Movieholics -just like me- world wide are anxiously awaiting July 22nd due to the release of the summer blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger and I think it might be related to the fact that they say this movie takes super hero action to a whole new level. Plus, Captain America is one of the most successful fictional super hero characters from Marvel Comics.
Captain America: The First Avenger was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and was directed by Joe Johnson (“Jumanji”, “2001 Jurassic Park III”, “The Wolfman”). The movie takes place in the earlier years when volunteer Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) decides to participate in an experiment that literally takes over his life. Steve develops an alter ego known as “Captain America”, who has a main goal and focus is to defend the world against evil. This comes as no easy task for Steve and he joins forces with James ‘Bucky’ Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), who wage a war against the villains of the world.
Captain America: The First Avenger Movie trailer HD
Mars Needs Moms‘ movie trailer has just been released online and in HD. I’m talking about Walt Disney Pictures’ new 3D animation movie which is still in production. The film is being directed by Simon Wells -director of The Time Machine (2001), movie based on H.G. Wells’ book- and produced by ImageMovers Digital, the company created by Robert Zemeckis.
The movie follows a young boy named Milo (Seth Green) who sets out on a mission to rescue his mom ( Joan Cusack ) after she, as well as other moms, are kidnapped by Martians from Mars, who are intent on bringing Earth’s moms to their planet to raise their “children”.
Mars Needs Momsis the latest big-budgeted 3D animation feature from Walt Disney Pictures and its production uses the same motion-capture technology chosen by Robert Zemeckis while making The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol. This film is expected to perform well enough at the box office, even though it seems it’s going to be a children’s choice.
But we’ll have to wait since Mars Needs Moms ‘ official release date is March 11th, 2011. Good thing is it will be available on both Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.
I ran into the official trailer of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s new movie Biutiful and I must say I’m intrigued about it. I love when a trailer actually makes me want to see a movie! It’s ridiculous the way some of the directors and editors could end up with an awful trailer that push people away and luckily this isn’t the case.
Javier Bardem stars as Uxbal, a troubled father living with two children in present day Barcelona. He helps a group of Chinese immigrants work illegal jobs that pay under the table which provide knock-off products that Senegalese immigrants then sell illegally on the streets. His wife is a prostitute with bipolar disorder and he soon discovers that he may not be alive much longer. And all those facts are presented to you on the trailer so there’s no spoiler here.
Here’s an interesting fact about this movie: Biutiful is the first film Iñárritu has made without screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga -who wrote Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel – so this is an experiment that could go wrong but I guess Iñárritu is going for an Oscar here, even though the film didn’t win the Palme d’Or this year at 2010 Cannes Film Festival…
I was about to write a movie recommendation but I changed my mind so here are my thoughts on a movie that hasn’t been released yet.
Let’s start by saying I saw the devil was banned from public theaters in Korea. According to the Korea Media Rating Board, the movie has scenes that “severely damaged the dignity of human values” so they gave I saw the devil a “restricted rating” which means the film is only eligible for limited screenings in special theaters which exclusively program adult films. As no such theaters exist in Korea, the film is effectively banned. The producers made some changes and after twice being refused a releasable rating, I saw the devil has finally been cleared for release with a ‘teen restricted’ rating, the highest allowed in Korea’s cinema chains.
So this movie must contain some action… The movie was directed by Kim Ji-woon , same director of A tale of two sisters and The Good, the Bad, the Weird, and paired two of South Korea’s best actors: Oldboy‘s Choi Min-sik and The Good, the Bad, the Weird’s Lee Byung-Hyun. The trailer + the cast + the director + the synopsis made me want to see this film as soon as it’s released: I saw the devil seems to be some kind of a hybrid of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
What’s this movie about?
Kim Ji-woon takes the tried and true serial killer formula but not before flipping it on its disturbed head… Here’s the official synopsis:
Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a maniacal serial killer who drives a yellow school bus and preys on young women. He captures and kills his victims, but their deaths are not the end of his madness. While the police have been aware of his actions for some time, they have never been able to put a name or face to his crimes.
When the corpse of a retired police chief’s pregnant daughter surfaces, things change gears and the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. Yet it is not the girl’s father who swears vengeance, but rather her secret agent fiancé, Joo-yeon (Lee Byung-Hyun), who decides to track down the perpetrator himself. Anyone with even the remotest information on the killer’s whereabouts is in for a bloody beating. But when his mission starts to come together, Joo-yeon morphs into quite a disturbing monster himself.
I’ve read more about this movie but I won’t be sharing everything with you guys because I don’t want to spoil this one for you. TwitchFilm reviewed I saw the devil and Swarez said something I think might help me convince you this might be one hell of a movie:
Revenge is a dish best served cold, someone once said. In Kim Ji-woon’s I saw the devil, revenged is served so fucking cold it’s like a block of ice smashed across your face.
Movieholics -just like me- world wide are anxiously awaiting July 22nd due to the release of the summer blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger and I think it might be related to the fact that they say this movie takes super hero action to a whole new level. Plus, Captain America is one of the most successful fictional super hero characters from Marvel Comics.
