Who knew all that time helping Batman would rub off? Caine is set to become something of a crusader (if not a caped one) himself. Sir Michael Caine has taken matters into his own hands after being Batman's sidekick for so long.
The movie is set in modern day Britain and follows the story of a modest law-abiding elderly citizen, Harry Brown (Sir Michael Caine). Harry is a retired Marine and lives on a depressed public-housing estate in London, within a community where drugs are the currency of the day and guns run the streets.
As his wife lives out her last days in the hospital, Harry restricts his activities to games of chess in the pub with Leonard (David Bradley), his last best friend. Their housing estate has been taken over by warring gangs that deal drugs and settle scores with impunity. The police, represented here by upright detective Frampton (Emily Mortimer) and her cynical partner Hicock (Charlie Creed-Miles), are reduced to simply informing the victims' families when the latest shooting or knifing occurs – visits that Hicock calls death-o-grams.
Harry Brown's life has been stalked by tragedy and when his best friend Leonard is murdered by a gang of thugs, the situation forces him to make some difficult choices as to just how far he will go to find the perpetrators and dispense his own brand of vigilante justice. As he bids to clean up the run-down estate where he lives, his actions bring him into conflict with the police, led by investigating officer DCI Frampton and partner Hicock.
Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is an ex-Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again.
Pandora is also home to the Na'vi, a sentient humanoid race, who are considered primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora's forests in search of valuable minerals, the Navi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence.
Jake finds himself thrust into hostilities on the alien planet. Over time, Jake integrates himself into the Na'vi clan, there he meets a young Na'vi female, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and begins to fall in love with her. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth and the Na’vi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.
Avatar is both written and directed by Oscar winning visionary filmmaker James Cameron, of Piranha II, The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, and Titanic fame.
2012 - "The Worst is Over" According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012.
This is a disaster movie from the producer of The Day After Tomorrow, inspired by the popular superstition based on an ancient Mayan belief that the world will come to an end in the year 2012.
To give you an idea about the scale of disaster that occurs in this film, think The Day After Tomorrow but on steroids, it was as if mother nature got upset after the climate change in that film didn't kill us all and struck back with a vengeance.
The music video for 'American Idol' runner-up Adam Lambert's Time for Miracles from '2012' has been released and is below. Enjoy!
The video is fun and largely features shots of Adam singing from a rooftop intercut with shots of explosions and natural disasters from the movie. Our favorite, though, is him walking through a disaster street riot, complete with crashed cars and fire and people running.
'Time for Miracles' is the lead single from soundtrack album of the movie 2012 (2009). 2012 Soundtrack album at Amazon
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You can get a copy of the Time For Miracles single and the For Your Entertainment debut album release from Adam Lambert at Amazon.com.
Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all time, leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture.
Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind the scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold out concerts that would have taken place, beginning summer '09 in London's O2 Arena.
Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than 80 hours of behind the scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show.
Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before. In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.
Michael Jackson THIS IS IT o2 Arena Concerts offical advertising on TV broadcast March 8th 2009.
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Double CD soundtrack album including the brand new single "This Is It" (featuring backing vocals from his brothers), unreleased demos, a lavish 36 page booklet and the legendary hit singles sequenced as they appear in the movie.
Trick 'r Treat is a film of interwoven stories that occur on the same block, on the same night. A couple finds what happens when they blow a jack o' lantern out before midnight, a high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer, a college virgin might have met the right guy for her, a group of mean teens play a prank that they take too far, and a hermit is visited by a special trick or treater.
The film is an anthology of Halloween-related scary stories. One thing that ties the stories together is the presence of Sam, a mysterious pint-sized trick-or-treater with a burlap pumpkin mask, who makes an appearance in all the stories, as a 'friendly-reminder' to those who break the Halloween traditions.
Produced by Bryan Singer, Trick ‘r Treat is a creepy, darkly comic celebration of the scariest night of the year: Halloween. The film’s ensemble cast includes Academy Award-winner Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Leslie Bibb, Dylan Baker and Tahmoh Penikett. In the tradition of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt comes interwoven tales set on Halloween night. Trick ‘r Treat is a collection of creepy stories that mixes fun with fear, candy with poison, and laughter with screams.
Here are some scary movies that are suitable for all ages – something the kids and adults will both love. A selection of movies – not just horror movies, but movies that contain the themes: Halloween, witches, ghosts, and all things spooky.
Casper Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden (Moriarty) is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim, she is frightened away by a wicked wave of ghosts.
Determined to get her hands on this hidden fortune, she hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey (Pullman) to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion. Harvey and his daughter Kat (Ricci) move in, and soon Kat meets Casper, the ghost of a young boy who’s 'the friendliest ghost you know' and his hostile 'fleshies' hating uncles!
Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's biopic tracing the life of famed aviator Amelia Earhart. Earhart’s early aviation triumphs and meteoric rise to fame and fortune were propelled along by her tempestuous partnership and eventual marriage to publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere). Bound by mutual ambition, admiration and, ultimately a great love, their bond could not be broken even with her brief passionate affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor).
Friday the 13th is a 2009 American horror film directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series, whose last film was the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason.
Nispel also helmed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for Freddy vs. Jason.
The film stars Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, and Danielle Panabaker portraying the male and female leads. It was released on Friday, February 13, 2009.
This film begins on Friday, June 13, 1980, just at the moment where Pamela Voorhees (Nana Visitor) is beheaded in front of her young son Jason (Caleb Guss) and then jumping ahead thirty years.
Based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant tells the story of a small-town teen who inadvertently shatters a 200-year-old truce between warring factions of vampires.
Sixteen-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) is your typical teenager; he spends most of his time with his best friend, Steve (Josh Hutcherson), earns decent grades, and generally manages to stay out of trouble.
But trouble finds Darren when he and Steve make the acquaintance of a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) while attending a traveling freak show at a local theater. Transformed into a bloodsucker by Crepsley, Darren joins the Cirque du Freak and quickly ingratiates himself with the unusual cast of characters who populate it.
The imaginarium of doctor parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary Imaginarium, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.
Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Doctor Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality.
The film 'Necrosis' as it is known in the States, (also known as 'Blood Snow' worldwide), 'Dead of Winter' (was the working title).
During the winter of 1846, a group of ill-fated pioneers, known as the Donner Party, were on their way to California through a newly discovered mountain pass. They encountered the worst blizzard ever recorded, trapping them with little food or shelter.
As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, the members of the Donner Party slowly dissolved into madness, eventually turning on each other in what became a desperate, cannibalistic slaughter.
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The Necrosis story follows a group of friends at an isolated cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains who become trapped by an epic snowstorm and are haunted by ghosts from the Donner Party. They struggle to find out whether these are these true demonic 'entities' or if it is simply 'cabin fever' that is bringing out their fears and paranoia, causing friends to turn against each other as their reality deteriorates around them.
Writers, Robert Michael Ryan and Jason Stephens, wanted heavy snowfall and they got it. The cast and crew survived 2 weeks of relentless snowstorms on location in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to get the footage.
"We got 12 feet of snow in 10 days" comments Director Jason Stephens, "there were days when I woke up and looked out the window and thought…. if this film wasn't self-financed, I would have called in and said – 'nope, snowing too hard today, not filming…..' but with our budget, we had to film everyday. We got it done and it looks incredible. There is no way anyone will doubt that the characters were trapped by a snowstorm. We actually were!"
Necrosis (from the Greek "nekros" meaning, "dead" ) is the premature death of cells and living tissue.
Produced on location in South Lake Tahoe, Big Bear Mountain, and Ventura, California, by Unknown Productions Incorporated in 2008/2009, they turned out the finished film in time for the 2009 Paranoia Film Festival in March, held on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
Necrosis stars James Kyson ( Heroes ), George Stults ( 7th Heaven ), pop star Tiffany, Penny Drake ( Zombie Strippers ) Danielle De Luca, Robert Michael Ryan and has an extended cameo appearance from horror icon Michael Berryman ( The Hills Have Eyes ).
Cast: James Kyson Lee ... Jerry George Stults ... Matt Tiffany ... Karen Penny Drake ... Megan Danielle De Luca ... Samantha Robert Michael Ryan ... Michael Michael Berryman ... Seymour Mickey Jones ... Hank Kymberly Jane ... Denise Grady Lee Richmond ... Joseph Jay Preston ... Isaac
The movie opens with a scene featuring a little girl trapped in a room filling with cement, this helps to enforce the belief that this is, a horror movie. Before she's entirely engulfed, the opening credits kick in with a montage of police reports and newspaper clippings.
The headlines explain the terrible discovery of 16 bodies cemented into the walls of a building, including that of the architect who designed it. We learn that the person who walled them in, Joseph Malestrazza, was never caught, and then we cut to 15 years later, when the building is planned to be demolished.
Opening Scene
We are introduced to 25 year old, recent-college graduate and future demolition engineer Sam Walczak (Mischa Barton). She's following in the family footsteps of blowing buildings up and her dad has given her a job to demolish a building for a chance to become a partner of the company. Adapted from Serge Brussolo's graphic novel of the same name, Walled In follows fledgling engineer Sam Walczak as she ventures deep into the countryside, where the monolithic Malestrazza Building is being prepared for demolition.
A few crazy tenants still live in the building, although they've received eviction notices. Also residing there are the building's disturbed caretaker Mary (Unger) and her equally disturbed teen aged son Jimmy (Bright).
Sam's mission is to figure out the best places for explosives to bring the complex down, although she seems rather lackadaisical in her approach, as she walks around, shops at the local store, talks to the tenants, and plays old Christmas record albums in the only remaining furnished apartment for guests. She's not exactly focused, in other words.
Many of the previous inhabitants were entombed alive in the massive structure, and the deeper Sam digs into the life details of the eccentric architect who designed it, the more convinced she becomes that she will be the final victim in its malevolent legacy.
Walled In (2009)
While watching it, you'll probably notice the scenes that seem blatantly ripped off of other movies. Ghostbusters, Texas Chainsaw, Silence of the Lambs, Nightmare on Elm Street and Psycho all make their appearances. Sam even describes the building as being "like the Bates Motel, only bigger" and it even has that "One, Two, Freddy's Coming For You" song several times.
The first 30 minutes of the movie is actually pretty good, but I'll save you the time by saying that it went downhill after that. The term "horror" applies only in the vaguest sense, more of a thriller, there is very little gore and not much action offered up either. It just ends up going in the wrong direction at the end. It's still worth a look, I think, and would recommend it to the horror crowd.
Cast:
Mischa Barton ... Sam Walczak Marissa Cooper on TV's The O.C.
Cameron Bright ... Jimmy X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), An American Affair (2009)
Deborah Kara Unger ... Mary 88 Minutes (2008), One Point O (2004)
Noam Jenkins ... Peter Saw II (2005), Saw IV (2007)
From Ricky Gervais, the award-winning creator and star of the original BBC series “The Office” and HBO’s “Extras,” comes the new romantic comedy “The Invention of Lying.”
“The Invention of Lying” takes place in an alternate reality in which lying—even the concept of a lie—does not exist. Everyone—from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street—speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences.
But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark Bellison (Gervais) suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.
The entire world is hit with an apocalyptic infection that turns people into zombies once they have been bitten by an infected zombie. The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies.
Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is a young geek who has a lot of phobias about almost everything from clowns, to bathrooms, to checking the back seat of cars. His new fear is being eaten by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss -- but when you're afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive.
This TV remake at least tries to keep itself faithful to the original story by Stephen King.
The movie begins in 1963 in the Nebraskan town of Gatlin. A group of children are gathered inside a tent, where a young in a boy cowboy suit gives a creepy lecture to the rest of the congregation, while a pig is being sacrificed.
Jump to 12 years later, and a married couple traveling on the back roads of Nebraska are arguing inside their car, the corn fields being the only backdrop. Suddenly, a boy comes out of the corn fields, holding his bleeding throat, into the path of the couple's car. The man swerves and brakes, but to no avail - the boy is ran over.
The story continues pretty much following the original short story. It is better than the last three sequels to the original, but it still could have been a much better film itself. The acting is generally all right, apart from Kandyse McClure, after the boy hits the car and the little boy who played Issac recites his lines like he's still trying to remember them.
If you're a fan of the original 1984 film or even just the story then go ahead and give this a shot. It's not unwatchable and you could find worse things to waste an hour and a half on.
Cast:
Daniel Newman ... Malachai Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
David Anders ... Burton Stanton The Revenant (2009), The Riot (2009)
Kandyse McClure ... Vicki Battlestar Galactica as Dualla
Preston Bailey ... Issac
The movie aired on September 26, 2009, and the DVD release date October 6, 2009
Rating: 2 out of 5 - That includes 1 for the camera work and music
Children of the corn - 1984 original
Sequels: The film had one sequel on general cinema release: * Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, 1993
Five further sequels were later released directly to video: * Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, 1995 * Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, 1996 * Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, 1998 * Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return, 1999 * Children of the Corn: Revelation, 2001
A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire.
The film was originally set for release on January 15, 2010, but was moved forward to October 23, 2009. Zombieland (2009)
Out: 2 October 2009(USA), 7 October 2009(UK)
The film has some excellent scenes of gore and blood splattering, thrown in with dashes of gut busting humor and wise cracks, making it the most enjoyable zombie film that you will ever see.
The Road (2009)
Out: October 16th
A father (Mortensen) and son (Smit-McPhee) walk for months across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape in search of civilization. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Who knew all that time helping Batman would rub off? Caine is set to become something of a crusader (if not a caped one) himself. Sir Michael Caine has taken matters into his own hands after being Batman's sidekick for so long.
