In the seemingly never-ending media scrum against “Postal” filmmaker Uwe Boll, the owners of Stride gum are siding with those who have thrown their support behind the internet petition to get Boll to stop making movies. According to Gary Osifchin, the North American marketing director for Stride, “Since gamers are one of our most supportive groups, we’ve been looking for ways to return the favor. And what better way is there to get gamers’ backs than by helping them rescue their cherished videogames from the clutches of Uwe Boll?” To help motivate the masses, Stride has pledged to give a free pack of gum to every person that signs their name on the Stop Dr. Uwe Boll petition. Now that’s a lot of potential chewing possibility.
But before the petition supports can begin warming up their mouth muscles in anticipation of their free pack of gum there is a big pothole that has to be overcome. Stride has requested that the petition has to meet its goal of one million signatures by May14 in order for their promise to be kept. That gives the troops only five more days and with the petition name count standing at 260K, there is a lot more ground to be covered if people out there really want their free chewing gum. So far I haven’t heard any counteroffer from Boll…unless…wait a minute! What if this is all some sort of crazy idea dreamed up by Uwe Boll in the first place! Maybe it was him that got the ball rolling with Stride?! Could this be some kind of crazy as a fox publicity stunt to get promotion for Uwe’s latest, “Postal”? I wouldn’t put it past that sly German guy.
So what is Steven Spielberg offering to us if we don’t like “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?”
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We’ve just been funneled some more video goodness for “My Blueberry Nights” to get you primed to see this spectacular flick. What’s the good news? For starters how does the trailer sound to you, plus three clips from the film showing stars and Mr. Sky Captain himself, Jude Law, giving it all that they’ve got.
You can check out all four new videos by hitting the “My Blueberry Nights” video wall page on MovieSet!
And don’t forget to enter our contest to win 1 of 25 double passes to see the movie. All you have to do is be cool with watching it in a movie theater in Vancouver (how you get there is none of my concern but I hear that there are some good deals on air flights out of Europe these days) and write on MovieSet’s Facebook wall before May 16. Simple, huh? Well, except if you’re living on a budget in Budapest…
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MovieSet has three brand spanking new film pages and three trailers to show you. One is an animated tale set in a fantastic world of talking trees and animals, one addresses the controversial issue of illegal immigration by placing it in today’s world of modern cowboys and the final picture is set in a very bad neighborhood — literally. Let’s see what we’ve got.
“Spirit of the Forest“is about a group of animals that have to stop an ruthless businessman and evil woman from cutting down their forest home to make way for a highway. Four critters — a mouse named Piorno and three moles named Furi, Linda and Cebolo — will do anything to put a crink into the development plans. From director David Rubin comes this family friendly computer animated tale featuring the voices of Sean Astin (”The Lord of the Rings”), Anjelica Huston (”The Addams Family”), Ron Perlman (”Hellboy”) and Giovanni Ribisi (”Boiler Room”).
Writer/director Will James Moore made a modern day action western that addresses a social issue that’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue, illegal immigration.”Cowboy Smoke” is the story of Joe, a young man who wants to change the direction of his life by following in the bootsteps of real cowboys. After getting fired from his old job Joe heads on down to Texas to find work as an apprentice cowboy. There he finds that his mental picture of the cowboy lifestyle, where right and wrong were supposed to be as simple as white and black, aren’t as clearly defined as he imagined.
Our last movie has a title that makes it pretty easy to get what the show’s story is about:”The Last Bad Neighborhood“. Mack (Paul Logan) is an enforcer living in Docklands, the last hard bastion of street living inside the ultra-controlled metropolis he calls his home. Mack’s life consists of running errands and enforcing the will of his thus boss, Bishop. While life in Docklands is hard and dangerous, it’s also free from the corporate oversight of big business that has engulfed the rest of the city. But when the suits and ties want to grab the city’s one last free sector it will be up to Mack and the rest of those living in Docklands to fight back against the machine. It sounds like “Escape From New York” meets “RoboCop”, don’t it? I can dig that!
Watch the trailers for this trio of new films and then sound off below as to what you think of ‘em. Does one grab your attention more than the rest?
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We’ve launched several new film pages here on MovieSet and so let’s do another round-up to show you what’s hot and happening around the site:
“Bad Biology” is a twisted romance from director Frank Henenlotter and follows a young man and woman who are obsessed about seeking sexual fulfillment. When they meet their chemisty winds up producing explosive consequences.
“Kettle of Fish” is from writer/director Claudia Myers and is about a musician who finds himself falling in love with an English biologist that studies frogs. With a logline like that you have to check it out, plus it’s got a neat poster that encapsulates the pic’s quirkiness. Matthew Modine, Gina Gershon and Fisher Stevens star in it.
For you horror enthusiasts out there you need to look at our listing for “Knock Knock“. In the tradition of Halloween and Friday the 13th comes a terrifying journey of revenge and bloodlust, as a group of high school students pay the ultimate price for their parent’s transgressions. Teens and a crazed maniac go hand-in-hand, don’t they?
“Dead-Wood” is another scary movie and yeah, it involves more young people poking their noses into places where they simply shouldn’t be poking anything that they want to keep into. This time it’s four friends that think they’re taking a break from the city by heading out into the woods for a peaceful, relaxing weekend. Yeah, right! Soon things take a sinister turn when a mysterious girl appears in their camp looking for her boyfriend. Something evil is waiting for them in the woods and it soon begins to stalk them one by one. Haven’t these city folk watched “The Blair Witch Project”? DON’T. GO. INTO. THE. WOODS. Duh!
The trailer for “The Red Awn” has made its debut on MovieSet. A 50 year old father leaves his wife and son back in their hometown and goes off to the city in order to earn a living. Five years pass, during that time his wife passes away and his son grows up in the countryside alone and directionless.
Finally and on a lighter note, check out our listing for “Puckheads“. If you love hockey or even if you don’t understand why some people can bet obsessive about the game then you owe it to yourself to find out the answer why. Venturing deep into the mayhem of the Stanley Cup playoffs, filmmaker Simon Dekker explores a world of ritual, arousal and belief – and brings the audience inside the experience to become one with the magic that is fan kind.
Now none of these movies may have Robert Downey Jr. inside a super-powerful suit of armor that can fly and take on jet fighters in the sky but when was that ever a crime?
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