
Richie Donovan is a down-on-his-luck small time crook who is in a world of trouble from his boss after failing the previous heist. In a final attempt to settle the debt, he plans to steal an ancient cross from a penthouse suite in Moscow. His luck goes from bad to worse as the elevator stops on the abandoned 13th floor which is shelter for twin serial killers.

Botched doesn’t deserve all the negative opinions that seems to plague this little film. Just like films of a similar caliber like Hot Fuzz, Botched is an incredibly witty film that is directed by someone who understands pure, unbridled entertainment. This is a film that spends the first half-an-hour immersing you in the story of an interesting character, and suddenly throws a dinner of death at your doorstep; much like From Dusk Till Dawn.

The central hostages that were taken by Donovan’s crew make up a diverse and dysfunctional bunch. The most memorable of the crew is security guard Boris. Ex-spetsnaz, Combat veteran, and master trap setter, Boris is the show stealer here. Not much is known about him or his character. In fact, judging by his kooky antics throughout the film, all of those claims undoubtedly could be lies.

Behind the comedy-horror veil is a wonderful love story occupied by two people caught in a hellish scenario. The chemistry between the two leads flourishes even though Stephen Dorff comes off as a supreme douche bag in every role he plays. The violence is over the top and the villains of the film are evil and religious. In a horror scenario, those are two things that you never want to mix. Instead of separating church and state, they should separate church and horror films.

Botched is a madcap good time. From all the filth that has been released in the past few years, Horror really is rusting up. But from the ashes of this dying genre, new life can be given. That life is Botched. A film that doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but it just does it. Botched is what I’d like to see come out in theaters, maybe even a wide release. It’s this small-handful of good releases that makes me have faith in “splatter horror”.
-mAQ

Opening the film up is four vignettes composing faux-promotional ads for the fictional actors of Tropic Thunder. Alpa Chino’s Booty Sweat energy drink and Bust-A-Nut granola bar are the films openers. These several faux trailers are more entertaining than the entire self-absorbed run time of Grindhouse. The next trailers are several jabs at big films and stars referencing MTV awards and entertainment taboos as recklessness, celebrity nudity, and filmed homosexuals.

Jack Black’s Jeff Portnoy is an actor who is the white equivalent of Eddie Murphy. This is a man who gets his kick from playing 12+ characters in his films about family’s that exhibit several scenes of extensive Negro fart jokes. Well, the racial card is switched as the white family is predominately grossed or disappointed. The Nutty Professor is an abomination and Tropic Thunder recognizes this. The Oscar jokes go hand-in-hand with the neglect that Murphy’s role in Dreamgirls received at the Academy Awards.

Alpa Chino’s role is just one of the surprise breakout roles that are the catalyst for the extreme hilarity you will find in Tropic Thunder. The simple joke jabbed at his name is enough to make me squirm and point out the obvious role that Scarface had on urban society. You see, Black people need a role model. Whereas they cannot find one in some community worker or diligent government worker, they turn to a mediocre entertainer and uses his nihilistic and often drug-induced logic as their bible. It is almost fact that every rapper has a Scarface poster.

Now for the kicker. Robert Downey Jr.’s role. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. RDJ plays the “African-American” soldier Lincoln Osiris. This man goes as far as to quote The Jefferson’s theme song. This is the supposed controversial move that has the film crew prepping for massive public outrage. RDJ in a modern Blackface. The performance from this man has me in awe. He can play the serious Kirk Lazarus, and the Kool-Aid loving Sarge himself. Nothing is more perfect than this. Tropic Thunder is either the greatest comedy ever made, or the worst.

Together with this magnificent cast including a laugh riot role played surprisingly fucking effective by Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder will literally make you shit yourself with laughter. This is the deep, sentimental humor that satirizes the stuff in Hollywood that people are afraid of. Tropic Thunder is the first in a (hopefully) long line of audacious comedies that build the barrier against “good taste.” Forget all the bad press you may hear. Someone needs to tell the disability groups that you should never go full retard.

I could go on for paragraphs due to the movies inconspicuous ways of packing so much comedy into such a normal length film. Take my seeing it twice as a fierce badge of dedication and love to this pristine film. Tropic Thunder is a national treasure of an action film and seamlessly blends genres to create a form of retarded art. Tropic Thunder is the real dope. Get Some!
-mAQ
Alpha Dog features an array of actors ranging from baby faced pop singer Justin Timberlake to almost bald action stuntman Bruce Willis. Emile Hirsch, the heartthrob of many teenager American girls, stars as the lame ass drug dealer Johnny Truelove. Truelove and his friend Jake Mazursky (played by Ben Foster) have a falling out which leads to a kidnapping. Jake is a deranged Jewish drug addict who sports an Nazi SS tattoo on his neck which can be seen when he beats a party of people up (including a black woman). Johnny Truelove has no problem calling his friend Jake a “kike†more than once in Alpha Dog.
I find the title Alpha Dog to be comical as none of the “men†in the film are masculine. I have seen bull dyke lesbians that make better “alpha males†than the drug dealing clowns in the film. I found the strongest aspect of Alpha Dog to be the comedic elements which I still don’t know whether they were intentional or not. Unlike the disgusting rich wigger fest Havoc (2005), Alpha Dog has it’s merits in displaying the characters of film as laughably clownish bitches. Sadly, I can see the average teenage white American thinking that the characters featured in Alpha Dog are “bad ass.â€
Alpha Dog is far from a serious film that offers two hours of unpretentious entertainment. Like Larry Clark’s Bully, the film presents a “based on a true story†look at the sad specimens MTV “culture†has produced in America. The acting performances are full of character (not the kind you want to emulate) and are consistent throughout. The real Johnny Truelove was the youngest criminal ever featured on America’s Most Wanted. I wonder if he is as big of a turd as the Alpha Dog character version of Johnny Truelove.
-Ty E
It is no surprise that Judea Declares War on Germany has been banned in many parts of the world. The documentary features the swimming pools, post office, library, theaters, and other luxury services provided by the Germans at Auschwitz “Death Camp.†The documentary also goes into detail about how international Jewry declared war on Germany in 1933 via global boycott which cutoff 2/3 of Germany’s food supply (which was imported). No one wonder why citizens of Israel have compared Judea Declares War on Germany to “pornography†and “pedophilia.†After all, the Israelis should know as they (and their international brothers) are the biggest producers (and promoters) of both porn and it’s underage illegal molested stepbrother (kiddy porn).
Footage of a real NAZI DEATH CAMP during World War II
The reality of “the holocaust†is that any research done on it contrary to the “Russian†Bolshevik postwar propaganda is automatically labeled anti-Semitic, denying the holocaust, and Nazis. Ad Hominem’s attacks are very typical of modern academia and it’s “scholarly” supporters. Faith has always been more powerful than the actual facts. In the documentary, Dr. Töben visits the most barbaric of the death camps and talks to experts on the methods used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews. Dr. Töben also brings up how international Jewry tried to claim that 6 million Jews were exterminated in 1919 after World War 1. Jewish prophecies in the Torah claim that 6 million Jews are supposed to “vanish†before the state of Israel can be established. That being said, without the holocaust Israel would have never been recognized as a Jewish state in 1948. This is in despite the fact that most of the original Zionists founders of Israel are atheist Jews that base Judaism on “Jewish blood†and not religious beliefs. Essentially, “the holocaust†and the “six million dead Jews†are a kabbalistic (and scriptural) reasoning for the existence of Israel.
Historians should never cease studying and critically researching historical events. This should be especially true for historical events that are promoted everyday on MTV commercials, Hollywood movies, and are forced parts of the curriculum in American public schools (despite Jews making up only 2 % of America‘s population). After viewing Judea Declares War on Germany, I can see that it is easily more scholarly (despite it’s lack of production values) than most documentaries and books I have read on “the holocaust.†The media has done a great job portraying international Jewry as the eternal passive “victim†despite how Israelis shoot Palestinian children like it’s target practice on a daily basis. It’s odd how the same people that promote the official “holocaust†story also promote drug use, pornography, abortion, materialism, hedonism, greed, ignorance, and weakness. Hollywood really is full of a bunch of virtue promoting do-gooders.
Judea Declares War on Germany is an interesting documentary that I recommend for anyone looking to see that other side of the argument. Dr. Töben does not try to “deny†the holocaust. He merely argues with the Soviet invented details centered around it. I can’t say I agree with everything featured in the documentary, but I most surely don’t believe in the Hollywood version of the “holocaust†either. Especially considering the “liberating†allies killed up to 11 million (4 million ethnically cleansed throughout eastern Europe, 5 million starved to death in occupied Germany, and 2 million soldiers died in slave labor captivity) Germans after World War 2 and then boast about morals. Around 72 million people (the majority being civilians) died in World War 2, yet we are only expected to recognize 6 million. Funny how World War II caused the destruction of Europe (all empires and nations fell) and the birth of Israel. World War II really had a nice monetary and power return for those notorious international bankers.
Watch Judea Declares War on Germany
Çekimleri Hollywood’da gerçekleştirilen ilk Türk-Amerikan filmi olma özelliği taşıyan “Meleğin Sırları”nda (Broken Angel) sadece Türk oyuncular değil, Amerikan ve Türk seyircisinin yakından tanıdığı Amerikalı oyuncular da yer alıyor. Digitürk’te yayınlanan ‘The Shield’ dizisiyle tanınan Jay Karnes, ‘Starship Troopers’ ve ‘Stigmata’ filmiyle zirveye çıkan ve ‘Days of Our Lives’, ‘Melrose Place’ gibi dizilerle ülkemizde de tanınan ve People dergisi tarafından “Dünyanın En Güzel 50 Kişisi” listesine seçilen Patrick Muldoon ve ‘Asteroid’ filminin ana karakterlerinden Zachary Charles filmde önemli rollerde yer alan Amerikalı oyuncular arasında.
“Meleğin Sırları”nda, annesi tarafından ABD’ye gönderilen ancak oradaki hayat şartlarının filmlerde sunulduğu gibi toz pembe olmadığını anlayan masum bir genç kız olan Ebru’nun aşk hayatında yaşadığı hayal kırıklıkları ve başına gelen kötü olaylar sonrasında düştüğü durumu ve onu bu kötülüklerden korumaya çalışan Rusty isimli işitme engelli bir sanatçı konu ediliyor.
“Meleğin Sırları” (Broken Angel) filminin yapımcıları Leslie Büyüktürkoğlu ve Kevin Corchiani, bunun Türkiye’nin gerçek yüzünü anlatmayı amaçlayan bir film serisinin ilki olduğunu belirttiler. “Meleğin Sırları”nın (Broken Angel) Mart ayında Türkiye’de gösterime girmesi bekleniyor. Filmin yapımcıları, filmden ve filmin başrol oyuncusu Nehir Erdoğan’ın performansından çok etkilendiklerini ve yurt dışındaki festivallerde ‘en iyi film’ ve ‘en iyi kadın oyuncu’ dallarında ödül kazanacaklarından çok ümitli olduklarını belirttiler.
“Brokeback Mountain” (Brokeback Dağı) filmindeki başarılı performansı ile Oscar’a aday gösterilen Avustralya doğumlu ünlü oyuncu Heath Ledger, 22 Ocak 2008 Salı günü Manhattan’daki dairesinde ölü bulundu. Yapılan ilk açıklamada, henüz 28 yaşındaki başarılı aktörün ölümünde uyuşturucu faktörünün etkili olabileceği belirtildi.
Son olarak Bob Dylan’ın hayatından kesitler sunan “I’m Not There”de rol alan genç aktörün şüpheli ölümü üzerine araştırma yapmak isteyen gazetecilerin, Ledger’ın ölü bulunduğu daireye girmeleri polis tarafından engellendi.
Birçok bağımsız filmde rol aldıktan sonra “10 Things I Hate About You” (Senden Nefret Etmemin 10 Sebebei) filmindeki performansı ile dikkat çekerek, Los Angeles’a taşınan Heath Ledger’ın Matilda adında bir kız çocuğu da var.
Sanatçının en özel fotoğraflarından oluşan resim galerisi "Heath Ledger’ın Ardından" adlı grup sayfasında yer alıyor…
En İyi Film
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
En İyi Erkek Oyuncu
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Julie Christie (Away from Her)
Marion Cotillard (Môme, La)
Laura Linney (The Savages)
Ellen Page (Juno)
En İyi Yönetmen
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Ethan Coen ve Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
En İyi Özgün Senaryo
Juno : Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl : Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton : Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille : Brad Bird
The Savages : Tamara Jenkins
En İyi Yardımcı Erkek Oyuncu
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu
Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
En İyi Animasyon
Perspepolis
Ratatouille
Surf’s Up
Yabancı Dilde En İyi Film
Beaufort - İsrail
The Counterfeiters - Avusturya
Katyn - Polonya
12 - Rusya
Mongol – Kazakistan
En İyi Orijinal Film Müziği
August Rush ("Raise It Up")
Enchanted ("Happy Working Song")
Enchanted ("So Close")
Enchanted ("That’s How You Know")
Once (“Falling Slowly” )
1966 yılında televizyon dizisi olarak başlayan “Uzay Yolu” efsanesi, 2008’de serinin 11. filmi ile yoluna devam ediyor.
Kaptan Kirk ile Bay Spock’ın Yıldız Filosu Akademisi’ndeki ilk tanışmalarını ve birlikte yaptıkları ilk uzay yolculuğu görevini konu alacak filmin yönetmenliğini ise son günlerde “Cloverfield” (Canavar) ile gündemde olan J.J. Abrams üstleniyor.
Aralık 2008’de Amerika’da gösterime girmesi planlanan filmin kısa tanıtım videosunu Sinemalar.com ayrıcalığı ile izleyebilirsiniz.
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con

(Check out part three of this four-part report)
Tired of hearing about Comic-Con? Figured all the talk was over? Sorry to disappoint you, but due to an untimely vacation (vacation untimely? Wha…how?) and a bit of reflection on my first trip to the big ‘Con, I was able to get this last bit complete for you.
The Sci Fi / Entertainment Weekly Party
Man did it feel good to have gone to my last panel. I had much sympathy for Rich, who had another nearly-full day ahead of him on Sunday. So, we went out to finally get a decent meal at an actual restaurant downtown before we had to head off to the party. We had no idea at all what to expect from the party — would there be food? Free booze? Who would be there?
Continue reading My post-Comic-Con report, part four
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Başrollerinde Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy ve Morgan Freeman’in oynadığı “Wanted”ın Türkiye sinemalarındaki gösterim tarihi 27 Haziran 2008 olarak belirlendi. Yönetmenliğini Timur Bekmambetov’un üstlendiği filmin konusu kısaca şöyle: Babası öldürülen Wesley Gibson’a (James McAvoy), babasının intikamını alma fırsatı teklif edilir. Kötü adamları yok eden bir suikastçi olarak ünlenen babası bir suikaste kurban gitmiştir. Babasının bıraktığı yerden yola devam etmeye kararlı olan Gibson, babasının ortağı Sloan’dan (Morgan Freeman) eğitim almaya başlar…
Filmden Notlar:
- Mark Millar’ın “Wanted” adlı çizgi roman serisinin sinema filmi uyarlama hakları, 2004 yılında yapımcı Marc Platt tarafından satın alındı.
- Yönetmen Timur Bekmambetov, projeye Aralık 2005’te dahil oldu. Senaryoyu Derek Haas ile Michael Brandt’ın yazacağı açıklandı.
- Yönetmen Bekmambetov, Şubat 2006’da yaptığı açıklamada, çizgi roman serisindeki karakterlerin beyazperdeye uyarlanırken aynen korunacağını, ancak çizgi romandaki dünyayı film karelerine uyarlama işlemini kendi yaklaşımı doğrultusunda özgürce yapacağını bildirdi.
- Haas ile Brandt’ın yazdığı taslak senaryonun üçüncü bölümünün gözden geçirilip gerekli düzeltmeleri yapması için Temmuz 2006’da senaryo yazarı Chris Morgan ile anlaşma yapıldı.
- Ekim 2006’da, anti-kahraman Wesley Gibson rolünde James McAvoy’un oynayacağı açıklandı. Kasım ayında yapılan ikinci açıklamada ise, Gibson’u eğiten baş suikastçi Sloan rolünde Morgan Freeman’in kamera karşısına geçeceği duyuruldu.
- “Wanted”ın İskoçya kökenli başrol oyuncusu James McAvoy, filmdeki aksiyon sahneleri için Şubat 2007’den itibaren sıkı bir eğitim almaya başladı.
- “Wanted” serisinin yaratıcısı Mark Millar, film için hazırlanan ve henüz kurgulanmamış ham malzemeyi seyrettikten sonra gördüğü sahnelerin beklentilerini tam anlamıyla karşıladığını söyledi.
-Filmin çekimlerinin 12 hafta süreyle Çek Cumhuriyeti’nde gerçekleştirileceği bildirildi.Çek Cumhuriyeti’ndeki çekimlerin ardından Chicago’da çekimlere devam edilecek.
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