Sunday, February 23, 2014

NEW THIS WEEKED: Pompeii, Non Stop,

Gladiators + Volcanos = Lets make a movie with a trailer that looks like a bunch of great selling movies in one... Sharknado History Channel Style?

Pompeii (referred to by marketing as Pompeii in 3D) is a 2014 American disaster-adventure film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson,[2] the film stars Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, with Jared Harris, and Kiefer Sutherland. It premiered in France, Belgium and Russia on February 19, 2014 and is scheduled to be released over the course of the next two days in many major territories, including the United States of America, Canada and Australia

So this is the Liam Neeson, "I am old, over it but still ready to kill you if you interupt this good book I am reading" movie of the year...

Non-Stop is an 2014 upcoming French American action film starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Anson Mount, Lupita Nyong'o and Scoot McNairy. It is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.[2] This is the first film to be produced by Universal Pictures and Silver Pictures after Warner Bros. longest-running relationship ended.


CASTS
NON STOP

Liam Neeson as Bill Marks
Julianne Moore as Jen Summers
Michelle Dockery as Nancy
Nate Parker as Zack White
Linus Roache as Captain David McMillan
Scoot McNairy as Tom Bowen
Corey Stoll as Austin
Lupita Nyong'o as Gwen
Anson Mount as Jack Hammond
Bar Paly as Iris Marianne
Omar Metwally as Dr. Fahim Nasir
Shea Whigham as Agent Marenick


POMPEII
Kit Harington as Milo, a slave who became a gladiator.
Dylan Schombing played Young Milo
Emily Browning as Cassia
Kiefer Sutherland as Senator Corvus
Jared Harris as Severus
Jessica Lucas as Ariadne
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Atticus
Carrie-Anne Moss as Aurelia Paz Vega as Strigana
Joe Pingue as Graecus
Dalmar Abuzeid as Felix
Sasha Roiz as Proculus
Jean-Francois Lachapelle as Milo's Father
Rebecca Eady as Milo's Mother

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
The Wind Rise
Black Out
In Secret
Holy Ghost People
Barefoot
Omar

Justice League: Doom - Movie Trailer, Review and more

Justice League: Doom Watch on Amazon

MUST SEE - NOW - GO - WATCH

I love this animated feature by DC Universe. While not officially a Bruce Timm produced feature, this one keeps with the Justice League Unlimited style and even features Timm as the voice of Ace. 

This is the ultimate Legion of Doom. By far the best. I like not having Lex Luthor as the head as it decentralizes JLA as just an extension of Superman. 

On paper, upon seeing a script, I would probably say this movie tries to do WAY TO MUCH and should be a series or trilogy. BUT The director deliver a perfectly action AND story packed movie with a surprise hero at the end, followed by banishment of another... 

I don't know of another project that can handle so many heroes and villains in one sitting. Now perhaps if you are not a DCU geek such as I you you may need some back story. But I love this movie trusts we know who most of these characters are going in... (We really don't need an origin story every time - note to Live action movie producers) This movie works for me on so many levels.... 

At some point I might try to rate each movie favorite / MUST SEE to 0... But I am so much an in the moment kind of guy. Writing this review I really want to watch it again. Being an impulsive kind of guy, I think I will....

Theatrical Trailer





FUNNY STORY - when I first started to right this blog post, in my head I was imagining the Justice League Episode "HERE AFTER"  where Superman, missing and presumed dead, ends up 30,000 years in the future finding a Vandal Savage now remorseful and willing to help him home. MAYBE NOT SO FUNNY but the episode is one of the best of all TV superhero arcs of all time as well...

Here is a clip I found online....







WIKI


Justice League: Doom is an animated direct-to-video superhero film loosely based on Mark Waid's JLA story arc, "JLA: Tower of Babel". The movie was adapted and written by Dwayne McDuffie and is directed by Lauren Montgomery. While not a direct sequel to Crisis on Two Earths, the film uses similar character designs by the lead character designer, Phil Bourassa. It was released on February 28, 2012.[1] The film also features various actors reprising their roles from the DC animated universe andGreen Lantern: Emerald Knightsrespectively.[2][3] It is the 13th film in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.
The film is dedicated to the memory of Dwayne McDuffie who died from complications following open heart surgery shortly after writing the film.