Sweeney Todd - Burton and Depp's New Flick

Tim Burton's new movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, stars none other than Johny Depp and looks promisingly violent. For those of you who don't know, and I don't blame you, Sweeney Todd is originally a Broadway musical. The story is about Sweeney Todd, a barber in London who murders people as they get their hair cut.
It is set to come out December 21st. I guess it is still a musical, so that might suck a little. Hopefully there is more killing and less singing.
To check out the trailer in HD, click here.

1-18-08 (Cloverfield) - Secret Movie Worthy of Viral Ad Campagin?

A mysterious new Action and Adventure movie by director Matt Reeves. The marketing team on this movie are trying to do a viral advertising campaign. They are not revealing any information about it except for this short trailer that was apparently shown in the opening attractions for the Transformers movie. Obviously I didn't see Transformers. The title is Cloverfield I think, but they would have you believe it is some date (hmm. release date maybe??) Ugh, I hate that they think the movie is worth the hype they are trying to get it. So anyway, the trailer looks pretty cool, however, I don't like the whole viral ad campaign and I feel shitty about feeding it. But whatever. Tell me if you think it going to be worth the hype(or lack there of). Check out the trailer in full HD! Here.

Best List of the Top 17 Movie Lists!

Here is a list of various movie lists! Do you guys agree or disagree with any of them?
top 10 incredible early film firsts
top 10 Hitchcock movies
top 10 awesome war movies
top 15 great movie twists
top 10 horror movies
top 10 most controversial movies
top 20 best gangster movies
top 15 science fiction movies
top 10 battle scenes in movies
top 15 amazing long takes
top 15 iconic teen movies
top 10 box office bombs
top 10 food related movies
top 10 worst science fiction movies
top 10 cinematographic masterpieces
10 of the coolest violent movie scenes
10 films you haven't seen but should
10 brilliant complete movies online

Thanks goes to The List Universe for all of these great lists.

New Rambo Trailer - More Gore Than Before!

Check this out! It could be even better than the first trailer. Hopefully they save some stuff for the actual movie though. (Yes, I meant to rhyme the title. Luckily it only took me 20 minutes)

Juno - To Win Every Award This Year

So, apparently this trailer for the movie Juno has already (unofficially) won every single award there is outside of the Oscars. It has tonnes of great actors in it, and it reunites the Arrested Development cast (Jason Bateman and Michael Cera). It is Directed by Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman who has "has taken elements of every indie hit from the last five years and melded it together". All the credentials seem to be there, but the trailer looks not all too exciting. But you be the judge, let me know what you think by commenting on this post.

Rambo 2008 - Throat Ripping Fun

oh. my. god. this is freaking sweet. Lots of blood, guts and gore in this one, kiddos! So it looks like it's going to be pretty neat. I think they pretty much put the entirety of the good scenes into the trailer. So I wouldn't expect too much more from the actual movie. But it's not as if that is going to stop me from watching this bloodbath on the big screen. Click here for another trailer!

10 Best Old School Movies Online

Brought to you by brblife.com, who stole it from thelistuniverse : 10 Brilliant Complete Movies Online!
So here is a collection of 10 great oldies for you to dl or stream for your viewing pleasure. The list includes:

1. M 1931, Fritz Lang
Someone is murdering children in a German city. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the ‘normal’ criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

2. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer
The sufferings of a martyr, Jeanne D’Arc (1412-1431). Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and d’Estivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue, is taken to her cell, and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell, priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant, she refuses. At a cemetery, in front of a crowd, a priest and supporters urge her to recant; she does, and Cauchon announces her sentence. In her cell, she explains her change of mind and receives communion. In the courtyard at Rouen castle, she burns at the stake; the soldiers turn on the protesting crowd. The performance of Maria Falconetti is considered to be the greatest on screen performance in history.

3. Nosferatu 1922, F.W. Murnau
An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker’s work (The legal heirs didn’t give their permission), so the names had to be changed. But this wasn’t enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits (1924 and 1929) in which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, however happily copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all. Later, the Universal studios could break her resistance against this movie. Count Orlok’s move to Wisburg (Obviously the real “Wismar”) brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the Realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count’s obsession with Hutter’s wife, Ellen the only one with the power to end the evil.

4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939, Frank Capra
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state’s senior senator–presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys’ camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.

5. It Happened One Night 1934, Frank Capra
Rebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father’s control, she runs away by diving off the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York. On the bus she meets street-smart reporter Peter Warne. They end up traveling together as Warne hopes to get a great story, and Ellie needs his worldly help. Nearing New York, with their many adventures coming to an end, they find that they are reluctantly in love and afraid to admit it to each other. After she mistakenly thinks that Warne has run out on her Ellie returns to King Wesley, but for how long?

6. The General 1929, Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
Union solders have stolen The General, a Confederate train manned by Johnnie Gray, who was unable to enlist in the Confederate army because he is needed as an engineer. The Union plans to use the train to supply its soldiers in a sneak attack against the Confederates. But now it’s up to Gray and his love, Annabelle Lee, to reclaim The General, recross enemy lines, and warn the Confederates.

7. Begotten 1991, E. Elias Merhige
God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals

8. The Gold Rush 1925, Charles Chaplin
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.

9. It’s a Wonderful Life 1946, Frank Capra
George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr. Potter. His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth, literally, and shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had never been born. George meant so much to so many people; should he really throw it all away?

10. All Quiet on the Western Front 1930, Lewis Milestone
This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about “the enemy” and the “rights and wrongs” of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.

Bonus: 1984 1984, Michael Radford
After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother’s listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape…

Watch them all here.
And be sure to check out The Best List of the Top 17 Movie Lists!

Death Proof - Extended and Unrated

Death Proof is an instant classic and cult favorite. As I watched the first part of the movie I was left wanting.. anything, anything at all to happen. The movie is plagued with extreme lows but then is blessed with with extreme highs. Interplanetary highs. So as I started to fall asleep during the first part, thinking that I bought some weird chick flick, all of the sudden an explosion of blood and guts splattered all over the screen. Then it happens again and again, each time getting more gruesome and more out of control. Kurt Russell is awesome as "Stuntman Mike", and Quentin makes his appearance as expected. One of the main girls has a Michael Jackson nose. Luckily her face gets ripped off.
It's worth bearing through the weakness to witness the total insanity that is sure to follow.
Buy it for 23 bucks.

The Darjeeling Limited - Video Clip

Looks like a lot of that great dead-pan humor that we've come to expect from Wes Anderson! And remember, it is set to come out September 29th.

Top 10 Cinematographic Masterpieces

Top 10 Cinematographic Masterpieces according to thelistuniverse:

10. American Beauty 1999, Conrad L. Hall
9. Memoirs of a Geisha 2005, Dion Beebe
8. The Godfather 1972, Gordon Willis
7. Morte a Venezia 1971, Pasqualino De Santis
6. Barry Lyndon 1975, John Alcott
5. Ben-Hur 1959, Robert Surtees
4. Apocalypse Now 1979, Vittorio Storaro
3. Wo Hu Cang Long 2000, Peter Pau
2. Schindler’s List 1993, Janusz Kaminski
1. Shichinin No Samurai 1954, Asakazu Nakai

Read full descriptions as well as explanations here.
Be sure to check out The Best List of the Top 17 Movie Lists!

The Dark Knight (2008)

Another Batman movie. We are always up for anything Batman, but another movie? Come on. But wait, Christopher Nolan is directing? Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and (meh.) Heath Ledger on the cast? Cool. It looks like its going to be really dark and actually kind of good. The inevitable Joker/Batman battle at the end where Batman rips Jokers head off with his bare hands after hitting him in the balls with his grappling hook*... is bound to be epic. Here is a little synopsis for ya, "Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly."
A very poorly recorded 'leaked' trailer here.
*Speculation (as in a joke, for all you dummies out there)

Beowulf, Pride is the curse. (2007)

A new Beowulf movie is coming out on November 16. Directing this ancient epic tale is non other then Robert Zemeckis who has many films under his belt such as all the Tales from the Crypt, The Frighteners, What lies Beneath, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away. Also on board is legendary writer Neil Gaiman, known for his fantastic and award winning graphic novels, The Sandman Series and 1602.
The movie is going to be entirely CG. It will have really actors though (including a naked Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich) but just masked with computer renditions. Kind of like A Scanner Darkly.
There has been many adaptations of this epic poem, I especially liked the somewhat lower budget Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
It's the blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. It has an amazing looking trailer. Click the link below to check it out.
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Free TV Shows and Movies Anyone?

Ever want unlimited access to an endless collection of cartoons, TV shows, anime, movies, music videos, sports videos, and documentaries? Well, me too. And I can. At Alluc.org you get to have this privilege and all for just the easy one time payment of free. Amazing right? Yes, but the downside is that some of the videos turn out to be dead links, different language, split into several parts, and over all less then stellar quality. The movies are usually sniped from movie theaters, so if you can handle putting up with all this, and I know you can, then you're welcome. The TV shows, music videos, and all that are usually pretty decent quality.
Link

The Darjeeling Limited

A film about three brothers sitting on a train on their way through India after the death of their father.... Well, its got Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman and the whole thing is put together and orchestrated by one heck of a director.
The latest feature from Wes Anderson is The Darjeeling Limited. Director of major cool films such as The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums, Anderson's new flick is set to come out September 29th. Link to trailer
*bonus video clip here.