Showing posts with label The Rite. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

"The Rite" trailer - in UK Cinemas Friday 25th February 2011 - Starring: Alice Braga, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds, Rutger Hauer, Toby Jones

trailers | October 21, 2010 | likes, 79 dislikes
Release Date: 28 January 2011
Genre: Drama
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Alice Braga, Ciarán Hinds, Rutger Hauer, Torrey DeVitto, Ben Cheetham
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writers: Michael Petroni, Matt Baglio
MPAA: NA
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Rite (2011 film)

Plot

Michael Kovak, disillusioned with his father and home life, decides to enter a seminary school and abdicate his vows upon completion, thereby getting him a free college degree. Four years pass and Michael is being ordained to the diaconate at the seminary. However, after ordination he writes a letter of resignation to his superior, Father Matthew, citing a lack of faith.
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 While Father Matthew is attempting to catch Michael on the street, he trips, causing a biker to swerve into the path of an oncoming car. The young woman, believing Michael to be a priest after seeing his clerical garb, asks him for absolution. Unable to refuse, Michael comforts her and performs the ritual absolving her sins. Seeing how calmly he handled the situation, Father Superior tells Michael he is called to be a priest, whether Michael believes this or not; he later approaches Michael with an invitation to travel to Rome in order to attend a class on exorcism. Michael reluctantly accepts after being told by Father Matthew that he will be levied a $100,000 student loan if he leaves immediately, but that if he still desires to resign from his position after taking the class, then he will be free to leave.
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During classes, he meets a young woman, Angelina, who is also taking the course. He soon learns that she is a reporter who has been asked to cover the course for an article in a newspaper. Realizing Michael is a skeptic and is very tentative in his faith, Father Xavier later asks Michael to see a friend of his, Father Lucas, who is a renowned exorcist. Michael agrees and meets Father Lucas at his home, where he sees one of the priest's patients: a pregnant sixteen-year-old girl. It is later revealed that she was raped by her father, which led to her possession. However, Michael remains skeptical, even after witnessing several preternatural events, such as the girl spitting up three long nails and fluently speaking English. She pointedly reminds Michael of the last patient he performed embalming on and of his loathing for his father.
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He later speaks with Angelina again, who asks him to relay the information that he gets from Father Lucas to her, as she has tried to get an interview with him many times now but has been refused, and Michael declines. Meanwhile, the possessed girl's condition worsens, which prompts Father Lucas and Michael to have her taken to a hospital for further care. There, Father Lucas performs another exorcism on the girl while Michael observes; they leave the hospital room together with Michael leaving the hospital and Father Lucas staying overnight outside of the girl's room. Late that night, she miscarries, and the baby dies from cardiac arrest and the mother via blood loss. Disheartened, Father Lucas feels he has failed her. After Michael sees this he decides to confer with Angelina.
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After the death of the young woman, Father Lucas begins behaving strangely, exhibiting signs of demonic possession. Michael and Angelina later finds him sitting outside of his house in the rain. Father Lucas takes them into his house and, knowing himself to be possessed, tells Michael that he needs to find Father Xavier in order to perform the exorcism. Angelina and Michael try desperately to contact and find Father Xavier; however, they learn that he is out of contact for 3 days.

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Learning this, Michael decides to perform the exorcism on his own. After constant rebuking by the demon and a long, drawn out fight, Michael regains his once lost faith and is able to force the demon to reveal its name, which is Baal. He completes the exorcism and the demon leaves Father Lucas. Successful, Michael leaves Rome, returning to America and to his life. The final scene of the film shows Michael, now Father Michael Kovak, entering a confessional and beginning to hear a girl's confession, revealing that he has found his calling as a priest and did not resign.

Soundtrack and DVD when available

Monday, February 7, 2011

Weekend Box Office Ranking (USA) February 04/06 weekend - new #1 The Roommate #2

 
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1  (new) The Roommate  / Youtube
Directed by Christian Christiansen and starring Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Alyson Michalka, Cam Gigandet, Danneel Harris - A deranged college freshman becomes obsessed with her new roommate.  (Screen Gems)  
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2  (new)  SantumYoutube 
Directed by Alister Grierson and starring Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Parkinson, Daniel Wyllie - Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team-including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley-are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they... 
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3  (3)  No Strings Attached  /  Youtube  
     Directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Greta Gerwig, Kevin Kline, Ophelia Lovibond - Emma and Adam are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. In order to protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly "no strings attached." "No strings" means no jealousy, no expectations, no fighting, no flowers, no baby voices. It means they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, in whatever public place they want, as long as... (Paramount Pictures)
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Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall - George VI, also known as Bertie, reluctantly takes the throne of England when his brother, Edward, abdicates in 1936. The unprepared king turns to a radical speech therapist, Lionel Logue, to help overcome his nervous stutter and the two forge a friendship. ( The Weinstein Company)
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5  (3)  The Green Hornet  /  Youtube
Directed by Michel Gondry and starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, David Harbour - Britt Reid, son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato. They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid's shadow.......(Sony Pictures Releasing)
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6  (1)  The Rite  /  Youtube
Directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones - An American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican finds faith through encounters with demonic forces. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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7  (3)  The Mechanic  /  Youtube
Directed by Directed by Simon West, David Leitch and starring Starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Tony Goldwyn, Mini Anden - Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission...(CBS Films)
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5 (5)  True Grit  /  Youtube
Directed by Ethan Coen and starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Bruce Green (II), Roy L. Jones - Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named...  (Paramount Pictures)
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 9  (7)  The Dilema  /  Youtube
Directed by Ron Howard and starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, - Channing Tatum  - Since college, confirmed bachelor Ronny and happily married Nick have been through thick and thin. Now partners in an auto design firm, the two pals are vying to land a dream project that would launch their company. With Ronny's girlfriend, Beth, and Nick's wife, Geneva, by their sides, they're unbeatable. But Ronny's world is turned upside down when he inadvertently sees Geneva out with another man... ( Universal Pictures)
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10 (7)  Black Swan / Youtube
Directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder - Nina is a featured dancer in the New York City Ballet who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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 8 (8)  The Fighter / Youtube
Directed by David O. Russell and starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Amy Adams, Jack McGee - Life story of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward and his trainer brother Dick Eklund, chronicling the brothers' early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Massachusetts through Eklund's battle with drugs and Ward's eventual world championship in London. (Paramount Pictures)
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9 (9)  Yogi Bear / Youtube
Directed by Eric Brevig and starring (Voices) Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Christine Taylor - Tom Cavanagh, Anna Faris, Anna Faris - Faced with his biggest challenge ever, Yogi must prove that he really is "smarter than the average bear" as he and Boo Boo join forces with their old nemesis Ranger Smith to save Jellystone Park from closing forever.  (Warnerbros)
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10 (10)  TRON: Legacy  / Youtube
Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Sheen, James Frain, Beau Garrett - Sam Flynn finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years 
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Last week´s ranking in brackets



Monday, January 31, 2011

Weekend Box Office new trailers January 28/30 @ #1 The Rite

#1 The Rite

GeckoMoviesCom | October 20, 2010 | likes, 8 dislikes
More info: http://geckomovies.com
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones
Writers: Michael Petroni

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 Plot

The film begins with Michael Kovak preparing the body of a young suicide victim for a viewing at his father's funeral home. While dressing the young woman, Michael notices a tattoo of the devil on one of her legs. Later, dissatisfied with his own life, Michael decides to enter the local seminary in order to get away from everything. When his choice is questioned by a friend, he explains that, "in my family you either become a mortician or a priest." Four years pass and Michael is being ordained to the diaconate at the seminary. However, after ordination he writes a letter of resignation to his Father Superior, citing a lack of faith and a desire to leave his post.
While Father Superior is attempting to catch up with Michael on the street, he trips, causing a biker to swerve into the path of an oncoming car. The young woman, believing Michael to be a priest after seeing his clerical garb, asks him for absolution. Unable to refuse, Michael comforts her in her last moments of agony by commending her soul to God and absolving her sins. Seeing how calmly and well he handled the situation, Father Superior knows that Michael is called to be a priest, whether Michael believes this or not; he later approaches Michael and extends to Michael an invitation to travel to Rome in order to attend a class on exorcism. He tells Michael that he was asked to keep an eye out for a qualified candidate and that he believes Michael to be qualified for the class. Michael reluctantly accepts the offer after being told by Father Superior that if he still desires to resign from his position after taking the class, then he will be free to leave.
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When Michael arrives in Rome, he enters his first class late, causing the Dominican priest teaching the course, Father Xavier, to scold him. He meets a young woman, Angelina, who is also taking the course. He soon learns that she is a reporter who has been asked to cover the course for an article in a newspaper. Father Xavier later asks Michael to see a friend of his, Father Lucas, who is a renowned exorcist. Michael agrees and meets Father Lucas at his home, where he sees one of the priest's patients: a pregnant sixteen-year-old girl. It is later revealed that she became pregnant through incestuous relations with her father, leading to her possession. However, Michael remains skeptical, even after witnessing several preternatural events, such as the girl spitting up three long nails.............