The rare sort of actor who can swing between Harold Hill-type independent film character work and credible, B-list leading man action hero, Aaron Eckhart has, in his latter incarnation, matched wits with aliens, terrorists and the disastrous effects of climate change. So it makes perfect sense that he’d want to tackle a chance to go full-on Jason Bourne. In “Erased,” he plays ex-CIA agent Ben Logan, who discovers that his high-tech security job in Brussels has been a sham. Marked for termination, Ben escapes with his teenage daughter Amy (Liana Liberato), and tries to stay one step ahead of his dangerous adversaries while also unraveling a wide-ranging international conspiracy that  [ Read More ]

Andrew Lau’s Qing Dynasty-set action film “The Guillotines,” distributed by Well Go USA, is currently out on VOD and iTunes and will soon be hitting the theaters June 14. If you’re a huge fan of Lau’s films and are excited to see “The Guillotines” in theaters, you have come to the right post; ShockYa has an exclusive clip from the film, and you can take a look a it right below the post, along with the film’s trailer. Here’s more on “The Guillotines,” starring Zhang Wen, Xiaoming Huang, Shawn Yue, Yuchun Li, Ching-Tien Juan, Stephy Tang and Boran Jing: “A secret brotherhood of assassins – The Guillotines – once favored  [ Read More ]

Some actresses work their way into the public consciousness as much through tabloid shenanigans as any of their actual on-screen performances. Only 17 years old, Liana Liberato is opting for hard work, thank you very much. In director David Schwimmer’s underrated “Trust,” she delivered a stunning turn as an innocent 14-year-old suburban girl lured into a sexual liaison via online chatting — an act with ruinous consequences for her and her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener). In her new film, the “Bourne”-inflected “Erased,” she stars as Amy, the crafty daughter of ex-CIA agent Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart); the two try to escape a contract rub-out and outsmart their hunters  [ Read More ]

Adelaide Clemens has been gaining a fair amount of attention this year, first for her role in “Generation Um…” and now with the new horror/thriller “No One Lives.” The Australian actress has been steadily on the rise in the past couple of years, popping up in pictures like “Silent Hill: Revelation.” The actress recently has been bobbing and forth between independent and mainstream movies, making her face known to the general public. In “No One Lives” it she plays one of the killer’s victims who’s desperately trying to run away from the man who’s kept her in hiding for the past year. Now she’s found herself trapped in a house  [ Read More ]

Title: Erased Directed by: Philipp Stölzl Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Liana Liberato, Olga Kurylenko,Yassine Fadel Running time: 100 minutes, Rated R An ex-CIA agent working at a corporation as a securities expert in Antwerp is now raising his estranged teenage daughter after his wife dies.  After taking his daughter to the hospital when she suffers effects of a peanut allergy, he stops by his office only to find it has been cleared out and his identity has been erased – emails, bank account, any documentation showing reason why he moved to Belgium.  He thwarts several assassins attempt to murder both him and his daughter, and then he discovers he is part  [ Read More ]

Title: Amazon releases ‘The Best Offer’ on Blu Ray and DVD Director: Giuseppe Tornatore Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland, Sylvia Hoeks. ‘The Best Offer’ nominated for 13 David di Donatello (the film award presented each year for cinematic performances and production by L’Accademia del Cinema Italiano, The Academy of Italian Cinema), is now distributed, through Amazon, on Blu-Ray and DVD. The romantic drama written and directed by the Italian Academy Award-winning Giuseppe Tornatore, boasts a music score composed by Ennio Morricone and a prestigious cast, starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland and Sylvia Hoeks. Giuseppe Tornatore explained the making of his thriller set in Vienna, in the world  [ Read More ]

Even though we’re already neck deep in the summer movie season, there’s always the time and often the desire to take a break from superheroes and blockbusters, and this weekend, Pauline Chan’s “33 Postcards” could be that source of relief. The film stars newcomer Zhu Lin as Mei Mei, a Chinese orphan who’s been sponsored by an Australian man (Guy Pearce) for years. When Mei Mei finally gets the opportunity to travel to Australia she’s determined to meet him, dreaming that he might make her part of his family, but is shocked to discover that he isn’t really the man he wrote about in his postcards. A script from the  [ Read More ]

Samuel L. Jackson has been announced as the latest cast member to join RKO Pictures’ “Barely Lethal.” The megawatt star and Academy Award nominee will join fellow Academy Award nominee Hailee Steinfeld, who plays an unsatisfied teen assassin in the project. The film will be directed by Kyle Newman, with script by John D’Arco. The film is being produced by RKO Pictures with Hopscotch Pictures and Brett Ratner’s Rat Entertainment. Principal photography will begin this fall. As stated above, “Barely Lethal” is about a teen assassin who yearns for the normal teenage life: “BARELY LETHAL is a playful, high-velocity action-comedy in which a 16-year old international assassin (Steinfeld) yearning for  [ Read More ]

Get ready for another big one. “Star Trek Into Darkness” is the lone newcomer at the box office this weekend, begging the question, will “Iron Man 3” move over enough for it to make a killing or will it hold on strong enough to diminish “Star Trek’s” opening intake? Last year it took four weekends for something to move in and dethrone “The Avengers,” but “The Avengers” also faced more poorly reviewed and hyped material than “Iron Man.” Should “Iron Man” continue on “The Avengers” track, lessening its weekend one to two drop of 58.4% to 50%, it’ll take $35 million this weekend. Should “Star Trek Into Darkness,” come in  [ Read More ]

Title: The Great Gatsby Director: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, Amitabh Bachchan, Elisabeth Debicki. Fitzgerald’s novel, offers an amorous ideal hopelessly bound to cynicism, fostered by rapid changes taking place in American society (Prohibition, the conversion of industry for war to industry for consumer goods, the explosion of the entertainment industry as a vast, inspiring and influential force), channelled by the epitome of the American Dream. Baz Luhrmann has had an osmotic approach in metabolising every single word of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and transforming it into a majestic piece of entertainment. ‘The Great Gatsby’ can be seen as a social satire commenting  [ Read More ]

You think you know what to expect from “VHS 2” having seen the first film? Think again. Don’t believe me? It says it right there in the film’s new red band trailer – “Leaps and bounds beyond its predecessor” – courtesy of yours truly. Veterans Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard return and are joined by “VHS” newcomers Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale to deliver five gruesome and twisted yet highly enjoyable tales of found footage horror. “VHS 2” isn’t just a step above the first film or even a top genre release of 2013; it’s one of the best films of the year, period.  [ Read More ]

Blu, Jewel and the rest of their fine feathered friends are coming back in 2014 in “Rio 2,” Twentieth Century Fox’s highly anticipated sequel to the hit animated film. This time around, new voices include Kristin Chenoweth, Bruno Mars and “The Hunger Games” star Amandla Stenberg. Here’s more on the film: The entire cast of the animated smash RIO returns in RIO 2, and they are joined by a new flock of top actors and musical talents. Rich with grandeur, character, color and music, RIO 2 finds Jewel (Anne Hathaway), Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and their three kids leaving their domesticated life in that magical city for a journey to the  [ Read More ]

Summit Entertainment’s “Now You See Me” will be dazzling audiences in May 31! If you’re a fan of the show, we’ve got a some thrilling clipss for you to take a look at, including the first four minutes of the film! We’ve also got a lot of cool motion posters! Check out all the assets below the post! “Now You See Me” is directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Boaz Yakin, Edward Ricourt, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Ed Solomon. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Michael Caine. Here’s more on the film: “NOW YOU SEE ME pits an  [ Read More ]

Summit Entertainment’s RED 2 is going to bring the some awesome action and comedy to theaters this summer, and in celebration of the upcoming release, a new poster has been released! Check it out below the post. “RED 2″ is directed by Dean Parisot with the screenplay written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. The film stars Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox and Neal McDonough. Here’s more about the film: “In RED 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for  [ Read More ]

Studio Ghibli’s “Howl’s Moving Castle,” based on the book by English fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones, will be released on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack May 21, and in celebration of the upcoming release, ShockYa is giving away a Studio Ghibli DVD pack! The pack will include one Blu-ray copy of “Howl’s Moving Castle” and one Blu-ray copy of “My Neighbor Totoro.” If you’d like to see if you can win this prize pack, here’s what you need to do: Follow us @Shockya and tweet us the phrase, “@Shockya is giving away a Studio Ghibli DVD pack! Follow and RT to enter!” You have until the release date, May 21, to enter.  [ Read More ]