Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 21
Side Effects From Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) comes this suspenseful and provocative tale of intrigue starring Channing Tatum, Academy Award nominees Rooney Mara and Jude Law, and Academy Awardr winner Catherine Zeta-Jones. After her husband (Tatum) is released from prison, Emily (Mara) begins suffering from terrifying anxiety and turns to psychiatrist Dr. Banks (Law) for help. But when Banks prescribes an experimental drug for her, the side effects have chill...
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Theatrical Trailer for Pacific Rim
A brand new trailer that will be seen in theaters has arrived for Pacific Rim. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Idris Elba the film centers on the use of giant robots by humans to fight off an attack by aliens/monsters. Pacific Rim is slated to release on July 12. When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end.  To combat the giant Kaiju, a sp...
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Trailer for Riddick
The first trailer has arrived for the third movie in the Riddick saga. Beginning with 2000's Pitch Black and then 2004's The Chronicles' of Riddick, the latest film Riddick follows the character played by Vin Diesel as he is left for dead on a sun-scorched planet finding himself up against an alien race of predators. Riddick is slated to release on September 6. ...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 14
Cloud Atlas Future. Present. Past. Everything is connected. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future. Based on the New York Times...
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Teaser Trailer for Gravity
The first look at Alfonso Cuaron's (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) sci-fi thriller Gravity has arrived by way of a teaser trailer. The film stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock with the story taking place in space as astronauts attempt to get back to Earth after debris wrecks the space shuttle. Gravity is slated to release on October 4. ...
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Tom Cruise Back for Mission: Impossible 5
Paramount has announced that Tom Cruise is officially signed on for the next entry in the Mission: Impossible series. A director has yet to be chosen but Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Cruise in Jack Reacher, is considered to be the odds-on favorite. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol grossed nearly $700 million worldwide making it easily the most successful yet. Combined with the first three films the franchise has raked in over $2 billion in worldwide gross. Early in Ghost Prot...
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Teaser Trailer for The World’s End
The first at the sci-fi comedy from Edgar Wright The World's End has arrived with an international trailer. The film re-teams Simon Pegg and Nick Frost again and includes Martin Freeman and Rosamund Pike. The World's End is slated to release on August 23. 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 7
Jack Reacher From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen - ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: “Get Jack Reacher!” So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a sec...
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The Avengers 2 Will Include Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch
The latest edition of Entertainment Weekly has confirmed two new characters which will appear in The Avengers 2. Joss Whedon has written Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into the screenplay. Though it is very early in the process and re-writes will follow it's interesting that at this stage they are going to be involved and a drastic shift away from them completely would seem unlikely. Due to a licensing quirk the characters could be optioned into the X-Men films but Marvel has them availabl...
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The Wolverine CinemaCon Trailer
The trailer that played exclusively at CinemaCon for The Wolverine has made it online. Taking place after the events of X-Men 3 Hugh Jackman to the role and is directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, Knight and Day). The Wolverine is slated to release on July 26. Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a li...
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