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The world is beset by a series of outlandish catastrophes in the much-hyped Sony Pictures movie. An earthquake-devastated Los Angeles slips into the sea, the Vatican collapses, its dome crushing worshippers and a tsunami dumps an aircraft carrier atop an exploding White House. Meanwhile a tidal wave sweeps across the Himalayas and a meteor shower strikes Earth. The director Roland Emmerich - a veteran of catastrophe in his earlier films Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow - was inspired by theories that the calendar of the ancient Mayans foretells the end of civilisation on Dec 21, 2012. "The famous...

Having fended off Hollywood’s lascivious advances for five full decades, Barbie has finally collapsed onto its couch with her legs spread, exhausted from years of being chased around a desk by horny, pantsless studio-executive suitors promising to make her a big movie star. Variety reports that Universal is the beneficiary of the Mattel icon’s weary willingness to surrender her big-screen virtue to the highest bidder, announcing today they’ve reached a deal for a live-action film based on America’s favorite plastic bundle of unhealthy body-image issues. Reaching the deal was the easy part; with the relationship consummated (awkwardly, we’d assume, as...

CANCUN, Mexico - Roland Emmerich has an ongoing project: destroying the world. In 1996's Independence Day, the German director sent aliens to wipe out the White House. In 1998, he unleashed Godzilla to wreak havoc on the streets of New York. In 2004's The Day After Tomorrow, he froze the planet in a new ice age. But in his new film, 2012, to be released Nov. 13 and already the eye of a vast promotion storm, things get really bad. Emmerich, who has earned the unofficial title of "Master of Disaster," admits having searched Google for a doomsday scenario even...

This is a fake documentary that was made a few years ago. It runs about 90 minutes. It's on YouTube in nine parts. When you finish with one part, click on the next part in the right panel under Related Videos: The Confederate States of America: Part 1 of 9 WikipediaIMDb Allmovie Official site

Here is a short horror comedy film by Richard Gale. Saw it at the Nevermore Film Festival earlier in the year. I know many a FReeper will find this as funny and enjoyable as I did. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

By far, the best movie I have ever seen about the savagery and ruthlessness of Communism, an ideology which indeed puts Nazism and Fascism to shame.

A FIGHTER pilot who appeared in the 1986 hit movie Top Gun has been appointed as the highest-ranking US military commander in Asia and the Pacific. Admiral Robert F Willard took control of the US Pacific Command after a ceremony in Hawaii yesterday. Defence Secretary Robert Gates presided over the proceedings during a stop en route to meetings in Japan and South Korea. Willard succeeds Admiral Timothy Keating, who is retiring. The F-14 fighter pilot spent the last two years heading the US Pacific Fleet. During that time, Willard outlined a new US maritime strategy at the Australian Navy Sea...

Sure it's kid-oriented formulaic and it's no "Up" but it's an entertaining film that adults and children will quite enjoy. It will also make a great DVD gift for Christmas and for future reminiscing viewing. It's "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs".

US film company applies to launch ‘movie derivatives’ By Jeremy Grant in London Published: October 8 2009 23:26 | Last updated: October 8 2009 23:26 Being able to bet on whether a movie makes money or ends up a box office flop inched a step closer to reality on Thursday after a second company in the film business applied to US regulators to set up a “movie derivatives” exchange. The US futures regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, submitted for public comment an application by Veriana Networks, a privately owned, Delaware-registered company to operate Media Derivatives (MDEX) as an “electronic...

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that New Line (a division of Warner Bros.) is developing a sequel to the “Vacation” franchise. There have been four movies (and a made-for-TV movie entitled “Christmas Vacation 2”). This new film would apparently focus on Rusty Griswold, who is now a father himself, as he takes his family on a road trip vacation. For the love of God, New Line, please bring original “Rusty” actor Anthony Michael Hall back! Otherwise, I want no part of this movie. This got me to thinking though: What is your favorite “Vacation” movie? Internet debate is fierce. Most...

I don't watch many movies, but I enjoyed this one. Y'all have probably seen it but it was new to me.

After a couple of weeks of unsubstantiated rumors, it has been confirmed that the forthcoming film The Invention of Lying is indeed intended to satirize religion and religious believers. New York Post critic Kyle Smith has seen the film and describes it as “a full-on attack on religion in general and Christianity in particular. It might be the most blatantly, one-sidedly atheist movie ever released by a major studio, in this case Warner Bros.”

If you like zombie movies (and what normal person doesn't?), go see this film. If you don't like zombie films, but enjoy laughing, go see this film. If you don't enjoy zombie movies or comedies, quit reading this and go make those Organizing for America door knock runs you committed to. Zombieland sits next to, and quite possibly above "Shawn of the Dead" in the "Zombie Comedy" genre, an admittedly small but exceptionally high quality niche in the movie universe. I took my daughter, wife, and parents to see it. 3 generations (and we are *very* different types of people)...

With the possible exception of the O.J. Simpson trial, it would be hard to think of a tabloid-ready celebrity scandal from the past 30 years that provokes a more purely, intensely, overheated-ly emotional response than the Roman Polanski rape case of 1977. (He fled the country early in 1978.) It’s a safe bet that a lot of people, upon reading the headline that Polanski had been arrested in Zurich, with the possibility of extradition to the U.S. to stand trial on that charge, greeted the news with more or less the following sentiment: “Good! It’s about time that the authorities...

As a lone man in a desolate world, Denzel Washington carries the future of humanity on his shoulders: The Book of Eli trailer.

The film, “The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry,” set in a small town in upstate New York in 1970, is truly a stunning success for the Christian-crossover genre of films like “Fireproof,” a more recent winner in the secular market. The director, Rich Christiano, also co-wrote the film with his brother Dave, both of whom have been producing, writing, and directing films since the late 1980's. This is undoubtedly their best film to date.

'The Age of Stupid': a wakeup call on climateby Jerome Cartillier – 36 mins ago PARIS (AFP) – Could we, the human race, really miss an ever-narrowing chance to save the planet from the ravages of global warming? "The Age of Stupid," which will be screened in hundreds of venues around the world next week, contemplates this grim scenario with the open aim of galvanising a collective effort to prevent it. Former UN chief Kofi Annan is expected to attend a special "green carpet" showing in New York Monday, on the eve of the world's first United Nation's climate summit....

So there’s this guy named the Dude, and some dudes break into his apartment and pee on his rug, so the Dude, an LA burnout whose real name is Jeffrey Lebowski, goes to find the other Jeffrey Lebowski, a rich guy the intruder dudes were actually looking for, so he can get him to replace the soiled rug, which totally tied the room together. That’s the basic premise of “The Big Lebowski,’’ the Coen Brothers’ 1998 stoner caper, which also involves bowling, nihilism, a kidnapping, and many, many White Russians - a cocktail whose parts combine more cogently than the...

The undead have officially taken over Yonge-Dundas Square, and they are restless. "Arrrggg, this song really suck, play something else," groaned one blood-drenched young man, as a low and ominous bass track looped on giant speakers at the square. He would only identify himself as "Ahhhh ... uuaaaaa ... arggg, rock on," before drooling a quantity of purple liquid onto his pants. The shuffling, bleeding, oozing, army are in the square to honour George A. Romero, who launches his new film Survival of the Dead tonight at TIFF. Romero took to the stage to thunderous groans shortly before 7 p.m....

No doubt some filmgoers will be more than a little surprised by the overtly religious themes explored in A Serious Man, the latest film from brother-filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen***** While they are Jewish and were reared in a religious home in suburban Minneapolis, the Coens have never dabbled in heavy-handed religious fare à la Cecil B. de Mille's epics, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ or, more unfortunately, John Travolta's tribute to his Scientology faith, Battlefield Earth. A Serious Man is a black comedy set in the Coen brothers' real-life hometown of St. Louis Park, Minn., in 1967...

How German leftists turned into terroristsBy James Verniere Friday, September 11, 2009 - Updated 10h ago THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX: A- What is the nexus of nudism and left-wing terrorism? Apparently, one exists, since director Uli Edel refers to it twice, beginning with opening beach scenes, in “The Baader Meinhof Complex,” his depiction of the gestation, birth and growth of the 1970s West German terrorist organization, one of the most notorious homegrown groups in Western Europe. Later on, the young members of the “gang,” including founder-journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck of “The Lives of Others”), go to a terrorist training...

U.S. actor George Clooney plays a New Age hippie soldier trained for psychic, peaceful combat in a comedy set during the war in Iraq. "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is based on a book by Jon Ronson about a secret unit created by the U.S. army in 1979 which, the author said, believed troops could become invisible, walk through walls and kill goats just by staring at them. Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who stumbles across a member of the unit as he prepares to enter Iraq, and he and Clooney's character Lyn Cassady go on an ill-fated journey...

Calls the project a "labor of love." ~~~~ Infamous Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, 64, known for such sordid films as Basic Instinct and Showgirls, has undergone a conversion and now will be writing a new film on Our Lady of Guadalupe. Eszterhas has been one of Hollywood's most influential screenwriters, writing lucrative blockbuster films, such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge, and Basic Instinct, and raking in million-dollar paychecks. Known for living the full 'Hollywood lifestyle', Eszterhas gave it up to move home to Ohio with his wife and children in the late 1990s. In 2001, faced with throat cancer resulting from...

<p>Joan Jett has a black heart for a former bandmate.</p> <p>The hard-rocking frontwoman is suing a bassist of her first band, the Runaways, for blocking a film about the all-girl hard-rock group.</p> <p>Jacqueline Fuchs, a k a Jackie Fox, who played for the band from December 1975 to June 1977, claims to own a piece of its trademark and has gone out of her way to disrupt the biopic, titled "The Runaways."</p>

(WXYZ) - Two members of a film crew found themselves in a real-life crime scene in Detroit. The film crew was working on the movie the "Little Murder" at the time of the crime.

Washington (CNSNews.com) – A new documentary on climate change is highly critical of the claims made by former Vice President Al Gore in his film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and seeks to refute the main points Gore made. “Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies are More Dangerous than Global Warming Itself,” is a 40-minute documentary produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free market group, which can be viewed online. The movie was screened last week at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Narrated by CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, the film criticizes Gore on both the scientific and...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2009 – One of the soldiers in the opening scene of “GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” wasn't able to see the film's debut last week. The bottom portion of the promotional poster for "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" is featured in this illustration for the film. Soldiers provided advice and assistance to make the movie more realistic. Courtesy graphic  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Chief Warrant Officer John "Buzz" Covington was with the 21st Cavalry Brigade when he helped to film an Apache attack helicopter scene at Fort Hood, Texas. But he's now...

Movie Review: The Hurt Locker by: Brandon Friedman Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 08:45:00 AM EDT And now for something not-so-serious. I don't typically write book or movie reviews, but after this weekend, I really felt compelled to. This movie just stuck in my craw. But take heed: This is a review for military people. So if you've never been in the military or never been to Iraq, just stop reading this. Because if you keep reading, I'll probably ruin what could be a pretty good action flick for you. The Hurt Locker is a high-tension, well-made, action movie that...

The awesome part is seeing Jeff Bridges in the end. Plot: Flynn has to defeat MCP with the use of MS Vista..(just kidding). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HcsDc_9LX8

Man's first step on the moon nearly stumbled on earth. Plot: A remote Australian antenna, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing.

Relate the Obama presidency to the worst movies ever produced. Here is a list to consider (from critics): Glen or Glenda (1953) Robot Monster (1953) Plan 9 from Outer Space The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) Monster A Go-Go (1965) The Hands of Fate (1966) Troll 2 (1990) Howard the Duck (1986) Battlefield Earth (2000) Catwoman (2004) Alone in the Dark (2005) Gigli (2003) The Conqueror (1956) The Postman (1997) Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) I Know Who Killed Me (2007) Kazaam (1996) From Justin to Kelly (2003) Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Freddy...

The stars are not twinkling bright this summer. Hollywood's movie studios, hopeful that marquee-name actors would push their summer box-office receipts to record levels, are finding that the heavyweights aren't winning over audiences like they used to. With all but a couple of big-budget films already opened, the summer of 2009 is shaping up to be one of the worst on record for Hollywood's A-list talent.

LOS ANGELES, June 23, 2009 – “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” hits theaters nationwide tomorrow as the culmination of more than a year of Defense Department support, ranging from script and uniform notes to C-17 aerial maneuvers and jumps from the Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team. The first Transformers film released in July 2007 used a variety of Air Force assets. In the latest film, DreamWorks and Paramount studios partnered with all four services to highlight America's military members and combat power on the big screen. Deciding how and why to work with the services was essential in making...

Although many Vietnam movies have been made since the mid-70. FORGOTTEN HEROES will stand out as one of the best. This is an action war drama and could be about men in any war, but this moving story unfolds in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia.

Today we have “Transformers” star Megan Fox, joining a growing club — spouting this hateful nonsense: “Transformers” bombshell-cum-uninhibited philosophizer also contemplates — reluctantly — what she would say to Megatron to keep him from destroying the world. “I’d barter with him,” she muses to the July, issue Total Film UK, “and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”

Don't call it a remake. As all involved in "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" assert at every opportunity, the new film is not a redo of the 1974 movie starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. "It's basically a story of a hostage situation on a train in New York City," star Denzel Washington said at a recent news conference. "I think that's what the two films have in common." But as screenwriter Brian Helgeland might say, it's a gray area. The filmmakers are quick to refer to the 1973 John Godey novel ("The Taking of Pelham One Two...

Controversial Obama Film Premiers Friday Movie portrays President Obama as man who made deal with the devil. prnewschannel.com - May 25, 2009 (PRNewsChannel) / Hoboken, N.J. / The feature film that's already been called 'the most controversial movie of the year' because of how it portrays President Obama, debuts this Friday at the Hoboken International Film Festival. “It is a satirical feature that hits close to home if your home just happens to be the White House,” says producer Kenneth Del Vecchio of Justice For All Productions (http://www.justiceforallproductions.com), who has nearly 50 films under his belt with several major studios....

Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich, and produced in partnership with Citizens United, is a groundbreaking film that documents the life and legacy of the 40th President of the United States. Through never-before-seen interviews with former heads of state, cabinet officials and White House staff, RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY tells the story of the Reagan presidency and the three pillars that shaped his time in office: reviving the American economy, restoring America's spirit, and challenging the oppression of the Soviet Union. gingrichproductions.com rendezvouswithdestinymovie.com

Quentin Tarantino has made an eye-catching return to the Cannes Film Festival with Inglourious Basterds, an epic World War II movie set in Nazi-occupied France. Tarantino swaps fact for pulp fiction in Inglourious Basterds, a comic revenge fantasy about Jewish freedom fighters bringing down the Nazis in 1944. Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a gang of Jewish-American soldiers operating in occupied France whose self-proclaimed mission is "to kill as many Nazis as possible". They succeed in Tarantino's usual grisly-comic fashion, carving swastikas into the foreheads of any German soldier they do not scalp. The plot culminates...

The world's first movie about kimchi, "Kimchikhan," is currently in production. From Los Angeles to Victorville, new kimchi steaks, kimchi chicken quesadilla, kimchi pasta, kimchi ice cream, kimchi tacos, among other dishes, were created without the use of sugars, standard salts and butter. Instead, they were made with natural ingredients like kimchi and its sauce as a base to develop the sixth taste bud. A unique hybrid of documentary and informative travel excursion, "Kimchikhan" aims to reveal the healthiest and tastiest cooking secrets in the search for the sixth taste bud! A fascinating story of health and the quest for...

The DescentThey are making a sequel this year, 2009, honestly, I was breaking a sweat 15 minutes into it and just a complete freakin' wreck during the whole film, very well done, no humor, like the scifi movies of old. This is a must see in my opinion ... My wife was yelling "Fast Forward it, Fast Forward it !!!!"

ROME -- The buffer zone can be wafer thin in this Eternal City between two warring parties, the Vatican and (to use Hollywood-speak) "the people who brought you The Da Vinci Code." ----- [snip] ----- In Angels & Demons -- which opens Friday in theatres nationwide -- Hanks once again plays symbologist Robert Langdon, who's once again solving a secret-society mystery that strikes to the core of the Roman Catholic church. A sample of anti-matter from the CERN physics lab in Switzerland has been smuggled into the Vatican, and an assassin has promised to kill each of the four cardinals...

Movie prolife messages are rare.

The worldwide hit video game "Guitar Hero" could become a reality TV show and/or a real-life concert tour, people familiar with the discussions said Thursday. "Hero" is from Activision Blizzard, a leading video game publisher that aims to turn some of its games into TV and film properties. Activision's cross-platform interests don't end at "Hero"; discussions are under way to turn the "World of Warcraft" and "Call of Duty" video games into movies. "They are being talked about for the big screen," said one person with knowledge of the details. In an interview before Thursday's quarterly earnings conference call, Activision...

This is a short video clip from the the Oscar nominated nature film L'Ours (1988) aka "The Bear". It's a nature film with almost no human dialogue. In this picturesque story an orphaned bear who is confronted by a hungry cougar. This clip only runs about 4 minutes, but it's enough to really give that sense of pride in God's creation. The movie is a true classic in the sense that we so often fail to really understand what it is like for the most powerful of God's animals to be young and vulnerable.

The Ultimate Trip: "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Heads to the Big Screen Film version of Tom Wolfe's book on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters comes closer to reality The onscreen version of Tom Wolfe's literary cult hit The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is primed to hit theaters by 2010. When published in 1968, the book shattered cultural perceptions of the peaceful, passive hippie zeitgeist by introducing the Merry Pranksters, author Ken Kesey's roving gonzo army of LSD-fueled pioneers who tripped about the country, mixing it up with rowdy Oregonians, Bay Area hippies, Hollywood rockers, Hell's Angels and a flurry of left-handed...

Edward Norton and his Class 5 Films are prepping to shop a feature documentary about the historic presidential campaign mounted by Sen. Barack Obama.

Sometimes, if you're paying attention, you can watch an event as it unfolds and see that, even if you are unsure of the outcome, the world you know has been changed forever. I'm sure somewhere in 1914 someone said, "Well, now that they've killed the Archduke Ferdinand, the whole world will go to war." Well, last night someone assassinated Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and it is the shot heard 'round the movie blogosphere. Someone released a DVD-quality, watermark and timecode-free copy of Fox's summer tent-pole blockbuster to the torrents. While the film is a work print (with incomplete effects, temp...

(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published May 30, 2004.) I figured out why movie stars generally are young. It's not just because they look good naked. It's also because their brains still work. I learned this recently when I became an ''actor'' in a movie being made in Miami based on a book I wrote about guys. I put ''actor'' in quotation marks because real actors can, you know, act. Whereas my job in this movie was to walk into the scene where the real actors were acting, and say a line like: ''Now, that's a good example...

Fun website that describes firearms used in movies, tv, etc. For example, this is from the Saving Private Ryan page: Perhaps the most commonly seen weapon in the movie, the M1 Garand is used by the majority of the U.S. soldiers seen in the film. The M1 Garand is easily identified by the characteristic ping it makes ejecting its clip after the last round in the en bloc clip is fired. Based on the way everyone can hold these weapons easily, they seem to be light weight models for easy handling in the film, which cuts the realism down a...