Title: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Director: Jose Padilha Starring: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, Andre Ramiro, Pedro Van Held, Maria Ribiero, Sandro Rocha, Milhem Cortaz, Andre Mattos, Seu Jorge A sprawling tale of power, sleaze and ambition in the vein of “City of God,” ”The Departed,” “Infernal Affairs” and “The Wire,” writer-director Jose Padilha’s “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within” is a howling, labyrinthine lament against the brawn and fraudulent self-protection of entrenched institutions that could and perhaps should well find a welcome audience amongst #OccupyWallStreet cineastes. Brazil’s official Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film submission, the movie — which is set in Rio de Janeiro and unfolds at the intersection of drugs, crime and high-level governmental corruption —…

Director Spike Lee is teaming with ‘Entourage’ creator Doug Ellin to produce a drama series for HBO that will be based on former boxing champion Mike Tyson’s childhood, Deadline is reporting. The series, which will be helmed by Lee and will be called ‘Da Brick,’ is described as a contemporary exploration of the life of a young black man in post-racial America. ‘Da Brick,’ which is still in development, is set in current-day Newark, New Jersey, which is nicknamed “brick city.” A casting director has been hired to choose actors for the lead roles. The series was first developed when Tyson guest starred as himself on an episode of HBO’s…

Title: R Writer-directors: Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer Starring: Pilou Asbaek, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Roland Moller, Kim Winther, Jacob Gredsted, Omar Shargawi, Sune Norgaard If part of the reason action movies resonate so broadly is because most of us are simply never going to have a chance to go Action Jackson, let alone drive a truck off a freeway ramp or swing by rope from a helicopter and kick open a skyscraper’s window, then prison dramas also provide vicarious entertainment at a comfortable remove. After all, we can enjoy all the cursing, fighting and vengeful plotting without fear of sacrificing our own behymens. Case in point: the starkly titled R, a Danish…

Hollywood funnyman Jack Black is set to guest star in an episode of the hit show “The Office”. At the moment, details of Black’s part are still unknown, but the episode itself follows the hilarious group of workers as they try to secretly watch a bootlegged movie at work. The special hour-long episode titled “Stress Relief” will premiere immediately following Super Bowl XLIII, on Sunday, February 1 (10:30-11:30 p.m. ET; simultaneously to all time zones) on NBC. “The Office” was recently named as one of the American Film Institute’s “Top 10 Television Series of the Year”. Shows such as “The Wire”, “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” were also honored. In…

Check out the official poster for the final season of “The Wire” on HBO starring Dominic West, John Doman and Wendell Pierce. Synopsis: Set in Baltimore, this show centers around the city’s inner-city drug scene. It starts as mid-level drug dealer, D’Angelo Barksdale beats a murder rap. After a conversation with a judge, Det. James McNulty has been assigned to lead a joint homicide and narcotics team, in order to bring down drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. Avon Barksdale, accompanied by his right-hand man Stringer Bell, enforcer Wee-Bey and many lieutenants (including his own nephew, D’Angelo Barksdale), has to deal with law enforcement, informants in his own camp, and competition with…