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Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a white-knuckle action-thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked hard to leave behind and the family he’ll do anything to protect. 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), to head to Panama and 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. http://www.contrabandmovie.net

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Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star cast in Tower Heist, a comedy caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them.

Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.

With only days before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh’s crew turns to petty crook Slide (Murphy) to plan the nearly impossible…to steal what they are sure is hidden in Arthur’s guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the building better than anyone. Turns out they’ve been casing the place for years, they just didn’t know it.

http://www.towerheist.net

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM
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I admit…I love Troll 2.

Don’t forget to watch the mash-up I posted previously on Geekstar.com. It’s a Lil Jon’ plus goblins perfect pairing.

You can watch Troll 2 through instant view on Netflix. Go…now…

Next, you must see the documentary about the making of Troll 2. Little Joshua is all grown up and he finds and interviews the film’s original cast and crew which is quite scary in and of itself. Even if you haven’t seen all of Troll 2 (which I can’t understand why), you will still thoroughly enjoy the documentary – Best Worst Movie.

The Yardbirds performing “Stroll On” in “Blow Up”, a film by one of my favorite Italian directors, Michelangelo Antonioni.

Here’s the trailer for “Blow Up”. You can rent this film through Netflix. So worth it.

Lookin’ good!

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Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman.

In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.

The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead).

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So, I’m a fan of Mr. Brainwash. He is the featured “artist” in Banksy’s Exit the Gift Shop film. The film was nominated for an Oscar this past year and it currently can be watched through instant view on Netflix.

If you purchase the DVD,  it includes the super fun “star power” glasses. Their directions state: For maximum viewing pleasure simply put on glasses, start DVD and look out the window.

My friend and I had more fun wearing the star power glasses while playing with two pink light sabers. The glasses make everything look like beautiful holographic rainbows! The hot pink light sabers are from the best store ever, five below.

hello vader.

Anyways, I received “Star Wars Reunion”, a print by Mr. Brainwash, in the mail today. I have had my eye on it for a while. I love it’s old timeyness.

“Star Wars Reunion” by Mr. Brainwash

Mr. Brainwash or Nien Numb, Lando’s Co-pilot