Daily Archives: September 30, 2011

Best Movie Posters: Casablanca

Casablanca (1942)

The romantic drama movie directed by Michael Curtiz is held in as high regard today as when it was released back in 1942.

The movie remains one of the greatest love stories ever told on the big screen, and that is largely thanks to the wonderful central performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

I have always had a bit of a thing for the classic posters of the forties and fifties and Casablanca is one of the best.

This movie is all about the characters and to have then feature prominently on the poster seems fitting.

While it doesn’t give to much away about the movie itself it is just so stunningly beautiful!

Contraband Trailer

We haven’t seen Mark Wahlberg on the big screen since his excellent turn in The Fighter this year… but he is set to make his return with action movie Contraband.

The movie sees him team up with director Baltasar Kormákur as well as Giovanni Ribisi and Kate Beckinsale.

Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling – full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs – where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away.

Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best – running contraband – to settle Andy’s debt.

Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), for one final run to Panama and back, hoping to return with millions in counterfeit bills.

Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

Contraband is released 16th March 2012

A Dangerous Method Images

A Dangerous Method has been one of the movies to see on the festival circuit, and it will be being screen at the London Film Festival in a couple of weeks time.

David Cronenberg is back in the director’s chair and he is reuniting with Viggo Mortensen after working together on A History of Violence and Eastern Promises.

A Mortensen is joined by the super talents of Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley in an adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play.

Carl Jung (Fassbender), a disciple of Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), is using Freudian techniques to treat Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) at Burghölzli Mental Hospital.

But the deeper Jung’s relationship with Spielrein grows, the further the burgeoning psychiatrist and his highly respected mentor drift apart.

As Jung struggles to help his patient overcome some pressing paternal issues, disturbed patient Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel) sets out to test the boundaries of the doctor’s professional resolve.

Meanwhile, Jung and Freud’s continued sessions with Spielrein lead to a series of profound breakthroughs in the methods that doctors use to treat their patients.

A Dangerous Method is released 10th February. Take a look at some images from the movie:

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