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Fanboys Movie Review

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Linus: [Shatner has given them the access codes to Skywalker Ranch] How did you score all of this?
William Shatner: Are you kidding? I’m William Shatner; I can score anything.

Yes Mr. Shatner, you can even score one of the few bright spots of this movie. It’s not completely horrible. It does have its good moments where you will laugh out loud, but overall if you are debating to see this movie, choose wisely young padawan. First of all, it is a prerequisite that you be at minimum quite familiar with the Star Wars saga; if not, you are just not going to get it and you will have wasted your money. Personally, I grew up on the stuff and rekindled the flame when Episodes I, II, and III hit the big screen, so I actually got a kick out of seeing this movie. Granted, I was expecting it to be better. One look at the cast and you would expect something really good too. Chris Marquette was excellent in The Girl Next Door and Just Friends. Dan Fogler is becoming more popular on the big screen after his roles in Balls of Fury and Good Luck Chuck; quite a funny guy. Jay Baruchel was one of the crew in Knocked Up. Kristen Bell was right on target as the infamous Sarah Marshall. Add a dose of Seth Rogen, put it all together and you would expect a comedy classic. It fell short. This movie is corny and stupid with attempts at being raunchy, but it is also passionate, determined, and funny. It does have a great cast including some great cameos, but the story and the script diminish their performances and the overall effect of the film. The concept is cool, especially if you are a Star Wars fan, but they didn’t give it enough substance.

Hutch: Nobody calls Han Solo a bitch!
Some of the more entertaining parts of the movie are the encounters these Fanboys have with Trekkies. You can only imagine how that goes and you can’t imagine how weird Seth Rogen looks as the Trekkie gang leader. You might not even recognize him. It’s about time someone decided to tackle this real life family feud and incorporate it into a motion picture. Good stuff. The movie does do a good job with its references to Star Wars; comically, intellectually, and even dramatically. Take for example a particular coffee shop that is called Java the Hutt, or that in life we all need to face our Death Star . . . you get the picture. The movie is not a total waste of time, but I do put up the caution flag. You can be just as entertained and get as many laughs from watching Spaceballs. Director Kyle Newman hasn’t done a whole lot of major motion picture work and it kind of shows.

Review By Cine Marcos

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HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE! Music Videos

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Here are 3 music videos for the upcoming film HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE! The film opens nationwide April 10, 2009.

“The Climb” Music Video

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“Hoedown Throwdown” Music Video

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“Hoedown Throwdown Breakdown” Instructional Video

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Walt Disney Pictures takes the Disney Channel phenom to the big screen in a feature film extravaganza. Miley Stewart (MILEY CYRUS) struggles to juggle school, friends and her secret pop-star persona; when Hannah Montana’s soaring popularity threatens to take over her life—she just might let it. So her father (BILLY RAY CYRUS) takes the teen home to Crowley Corners, Tenn., for a dose of reality, kicking off an adventure filled with the kind of fun, laughter and romance even Hannah Montana couldn’t imagine. HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE Disney Channel’s phenomenally successful series “Hannah Montana” jumps to the big screen in a fun-filled adventure in which Miley Stewart (MILEY CYRUS) is forced to choose between embracing her small-town roots and her secret pop-star persona, Hannah Montana.

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Battle For Terra Poster

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Here is the poster for Roadside Attractions ’s film BATTLE FOR TERRA, the 3D movie feature the voices of Justin Long, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, David Cross, Amanda Peet, James Garner, Dennis Quaid, Chris Evans and Danny Glover

The film opens in theaters May 1, 2009

The film tells the story of Senn (Justin Long) and Mala (Evan Rachel Wood), two rebellious alien teens living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place that promotes peace and tolerance, having long ago rejected war and weapons of mass destruction. But when Terra is invaded by human beings fleeing a civil war and environmental catastrophe, the planet is plunged into chaos. During the upheaval, Mala befriends an injured human pilot (Luke Wilson) and each learns the two races are not so different from one another. Together they must face the terrifying realization that in a world of limited resources, only one of their races is likely to survive.

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Tokyo! Film Clips

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

The New York release of Tokyo! is right around the corner! In honor of next week’s release, Liberation Entertainment and Vitagraph Films have just provided some new clips from the film.

Tokyo! Release Date: March 6 in New York , and March 20 in Los Angeles and Nationwide.

Interior Design clip: Dead Cat-

Merde clip: Green Suit Guy-

Shaking Tokyo clip: Blinding Light-

Synopses:

“Interior Design” (Dir. Michel Gondry)
Hiroko and Akira (Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase),
a young couple, arrive in Tokyo to pursue their careers, moving in temporarily with Hiroko’s old friend Akemi (Ayumi Ito), a career girl whose boyfriend quickly tires of the houseguests. Hiroko and Akira appear to have a solid and mutually supportive relationship that will seemingly carry them through any challenge. Akira, the young man, takes steps towards his ambition to become a filmmaker, but the woman is less sure of herself and gradually she begins to lose herself in the vast city. Ultimately she under-goes a surreal metamorphoses that gives her an unexpected sense of peace and purpose. Adapted from the comic “Cecil and Jordan in New York .”

“Merde” (Dir. Leos Carax) Merde (a French term translating as “shit”) is the name given to an unkempt, gibberish-spewing subterranean creature of the Tokyo sewers, played by Denis Lavant, who rises from the underground lair where he dwells to attack unsuspecting locals in increasingly brazen and terrifying ways: he steals cash and cigarettes from passersby, frightens old women and salaciously licks schoolgirls, resulting in a televised media frenzy that creates mounting hysteria among the Tokyo populace. After discovering an arsenal of hand grenades in his underground lair, Merde slips into full-on assault mode, hurling the munitions at random citizens and creating a Godzilla-like atmosphere of urban terror, which the media promptly laps up and reflects back to its equally voracious television audience. Enter pompous French magistrate Maître Voland (Jean-François Balmer) – a dead ringer for the sewer creature’s gnarled and twisted demeanor – who arrives in Tokyo to represent Merde’s inevitable televised trial, claiming to be the sole person in the world able to speak his client’s unintelligible language. The media circus mounts as lawyer defends client in a surreal court of law hungry for a satisfying resolution. Merde is tried, convicted and sentenced to death – until justice takes an unexpected turn.

“Shaking Tokyo “ (Dir. Bong Joon-ho) Teruyuki Kagawa stars as a Tokyo shut-in, or hikikimori, who has not left his apartment in a decade. His only link to the outside world is through his telephone, which he uses to command every necessity from a series of random and anonymous delivery people, including the pizza that he lives on and the hundreds of discarded pizza cartons he meticulously stacks in and around his cramped apartment. But one day is different – his pizza arrives thanks to a lovely young woman who succeeds in catching the shut-in’s eye. Suddenly an earthquake strikes Tokyo , prompting the beautiful young delivery woman to faint in her client’s apartment. And then the unthinkable happens – the hikikimori falls hopelessly in love. Time passes and the shut-in discovers through another pizza delivery person that the improbable object of his affections has become a hikikimori in her own right. Taking a bold leap into the unknown, our hero crosses the threshold of his apartment and takes to the streets in search of his mystery girl, at last discovering his kindred spirit at the very moment another earthquake strikes.

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2008 Oscar’s Winners

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor”
Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn in “Milk” WINNER
Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Josh Brolin in “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” WINNER
Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road”

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”
Melissa Leo in “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
Kate Winslet in “The Reader” WINNER

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Amy Adams in “Doubt”
Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” WINNER
Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler”

Best animated feature film of the year

“Bolt”
“Kung Fu Panda”
“WALL-E” WINNER

Achievement in art direction

“Changeling”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” WINNER
“The Dark Knight”
“The Duchess”
“Revolutionary Road”

Achievement in cinematography

“Changeling”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
“The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) WINNER

Achievement in costume design

“Australia”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” West
“The Duchess” WINNER
“Revolutionary Road”

Achievement in directing

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
“Milk” (Focus Features)
“The Reader”
“Slumdog Millionaire” WINNER

Best documentary feature

“The Betrayal
“Encounters at the End of the World”
“The Garden”
“Man on Wire” WINNER
“Trouble the Water”

Best documentary short subject

“The Conscience of Nhem En”
“The Final Inch”
“Smile Pinki” WINNER
“The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306” A

Achievement in film editing

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“Slumdog Millionaire” WINNER

Best foreign language film of the year

“The Baader Meinhof Complex”
“The Class”
“Departures” WINNER
“Revanche”
“Waltz with Bashir”

Achievement in makeup

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” WINNER
“The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Defiance” (Paramount Vantage)
“Milk” (Focus Features)
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) WINNER
“WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures

“Down to Earth” from “WALL-E”
“Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” WINNER
“O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire”

Best motion picture of the year

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
“Milk” (Focus Features)
“The Reader”
“Slumdog Millionaire” WINNER

Best animated short film

“La Maison en Petits Cubes” WINNER
“Lavatory – Lovestory”
“Oktapodi”
“Presto”
“This Way Up”

Best live action short film

“Auf der Strecke
“Manon on the Asphalt”
“New Boy”
“The Pig”
“Spielzeugland (Toyland)” WINNER

Achievement in sound editing

“The Dark Knight” WINNER
“Iron Man”
“Slumdog Millionaire”
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

Achievement in sound mixing

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.),
“Slumdog Millionaire” WINNER
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

Achievement in visual effects

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” WINNER
“The Dark Knight”
“Iron Man”

Adapted screenplay

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Doubt”
“Frost/Nixon”
“The Reader”
“Slumdog Millionaire” WINNER

Original screenplay

“Frozen River”
“Happy-Go-Lucky”
“In Bruges”
“Milk” WINNER
“WALL-E”

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Lionsgate’s DVD Releases for February 24, 2009

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Ironweed

Francis Phelan (Nicholson), a drunken former baseball player is running away from life and the painful, guilty memories that haunt him. Helen Archer (Streep), is Francis’s longtime girlfriend and partner in drink. Together they lament the misery of life and ponder their tragic pasts, hoping to find a way to free themselves from their troubled lives. Told in a series of drunken flashbacks, Ironweed is a dark portrait of depression-era hopelessness and a searing character-driven drama.

Release Date: February 24, 2009

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My Wife & Kids Season One

In this upbeat family comedy, Michael Kyle (Wayans) is a self-made entrepreneur who dreams of a simple, traditional life in Connecticut. However, that dream is pushed further and further from reach by his wife Janet (Campbell-Martin) and their three kids – Michael aka “Junior” (George O. Gore, II, TV’s “New York Undercover”), Claire (Jennifer Freeman, Mercy Street) and Kady (Parker McKenna Posey, Alice Upside Down). Michael and Janet do their best to keep their sanity through one family crisis after another. However, through all the problems and distractions, the Kyles manage to put family first and teach their kids meaningful life lessons.

Release Date: February 24, 2009

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Happy-Go-Lucky DVD Details

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Here are the DVD details for Happy Go Lucky. The DVD will be release on March 10, 2009 by Walt Disney Home Entertainment.

DVD Bonus Features
• Audio Commentary by director Mike Leigh and actress Sally Hawkins
• Happy in Character – Director Mike Leigh and the cast of Happy-Go-Lucky discuss the characters, story, process and creation of the film.
• Behind the Wheel of Happy-Go-Lucky – A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the film’s “studio on wheels,” and a conversation with cast and crew about what it was like to to shoot so many crucial scenes behind the wheel of a car in actual traffic.

Synopsis
School teacher Poppy (Sally Hawkins) approaches every day with an optimism and joy that is unshakable. When the bicycle she commutes to work on is stolen, Poppy simply signs up for driving lessons. Her teacher, Scott (Eddie Marsan), is a fuming, uptight cynic who channels his anger into hilariously inappropriate episodes of road rage. But neither Scott, her bitter pregnant sister, a fiery flamenco instructor or a class room bully can change the Happy-Go-Lucky girl’s “glass half full” world view in writer-director Mike Leigh’s funny, truthful and deeply life-affirming film.

Aspect ratio: widescreen (2:35:1)
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround
Languages: English

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Mancora Trailer

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Here is the trailer for Maya Entertainment Film, Mancora. The film is set to open in theaters March 20, 2009. Directed by Ricardo de Montreuil

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From the director of LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO (MY BROTHER’S WIFE), and the writer of VOCES INOCENTES (INNOCENT VOICES) comes MÁNCORA, a tender and pulsating road-trip drama that delicately traces the shifting emotional boundaries between three disconnected souls.

MÁNCORA introduces us to Santiago, a 21-year old from Lima who is haunted by his father’s recent and unexpected suicide. Suffocating in the chill of a grey Lima winter, Santiago decides to take refuge in MÁNCORA, a beach town in the north of the country where summer never ends. Right before his departure, Santiago receives an unexpected visit from his stepsister Ximena, a vibrant, sexy Spanish photographer and her husband Iñigo, a brash art-collector from New York.

The tranquility of their getaway is quickly shattered by a powerful act of boundary-crossing and betrayal, which threatens to transform their relationship forever and turn Máncora into a paradise lost.

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Jonas Brothers The 3D Concert Experience Films Clips

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Here are 5 clips for Walt Disney’s film “Jonas Brothers The 3D Concert Experience”. The Documentary is set to open in theathers February 27, 2009

JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE Featurette

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BURNIN’ UP

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CUT TO THE CHASE

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PUSHING ME AWAY

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S.O.S.

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The JONAS BROTHERS head to the big screen—in Disney Digital 3-D™—in a high-energy Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary feature film event from director Bruce Hendricks (“Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert”). The film blends excerpts from the Brothers’ red-hot “Burning Up” concert tour, including guest performances from Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, off-the-wall segments, a never-before-heard song (“Love Is On Its Way”), swarming fans and a lot of JB-style humor—giving fans never-before-seen insights into the lives of KEVIN, JOE and NICK.

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ROBERT RODRIGUEZ TO DIRECT AND WRITE NERVERACKER

Friday, February 20th, 2009

From the Press Release

Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Spy Kids) is back in business with Dimension Films. Rodriguez’s next project will be the futuristic action thriller Nerveracker, which he is writing and directing. The announcement was made today by Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company.

Nerveracker is set in the year 2085 and centers on the character Joe Tezca, part of an elite unit who is sent in to stop a crime wave amongst a perfect futuristic society. In the process, he discovers that “Nerverackers” are on a rampage for control of the city. Tezca consequently sets forth on a mission to reveal the cover up by the ruling class and stop the “Nerverackers” before time runs out. Nerveracker is set for an April 16, 2010 release.

Bob Weinstein stated: “My relationship with Robert started over fourteen years ago with From Dusk Till Dawn, and since then we’ve worked on a dozen films together. Robert has been an integral part of Dimension’s growth and success and I’m looking forward to being back in business with him on Nerveracker. With movies like Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, and Sin City, Robert’s vision is always one step ahead and I think that is what Nerveracker will be.”

“This is one of those projects that we dreamed about making for years, and now the timing is right to finally do it,” stated Robert Rodriguez. “Bob has always been encouraging and shown genuine excitement for my ideas. That gets me pumped to make them realities.”

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