movie clip: Jumper

What with the now hunky Jamie Bell and the lovelly Rachel Bilson, Jumper is the it movie of 2008!!



Doesn't it look rad!?

Dnevnoy dozor

And 2007 just gets better and better cinemawise.

This time I have the trailer from the sequel to the excelent Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor), a russian fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime battle for supremacy.

A plot outline: Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage.

Timur Bekmambetov, the visionary director, has been dubbed the new Tarantino.
The huge success of this first film, spawned a triology - the second one being Dnevnoy dozor (Day Watch), and the final one still in production (Dusk Watch).

Day Watch picks up where Nochnoy dozor left off, where Anton (Khabensky) continues to fight the forces of Darkness while simultaneously attempting to find and save his son from the clutches of those same forces. But when vampires belonging to the Dark side start mysteriously being killed, and Anton is framed for their murders, he must put that goal on hold and try to escape the Day Watch that is looking for his blood.



I'm a sucker for good CGI-sequences and over-the-top visuals, so this one goes right to the top of my must-see list of 2007.

across the universe

This is the second must-see movie of 2007 (right after 300).
It's with the it-chick of the moment (no, not Scarlett Johansson) - Evan Rachel Wood, directed by Julie Taymor (visionary director behind Frida) and it's already being tagged as a masterpiece of video art, design, music and dance.
If the trailer is anything to go by, the film aesthetics and visuals will be stunning.

An original musical film, Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, the killing fields of Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and painted and three-dimensional animation, the film is paired with many Beatles songs that defined the time.

'Let's look at the traila' ;)


It's out in late September!!

300

This is the movie to see in 2007!
The trailer looks simply spectacular - amazing visuals, make-up, soundtrack, special effects!!



Directed by Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead remake), inspired by a Frank Miller (Sin City) graphic novel, with Gerard Butler, Dominic West and Rodrigo Santoro half naked...

300