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Blindness
11 December 2009 3:38 PM, PST
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With a film like Blindness, the genre of dramatic catastrophe is far to be exhausted. In technical terms, director Fernando Meirelles's adaptation of the acclaimed novel of José Saramago deserves two thumbs up. However, although Blindness is itself a quite enthralling roller coaster, there's just a minor problem in the script by Don McKellar.
In an unknown metropolis, a man is struck with blindness. The optician (Mark Ruffalo) that he saw tells him that this kind of blindness is unusual. However, most people in the society becomes blind except the optician's wife (Julianne Moore). Despite being okay, she pretends to be blind and decides to follow her husband in a quarantine building under military surveillance from outside. Once there, the internees are left to their own device and the building is divided into three wards.
Things go awry in the building. In fact, a man (Gael Garcial Bernal) declares
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- anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
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Shutter Island Foreign Movie Poster
29 November 2009 11:54 PM, PST
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Check out the latest international movie poster for the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
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Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
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- Brian Corder
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Shutter Island HD Movie Trailer
21 November 2009 11:06 PM, PST
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Watch the HD movie trailer featuring Ben Kingsley and Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
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Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
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- Brian Corder
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Birthday Suits: Nov 9th
9 November 2009 7:35 AM, PST
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Today's Birthdays 11/09
1869 Marie Dressler is awesome. She gave one of the most aggressive Best Actress winning performances evah. If you haven't seen Min & Bill (1933), you must. You must, you must, you must.
1883 Edna May Oliver feisty character actress
1886 Ed Wynn Uncle Albert from Mary Poppins. He loves to laugh... long and loud and clear. Audiences were always ready to laugh along with him
1922 Dorothy Dandridge first black woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars (Carmen Jones) and what a neat coincidence that she was portrayed by the first black actress to eventually win the Best Actress Oscar (Halle Berry) in the bio Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1948 Bille August Danish director of The Best Intentions and Pelle the Conqueror fame
1955 Fernando Meirelles director of declining films: City of God, The Constant Gardner, Blindness. I'm not trying to be mean. But... um... do you have faith he'll pull out of it?
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- NATHANIEL R
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A Single Man Review - Tokyo International Film Festival
23 October 2009 10:44 AM, PDT
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“A Single Man,” fashion designer Tom Ford’s striking debut, has been slowly gathering buzz as it travels the film festival circuit. At the Venice International Film Festival, the movie which stars Colin Firth, was nominated for the Golden Lion and Firth was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. Shortly, thereafter, following its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was the subject of an intense bidding war ultimately won by The Weinstein Company. Though TWC secured the Us distribution rights for a hefty $1-2 million sum, there is no doubt in my mind that the money was well spent. “A Single Man” is likely to attract a lot of attention this upcoming awards season. Hit the jump for my review.
Based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel of the same name, “A Single Man” is the story of one day in the life of George Falconer, a middle-aged
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- David Corbin
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Julianne Moore to be honored at 2009 Hollywood Film Festival
13 October 2009 2:11 PM, PDT
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Julianne Moore will be honored with the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award" at the 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards. An actress of great versatility, Julianne Moore has been nominated four times for Academy Awards for her work. She was FBI agent Clarisse Starling in Hannibal, a grieving mother in The Forgotten, Lila Crane in the Psycho remake, Susan in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, and the lead in the sci-fi Children of Men.
She just completed work on Atom Egoyan's noirish-b-movie parody Chloe, which also stars Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried...
She was last seen in sci-fi/fantasy/thriller Blindness, a film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago's book of the same name, directed by Fernando Meirelles and also starring Mark Ruffalo. Moore will next be seen in Shelter, an independent psychological thriller, directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein, and also starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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The Road Gets Delayed One More Time
10 September 2009 10:41 AM, PDT
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It's been a long and arduous journey to the big screen for Cormac McCarthy's Pultizer Prize-winning book The Road. The movie was originally supposed to hit theatres last fall, but ended up being pushed back due to The Weinstein Company's lack of funds and possibly because of its bleak subject matter. It was never really clear whether or not director John Hillcoat needed more time for reshoots or editing tweaks, but now that the movie is finally finished and has already premiered at the Venice Film Festival, The Weinstein Company has decided to delay it yet again. Thankfully, it is only being pushed back by a month and will now hit theatres on November 25th instead of October 16th. But what could the reason for this latest delay?
It's a bit of a puzzling choice, given that the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend is already packed. The Road now has
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From The Writer of City of God: Last Stop 174 Trailer
27 August 2009 9:31 AM, PDT
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The success of the 2002 Brazilian film City of God helped launch a number of careers, not the least of which is director Fernando Meirelles, who went on to helm The Constant Gardener and Blindness. It also spawned a TV series spin-off and a sequel called City of Men, and even now any association with that original film is bound to draw some attention. With that being said, here's another gritty crime drama that was penned by City of God screenwriter Bráulio Mantovani, and well, consider me interested!
Last Stop 174 is based on the story of a bus hijacking that happened in Rio de Janeiro back in 2000. When Sandro do Nascimento boarded the bus, he didn't intend to take hostages, but the situation quickly escalated and turned into a media circus. The movie delves into his life growing up on the streets, and the events that brought him to that day.
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Christensen, Newton, Leguizamo in Vanishing on Seventh Street
26 August 2009 11:50 PM, PDT
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The Machinist and Transsiberian director Brad Anderson will start shooting his next feature in October called Vanishing on Seventh Street. The screenplay, co-written by Anderson and Anthony Jaswinski (Killing Time), is set in a once-thriving city where shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear. Five survivors fight to stay alive while grappling with the meaning of existence. Hayden Christensen has signed on to star and Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo are in negotiations to star in the thriller, which is being produced independently. Shooting will take place in the "once-thriving" city of Detroit.
I really like the concept for this. It kind of reminds me of Dark City or The Langoliers (in a distant way). But I'm worried it'll turn out a bit more like Fernando Meirelles' Blindness (as a bleak apocalyptic film) and not as sci-fi as I'm hoping, but it's really too early to tell. It's being
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- Alex Billington
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Ben Kingsley Photo from Shutter Island
12 August 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Paramount Pictures just released this new photo featuring Ben Kingsley and Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Click Here to watch the Shutter Island trailer in glorious HD.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from [...]
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Shutter Island Half Page Poster
2 August 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Paramount Pictures recently released this half page movie poster for the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Click Here to watch the Shutter Island trailer in glorious HD.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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- Brian Corder
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Shutter Island Movie Poster 2
23 July 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Paramount Pictures recently released this killer new movie poster for the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Click Here to watch the Shutter Island trailer in glorious HD.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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- Brian Corder
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Shutter Island Movie Poster
30 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Paramount Pictures just released this new movie poster for the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Click Here to watch the trailer in glorious HD.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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Shutter Island Movie Trailer
12 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Paramount Pictures recently posted this new movie trailer for the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Click Here to watch the trailer in glorious HD.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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- Brian Corder
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Shutter Island Movie Trailer Plus Photo
11 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Apple.com just posted the first official movie trailer for the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Click Here to watch the trailer in glorious HD.
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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- Brian Corder
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The Brothers Bloom (review)
19 May 2009 12:45 PM, PDT
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I guess it’s true that all movies about attractive criminals appeal to the audience’s desire to see what it’s like to live an unconventional life, even if that desire endures only for the length of the film. But no such movie that I’ve ever seen has ached more with yearning on the part of the attractive criminals for a different life than the one they have than The Brothers Bloom does. And that invests this deliciously clever, convention-busting flick with more soul than you’d expect, because it’s not just a puzzle about plot -- as most movies about con artists typically are -- and not just a puzzle about movies -- as few movies even dare to attempt: it’s a puzzle about personality and potential and perspective and people.
The brothers Bloom -- Stephen (Mark Ruffalo: Blindness, Reservation Road) is the elder,
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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[DVD Review] Just Another Love Story
11 May 2009 11:48 AM, PDT
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What a brilliant film. It's a genuinely fresh feeling to be drawn in and affected by a film nowadays - with so much stale material on a reviewer's plate, sometimes it's difficult to remember just how good films can be. Ole Bornedal's 2007 Just Another Love Story (Kærlighed på film) is an impeccably mounted neo-noir, using typical genre tropes to tell an immediate and effective story. It's a mix of genres that at first almost dares you to expect the film and filmmaker to let you down. But it never does. It never ceases to impress in telling an intricately plotted and perfectly crafted story with its potently talented director, cast and crew. The performances are stellar, the cinematography is gorgeous, the soundtrack is just right and the editing takes daring risks with symbolism that pay off in the end.
Jonas (Anders W. Berthelsen, playing the conflicted everyman to perfection
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New Behind The Scenes Still from Shutter Island
24 April 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Empireonline.com got their hands on this really cool new behind the scenes photo from the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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This Easter Edgar Wright Invites You To Celebrate The Apocalypse, Canadian Style.
10 April 2009 7:27 AM, PDT
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Looking for something a little less death-and-resurrection to do this weekend? How about just the death part? This Sunday the final installment of Edgar Wright’s The Wright Stuff rolls out at Toronto’s Bloor Cinema with a pair of Canadian cult classics, David Cronenberg’s The Brood and Don McKellar’s Last Night. The Brood will be screening from a spiffy new uncut print and McKellar - incidentally also the writer of Tony award winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone and a co-writer on Blindness - will be in attendance for Last Night while Wright says other guests are a possibility as well. Get on out!
Edgar Says: Two of my very favorite Canadians films. David Cronenberg is the King Of Canada as far as I’m concerned. I was watching his films and seeing Toronto on screen, before I even knew where it was. His body of work and
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Shutter Island Movie Poster From Martin Scorsese
29 March 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Check out a brand new teaser poster from the upcoming thriller “Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).
Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Shutter Island”.
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