The Echelon Conspiracy: Brooklyn Childhood

Official Site: echelonconspiracy.com
Director(s): Greg Marcks
Writer(s): Kevin Elders, and Michael Nitsberg
Producer(s): Alexander Leyviman , Steve Richards, and Roee Sharon
Starring: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Sergey Gubanov, Martin Sheen, and Tamara Feldman(IMDb). Rated PG-13, 106 minutes.

As Max Peterson ( Shane West) checks in to the hotel, the attendant hands him a box. He thought it was peculiar, but he accepted the box anyway. While standing in his hotel room he opened the box, and he found a mobile device that resembled a cell phone. However this cell phone did not ring. It sent him text messages from an unknown source. These messages helped Max earn a lot of easy money in the hotel casino; the sort of money that attracted the attention of hotel security, and the FBI; but Max, the FBI, and hotel security were in for a surprise, when they began investigating the source of the text messages.

This film was not very exciting, but it was interesting, and the pace of the film kept me engaged, but while I was watching this movie, I could not understand the engaging factor because I was longing for action. While the film did have action, the action scenes were not mind blowing, but they were crafted well enough to be considered mildly exciting. The ending of the film had a satisfactory measure of suspense, and it was rational but anticlimactic. This film was Ok. I'll score it a 72. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.

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Kaptur: Very Poignant

The International: Credit and Mayhem

Official Site: www.everybodypays.com
Director(s): Tom Tykwer
Writer(s): Eric Singer
Producer(s): Lloyd Phillips, Lloyd Phillips, and Richard Suckle

Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, Felix Solis, and
Jack McGee (IMDb). Rated-R. 118 minutes.

Louis Salinger (Owen)has been investigating the lending practices of the International Bank of Business and Credit; he realized, anyone who has been on the brink of exposing the bank's illegal activities has died. And his current efforts involving possible revelations from a high ranking executive from the bank has resulted in two deaths, the executive himself and Louis's partner. Affected by indignation, Louis is more determined than ever to expose the bank.

I was excited about seeing this film, but admittedly, I was on the precipice of boredom as I waited for a defining and poignant scene to indicate the alluring controversial aspects of banking in general. Thankfully that scene occurred during the meeting between Louis( Owen), Eleanor ( Watts), and Umberto Calvini. Although that scene was significant, however, the focus of the plot was to expose the bank's activities through Louis and Eleanor's adamant investigations of the murders connected to the bank.

Although there is some action in this film, it is not an action movie, but it certainly is a good investigative thriller with the Guggenheim scene being the most exciting part. The ending was logical but anticlimactic while being satisfactory. According to metacritic.com, the film received generally mixed reviews, and rottentomatoes.com granted the film 70 fresh tomatoes to 64 rotten ones. Good stuff, I' ll score it a 76. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.

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Banking CEOs Feel The Heat

Friday The 13th: Whitney

Official Site: www.fridaythe13thmovie.com
Director(s): Marcus Nispel
Writer(s): Damian Shannon, and Mark Swift
Producer(s): Michael Bay, Andrew Form,

Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Amanda Righetti, Aaron Yoo,Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman, Arlen Escarpeta, Ryan Hansen,Willa Ford, Nick Mennell, America Olivo, and, Kyle Davis(IMDb). Rated-R. 97 minutes.

A group of young adults have disappeared in the woods where a supposed disfigured maniacal killer by the name Jason duels. Six weeks later another group of young adults visit those woods, along with a stranger named Clay Miller who is searching for his sister Whitney who was a member of the previous group that has been declared missing. Clay's search leads him to an abandoned camp called Crystal Lake where him and his new friend Jenna notice a morbid and tall figure carrying a beheaded body. In fear of being massacred, Clay and Jenna run out of the camp to avoid being killed. 

By the time they reached the rest of the group to warn them about what they saw, Jason was already on the prowl.There was an effective use of color in the scenes featuring Camp Crystal Lake. The brown and greenish layer in those scenes was incredibly useful in depicting howJason lived a filthy and marginal domestic life. Apparently, Jason does not practice hygiene, and nor does he clean his house. The use of the aforementioned colors in the production of those scenes was efficacious in arousing the audience in feeling uncomfortable about how dirty the house was.

The the dialogue in the script was average. Witty jokes entertained the mind on a mundane level while the casting was platitudinous in its typical grouping of an Asian, and African American while the remainder of the group was Caucasian. As usual the Asian and the African American are coupled in some capacity, either romantic or platonic, platonic in this case. This film was well produced, but more suspense would have benefited the film. I'll score it a 73.

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Interview:Damian Shannon/Mark Swift

Consolidation of Major Banks

Movie Favorites: Eyes Wide Shut

Some conspiracy theorists believe this film was about the ritualistic sexual practices of powerful men in secret in societies.

Slumdog Millionaire: Rupees

Official Site: www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire
Director(s): Danny Boyle, and Loveleen Tandan
Writer(s): Simon Beaufoy, and Vikas Swarup
Producer(s): Christian Colson,

Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Freida Pinto, (IMDb). Rated-R. 120min.

Jamal is one question away from winning 20 million dollars, but the horn to stop the show sounds off, and he has to walk off the stage until the next day. As he walks out of the building, he is captured by police and tortured on charges of cheating, for how else would he have known all the answers so far into the game. After being tortured he was given a chance to explain how he knew the answers. Coincidentally, every question he was asked yielded an answer that related to his life as a destitute child.

This was an amazing film, showcasing great cinematography which detailed the impoverished real estate of the slums with all the people who lived in substandard housing. The latrines, the muddy roads, and the barefoot kids who wear the same soiled clothes everyday was presented powerfully, a presentation conveying the culture of impoverished India so well. This is a great film that earned 10 Oscar nominations, and earned a best picture award. Awesome! I'll grade it a 92.
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Freedom State

The Bale Out

Christian Bale became angry at a crew member while filming a scene in the upcoming Terminator film. Hopefully this rant will not categorize Bale as a difficult actor to work with.

2 Trillion: Where did it Go?

Transformers 2 Superbowl Teaser

GI Joe Super Bowl Teaser

The Uninvited: Mildred Kemp

Official Site: uninvitedmovie.com
Director(s): Charles Guard, and Thomas Guard
Writer(s): Craig Rosenberg, and Doug Miro
Producer(s): Roy Lee, Laurie MacDonald, and Walter F. Parkes

Starring: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn, and Dean Paul Gibson(IMDb). Rated-PG13, 87 minutes.

Anna is a teenager who is dealing with her mother's death, and after 10 months of therapy she returned home to find her father's girlfriend, Rachael, has replaced her mother. Anna is definitely not happy about her father's choice to move on. As the days past, Anna notices a dark side to Rachael, and she begins to speculate that Rachael may have been involved in her mother's death, or was she?

The most enjoyable aspect of this film was the ending, very nice. Besides that, the remainder of the film featured the usual proponents that most horror films possesses, such as depicting children in a manner that makes them creepy. The pace of the film was slow, but it did not induce boredom. The story was interesting but it was not engaging; I was not substantially entangled by the film, regardless it was entertaining. According to metacritic.com the film received mixed reviews, and rottentomatoes.com granted the film 45 rotten tomatoes to 26 fresh ones. This was entertaining. I'll score it a 73 out of 100. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.

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Elizabeth Banks Interview


Arielle Kebbel Interview


Emily Browning Interview