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Aspiring screenwriters and directors often have a hard time breaking into the film industry. Many studio executives are wary of change and prefer to work with people that have a history of good results. Funding for small-budget and independent (indie) films is often hard to come by.

All of that has changed with the combination of the Internet and crowdsourced funding. Now, an indie filmmaker can post projects to online sites like KickStarter and IndieGoGo and raise funds from people around the world. These crowdsourced funds enable anyone who has an idea to get money to complete their project without going through the usual Hollywood channels.

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Children may be cute and cuddly to some, and some parents may not have enough of them, but what many forget: The little ones can also be merciless. Once someone is a little different than the group that he is teased and teased, which eventually increases to bullying.Experienced bullying is the most common form of violence that children and young people, and although it is often ignored, ridiculed and not taken seriously, it is directed at the victims sustained damage.

The Bully Project accompanied affected adolescents and their families for a year and has captured it, how to make punches, theft and abuse day after day the young people’s life hell. The two young Tyler Long and Ty Smalley, the bullying went so far that they have taken out Verzewiflung life. Her parents cried out to short to sensitize schools and families better, as far as the issue of bullying.
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Director Lee Hirsch was bullied in his childhood itself, and therefore decided to dedicate the important issue of documentation. As expected, the film has countless heartbreaking scenes that leave no one cold. Then of course there is the danger of slipping into melodramatic and raise your index finger a little too high. So you can criticize the film as well, that it is schools and their teachers as ignorant, blind companies. Not a single teacher who would respond to some extent reasonable, is shown here, although there are also those intended. Continue reading “Bully (2011)” »

Meet the “Housewives of Beverly hills” part 2 tonight

We all love to see our favorite stars on the television. When their program’s season gets over, we feel very detached. But when they strike back in the next season, we all get glued to the television to catch their glimpse. Now all the fans of “housewives of Beverly hills” can catch their favorite characters in the next season, going on air tonight. They are coming back just for you.

No nominees sing at the Oscar Ceremony

Following ‘Twilight’ and ‘Harry Potter’, the latest to garner a massive ballyhoo is ‘The Hunger Games’. The movie, vacillating its hungry head to get attention, is all set to hit the theaters on March 23, 2012. Based on the novel written by Suzanne Collins, the movie is delineated as an event in which the “tributes” must fight to the death in a Capitol controlled outdoor arena.

The wind wafts away through the door:

The movie is set in future in a post-apocalyptic world in a country named, Panem, where the countries of North America once existed. The first trailer opens up with Katniss (starred by Jennifer Lawrence) and Gale (starred by Liam Hemsworth) hoping to abscond the land. Eventually they wind up getting caught. Katniss volunteers as “tribute” whereas Peeta (starred by Josh Hutcherson) and others are forced to participate in 74th annual hunger game. All 24 of them are to be trained “in the art of survival and to be prepared to fight to the death”. Continue reading ““The Hunger Games” trailer released” »

you to express yourself that way. It is the cock. Sorry, again. But it is. It may not be the most sensible of thrillers or an emotional drama between shots, but if one thing is this film is its honesty Indonesia: hour and a half flies by fully involved in a shooting spree and rolled wafers with a firecracker at the rear. It goes faster than your brain can absorb, which you see “BOOM!” Has already exploded in front of your eyes. It is the pump itself. I had not looked an exercise with the camera as hipervitaminado without very great explosions with giant robots involved. The choreography is spectacular, some set-ups that are not cut hair which mixes wild shootouts (the first large, when they hide on the floor, the fridge and what it entails), fighting to the death with knives and broken doors ( yeah!) or simply bare-knuckle tollinas fast-paced and with walls that serve as makeshift weapons. It is a film of pure adrenaline and testosterone. There is a plot and a story that moves all things, but not exactly something new or original.Nor need it: let’s get into the building to catch the bad bad bad but more goes wrong and we must use our skills supermachos the chalice out of here. Behind something, corruption and family notes, but the end is what matters least: sweat, blood and madness is what is expected within 15 minutes of seeing what the screen looks. The music of Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) gives it a punkero with these synths and accelerates even more frantic pace that has the tape. Pure is also entertaining, even for those who are not too lovers of martial arts films. It d”The raid” is a fucking action movie of the year. And sorry for the bad language, but it is a film that takes oes not take a lover of Bruce Lee or Jet Li to stay happy with it. These are movies that require some background, here you will not need. This is due first to the magnificent work of a director and actors who are pure physicality in the action sequences and second, that the plot progresses the film is so simple but so honest that fills you have to fill in and let’s not make fights “just because”. Well, he added: the action scenes have a goal, not to appear around the turn karate champion and toss 2 minutes fighting. Continue reading “The Raid: Redemption (2011)” »

If you were to judge the success of a play simply by how much or how little you made ​​me laugh, 21 Jump Street would be one of the best I’ve seen in a while.The successes of the film, however, do not stop there, but extend in front and behind the camera with a great cast, a strong leadership and, above all, a hilarious and witty script.

The effectiveness of the film is amazing, especially based on the eponymous television series of the 80 whose greatest legacy to cinema it was Johnny Depp.The history of the adjustments to the small screen to big is not very encouraging. For every Mission Impossible , Traffic and The Fugitive are fiveGet Smart , The Brady Bunch Movie and The Dukes of Hazzard , but 21 Jump Street wisely just take the program as a starting point and updates its premise for a contemporary audience.

The directors of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs , Phil Lord and Chris Miller, transfer the same energy and humor that characterized that great this new animated comedy, thankfully, is rated “R”, allowing them to go a little beyond their follies and what actors can do on screen. The result is an irreverent film that is not afraid to mock itself.

Among the best sequences are a feature film that revolves around a “trip” hallucinogen and one in which the protagonists are involved in a chase on the highway. Both, the first with its absurd nature and the second with his parody of the cliches of the genre of action, show that neither the directors nor the screenwriter Michael Bacall are taken very seriously, which invites the audience to laugh at and with the film . Continue reading “21 Jump Street (2012)” »

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So far they seem to blend in, three students decide to go public. Apparently, their plan is rather harmless since they intend to organize a party memorable. But nothing could prepare them for the evening they are about to experience … The rumor is spreading so rapidly, while the dreams of each collapse, the academic performance of others tumble, and legends are forged …

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In 1999, the young generation of today’s thirtysomethings discovered fervently American Pie , a film for teens to fly itchy with characters became cult and some memorable punch-lines. The franchise has 4 feature films today and the success of this saga has resulted in several small, which Superbad  to name him. Of course, Project X is in this lineage. The film portrays a group of young people desperate to live the biggest party of their lives and feel of the pussy up. Besides, my female audience, Project X is not for you.Although unfortunately, you are more numerous on this planet, the film prefers to speak to an audience 100% heterosexual male and deeply. And to get into the pocket under 16 years, the soft porn clips like rain upon the screen. The ridiculous approach recalls that Project X mark just hope his generation. And in giving a picture trash so cool with younger audiences, which unfortunately will not have a good image of the woman leaving the room. Continue reading “Project X (2012)” »

White, Mirror, Mirror: entertaining review of the story that has its best chance in Julia Roberts.

Tarsem Singh wins the race of the film Snow White coming first on the Spanish billboard with his proposed revision of the famous story and fighting two essential references: the famous Disney animated version and the new carefree air of modernity imposed by the satire of the classic tales developed by another cartoon: Shrek.

Navigating between these references, Singh visual displays his undeniable talent in a more muted than in his previous films. It seems that ever walked the brake a little perhaps fearing that nature conducive to visual sprawl of fable which had already been sufficiently exploited in the Disney animated phenomenon, and he played to be more modest than in the rest of his films, but his boasts are looming, such as in the dwarfs become giants or guards of the castle in before overflowing almost like a musical orgasm that Bollywood style musical number that end, to be honest, it is very nice and such but I think that is beside the point.

The other regular feature of Tarsem Singh’s filmography that emerges in this version of Snow White dye is not so positive. I mean the nagging feeling that produce their films lack of landscape, prey instinct teatralizante a stranger to film that becomes animated pictures, paintings come to life, but are subject to the strict limits of the canvas border and fail to transcend part of the work. It also happened to his previous film, released relatively recently, Immortals , where it looked like things were happening, as they say in sports broadcasting “in a handkerchief,” as in very close huddled together in two or three sets.  Continue reading “Mirror Mirror (2012)” »

The pirate Jack Sparrow would do anything to get his Black Pearl, the schooner that former friend Barbossa brought him forth. But his path crosses with that of the young blacksmith Will Turner, whose only goal is instead to save his beloved Elizabeth by pirates ….

Inspired by the most beautiful attraction in Disneyland Adventure Classic, The Pirates of the Caribbean is a pirate film in the style of the beautiful The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster, who was almost a parody of the genre. But Verbinski’s film exploits just the typical elements of the film pirates and instead plays a lot with those who are public expectations about the characters and situations. Characters that seem designed based on those of recent action comedy produced by Hollywood, like Lethal Weapon and the like. Situations that should clearly something behind the project and make fun of the quote a proper and effective narrative style. Once again, producer Jerry Bruckheimer is proving an excellent manager in rinoscere projects that can give life to a spectacle of cinematic entertainment that can operate economically and in putting together the cast and crew depending on the specific needs of the project. Continue reading “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)” »