Awesome Movies

Best described as “Die Hard in the White House,” Gerard Butler channels John McClane as a decommissioned Secret Service agent who must save the President from a bunch of evil Asians.

Director Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling channel Anonymous in The East, a movie about a private spy who infiltrates an anarchist group. Starring Marling, Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård.

If you missed this one, this inventive dark comedy features a great ensemble including Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, and a typically scene-stealing Sam Rockwell.

Director Mikey Schaefer captured pure beauty on film, as we see free climber Dean Potter walking a highline tied to Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park while the moon rises behind him.

(NSFW: Language) The latest trailer for Ariel Vromen’s The Iceman, based on Anthony Bruno’s book about Richard Kuklinski, a loving family man who led a double life as a mob hitman.

The trailer for TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard, a documentary about the infamous file sharing website. It will be released for free but a paid version with extras is also available.

The latest trailer for Brian Helgeland’s 42, a drama about American baseball legend Jackie Robinson and the odds he and his supporters faced when he broke the color barrier in professional baseball.

The latest installment in the legendary Up documentary series, which has followed the lives of 14 British children since they were 7. Now they are 56 years old. Time to catch up. US play dates here.

(NSFW: Language) Johnny Knoxville blows a guy in half, a car rail grinds and Ahnold’s day off is ruined as he guards the Mexican border in this trailer for Kim Jee-Woon’s lighthearted, but violent action flick.

An early preview for Danny Boyle’s latest film, a dynamic thriller starring James MacAvoy as an art thief who struggles to remember what happened to a stolen painting after being hit over the head.

(Gore) Important Looking Pirates produced some astounding visual FX for the Norwegian historical drama about adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa raft expedition from Peru to Polynesia, Kon-Tiki.

A VH1 documentary about Napster: its founders, its rise and fall and its eye-opening impact. Directed by Alex Winter, Downloaded features interviews from Shawn Fanning, Sean Parker, musicians and more.

This promo video for Monsters University takes the form of an ad for the titular institution, where monsters are taught to be the scariest they can be. The MU website is even more impressive.

(NSFW: Language/Gore) The full trailer for the new Evil Dead. The crystal-clear shots make the gore look silly, but unless this leads to a bad Army of Darkness reboot we’re not that concerned.

Visual effects experts Industrial Light & Magic share their contribution to one of the most memorable scene from The Avengers: the long continuous shot showing each member fending off the aliens.

Pump yourself up to improve this new year with this compilation of training sequences. The song is of course You’re the Best from Karate Kid, which for some reason is not included in the sequence.

A stunt rider turned criminal (Ryan Gosling) goes up against a good cop aspiring to be a politician (Bradley Cooper), and the consequences of their actions eventually catch up to their children.

Matt Shapiro returns with his latest year-end edit, which magically melds the biggest and best films of 2012 into one mega-blockbuster – and reminds us of all the movies we need in our Netflix queues.

Ed Harris and David Duchovny star in Phantom, a movie about a captain of a Soviet submarine sent on a covert mission, only to find out he was chosen in the belief that he would fail.

Michael Bay’s less over-the-top than usual Pain & Gain is about Miami’s Sun Gym Gang, a group of muscleheads who turned to a life of crime. It’s based on a series of articles by Pete Collins.

The latest trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, about a man who seems to have a perfect life. Yet another anachronistic soundtrack from the master of movie spectacle.

Listen to Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock wax poetic about testicles and wedding engagements in the red band trailer for the action comedy flick The Heat. We hope the movie can top this trailer.

Steve Carrell, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, Jim Carrey and Alan Arkin star in this madcap comedy about a Vegas magic act who tries to amp up their aging stage act. We’ll see it just for the hairdos.