Thursday, May 15, 2008

URBAN LEGENDS NOW AVAILABLE

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After a bravura opening sequence featuring Natasha Gregson Wagner getting slaughtered by the killer with an axe hiding in the backseat of her car, Urban Legend tells the story of a group of pretty college students at a remote New England university. The focus of the story is Natalie (Alicia Witt), a beautiful, academically-gifted student at the fictional Pendleton University. Natalie and her friends (who include Jared Leto as a brash journalist, Rebecca Gayheart as her best friend, Michael Rosenbaum as the party-hardy boy, Joshua Jackson as a practical joker and Tara Reid as the sexy campus DJ) are all involved in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler (Robert Englund). Wexler regales his class with urban legends, which include Pendleton's own urban legend about a Psych professor who murdered six students at Stanley Hall 25 years ago. Natalie is the first one to suspect there's a killer on campus, especially after she has ties to all of the victims. First, it's her high school friend, a guy she's in the woods with at night, her roommate (Danielle Harris)... No one, including her friends, Wexler, Dean Adams (John Neville) and security guard (Loretta Devine), of course, believes her until it's too late and everyone begins to die according to famous urban legends, and Natalie believes it's all tied to a dark and horrible secret from her past. Now she finds that she and her friends are part of the killer's ultimate urban legend--the story of their own horrific deaths... Written by K. Wilson

There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality. Written by Anthony Jones {Darkhero1@aol.com}


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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS THE MOVIE NOW AVAILABLE

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Based on the 1980s cartoon series about a music group of chipmunks comprised of mischievous group leader Alvin; tall and quiet Simon; and chubby, impressionable Theodore.

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It doesn't take singing forest creatures to explain to the audience that "Alvin and the Chipmunks" is a fantasy. After all, this is a picture that wants us to believe that there's a thriving recording industry and people can still be excited by new music. Yeah, right.

Dave Seville (Jason Lee, paying off his house) is a struggling songwriter searching for his big break with Jett Record honcho, Ian (David Cross). Into his life come Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, three sass-mouth chipmunks who look to Dave as a father figure. Teaching these pint-sized rapscallions a Christmas song, Dave and the Chipmunks score a major hit. Now a hot pop music commodity, Ian tries to steal the Chipmunks away from Dave with promises of fame and toys. Teaming up with his ex, Claire (Cameron Richardson), Dave hits the road to prevent the exploitation of the Chipmunks and bring them home.

The enduring musical sensation that started in 1958 finally has its first big screen, live-action offering in this bizarrely conceived misfire of a motion picture. It's not an envious task taking something sugary and innocent and offering it to the fickle tastes of today's young text-message culture. The end product looks like the result of one half of the production crew digging for gold by bringing the Chipmunks into disheartening hip-hopeless land, while the other half is desperately trying to preserve the kindly, timeless appeal of these creatures that many parents recall fondly.

The headaches come right away from director Tim Hill, who is assigned the task of bringing the Chipmunks to life. Having already been down the cartoon chute with his 2006 "Garfield" sequel, Hill appears befuddled by what his job should be. It's a very static, unconvincing piece of filmmaking, and Hill seems more interested in designing the slapstick special effect shots than maintaining a smart comic rhythm, or even supporting the performances. Poor Jason Lee is lost here, trying to drum up interest in acting against CGI (and poorly-rendered CGI at that), but always unsure of himself, especially with the classic "Allllviiiinnnn!" holler. Hill isn't invested in the material, working like a bored factory floor employee glumly counting the slowly ticking minutes until he's done.


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ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2 NOW AVAILABLE

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Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

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I can't imagine anyone on the planet received a bigger present this Christmas morning than Paul W.S. Anderson. While his profoundly sullied name hasn't been rescued from the pits of directorial reputation hell, he can now take comfort in the knowledge that he hasn't directed the worst film to feature Aliens and Predators.

When an Alien/Predator hybrid crashes his spaceship in small town Colorado, it kicks off a series of deaths that trigger the attention of the Predator home world. Sending off a top hunter, the Predator comes to Earth on the trail of the Aliens, following them into the community, where they've gone about their business slaughtering the locals and sending Facehuggers out to boost the population numbers. When a band of survivors team up to search for safety, they find not only must they elude the extraterrestrial infestation, but the government as well, who wants to contain the outbreak for study.

It boggles the mind to even contemplate how dreadful "Requiem" is. The map leading to quality was clearly laid out by Anderson's moronic work with his 2004 installment "AVP," and any filmmaker with half a brain could've manufactured something that restores a little of the glossy ferociousness that marked both the "Alien" and "Predator" franchise over the last three decades with minimal effort. Instead, we meet directorial newcomers Colin and Greg Strause (billed as "The Brothers Strause"), two random FX flunkies who turn this sequel into a vile, joyless, murky, moronic, amateurish, contemptuous, numbing, unintentionally hilarious, and thoroughly diseased motion picture. It's a perfect film for the Scrooges out there who like their multiplex fodder crude and unrelentingly insulting.

I bashed Anderson's take on the material for the cartoon directions it turned. After all, reimagining Predators as stubby football linebackers and staging the flaccid action in a series of cheap-looking sets wasn't exactly an invitation to view filmmaking ingenuity. However, Anderson is Welles compared to the Brothers Strause, who tear through the film without the slightest clue what they're doing, blindly foraging through the script for the nastiest bits of bodily harm to exploit for the marketing. The boys have no idea how to instruct actors, stage action, explore visual effects, or tell a story. Their function is primarily to oversee madness and somehow pull 80-minutes of tripe together for 20th Century Fox to sell to lenient fanboys flush with holiday cash.


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BE KIND REWIND NOW AVAILABLE

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Jerry is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant he suspects of causing his headaches. But he inadvertently causes his brain to become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in his friend's store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, an elderly lady with a tenuous grasp on reality, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Driving Miss Daisy, and Robocop, putting themselves and their townspeople into it. They become the biggest stars in their neighborhood. Written by Anonymous

A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee's friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques. Written by RSTX

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Michel Gondry has finally located a script to match his bazooka of whimsy. "Be Kind Rewind" doesn't share the insular, art-school qualities of his previous accomplishments ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "The Science of Sleep"); instead, the picture is a harmonious callback to low-fi filmmaking and community spirit, allowing Gondry a wide open meadow to let his viral creativity and mischievous determination frolic. It's an unexpected charmer.

Mike (Mos Def) works at a rundown Passaic, New Jersey video store under owner Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). Finding his street corner staple is about to be condemned, Mr. Fletcher considers a business of DVDs to keep up with the times. Off on a scouting mission, he leaves Mike in charge, and when newly-magnetized friend Jerry (Jack Black) steps inside the store after an awful power plant accident, they find all the VHS tapes have been erased. Panicked, the duo decide to create their own versions of the films wiped to cover for the loss, offering new "sweded" versions that the locals (including Mia Farrow) love. Now overwhelmed with requests, the team (with Melonie Diaz) hits the streets to shoot their askew take on Hollywood's biggest hits, hoping their popularity will save the store.

I've got nothing against Gondry and his limitless imagination, but there were times during the "Science of Sleep" where it felt like we were seeing the boundaries of his gimmicks; his college-radio creativity that's predictable in its unpredictability. Gondry certainly has a style all his own and while previous efforts might've captured more soulful meditations on the state of the head and heart, nothing he's made to date has demonstrated the bliss of filmmaking quite like "Rewind."

This is a fable, crossing the idea of comforting neighborhood myths with slapstick comedy pulled off with atypical ease by Gondry. "Rewind" is the most relaxed I've ever seen the writer/director, gently massaging the material for nuggets of irreverence and goofy, detail-oriented enchantment. He's deliriously in love with the mom and pop video store memories of days gone by, tenderly launching some jabs at today's Blockbuster mentality and the cold, mass availability of DVDs. For anyone who spent their youth poring over rows of VHS covers in dilapidated strip malls and converted convenience stores, "Rewind" is sure to be a diamond of nostalgia and 2/.99 Tuesday heartache. Gondry evokes the atmosphere of the fragile VHS glory days, while lamenting its demise for stronger, cheaper, more durable technology. It's been a motif in his cinema. If we all lived in Gondry's world, we'd still be listening to Victrolas while watching silent movies. Surely there are days when I couldn't argue with that desire.

The centerpieces of "Rewind" are the sweding sequences, both in their hilarious familiarity and in the sheer creativity Gondry reveals as he turns Hollywood excess and genuine magic into backyard playgrounds for our heroes. Watching Mike and Jerry use Christmas tinsel to recreate the proton streams of "Ghostbusters," spin around a road map to simulate a rooftop freefall for "Rush Hour 2," or out-Kubrick Kubrick with a junkyard "2001" centrifuge jog is highly contagious, resourceful fun, and is unmistakably the place where the film rockets off to another planet of visual invention. Perhaps Gondry has milked this homespun-special-effects teat before, but it's never found such symbiosis with a concept. It's endearing eye candy, especially for film fans, but it's offered in a relatable, piecemeal fashion that makes one want to grab a 1988 video camera and recreate "The Neverending Story" in the family basement.

The warmth extends throughout the entire movie, even climaxing on a gentle Capraesque melody that sends this zany picture out on the perfect note. "Be Kind Rewind" is a valentine to the movies and the powers of big-screen bonds, and I know for me it's the best narrative feature film to ever escape from Michel Gondry's infinite imagination.

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