Friday, January 20, 2012

7 years.

Without my Mom.  I can't believe she's been gone this long.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Some IMDB fun

Twenty upcoming movies I found that I didn't know about and want to see either due to the plot or the actors involved.  All found while searching IMDB through other actors or films. ;)


1.  Little Red Wagon  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614430/

With nothing more than a blazing spirit of philanthropy and his beat-up red wagon, Zach sets out to help homeless children in America. In the process, he sweeps his fractured family - and ultimately the entire country - along with him.
2.  Sighting   -   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985196/

King's Ransom Winery is one of the most haunted places in America, with a long history of bizarre suicides. Six ghost hunters have been given the rare opportunity to conduct a paranormal investigation. What they discover terrifies them.

3.  Elsa & Fred  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2113659/

The story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true. Elsa is 82 years old and for the past 60 years, she's dreamt of a moment that Fellini had already envisaged: the scene in 'La Dolce Vita' at the Fontana di Trevi. The same scene without Anita Ekberg in it, but with Elsa instead. Without Marcello Mastroiani but with that love that took so long to arrive. Fred is a bit younger than Elsa and has always been a good man who did everything he was supposed to do. After losing his wife, he feels disturbed and confused and his daughter decides that it would be best if he moves into a smaller apartment where he ends meeting Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live - be it more or less - is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases. Fred surrenders to Elsa's frenzy, to her youth, to her boldness, to her beautiful madness. And this is how Fred learns how to live. When he learns about Elsa's terminal illness, he decides to make her dream come true and takes Elsa to Rome to reenact with her the famous scene at the Fontana di Trevi.

4.  Chronicle :  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/

Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

5.  The 4th Reich  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456940/

During the early hours of June 6th 1944 a bloody but victorious offensive took place in occupied Western Europe that would claim thousands of lives. Codenamed 'Operation Overlord' the armies of the combined allied forces would begin their long push to Berlin, with the aim of bringing down the despised Nazi regime. But the chilling realities of Hitler's true intentions are exposed, to create a force that can never be beaten, a 4th Reich - The New World Order. A team of Nazi doctors and scientists were charged with generating a superior race. Their experiments and research would produce unspeakable evil and change the face of humanity forever. A small select brigade of soldiers from the British 3rd Infantry Division, under the command of the battle hardened Captain Bathurst embark on a dangerous quest to liberate Europe. Fighting their way through the French countryside, villages and war ravaged towns. Every advance they discover increasingly strange events until they reach an abandoned research facility where the true horrors begin.

6.  Zombie Hamlet  -  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778940/

Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester Beauchamps offer to fund the film if he throws some zombies in it to make their money back. But when Hester dies in mid shoot, Osric dresses up as Hester to cash the last check and awakens the suspicions of both the local police and ambitious local news reporter Shine Reynolds. Inspired by an actual incident.

7.  Kill Bill Vol. 3  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521225/

No description yet, but eeeee!!!

8. 16 South  -   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2064707/

In the late 1800's and well into the twentieth century, many farmers and ranchers in Texas lost their homes and land to the more powerful landowner. Families were threatened, mercilessly burned from their homes, and in some instances, killed for the small piece of land they owned. This is the story of two men who spend their entire lives feuding over a tragic incident they both witnessed as young boys. George Baker (Randy Travis) is a man who has witnessed the horror of losing his family at the hands of a brutal killer, John Champion. Throughout his life, he must also put up with the humiliation of being thought of as cowardly and spineless, because he can't retaliate in order to keep his family safe from harm. To complicate matters, his daughter Katie is in love with Daniel, the son of his nemesis. Spanning several generations of two families, it is an unforgettable story of evil and hatred paralleling a story of devoted love and undeniable passion.

9.  Starbright  -  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1742179/

A young orphan escapes the realities of her life by fantasizing about and then entering a fairy tale world.

10.  Finding Hope  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1835965/

Fact: There are 1 million to 3 million runaway (throwaway) and homeless kids living on the streets in the United States. 80% of runaway and homeless girls reported having been sexually or physically abused.

Young girls trapped in abusive homes have two choices: surrender or escape. Fear of reprisal, fear of endangering other loved ones, serves to keep the girls in line. But for the ones like Esmee Johnson, who will not give in or give up, escape is the only way. And so Esmee runs. Pursued by the cult she escapes, persecuted by the government who wants to use her as a witness, and wanted by the pimps who conned her into seeking refuge with them -- Esmee runs to stay alive. She becomes a teen fugitive in her quest for FINDING HOPE.

11.  Silent Life   -   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099209/

The year is 1926. While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After the emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip of reality and begins to see the recollection of his life in Hollywood from a perspective of a coma - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion... Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean. 


12.  Austenland  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985019/

Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

13.  Undertow  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727554/

Toby, an ambitious young lawyer, gets on the wrong boat when she serves papers to a man who has a deadly vendetta against her father. He kidnaps her and takes her out to the middle of the ocean, while deliberating his options. Meanwhile, her father must sort out what's happened to his daughter, and how to save her, before it's too late.

14.  September Run Red  -  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1941645/

Taylor Evans, a successful, pretty modern day woman is finding her world rapidly collapsing around her as a sudden and unexplained phobia to water grips her psyche, shattering her fragile world. In desperation to save herself, Taylor reaches out to Dr. John Cane, a cast out phobia specialist, and ally of the worst kind. Dr. Cane, a notorious psychiatrist whose recent prominence and rise in the medical community is linked to a successful but controversial behavior analysis treatment he's pioneered on a desolate island. Reluctantly, Dr. Cane agrees to treat Taylor's irrational fear of water but on the sole condition the treatment take place on the remote island for her safety and wellbeing. Once on the secluded island, Taylor begins to suspect that Dr. Cane might not be giving her the whole truth, and that a terrible fate will befall her if she doesn't find a way off the island. Complicating matters further, Taylor learns Dr. Cane has a collaborator and a secret he's been hiding for more than thirty years, a secret he desperately wants to keep concealed at all cost. Driven to escape the island and the eerie Doctor, Taylor must face the demons within and enter the dark creepy lake water to reclaim the strength she desperately needs to salvage her being and escape the island alive. On the island nothing is ever what it seems.

15.  The Studio Club  -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2105022/

Intrigue and suspense plays out during Hollywood's golden era. Studio execs and aspiring actresses clash in this dramatic mystery thriller.

16.  Unfair and Imbalanced  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1910658/

An outrageous right-wing talk show host becomes compassionate and reasonable, and the network does everything it can to bring him back to his old ways.

17.  Invisible Cities  -   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1344400/

Inspired by the Italo Calvino novel, "Invisible Cities", the film explores the notion of returning home. A New York-based artist struggling with success abruptly leaves the city to return to his hometown. His main goal: to find inspiration and salvation in his past. But returning home isn't quite so easy and the artist quickly finds himself unable to re-establish old connections he once hastily abandoned. A film split into 5 stories (each of which explores a different aspect his past), "Invisible Cities" is a film about loss and one person's attempt to reconcile this loss. The film is a mix of several genres and is at times funny and romantic while also exploring nightmarishly dark areas as well. In the end, the film asks this question: Once you leave home, are you ever really able to return?

18.  Sirk! -  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954828/

Sirk! is the musical about a young clown that finds his rightful place in a Creole circus troupe in 1930's New Orleans.

19.  Painless   -   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1757769/

Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the '60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, in the present time, a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant, discovers this dark past when he searches for his biological parents. 

20.  ParaNorman  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623288/
A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Kill me first

So, I've learned that even though my sister is willing to take in my Grandma who has terminal cancer that the rest of the family has decided it's better to send her to a nursing home to die.

My mother is rolling over in her grave and I hope she haunts them all so that they never get another full nights sleep.

I am beyond sick over this.

I just don't understand how they can completely throw what my Mom's feelings would be, because she's dead she doesn't have a voice in this and apparently listening to my sister and I and caring about what we think means nothing to them.

I don't understand why anyone who loved someone would send them to a nursing home to die.

Please, please shoot me in the head first before sending me to a nursing home to die.