TRAILER: SUPER BOWL TRAILER FOR G.I.JOE RETALIATION

The first of the many trailers debuting this week during the Super Bowl event in the United States is the trailer for the upcoming sequel to the Paramount-Hasbro's G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The trailer will be available right after the jump.

MOVIE REVIEW: CHRONICLE

CHRONICLE (PG13)

Genre: Drama/Science Fiction/Thriller
Release Date: 1 February 2012
Running Time: 83 minutes
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Director: Josh Trank
Screenplay: Max Landis
Starring: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw

Plot: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over. REVIEWS AFTER THE JUMP

MOVIE RATING: THE BATTLE OF CHINESE NEW YEAR MOVIES

It's still not too late to wish dear readers a happy dragon year. Now that we have been ushering into the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Green Tea Movie will do something different this time. Look at the title again. Yes, this post is all about movie rating. Instead of having a long review describing what so good or what so bad about a certain movies, please excuse me because of the abundance of movies been watched recently. Forgiven? Thanks. In this first movie rating post, Green Tea Movie will compare the three Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year cum 賀歲电影) that were released on the first day of Chinese New Year.

In this post, we will compare between Ah Beng The Movie: Three Wishes, All's Well End's Well 2012 and I Love Hong Kong 2012.

TRAILER: THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY

Photo credit: Screen Rant

Strange title but it spells specifically in rhyme for a badass action thriller. Produced by Summit Entertantment, ahead of its early April release in the United States, comes a trailer that will evict you up to the seat. The trailer is right after the jump. Damn that it looks more like a cheap stunt that will rips 'Abduction' into pieces but hell I am also hoping that it would be watchable - quite a dilemma there.

OSCAR MOVIE REVIEW: THE TREE OF LIFE

THE TREE OF LIFE (N/A)

Genre: Drama/Science Fiction/Fantasy
Release Date: Not released
Running Time: 138 minutes
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Director: Terrence Malick
Screenplay: Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Fiona Shaw

Plot: From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. REVIEWS AFTER THE JUMP

MOVIE REVIEW: LIKE CRAZY

LIKE CRAZY (N/A)

Genre: Drama/Romance
Release Date: Not released
Running Time: 89 minutes
Distributor: Paramount Vintage
Director: Drake Doremus
Screenplay: Drake Doremus, Ben Yorke Jones
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead

Plot: A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus' film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart. REVIEWS AFTER THE JUMP

OSCAR MOVIE REVIEW: DRIVE (UPDATE)

DRIVE (N/A)

Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama
Release Date: Supposedly last year but was cancelled
Running Time: 100 minutes
Distributor: Film District
Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Screenplay: Hossein Amini
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Ron Pearlman

Plot: Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After a heist intended to pay off Standard's protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals. But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk-that they're coming straight for Irene and her son-Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense. REVIEWS AFTER THE JUMP

MOVIE REVIEW: UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (18)

Genre: Action/Adventure/Science Fiction/Horror
Release Date: 19 January 2012
Running Time: 88 minutes
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Director: Måns Mårlind , Björn Stein
Screenplay: Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski, Allison Burnett, Kevin Grevioux with story by Lens Wiseman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James, India Eisley, Sandrine Holt

Plot: Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. REVIEWS AFTER THE JUMP