Movies and TV

Its die hard in the White House.

Can't believe there wasn't a thread for this yet. Thoughts, predictions, hopes? I'll return later with my thoughts after my iPad charges some.

This film is in pre-production http://youtu.be/j1p0_R8ZLB0 The Prototype is an upcoming action / science fiction film directed by Andrew Will and being produced by Variant Films, Sunrise Pictures and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. The film is about a military robot that escapes from a Federal Bureau of Investigation evidence storage facility. The film was first announced in June 21, 2012. A proof-of-concept teaser trailer was released.

The film is targeted for a September 6, 2013 release. http://youtu.be/PFCTPY536l8 Riddick (previously known as The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking) is an upcoming science fiction action film, the third installment in the The Chronicles of Riddick film series. Produced by and starring Vin Diesel as the title character, Riddick is written and directed by David Twohy, who already wrote and directed the two previous installments, Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004). Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon b…

Opens: June 14 2013 http://youtu.be/EpNpElN71zI This Is the End is an upcoming comedy film directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, and written by Rogen, Goldberg and Jason Stone. The film stars James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson as fictional versions of themselves in the aftermath of a global apocalypse. After a series of cataclysmic events ravage Los Angeles, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson must face the true meaning of friendship and redemption as the world ends around them.

Here's episode #1 http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-country/videos/welcome-to-the-garden.htm They have three full episodes up now. Enjoy!

I'm not huge on documentaries however this one was amazing. I was blown away by this one. I literally stood up shocked at some parts of this movie. You have to check it out.

http://youtu.be/gkoM0IbbLiY Release Date: April 12th A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this compelling drama about ordinary people desperate for a human connection. DISCONNECT explores the consequences of modern technology and how it affects and defines our dai…

http://youtu.be/Gb-jRz7HWqs Release Date: July 19th The Conjuring also known as The Warren Files is an upcoming supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The film stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators who come to the assistance of the Perron family (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their Rhode Island farmhouse.

Release Date: May 10 2013 http://youtu.be/xi-ufQs3Dis Aftershock is an American horror-thriller starring Eli Roth, Andrea Osvárt, Ariel Levy, Nicolas Martinez, Lorenza Izzo, and Natasha Yarovenko. The film also features a cameo from Selena Gomez. It is directed by Nicolás López. The film was written by López, Eli Roth and Guillermo Amoedo, from a story by Roth and López. The film, while fictional, was based on true events from the 2010 8.8 earthquake in Chile. The film was shot in Chile, in many of the same locations where the destruction took place. The idea came from a conversation with Roth and Lopez, where Lopez described the horrors of not just the earthquake, but t…

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Opens 4/12/2013 http://youtu.be/RMDZ8M47j0I

Vocal Director for Borderlands 2 wrote and produced this film.

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http://youtu.be/n5rh7O4IDc0 An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world. If you haven't seen this movie, check it out. Damn was it a good movie. I rarely find movies to actually post about but this one was worth it.

Pretty much had written this off since it sounded lame. Trailer seems pretty funny, though.

UBISOFT attaches TOM HARDY to play SAM FISHER in the upcoming TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL MOVIE. Link

Robocop gets rebooted in this big-screen MGM production from director José Padilha. The picture will once again surround a slain police officer (played by The Killing's Joel Kinnaman) who gets resurrected as a crime-fighting cyborg until memories of his previous life begin to make him doubt his corrupt corporate overlords. Gary Oldman co-stars as the doctor who suffers a crisis-of-conscience after bringing life back to the man in the form of a mechanical body and reprogrammed brain, while Samuel L. Jackson plays a larger-than-life media mogul. Opens February 7, 2014 Runtime:1 hr 42 min Cast Joel Kinnaman - Alex Murphy / Robocop Gary Oldman - Norton Samuel L. Jackson -…

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever. Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen Josh Hutcherson - Peeta Mellark Liam Hemsworth - Gale Hawthorne Elizabeth Banks - Effie Trinket Stanley Tucci -…

Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s “Thor” and “Marvel’s The Avengers,” Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos...but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all. Cast: Chris Hemsworth Natalie Por…

Don't watch this with your hormonal girlfriend / fiance / wife / partner / dog. It's all fun and games until you watch David Tennant, and then everything goes to shit, and it's tears and snot everywhere. Watching it again with the boyfriend for the first time in a few years, and I'm bawling like a child. Did anyone else find Tennant's Doctor to be particularly more sad than any other? I'm so upset I'm drinking a cup of tea and kicked him off the big screen so I can play Skyrim and shoot people.

Took the kid and wife to see it this morn and was plesantly shocked it was kida good. Morgan was completly into it with the love story, but the zombie fight was good and the kids thoughts about being a walking dead were funny. I expected to go into this for a 1hr 30+ min nap.

Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in this sequel to the member of the X-Men's first solo outing. Mark Bomback and The Usual Suspects' Christopher McQuarrie penned the script, which takes its inspiration from the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Marvel miniseries from the 1980s dealing with the character's adventures in Japan.

http://youtu.be/dKi5XoeTN0k Since Dom and Brian’s Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty. The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can ret…