Awesome Movies

A film by Steven Spielberg about “the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office” and his plan to end war and slavery. Starring Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln.

Viggo Mortensen plays a man who decides to escape from his “frustrating existence” by impersonating his evil twin brother. It’s like Parent Trap, except one of the twins is a criminal.

Ever wondered what happened to Hansel & Gretel after they escaped from the gingerbread house? Neither did we. But Hollywood is telling us anyway. Apparently the two became crossbow enthusiasts.

Danny Trejo makes a deal with the devil Mickey Rourke to exact revenge on half-brother Anthony Michael Hall that crossed him. Not as cool as Machete vs Whiplash vs Bill Gates, but it’ll do.

(NSFW: Language) The incredible Michael Shannon stars as Richard “Iceman” Kuklinski, a convicted Mafia hitman who allegedly killed over 100 people between 1948 and 1986.

(NSFW) A truly warped horror-action-comedy about vampire-superhero-hitmen, who do what they must to clean up the streets of scumbags while at the same time feeding on their blood.

Fans of LCD Soundsystem who purchase the DVD or Blu-Ray editions will be treated to a 3-disc package with a 90-minute documentary, and almost 4 hours of concerts, photos, and outtakes.

(NSFW) The red band trailer for Lawless, a movie based Matt Bondurant’s novel about his grandfather and granduncles’ moonshine business in southern Virginia during the Depression.

A movie about two groups of children playing pretend war. Their weapons are made of sticks and branches, the gore a figment of their imagination. But their anger and hatred quickly became real.

Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the big screen in Korean director Kim Jee-woon’s action flick about a country sheriff who finds himself in the midst of chaos thanks to the escape of a drug kingpin.

Here’s 3 minutes of boredom-busting fun: lots and lots of familiar movie clips (295 to be exact) spliced together to recreate Sir Mix-A-Lot’s ubiquitous ditty Baby Got Back. (Thanks everyone!)

A trailer for David France’s documentary How to Survive a Plague, an inside look at the struggle and campaign by ACT UP and TAG to force the US government to work on finding anti-AIDS medicine.

James Chapman’s compilation of the movie staple. We don’t agree that these are “the greatest” though. Anything that includes the Super Mario movie is forbidden from using that superlative.

(NSFW: Language) The red band trailer for End of Watch, a gritty, testosterone-packed movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña about two cops who get in the crosshairs of the cartel.

A live action adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki’s bestselling manga series Rurouni Kenshin, aka Samurai X, about a samurai who refuses to kill in order to atone for his past sins as an assassin.

Grumpy old man Clint Eastwood growls at John Goodman and pretty much everyone else while playing a grumpy old baseball scout. Also starring Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake. Relevant.

Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, The Hurt Locker) takes us inside the mission and celebrates the heroes who helped take down Osama bin Laden. We know how the story ends, but we’ll still see it.

While it’s no Shaun of the Dead, we still got a good number of chuckles out of the Red-Band trailer for this new British zombie flick, if nothing but for double-decker bus kill – and walkers vs. walker.

(NSFW: Language) Snoop Dogg went to Jamaica to record a new album with Diplo, but he ended up doing much more, rebooting his style from the experience. Hear Snoop Lion’s first single here.

(NSFW: Language) A documentary about the wild and short-lived career of one of the pioneers of punk rock. Features unseen footage of the band and interviews with its members.

Despite its relatively slow pace, 2001: A Space Odyssey is still one of the all-time classics of science fiction filmmaking. Here, we get a livened-up version of its trailer, for today’s audience.

Keanu Reeves interviews directors, actors and others in the movie industry in Side by Side, a documentary about the impact of the digital revolution on the art and business of film making.

A documentary about the dire state of the US space program. Featuring interviews with experts such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye and astronaut Leroy Chiao among others.