Remember Cape Fear? Where Scorsese bombarded and frightened us with surreal images and a more-than-unsettling atmosphere? Shutter Island represents that side of Scorsese. It’s quite possibly his most tense film yet. While it’s difficult to label it as “scary”, it certainly knows how to make one feel consistently uneasy. This is a wonderfully crafted psychological horror film. Read the full story

Never say Martin Scorsese wasn’t willing to try something new. Much like Spielberg or Coppola, the auteur jumps at the opportunity to tackle subject matter not immediate to the modus operandi that developed his reputation: tough-talking New York City Italians with a penchant for violence.

So it is with Shutter Island, the closest thing we’ll get to a Hitchcock film these days: a fresh experiment in fear and psychoanalysis. And not an Italian in sight. But violence personified.

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Paramount has released 20 high resolution photos for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Check out the photos below followed by lengthy production notes they sent over on the following page. Read the full story

Sundance has announced it’s 112 films that are entering in U.S. and World Cinema Documentary and Dramatic film competitions. The films represent “38 countries by 43 first-time filmmakers, including 24 in competition. These films were selected from 3,724 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,920 U.S. and 1,804 international feature-length films. 79 films at the Festival will be world premieres.” The festival takes place between Jan 21st and 31st at Park City Utah. Some interesting films to note are Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut, a new documentary by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud) and films starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, James Franco, John Hamm, Melissa Leo, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom, and more.  Check out the full list below. Read the full story

Paramount Pictures has just released the first for Martin Scorsese upcoming film Shutter Island. Its an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name. The film follows two US Marshals named Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule who are assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. While their they encounter riots, untrusting doctors, and a hurricane that keeps then stranded their. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, and Jackie Earle Haley. Shutter Island is set to be released on October 2nd, 2009. Check out the trailer after the jump.

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Con-men films are often at times uninteresting and predictable. This is not one of those films. The Brothers Bloom is Rian Johnson’s follow up to his incredible directorial debut Brick, he has now crafted a welcome entry in the con-man genre and its for sure one of the year’s most delightful films.

The Brothers Bloom follows the con-men duo brothers Bloom (Adrein Brody) and Stephen (Mark Ruffalo). After pulling countless amounts of tricks in their life, Bloom wants to retire. After he  runs off to live a new life, Stephen eventually catches up with him offering him one last con. After accepting, Bloom finds himself battling the love he has for the mark of the con, the wealthy and beautiful Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weisz). Soon we see Bloom pulled into a con game, that may or may not be the perfect con.

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Of course attending the premiere of Night at The Museum: Battle of The Smithsonian was director Shaw Levy. I got the chance to talk to him and he gave me some updates on Hardy Men and is upcoming film Date Night.

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By Jack Giroux

2008 was a great summer for the movies. Good entertainment was had, and not just dumb popcorn movies for once. We got The Dark Knight, Wall-E, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, and Pineapple Express. This summer is even going to be better. Although the start was a bit shaky with Wolverine, Star Trek kicks it off right this weekend. Here are the top 15 stand out films this summer:

15- Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen

Release Date- June 24th

Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen will inevitably offer no more then a lot of explosions and CGI, but with robots. While the first film wasn’t a landmark of any kind, and mostly dumb, it was fun none-the-less. The 147 minute running time for the new one is a bit bothersome, but long running times are fine when the story calls for it. My only question is do we really need to see robots fighting for that long? Its a Michael Bay movie, there will only be good action, nothing more. Even the length of the first movie was a problem, the last thirty minutes turned into nothing but repetitive action. Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen will without a doubt be a fun action movie, even if it extends its welcome.

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Empire has the exclusive first look at Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Michelle Williams. Check out the full photo below along with some quotes from the magazine.

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Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom has a new poster. Thanks to /Film (above) we can see how similar it is to the old poster. Summit has just added a bunch of new quotes, like the new trailer. Check out the new poster after the jump.

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