Pan and Jurassic World trailers premiere

Universal and Warner Bros. released their trailers for the some of the biggest pictures to be released next year. As was I , we're pretty stoked that Universal released Jurassic World's full trailer two days early.

As for Jurassic World, this is going to bloody as prehistoric monsters will be unleashed on modern ground. I am pretty much more excited as to the design of the genetically modified creature that will be terrorizing Isla Nublar's world class park. The film is helmed by Director Collin Trevorrow and stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and Nick Robinson among others.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Trailer to debut on the weekend

There have been earlier rumors that the first trailer of the first entry to the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy will set to premier this month. And now we have confirmation that the trailer is set to arrive this weekend.

Regal confirmed that the trailer will premiere in selected theaters in the US. The reports says that the trailer will debut on these theaters from November 28 to November 30. Star Wars fans will get to see a glimpse of the J.J. Abrams directed film.

Shared film universes are flawed says Director James Gunn

Post by James Gunn.

First Jurassic World trailer set to premiere come November 27

THE PARK IS OPEN.

Universal Studios has now released a new teaser for the upcoming Jurassic World which will arrive in theaters on May of next year.

We all have known that the film had already started its big advertising campaign which started with the launch of two websites. One features the fictional Masrani Global, a giant corporation that had acquired the InGen Technologies which owned the previous park on Isla Nublar. The other launched website only had a countdown timer which will end on November 27 and that was speculated to be the release of a first full trailer. And now, that has been confirmed.

Jennifer Lawrence sings for Mockingjay Part 1

This is not at all a surprise considering that Jennifer Lawrence sang on the 2012 film HATES in which she starred as the protagonist. JLaw have been dreading this part of the Mockingjay Part 1 stating in interviews that it was the most awful part of the filming process of the film.

The star even stated that she asked director Francis Lawrence if she could just lip-sync to Lorde while the 'Royals' singer sings the song. Well, obviously JLaw did not convince the director.

Honestly, JLaw is not as bad as singing than she gives herself credit for. Here is the track that had the rebels (and us) suffering LSS, 'The Hanging Tree'.

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

This is a list I've made of the movies I've watched from 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list. This list that I have acquired was updated last 2011 thus there is another version of this list this year, at least that's what I think.

I will update my list from time to time.

No.	Year	Title	Director	Genre	Date Watched
1	1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	William Cottrell	Animation	N/A
2	1940	Pinocchio	Ben Sharpsteen	Animation	N/A
3	1956	The Ten Commandments	Cecil B. DeMille	Adventure	N/A
4	1960	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	Horror	N/A
5	1961	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Blake Edwards	Comedy	N/A
6	1961	West Side Story	Jeremy Robbins	Musical	N/A
7	1968	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	Sci-Fi	N/A
8	1973	The Exorcist	William Friedkin	Horror	N/A
9	1976	Carrie	Brian de Palma	Horror	N/A
10	1977	Star Wars	George Lucas	Adventure	N/A
11	1979	Alien	Ridley Scott	Sci-Fi	N/A
12	1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner	Adventure	N/A
13	1983	Return of the Jedi	Richard Marquand	Adventure	N/A
14	1984	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Wes Craven	Horror	N/A
15	1984	The Terminator	James Cameron	Sci-Fi	N/A
16	1985	The Breakfast Club	John Hughes	Drama	N/A
17	1986	Aliens	James Cameron	Sci-Fi	N/A
18	1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	James Cameron	Sci-Fi	N/A
19	1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Thriller	N/A
20	1993	Groundhog Day	Harold Ramis	Drama	N/A
21	1993	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg	Adventure	N/A
22	1994	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Drama	N/A
23	1994	The Lion King	Roger Allers	Animation	N/A
24	1995	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	Drama	N/A
25	1995	Toy Story	John Lasseter	Animation	N/A
26	1996	Independence Day	Roland Emmerich	Sci-Fi	N/A
27	1996	Scream	Wes Craven	Horror	N/A
28	1997	Titanic	James Cameron	Drama	N/A
29	1999	The Blair Witch Project	Daniel Myrick	Horror	N/A
30	1999	The Matrix	The Wachowski Brothers	Sci-Fi	N/A
31	2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	Drama	N/A
32	2001	The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	Fantasy	N/A
33	2001	Spirited Away	Hayao Moyazaki	Animation	N/A
34	2002	The Two Towers	Peter Jackson	Fantasy	N/A
35	2003	The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	Fantasy	N/A
36	2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	Drama	N/A
37	2008	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan	Adventure	N/A
38	2008	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	War	N/A
39	2009	Avatar	James Cameron	Sci-Fi	N/A
40	2009	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	War	N/A
41	2010	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky	Drama	N/A
42	2010	District 9	Neill Blomkamp	Sci-Fi	N/A
43	2010	Inception	Christopher Nolan	Sci-Fi	N/A
44	2010	The Social Network	David Fincher	Drama	N/A
45	2011	Bridesmaids	Paul Feig	Comedy	N/A
46	2011	Hugo	Martin Scorcese	Adventure	N/A
47	2011	Shame	Steve McQueen	Drama	N/A
48	2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne	Drama	N/A
49	2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	Drama	N/A
50	2011	War Horse	Steven Spielberg	War	N/A
51	1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	Drama	16-Nov-14
52	1977	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	Drama	16-Nov-14
53	1989	When Harry Met Sally…	Rob Reiner	Drama	17-Nov-14
54	1971	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	Sci-Fi	17-Nov-14
55	1999	Fight Club	David Fincher	Drama	17-Nov-14
56	1902	Le Voyage dans la Lune	Georges Méliès	Adventure	18-Nov-14
57	1980	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	Horror	19-Nov-14
58	2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton	Drama	19-Nov-14
59	2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	David Fincher	Thriller	22-Nov-14
60	2006	The Departed	Martin Scorcese	Crime	22-Nov-14
61	2007	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	Drama	23-Nov-14
62	2000	Memento	Christopher Nolan	Thriller	7-Dec-14
63	1999	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shamalan	Thriller	14-Dec-14
64	1999	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze	Fantasy	22-Dec-14
65	1985	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	Sci-Fi	3-Jan-15
66	1982	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	Sci-Fi	4-Jan-15
67	1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	Drama	18-Jan-15
68	1989	Say Anything...	Cameron Crowe	Drama	21-Jan-15
68	1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	Crime	21-Jan-15

Mockingjay – Part 1 Review: Unnecessary split but still delivers

Mockingjay – Part 1 is a little less interesting than its predecessors due largely to the splitting of the final book of Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games trilogy. The film still manages to pull off images of the ever-growing rebellion against the Capitol of a dystopian Panem while questions rather than answers keeps piling up until the end.

We know that most the fans of the franchise have read the book, including me, but it seems unnecessary that Lionsgate opted to split the film thus making Part 1 seems more like an overlong teaser trailer for the final film. The split causes the film to run short on action that its predecessors are known for.

DC and Marvel Movie Calendar

Warner Bros. and Disney have already planted their flags on dates for future film releases. Here is a table I made for the both the studios release dates for future comic book film adaptations.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has added 11 entries to the ever expanding franchise starting with Avengers 2 hitting theaters on May of next year while the DC Cinematic Universe has 7 future films starting with the 2016 release of BvS.

Top 10 Best Films of 2014*

Here is a table for my top ten list of best films of 2014. The films are rank based on how I love the film. Factors like entertainment, scope, story, performances and pace, may also have served as bases for ranking.

                 

Rank	Title	Director	Genre
1	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	Drama
2	Gone Girl	David Fincher	Thriller
3	Chef	Jon Favreau	Drama
4	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	Comedy
5	The F Word (What If)	Michael Dowse	Drama
6	The Rover	David Michôd	Drama
7	The LEGO Movie	Phil Lord	Animation
		Christopher Miller
8	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Matt Reeves	Sci-Fi
9	Captain America: The winter Soldier	Anthony Russo	Superhero
		Joe Russo
10	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Bryan Singer	Superhero



* to be updated until December 31, 2014

Muder of the First (A Short Story)

I did not like the way she talks to me. I did not like the way she brushes her hair every time a much more 'appealing' guy comes by. I did not like the way she flaunts her eyes at other boys while I was with here. I did not like her at all. I was with her and she was with me. But we did not belong together. So, I murdered her.

I scratched the wooden panel of the door to her bedroom. It had been thirty minutes since I knocked and an hour since I came by. At my first knock, she said to give her a minute. At the second, she said to give her five more. I did not complain, instead I waited because I am patient enough. I went downstairs and came back ten minutes after. This time, I did not knock. I pressed the side of my head close to the door. I can hear her. She was giggling. Why?

An Appointment with Whiskey (A Short Story)

A young man is seated at the reception area in one of the offices of the most important and famous Citizenry Control building located at the business center of Monarch City. He is wearing a dark blue suit and a checkered tie which seems to look like he just carelessly placed around his neck, which of course is acceptable because he almost forgot the appointment the night before when he wasted himself with friends at an underground, infamous dance club which these offices does not ever tolerate. He appears business-like except for his worn-out sneakers that looks like it has not been washed for a long time. He scratches his head a few times and glances at his watch every now and then. He has been sitting there for 30 minutes, thinking of how he dashed out of his apartment even forgetting to lock it when he had left and all he will be doing is wait for extra long minutes in this hell of an office or the reception area.

The reception area is rectangular with the width of half the freeway and fifty feet long. Its walls are painted bluish white with patches of darker shades in every meter square or so. The ceiling serves as the light for the entire area, and can change in various shades of luminescence in just a single swipe on the secretary's computer. There are four identical plants in the room, one in each corner. The seat where he is sitting is one of the four couches that lines up from the doorway up to the secretary's desk. Adjacent to the couches are different racks of magazines, books, tabloids and newspapers. There are also two different machines, one which serves different cold non-alcoholic beverages including water and the other one serves as a coffee machine. The young man is the only the person on the hall with the exception of the secretary. The secretary is busy typing and swiping on her holographic desktop and constantly talking in an earpiece. She is a largely built woman in her forties, her stance is that of a military woman rather than a sexy secretary in which one would envision to be especially in an office like this. Her face is full of focus on what she is doing. She must have been here for a long time or probably paid high to do what she does, he thinks.

Memory (tBc)

There are just two possibilities on where he is now. Either he is sitting in his room facing his laptop, or he is lost on his own bizarre, exciting world of his imagination. But he always thinks that he is the only one that calls it exciting.

There were just too many thoughts that occupies on the vast mind of the man he had become. A kaleidoscope of vivid, haunting, happy, and dreamy memories that seems to float over every single thing.

It is on the bottle of water that stood at the table in which he is sitting. It jumps on the mattress of the bed where he sleeps at night. It prances with the dust along the ray of sunlight which filtered through the window. It's swirling and playing with the wind and dances when it hit the fan. It shakes at the branches of the trees outside his window whenever a bird hops on it. It is overwhelming, just sitting there watching it all. But of course, it wasn't real. It was only in the mind of an 18 year-old man who doesn't know whether to carry on or to just drop it all off.

Unspoken

I made no effort to speak. The room was buzzing with conversations. But for me, those were just noises. Noises made by this strangers to keep themselves busy.

I contained myself into a chair and watched, listened. observed. There are a few familiar faces here but all seemed to be just strangers. I had had conversations with a few of them for the past few months but none seemed to be as friendly as they look.

I took my pen and scribbled some nonsense words on a piece of paper to keep myself from drifting away. I contained my thoughts again and started recounting the events that had happened to me since I stepped last year into this new experience, "college". I chuckled at the thought of this one word that'll change your status in a society like this. A train of thoughts occupied my head that I almost didn't notice my instructor walked in.

Perspective (tBc)

"Nothing is what it seems..."

Tik, tok, tik, tok. The sound of the clock. Tiny sounds that seemed to reverberate forever on the walls  of the quite house. But the silence made it sound like a gunshot  on a peaceful alley. As if it brought him into a dirty, loud world rather than a house at the edge of a cliff. It was loud music in his ears rather than a beautiful melody in paradise. Thinking of the word 'paradise' made him flinch. It wasn't the perfect thing in this very situation. It made him remember why he came here in the first place.

His thoughts drifts away remembering. Friends. One of the reasons. He was very careful in choosing friends. He chose those who chose him first. People that are humble enough to makes him laugh and people who cares. It was hard yet good.

Breathe (tBc)

It wasn't like what he had expected of it. But tiny spasms of pain was felt on his chest. It always occurred when he laugh, cough, sneeze or do something tiring. And sometimes when he moves his arms or stand very straight up. It wasn't good but it was better than having a heart attack. He'd had thought about it much often when he feels the pain. But it was not impossible, heart problems would be the last on the list if ever he'd have a disease. Besides, it' his chest that hurts not his heart. Breathing always keep the calm mind relax and forget the terrible things it could bring. Breathe in, breathe out, he told himself every now and then.

It helped, of course. It was the easiest, quickest and most natural thing for a prevention. And also the most stupid.