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Parkour! An Awesome District 13: Ultimatum Trailer
1 December 2009 9:31 PM, PST
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Want to see something totally badass? How about a look at the new trailer for District 13: Ultimatum, released today by Magnet Releasing and Apple. As I've been telling you since I saw the film at Fantastic Fest, there's something to all of this Parkour in France. Producer Luc Besson has once again delivered action that is high-octane and relentless. And sure, the second film mimics the story of the first, but you won't care half way through, as you watch Cyril Rafaelli kicking serious ass. Official synopsis, trailer and release info are below.
Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso (Cyril Raffaelli) teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito (parkour originator David Belle) to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug dealing gangs and vicious killers. Despite government promises to maintain order, the state of the district has deteriorated, and a group of corrupt cops and elected
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Ong Bak 2 Blu-ray Details with New Ong Bak 3 Footage
24 November 2009 10:08 AM, PST
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Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2: The Beginning is leaping his way to the Six-Shooter Film Series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on February 2.
The "collector's edition" Blu-ray set will include a high-def transfer and the original Thai language track as well as an English dub. Both should be in lossless audio but that is unconfirmed at this time.
Magnet is packing in a decent number of bonus features onto Ong Bak 2's Blu-ray and DVD release including never-before-seen footage from Ong Bak 3 and the following:
HDNet: A Look at Ong Bak 2
Behind-the-scenes featurettes
Making-of featurettes
Interviews w/cast and crew including Tony Jaa
Trailer
Pre-order Ong Bak 2: The Beginning on Blu-ray at a discounted price from Amazon.com.
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: November 24, 2009
24 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST
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Gomorrah (Criterion Collection)
I just published my review of this one and the film certainly holds up to repeat viewings and left an even greater impression on me than it did when I wrote my "B" review last year. The presentation is great and there is a wealth of supplementary material that can be a bit taxing, but, if taken in slowly, will open your eyes even wider. If you are interested check out my review here and you can read the included Chuck Stevens's essay "Gomorrah: Terminal Beach" available right here.
Angels and Demons
Nope, wasn't about to request this one for review. I watched it once and once was enough for me. You can read my "C+" review if you need further explanation as to my thoughts on this film, but I don't ever intend to revisit it,
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New Posters for A Single Man, The Road and District 13: Ultimatum
23 November 2009 8:21 PM, PST
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The Weinstein Company has released a new poster for The Road and A Single Man. While I liked the previous poster for The Road, I understand using a huge quote saying how great the movie is as a way to help sell the movie.
However, the new poster for A Single Man is just perfect. Just like the movie, the poster is elegant, and it sells the relationships of the film. Colin Firth is looking at whatever is holding his interest (most likely Matthew Goode) and Julianne Moore is looking at what she wants most, but can’t have. While I haven’t yet raved about A Single Man on Collider, the film is an amazing first feature from director Tom Ford and I’ll have more in the coming weeks.
Finally, Magnet has released the first poster for District 13: Ultimatum. This is the sequel to the Luc Besson
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Ong Bak 2 DVD and Blu-Ray details
23 November 2009 12:42 PM, PST
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Magnolia has announced details and cover art for their upcoming release of Ong Bak 2: The Beginning. On February 2nd, 2010 you'll have the option of 1-disc DVD, 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray. The 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray will include a HDNet: A Look at Ong Bak 2 featurette, interviews with cast and crew, never before seen footage from Ong Bak 3, behind the scenes featurettes, making of featurettes, and more. Suggested retail price for the Blu-Ray and 2-disc DVD is $29.98.
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Red Cliff - Enter to win great prizes including a poster autographed by John Woo and DVDs Chocolate, Exiled and Dynamite Warrior!
5 November 2009 3:38 AM, PST
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MovieJungle.com and Magnolia Pictrues are pleased to present you with a chance to win fantastic prizes from the upcoming epic historical drama "Red Cliff."
Enter and you could a great prize pack which includes a poster autographed by legendary director John Woo as well as the Magnet/Magnolia DVDs "Dynamite Warrior," "Chocolate" and "Exiled."
Red Cliff is now available on VOD, Amazon and Xbox Live and will open in theaters starting November 18, 2009.
Legendary action-cinema master John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since the 1992 classic Hard Boiled in Red Cliff, the epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. Red Cliff opens as power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) seeks permission from the Han dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way,
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Monthly Movie Preview – November 2009 … A Christmas Carol, 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and more
3 November 2009 5:34 AM, PST
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It’s the holidays. We know this because the movies tell us so. This year they waited exactly one week after Halloween to start the Christmas fare with Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol. But even though the month starts with Christmas, the movie month plays out just like Thanksgiving.
At first, we’re given an array of wonderful treats that’s we’ll happily gobble up like George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats or George Clooney in the stop-motion Wes Anderson movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. Plus, teenage girls and a few others, will have their vampire appetites filled with The Twilight Saga: New Moon. But then, just like Thanksgiving, you gorge a little too much. And even though you’re full, you look around for something more to eat … and that’s when Old Dogs seems to be your only option.
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Ong Bak 2: The Beginning Review
30 October 2009 4:41 AM, PDT
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If the balletic and elegant fighting styles of Jackie Chan and Jet Li are the tap and swing of the martial arts world, then Tony Jaa and his Thai cohorts are practicing the Lambada. Jaa, who rose to international popularity in 2005 with Ong Bak, introduced the mainstream to the brutal and direct art of Muy Thai. Utilizing a mixture of feet, elbows and knees—and your head if you can figure a way to fit it in—Muy Thai is Jaa’s signature style. The two come in a package, and after a few other forays into the genre, they are both back with Ong Bak 2. The new entry ups the ante of the original by including more stunts, more enemies and a bigger budget which results in some of the most exciting fight scenes ever put to film.
Jaa, who does all of his own stunts, allegedly without
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- Nathan Bartlebaugh
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Ong Bak 2: The Beginning Movie Review
27 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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Let's get this out of the way right now: Ong Bak 2: The Beginning really has nothing to do with Ong Bak aside from the fact that Tony Jaa is in it. Sure, you'll hear claims that he's playing the earlier incarnation of his character from the original, but that won't mean anything to you. Because you don't care about a plot. You came to see Tony Jaa fight a crocodile.
Actually, Tony Jaa doesn't get to fight a crocodile. His younger self does. That's the tip of the iceberg for what happens in this movie. Check this out, Ong Bak:
Is recruited to join a village where they'll teach him to be a badass. And magic, for some reason.
Runs on top of a herd of elephants only to school their punk asses with a slap on the head.
Ups the ante of the 30-dude arm breaking scene
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Box Office Report: Paranormal Activity saws Saw 6
24 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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Dude here again. With a tale of surprise and wonder, this weekend. It seems that a movie shot on a home video camera that's been out for 5 weeks and slowly expanding, has taken on the Goliath that is the Saw franchise. I'm so shocked by this, that it needed to be discussed right away, instead of the usual esoteric nonsense greeting paragraph I'm accustomed to writing.
Ducks, bananas, and popcorn! (Had to do something weird, c'mon).
This weekend, up is down, black is white, dogs and cats live together! Let's go to the numbers, shall we? (All in millions, remember, and these are the studio estimates. The actuals will be available on Monday).
1. Paranormal Activity (Par) - $22.0, 1945 screens, week 5, $62.4 total
2. Saw VI (Lgf)- $14.8, 3036 screens, week 1, $14.8 total
3. Where The Wild Things Are (WB) - $14.4, 3735 screens, week 2, $53.9 total
4. Law Abiding Citizen (Over)- $12.7, 2890 screens, week 2, $40.3 total
5. Couples Retreat (Uni) $11.0, 3074 screens, week
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Psyched for Saw 6
24 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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The end of October. This means changes in weather, the end of baseball, lots of parties with women dressed up in "sexy" versions of everything from Strawberry Shortcake to nuns, and another Saw movie to be unleashed upon the multiplexes.
You know, I gotta hand it to the filmmakers. They've crafted a wholly original new series of cheap thrillers that don't require much money, and have led it to the greatest grossing horror series of all time!
On top of which, we're six movies in, and they haven't resorted to 3-D releases, a prequel set in the old west, or Jigsaw in space yet, which means there must still be plenty of needlessly complex methods of killing people with common household rusted objects. Although I hear the next one will probably be in 3-D, so Saw VIII will probably take place aboard the Nsa Jigsaw
Anyway, with the release of
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New to Theatres This Weekend: Astro Boy, Saw VI, Cirque du Freak
24 October 2009 4:09 AM, PDT
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Well what do you know... a whole slew of new releases are hitting theatres this weekend, and a few are actually kind of Halloween-related! The sixth installment of the invincible Saw series will probably do its usual business, but it has some competition this year from Oren Peli's indie hit Paranormal Activity, which has finally reached a critical mass. Other major releases include the CG-animated Astro Boy flick, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant starring John C. Reilly, and Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia, starring Hilary Swank. Elsewhere, Lars Von Trier's Antichrist unleashes chaos on a few unsuspecting audiences, Ong Bak 2 gets a small theatrical release, and The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man slowly widens its reach. Will you be paying a trip to the multiplex this weekend? If you've seen any recent releases, let us know in the comments whether or not they were worth checking out.
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Review: Ong Bak 2
23 October 2009 5:15 PM, PDT
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By Todd Gilchrist (reprinted from 9/23/09)
Cinematically speaking, there may be nothing worse than when an action star or purveyor of thrills starts taking himself too seriously. Such a transformation almost invariably begets a personal crusade, which often takes the form of a vanity project, and usually turns out about as well as The Quest did for Jean-Claude Van Damme, or On Deadly Ground did for Steven Seagal. Thai martial artist Tony Jaa launched his career with the original Ong Bak, and after that film and its superior follow-up, The Protector, made him an international sensation, he apparently started believing his own hype: Jaa not only co-directed Ong Bak 2, his latest film, but conceived it as the ultimate Thai adventure, reinforcing his own legend with a self-aggrandizing historical epic that somehow proves that you can actually make a movie without a plot - which unfortunately but perhaps predictably isn't a compliment.
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Ong Bak 2: The Ultimate Art Film
23 October 2009 4:00 PM, PDT
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Is Muay-thai master Tony Jaa the next Jean-Louis Trintignan? If you’re one of those cinephiles who read this morning’s New York Times over scones and tea and frowned as Tony “Soprano” Scott’s review put a bullet in the head of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and Manohla Dargis crash-landed Hilary Swank’s blatant Oscar grab Amelia on the runway, you’re probably wondering, What’s an armchair intellectual to see this weekend? Well, the film factories of Southeast Asia might have a refreshing answer for you in Ong Bak 2: The Beginning. Those of you who remember when Tony Jaa first kneecap-smashed his way into our martial-arts hearts with the original Ong Bak may be wiping your monocle in disbelief as you read this recommendation. Yet, while you’re unlikely to find Anthony Lane and David Denby debating Jaa’s status as the new “New Bruce Lee,
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Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Oct. 23
23 October 2009 3:02 PM, PDT
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Here's a quick look at what's opening in limited release this weekend. If they're not playing where you live, keep an eye out as they make the rounds. And if all else fails, there's always DVD....
Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (pictured) is something of a prequel to Ong Bak, the Thai sensation from a few years ago. Tony Jaa, whose multi-discipline fighting skills are beyond impressive, plays a guy who fights a lot. Cinematical's Todd Gilchrist sums up the way many of us felt when we first caught the film at South By Southwest: The fight scenes are spectacular; unfortunately, the plot that holds them together is incomprehensible and takes itself too seriously. At Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are almost evenly split between yea and nay, with the only question being whether the awesomeness of the fights is enough to compensate for the dullness of the rest of it.
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- Eric D. Snider
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The Week in Film: What will fly at the box office? And what won't?
23 October 2009 2:13 PM, PDT
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Editor's note: This week we're welcoming Mike Wong on board to write our weekly movie column.
Another week, another set of movies. Hard to believe it’s already nearly November when the Oscar-bait starts being dangled, and unless you didn’t see any movies last week, I’m sorry to say it’s a good week to stay home or do something not movie related.
The first of the wide releases this week is Amelia starring the swanky Hilary Swank in a movie that almost no one was waiting for. This biopic about Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic, seems to have flown out of the Hollywood machine with every cliché and formulaic fixture intact. Currently scoring a 22% on Rottentomatoes.com, I’ll wager that it’ll probably experience some serious turbulence in the box office.
Starring Cherry Jones as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard Gere as her husband,
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Movie Review: “Ong Bak 2”
23 October 2009 10:30 AM, PDT
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Seen on: October 21, 2009
The players: Directors: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai, Writers: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai, Cast: Tony Jaa, Santisuk Promsiri, Sarunyoo Wongkrachang
Facts of interest: Prequel to "Ong Bak."
The plot: After Tien sees his parents get murdered, he's picked up by a group of warriors who teach him martial arts.
Our thoughts: Tony Jaa returns to kicking major ass in “Ong Bak 2,” a film that boasts an impressive photography but eventually suffers from many overlong scenes and monotonous action. As expected, a story is pretty much nonexistent, and while the film is not entirely boring, it still failed to win me over.
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Movie Review: Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
22 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT
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Oct 23, 2009
If I was still an impressionable young man more easily swayed by the martial arts skills of the cinematic heroes of my youth like Bruce Lee then I think I might have a Tony Jaa poster on my wall. Honestly, the guy totally kicks ass. Despite rumors of the actor/director losing his mind in the Cambodian jungles a la Coppola on Apocalypse Now, the film that resulted, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
features an international star at the top of his particular game right
now, delivering continuously impressive vehicles for his gritty, ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com
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‘Ong Bak 2: The Beginning’ Review
22 October 2009 6:19 PM, PDT
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Short version: Ong Bak 2: The Beginning isn’t for everyone, but for action junkies, it provides exactly what you’d expect.
Screen Rant’s Ross Miller reviews Ong Bak 2
The first Ong Bak (subtitled Muay Thai Warrior) I found to be quite entertaining, with some seriously kick-ass fight sequences, consisting of some often jaw-dropping choreography and stunts. Unfortunately, there were also some not-so-great aspects, notably the poor acting and thin storyline. But overall there was enough there to make it worthwhile, and it was pretty much inevitable that another movie would follow.
It’s no surprise to find that Ong Bak 2, or Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, is practically more of the same, but it manages to get rid of (or at least better mask) the bad elements, while subsequently improving on the fight sequences (if you can believe it).
Ong Bak 2 is actually a prequel to Ong Bak,
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Film: Review:Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
22 October 2009 12:08 PM, PDT
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Following the grand Asian-cinema tradition of sequels that have squat to do with the originals, here comes Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, which takes place hundreds of years before its predecessor, and which swaps out Ong Bak’s simple story of a rural youngster beating up urban slicksters, in favor of an epic tale of an ancient warrior learning his craft from a nomadic tribe of jungle bandits. Tony Jaa stars as a nobleman’s son who absorbs the lessons of multiple martial artists on his way to exacting revenge on his father’s killer. As the movie opens, we ...
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