Jamie in Black and White
April 3rd, 2008Jamie Jewitt gets roped in for German GQ. Photos by Giampaolo Sgura, courtesy of FM Models
Photo: Giampaolo Sgura for German GQ
Photo: Giampaolo Sgura for German GQ
Photo: Giampaolo Sgura for German GQ
Fan Rant: Am I Sick of George Clooney? Not Anymore I’m Not
April 3rd, 2008Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, George Clooney, Fan Rant
Yesterday, Monika asked if we were tired of George Clooney, who has undeniably been everywhere since making his escape from ER in the mid-1990s. I wanted to weigh in, because my answer is a curious one, and it sadly wasn't an option in Monika's poll: I used to be tired of him, but I'm not anymore. I think the peak of my tiredness came with the dreadful Perfect Storm in 2000. I remember being so sick of seeing Clooney pop up as these boring, poker-faced, tediously noble action heroes. I hadn't seen his earlier B-movie efforts at the time, and the triple-threat of Batman & Robin, The Peacemaker and The Perfect Storm made me wish he'd never been born. (I had seen Three Kings, and honestly don't remember why that didn't change matters for me -- I think I wrote it off as a fluke, and was more impressed with Ice Cube anyhow.) What an anodyne heartthrob, I thought, with no personality or real talent. Get him out of my sight.
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April 3rd, 2008It's old news that times are tight for professional movie critics at magazines and newspapers -- which means the Times got around to reporting it on Tuesday. More chilling is this list of critics who've left or been pushed from their jobs in the last two years.
Ahh, why should you care? Aren't movie reviewers -- those elitist thumbsuckers who dare to tell you what to think about "Alvin and the Chipmunks" -- an eminently disposable part of a troubled medium?
Sorry, no. I don't trust the IMDb user comments or Ain't It Cool News to point me to movies the studios aren't marketing down my throat, or give me a handle on how to consider the ones they are. I look, or looked, to Kevin Thomas, Jami Bernard, Michael Atkinson, Eleanor Ringel, Nathan Lee, and David Ansen. It's called informed context, and anybody who can provide it in our hoarse, hectoring 24/7 media culture should be trusted and prized, not shown the door.
Some, like Bernard, are reinventing themselves on the web, and of course the irony is that the readership for a film critic is now global rather than regional. I get emails from around the world; 10 years ago I'd just be hearing from that cranky guy in Everett. You'd think the media moguls, for all their talk about bringing the newspaper into the 21st century, would figure out a way to leverage that.
But maybe I'm wrong. Comments, please.
Blindsight – Trailer
April 3rd, 2008 | Blindsight - Trailer Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, BLINDSIGHT follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge — made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blind educator and adventurer who established the first and only school for the blind in Tibet, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted. Directed by: Lucy Walker Starring: Erik Weihenmayer, Sabriye Tenberken |
Deal – Trailer
April 3rd, 2008 | Deal - Trailer Set against the world of high stakes poker, DEAL follows the story of Alex Stillman (Bret Harrison), a cocky, hotshot, card-playing senior at Yale University. Alex dreams of becoming a professional Texas Hold’em poker player but does not yet have the skill to master the table. Fortunately for him, a chance encounter introduces Alex to retired poker legend, Tommy Vinson (Burt Reynolds). Tommy was at the top of his game twenty years ago but gave it all up in order to save his family. Upon meeting Alex, Tommy realizes he can regain his own self- confidence, pride and a poker championship title by turning Alex into his protégé. The two pair up and master every tournament they enter. The winning streak and friendship between the two is eventually thwarted by the interference of a Las Vegas call girl, Michelle (Shannon Elizabeth). The pair eventually part ways and separately prepare for the World Poker Tour. Only one will take home the championship title. Directed by: Gil Cates, Jr. Starring: Bret Harrison, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Shannon Elizabeth |
