On top of being Memorial Day (thanks, US troops), yesterday was also the birthdays of horror legends Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
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Something is happening. And It’s happening right here at The Ink and Code.
Robbie Imes and Paul Florez have started the literary revolution.
We welcome you to join.
When a strange alien creature falls from the sky, a group of inner city kids in South London react they only way they know how—they kill it and plan to get rich off their find. The group, lead by the stoic Moses (John Boyega), are soon in over their heads as more aliens, larger and fiercer than the first one they encountered, begin encroaching on their apartment complex. Soon, the teens are in a fight for their lives, forced to partner with Sam (Jodie Whittaker), a nurse they just mugged earlier that night if they’re going to survive, not just the aliens, but also cops who are out to arrest them and Hi-Hatz (Jumayn Hunter), a spurned local drug dealer who wants them dead.
Welcome to Attack the Block, a debut feature by British comedian Joe Cornish.
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For his entire life, Prince Thadeous (Danny McBride) has been overshadowed by his older brother, the handsome and heroic Fabious (James Franco). He’s held in little esteem by his father King Tallious (Charles Dance). Never to become king, he squanders his time getting stoned and causing trouble, joined by his loyal servant Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker). After Fabious’s bride-to-be Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) is kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), Thadeous is ordered by King Tallious to join Fabious on his quest to rescue her, or face exile. Woefully unprepared for the dangers of the journey, Thadeous and Courtney are more of a hindrance to Fabious than an asset as they race to get to Leezar before the wizard sleeps with Belladonna in a ritual to birth an all-powerful dragon. Along the way, they are joined by the mysterious and beautiful Isabel (Natalie Portman), who seeks Leezar herself, aiming to exact revenge for the death of her family.
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The film “Limitless” begins with struggling fiction writer Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) having a chance encounter with Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), his former brother-in-law and a onetime coke dealer who now claims to be a pharmaceutical consultant. Wanting to help Eddie with his writer’s block, Vernon gives him a sample unregulated drug called NZT, which allows its users to take advantage of 100 percent of their brain. Popping the pill, Eddie goes from average Joe to Good Will Hunting in thirty seconds, finishing his novel and then setting his sights on amassing a great fortune in the stock market, a meteoric rise that puts him on the radar of Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro), a titan of the energy industry who wants to utilize Eddie’s genius thinking to aid in a very difficult merger with another industry giant. Along the way, Eddie must smooth things over with his on-again/off-again girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish), deal with Gennady (Andrew Howard) the Russian gangster who provided him with start-up capital for his fortune, and figure out he’s going to get his next fix of NZT when his supply starts running low.
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Thanks to the fine folks at Suvudu, I had the opportunity to attend the world premiere of “All-Star Superman,” the tenth entry in the popular series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, at the Paley Center. For the uninitiated, the film is based on the acclaimed limited comic series of the same name, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely. Over the course of just twelve issues, Morrison and Quitely distill seventy-plus years of comics into one iconic opus to the Man of Steel as he embarks on a series of great feats and tasks while faced with the fact he’s dying, thanks to a diabolical – and successful – plot by arch nemesis Lex Luthor. To Superman fans, the comic series was a celebration of everything that made him, well, super.
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