American East

“AmericanEast” is a timely, poignant drama about Arab-Americans living in post-9/11 Los Angeles. The story examines long-held misunderstandings about Arabic and Islamic culture, and puts a human face on a segment of the U.S. population whom most Americans know nothing about, but who today are of particular interest to them, either from curiosity or suspicion. The story highlights the pressures under which many Arab-Americans now live.

Sylvain Chomet

The Illusionist
the main character in this film will be an animated version of the french mime, director and actor Jacques Tati. the plot revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician. the film will be set in scotland in the late 1950s.
the film will be based on an unproduced script that the Tati wrote in collaboration with famed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. the script was passed to writer/director Sylvain Chomet by Tati's daughter, Sophie Tatischeff. Tatischeff suggested an animated film as she did not want an actor to play her father.
release date 2009 (france).


The Illusionist will be the second animated feature film by Sylvain Chomet. the first being The Triplets of Belleville (released in 2003).
the plot for The Triplets of Belleville revolves around Madame Souza and her pooch Bruno who team up with the belleville sisters (an aged song-and-dance team) to rescue Madame Souza's grandson who was kidnapped during the tour de france.
but the last thing that matters in this film is the plot. for me, it was all about the unique blend of style, characters, and method of storytelling with barely any dialogue.

The Triplets of Belleville | Movie Trailers

frogman, based on what i've seen in the movie above, you should NEVER step foot in france.

Legend

The Legend of Bruce Lee is a tv show shot in china, hong kong, macau, the us, italy, and thailand over nine months and starring a mixed cast from different backgrounds. the series encompasses Bruce Lee's teen years in hong kong, his move to the us where he taught kung fu and entered hollywood, and his return back to hong kong where he became a film star prior to his early death in 1973.
the full series (50 episodes) aired in china in 2008.



UPDATE:
the actor portraying Bruce Lee in the series is Danny Chan Kwok Kuen who also depicted Bruce Lee as the goalie in the 2001 movie Shaolin Soccer. the best way to describe Shaolin Soccer while ignoring the plot is that it is a real life Captain Tsubasa (aka Captain Majid).

True Life Interpretation

Lemon Tree
a drama based on the true story of a palestinian widow, played by Hiam Abbass (the syrian bride, paradise now, the visitor), who must defend her lemon tree field when a new israeli defense minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
release date 27 march 2008



Waltz with Bashir
an animated documentary depicting the personal view of director Ari Folman on his experience in the first lebanon war as a young israeli soldier.
release date 12 June 2008

The Fall

Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) brings us a fantasy drama telling a story in a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Documentaries

Dear Zachary
dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western pennsylvania. filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's oldest friend, began making a film for Andrew's little son Zachary who was born after the death of his father as a way for him to get to know the father he'd never meet.
aired january 4, 2009 on msnbc



Good Hair
"When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn’t always benefit the black community and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside."
release date january 18, 2009

9

9 is a movie coming out on 9/9/2009 and is 9 based on a 9 short film by Sha9ne Acker about a rag 9 doll.

trailer 9 for the movie



full 9 short film released in 2905

My Wish List

Chocolate
a thai movie about an autistic woman with kick-ass martial art skills who looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by beating the crap out of gangs that owe her family money and eating chocolate.
release date 6 february 2008 (thailand)




Big Man Japan
an eccentric man aged about 40 lives alone in a decrepit house in tokyo. he periodically transforms into a giant, about 30 meters tall, and defends japan by battling similarly sized monsters that turn up and destroy buildings.
so basically it's a reimagining of the powerpuff girls.
release date 2 june 2007 (japan)

Our Watch List

There are currently a number of movies that have the reason behind our continuous drooling.

1. Slumdog Millionaire
The story of the life of an impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik, who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?", wins, and is then suspected of cheating.



2. Salt of this Sea
Palestine's Official 2008 Oscar's entry.
A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home to Palestine for the first time.

walle3a.. wait what??

With nothing but a silly catch phrase, a large number of songs, obscure tastes in movies and a rather extensive collection of games we bring to you Walle3a...

What we are trying to do on this page is create a hub that suggests what we (in our collectively humble opinions) think is cool in the world of entertainment.

We will try as hard as we can to veer away from the movies that everyone knows about, like Twilight for example.. Actually SPECIALLY Twilight..

So please bare with us and stay tuned as we try our best to fine tune this website into something that you might actually enjoy :)

Best regards,
Frogman


p.s. we are still working hard on the layout, and the general concept and would appreciate all the feedback and comments you could give us.. :)