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The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is the sole keeper of all the community’s memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past.
With this newfound power of knowledge, he realizes that the stakes are higher than imagined – a matter of life and death for himself and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all – a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
THE GIVER is based on Lois Lowry’s beloved young adult novel of the same name, which was the winner the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett) to save the city and unravel Shredder’s diabolical plan.
Based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Characters Created by PETER LAIRD and KEVIN EASTMAN with a Screenplay by JOSH APPELBAUM & ANDRÉ NEMEC and EVAN DAUGHERTY, Producer MICHAEL BAY (the blockbuster Transformers franchise) and director JONATHAN LIEBESMAN (Wrath of the Titans) bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the popular franchise that has captivated audiences of all ages for decades, into the 21st century.
From the director of YOU’RE NEXT and starring Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”), comes the first trailer for the thriller THE GUEST.
Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett screened the film on Sunday evening at Sundance NextFest 14.
Followed by a q&a, the filmmakers and cast, as well as Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE, ONLY GOD FORGIVES), showed the movie to a packed house at the Ace Hotel Theater in Los Angeles. For a recap of the night, follow the movie’s twitter page: @TheGuestUSA
A soldier (Dan Stevens) introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Empire Magazine called it “a demented action-horror hybrid of sci-fi conspiracy thriller and gore-fest”, and Vanity Fair said, “THE GUEST is big, it’s bold, it’s badass, full of flavor Hollywood wishes it could pour over its vanilla blockbusters”and “is its own beast, proving Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens—surprisingly ripped—to be total action star material.”
Also starring Maika Monroe, Leland Orser, Sheila Kelley, Brendan Meyer and Lance Reddick and produced by Keith Calder & Jessica Calder, the film will show at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Midnight Madness program.
PictureHouse will release THE GUEST in theaters September 17, in UK cinemas Sept. 5
Academy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment (Best Supporting Actor, The Sixth Sense, 1999), Emmy Award winner Gillian Anderson (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, “The X Files,” 1993), Rufus Sewell (Dark City) and Victor Garber (TV’s “Alias”) star in the sci-fi drama I’LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN, debuting on Blu-ray™ and DVD Aug. 5 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Written and directed by Richie Mehta (Siddharth), the film is a sci-fi exploration of wormholes, parallel universes, love, and the possibility of starting over. After the disappearance of an accomplished physicist (Rufus Sewell), his son Erol (Haley Joel Osment) and wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) struggle to cope. Years later, now a young scientist himself, Erol discovers a formula that could kill him, throw him into the unknown … or bring his family back together. Bonus materials include a behind-the-scenes featurette and deleted scenes.
Synopsis:
An accomplished physicist (Rufus Sewell) mysteriously disappears on a business trip. Abandoned, his wife (Gillian Anderson) and son Erol (Haley Joel Osment) struggle to cope. Years later, now a young scientist himself, Erol uncovers papers, formulas, a machine, and a mind-bending possibility. But time travel is impossible. Isn’t it? Erol’s obsession to find his father and restore his family will throw him into the unknown and possibly threaten his life. What would you do to repair the past?
I’LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN, has been getting excellent reviews:
Chris Knight of The National Post said:
“I’LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN is the thinking person’s time travel tale, a philosophical drama that poses a what-if question that carries surprising emotional heft.”
Brian Orndorf at Blu-ray.com said:
“those who enjoy more emotionally driven dissections of science and responsibility will find plenty to embrace about the feature. There’s also a chance to spy famous child actor Osment as an adult, where he shows welcome maturation in a difficult role”
Now, We Are Movie Geeks has three copies of I’LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN to give away! All you have to do is leave a comment below and tell us your favorite movie about time travel (mine of course is HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!)…It’s so easy! We’ll pick the winners next week. Good Luck!
A Marine unit stationed in the hostile province of Helmand Afghanistan wilderness faces a harrowing mission as they try to help a fugitive woman reach safety from the Taliban in JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE. Packed with intense action, thrills and the gritty reality of war, the all-new movie JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE is inspired by JARHEAD, the highly praised feature film that follows a naïve young recruit and his platoon mates from the intensity of boot camp to being deployed to a lonely outpost in a surreal desert setting.JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE transports the action to the brutal battlefields and dusty villages of Afghanistan, where a band of Marines risk their lives to save a woman fleeing certain death at the hands of her Taliban pursuers.
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merriman (Josh Kelly) is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEALflags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merriman and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety. JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE is a thrilling action-adventure that celebrates the courage and patriotism of the men and women in the U.S. Marines.
JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE will be released on Blu-ray August 19th but We Are Movie Geeks has already seen it!
The original JARHEAD had a satirical bent and was less about the insanity of warfare in the jungle than the insanity of inaction, boredom and frustration in the desert. JARHEAD was also directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes and had an A-list cast that included Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Fox. JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE is directed by John Michael Paul, whose credits include the TV quasi-sequels LAKE PLACID: THE FINAL CHAPTER and TAKEN: THE SEARCH FOR SOPHIE PARKER. It stars Stephen Lange, basically recreating his character from AVATAR (nothing wrong with that), actor Josh Kelly, who served three tours in Afghanistan and one in Iraq as an Army Ranger before starting his acting career mostly in TV, and Cole Hauser. It’s a cheaper-looking film featuring mostly hand-to-hand combat as opposed to large-scale battles or helicopter rescues, but the action is excruciating and relentless, and director Paul doesn’t spare the audience. If anything, he rubs our noses in the blood, sweat, and tears of combat. Bullets pierce bodies with sickening force and frequency, bones shatter, men die. JARHEAD is more in the mode of LONE SURVIVOR and more conventional in its tone than its predecessor and is a good, tough, satisfying war film.
JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE looks very good on Blu-ray, offering a sharp image that bolsters the film’s gritty intensity. The movie is provided with a 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 transfer in the 2.40:1 aspect ratio. This is a nicely detailed and impressive image that leaves little to complain about. Visual clarity is very strong, revealing a great sense of fine detail. Close-ups are especially striking, highlighting every dirty pore and unkempt whisker on the soldiers’ faces. Depth is also impressive, bringing a life-like sense of dimension to the image. Colors adhere to a palette that favors browns, yellows, beiges, and greens, emphasizing the Afghanistan wilderness setting. Contrast is high but well balanced and black levels are solid and consistent.
The film is presented with an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix along with a Spanish DTS 5.1 mix. Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles are also included. Nuanced, spacious, and absolutely assaulting when it needs to be, this is a powerful and fully enveloping track.
The only extras are a pair of deleted scenes.
JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE will be available on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack including Blu-ray™, DVD & DIGITAL HD on August 19, 2014, including both an R-rated and Unrated version as part of the DVD Originals™ line from Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production entity of Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The film will also be available on DIGITAL HD two weeks early on August 5, 2014.
Despite some budgetary limitations, JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF FIRE is a solid action film and worth a purchase for fans of good war stories.
The official is here for Relativity Studios’ upcoming movie, THE BEST OF ME.
Starring Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato, this timeless love story opens in theaters nationwide on October 17.
Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks, THE BEST OF ME tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend.
Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they’ve never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today. Spanning decades, this epic love story captures the enduring power of our first true love, and the wrenching choices we face when confronted with elusive second chances.
From director Michael Hoffman, the film also stars Luke Bracey, Liana Liberato, Caroline Goodall, Sebastian Arcelus, Jon Tenney and Gerald McRaney.
The first trailer is here for BEYOND THE LIGHTS.The new romantic drama was written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw (BELLE), Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Colson “MGK” Baker and Danny Glover.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is starring in the upcoming thriller THE WHOLE TRUTH – 2015 (directed by Courtney Hunt, written by Nicholas Kazan) with Keanu Reeves, Gabriel Basso, Renée Zellweger and Jim Belushi.
Nate Parker can be seen now in director Jesse Zwick’s ABOUT ALEX.
BEYOND THE LIGHTS is the story of Noni, the music world’s latest superstar. But not all is what it seems, and the pressures of fame have Noni on the edge – until she meets Kaz Nicol, a young cop and aspiring politician who’s been assigned to her detail.
Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance. But it is ultimately Kaz’s love that gives Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.
TheCapitol.PN was hacked yesterday by the rebel underground, revealing six profound DISTRICT 13 CITIZEN POSTERS. These posters include some of our most courageous leaders from District 13: PRESIDENT COIN, FINNICK, PLUTARCH, BEETEE, EFFIE and HAYMITCH.
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The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.
The movie is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 65 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.
The cast includes Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket), Julianne Moore (President Coin), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Plutarch Heavensbee), Jeffrey Wright (Beetee), Sam Claflin (Finnick Odair), Jena Malone (Johanna Mason), with Stanley Tucci (Caesar Flickerman), and Donald Sutherland (President Snow).
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 opens nationwide November 21
Time to check in again to THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL. Fox Searchlight Pictures invites you back to Jaipur, India with this new teaser for the film, opening in theaters March 6, 2015.
The sequel sees the return of Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Fans of Smith can expect to see the 2-time Oscar winning actress on the big and little screen this autumn and I suspect during the upcoming Awards Season. She’s nominated again with an Emmy for Supporting Actress (Drama) for “Downton Abbey” and her work on the upcoming film MY OLD LADY, alongside Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas, is without a doubt Smith’s finest work in years and definitely worth some Oscar attention.
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL is the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it’s making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). Sonny has his eye on a promising property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig).
Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and are wondering where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead, while Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) are negotiating the tricky waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two eligible and very wealthy suitors.
Perhaps the only one who may know the answers is newly installed co-manager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), the keeper of everyone’s secrets. As the demands of a traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf them all, an unexpected way forward presents itself.
John Madden will again direct with the script by Ol Parker.
Directed and produced by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren With John Wojtowicz, Liz Eden, Theresa Wojtowicz, Carmen Wojtowicz, Stan Thaler, Donnie Fazekas
Any movie geek who has been around for any length of time must have seen Dog Day Afternoon, one of the seminal movies from the 1970s, the movie that put Al Pacino in the top rung of movie actors and one of the classic movies on Sidney Lumet’s resume. Dog Day Afternoon is also one of the most loved and quoted from New York movies.
Movies filmed in New York City are their own special breed, especially crime movies, the French Connection, The Seven Ups, Prince of the City, King of New York, Crazy Joe, The Godfather franchise, a long and distinguished list. Dog Day Afternoon joined that line up in 1975 and recreated a media circus that surrounded a bank robbery that went very wrong on a hot summer day in Brooklyn.
Dog Day Afternoon was based on a true story about John Wojtowicz, a Vietnam Veteran, who planned on robbing the bank to finance a sex change operation for his gay lover, Ernest Aron, who eventually was surgically changed into Liz Eden.
Here we get the whole story, as told by John himself, who never gets tired of talking about himself, in THE DOG an absolutely fascinating, jaw dropping documentary being released this month on vod and dvd.
Folks, you have to see this thing to believe it.
First off let me say I love New York City. I’ve been there enough times to know I love the city and also enough to know I could never live there. And I love people from New York. During my time in the Navy in the late 1970s I served with ship mates from all over the Eastern seaboard, especially New York and New Jersey. Wonderful people, but they sure do love to talk. Which brings us to John Wojtowicz (don’t ask me to pronounce it, he pronounces it several times in the course of the documentary and I swear I heard it differently every single time!) who claims to be Brooklyn Italian (with that name?)
During my time in the Navy I ran a television station on board an aircraft carrier and we showed Dog Day Afternoon several times. Every time we broadcast that movie I would hear from New Yorkers who had either been there, knew somebody who had been there, saw the whole thing on television, kept their money in that bank, all of that and so much more.
In the course of THE DOG we learn all about John ( I am NOT going to retype that last name every time!), maybe too much. This guy is full of contradictions, full of hot air too. He was a Goldwater Republican at the start of the 60s, joined the Army and served in Vietnam. Switched to a Eugene McCarthy Democrat when he saw the very real possibility that he might get killed in Vietnam. Married and Fathered two children by a young woman named Carmen, who we hear a great deal from, John is also openly, proudly gay. The word bisexual is never spoken by him, other witnesses yes, but John never says that.
After the Stonewall riots John became very active in the gay rights movement, changing his name to LittleJohn Basso, Little John because he had a small penis (you see what I mean about too much information?)
We hear a lot from John’s Mother, Theresa, whose New York accent is so thick she is subtitled throughout the documentary. John’s Mother tells us that she knew all about John’s sexual misadventures before he ever told her. She claims to have followed him into Greenwich Village and spied on him through the windows of gay bars.
John is not at all shy when talking about his sexual orientation, he liked to fuck, he enjoyed women as much as men but found it easier to get sex from men. He was, mostly, a top, until he went to prison after the robbery and learned about life on the bottom.
When hear a lot from John about his sex habits. He was not only a gay activist early on he was a very ahead of the curve proponent of gay marriage. He wanted a sex change for Ernie in order to marry him. Which he did, before the operation. In one of those ironic curve balls that happen in real life Ernie could not get the sex change because the bank robbery went all wrong, but got the money and the operation anyway with money John received from the movie.
While John was in prison the warden was not going to allow the movie to be shown. John got Dog Day Afternoon shown anyway and became a huge celebrity in his own right. In fact long before the movie was even being planned John was a huge media celebrity. We hear from several witnesses, including personnel who worked at the bank who say, and rightly so, that John should not be making money and earning celebrity status because of a majorly botched bank robbery. The guy was a criminal, and not a very good one, and obviously mentally unhinged.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter, THE DOG is fascinating from start to finish. We hear from Ernie before and after becoming Liz Eden. We hear from yet another wife of John’s, a transvestite he met and was protected by in prison. We also hear from John’s psychiatrist who advises that John’s Mother, Terry was the real love of his life, and that in his opinion, yes, John was a whack job.
Whatever else he was John was a fascinating character. And I say was because in the course of the documentary we see John lose a drastic amount of weight and then reveal that he is dying of cancer. Our last glimpses of John are as unsettling as watching Roger Ebert deteriorate in Life Itself.
We also meet John’s brother Tony, mentally challenged and placed in a home, Tony gets to pal around with John and they get a day to go to Coney Island. Tony’s speaking voice is so thick he is sub titled also.
Their day together at Coney Island is sweet, sad, touching and heart breaking. As is every moment of this incredible documentary. Yes John broke the law and put people’s lives in danger, he also gave Al Pacino the role of a lifetime and got for himself a lot more than the 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol spoke of. John loved his family, loved his life and loved people of both sexes. Dog is heartfelt, sincere and never panders, this is not an exploitative documentary, far from it.
If you love the movies and more importantly if you love people you have got to see THE DOG.
THE DOG opens in theaters August 8th and On Demand August 15th.
