After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale (Trejo) launches a brutal rampage of revenge against the people who double-crossed him.
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Historically, Labor Day tends to be a snoozefest in terms of new releases, but not this year, since Robert Rodriguez's long-awaited Planet Terror spin-off is finally set for release, in the wake of The Expendables' success, no less ... Danny Trejo's knife-wielding character was generating his own folklore, as it appeared the project was just another one of Rodriguez's great genre ideas, but everything came together in mid-2009 as cameras rolled that July in Austin. We're psyched for the Lindsay Lohanness, but really we're primed for more Cherry Darling and Jessica Alba playing opposing twin sisters. We hope the franchise talk -- both Rodriguez and Trejo have a trilogy in mind -- comes to fruition. Can we start to dream about Sin City 2 again?
An assassin hiding out in an Italian village while he anticipates his last-ever assignment tempts fate by seeking out the friendship of a priest (Bonacelli) as well as the affection of a local woman (Placido).
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Renown music-video director Anton Corbijn created an art-scene frenzy with his Joy Division biography, Control, back in 2007/08. Without any intended irony, we love that this production is so non-American (Hollywood) in its casting. All of the players surrounding Clooney should vie for the spotlight here, especially Thekla Reuten (if you've seen In Bruges, you'll know who she is) and the sensation-causing Violante Placido. Meanwhile, screenwriter Rowan Joffe has our attention, but more so for another 2010 film, Brighton Rock, his adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, which also finds him making his debut as director.
Pro football player Pat Tillman left the NFL to enlist in the U.S. Army after 9/11. Upon his death two years later, the U.S. military opted to reward him with the Purple Heart and other posthumous honors; meanwhile, his family set out to reveal the truth behind the events that claimed his life.
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Amir Bar-Lev (director of My Kid Could Paint That, producer of Trouble the Water) quickly is becoming a premiere documentarian -- though he's looking to make the jump to features with a Jerry Garcia biopic as his potential next project. We'll see what next step he takes after Tillman wins the Best Documentary Oscar. We're predicting the victory now! It'll battle it out with Restrepo.
A romantic comedy centered on a guy (Long) and a gal (Barrymore) who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between Chicago and Los Angeles to see one another.
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Drew Barrymore and Justin Long's on/off/on romance is like a real-life Paper Heart. Maybe that's what attracted documentarian Nanette Burstein (American Teen, The Kid Stays in the Picture) to make the jump to feature filmmaking.
In the second half of this biopic, internationally known criminal Jacques Mesrine (Cassel) returns to France to stand trial. What follows is an incredible true story of courtroom escapes, imprisonment, the publishing of his memoirs, reinvention, and ultimate downfall.
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct was the highest grossing specialty release in its debut frame, and distributor Music Box Films keeps us interested by releasing part two a mere week later.
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
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Unfortunately, renown director Yimou Zhang's remake of Blood Simple. initially has been received as well as Joel and Ethan Coen's version of The Ladykillers. We'll still see it, but our eyes are on the filmmaker's next project, The Love of the Hawthorn Tree.
An alcoholic, has-been coach (Rockwell) is given a second chance when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team.
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Writer-director James C. Strouse's unexpected follow-up to Grace Is Gone is an alumnus of Sundance's Class of '99, when Moon was the Sam Rockwell movie to see and co-star Rooney Mara probably had yet to hear of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I imagine the young actresses here benefitted from a Rockwell clinic; he is, after all, the Lebron James of acting (minus the unappealing ego).
Elvis (Nkosi) sets off from Johannesburg to travel the hundreds of miles that lie between him and his bride to be. Stopping first in Durban to pick up his best man (Seiphemo), their road trip goes off-track, and they pick up an English doctor (Whittaker) who questions the institution of marriage.
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I'm somewhat surprised this road movie didn't travel more of the festival circuit in the U.S., it radiates the term "crowd-pleaser".
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 200 other million peasant workers to reunite with their distant family.
Buzz:
Lixin Fan was one of the producers of the excellent documentary Up the Yangtze and here he makes his directorial debut, another look at China as an emerging superpower. Read Slant Magazine's review.
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Our Comic book company 1821 COMICS is official as of today. We already have 4 graphic novels in production that will be available everywhere in 2011. We are working with amazing artists and writers and the work looks amazing. Our plan is to make really cool books and comics for the fans and we are here to stay.
We also bought a comics magazine... "Arcana" magazine for now but thats going to change by our July issue. This magazine is cool. Not because we are a part of it but its very cool. It looks like something you want to collect and diamond is distributing so it will be everywhere very soon.
Our Stan Lee Documentary "With Great Power: The Stan Lee story" is almost done. We are actually in the last month of post production. We are so proud of this project and being such a big part of this living legends life. Next week he is being honored in Las Vegas and we ll be there.
Also, our TV series "Xtreme Sommer" is selling very well internationally and we are very happy to see it hit TV's worldwide. Many more updates to come on this front.
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