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This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
Director: Gilles Marchand
Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...
This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
Director: Gilles Marchand
Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...
- 4/11/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This is what some people like to hear about an upcoming horror film release "a gory cross breed of '28 Days Later' and 'Dawn of the Dead (Variety).'" The movie being described here is the French film Mutants, which finally will be available for horror fans through IFC Films video on demand feature. The official launch for the film is February 10 and in case you have not heard Mutants is about a disease run rampant across the world, which infects any who comes in contact with the virus. Pregnant Sophia must find a way to survive in this world gone to hell, while fighting off her infected husband. For the full synopsis look below and get ready to view the film up close and personal, in your own home. Already receiving early positive reviews, the details for Mutants are below.
The plot summary for David Morley's Mutants...
The plot summary for David Morley's Mutants...
- 1/27/2010
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
French film "Mutants," will see a European release date this May 6, 2009; however, those of us in North America will have to wait for English sub-titles, to placed into the film, before a release date can be expected. Already a teaser and full trailer are available and initial fan reaction is positive. Yet, rumours are circulating that "Mutants," is not as breathtaking as the film appears, from early screenings. Have a look at the first full trailer below and when additional release dates are available they will be posted here.
The synopsis...
In a world devastated by a pandemic virus that turns human beings into primitive and bloodthirsty creatures, Marco and Sonia set off to find a secret base to escape from the 'mutants'. When the latter attack them, Marco is infected too. Little by little, he undergoes the same changes. Sonia, who is expecting a baby, is then forced to fight her worst enemy,...
The synopsis...
In a world devastated by a pandemic virus that turns human beings into primitive and bloodthirsty creatures, Marco and Sonia set off to find a secret base to escape from the 'mutants'. When the latter attack them, Marco is infected too. Little by little, he undergoes the same changes. Sonia, who is expecting a baby, is then forced to fight her worst enemy,...
- 4/16/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Having a nonactor play himself in a movie is always a risk, but Dida Diafat, a French-born champion of Thai kickboxing, makes a more than credible hero in Chok-Dee, an entertaining true-life story by Xavier Durringer. The quiet intensity and determination Dida demonstrates in boxing carry over into his acting. Chok-Dee makes a great festival film, but chances for North American distribution appear slight. The film plays in the ongoing City of Lights/City of Angels festival.
Dida is a punk in prison when he meets Jean Bernard Giraudeau), a fellow con who teaches him Thai boxing. When Dida gets paroled, Jean urges him to go to Bangkok to train at a famous fight school. Refused admission because he is foreign, he lays siege to its entrance and eventually gets a job washing dishes and moping toilets. When he finally receives training, he turns out to be a quick study and moves up quickly in the caliber of his fights.
At Jean's behest, Dida looks up Kim (Florence Vanida Faivre), Jean's long-lost daughter, who initially wants nothing to do with either him or her father's letters to her. Eventually, curiosity gets the better of Kim and she becomes involved in Dida's life.
The movie never gets inside the world of kickboxing. It watches Dida train in montages but never eavesdrops on his instructor's words of wisdom or strategies of combat. In the fight sequences, the camera often sticks too close to the action, making it difficult to tell how the fight is going.
Melodrama develops over Jean's return to Thailand and crooks who stage illegal no-holds-barred matches. These may be true to Diafat's story, but they feel like Warner Bros. circa 1938.
Dida is a punk in prison when he meets Jean Bernard Giraudeau), a fellow con who teaches him Thai boxing. When Dida gets paroled, Jean urges him to go to Bangkok to train at a famous fight school. Refused admission because he is foreign, he lays siege to its entrance and eventually gets a job washing dishes and moping toilets. When he finally receives training, he turns out to be a quick study and moves up quickly in the caliber of his fights.
At Jean's behest, Dida looks up Kim (Florence Vanida Faivre), Jean's long-lost daughter, who initially wants nothing to do with either him or her father's letters to her. Eventually, curiosity gets the better of Kim and she becomes involved in Dida's life.
The movie never gets inside the world of kickboxing. It watches Dida train in montages but never eavesdrops on his instructor's words of wisdom or strategies of combat. In the fight sequences, the camera often sticks too close to the action, making it difficult to tell how the fight is going.
Melodrama develops over Jean's return to Thailand and crooks who stage illegal no-holds-barred matches. These may be true to Diafat's story, but they feel like Warner Bros. circa 1938.
- 4/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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