Ah crap, the sky's falling in again.. John Cusack in 2012

Because we love doing things in pairs here at Sound Screen, we didn’t think it was right to showcase the best music videos of the week without giving you all access to the hottest movie trailers too. Wednesday will officially be known as ‘Youtube Day’ in our office. Check out the top three films we’re excited about this week:

2012

Starring: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover
Director: Roland Emmerich
Synopsis: Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. From the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow comes an action-packed film about something we all wonder whether will be an eventual reality…

You know the drill:

2012 is released on 13th November via Sony Pictures

Burma VJ

Director: Anders Østergaard
Synopsis: This award winning, powerful and shocking documentary provides a unique glimpse into life on the streets of Burma’s capital – Rangoon. The vast majority of the film consists of illegal footage using concealed cameras. Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country, reveals this hidden world, seen through the eyes of the undercover VJs (Video Journalists) who document everyday life under a military regime.
Filmed over a number of days, the VJs by chance end up recording the appalling treatment of the Burmese citizens and monks – which caused a global uproar, after their peaceful protests resulted in violent opposition by their government.
The Burmese VJs risk torture, imprisonment and even death in their quest to report honestly what is going on in their closed country. The material in this film has been made possible through illegal smuggling and broadcast to international media (whom the government accuses of lying) and into Burma via satellite. The film not only exposes the threat the government faces from the camera wielding VJs but also the day-to-day hardships faced by the Burmese.

Check out the trailer:

Burma VJ is released on 17th July via Dogwoof Pictures and the Co-Operative

Shutter Island

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity (from IMDB).
Here’s the trailer: