Twilight - Updated Teaser Trailers

September 5th, 2008

Here is the new updated teaser trailer for Summit Entertainment Twilight. The film based on the best-selling Novel “Twilight” by STEPHENIE MEYER, will be in theatres November 21st.

Updated Teaser Trailer 1

Updated Teaser Trailer 2

TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks , Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands – and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. But he doesn’t have fangs, and he doesn’t drink human blood; Edward and his family are unique among vampires in their lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), the Cullens’ mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for her?

ABOUT TWILIGHT: Based on the current #1 New York Times Bestselling series (30 weeks and counting) with over 7.5 million books in print by Stephenie Meyer, TWILIGHT is a cultural phenomenon, with a dedicated fanbase that eagerly awaits this movie. There are over 100 fan sites devoted to Twilight, and it has been chosen as the New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Amazon’s “Best Book of the Decade…So Far”, Teen People’s “Hot List” Pick, The American Library Association’s “Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults” and “Top Ten Books for Reluctant Readers” and has been translated into 20 languages. Critically acclaimed director Catherine Hardwicke brings to life this modern, visual, and visceral Romeo & Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair – between vampire and
mortal.

Humboldt County Trailer

September 4th, 2008

Here is the trailer for Magnolia Pictures’ Humboldt County. The dramatic comedy is set to open September 26, 2008 in NY and LA. The film is directed by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobsand Travis. Wright. HUMBOLDT COUNTY was an official selection of the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. The cast includes Jeremy Strong, Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy and Brad Dourif


Located on the far North Coast of California and on the margins of society is a region nicknamed “The Lost Coast” but geographically known as HUMBOLDT COUNTY .

It is there, amongst the state’s breathtaking Redwood forests that marijuana farmers co-exist peacefully within the rural community. It is there that Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong), a promising but tightly-wound UCLA med student, finds himself stranded when he’s deposited at the multi-generational family home of the free-spirited Bogart (Fairuza Balk), following a drunken one-night stand.

Frustrated and disillusioned with his life after his professor/father (Peter Bogdanovich) fails him on an important exam, the unworldly Peter at first rejects the welcoming yet eccentric pot-smoking strangers, along with their eclectic group of friends and fellow farmers, but soon allows himself to be embraced by their ideals and begins to see life a bit clearer: despite the smoke.

Eli Stone Season One DVD Review

September 3rd, 2008

Back on January 31 of this year and as part of the 2007-2008 Fall season , ABC debuted the dramatic comedy “Eli Stone”. A series created by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, producers of the smash hit “Brothers and Sisters”. Eli Stone’s pilot was well promoted by ABC and aired it following the season premier of ABC’s Lost. Walt Disney Home Entertaining, will be releasing the complete first season of this absorbing and surprising series on DVD on September 2, 2008.

This is ones of those series that you have to give it a chance to find the magic, and probably many people did during its television run. Ratings for the show were so good for ABC that the show was pick up for a second season this upcoming Fall. At first you may thing this is just another series about a Corporate America law firm. Even by watching the previews, many will compared it to the television series Ally McBeal with the only difference that Eli is a male. However Eli Stone is more than the private life of individuals working at law firm. What works in this series is the ability for its writes and creators to deliver an inspirational message that can be received by many in different ways. Some will see as faith , while others will see as, destiny or coincidence. The truth is that at any point the audience feels the pressure of being force into a particular belief.

Most of the trial cases presented in the series are about the same cases we have seen in other law firm series, What sets this series apart is that each of those cases are representing a part of the life of Eli. making Eli Stone a total original series.

Like it happens with any good new television series, the cast is as good as the show is and Eli Stone is not the exception. English actor Jonny Lee Miller as Eli Stone and Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge as Taylor play and outstanding starring roles in the series, both lead by veterans actors Victor Garber (Jordan Wethersby) and Loretta Devine (Patti). As we have seen from the series previews George Michaels music plays an important part of Eli Stone with five songs performance and one appearance as himself in the episode “I Want Your Sex”. I’m going to skip talking about his performance as an actor, because it is George Michael.

Eli Stone also offers an very good cinematography with beautiful shoots of the city of San Francisco, that it would awake the nostalgia to many people that lived or visited the city in the past.

Eli Stone The Complete First Season includes all 13 episodes, all in widescreen (1.78:1) with a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. As for bonus features is concern, this first season includes and extended Pilot Episode running 3 more minutes than the television aired episode. This extended episode comes with Audio Commentary by the creators of the show. It also include a total of seven deleted scenes all worth watching. As part of the behind the scenes this first complete series includes four short featurettes, covering the key elements of this young series.

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Pierce Brosnan’s Married Life Blu-ray Review

September 3rd, 2008

Married Life deals with just that, the life of married people. Harry Allen (Chris Cooper) and Pat Allen (Patricia Clarkson) seem to be a happily married couple. However, one thing is wrong, Pat cannot provide Harry will the level of emotional attachment he needs. Harry is a true romantic and even though he loves Pat, he knows something is missing. Harry finds what he is missing in Kay Nesbitt (Rachel McAdams) and experiences the kind of love that he wants for the rest of his life. Harry determined to leave Pat confines his predicament in his best friend Richard Langley (Pierce Brosnan).

Richard gives Harry friendly advice until he meets Kay and even though he has never been the kind of guy to go with just one girl he instantly falls in love with Kay. Meanwhile, Harry not knowing how to break the news to his wife, that he is leaving her, decides to poison her. While Richard begins to romance Kay, he obtains information that can set both Harry and Pat free, but decides that his happiness is more important.

Everybody already knows that married life isn’t always bliss and his movie does an amazing job depicting those circumstances. The movie, set in the 40s is a nice depiction of the time. Chris Cooper who usually plays the creepy silent roles is excellent and brings some of the creepiness to the table he too. Pierce Brosnan, who oozes charisma, also does an excellent job. The rest of the cast, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams, also deliver top notch performances.

Sony Picture Classics had done an amazing job with Blu-ray disk for Married Life. The movie had vivid colors and not one artifact can be found. The disk also includes three alternate endings. The only bad thing is that they didn’t include a behind the scenes, but the alternate endings are interesting enough. The first alternate ending is very strange and I’m glad they didn’t go with it. In it Harry accidentally crashes his car and his wife dies. At the hospital Harry asks Richard to kill him with the poison, and Richard is shown in court testifying to what he did. The second alternate ending is almost the same as the first except that Richard is shown narrating the story and not testifying in court. The third alternate ending is much less somber than the previous two. In the third alternate ending, Harry doesn‘t crash and the movie ends with his wife‘s head on his shoulder and Harry smiling. Of all the ending, I prefer the one they went with.

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Cool Hand Luke DVD Clips

September 2nd, 2008

Here are some DVD clips from the classic “Cool Hand Luke” staring Paul Newman. The DVD and Blu-ray are set to release this September 9, 2008 by Warner Home Entertainment

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BOSS GODFREY

PRISION RULES