Movie Addict and Music Freak: August 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

Resident Evil: Afterlife

She's back...And she's bringing a few of her friends.

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead. She then teams up with a group of survivors who had been hiding in Los Angeles since the T-virus outbreak, and helps them to free another group held-up in a prison, among them Claire's brother, Chris Redfield.

Milla Jovovich as Alice

Alice is a former Umbrella Corporation security operative whose exposure to their experimental T-virus left her with heightened strength, speed and telekinetic abilities. As the only human to bond with the T-virus successfully, Alice is now hunted by the Umbrella Corp who intend to clone her DNA in order to control the virus' mutation.

Ali Larter as Claire Redfield

Claire Redfield is Chris's younger sister. She lead a convoy of survivors who encountered Alice in the previous film; Resident Evil: Extinction. In Afterlife, Claire mysteriously finds herself alone in the woods and suffering from amnesia.

Claire and Alice

Wentworth Miller as Chris Redfield

Chris Redfield is Claire's older brother. He is working with an unnamed military organization combating the infected. Chris and his unit were using a Los Angeles prison as a base of operations, before it was overrun and he was imprisoned.

Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker

Albert Wesker is the Chairman of the Umbrella Corporation; is the only remaining organization on the planet. Even in the face of humanity's extinction, its genetic experiments continue to this day.. Albert Wesker has been tracking Alice in order to discover means by which the T-Virus mutation can be controlled. Similar to Alice, he also possesses superhuman strength, speed and regenerative capabilities.

Official Website: www.residentevil-movie.com/

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Step Up 3D

New York's intense street dancing underground comes alive in eye-popping Digital 3D in the third installment of the Step Up franchise as the raw, passion-fueled culture goes global. The sequel sees the return of Adam Sevani and Alyson Stoner, who portrayed Moose from Step Up 2: The Streets and Camille Gage from Step Up. The film follows Moose and Camille Gage as they head to New York University, the former of whom is majoring in electrical engineering after promising his mother that he would not dance anymore. However, he soon stumbles upon a dance battle, meeting Luke and his House of Pirates dance crew and later teaming up with them to compete in the World Jam dance contest against their rivals, the House of Samurai dance crew. Luke meets a girl named Natalie at his club and quickly takes notice of her dancing abilities, enlisting her to become part of his crew and hoping her talent can bring them to victory. However, he is unaware of Natalie's true motives.

From left: Adam Sevani as Robert "Moose" Alexander III and Rick Malambri as Luke Katcher

Adam Sevani featuring Twitch, the So You Think You Can Dance Season 4 finalist.

Rick Malambri with Sharni Vinson that played Natalie in the film

Sharni Vinson as Natalie

Luke Katcher with his dance crews.

Trailer HERE

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Repo Men

"For a price, any organ in your body can be replaced but it can also be repossessed."

In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property with no concern for your comfort or survival.

Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business. When he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company’s top-of-the-line heart-replacement. When he can’t make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy’s former partner Jake to track him down. Meanwhile, Remy finds an unexpected ally in the form of his long-lost wife, Beth who has also been retrofitted with numerous artificial organs. Now, despite the fact that they haven't seen each other since Remy joined the army ten years ago, the desperate repo man and his sympathetic wife attempt a daring escape from a man who holds the lives of millions in the palm of his hands.

Jude Law as Remy. He was recently seen starring opposite Robert Downey JR. in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes and in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker as Remy and Jake, highly skilled repo men for The Union.

Liev Schreiber as Frank, the man who responsible for The Union. He recently work along side Angelina Jolie in Salt.

Alice Braga as Beth, Remy's lost wife who has also been retrofitted with numerous artificial organs.

This movie received generally negative reviews from critics. Review from Rotten Tomatoes reports that 23% of 103 critics gave the film a positive review with an average rating of 4.2 out of 10. Is it really that bad?

Official Website: http://www.repomenarecoming.com/main.html

Trailer HERE

Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Expendables

THE EXPENDABLES is a hard-hitting action thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things aren't quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge - one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers. Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is a man with nothing to lose. Fearless and void of emotion, he is the leader, the sage and the strategist of this tight-knit band of men who live on the fringe. His only attachment is to his pickup truck, his seaplane and his team of loyal modern-day warriors.

The team behind him is made up of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Hale Caeser (Terry Crews), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Gunner Jensen (Dolph Ludgren). When the mysterious Church (Bruce Willis) offers Barney a job no one else would take, Barney and his team embark on what appears to be a routine mission: overthrow General Gaza (David Zayas), the murderous dictator of the small island country of Vilena and end the years of death and destruction inflicted on its people. On a reconnaissance mission to Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet their contact Sandra (Giselle Itie), a local freedom-fighter with a dark secret. They also come to learn who their true enemy is: rouge ex-CIA operative James Monroe (Eric Roberts) and his henchman Paine (Steve Austin). When things go terribly wrong, Barney and Christmas are forced to leave Sandra behind., essentially giving her a death sentence. Haunted by his failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena to rescue the hostage and finish the job he started. And to perhaps save a soul: his own.

In this picture: Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Jason Statham

This film pays tribute to the blockbuster action films of the 1980s and early '90s, and stars an array of action veterans from those decades, including Stallone himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, and Jet Li, as well as more recent stars such as Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, and Steve Austin.

"Stallone's The Expendables will be the greatest action movie of all time" - National Post

Trailer HERE

Official Website: http://expendablesthemovie.com/

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Tekken

Tekken is a 2010 martial arts film directed by Dwight Little, based on the fighting game series of the same name.

In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments but by corporations. The mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. This corporation sponsors the King of Iron Fist Tournament or Tekken in which fighters battle until one is left standing, who in turn will receive a lifetime of stardom and wealth. We are introduced to this violent world through the eyes of Jin Kazama, a rebellious teenage street fighter who enters the tournament in order to avenge the death of his mother, Jun Kazama that he blames upon the Mishima Zaibatsu's most powerful and controlling chairman, Heihachi Mishima his own grandfather along with his father, Kazuya Mishima. He knows that the only way to get close enough to Mishima is to win the tournament but in doing so, he begins to uncover his own past and inner demons as well as exposing a dark underbelly to Tekken that threatens the very existence of humanity.

Jon Foo as Jin Kazama. He is a British actor of Irish and Chinese ancestry and very interested in martial arts since he began training in martial arts in London. Was alongside with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation.

Kelly Overton as Christie Monteiro

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Heihachi Mishima

Ian Anthony Dale as Kazuya Mishima. He is the son of Heihachi Mishima and the father of Jin Kazama. He also a powerful karate fighter.

Darrin Dewitt Henson as Raven. An international intelligence agent codenamed Raven who sides with Jin during the tournament. He's considered highly skilled and iron-hearted.

Candice Hillebrand as Nina Wiliams. A cold-blooded assassin that works for the Mishimas.

Cung Le as Marshall Law.

Luke Goss as Steve fox. He acts as Jin's mentor in the film.

Gary Daniels as Brian Fury. A former Interpol officer that competes in the tournament. Daniels is a former kick-boxer himself.

Tamlyn Tomita as Jun Kazama. Jin Kazama's beloved mother. After her assassination, Jin enters the tournament to avenge her.

Other characters will also be making an appearance in this movie. Anna Williams; the sister and rival of Nina Williams played by Marian Zapico, Eddy played by Christie Monterio; a Brazilian Capoeira practitioner, a mystic Samurai-esque armored swordsman Yoshimitsu played by Gary Ray Stearns, Anton Kasabov as Sergei Dragunov, Roger Huerta as Miguel Caballero Rojo; a young Spanish brawler and including Kara; an original character that is Jin's girlfriend at the beginning of the film played by Mircea Monroe.

Here are some scenes taken from the movie.