A three-minute film from an unknown director led a $30 million Hollywoood deal. Fede Alvarez’s film “Ataque de Panico!” (Panic Attack!) features giant robots stomping through Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
Michael Cera almost goes against type here. Close but no cigar, Mike. Still, Youth in Revolt may illicit a few chuckles when it’s released on October 30.
Michael Moore returns with his take on the economic collapse. Moore describes his critique of capitalism as a “comedy.” Released October 2.
She’s talented and beautiful. He’s a respected songwriter. Maybe this union won’t be so bad.
Woody Harrelson as a banjo-wielding zombie killer. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, this new post-apocalyptic zombie comedy is out October 9.
Hmm, not many laughs in this trailer. The producers must be peaved that The Hangover’s success at the box office might have sucked up all the juice for this set-up.
Ozzy up close and personal. Maybe we’ll see more more of the working class brummie than the Prince of Darkness in this documentary.
Wes Anderson has taken Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s novel and produced a stop-motion animation film featuring the voices of Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and George Clooney.
New black comedy from the Coen brothers hits the screens October 2. A Serious Man is set in 1967 and revolves around a Midwestern professor who, surprise, surprise, has a few problems – his wife is leaving him and his useless brother won’t move out of his house.
The official teaser is here. Tim Burton directs Alice In Wonderland, a certain visual feast.
Nick Hornby wrote the screenplay for An Education, a new movie set in early-sixties Britain. The movie went down well at Sundance and set chins wagging about the impending super stardom of newb Carey Mulligan.
A strong conceit but will it hook you for 90 minutes? Ricky Gervais stars in The Invention of Lying as a man who unwittingly tells the world’s first lie. The Brit also co-directs. Released September 25, 2009.
Exciting times for for movie goers who love to see the earth’s destruction. 2012 is definitely a movie for the big screen especially if you’re turned on by footage of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer crumbling before your eyes and the USS John F. Kennedy ploughing through Washington D.C. riding a massive tidal wave.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up again for this mystery thriller. Set in 1954, DiCaprio plays U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels, a rookie investigating the disappearance of a patient from an island mental hospital. Shutter Island is released 2 October, 2009.
