Darah Perawan Bulan Madu (2009)

Country: Indonesia
Production Company: Sentra Films
Genre: Horror
Director: Hartawan Triguna
Starring: Indah Kalalo, Restu Sinaga, Adelia Rasya, Yogi Aldi
Length: 87 mins
Date of release: 30th July, 2009

A young gentleman called Putra (Restu Sinaga) marries Amira (Indah Kalalo) and would like to give the best honeymoon experience for his wife in his privately owned island. However, strange ghostly incidents are haunting them as a newly wed couple.

From an exotic bedroom to a swimming pool filled with excitement to their romantic bathroom and in every corner of the island, a female ghost dressed in a wedding gown is seeking blood debt from the couple. A dark secret is waiting to be revealed, changing their romantic night into a scary encounter with the ghost. Who is the ghost and why is she terrorizing them?

Darah Perawan Bulan Madu (2009)

Anak setan (2009)

Gabrielle (Jill Gladys),   wanita  yang  tegas  dan  mandiri baru saja mengepalai sebuah rumah sakit jiwa. Gabrielle kecewa dengan keadaan rumah sakit yang tidak terurus dan akhirnya melakukan perubahan-perubahan untuk memperbaiki kondisi rumah sakit

Suatu hari Gabrielle secara tidak sengaja menemukan sebuah rahasia besar yang di sembunyikan oleh rumah sakit itu. Seorang anak  perempuan yang bernama Stella (Indri Satiya) dipasung oleh mantan direktur rumah sakit, sebelum Gabrielle. Gabrielle lalu menyelamatkan anak itu dari keadaan yang menyedihkan

Gabrielle menghubungi bernama Panji (Ringgo Agus Rahman), mantan kekasihnya, untuk membantunya membuat Stella normal kembali. Panji melihat sebuah tanda aneh yang menurut Gabrielle adalah sebuah tanda lahir. Gabrielle dan Panji lalu melakukan sebuah penyelidikan bersama-sama untuk menyelidiki asal usul Stella dan tanda aneh di lehernya.
Siapa Stella sebenarnya dan benarkah tanda itu adalah tanda lahir atau bukan?
Jenis Film : Horror
Produser : Monty Tiwa
Produksi : Indonesia Merdeka Film (imf)

Cast & Crew
Ringgo Agus Rahman, Indri Satiya, Jill Gradys, Alex Komang, Marini Burhan, Mieke Amalia, Gading Marten
Sutradara :Allo Geaffary
Penulis :Monty Tiwa.

Anak setan (2009)

The Shortcut (2009)

The idea of Adam Sandler backing a horror film (under his new Scary Madison banner) needn’t automatically be a negative one; after all, funnyman Mel Brooks’ productions have included the modern classic THE FLY, the darkly brilliant THE ELEPHANT MAN and best-selling zombie author Max Brooks. And, as is revealed on the DVD (coming September 29 from Anchor Bay) of Scary Madison’s first feature THE SHORTCUT, Sandler—who doesn’t take an onscreen credit—and co. were all about making it an R-rated feature; it was the financiers who came on board during preproduction who insisted it be watered down for youth-audience consumption.

The result is a movie that feels awkwardly caught between competing ambitions. It dances around dark territory without fully committing, putting an equal emphasis on typical screen-teen behavior; people die, but little onscreen blood is shed. (There are any number of action flicks, and even horror films, that share THE SHORTCUT’s PG-13 rating while presenting significantly greater levels of carnage.) Still, on its own younger-skewing terms, THE SHORTCUT is a little smarter and sports a few more eccentricities than many of its similarly pitched competitors.

SHORTCUTDVDREVHeading up the likable cast is Drew Seeley as Derek, a new kid in his high school who has rebelled—to an extent—by quitting the crew team after only a couple of months and hangs out with teen bookie Lisa (Shannon Woodward). His little brother Tobey (Nicholas Elia), meanwhile, is dared by a couple of his peers to take the titular route through some dark woods where a scary and dangerous old man is said to dwell. Tobey gets out with his life, but only after discovering a dog that wasn’t so lucky, which leads Derek, Lisa, Derek’s wise-guy bud Mark (Dave Franco, brother of PINEAPPLE EXPRESS’ James Franco), blonde beauty Christy (Katrina Bowden), on whom Derek is crushing, and jock Taylor (Josh Emerson)—whose pooch that might have been—to investigate further. All of these characters and their relationships are colored in with minor but welcome shadings that keep them from falling into clichés, as so often happens in such fare.

Director Nicholaus Goossen and writers Dan Hannon and Scott Sandler intercut the present-day action with flashbacks to decades before, starting with the fate that befalls a couple attending a small-town homecoming dance in 1945 before the guy ships off to fight the Nazis. (Considering most such events take place in the fall, he’d be a little late, since the Germans surrendered in May of that year, but anyway…) These sequences gradually unfold the secrets behind that menacing woods-dweller (Raymond J. Barry), who’s got a large collection of canine IDs and other scary surprises in his house, and if the ultimate revelation can be seen coming before it’s actually sprung, they too provide THE SHORTCUT with a bit of extra interest.

Goossen maintains a decent amount of atmosphere and tension, the latter of which would no doubt have paid off stronger had he been allowed to pursue certain moments to their originally intended, more gruesome ends. On his audio commentary (replacing the originally announced making-of featurette as the disc’s only significant supplement), he reveals a litany of challenges he confronted that inspire surprise that THE SHORTCUT is as slick and together as it is, with a sharp and rich 2.35:1 transfer on the disc. Not only did the money people insist—only a few weeks before shooting began—on pulling the violence’s punches, but the schedule was “slashed by a week,” necessitating the loss of a good deal of character development, and this forest-dependent story was lensed in the “prairie land” of Saskatchewan.

The director, in fact, lets you know the details of practically every location, which gets a bit wearying, but he also reveals that despite his background in humor (including the cult comedy GRANDMA’S BOY), he has true enthusiasm for horror; one shot is described as his homage to “the old-school poster for THE THING.” And while he doesn’t acknowledge that THE SHORTCUT is something of a feature-length, more mature episode of SCOOBY-DOO, he does point out that Scoopie Doo, the snack shop where Derek and Mark work, was the real name of the place where those scenes were filmed. Perhaps his most amusing comment is at the very beginning, where he notes that he’s glad you’re listening to his track, since it means “you are probably not watching this on a bit-torrent.” Certainly, THE SHORTCUT is best experienced on the disc, where Goossen’s explanations help temper disappointment with the film’s shortcomings.





The Shortcut (2009)

Bukan cinta biasa (2009)

Tommy adalah vocalis group band rock papan atas yang lumayan ganteng dan ngetop pada jamannya, tahun 80-an. Walaupun tidak sengetop God Bless, mereka masih punya fans ‘fanatik’ yang lumayan jumlahnya. Seiring berjalannya waktu, kelakuan Tommy dan para sahabat satu groupnya saat ini tidak bergeming dari life style orsinilnya; hidup bebas, urakan, kekanak-kanakan dan menyikapi hidup dengan visi sederhana; biar gak pernah serius, yang penting asik dan engga ganggu orang. Nah..masalahnya yang terakhir itu terasa mulai jadi tidak konsisten bagi Tommy ketika suatu hari di pintu apartementnya muncul gadis berusia 15 tahun yang mengaku anaknya. Keraguan bahwa itu hanya pengakuan yang mengada-ada dari gadis muda bernama Nikita itu mendadak sirna ketika Tommy mendengar langsung pangakuan Lintang, mantan pacarnya saat ia menjalani predikat sebagai “Play Boy Top 90-an” saat itu. Mereka berpisah begitu saja karena kelakuan Tommy yang jauh dari bagus itu. Menghadapi Lintang, jago karate yang masih menyimpan kemarahan padanya itu, Tommy gentar, ia mendadak ingat kelakuan urakannya dulu. Kalau bisa memilih, ia pilih menghilang ke dasar bumi daripada menghadapi Lintang lagi.

Lintang punya masalah, ia akan mengikuti calon suaminya pindah ke USA sementara Nikita masih harus menjalani sisa sekolahnya beberapa bulan sebelum menyusulnya. Dengan perasaan terpaksa, Lintang yang tidak punya pilihan lagi itu harus merelakan Nikita untuk sementara waktu, di”jaga” oleh Tommy, orang yang ia coba delete dari file benak dan hatinya itu.

Sudah bisa dipastikan proses perjalanan “titip menitip” ini tidak berjalan dengan sukses. Nikita ternyata mewarisi kekerasan hati dan hidup sehat dan disiplin gaya ibunya. Kemerdekaan Tommy sirna seketika. Ia harus bangun pagi, memikirkan menu masakan, membuat sarapan, menjemput di sekolah, sampai ikut rapat sekolahan. Nikita juga mulai mengatur menjalankan aturan baru untuk Tommy, tidak boleh merokok, minum dan bawa teman wanita ke rumah. Para sahabat satu group bandnya pun tercengang dengan gaya “penjajahan atas nama kebaikan dan rasa sayang” yang didemonstrasikan Nikita kepada ayah dan sekaligus mereka sendiri. Alih-alih marah, tanpa mereka sendiripun mengerti, Nikita sukses menjadi “satpam” yang disegani Tommy cs. Namun, ini tidak berlaku untuk Anggel, kekasih Tommy. Ia mulai cemburu dan kesal atas “kelemahan” Tommy kepada “anak baru ketemu gede”nya tersebut.

Masalah jadi lebih ‘complicated’ ketika Nikita mulai menapaki cinta pertamanya dengan Brad, Rocker muda yang lagi naik daun saat ini! Sudah barang tentu Tommy bagai kebakaran jenggot. ‘Sense of fatherhood’nya mulai timbul pada Nikita. Ia tak rela anaknya dekat dengan lelaki seperti dirinya dulu. Tanpa sepengetahuan Nikita, ia berusaha sekuat tenaga untuk menggagalkan hubungan Nikita dengan Brad.

Makin dilarang, Nikita dan Brad semakin lengket, makin diperketat, mereka makin pintar cari akal. Karena film ini tidak bergenre action, apalagi spionase, maka tingkah polah Tommy yang mulai cemburu pada Brad, serta upaya ‘spy ala Tommy’ yang terkadang sangat naif akan jadi bahan tertawaan penonton yang tak habis habis.

Klimaksnya Nikita dibawa lari Brad. Tommy berang bukan main. Ia mengerahkan segala cara untuk mencari Nikita, mulai dari gang motor besarnya, sampai preman pelabuhanpun ia kerahkan. Dalam pencariannya itu Tommy seperti terlempar ke masa lalunya, ia banyak mengunjungi tempat dimana ia pernah menebar dosa dosa. Brad, ternyata keponakan (lagi lagi) mantan salah satu pacar Tommy dulu, Ratna, jagoan pemanah yang tidak pernah berhenti membenci Tommy karena dulu ia tinggalkan begitu saja. Om-nya Brad, ternyata lelaki yang pacarnya pernah ia rebut. Ia juga bertemu orang orang yang pernah berurusan dengannya.

Tommy akhirnya merasakan sedihnya ditinggal oleh orang-orang yang ia cintai. Ia juga menyesal telah banyak menyakiti orang lain, dan menjalani kehidupan yang sia sia selama ini. Tommy merasa karma tengah menimpa dirinya.

Hubungan Tommy dan Nikita yang awalnya berlangsung kaku mulai sangat cair, hati mereka mulai saling menyayangi satu sama lain. Tommy mulai berubah, gaya hidupnya mulai tertib, para sahabatnya kagum sekaligus kesal dengan perubahan rocker separuh baya ini. Nikita tetap menjalin hubungan dengan Brad, Tommy diam diam tetap bertekad menghalangi perasaan Nikita kepada Brad, ia berusaha mengalihkan perhatian Nikita atas Brad, dengan mencurahkan kasih sayang kebapakannya yang tetap terasa canggung itu.

Perasaan sayang Tommy maupun Brad kepada Nikita, harus ditunda kearah yang lebih intens lagi. Nikita telah menyelesaikan studinya di Jakarta, ia bersiap siap menyusul ibu dan calon ayah tirinya nun jauh di sana, negerinya Barack Obama. Tommy dan Brad pada akhirnya membuat lagu cinta untuk orang yang sama sama mereka cintai, Nikita?






Bukan cinta biasa (2009)

Smart People (2008)

Carnegie Mellon English Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is a depressed middle-aged widower. He is arrogant at work, uninterested in his students, and alienated from his two children. His adopted ne'er-do-well brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) arrives to borrow money and stay for a while, and tries to unwind Lawrence's lonely, high-achieving teenage daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page).

Meanwhile, Lawrence suffers a trauma-induced seizure after falling from the top of a fence in an attempt to retrieve his briefcase from inside of his impounded car. After being released from the hospital, Lawrence has a meeting with a sympathetic doctor, Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), a former student he does not recall. Janet fulfills her long-ago crush with a "face-to-face" date with the professor, towards which Vanessa verbalizes her displeasure, confronting Janet about Lawrence's fragility. At dinner, however, Lawrence displays his stultifying arrogance and Janet walks out. The two reconcile at a second date, but, while spending the night, Janet is turned off by Lawrence's neediness and worries that he is, in fact, still too distraught by his wife's death. In order to get rid of him, she feigns being called in by the hospital and does not return any of his subsequent calls. On another night, in the midst of a contentious Christmas family dinner at the Wetherholds', Janet arrives unannounced with a cake.

After Chuck gets Vanessa drunk to celebrate her early acceptance into Stanford University, she makes a pass at him. He then moves in part-time with Lawrence's son, James (Ashton Holmes), in his college dormitory.

James' girlfriend and Lawrence's student Missy (Camille Mana) tells Lawrence that James has had a poem accepted at The New Yorker. By contrast, Lawrence has failed to sell his latest academic tome to any publisher. Vanessa changes the title to You Can't Read! and the book is sold to Penguin Group, a large non-academic publisher in New York. To Lawrence's dismay, however, the book is largely re-worked and edited by the publisher. Janet accompanies him on a trip to New York, where she learns she is pregnant by Lawrence. Pre-occupied by his book publishing and an on-going campaign to become chairman of the English Department at the college, Janet is again upset by Lawrence's self-absorption and breaks up without telling him the news.

Back in Pittsburgh, Lawrence is additionally confronted by both James and Chuck, who both point to his uninvolvedness with his children's lives. Helped along by Chuck, Lawrence goes to the hospital to reconcile with Janet, who reveals her pregnancy. He has meanwhile become a more involved parent and professor. During the end credits, the main characters cradle twin babies.






Smart People (2008)

I Do… I Did! (2009)

Genre:Comedy | Drama | Romance

Director:J. Jesses Smith

Writers:Charisse Edey-Cherie Johnson
Release Date:11 August 2009 (USA)

Marcus finds himself in love and married to not one woman, but two. Every man's fantasy right? Wrong! Due to odd circumstances Marcus is forced to live under one roof with both of his wives. This makes it impossible to hide the intimate details of either relationship. With his first wife Vivian determined and on a mission to get her man back by any means necessary, Marcus' once peaceful home is now anything but that. He has gotten himself into world wind of trouble being too greedy, and not being able to choose between his past, and his present, but which will be his future?

I Do… I Did! (2009)

Pussy Soup / Neko Râmen Taishô (2008)

The cat (puppet) Jeff III has had a hard life until now. Brought up by his cruel father, Jeff II, to become a popular cat idol just like dad (and presumably Jeff I), poor Jeff hasn't the necessary cuteness that it takes to get through life in showbiz.

Jobless and rejected by his father after a very bad performance in a commercial, the cat decides to get a decent job. But all his promising career choices go to waste. Work as a sushi chef turns out to be impossible for someone addicted to fish, while nobody wants to be operated on by a surgeon who is also a cat. After his taxi driving job doesn't pay off either - surprisingly, passengers don't appreciate it when you try to run over rats - the desperate Jeff wants to drown himself to end his ordeal, but is saved by a gruff yet kindly ramen cook.

The master teaches Jeff the art of ramen cooking, and soon our hero has a small but fine noodle bar on the outskirts of Tokyo. All could be well, if not for his rather evil father who is trying to lay Jeff's life to waste by opening a new, flashy ramen place nearly next door.

That's the sort of problem only a TV cook off can solve.

Yeah, Minoru Kawasaki is at it again, making another comedy in the spirit of his Calamari Wrestler and Executive Koala, just with even more dubious looking dolls.

It is in fact so much in the spirit of those earlier films that one could be tempted to decry a certain lack of originality in the new film. But then one would be the kind of person who complains that a film about a ramen cooking cat isn't novel enough, or, as we here call 'em, a twat.

The viewer's enjoyment of the whole affair probably depends on her ability to find the type of parody that nearly emulates its sources funny. If you like the clichés of Japanese pop culture targeted here at least a little, you'll probably have some decent fun, if not, you are way outside of the film's target range and will probably just stare at the screen in befuddlement.

If, on the other hand, you're like me and have read and enjoyed one bread baking or cooking manga or the other, Neko Ramen Taisho comes recommended. Unless you don't like ramen.

Pussy Soup / Neko Râmen Taishô (2008)

Observe and Report (2009)

* Director: Jody Hill

* Release Date: 10 April 2009 (USA)

* Run Time: 86 min

* Country: USA

* Genre: Action , Comedy , Crime , Drama

* MPAA: Rated R for pervasive language, graphic nudity, drug use, sexual content and violence.

Trivia: Jody Hill has described his initial inspiration for this film as wanting to do a comedic version of Taxi Driver (1976).

Cast

Seth Rogen … Ronnie Barnhardt

Ray Liotta … Detective Harrison

Michael Pea … Dennis

Anna Faris … Brandi

Dan Bakkedahl … Mark

Jesse Plemons … Charles

John Yuan … John Yuen

Matt Yuan … Matt Yuen

Celia Weston … Mom

Collette Wolfe … Nell

Randy Gambill … Pervert

Alston Brown … Bruce

Cody Midthunder … D-Rock

Deborah Brown … Female Reporter (as Debra-Jayne Brown)

Aziz Ansari … Saddamn

Observe and Report (2009)