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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:19:49 +0000

Money Never Sleeps is a sequel to the 1987 popular movie Wall Street. It follows the actions of a Wall Street trader after his release from prison. The unique nature of the movie is in the fact that in this instance life imitates art, namely the original movie dealt with a fictional airline by the name of “Bluestar Airline” which was the company bankrupted by the fictional character of Michael Douglas. In reality a company named “Blue Star Jets” was in fact started in 2001 by real-life businessmen Ricky Sitomer and Todd Rome. The movie Wall Street was a favorite of both Sitomer and Rome and was the reason for the naming of their new company, “Blue Star Jets” which charters private jets. During the filming of Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone in fact utilized the private jet charter services of “Blue Star Jets” to ferry the crew on more than 1 occasion from location to location. Usually art imitates life, in this instance it the reverse, a unique situation for sure that makes this movie an interesting one.

Howl

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:13:15 +0000

Starring James Franco in a career-defining performance as Allen Ginsberg, Howl is the story of how the young poet’s seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg – poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation – recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to “Howl,” the most timeless work of his career. Howl interweaves three stories: the unfolding of the landmark 1957 obscenity trial; an imaginative animated ride through the prophetic masterpiece; and a unique portrait of a man who found new ways to express himself, and in doing so, changed his own life and galvanized a generation.

FrICTION

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:02:19 +0000

Taking unconventional storytelling to another level, filmmaker Cullen Hoback (Monster Camp, 2007) travels to a private high school where he writes a script about a real couple and the student who comes between them. However, the scripted love triangle soon tangles with reality. In the face of teenage confusion and hormones, facades fall to true feelings, hidden truths are revealed and the thin line between fiction and reality starts to blur. Weaving the original “intended” film with rehearsals and documentary elements, FrICTION breaks the wall that separates fiction from reality, challenging the very real lives of everyone involved. What remains is a one-of-a-kind story that will leave you guessing long after its shattering conclusion.

Enter the Void

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:57:54 +0000

Loosely inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Enter the Void centers on Oscar and his sister Linda, recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar is a small-time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot, but true to a promise he made Linda as a child — that he would never leave her — he refuses to abandon the world of the living. As he lies dying, his spirit wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:46:07 +0000

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.

Easy A

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:46:26 +0000

After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl (Emma Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne’s in The Scarlet Letter, which she is currently studying in school – until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

The Town

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:40:44 +0000

Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage–bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name…and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug…not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.

Last Day of Summer

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:33:16 +0000

Last Day of Summer follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who’s reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss. Finally on the last day of summer, Joe snaps and decides to take revenge on his boss but his plans are disrupted when a quick glance from a beautiful girl catches his attention leading him to kidnapping her instead, changing both their lives forever.

Kandahar Break

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:28:46 +0000

Taking place in 1999, Kandahar Break centers around a team of British mine clearance engineers working for the Taliban government in the scorching deserts of Southern Afghanistan, clearing the vast minefields after decades of conflict. Amidst the draconian laws governing men and women of this extremist regime, one of the team, Richard Lee, an ex-British Army bomb disposal expert, falls foul of corrupt local chief Ashiq Khan, who then instigates a manhunt to find and kill the infidel.

Now embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue and betrayal, Richard, an outsider in this strange and forbidding world, must escape on foot across the border into nearby Pakistan. During his journey he is ambushed by a force of rebel guerrillas, enemies of the fanatical government, who agree to help him flee the vengeful Taliban.

While shooting the political thriller in late 2008, fiction turned into reality as the cast and crew found themselves under attack by members of the Taliban near the Afghan border. Four Pakistani crew members were shot and wounded, which led to the immediate evacuation of the crew. After waiting six months to plan and refinance the last bit of filming, the original cast and crew flew to Tunisia to complete the movie.

Jack Goes Boating

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:23:13 +0000

Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace set against the backdrop of working-class New York City life. Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Connie (Amy Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship. In contrast, the couple that introduced them, Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega), have been together a long time and are confronting unresolved issues in their marriage.