Category: Posters/Artwork

  • Lima Film Festival: La Yuma

    La Yuma (2009)
    Genre: Drama, Comedy
    Starring: Alma Blanco
    Directed by: Florence Jaugey

    La Yuma — don’t ask me what Yuma means, but La Yuma is the boxing nickname of the character — tells the story of a girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua, Nicaragua, who wants to become a professional boxer. One day she sees her brother mugging a young journalist who loses a disc with his work, so she decides to return it to him, and decides that she likes him. As she deals with her possible love life, as well as her family life with her younger siblings, good-for-nothing mother with her good-for-nothing boyfriend, she finally gets the chance to train under renown boxing trainer Polvorita.

    La Yuma pretty much reminded everyone of Girlfight — which launched the career of now the familiar Michelle Rodriguez — for their “tough girl who wants to box” theme, but ultimately La Yuma distances itself from boxing, and focuses on what Alma Blanco’s character has to do for her and her siblings to survive.

    Since the story starts out as a boxing film, and then distances itself from it… La Yuma seems a bit disjointed, as if you were watching 2 or 3 different films. However, the film’s protagonist is interesting — she’s tough and sassy with a sense of humor — she keeps bringing you back into the story. The acting is a bit uneven, especially from Ernesto (Gabriel Benavides) the “love interest” and you wonder why La Yuma feels attraction towards him, but characters like Doña Scarlett (María Esther López), or La Cubana (Juan Carlos García) are enjoyable and memorable enough.

    3/5

    COMPETENCIA OFICIAL – FICCION

    Screenings:
    Monday 9 @ 5.15pm in Cineplanet Alcazar  – Sala 1
    Tuesday 10 @ 7.30pm in Centro Cultural Catolica – Sala Azul
    Thursday 12 @ 9.45pm in Cineplanet Alcazar – Sala 1

  • You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger with Spanish Subs

    This feels like a really good fun neurotic movie.

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/OLLbzJC_mp4?rel=0″]

    Plus! The Spanish poster is oh-so-gorgeous!

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  • Vector Movie Posters by Grzegorz Domaradzki

    The look amazing [the whole set], but my favorite was American Beauty because of the colors used, it just stands out on that set because of that.

    Look through the whole set here.

    Thanks to Mirella for the link. ;P

  • Akiba Fest and other stuff… like BiBi’s new album~

    Akiba Fest is today. Never been to it, I guess there will be loads of otakus there. xD

    Today, had to attend the press conference for it… ooh, fancy~ Patricia Acevedo (the Latin American voice of Lisa Simpson, Lady Oscar, and Chichi from Dragon Ball), as well as Laura Torres… who is the only dubbing actress I ever recognize on tv merits only, because she is the voice of Daria… as well as Gabrielle on Xena, and I grew up with that dubbing… and then I heard her as Catherine Willows on CSI. Trippy. Then I found out she’s also been Goku when he was a kid, as well as Gohan and Goten… plus, Tommy Pickles from Rugrats, and Shippo on Inuyasha. I’m pretty sure she’s done Happy Feet too. LOL

    During the conference…

    They had a moment. xD

    Anyway… Bibi’s album just hit the net.
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  • Toy Story 3 Makes for a Perfect Ending

    Whatever your thoughts are about Toy Story, and Toy Story 2, if you got the chance to grow up and grow old with the Toy Story franchise, you’re going to feel like Toy Story 3 will be pulling your heart strings. I wasn’t emotionally attached to the franchise, and I still felt the nostalgic ending, quite reminiscent of the ending in the Winnie the Pooh books. That of having to grow up, and let go.

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  • Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is Inappropriately Funny

    There, I said it.

    Look, I love Jakey G. but Prince of Persia was a joke. This is coming from someone who isn’t even a hardcore fan of the video game. Yeah, I used to play it on my cousin’s computer back in DOS system. LOL

    Below the break, possible spoilers~ you’ve been warned.

    Sands of Time introduces Dastan as a kid living in the streets saving another street kid from being punished by the King (Sharaman) ‘s men… so of course, the King sees something special in him and takes him home. Flash forward years, and Dastan — now a hot-looking Prince — and his brothers are about to take on a city that is supposed to be dealing weapons to the Persian’s enemies [hint: weapons of mass destruction].

    In their looting, Dastan gets a dagger… THE Dagger (with capital D), which the princess of the city, Tamina, was trying to protect. After the murder of his father the King, Dastan is accused of being the perpetrator, and flees the city with Tamina as sort of hostage and help… but of course, Dastan didn’t do it! So he must clear his name, with the help of the Dagger, which uses some magical sand to turn back time.

    Unlike the poster (and set of posters), Sands of Time looks very orange. It actually starts with a full shot of a sunrise — or was it a sunset set backwards? — anyway, it was all very reminiscing of Aladdin, so I began singing Arabian Nights in my head… or maybe I did a bit out loud. The caption, set in Papyrus, said something like two people linked together in time — I thought they might have been talking about KidDastan and the other street kid, but seeing as the other kid was left behind when Dastan was adopted… alas, it’s probably Dastan and the Princess whose city he’s about to ransack.

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  • Movies R Fun by Josh Cooley

    Animation Story Artist Josh Cooley (from Pixar’s Ratatouille and Up fame) is releasing a book in a very stylish a la Pixar concept art about grown up films. Perhaps the kiddies will just not get the movie references on this one.

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  • Buried Motion Poster

    I saw this over at LivingCinema a few days ago, but because it kept playing over and over again, and it got really annoying, I decided not to post. But! Trailer Addicts has one on their embeddable players~

    [iframe width=”450″ height=”850″ src=”https://v.traileraddict.com/22390″ /]

    I can’t stand Ryan Reynolds because he’s so blah on screen, but the campaign is pretty good even if it does remind me of that CSI episode directed by Tarantino, in which Nick gets buried.

  • Robin Hood is a Lot of Very Little

    First of all, “Hi, hello, Cate Blanchett as Lady Marion”

    You were my favorite part of the film. Even though I was all like “Lady Marion in an armor?” I still liked it. She was multi-purpose that Lady Marion. She changed horseshoes, and took charge of the crops, and talked to the priests and bishops like it was her business. Even though it totally didn’t fit the period, I was all over it.

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  • Millennium Trilogy: The Movies

    Can I just say Noomi Rapace is really REALLY bad-ass?

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