Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming fantasy-adventure film directed by Tim Burton. It is an extension to the Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film will use a [...]
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Lovely Molly |
| In Theaters: | May 18, 2012 |
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| On DVD & Bluray: | August 21, 2012 |
| Directed by: | Eduardo Sanchez |
| Starring: | Alexandra Holden, Ken Arnold, Lauren Lakis, Daniel Ross Todd Ryan Jones |
| Distributed by: | Content Film |
| Running Time: | 99 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | R for strong disturbing violence and grisly images, some graphic sexual content and nudity, drug use and language. |
| Genres: | Thriller Horror Paranormal |
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The Samaritan |
| In Movie Theaters: | May 18, 2012 |
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| Directed by: | David Weaver |
| Starring: | Samuel L. Jackson Luke Kirby Ruth Negga Tom Wilkinson |
| Distributed by: | IFC Films |
| Running Time: | 93 minutes |
| Genres: | Drama Thriller |
After twenty‐five years in prison, Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris (Ruth Negga), the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion: Ethan (Luke Kirby), the son of his former partner, has an ingenious plan and he wants Foley in. The harder Foley tries to escape his past, the tighter he is ensnared in Ethan's web of secrets, until it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right. -- (C) IFC
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Department |
Releasing Date: 18 May 2012
Department is an upcoming Hindi action film directed by Ram Gopal Varma.The film stars Amitabh Bacchan, Sanjay Dutt and Rana Daggubati in lead roles.The film was shot using several Canon EOS 5D cameras.
Contrary to buzz in the air, Ram Gopal Varma's cop drama DEPARTMENT isn't shelved. In fact the film is pretty much on schedule and its shooting would kick-start this summer.
Since Ramu had earlier announced that DEPARTMENT would be his next Hindi film after RAKHT CHARITRA, there was added rise in speculations when there was no further movement right through the first quarter of the year. Commercial failure of Abhishek's KHELEIN HUM JEE JAAN SEY and GAME further added fuel to the fire since DEPARTMENT features him in a key role. Later when Ramu announced that he was starting A LOVE STORY starting this month itself, it was time for obituaries to be written about DEPARTMENT.
'It is all sheer nonsense that I have shelved DEPARTMENT. It is very much on', one catches the filmmaker in a tad angry tone, 'People start rumours before checking facts and just end up making something out of nothing. They say that I am filling up the lost time with A LOVE STORY. Sorry, it is untrue since DEPARTMENT was always meant to begin this summer. It is sticking to the schedule. A LOVE STORY is a quickie I am making in between.'
When asked to confirm further plans for DEPARTMENT, Ramu responds while settling down, 'The film doesn't have only Abhishek in the starcast. There are many actors in the film and their combination dates had already been locked.'
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Director : James McTeigue
Producer : Marc D. Evans, Trevor Macy, Aaron Ryder
Screenwriter : Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare
Starring : John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Brendan Coyle, Pam Ferris, Sam Hazeldine
Releasing Date: Comming Soon
An acerbic sense of humour and a gleefully grisly production style make this gothic thriller good fun to watch. It may be rather preposterous, but it's also a grippingly complex mystery populated by some terrific actors.
In the weeks before his inexplicable death in 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack) finds himself at the centre of a series of murders in which a killer is recreating his stories in grotesque scenarios around Baltimore. Detective Fields (Evans) asks Edgar to help with the case, but he's distracted by his girlfriend Emily (Eve), whose harsh father (Gleeson) refuses to allow the couple to marry. As the murders get increasingly personal for Edgar, he realises that his own fate is entwined with the fiendishly clever killer, whoever he may be.
The film opens with a note about how Poe's final days are shrouded in mystery, then proceeds to tell a story that's about as public as it can be, as the events play out in Baltimore's newspapers and among the city's chattering classes. In other words, everything's so fictionalised that the fact that the central character is Poe is almost irrelevant. Not that this really matters, when the filmmakers work so diligently to gleefully gross us out.
Each murderous scenario is more grisly than the last, and Cusack is terrific as a guy horrified that his own imagination is being used in such a ghastly way.
But the filmmakers are having so much fun with the energetic action that they never bother to explore the intriguing issue of a horror writer's creative process. Instead, the film's a series of set pieces involving confusing attacks and chases souped up with period detail.
Thankfully, the actors have plenty of space to add sardonic wit, creating tension between them that makes the film more entertaining than it has a right to be. The mystery resolves in a way that isn't hugely satisfying, but the lively tone never lets up, even as things become increasingly grim. We know that it will end with Poe's death (the story is told as an extended flashback), and while the whodunit isn't hugely convincing as an explanation for real-world events, it's a thoroughly entertaining movie plot.
In the weeks before his inexplicable death in 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack) finds himself at the centre of a series of murders in which a killer is recreating his stories in grotesque scenarios around Baltimore. Detective Fields (Evans) asks Edgar to help with the case, but he's distracted by his girlfriend Emily (Eve), whose harsh father (Gleeson) refuses to allow the couple to marry. As the murders get increasingly personal for Edgar, he realises that his own fate is entwined with the fiendishly clever killer, whoever he may be.
The film opens with a note about how Poe's final days are shrouded in mystery, then proceeds to tell a story that's about as public as it can be, as the events play out in Baltimore's newspapers and among the city's chattering classes. In other words, everything's so fictionalised that the fact that the central character is Poe is almost irrelevant. Not that this really matters, when the filmmakers work so diligently to gleefully gross us out.
Each murderous scenario is more grisly than the last, and Cusack is terrific as a guy horrified that his own imagination is being used in such a ghastly way.
But the filmmakers are having so much fun with the energetic action that they never bother to explore the intriguing issue of a horror writer's creative process. Instead, the film's a series of set pieces involving confusing attacks and chases souped up with period detail.
Thankfully, the actors have plenty of space to add sardonic wit, creating tension between them that makes the film more entertaining than it has a right to be. The mystery resolves in a way that isn't hugely satisfying, but the lively tone never lets up, even as things become increasingly grim. We know that it will end with Poe's death (the story is told as an extended flashback), and while the whodunit isn't hugely convincing as an explanation for real-world events, it's a thoroughly entertaining movie plot.
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| The Dark Knight Rises |
Release Date:July 20th, 2012
Starring:Liam Neeson, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway
Director:Christopher Nolan
Writer:Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Bob Kane
Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre:Superhero, Action, Adventure, Crime
Official Site:thedarkknightrises.com
This is one of the summer's most anticipated blockbusters -- the final installment in Christopher Nolan's critically revered, audience-adored Batman trilogy. Fans of Christian Bale's grittier take on the Caped Crusader will be lining up to see this last entry in the series, so be prepared for a spirited debate if you don't think your tween is ready to handle the violence in Gotham City. Considering how startlingly intense the body count and torture scenes were in The Dark Knight (and how there are even more villains in this film), it's likely to be too bloody for many older tweens and young teens.
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| Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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The film explores the secret life of our greatest president and the untold history that shaped our nation. As a young boy, Abraham Lincoln witnesses the shocking death of his mother, leading him on a path to an ongoing war - and ultimately to the presidency - he chronicles in a hidden diary. The journal reveals the incredible story of a clandestine warrior who never stopped fighting for the country he led and the people he loved.
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| The Amazing Spider-Man |
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Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan |
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July 6, 2012
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The Amazing Spider-Man is an upcoming American superhero film directed by Marc Webb, based on the comic book of the same name and starring Andrew Garfield as the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It is the fourth Columbia Pictures film that portrays Spider-Man in film and is a reboot of the film series that stars the superhero. The cast includes Garfield as Peter Parker and his alter ego, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors. The film will portray Parker as his super powers are evolving in high school and will explore him trying to discover the truth behind his parents. The film also brings to life new designs of the film franchise such as Parker inventing artificial webs like in the original comics instead of organic webs.
The film's development began simultaneously with Sony announcing the cancellation of Spider-Man 4. Opting for a reboot with the same production team rather than another sequel, the studio announced a July 2012 release date for what was now titled The Amazing Spider-Man. James Vanderbilt was hired to write the script while Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves helped fine-tune the script. Pre-production involved the casting of many actors and actresses trying out the role of Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy respectively until Garfield and Stone were the clear choice. Principal photography started in December 2010 in Los Angeles before moving to New York City with the help of Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED Epic camera. The film entered post-production in April 2011 with the film being converted to 3D with the help of 3ality Technica and with James Horner being involved with the film score.
Sony Entertainment has focused its marketing campaign with a promotional website with released images, three theatrical trailers, a prologue screening in certain cities and a video game tie-in being developed by Beenox and a viral marketing campaign among other products. The Amazing Spider-Man is scheduled to be released in 3D and in IMAX 3D on July 3, 2012. A sequel of the film is being planned for release in 2014 with James Vanderbilt hired to again write the screenplay and with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci reported to re-write it.
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| G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation |
| Studio: | Paramount Pictures |
| Cast: | Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne The Rock Johnson |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
Theatrical release date: | June 29, 2012 |
Review:
Parents need to know that this sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra looks to be just as relentlessly loud and explosive as the first movie. This installment focuses on a small band of renegade Joes, led by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who face off against the criminals who framed them. Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, and Adrianne Palicki co-star in what looks to be a non-stop parade of fights, bombs, and double-crosses. Like The Rise of Cobra, expect G.I. Joe: Retaliation to be too mature for kids who are interested in playing with G.I. Joe toys.
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| Men in Black 3 |
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"Men in Black 3" hits theaters on May 25, 2012.
Columbia Pictures has released 3 film clips for the upcoming sequel “Men in Black 3” where Agent J (Will Smith) is forced to go back in time to join a young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save the world.
The film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld also co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Emma Thompson.
In Men in Black 3, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back… in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K’s life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him — secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
Check out all 3 film clips below.
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| Dark Shadows |
Production: Infinitum Nihil, GK Films, Zanuck Company
Cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloe Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote, Gully McGrath, Ray Shirley, Christopher Lee, Alice Cooper
Director: Tim BurtonScreenwriter: Seth Grahame-Smith, story by John August, Seth Grahame-Smith, based on the television series created by Dan Curtis
Producers: Richard D. Zanuck, Graham King, Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, David Kennedy
Executive producers: Chris Lebenzon, Nigel Gostelow, Tim Headington, Bruce Berman
Director of photography: Bruno Delbonnel
Production designer: Rick Heinrichs
Costume designer: Colleen Atwood
Editor: Chris Lebenzon
Music: Danny Elfman
Duration:114 minutes
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May 11, 2012
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The latest '60s/'70s TV show to get all dressed up as a fancy, big-budget feature film, Dark Shadows sinks its teeth half-way into its potentially meaty material but hesitates to go all the way. With an oddball premise that's right up his alley, director Tim Burton has stylish fun with a morally-and-time-warped family visited by an undead 18th century relative, as does Johnny Depp in the role of the antique British-accented vampire. But the humor slithers between the clever and the sophomoric and the film too often seems willing to settle for mild humor at the expense of hippie-era mores instead of pursuing the palpable temptation to become genuinely twisted. Still, with its central bloodsucker vs. witch rivalry and Depp in one of his patented bizarre roles, this has all the ear and tooth marks of an early summer winner for Warner Bros.
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Reportedly, as a child Depp's obsession with the elegant, well-spoken, romantically haunted central character, Barnabas Collins, was deep to the point of being all-consuming. Unsurprisingly, the teenaged Burton was also a devotee of Dan Curtis's daily afternoon show, which ran on ABC from 1966-71 and amassed 1,225 individual episodes. This eighth collaboration between the actor and director affords Depp the opportunity to once again don unusual makeup and hair styles to become the white-faced, plaster-maned vampire who rejoins the living in 1972 after having been entombed for nearly 200 years.
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| The Cabin in the Woods |
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May 4, 2012
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Dir: Drew Goddard.
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison
Sixteen years on from Wes Craven’s postmodern slasher Scream, is there anything left for Hollywood to deconstruct? In the year of a Spider-Man reboot that hopes to erase memories of its 2002 predecessor, and where John Carter can cost $250million and lose $200million, possibly not. Everything now is rubble, cultural bric-a-brac to be sold off to whomsoever still cares to pay.
Studios routinely defer to the whims of teenage fanboys, needing consumers with high disposable incomes and low attention spans – for only these viewers can summon the enthusiasm required for some of the shonky, derivative product being cranked out.
The superior fanboy-bait The Cabin in the Woods depends upon its attention-grabbing plot chicanery: I’m not even sure I should reveal why what sounds a standard teen-horror title appears on screen over a shot of middle-aged company men chit-chatting around a vast concrete bunker. Perhaps it’s best if you make your own connections. Yes, there’s a cabin in the woods, arrived at by the usual quotient of teen-movie jocks, cheerleaders and stoners. Lying in wait for them, however, are hidden cameras, zombies, unicorns and meat hooks – a formidable checklist of everything one might seek from a night at the Odeon.
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Jan 6, 2012
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In this lumbering sci-fi thriller from the former art director who has worked with Spielberg, Fincher, Gilliam and the Coen brothers, the Earth's capital cities are simultaneously invaded by murderous extraterrestrials apparently in need of minerals to sustain them.
This being a co-production between Russia and the United States, the film is set in Moscow and the principal focus is on four young Americans, two of them pretty girls, the other two randy males in the IT business, in town to launch a new invention and explore local female talent. They meet up at a flash disco where they also encounter a cynical Swedish entrepreneur who has stolen the guys' unpatented innovation.
Suddenly the lights go out and the sky is full of descending electric filaments that resemble a storm of Tinkerbells, only more lethal. Animals and human beings disintegrate when targeted by these aliens and pretty soon the five foreigners, having found sanctuary in the disco's storeroom, are the only survivors in a deserted Moscow.
The empty streets are eerie but commonplace, familiar from endless Hollywood B-movies of the 1950s onwards, and the scenario predictably involves forming an uneasy alliance with bands of Russians who, in this post-cold war world, prove to be brave and dependable. Unfortunately the aliens, for all their seeming invulnerability, have a dreary, unthreatening presence and when, inevitably, their achilles heel is discovered, weapons are improvised to exploit it. The most alarming moment is the revelation that there might be a sequel.
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