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TV – Spirited (Episode 1.02)
Sep 4th
Remember telling you guys about this show with the dentist and ghost last week. Well Henry (the ghost) is Henry Mallet a semi famous punk star, frontman for “The Nerve” who is most likely dead as they really never found the body so he can be dead or in a coma and they don’t know who he is… All right he’s probably dead. As the two try to find more clues to his “death” Henry is causing trouble for Suzy where she talks to Henry at the most inopportune times and its making her look like a nut to everybody, especially her soon to be ex-husband who is already taking advantage of these slip-ups.
Now why this show is posted here. Is it official that Adam is in a poly relationship (Henry as a ghost can go into anybody’s apartment in the building, being dead and all and he intrudes into Adam’s home:
It does seem that from the first where Adam and his lovers -they still have no names / Seriously, they are called Adam One and Two- called her an ice queen to second episode where some friendship has been established since Suzy left Verity for them to look after while her sister ambushed her into an intervention.
I still don’t know if they are important to the story or just happen to be one of the many groups Henry visits/ Suzy interacts peripherally in the former hotel cum apartment building but the overall storyline and characters are good.
Popularity: unranked [?]
TV – Spirited (Episode 1.01)
Aug 29th
Spirited is a new series from W/Foxtel network in Australia. The premise is about Suzy Darling, a stiff type dentist who leaves her egotistical husband Steve and moves her children into a hotel penthouse apartment. The twist is that it seems the apartment or should I say the hotel itself is haunted by a English amnesiac ghost who didn’t make it pass the 1970’s punk era. Apparently he can only be seen by Suzy and the cat that lives there in the hotel. I assume the mystery will be finding out how did “Henry” (he finds out his name through a pendant Suzy wears but they need to touch it together for it to work) the ghost arrive and died in Australia and what does Suzy need to get him to move on.
Now you ask: Why should you care?
Well, I am not 100% sure, but 90%+ that there is poly (secondary or tertiary storyline???) relationship in the show.
The man (Adam in apt 3) is talking to Suzy.
Adam reaches into his apartment and kisses both, these are his two companions. He tells them about talking to Suzy.
Adam, is the owner of said cat.
Adam turns in the home and watches his two companions sleeping. It looks like he is the only one that is employed.
Whether this is a gay or bisexual triad, it does seem to play out as a poly group. Whether it becomes important to the main ghost/dentist storyline later on or something else is still unknown. I will update if this (Series 1- 8 episode run) relationship becomes important or featured again.
Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: 21 Movies Trailers for 2010
Dec 16th
21 Movies Trailers for 2010 (2010)
Synopsis:
[Call Me Al] Here’s a playlist of upcoming mostly action oriented movies for 2010. Two are for the year’s end and a couple aren’t action. Simple. Got it. Good.
Trailer:
Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: Daybreakers
Dec 3rd
Daybreakers (2010) I’m actually excited to see a vampire movie again, maybe between this film and the upcoming “Priest” movie with Karl Urban will hopefully take vampires back from the hands of teenage girls and the women/men who act like it.
Synopsis:
[Aceshowbiz] Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
Trailer:
Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: The Prisoner
Oct 23rd
The Prisoner (2009)
I didn’t know they were remaking “The Prisoner”. I watched the original series as a child on PBS. But this time is premiering on the AMC channel (combo producing of AMC and ITV) and from the previews it looks like an action action miniseries than the cerebral action television show of the 60’s. Either way it has Ian McKellen (as #2) and James Caviezel (as #6). I’m not a fan of this decade’s film and television TPTB’s need to remake and recycle every thing from the past but the battle between #6 and #2, whether action or cerebral, is something I really want to watch. So I go again into the breach and give hope that this is going to be good (It has Magneto and the Outlander, what could go wrong. 
). It premieres November 09. See the 9 minute trailer below.
Synopsis:
[AMC] A man known as Six (Jim Caviezel) finds himself trapped in a bizarre place called the “The Village” led by a man known as Two (Ian McKellen). Two holds the secrets of escape, and Six must defeat him — or else stay in The Village forever.
The Prisoner will premiere at 8PM | 7C over three nights.
Sun., Nov. 15: “Arrival” and “Harmony”
Mon., Nov. 16: “Anvil” and “Darling”
Tue., Nov. 17: “Schizoid” and “Checkmate”
Sun., Nov. 15: “Arrival” and “Harmony”
Mon., Nov. 16: “Anvil” and “Darling”
Tue., Nov. 17: “Schizoid” and “Checkmate”
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Popularity: 1% [?]
MReview: Shortbus
Sep 22nd
Shortbus 2006 (Unrated Edition)
M/F – M/M – M/M/M – F/F
Synopsis: [IMDB] Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.
Review: Sorry this is super short but I wrote this long piece a while ago and lost it and I’m not looking to rewrite again, and this is going by memory.
There are explicit sexual situations but seriously, it’s not about sex. Get past the first ten minutes and the sex will become background, seriously. I was amazed that while the sex did advance certain things in the film it was almost invisible to the way the character’s plots interacted with each other.
It is about the sex therapist who never had an orgasm. The actress who plays her is so believable and earnest as her journey interconnects with everyone. It feels like she’s Alice going through the city full of adventures and strange unique people to find home (her self fulfillment). Others teach by her giving advice or a simple shoulder to cry on. We meet the other people and their dynamics: directly knowing her or connection to her. Their stories are just as unique and interesting to watch. All the characters are relatable and likable, even the ones you don’t care for but it is an interesting look at the character’s dealing with others, their own lives and how they love each other. Music soundtrack is a great bonus.
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Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: Ninja Assassin
Sep 13th
Ninja Assassin (2009)
I like action movies, I like violent movies but I don’t like horror or slasher films like “Saw”. I find those movies bad in gratuitous violence without any reasoning behind it. It feels creepy in a bad serial killer way, in “I never want this to be real anywhere in the world” way. How do these movies get a “R” instead of NC-17 rating will continue to baffle me. (Actually it doesn’t baffle me, a little brain power and apply with what’s going on in the -U.S. Health Industry- to the -Ratings Board (MPAA)/U.S. Movie Industry- can get great comparability.) Anyhoo, Ninja Assassin don’t seem to have that creepy evil equality but has the “purposeful violence” that I am looking for, so I’ve posted the trailer here. It is slated for November 2009.
Hey! Is this the same “Rain” that had the dance-off with Steven Colbert! Interest peaked!
Synopsis:
[IDMB] Ninja Assassin follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.
In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.
Trailer:
Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: Gamer
Aug 29th
Gamer (2009)
I saw a different trailer/commercial for this movie and saw John Leguizamo first and thought hey he doesn’t make supremely sucky films, then I saw Gerard Butler who I think is adorable but learned very recently via the Craig Ferguson show that Americans have been pronouncing his first name wrong. Ooops. It is closer to the Jared, like the Subway guy. Anyhoo between them and Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, and Kyra Sedgwick. If not, Oscar it seems like a good popcorn movie.
Synopsis:
[Wikipedia] In 2034, mind-control technology has taken society by storm, and a multiplayer on-line game called “Slayers” allows gamers to control human death row prisoners in mass-scale deathmatches. Any inmate who lives through 30 matches wins his freedom. Simon (Logan Lerman) controls Kable (Gerard Butler) the on-line champion of the game having won 27 matches and lived through them all, with his every move tracked by millions, his ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game’s mastermind (Michael C. Hall) through launching an attack on the system that has imprisoned him.
Trailer:
Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: Tron Legacy
Aug 24th
Tron Legacy (2010)
I watched this movie when I was a kid and thought this was the coolest shit. I mean the red and blue lights, the speed: oh the fast movements, it was crazy and to a small kid this was amazement but when I heard Disney (Only heard and not saw because the trailer premiered at the San Diego Comic Con and let’s be honest, it was never going to reach on the East Coast (Hollywood and their ilk likes to play in their own backyard.) until they were done with it but I was like, “No.”) decided to add a sequel to this movie, I was like, “Hollywood is already raping my childhood left and right so at this point, should I care.”
Apparently from the trailer which I’m going to present in a moment means I guess I can care just a little bit for a little longer. I mean it does have the original Flynn, Jeff Bridges reappearing in the movie along with Bruce Boxleitner. That alone has me intrigued, no.
One thing: The colors used to be red and blue, right? Now they are yellow and aqua?
Synopsis:
[Wikipedia] According to a Disney press release, the storyline for the film is: “Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidante (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.
Trailer:
Popularity: 1% [?]
MTrailer: Blood: The Last Vampire
Jun 3rd
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
I love movies with action, women in action, women doing something besides looking pretty and kicking ass in action. This movie based on the anime which I was watching over a year ago and thought it was great until I made the mistake of going to Wikipedia and inadvertently saw the ending which turned me off completely and never went back to it but Racialicious posted the live action trailer so I want to watch it but I check out the official’s site and couldn’t find a theater that will be showing in Connecticut or the Tri-state area. The movie will be released to U.S. theaters sometime in July.
The title character Saya is played by South Korean actress Jun Ju-Hyun has change her name to Gianna Jun. I believe it’s her first English speaking role and movie. Question: Why do Asian actresses seem to anglicise or just change their name in total for Western audience. I know I probably answered my own question by saying that but I could learn to say their name.
Synopsis:
[Filmofilia] Born to a human father and a vampire mother, 16-year-old Saya hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old halfling. Though knowing that she too survives only on blood, this loner has been obsessed to get rid of vampires using her samurai skills for centuries. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo, she sees it as the opportunity to destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Soon after befriending the young daughter of the base’s general, she learns about her true power.
Trailer:
Popularity: 9% [?]
