Title:
127 hours
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
Danny Boyle
Starring:
James Franco, Clemence Poesy, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Lizzy Caplan
Release date:
Fri 05, Nov 2010
Title:
Due Date
Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
Todd Phillips
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr, Zach Galifianakis, Juliette Lewis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx
Release date:
Fri 05, Nov 2010
Title:
Fair Game
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
Doug Liman
Starring:
Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Noah Emmerich, Liraz Charchi, Nicholas Sadler
Release date:
Fri 05, Nov 2010
Title:
Megamind
Genre:
Animation/Comedy/Family
Directed by:
Tom McGrath
Starring:
Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey
Release date:
Fri 05, Nov 2010
Title:
Skyline
Genre:
Science-Fiction/Thriller
Directed by:
Greg Strause, Colin Strause
Starring:
Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel
Release date:
Fri 12, Nov 2010
Title:
Unstoppable
Genre:
Action/Drama/Thriller
Directed by:
Tony Scott
Starring:
Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Chapman
Release date:
Fri 12, Nov 2010
Title:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
Genre:
Adventure/Drama/Fantasy/Mystery
Directed by:
David Yates
Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Helena Bonham Carter
Release date:
Fri 19, Nov 2010
Title:
Next Three Days
Genre:
Thriller/Drama
Directed by:
Paul Haggis
Starring:
Elizabeth Banks, Russell Crowe, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde, Jason Beghe
Release date:
Fri 19, Nov 2010
Title:
Burlesque
Genre:
Drama/Musical
Directed by:
Steve Antin
Starring:
Christina Aguilera, Cher, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell, Alan Cumming, Julianne Hough, Cam Gigandet, Peter Gallagher, Alan Cumming
Release date:
Wed 24, Nov 2010
Title:
Faster
Genre:
Action
Directed by:
George Tillman Jr
Starring:
Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, Moon Bloodgood, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Maggie Grace
Release date:
Wed 24, Nov 2010
Title:
Love and other Drugs
Genre:
Comedy/Romance
Directed by:
Edward Zwick
Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht
Release date:
Wed 24, Nov 2010
Title:
Nutcracker 3D
Genre:
Fantasy/Family
Directed by:
Andrei Konchalovsky
Starring:
Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, Charlie Rowe, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour
Release date:
Wed 24, Nov 2010
Title:
Red Dawn
Genre:
Action
Directed by:
Dan Bradley
Starring:
Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Will Yun Lee
Release date:
Wed 24, Nov 2010
Title:
Tangled - Rapunzel
Genre:
Animation/Comedy/Family/Musical
Directed by:
Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Starring:
Kristin Chenoweth, Dan Fogler, David Schwimmer
Release date:
Wed 24, Nov 2010
Title:
King's Speech
Genre:
Drama/Biopic
Directed by:
Tom Hooper
Starring:
Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon
Release date:
Fri 26, Nov 2010
Title:
Bruce Lee
Genre:
Action/Biopic
Directed by:
Wai-Man Yip
Starring:
Aarif Lee, Karen Mok, Tony Leung Ka-Fai
Release date:
Sat 27, Nov 2010
For more info visit:Teaser-Trailer.com
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Hollywood Movies -This October
Title:
Case 39
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Christian Alvart
Starring:
Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Callum Keith Rennie, Bradley Cooper, Crystal Lowe
Release date:
Fri 01, Oct 2010
Title:
Let Me In
Genre:
Thriller/Drama/Fantasy
Directed by:
Matt Reeves
Starring:
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas, Cara Buono, Sasha Barrese
Release date:
Fri 01, Oct 2010
Title:
Buried
Genre:
Thriller
Directed by:
Rodrigo Cortes
Starring:
Ryan Reynolds
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
I Spit On Your Grave
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Steven R. Monroe
Starring:
Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Andrew Howard
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Directed by:
Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Starring:
Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Zoe Kravitz, Lauren Graham
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
Life as we know it
Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
Greg Berlanti
Starring:
Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Jean Smart
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
My Soul To Take
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Wes Craven
Starring:
Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Paulina Olszyinski, Raul Esparza
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
Secretariat
Genre:
Drama/Sport
Directed by:
Randall Wallace
Starring:
Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Scott Glenn, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Otto Thorwarth, Fred Thompson, AJ Michalka, Kevin Connolly, Eric Lange, James Cromwell
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
Alpha and Omega
Genre:
Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family
Directed by:
Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
Starring:
Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci
Release date:
Sun 10, Oct 2010
Title:
Stargate Universe Season 2
Genre:
Science-Fiction/Adventure
Starring:
Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith, Elyse Levesque, David Blue, Alaina Huffman, Jamil Walker Smith, Ming-Na
Release date:
Sun 10, Oct 2010
Title:
Conviction - Betty Anne Waters
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
Tony Goldwyn
Starring:
Andrew Sugerman, Andrew S. Karsch and Tony Goldwyn Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, Peter Gallagher
Release date:
Fri 15, Oct 2010
Title:
Jackass 3D
Genre:
Comedy/Action
Directed by:
Jeff Tremaine
Starring:
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason Acuna, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey
Release date:
Fri 15, Oct 2010
Title:
Social Network
Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Directed by:
David Fincher
Starring:
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song
Release date:
Fri 15, Oct 2010
Title:
Legacy
Genre:
Thriller/Action
Directed by:
Thomas Ikimi
Starring:
Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriela, Julian Wadham
Release date:
Thu 21, Oct 2010
Title:
Company Men
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
John Wells
Starring:
Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, Craig T Nelson, Rosemarie DeWitt
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Hereafter
Genre:
Fantasy/Thriller
Directed by:
Clint Eastwood
Starring:
Matt Damon
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Paranormal Activity 2
Genre:
Horror
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Red
Genre:
Action/Comedy
Directed by:
Robert Schwentke
Starring:
Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernest Borgnine, Julian McMahon, James Remar, Rebecca Pidgeon
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Monsters
Genre:
Science-Fiction
Directed by:
Gareth Edwards
Starring:
Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able
Release date:
Fri 29, Oct 2010
Title:
Saw 7
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Kevin Greutert
Starring:
Tobin Bell
Release date:
Fri 29, Oct 2010
Title:
I Love You Phillip Morris
Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Directed by:
Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring:
Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro
Release date:
Sat 30, Oct 2010
For more information visit: Teaser-Trailer.com
Case 39
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Christian Alvart
Starring:
Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Callum Keith Rennie, Bradley Cooper, Crystal Lowe
Release date:
Fri 01, Oct 2010
Title:
Let Me In
Genre:
Thriller/Drama/Fantasy
Directed by:
Matt Reeves
Starring:
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas, Cara Buono, Sasha Barrese
Release date:
Fri 01, Oct 2010
Title:
Buried
Genre:
Thriller
Directed by:
Rodrigo Cortes
Starring:
Ryan Reynolds
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
I Spit On Your Grave
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Steven R. Monroe
Starring:
Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Andrew Howard
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Directed by:
Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Starring:
Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Zoe Kravitz, Lauren Graham
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
Life as we know it
Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
Greg Berlanti
Starring:
Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Jean Smart
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
My Soul To Take
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Wes Craven
Starring:
Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Paulina Olszyinski, Raul Esparza
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
Secretariat
Genre:
Drama/Sport
Directed by:
Randall Wallace
Starring:
Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Scott Glenn, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Otto Thorwarth, Fred Thompson, AJ Michalka, Kevin Connolly, Eric Lange, James Cromwell
Release date:
Fri 08, Oct 2010
Title:
Alpha and Omega
Genre:
Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family
Directed by:
Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
Starring:
Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci
Release date:
Sun 10, Oct 2010
Title:
Stargate Universe Season 2
Genre:
Science-Fiction/Adventure
Starring:
Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith, Elyse Levesque, David Blue, Alaina Huffman, Jamil Walker Smith, Ming-Na
Release date:
Sun 10, Oct 2010
Title:
Conviction - Betty Anne Waters
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
Tony Goldwyn
Starring:
Andrew Sugerman, Andrew S. Karsch and Tony Goldwyn Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, Peter Gallagher
Release date:
Fri 15, Oct 2010
Title:
Jackass 3D
Genre:
Comedy/Action
Directed by:
Jeff Tremaine
Starring:
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason Acuna, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey
Release date:
Fri 15, Oct 2010
Title:
Social Network
Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Directed by:
David Fincher
Starring:
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song
Release date:
Fri 15, Oct 2010
Title:
Legacy
Genre:
Thriller/Action
Directed by:
Thomas Ikimi
Starring:
Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriela, Julian Wadham
Release date:
Thu 21, Oct 2010
Title:
Company Men
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
John Wells
Starring:
Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, Craig T Nelson, Rosemarie DeWitt
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Hereafter
Genre:
Fantasy/Thriller
Directed by:
Clint Eastwood
Starring:
Matt Damon
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Paranormal Activity 2
Genre:
Horror
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Red
Genre:
Action/Comedy
Directed by:
Robert Schwentke
Starring:
Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernest Borgnine, Julian McMahon, James Remar, Rebecca Pidgeon
Release date:
Fri 22, Oct 2010
Title:
Monsters
Genre:
Science-Fiction
Directed by:
Gareth Edwards
Starring:
Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able
Release date:
Fri 29, Oct 2010
Title:
Saw 7
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Kevin Greutert
Starring:
Tobin Bell
Release date:
Fri 29, Oct 2010
Title:
I Love You Phillip Morris
Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Directed by:
Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring:
Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro
Release date:
Sat 30, Oct 2010
For more information visit: Teaser-Trailer.com
Hollywood Movies -This September
Title:
The AmericanGenre:
Drama/Thriller
Directed by:
Anton Corbijn
Starring:
George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Bruce Altman, Violante Placido
Release date:
Wed 01, Sep 2010
Title:
Going the Distance
Genre:
Romance/Comedy
Directed by:
Nanette Burstein
Starring:
Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Ron Livingston, Jim Gaffigan, Kelli Garner, Rob Riggle, Christina Applegate
Release date:
Fri 03, Sep 2010
Title:
Machete
Genre:
Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller
Directed by:
Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
Starring:
Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Cheech Marin, Robert De Niro, Steven Seagal
Release date:
Fri 03, Sep 2010
Title:
Winning Season
Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
James C. Strouse
Starring:
Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps, Emily Rios
Release date:
Fri 03, Sep 2010
Title:
Resident Evil 4 Afterlife
Genre:
Action/Science-Fiction/Thriller
Directed by:
Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring:
Milla Jovovich
Release date:
Fri 10, Sep 2010
Title:
Never Let Me Go
Genre:
Drama/Science-Fiction/Thriller
Directed by:
Mark Romanek
Starring:
Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Richard, Andrea Riseborough
Release date:
Wed 15, Sep 2010
Title:
Devil
Genre:
Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle
Starring:
Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny OHara, Bokeem Woodbine, Jacob Vargas
Release date:
Fri 17, Sep 2010
Title:
Easy A
Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
Will Gluck
Starring:
Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm MacDowell, Aly Michalka, Stanley Tucci
Release date:
Fri 17, Sep 2010
Title:
The Town
Genre:
Crime/Drama/Thriller
Directed by:
Ben Affleck
Starring:
Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper, Slaine
Release date:
Fri 17, Sep 2010
Title:
The Experiment
Genre:
Thriller
Directed by:
Paul Scheuring
Starring:
Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Travis Fimmel, Cam Gigandet
Release date:
Tue 21, Sep 2010
Title:
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Genre:
Drama/Comedy
Directed by:
Woody Allen
Starring:
Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch
Release date:
Wed 22, Sep 2010
Title:
Legend of the Guardians
Genre:
Animation/Adventure/Fantasy
Directed by:
Zack Snyder
Starring:
Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Helen Mirren
Release date:
Fri 24, Sep 2010
Title:
Wall Street 2
Genre:
Dramas
Directed by:
Oliver Stone
Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Michael Douglas, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon
Release date:
Fri 24, Sep 2010
Title:
You Again
Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
Andy Fickman
Starring:
Kristen Bell, Jimmy Wolk, Odette Yustman, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Betty White
Release date:
Fri 24, Sep 2010
Traditional live entertainment industry
Types of live entertainment:
Music industry:
Exhibition entertainment:
- Amusement park
- Funfairs
- Themed retail
- Trade show
Present-day mass media industry
- Film
- Film studios
- Movie theaters / cinemas
- Film score
- Broadcasting
- Music industry
- Theme parks
- Discotheques
- New media
- Fashion industry
Electronic entertainment
Introduction
Who needs entertainment? What for? When you are entertained, what are you feeling? Read any comic strip, and try to record what happened inside of you while you were looking at the comic. Did you feel happier? A sense of release? The resolving of tension? Was that entertainment? Would you say that reading the comic strip was the same kind of experience as watching a television show? How? How not?
Are some kinds of entertainment better for you than others? Which kinds? Is it better to play internet poker or to watch a video? Try doing each for a little while and record your feelings. Was one more entertaining than the other? How? Why? Did one make you more aggressive? Less likely to do something productive in the world around you? Did either change the way you felt about yourself? How?
One of the things I was struck by while thinking this course was the way entertainment can work as a substitute for action. If I can identify with a character on TV—on a soap opera, for instance—then I get to feel all the feelings that character feels, without having to do the actions that result in those feelings. I get to feel jealous without having a cheating spouse, excited by the intrigue of adultery without being an adulterer, and intimate without ever actually talking to a living human being. In short, I get to feel. Some researchers believe that feelings are the way we human beings experience our world most fully, but is there a price to pay when we feel our emotions in a way that’s disconnected from the physical world around us?
That is, if we get to feel feelings without taking risks, do we start to lose our ability to risk emotion in the "real world"? I don’t have a definite answer to that for you, but I do have one for me. I’ve come to the conclusion that entertainment is—while maybe necessary for emotional and psychological health—definitely a dangerous substance. Like fire. So, for my part, I’ll still watch a film now and then. But I’ll also think after-wards about how watching that film, getting that emotional satisfaction, affects my ability to act in the real world. You might consider doing the same; it actually turns out to be pretty entertaining.
Are some kinds of entertainment better for you than others? Which kinds? Is it better to play internet poker or to watch a video? Try doing each for a little while and record your feelings. Was one more entertaining than the other? How? Why? Did one make you more aggressive? Less likely to do something productive in the world around you? Did either change the way you felt about yourself? How?
One of the things I was struck by while thinking this course was the way entertainment can work as a substitute for action. If I can identify with a character on TV—on a soap opera, for instance—then I get to feel all the feelings that character feels, without having to do the actions that result in those feelings. I get to feel jealous without having a cheating spouse, excited by the intrigue of adultery without being an adulterer, and intimate without ever actually talking to a living human being. In short, I get to feel. Some researchers believe that feelings are the way we human beings experience our world most fully, but is there a price to pay when we feel our emotions in a way that’s disconnected from the physical world around us?
That is, if we get to feel feelings without taking risks, do we start to lose our ability to risk emotion in the "real world"? I don’t have a definite answer to that for you, but I do have one for me. I’ve come to the conclusion that entertainment is—while maybe necessary for emotional and psychological health—definitely a dangerous substance. Like fire. So, for my part, I’ll still watch a film now and then. But I’ll also think after-wards about how watching that film, getting that emotional satisfaction, affects my ability to act in the real world. You might consider doing the same; it actually turns out to be pretty entertaining.
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