Robert Rodriguez's Nerverackers

Nick Allen
News

Robert Rodriguez is aiming to pair up with Dimension Studios for a futuristic thriller called Nerverackers. Clearly this will rank right up there with difficult/odd-looking/misprounced titles. Yes Changeling, I'm thinking of you.

The director of such films as El Mariachi and Spy Kids is set to write and direct the project, which already has a release date - April 16, 2010. So it looks like he'll have to lock himself in his elaborate Austin studios right away.

The story is about a man named Joe Tezca, who works with an elite unit to stop a wave of crime taking place in a theoretically perfect society of the future.

Source: Variety

Christopher Nolan's Inception before Batman 3

Nick Allen
News

Dark Knight writer-director Christopher Nolan is taking a vacation from Gotham City with a new project aiming to be released in summer 2010. His next film is called Inception. The project is an original screenplay by Nolan, which is described as "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind." Sounds incredibly mysterious, but equally wonderful.

Nolan will produce with partner Emma Thomas, whom he worked with on Dark Knight.

Says Warner Brothers Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov: "Chris Nolan is a visionary filmmaker who continually raises the bar with each movie he makes. We are thrilled to be collaborating again with him and Emma on this exciting new motion picture."

Using a rough estimate, Nolan has brought the studio about $1.5 billion in theatre revenue. Two-thirds of that comes from The

Best Actor of 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

The Academy Awards have five actors up for Best Actor. We have 11 actors. That means we are more than two times better. The complete list of nominees …

MICHAEL SHEEN - FROST/NIXON WILL SMITH - SEVEN POUNDS TOM CRUISE - VALKYRIE FRANK LANGELLA - FROST/NIXON MICKEY ROURKE - THE WRESTLER SEAN PENN - MILK JOSH BROLIN - W. RICHARD JENKINS - THE VISITOR PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK CLINT EASTWOOD - GRAN TORINO BRAD PITT - THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON 

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and

Best Actress of 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

The Academy Awards have five actresses up for Best Actress. We have 14 actors. That means we are almost three times better. The complete list of nominees ...

FRANCES MCDORMAND - MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY KATE WINSLET - REVOLUTIONARY ROAD KATE WINSLET - THE READER HELEN HUNT - THEN SHE FOUND ME SALLY HAWKINS - HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MELISSA LEO - THE RIVER MERYL STREEP - DOUBT TINA FEY - BABY MAMA ANNA FARIS - THE HOUSE BUNNY ANGELINA JOLIE - THE CHANGELING MICHELLE WILLIAMS - WENDY AND LUCY KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - THE DUCHESS CATE BLANCHETT - THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than

Best Supporting Actor in 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

The Academy Awards have five actors up for Best Supporting Actor. We have 12 actors. That means we are more than two times better. The complete list of nominees ...

MICHAEL SHANNON - REVOLUTIONARY ROAD PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - DOUBT RUSSELL BRAND - FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL TOM CRUISE - TROPIC THUNDER BRAD PITT- BURN AFTER READING JAMES FRANCO - MILK EMILE HIRSCH - MILK JOSH BROLIN - MILK ROBERT DOWNEY JR. - TROPIC THUNDER HEATH LEDGER - THE DARK KNIGHT JAMES FRANCO - PINEAPPLE EXPRESS SAM ROCKWELL - FROST/NIXON

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in

Best Supporting Actress of 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

The Academy Awards have five actresses up for Best Supporting Actress. We have nine actresses. That means we are almost two times better. The complete list of nominees ...

AMY ADAMS - MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY ALISON PILL - MILK REBECCA HALL - VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA PENELOPE CRUZ - VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA TARAJI P. HENSON- THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON MARISA TOMEI - THE WRESTLER VIOLA DAVIS - DOUBT TILDA SWINTON -THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON FRANCES MCDORMAND - BURN AFTER READING

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound

Best Screenplay of 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

With only five options for Best Screenplay in the Academy Awards, choices are limited. We here at TSR give you something more. So here are the complete list of nominee's ... VALKYRIE BURN AFTER READING TROPIC THUNDER MILK THE WRESTLER IN BRUGES RACEHL GETTING MARRIED FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL FROZEN RIVER WALL-E HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and who got second place?

Instead of sitting still — I created the Scorecard Movie Awards.

Categories range from the typical (Best Overall Cast, Best Actor, Best Film) to the atypical (Best Ending, Best Quote, Funniest).

If

Still No Start Date For Spielberg's Lincoln Film

David Pohl
News

Rumors were circulating that Steven Spielberg would announce a production start date for his Abraham Lincoln biopic on President's Day this year. It appears the rumors were not true. What we do know at this point is that Liam Neeson (who received an Oscar nomination in Spielberg's Schindler's List) is slated to play the 16th President and Sally Field may be cast as Mary Todd Lincoln. We also know that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Oscar-nominated for writing Spielberg's Munich) has been working on a script that will supposedly focus on the last couple months of Lincoln's life.

Aside form not knowing when production will start, there is also a potentially major role that has yet to be discussed: the role of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. I guess for now we're

Monahan To Ready Grisham's The Associate For Big Screen

David Pohl
News

Paramount has brought on screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) to adapt John Grisham's best-selling legal novel The Associate for an upcoming Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) film. LaBeouf will star as a Yale Law School student whose past leaves him vulnerable to blackmail. He's soon forced to take a job at a law firm and work on a multi-billion dollar lawsuit. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura (Producer, Transformers) and LaBeouf warmed up to the project after reading an advanced copy of the book while they were on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

The studio wasted no time in getting this project rolling. They purchased the rights to the book late last year before its January 2009 publish date.

Source:Variety

Best Adapted Screenplay in 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

With only five options for Best Adapted Screenplay in the Academy Awards, choices are limited. While it might not be the best, you can't deny the success of a film like Twilight. So here are the complete list of nominee's ...

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST DOUBT THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON REVOLUTIONARY ROAD SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE THE READER FROST/NIXON BLINDNESS TWILIGHT

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and who got second place?

Instead of sitting still — I created the Scorecard Movie Awards.

Categories range from the typical (Best Overall Cast

He said - She said ... Friday the 13th

Nick Allen
He Said - She Said

It's once again time for He Said/She Said. With he (Nick Allen) and she (Morrow McLaughlin) talking about Friday the 13th. He Said

Wow. This movie was a blast. As a fan of the entire franchise, I was thrilled to near death by this reboot, starting at the very beginning with the killing of Jason's mom, and continuing until the very end of the movie. In fact, the extensive opening that ends with the film's title card had the audience (and myself included) applauding and cheering. Much like the rest of the film, the sequence was tense, hilarious, and ultimately - horrifying.

The film has obvious "faults", (meaning cliches and people assisting in their own demise in some dumb way), but like last month's My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Friday embraces such elements for

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2-Disc Disney DVD with Digital Copy)

Morrow McLaughlin
DVD Reviews

High School Musical 3: Senior Year: 2 Disc Disney DVD with Digital Copy Directed by: Kenny Ortega Cast: Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman Time: 1 hr 45 mins Rating: G

Plot: It’s senior year at East High School, and the original gang from High School Musical 1 and 2 come together to create one last musical before graduation and inevitable adulthood (hang on, kids! Don’t do it!).

Who’s It For? Anyone who likes musicals, anyone who has kids, or even anyone with a soul. Vampires need not apply.

Movie: This movie is delirious and giddy and I welcome any film that keeps the modern musical alive. The songs are fast and snappy, the dance sequences are wonderful, and the actors are all very talented people. High School Musical 3

Box Office Review - February 15, 2009

Jeff Bayer
Box Office

WEEKEND TOP 5 STUDIO ESTIMATES, FEBRUARY 13-15, 2009 Rank. Movie Title - Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Friday the 13th - $42.2 million | 3,105 | $42.2 million | 1

2. He's Just Not That Into You - $19.6 million | 3,175 | $55.1 million | 2

3. Taken - $19.3 million | 3,109 | $77.9 million | 3

4. Confessions of a Shopaholic - $15.4 million | 2,507 | $15.4 million | 1

5. Coraline - $15.3 million | 2,320 | $35.6 million | 2

Wow, how romantic. Friday the 13th won the hearts of audiences everywhere. Confessions, on the other hand ... not so much. The power of He's Just Not That Into You topped Isla Fisher's big starring debut.

Don't forget to check out our coverage of

Dreamweavers: Beijing 2008

Megan Lehar
Film Reviews

Dreamweavers: Beijing 2008 Directed by: Jun Gu Cast: Nai Ruoyu, Deng Linlin, Liu Xiang Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins Rating: Unrated

32nd Portland International Film Festival Country: China English?: Mostly Mandarin, some English, also subtitled.

Plot: Dreamweavers follows groups of people preparing for the Summer Olympics in Beijing. We're following the construction of the Bird's Nest, a group of gymnasts, a family who's living where the Olympic village is going to go, former Olympic medalist Liu Xiang, and a SWAT team preparing for the event. The film begins right after the International Olympic committee announces Beijing will get the 2008 Summer Olympics and continues until right before the event.

Who’s It For? Anyone fascinated by the production of the 2008 Beijing Olympic ceremonies.

OVERALL

Last summer's Beijing Olympics was an amazing spectacle so a film

Fermat's Room

Megan Lehar
Film Reviews

Fermat's Room Directed by: Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña Cast: Lluís Homar, Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Santi Millán Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins Rating: Unrated

32nd Portland International Film Festival Country: Spanish English?: Nope. Subtitled.

Plot: A group of mathematicians are invited to meet at a remote location for a party. Unfortunately, after the host leaves events take a strange turn as the guests are locked in a room and forced to solve logic puzzles. When they fail, the walls of the room compact so the guests are doing logic puzzles for their lives.

Who’s It For? I'd definitely recommend a rudimentary understanding of math and logic puzzles. You don't have to be a genius, but it helps to know the basics.

OVERALL

Math can be super daunting for some people, and the directors don't

Best Non-Special Effects - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

Non-special effects? What the hell? OK, I now it's an awful title, but what else should it called? Cinematography, that's the fancy name. I need some category to describe the colors of Slumdog Millionaire, the beauty of Chicago in The Dark Knight or the great retro feel of Frost/Nixon and Milk.

THE DARK KNIGHT THE DUCHESS SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE FROST/NIXON THE WRESTLER BLINDNESS MILK

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and who got second place?

Instead of sitting still — I created the Scorecard Movie Awards.

Categories range from the typical

Best Special Effects of 2008 - Vote in the TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

The Oscars decided only three films were worthy of a special effects nomination. We did not. The nominees are ...

AUSTRALIA HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY SPEED RACER THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON THE DARK KNIGHT WALL-E WANTED IRON MAN

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and who got second place?

Instead of sitting still — I created the Scorecard Movie Awards.

Categories range from the typical (Best Overall Cast, Best Actor, Best Film) to the atypical (Best Ending, Best Quote, Funniest).

If you have seen two movies or 200, it

Best Animated Movie of 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

Really Oscars? REALLY? Only Bolt, Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E are worthy of a nomination? Look, you have five possible spots, FILL THEM! It's just mean not to. Here's a list of our nominees ...

WALL-E IGOR THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX KUNG FU PANDA STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS WALTZ WITH BASHIR MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA BOLT DR. SUESS' HORTON HEARS A WHO! FLY ME TO THE MOON

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and who got second place?

Instead of sitting still — I created the Scorecard Movie Awards.

Categories range from

Best Documentary of 2008 - Vote in TSR Awards

Jeff Bayer
News

OK, the Oscars have this category, but there list of nominees are limited and weak. And while I will admit it was an off year for documentaries, with none except for Man on Wire getting consistent headlines, there are some hidden gems out there. Here's our list.

TROUBLE THE WATER MAN ON WIRE AMERICAN TEEN I.O.U.S.A SUPER HIGH ME THE GARDEN RELIGULOUS STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE THE BETRAYAL BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL YOUNG @ HEART DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories

The International

Thomas Pardee
Film Reviews

The International Directed by: Tom Twyker Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watt, Armin Mueller-Stahl Running Time: 2 hrs Rating: R

Plot: After Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) watches his partner murdered while investigating the shady dealings of the mysterious global bank known as the IBBC, he’s determined to expose its leaders for their crimes. Along with New York District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts), he’s led on a criss-cross journey across the globe, from Berlin to Luxemburg, New York to Milan. As the story progresses, the scope of the IBBC’s power starts to become clear as Salinger narrows in on the one target that could bring it to its knees.

Who’s It For? Fans of action and espionage will enjoy this film’s pacing, which starts out tight and only intensifies.

Expectations: Owen is an action favorite after his roles

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