Jimmy P's House of Movies

You know how whenever a thriller hits the screens at least one critic will refer to the movie as "Hitchcockian"? And you also know how more than half of those so called "Hitchcockian" thrillers are nowhere near being able to claim such an honor? Well, I am here to tell you that, not only is Buried "Hitchcockian", but I believe that this is a movie that Hitchcock would have made if he were still alive.

I remember seeing Angus when I was in high school and really enjoying it. Of course it didn't speak to me in the way that it did to others, but I saw a lot of myself in the title character. I wasn't fat or even that smart but I was in a similar minority: I was, and still am, a film geek.

When you are a film geek in high school you have to do through many of the trial and tribulations that our hero Angus had to go through in this movie. He's a science geek and pours over his project to get into Jefferson, which I guess is a school for the really smart.

Got a slew of new trailers for you today.

The first one being The Beaver. This is the movie that Mel Gibson made right before he revealed all of his ugliness to the world. The movie looks pretty good and I am glad that Summit is going to take a chance on this movie and not send it to direct to video hell.


Next up we have Ip Man 2. This is getting a release in February here in the states, but has been available in Hong Kong for a while now. The movie is spectacular and a worthy sequel to the first Ip Man


To add to the martial arts genre I give you the new trailer for Ong Bak 3. I have yet to see this movie, but when I get my hands on it I will give you a review. This is being released next year.


And finally, what is sure to be one of the worst movies of 2011, Beastly. This movie looks like Beauty and the Beast only set in modern times and with the beast being allowed to go places.

Remaking a movie is a tough thing to pull off. If you do it right then you get a movie like The Departed (which is a remake of Infernal Affairs from Hong Kong), but if you do it wrong you get a movie like Psycho (the Gus Van Sant remake). Luckily, with Halloween, we get the former.

The story pretty much follows the original. You get Michael Myers killing his sister when he is only a kid. You get the babysitters being killed off one by one on halloween. And you get the open ending, leaving room for the inevitable sequel. But with this movie writer-director Rob Zombie has given us a back story as to why Myers is the way he is.

Coming ten years after the "king of the killer dog movies", Cujo, was released, Man's Best Friend came to us with the promise of being a newer, hipper Cujo. In some ways it succeeds and in others it fails.

The movie stars Ally Sheedy as a reporter who needs a hit story. She decides to break into a research facility known as Emax and expose the company for testing chemicals on animals. While at Emax, she finds a dog named Max and saves him from the facility. Max is not your ordinary dog. Dr. Jarret (Lance Henriksen) has spliced the DNA of a variety of different animals to make Max into a superior guard dog. But time is running out as Jarret tries to get his dog back before he becomes unstable.

So there is a new animated Superman movie hitting dvd and blu-ray in February. I, for one, am not really all that excited. The DC Universe movies have been hit or miss for me and I think that this one will be a miss. I wish that DCU would focus on other characters. I know that Superman is their cash cow, but they do have other characters.

What can be said about the original Halloween that hasn't already been said? John Carpenter took a basic story line, about babysitters being stalked by a faceless madman and turned it into something truly terrifying.

In this day and age, the movie is viewed as "boring" and "slow" and while this may be true to the regular person, to someone who has never seen the movie before is in for a real treat.

The beauty of Halloween is in it's pacing. While today's horror movies are edited like music videos, due to the attention span of most people being reduced, Halloween takes it's time, setting everything up before finally getting to "the good part"