JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO COME OUT AND VOTE...

"Denizen McCain" is the upcoming drama to be staged by the Republican National Committee September 1 - 8, 2008 at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. The story promises to unveil the life of John Sidney McCain, III, born in 1936, a man whose public career has been lived of idealistic social service, and promises not to gradually evolve into a ruthless pursuit of power. Voted the Republican  Presidential nominee principally through dismal historical flashbacks, the saga continues as the world tries to solve the mystery of; "where's the oil, bud?"

~ Anemi

CITIZEN KANE ~ THEATRICAL TRAILER ~ 1941

IGN has the first trailer for Knowing from director Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot).  The film stars Nicolas Cage.  Check out the trailer after the jump.

Synopsis
Nicolas Cage stars in Summit Entertainment's apocalyptic thriller Knowing, a tale concerning a father that finds a time capsule at his son's school that predicts the end of the world and their direct connection to it. Dark City's Alex Proyas directs the film from a script he worked on with a group of screenwriters, including book author Ryne Pearson.

Knowing hits theaters on March 20, 2009.

Watch the SD version below, or click here to watch it in high-definition.

The Trailer

 

Synopsis
Keanu Reeves tops this adaptation of the seminal 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still with this 20th Century Fox production. Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) helms the story of an alien traveler, Klaatu (Reeves), who heads to Earth along with his bodyguard robot, Gort, to deliver a warning of planetary destruction if the people of the world fail to bring peace to their civilizations. Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Kathy Bates co-star in the Ryne Douglas Pearson-penned film.

The Day The Earth Stood Still hits theaters on December 12, 2008.

You can watch the trailer in SD below, or click here to watch it in HD.

This looks great! Blindness has a really cool and creepy premise and it is drawing a lot of comparison to The Happening which I have still yet to see. I hadn't heard anything about this movie before today, and I'm not sure how this one got past me. I'm a big fan of both Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore and with Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal involved as well, I can't wait.

-Travis

Anyways, this is the Hancock teaser, with Will Smith.

This is the trailer.

                             VERNON AND ARKANSAS

                 

Above, home of President George Washington (in Mt. Vernon)

                                   

Above, home of store Arkansas Flag and Banner (in Little Rock)

 

                            

In June of  1944 President Roosevelt signed the "G.I. Bill".... 

 

                               

In June of 1956 President Eisenhower signed the "Federal Highway Act"....

PLUS....

MOVIES, RECIPES,  AND MUSIC (Below)

DVD Rentals.....

"Patton"  starring George C. Scott

and...."Born On The Fourth of July" starring Tom Cruise

                                

RECIPES:  Renee's 4th of July Sandwiches (The Monte Cristo)

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AT THE MOVIES--NOW PLAYING (click link below)

www.firstshowing.net/schedule2008/#jun

ABOUT COWTOWN DENVER: Megan, who is employed on the 4th floor of the Denver Public Library is a "filthy dog" who is a "sexual harasser" who also needs to be made to register as a "sex offender".  Dana , who is also employed on the 4th floor of the Denver Public Libarary, will "go to prison" with the other "criminals" employed in the Denver Public Library.  Rosa Ann is a "black dog" who will NOT break into my home to steal papers.  Fofi--the head of the Denver Public Library will "go to prison" too.  The Denver Public Library is NOT a library it is a TOILET.  These "poor" "broke" employees of the Denver Public Libraries need to "go rob a bank" or "set up a meth lab" to get money because I'm not going to let any of this criminal "filth" make money on Renee Ashley Baker.  I, Renee Ashley Baker, am going to keep "working with" the DEA, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney General.

Disney will distribute Renee Ashley Baker's first motion picture, in movie theatres worldwide, under an "output deal" valued at $53.5 million dollars.  Renee Ashley Baker will make a profit of $104.3 million dollars....

P.S. Madonna is the "Dog" that I'm not going to let "sniff up underneath my dress"....

This one ain't. It's awesome. It's got Amy Smart ripping her own jaw off. What's not to love about that?

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CAPTION:  Ghengis Khan is all up in this yurt.

So last week I saw that flick Mongol, you know, the new epic about Ghengis Khan made by a Russian director (Sergei Bodrov), starring a Japanese dude (Tadonubo Asano), nominated for an Oscar, and inexplicably released stateside in the middle of the summer movie season.  It was a pretty good movie that held my interest for two hours by exposing me to a culture I know little about and featuring a well played out historical epic story arc complete with requisite kick-ass battle scenes.  Sitting there getting frosty in the air-conditioned theater while the heat and humidity raged outside, I couldn't help thinking this was a movie better suited for the prestigious autumnal season.  With the most gluttonous of film seasons in full swing (is The Dark Knight out yet?), I decided to take a look ahead at my favorite season in film and weather. 

Here I present my list of most anticipated movies for Fall 2008:

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1.  The Miracle at St. Anna  (scheduled release date:  9/26)

The Director:  Spike Lee

The Stars:  Derek Luke, John Leguizamo, James Gandolfini, Joseph Gordon Levitt, some cute Italian kid, Alexandra Maria Lara, and a boatload of other people and familiar faces

The Scoop:  Okay, so I will admit it right here, right now.  I love Spike Lee.  I even liked She Hate Me.  He's a cunning provocateur who's had numerous peaks and valleys in his career but just won't stop no matter what and always seems to get his name in the papers--witness Clint Eastwood telling him recently to "shut his face".  Spike is coming off the most commercially successful film of his long career with Inside Man.  With this adaptation of the novel by James McBride about a group of African-American soldiers trapped in Tuscany during WWII, he's giving us his first epic since Malcom X.    The trailer for this film is a smashing success that manages to sell the film as both a murder mystery and a searing Saving Private Ryan style WWII drama.  This latest Spike Lee Joint has so many great things going for it:  an auteur on the precipice of a personal artistic and commercial Renaissance (much like the one Scorsese recently went through with The Aviator and The Departed); a great storyline that has the potential to provoke discussions of history, race, religion and politics in a historic Presidential election year; and a multi-ethnic cast that includes a cute Italian kid, and as a special bonus for me, the devastatingly seductive Alexandra Maria Lara, whose beauty alone made Francis Ford Coppola's recent debacle Youth Without Youth worth watching.

Watch the trailer:  http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3941007641/

Official Site:  http://www.miraclemovie.com

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2.  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  (scheduled release date:  12/19)

The Director:  David Fincher

The Stars:  Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond

The Scoop:  This is the fantastic case of a gimmick film (it tells the not so simple story of a man who ages backwards, folks) with a literary pedigree (adapted from a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald).  I first saw the trailer for this in front of the latest Indiana Jones flick, and the packed house was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.  Its epic scope appears to be a complete departure for director Fincher, and its unique story and images sweep over you in the masterfully crafted trailer-much kudos thus far to the marketing team.  This film has the potential to be monumentally huge or just another curiosity grabbing for Oscar gold at Christmastime.  Will Fincher (robbed of an Oscar nod for Zodiac last year) and uber-star Pitt (robbed last year for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) finally get their due?

CAPTION:  Two Oscars please, my good man!  Oscars for me and the Finch!

Watch the trailer:  http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/thecuriouscaseofbenjaminbutton/

Official Site:  http://www.benjaminbutton.com/

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3.  Australia  (scheduled release date:  11/14)

The Director:  Baz Luhrmann

The Stars:  Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Australia!

The Scoop:  Baz the Spazz changes gears completely with this big historical epic depicting heroism and romance against the backdrop of a Japanese attack on Australia during WWII.  The trailer sells the imagery and scope of the film very well, making it look Gone with the Wind Down Under, though the frame story of Kidman telling a fairy tale to the Aborigine girl seems a bit strained (and remarkably similar to Tarsem's The Fall.)  Luhrmann appears to have abandoned his hyper kinetic style for the dreadful sumptuousness that always seems to sell tickets during the big holidays at the end of the year.  Kidman and Jackman certainly look the parts, and lord knows they could both use a big hit.   Will critics be eager to embrace the new Luhrmann after a seven year hiatus?  More than any other film, I think critics have the chance to make or break this one.

Watch the trailer:  http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2917663001/

Official Site:  http://www.australiamovie.com/

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4.  The Soloist  (scheduled release date:  11/21)

The Director:  Joe Wright

The Stars:  Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Jamie Foxx

The Scoop:  Brit Joe Wright atones for his period pieces by making this American set musical biopic.  Downey Jr. is back on the A-list, the director is taking on a genre held in high favor in recent years, and playing a schizophrenic musical genius seems right up Foxx's alley.  There are no trailers or official sites yet, but I can't wait to see what kind of tracking long shots Wright cooks up for this one--I'm picturing a shot the begins with an overhead dolly and travels down and through the crowd and orchestra at a grand concert hall.

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5.  Revolutionary Road  (scheduled release date:  12/26)

The Director:  Sam Mendes

The Stars:  Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

The Scoop:  I have to admit, the plot of this one (from a novel by Richard Yates) sounds like a snore-fest:  a young couple in 1950's Connecticut deal with problems and such.  However, Mendes has yet to make a bad film, suburban dystopia is his bread and butter (American Beauty, anyone?), and the reunion of Titanic stars Leo and Kate in a Christmastime release give this film some palpable buzz.  No trailers or official site have appeared yet. 

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Other Films of Interest:

Changeling:  10/31.  The latest from Clint Eastwood has some mixed buzz coming from its Cannes' premier.  This 1920's set psychological thriller about a mother who begins to doubt the identity of her young son who has been returned to her after going missing will have a hard line to tow while it tries to convince people it's not a remake of a horror film with the same name and is instead a prestigious Oscar bid for its uber-star Angelina Jolie.

Defiance:  12/2.  Yet another WWII epic, this one is based on a true story and staring Daniel Craig.  Directed by Edward Zwick, the film of course reeks of quality, and the trailer has been getting some good buzz (at least amongst my friends and family), but it looks nobly cliched to me.  If that new Spike Lee Joint strikes a cord, this runs the risk of being overshadowed as the later release.

Watch the trailer for Defiance:  http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2008154393/

Oh, yeah, there's also a new James Bond flick (Craig again) idiotically entitled Quantum of Solace (11/7), and a wacky crime caper from Oscar darlings the Coen Brothers zanily called Burn After Reading (9/12) and staring, you guessed it, Brad Pitt.

Watch the Quantum of Solace trailer:  http://www.moviefone.com/movie/quantum-of-solace/26922/trailer?trailerId=2150289

Update: There seems to be a problem getting the trailer to load on the site, but YouTube comes to the rescue:

Amazing. The best one yet.

The Dark Knight hits theaters on July 18, 2008.

May 10th, 2005

Bloodgnome:

another micro-budget film. all shot on video. lots of boobs, blood, and bdsm. the thing about this type of movie, is that you seem to grade 'em on a whole different scale. it's like saying some grade school kid's art is great. you wouldn't say it's great when compared to a professional artist. so when i say this wasn't BAD, i'm not saying to go watch it. i'm saying that compared to other movies made by amateurs, it's not one of the worst. it flowed well, some of the scenes were cool, and the story wasn't awful. the acting was usually very bad, but that's a given. for not having a budget, it had some really cool monster puppets.

***that man was not in the film

The Bone Snatcher:

set in the south african desert. something is killing people and leaving nothing but bones. and those bones end up disappearing later. a team of a handful of people working at a mine out there end up having to fight it. yeah. it's your basic x-files plot, minus aliens and government officials. i liked the monster alot. it was gross and not too rediculous. there wasn't much to the movie, but i think that helped it. if they had tried adding more stuff it coulda ended up going too long and would've probably gotten boring. it wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't memorable. just your basic "monster chasing a couple people around in a secluded area" film.

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scott

 

***i can't tell you how tempted i am to rewrite these things...

Sony has released the teaser trailer for the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.  The trailer will also be attached to this week's Hancock.  And as expected, it looks awesome.  Check it out below and tell me what you think in the comments.

Quantum of Solace hits theaters on November 7, 2008.  You can watch the trailer in High Definition at Moviefone.

Synopsis
A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he teams with M (Judi Dench) to interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). It soon becomes apparent that the organization behind the blackmailing of Vesper is more powerful than Bond and M had previously anticipated, and after discovering forensic evidence that links an MI6 traitor to a bank in Haiti, Bond immediately sets out to gather more intelligence.

Once in Haiti, a case of mistaken identity leads Bond into the company of the ravishing Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a dangerous beauty with her own vendetta. It's Camille who leads Bond to a ruthless businessman named Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who is soon revealed to be the mastermind of a powerful but clandestine organization. Greene is conspiring to corner the market on one of the world's most precious natural resources, and in order to make that happen he has forged a deal with an exiled general named Medrano (Joaquin Cosio). By enlisting the aid of his many associates and using his vast resources to force contacts within the CIA and the British government into bending to his will, Greene plans to overthrow the current regime of a Latin American country and hand control over to General Medrano in exchange for a parcel of land that appears barren on the surface, but actually houses a natural resource that will make Greene the most powerful man on the planet. But Bond's mission to uncover the culprit who blackmailed Vesper and prevent Dominic Greene from exerting his will on the entire world won't be easy, because now everyone from the CIA to the terrorists and even M are out to get him.

Baron Davis is really the best.  I mean, between the beard, hipster glasses, his enormous knee brace, and one of the greatest dunks of all time, how could you not cheer for the guy?  The only way we could love him more is if he grew a jheri curl and started rocking James Worthy goggles during games.  Now he's teamed up with legendary skater turned filmmaker, Stacy Peralta, to produce his first film, "Made In America."

The documentary takes a deep look at gang life and culture in L.A. and sheds light on the history and untold stories behind the Crips and Bloods.  It just premiered at the L.A. Film Festival and if the trailer is any indication, should be gripping.

* * * Update: And speaking of MADE IN AMERICA, Mr. Davis has decided to opt out of his contract and join the NBA's free agent market.  Does this mean the end of Golden State's run as the craziest/funnest team in the league? * * *

* * * Update to the update: ESPN is reporting that Baron Davis has signed with the Clippers?????  Welcome home, Baron. * * *

It looks good. I was really impressed by Daniel Craig's performance in Casino Royale, as well as the film as a whole. No matter what anyone says, Daniel Craig was the best choice for the role. It doesn't look like I'll be let down by this film either.

Quantum of Solace currently has a November 7th release date.

-Travis

I haven't accepted Daniel Craig as Bond yet.  Maybe I will give it a try this time.

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