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Collapse

2009-12-23T09:18:00.000-08:00

Bill Murray recently offered the following in a skepticism junket press, "I saw a guy talking about the end of the world a couple of years ago and have not seen that either." Many feel that the most important critics of the new documentary called Close, well-regarded director behind American Movie and The Yes Men, more or less informs the world, including Murray, that the final form of a total economic collapse again next. "No, this time it is. Seriously." Based on surface impressions, the message does not sound unlike Michael Moore Close, recent capitalism: A Love Story, which is a diversion, considering that things are rather effed obvious now in the U.S. (the job market, health, Pundit-hungry media, two senseless "wars," alarming deficit, for starters). It is not necessary to prescribe "doomist" theorizing in order to shake a fist at fear online, but several thousand to do on a daily basis. But what separates Collapse in capitalism is the man who professes the nation and the world of revelry and anxiety, destruction: Michael Ruppert.

He is by no means a household name (yet?) Or even as well known as Alex Jones, but the role as a narrator openly visible Ruppert "truth" goes back to the '90s when he began to state publicly that the CIA was accomplice of cocaine / crack distribution throughout the country. Such accusations, of course, were and are not only Ruppert's-see here, Iran-Contra, Ruppert et al-but says he was aware of information during its time as an LAPD narcotics detective made him stand out and difficult to politicians and the media flatly denies. He also claims he was fired from the LAPD for similar reasons. In subsequent years, Ruppert has continued as an investigative journalist and associated with the questioning 9 / 11, and his positions on such controversial issues have come hot on small, independent papers like crack for the CIA and Consequences: Unanswered Questions 9 / 11.

Collapse is easily the most important and widely revised doc to feature Ruppert, and also the first of its kind to focus exclusively on it as a subject. The document says it is a factual presentation of views Ruppert and views on the end of civilization as we know, and consists of Ruppert explains how the future will play out as it sits in a room "that looks like a bunker "to borrow from the official synopsis. The use of the word "bunker" implies to me that the film is very aware of the strip near Ruppert modern conspiracy, but according to many reviews, see below-which is totally convincing. Many critics of this year's Toronto International Film Festival Ruppert cited dependence on facts and data as an important force that resonated beyond schtick Moore, EW Owen Gleiberman wrote in a positive review and contemplative ...

'NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU', Knitting Love in the City of New York

2009-12-11T04:51:00.000-08:00

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Rachel Bilson, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Maggie Q, Ethan Hawke, Anton Yelchin, James Caan, Shia LaBeouf, Shu Qi, Robin Wright Penn

New York, an enchanting city. In the middle of the city that never sleeps, love is something that never left the hearts of the inhabitants. In a way that sometimes unique, funny, sometimes touching, these people tried to weave the threads of love that ultimately formed the New York City itself.

Twelve directors trying to define the meaning of love in a short film of their work about five minutes duration. These twelve short films is tied with red thread that links the twelve separate stories into one harmonious whole while on the other side of each story stands by itself.

Inspired by the film PARIS, Je T'aime 2006 outstanding year ago, producer Emmanuel Benbihy who also gave birth to the birth of Paris, Je T'aime trying to repeat the same concept with different locations. Big names like Andy Garcia, Rachel Bilson, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Maggie Q, Shia LaBeouf, Shu Qi and Robin Wright Penn was involved as a supporter of this film. (Source: Kapanlagi)

Nine

2009-11-23T12:24:00.000-08:00

Nine tells the story of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a world famous film director as he confronts an epic mid-life crisis with both creative and personal problems. He must balance the many women of his life, including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie) and his mother (Sophia Loren).

The original 1982 Broadway production of NINE, with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, won five Tony Awards including Best Musical.

World famous film director Guido Contini reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother.

Genres: Drama, Musical/Performing Arts and Adaptation
Release Date: December 25th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and smoking.
Distributors:
The Weinstein Company
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Cast and Credits
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Produced by: Arthur Kopit, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca

'FANTASTIC MR. FOX ', The Fox The Adventures of Ingenious

2009-11-07T16:48:00.000-08:00

Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Jarvis Cocker, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe

Long time Mr. Fox (George Clooney) leaves his old habits become chicken thieves tingal breeder's not far from the home of Mr.. Fox. Since the birth of Ash (Jason Schwartzman), Mr. Fox and his wife (Meryl Streep) prefer to live peacefully with his family. Everything suddenly changed when Kristopherson (Eric Anderson), a nephew of Mr. Fox came to visit.

As if awakened from a long sleep for twelve years, Mr.. Fox went back through his bad habits as a thief. Clear that the victims were three farmers around the home of Mr.. Fox. Mr. Fox did not realize that what he was doing was more than just bring back old habits but also endanger the lives of family and his fellow animals in the area.

Because annoyed with Mr. behavior. Fox, the three farmers began to strike back. They are not willing to use their cattle fox family party and was determined to kill all the foxes that were there. Now Mr. Fox should be accountable for his actions. He should be able to protect his family and all the animals that eventually caused Mr. harmed by. Fox. (Source: Kapanlagi)

'Horsemen' The Four Horsemen Of Hell

2009-11-02T07:28:00.000-08:00

Being a single parent is difficult enough let alone have to go through a career as a cop who sometimes does not leave much time for other activities. But Aidan Breslin (Dennis Quaid) can not choose. He was a cop and he had to do its job well, although in his heart he wanted to devote more time to her sons.

Alex Breslin (Lou Taylor Pucci) as the eldest son had to take over the task of being a father and raising Sean Breslin (Liam James), his brother. When Aidan wants to improve the father-son relationship, the sadistic murders appeared to he handled. From the initial investigation, Aidan was sure that there will be four more murders because the killers seem to quote something from the Bible as the basis for a murder he did.

The emergence of Christianity (Zhang Ziyi), the adopted daughter of one victim of murder, then took a little bright spot in the investigation Aidan. Apparently Christian had a part in the events of this serial killer but that makes Aidan worry is that there is a possibility the killer is not just one or two people. In the suspected killers were four interrelated in this mysterious case.

To be honest, this movie actually does not offer anything new. Previous films had the same theme, although perhaps not exactly the same. Presentation was not too special because of the tension properly maintained until the film reaches its peak. But it was not entirely wrong from the director because the basic idea of this movie was actually not too fresh.

If there is the interesting, actually it is a sub plot about the condition of Aidan Breslin family is a mess. If a cop, Dennis Quaid was not too convincing, just as a father who tries to balance between work and family these actors appear more vibrant. Supported by the appearance of two young actors, Lou Taylor Pucci and Liam James could not ignored, the sub plot was actually feels more bite than the main plot.

But actually the worst of this film is Zhang Ziyi looks really bad. Zhang could not seem to deepen his character that is complex enough that there was only read out the text without adequate emotional support. If given the track record of Zhang's long enough, it seems the language is the main obstacle in this film Zhang. It could be this actress really is not capable of displaying emotions from language that is not too familiar on her tongue. (Source: Kapanlagi)

Fight club

2009-10-17T09:25:00.001-07:00

Starring:
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, George Maguire, Eugenie Bondurant, Christina Cabot, Sydney "Big Dawg" Colston, Rachel Singer, Christie Cronenweth, Tim De Zarn, Ezra Buzzington, Jared Leto, Peter Iacangelo

FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. An angry, violent, testosterone-saturated, darkly comic allegory on consumer culture and the reality of personal freedom, it's a film that dares to question American values in the most inventive ways since "Dr. Strangelove" -- although the comparison ends there. Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. But it's extraordinarily subversive for a studio picture -- anti-establishment in both theory and practice and Fincher must have had to fight off all kinds of nervous studio suits to keep it this undiluted.

'Bronson', Obsessive Becoming Famous People

2009-10-05T14:27:00.000-07:00

Cast: Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Amanda Burton, Juliet Oldfield, Hugh Ross, Edward Bennett-Coles, Kelly Adams, Katy Barker, William Darke, Andrew Forbes

Michael Peterson (Tom Hardy) is a man who becomes obsessed with celebrity. Unfortunately he can not sing or act. This desire was finally achieved even in a very unnatural. He became known as Bronson, tough guys who never far from trouble.

At the age of 19 years, Michael decided to start running as a celebrity. Armed with guns and dreams become famous, he decided to rob the local office and the actions that drove him to jail for the first time. In prison he also wants to be famous people realized.

From the beginning Michael has been known to make trouble in prison. Several times he attacked prison guards until the warden should be transferred from one prison to another prison in the hope there is one place that could soften this rascal.

After the prison, he began to pursue free boxing and using the name Charles Bronson because he thought the actor Charles Bronson is a symbol of virility. Again and again he could not control myself and end up back behind bars. But even though he spends more time in prison than in the wild, the ideals he became famous has been reached. (Source: Kapanlagi)

Last Chance Harvey, One Last Chance

2009-09-17T18:32:00.000-07:00

Sometimes bad luck is coming repeatedly without being able to be rejected. Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman), for example, he is a writer jingle songs whose career was on the line. Harvey nearly lost his job despite his boss finally decided to give Harvey a chance again.

Harvey asked his superiors for permission to go to London so he could attend the wedding of his daughter Susan (Liane Balaban) who now lives with Jean (Kathy Baker), her mother and Brian (James Brolin), his stepfather. Harvey promised to be back in time to attend an important meeting.

On arrival in London, Harvey had to face severe disappointment because she would prefer instead accompanied by her stepfather Harvey. With all the power, Harvey tried to hide her disappointment and decided to return to New York early so he could take an important meeting at the company where he worked.

It is as inexhaustible, these efforts did not go smoothly because Harvey ultimately missed the flight and terminated on the spot when he tried to explain the problem to the boss.

But every storm would be over, too. Harvey meeting with a woman named Kate (Emma Thompson) in a bar and then grew into a love story that changed the course of two human lives.

The first obstacle will experience this film is its market share is very limited. Making a comedy-drama that tells about the romance of two middle-aged men are at high risk from the financial side. How not, potential viewers under the age of 40 years will certainly not interested in watching this movie when it ages range between 20 to 40 years is the biggest film market.

With limited market share, producers, directors and script writers have to work extra hard to ensure this movie could really attract a limited market that already. Seem to raise issues and mid-life crisis such as this movie is trying to attract quite effective even though the market may still not apply for those who are young.

Although this film is spoken in a slow tempo plus almost no tension or romance, but there is that makes this film so interesting. The first obviously is the story itself is interesting as the delivery was not impressive patronizing. The second is the alignment clearly a player in this movie. Without Emma Thompson contributed to underestimate this movie more of a Dustin Hoffman movie. Hoffman able to bring his role very well and it certainly did not escape the hours flying this veteran actor. (Source: Kapanlagi)

'The Invention of Lying', Origins Creation of Lies

2009-09-02T09:49:00.001-07:00

Cast: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis CK, Christopher Guest, Jeffrey Tambor, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey

In places where there never lie, a man who could lie managed to get huge profits from the lies he told. That's what happened to by a loser named Mark (Ricky Gervais). At least not everything went smoothly until it was beyond the control of Mark.

Out of nowhere Mark got the ability to lie in when no one else could do it. In a short time Mark saw no prospect of large profits from the ability not possessed by anyone else is. Obviously, submitted false story sounds much more interesting than the fact which is there and no one knows if the story was a lie because no one who knew the word lie.

Beginning has been running well this wasted no Mark. Unfortunately, because everyone thinks Mark hoax is the fact everyone else will believe it. Slowly but surely, the initial conditions pro Mark began to no longer be controlled and Mark was involved with all the weight problem lies. (source: kapanlagi)

Public Enemies: The Action legendary brigand

2009-07-31T07:23:00.001-07:00

'Public Enemies' is one of the classic gangster film that you can see in the cinema at this time. Appointed from the real story, the film director Michael Mann garapan displays action hijacker legendary John Dillinger bank. 'Public Enemies' adapted from the book' Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 'work of Bryan Burrough.

'Public Enemies' was opened with a scene when John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and John Hamilton (Jason Clarke) stop in Indiana prison to free their gang members in 1933. After a successful escape, they burrow to Chicago and ask for protection from the local Mafia.

While in other places, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) the hunt Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum) who is also one of the criminals in the country's famous uncle Sam. Because do not want to surrender, Melvin was forced to shoot Floyd.

Top success proves Floyd, Melvin got one of the campaign, J. Edgar hoover (Billy Crudup). Melvin also directly get a more heavy duty, namely to catch John Dillinger.

Action bank robbery John Dillinger was not the terbendung and eat more and more victims. Well, if Melvin stop John Dillinger afford a very 'slippery' it? See the course 'Public Enemies' in the cinema you sweetheart.

'Public Enemies' only a matter of action robbery. Michael Mann also serve in the drama film garapannya it, the love story between John Dillinger and Billie Frechette, the sweetheart he met at a restaurant. Billie diperankan by actress Marion Cotillard.

Watching 'Public Enemies', akan may remind you of a Michael Mann film garapan before,' Heat 'which dibintangi Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer. These two films together on the bank robbery and show the same scene shot with a shoot-setting ciamik the street. It seems kind of action scenes that have become characteristic of Michael Mann.

For business-the actors supporting actress in film, no need to doubt. Michael menggandeng two top Hollywood actors, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Thanks to the ability of aktingnya above average, Johnny Depp afford revive legendary criminal figure the United States. Meanwhile, Christian Bale is again a voice heavy with good character portrayal Melvin.

'Public Enemies' acungan should get two thumbs. If you are fan of movie themed gangster legal obligation to see the film this one. (Source: Detikhot)

'HOME', nation Where We All Live

2009-06-24T19:50:00.001-07:00

Only in two hundred thousand years, humans have successfully disrupt the balance of the earth that has been there for four billion years ago. Ranging from global warming, natural resources utmost to extinction in some species is the result of the progress achieved by human technology that is reputedly a leader in the face of this earth.

What do people actually just put themselves in a dangerous condition. Estimated, at the end of this century all the natural resources that have akan habis human consumption seems no matter anymore. This will not suddenly become better unless we try to improve themselves that the damage we have timbulkan.

HOME This is a documentary work of Yann Arthus - Bertrand, a French man who memburuknya increasingly aware of the earth, where we all live. Yann Arthus - Bertrand is an artist and photographer who is active in nature protection movement. Ketertarikannya in nature since he was still a small man who was born in Paris to make this start menekuni world documentary. After removing the two had a documentary film about nature, he now release HOME, a documentary film that arouse awareness on the condition of our earth at this time.

Can not be denied if the film is one of the most effective means for learning. Dish in the form of audio and visual dynamic that is able to be most effective way to introduce or even embed an awareness of the audience. It may also encourage the Yann Arthus - Bertrand to make this documentary.

HOME provides a video recording taken from the top and this trick is quite effective to give another perspective of the audience to see the nature of the ground. Images that capture the wonder in fifty countries including Indonesia are presented in the form of visual interest, or more precisely hit. Slow movement comb surface that is used Bertrand truly beautiful and arouse the awareness that the earth is dying and it is our responsibility to melestarikannya.

Throughout the course visually, we also disuguhi narratives about the natural process that has been running for four billion years and the intervention of manusialah who have made the balance of this subject. Overall, this film is worthy can thumbs-up. An audio visual treat with a very strong message. So the problem is how many people are willing to pay to watch a documentary like this? (Source: Kapanlagi)

'ANGELS & DEMONS', thin line between Heaven and Hell

2009-05-21T09:30:00.001-07:00

When Leonardo Vetra, a scientist working in CERN, killed, in a sign of visible chest that leads to a relationship that has been allegedly destroyed. Death that is not reasonable to make this the scientists at CERN had to contact a specialist symbol Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks).

Langdon did not originally believe that the Illuminati brotherhood is still there perforce must accept the fact because there is no person capable of making marks ambigram is a perfect symbol of the Illuminati brotherhood confidential except itself.

Adventure and take Langdon and Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) who want to know his father's murderer in the Vatican which threatens Illuminati brotherhood akan blow this holy city and kill everyone in it. The only way to track the murderer is to follow the signs left by the Illuminati members in the hope that can prevent this mass murder.

Unfortunately, the murderer only to leave the instructions on the corpses of the Cardinal that he had killed one by one. Now Langdon and Vetra must precede berpacu for the murderer or the rapt Cardinal all die and no instructions about the location of explosives installed this Illuminati brotherhood.

Like most movies adapted from the novel, the adjustment must be done because of the limited duration of running and so forth. This often makes the fans feel disappointed with the novel visualization of the text they had read previously. Film entitled ANGELS AND DEMONS is also not the exception. If you had read novelnya, you certainly know that there is some fact or detail that must be 'adjusted'. Apart from all the 'adjustments', the film is a work of eligible votes as his own.

As a film, ANGELS AND DEMONS are capable of bringing the core issues of the Dan Brown novel in the form of a visual. Ron Howard, the director able to make a film that is not balanced and impartial anywhere. Religion and science can be run during beriringan have mutual understanding and tolerance.

Because of limited time and also the film feels so bertempo very quickly. There is no time to breathe or rest a while. This can not be avoided because the version novelnya also have the rather fast tempo even though there is still point-the point where we are given time to draw a breath. Ron Howard also did not want to seem to repeat the mistakes that occurred in The Da Vinci Code and the romantic elements that had previously criticized because there is no chemistry between Tom Hanks and the opponent play.

The visual display of the Sistine Chapel, Pantheon, the Church and the tomb looks very imposing despite Howard should make the image not in the original. An interesting spectacle during which you can not compare with the version bandingkannya-novelnya. (Source: Kapanlagi)

Duplicity

2009-05-04T20:20:00.000-07:00

CIA Officer Stenwick Claire (Julia Roberts) and MI6 agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) have left the world of government intelligence to take advantage of the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival MNEs.

Their mission?

The formula for ensuring a product that will bring fortune to the company that the first patent.

For employers and industry titan Tully Howard (Tom Wilkinson) and buccaneer CEO Dick Garsik (Paul Giamatti) - nothing is off limits.

But as the stakes increase, the mystery deepens and the tactics to get dirtier, the most sensitive and secret by Claire Ray is his growing attraction.

And as each of them trying to be a double crossing in front, two loners find their careers threatened by the regimes of the one thing you cheat out of: love.

Star (s) to view: Clive Owen ( "Sin City", "Shoot 'Em Up," "Hostage," "The Bourne Identity", "The rich man of the Bride") as Ray Koval, Paul Giamatti ( "The Negotiator ") as Dick Garsik and Tom Wilkinson (" The Patriot, "" Batman Begins ") as Howard Tully.

Director (s): Tony Gilroy.

Producer (s): Laura Bickford and Jennifer Fox

Fact: Written and directed by Tony Gilroy, the man behind the entire "Bourne" film trilogy of action-espionage.

Note: This film includes Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti after successful you should see the movie "Shoot 'Em Up" in 2007.

Tagline: "Two experts spies. Two business rivals. A perfect plan."

Genre: Drama, Thriller.

Release Date: March 20, 2009

Rating: Coming soon.

Extract, nation of Perfume

2009-04-24T09:28:00.001-07:00

Joel (Jason Bateman) is the owner of a factory processing distillation essence of flowers. Whilom, Joel must face the problem that can lead to large factory that he had roll mats. One of the employees discuss Joel threatening this factory and ask for compensation in large amounts.

Step (Clifton Collins Jr..), One of the employees Joel, an accident while working. The accident was severe and resulted in a loss of Step member body. Step akan threaten to bring this issue to court and ask for Joel to give compensation in large amounts. Because Joel did not have enough money, then the risk is one he must release the company that he owned it.

But it's not the only problem faced by Joel, because at the same time, Joel began suspicious that Suzie (Kristen Wiig), his wife, unfaithful act. Later he knew that Suzie attracted a gigolo named Brad (Dustin Milligan) that the person hired to entrap Suzie. (Source: Kapanlagi)

'MANAGEMENT', Not Just Love With Mathematics

2009-04-12T19:09:00.001-07:00

Players: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Fred Ward

Love story that can be started from any. For example Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston), the love story they started from a bottle of wine. Bottle of wine is what makes Mike willingly travel distance for the mile-friendly love for Sue.

Initially, Sue, who works in the field of marketing in the overnight motel owned by the parents in Arizona Mike. Enamored with the beauty Sue, Mike then offer a bottle of wine as a gift from the motel management. From where it all started. Mike felt that Sue is a woman who during the time he was waiting-waiting and decided to follow Sue who has returned home to Maryland.

Unfortunately, sesampainya in Maryland, Mike must swallow bitter pill because Sue is currently living with the calculation of the mature Mike have no future. Sue prefer Jango (Woody Harrelson), a former girlfriend, who has become a successful businessman yoghurt. Now Mike must prove that they both indeed be destined to live together or the way from Arizona akan sia-sia pure. (Source: Kapanlagi)

The Ugly Truth

2009-03-30T09:09:00.001-07:00

A question romantisch morning show producer (Katherine Heigl) is reluctantly in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Gerard Butler) to his theories on relationships and help her find love.

His clever tricks, but to an unexpected result

Star (s) to watch: Katherine Heigl ( "Valentine," "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory," "Wish Upon a Star") as Abby Richter, and Gerard Butler ( "300", "Tomorrow Never Dies," "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ") as Mike Alexander.

Director (s): Robert Luketic.

Producer (s): Deborah Jelin Newmyer, Kimberly di Bonaventura, Steven Reuther, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi &.

Fact: Katherine Heigl is half Irish and half German. It was # 1 in the year 2008, the AskMen.com "Top 99 sexy women in the World" survey. It was also considered one of the top 25 in Entertainment Weekly of the Entertainers Of The Year (2007).

Note: Gerard Butler was chosen as the most attractive man of the year 2005 by hello! Magazine. It was also confirmed by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance.

Release Date: 3 April 2009

Rating: Coming soon.

Official Website: http://www.TheUglyTruth-movie.com

Poster: http://www.impawards.com/2009/ugly_truth.html

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOjtpyfL9m0

'PASSENGERS', in the mystery form Flying Aircraft Accident

2009-03-22T10:14:00.001-07:00

Players: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Clea DuVall

Summers Claire (Anne Hathaway) is a psychiatrist assigned to help the victims of the 5 survivors of an aircraft accident. Claire must strive to help these people go through five times traumatis in their lives.

When they started this group, Claire found some things out. For example, the fifth person this never come to terms whether the plane exploded before falling, or vice versa. The airline itself never states that there is an explosion that occurred before the plane fell.

During the therapy, Claire and more familiar with Eric (Patrick Wilson), one of the 5 people accident victims the most closed. When this proximity to the start menjurus love, one by one the victims of accidents that began to disappear without reason. Claire thinks Eric have relevance to the loss of these people, but Claire did not have enough evidence. In addition, there is still a mystery that he could not answer.

Movie people have a pattern that can be predicted. For example, they usually do not do large-scale campaign when a film is predicted will fail in the market. And it also happens with the film director Rodrigo Garcia landing this. There are some who slit the film fails to make a thriller that so able to make audiences sit sweet ending to the film and feel satisfied with the performance are.

One of the plot that it is less convincing in a certain point so that the logic a little tease spectators. For example, the airline may be how can pass the investigation authorities, and a young psychiatrist to participate in the intervention in this investigation. Or a coincidence that quite impossible if the fifth survivor chance to stay at a location adjacent. Actually quite trivial, but also disrupt enough.

Enough number of characters involved in the braided story also ultimately increase the flow complex and sometimes make penokohan be felt less solid. Meanwhile, from the akting, the pemerannya also not too spectacular even though it can not be spelled out as well. A clear point tumpu error is pouring on the initial idea into a story which is quite credible. It is time to see the Sixth SENSE PASSENGERS this. The first one feels more solid though both use the trick ending ala twisted director M Night Shyamalan. (Source: Kapanlagi)

The Last House on the Left (2009) - Ny Times Review

2009-03-17T07:34:00.000-07:00

Three years ago the French director Alexandre Aja spun Wes Craven’s cannibal classic, “The Hills Have Eyes,” into horror-movie gold. The polishing of the Craven oeuvre — and the punishing of innocent families — continues with “The Last House on the Left,” a toned-down, tarted-up remake of that auteur’s infamously brutal 1972 debut film.

A study of operatic vengeance and dueling family values, this stylish renovation by Dennis Iliadis remains mostly true to the original story of a bereaved couple (Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter) whose teenage daughter (Sara Paxton) is attacked by a clan of on-the-lam sociopaths. Replacing the earlier movie’s more depraved sequences with sustained tension and truly unnerving editing, the director proves adept at managing mayhem in cramped spaces: a six-person struggle in a barreling S.U.V. is a small miracle of controlled chaos.

Working with the cinematographer Sharone Meir (who shot the marvelously oppressive “Mean Creek”), Mr. Iliadis alternates visceral violence — a knife slowly entering a girl’s quivering stomach, a garbage disposal chewing relentlessly on a man’s hand — with interludes of dreamy anxiety. And though I have never actually heard a skull exploding in a microwave, I suspect the movie’s sound designers deserve some kind of an award: thanks to them, the damage one can inflict with small appliances and a giant grudge is all too clear.

“The Last House on the Left” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Characters are raped, stabbed, shot, mangled and fed to labor-saving devices.

THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Dennis Iliadis; written by Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth, based on the film by Wes Craven; director of photography, Sharone Meir; edited by Peter McNulty; music by John Murphy; production designer, Johnny Breedt; produced by Mr. Craven, Sean Cunningham and Marianne Maddalena; released by Rogue Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes.

WITH: Tony Goldwyn (Dr. John Collingwood), Monica Potter (Emma Collingwood), Sara Paxton (Mari Collingwood), Garret Dillahunt (Krug), Spencer Treat Clark (Justin), Martha MacIsaac (Paige), Aaron Paul (Francis) and Riki Lindhome (Sadie).

The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

2009-02-11T07:12:00.000-08:00

The not-so-funny funniest moment in “The Pink Panther 2,” the second installment of the beloved franchise since its resurrection three years ago with Steve Martin as the vainglorious, bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau, takes place at the Vatican. The pope has just had a priceless ruby ring snatched off his finger by a thief who has already stolen the Magna Carta, the Japanese imperial sword and the Shroud of Turin. (Somewhere along the line the Pink Panther diamond, a symbol of France, is also pilfered once again.)

As a so-called dream team of investigators from Britain (Alfred Molina), Japan (Yuki Matsuzaki) and Italy (Andy Garcia) question the pope, Clouseau rummages through a closet stuffed with papal vestments, impulsively tries one on and rushes to the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square. Leaning forward to bestow a blessing, he loses his footing, tumbles head first from the balcony and clings to a flagpole, robes flapping along with his arms and legs.

Such hoary slapstick routines, invariably rushed, are all there is in “The Pink Panther 2,” a movie whose remaining cast list — John Cleese (replacing Kevin Kline from the first installment), Lily Tomlin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, the Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan — suggests something a little more refined than this hodgepodge of juvenile pranks.

Ms. Tomlin’s character, Mrs. Berenger, a spinoff of her Tasteful Lady, represents the movie’s only attempt to be a comedy of manners. A police instructor on etiquette, she tutors Clouseau, whose every third sentence is a sexist or racist slur — as when she overhears him saying to his Japanese colleague, “I suppose you will be wanting sushi, my little yellow friend” — on politically correct speech.

It is tempting to think of the revived franchise as the sort of misbegotten renovation that can take place when an architectural landmark, say, the original Pennsylvania Station, is replaced by a banal, anonymous structure. The original “Pink Panther” movies, I should hasten to add, were hardly landmarks. Respectable comedies with a modicum of sophistication, they were anchored by the presence of Peter Sellers, a comic genius whose every tic suggested an upheaval of subversive mischief.

As much as I admire Mr. Martin’s cooler brand of comedy, his Clouseau lacks the demonic glee Mr. Sellers put into a character who seemed to originate from the inside out. Mr. Martin’s Clouseau is a skillful gloss right down to the phony French accent, which lacks the layers of oratorical pretension Mr. Sellers put into it. Why is it, I wonder, that any number of actors can play James Bond, while Clouseau now and forever belongs to Mr. Sellers?

Although the stunts come thick and fast in “The Pink Panther 2,” they are jammed together in a way that gives most of them barely enough time to register. The director Harald Zwart, taking over from Shawn Levy, has so little trust in his routines and in the audience’s attention span that none is allowed to develop into a belly-laughing classic.

In no particular order these are some of those gags: Clouseau accidentally burns down the same restaurant twice. Posing as a flamenco dancer, he tramples on his partner’s feet. While ineptly sleuthing around in the mansion of a suspect (Jeremy Irons), he is unknowingly captured on surveillance cameras and ends up falling down a chimney. Exploring a rack of expensive wines in a snooty restaurant, he nearly tips it over, and the bottles sliding from their niches become pins in a mammoth juggling exhibition. He bungles at karate with the sons of his sidekick Ponton (Jean Reno). He goes haywire with a fire extinguisher.

Mr. Martin works hard to get the few laughs he can from such strenuous business. He seems to be having a reasonably good time. But this is the stuff of the Three Stooges. That’s all well and good if you know what not to expect.

“The Pink Panther 2” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has mild sexual innuendo.

THE PINK PANTHER 2

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Harald Zwart; written by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber and Steve Martin, based on a story by Mr. Neustadter and Mr. Weber and the “Pink Panther” films of Blake Edwards; director of photography, Denis Crossan; edited by Julia Wong; music by Christophe Beck, “Pink Panther” theme by Henry Mancini; production designer, Rusty Smith; produced by Robert Simonds; released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Columbia Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Steve Martin (Clouseau), Jean Reno (Ponton), Alfred Molina (Pepperidge), Emily Mortimer (Nicole), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Sonia), Andy Garcia (Vicenzo), Yuki Matsuzaki (Kenji), Lily Tomlin (Mrs. Berenger), John Cleese (Dreyfus) and Jeremy Irons (Avellaneda).

Source: NyTimes.com

Coraline (2009) - NY Times review

2009-02-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

There are many scenes and images in “Coraline” that are likely to scare children. This is not a warning but rather a recommendation, since the cultivation of fright can be one of the great pleasures of youthful moviegoing. As long as it doesn’t go too far toward violence or mortal dread, a film that elicits a tingle of unease or a tremor of spookiness can be a tonic to sensibilities dulled by wholesome, anodyne, school-approved entertainments.

Books, these days, often do a better job than movies of parceling out juvenile terror. There is plenty of grisly screen horror out there for teenagers, of course, but younger children are more amply served by fiction from the likes of R. L. Stine, Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman, on whose fast-moving, suspenseful novel “Coraline” is based. The film, an exquisitely realized 3-D stop-motion animated feature directed and written by Henry Selick (“The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “James and the Giant Peach”) has a slower pace and a more contemplative tone than the novel. It is certainly exciting, but rather than race through ever noisier set pieces toward a hectic climax in the manner of so much animation aimed at kids, “Coraline” lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling.

Its look and mood may remind adult viewers at various times of the dreamscapes of Tim Burton (with whom Mr. Selick worked on “Nightmare”), Guillermo del Toro and David Lynch. Like those filmmakers Mr. Selick is interested in childhood not as a condition of sentimentalized, passive innocence but rather as an active, seething state of receptivity in which consciousness itself is a site of wondrous, at times unbearable drama.

The governing emotion, at the beginning, is loneliness. A smart, brave girl named Coraline Jones, voiced by Dakota Fanning, has recently moved from Michigan to an apartment in a big pink Victorian house somewhere in Oregon. She is at an age when the inadequacy of her parents starts to become apparent, and Coraline’s stressed-out, self-absorbed mom and dad (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman), who write about gardening, barely look up from their computer screens when she’s in the room. And so, like many a children’s book heroine before her, Coraline sets out to explore her curious surroundings, interweaving the odd details of everyday reality with the bright threads of imagination. She is accompanied from time to time by a local boy (Robert Bailey Jr.) and a talking cat (Keith David).

Like the best fantasy writers Mr. Gaiman does not draw too firm a boundary between the actual and the magical, allowing the two realms to shadow and influence each other. Mr. Selick, for his part, is so wantonly inventive and so psychologically astute that even Coraline’s dull domestic reality is tinted with enchantment. Her neighbors are a collection of eccentrics whose physical peculiarities match their quirks of character. Upstairs there is a Russian circus artist with the rasping voice of Ian McShane, while below a pair of aging burlesque performers twitter and chirp in the giddy tones of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, queens of British TV comedy.

A secret door in the wall, which opens only at night, leads Coraline to a parallel world that at first seems to fulfill her sad heart’s every desire. The versions of her parents who live there — a queen-bee “other mother” and her agreeable mate — are warm and attentive, and the pink house is a wild wonderland where gardens bloom in moonlight and every visit discloses new amusements. The oddball neighbors are there, in altered form, to enthrall Coraline with nightly spectacles — a dream vaudeville that will transfix the movie’s audience as well.

The 3-D aspects of “Coraline” are unusually subtle. Now and then stuff is flung off the screen into your face, but the point is not to make you duck or shriek. Instead Mr. Selick uses the technology to make his world deeper and more intriguing. And of course the stop-motion technique he uses, based on sculptured figures rather than drawn images, is already a kind of three-dimensional animation. The glasses you put on are thus not a gimmick but an aid to seeing what’s already there.

And what is there, on the screen, is almost too much to absorb in one sitting: costumed mice and Scottish terriers; glowing blossoms and giant insects. The “other” world Coraline explores is fascinating, but also unsettling. Everyone there has buttons for eyes, like homemade dolls, and if she wants to stick around, Coraline will have to become like them.

This simple, horrifying operation — foreshadowed in the haunting opening title sequence — unlocks a cellarful of psychological implications. It would be too simple to say that the door in the wall leads directly to the unconscious. Mr. Selick is hardly a doctrinaire Freudian, but he does grasp the intimate connection between fairy tales and the murky, occult power of longing, existential confusion and misplaced desire. “Coraline” explores the predatory implications of parental love — that other mother is a monster of misplaced maternal instinct — but is grounded in the pluck and common sense of its heroine, who is resilient, ingenious and magically real.

“Coraline” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). There are many scenes and images that are likely to scare young children.

Source:
By A. O. SCOTT - Nytimes.com

Defiance (2008)

2009-01-26T07:27:00.002-08:00

Daniel Craig, the best James Bond since Sean Connery, no matter how much Quantum of Solace sucked his spirit, gets a true story to dig into this time. And it's a doozy. In Defiance, Craig brings grit and gravity to the role of Tuvia Bielski, the eldest of three Jewish brothers who led the resistance against the Nazis from their base in the Nalibocka Forest in Belorussia during World War II. Joseph Stalin, who famously opined that "Jews make poor warriors," never met the Bielskis. Brother Zus (an outstanding Liev Schreiber) is a hothead who thinks Tuvia is too conciliatory. Younger brother Asael (Jamie Bell) labors to find a balance between Zus, who wants revenge by gun, grenade and whatever's handy, and Tuvia, who believes that "our revenge is to live."

Just as he did with the black soldiers in the Civil War-themed Glory, director Edward Zwick has seized on a strong, underserved subject. The excellent source material is Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, by historian Nechama Tec. Sadly, the script by Zwick and Clayton Frohman veers off into action clichés, clunky dialogue and Hollywood hoo-ha (a bare-chested sex scene for Craig — please!) when the facts reveal a richer tale. For all the film's flaws, this is a war story told with passion about a band of brothers that still has the power to inspire.

My Bloody Valentine 3-D

2009-01-22T11:36:00.000-08:00

Story
We can understand the resurrections of Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers. But one-hit wonder the Miner? Yes, pickaxe-wielding mad miner Harry Warden appears to be on the rampage again. The residents of Harmony believe police fatally shot Warden after he picked off kids partying in the mine. But his body was never found. If Warden really is dead, who’s now driving his pickaxe through the heads of those connected with all the mine murders? Could it be Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), the mine owner’s son responsible for the accident that turned Harry into a homicidal maniac? Or could it be Sheriff Axel Palmer (Kerr Smith)? Caught in the middle is Sarah (Jamie King), who married Axel after Tom dumped her and fled Harmony. Worse, the killer set his sights on Sarah so he can finished what was started long ago down in Tunnel No. 5.

Acting
Bearing in mind the damsel in distress must remain standing, it’s more important that King can bust some moves than explore the emotional and psychological toll of being victimized by an unstoppable force of evil. Luckily, King prevails over her initial jitters in order to swing a mean shovel when under attack. On the other hand, wimps Ackles (Supernatural) wears nothing but a pained expression on his face, while Smith (Dawson’s Creek) is all bark and no bite. Horror fans, though, will get a kick out of seeing ageless tough-guy Tom Atkins take on the Miner. Oh, and as for that glasses-fogging moment that’s mandatory for a 3-D chiller, it’s Betsy Rue’s unenviable task to strip down to her birthday suit as Palmer’s high school sweetheart and rub what she’s got right in our faces.

Direction
Does it matter that this My Bloody Valentine redo fails miserably as a whodunit? Or that the only time you’re on the edge of your seat is during a tense supermarket confrontation between King and the Miner? This remake exists solely to gross you out by throwing anything and everything at you in 3-D. Eyeballs pop out, body parts drop to the floor, blood and pieces of bone cover the screen -- to that end, director Patrick Lussier doesn’t disappoint. Props to him for not giving us a scene-by-scene carbon copy of one of the earliest holiday-themed Halloween knockoff, but the director falls short whenever he attempts to recreate his source material’s most nail-biting moments. So if its gore you want, you got it; but if you want to be scared out of your wits, give My Bloody Valentine the kiss off.

Bride Wars

2009-01-14T05:43:00.000-08:00

The Basics: Two female friends, when confronted with the tiniest of speed bumps on the road to each having a lovely wedding (they've accidentally been booked for the same place at the same time--I know, stab your eyes out now from the horror) turn on one another and do their best to sabotage their BFF's nuptials. They accomplish this by trying to make each get fat or have badly dyed hair or awful tans. And since all three of those cosmetic maladies are the equivalent of a harsh and untimely death, it's understandable that any one of them could make a woman cancel plans for her big day. Like Oh dang, my hair looks bad. Guess we have to call off the wedding.

What's The Deal: Last year, when the Sex and the City movie came out, non-fans complained that its portrayal of female camaraderie was more about shopping than shared affection. But you know what? At least the ladies in that movie kept their ranks tight. There might have been some squabbling but there were no open displays of life-wrecking hostility. But if you were an alien and someone used this movie to explain the concept of "best friends" to you, you'd just incinerate the whole planet right then and there.

What Saves It From Being As Despicably Anti-Feminist As 27 Dresses: It forgives its main characters for their stupidity and gives them a happy ending that costs the movie nothing. The Katherine Heigl abomination, on the other hand, just dragged its heroine through dirt to punish her and its own happy ending felt like she'd just been set up into another trap.

Biggest Beef: Really cheats you out of the kinds of battle scenes you expect from a movie with the word "war" in the title. You have to wait until the final 15 minutes before these two indulge in hand-to-hand combat. Contrast this to the amazing Dragon Wars, which featured giant monsters laying waste to Los Angeles skyscrapers by the 30-minute mark, and you can see which one really earns the right to use the W-word.

Just To Make Myself Feel Better: I'm going to assume that funny Saturday Night Live cast member Casey Wilson, who appears here briefly and who co-wrote the script, was the one responsible for putting the film's only funny lines into the mouths of secondary characters and nameless bystanders and that she had nothing to do with the rest of it.

Lohan walks out on Ronson?

2009-01-05T16:47:00.001-08:00

The "Mean Girls" actress was spotted leaving the Los Angeles home she shares with the DJ carrying a large bag shortly after the pair had a vicious public argument.

The row started on December 31 at Miami's SET nightclub, where the pair exchanged foul-mouthed tirades in front of shocked party goers.

It continued as the pair moved on to Mansion club, where Lindsay eventually stormed out - with the fight continuing in an alley behind the club.

Lindsay, 22, reportedly shouted at Samantha: "When I storm off, you are supposed to follow me!"

The fight then moved to the couple's hotel – where things became so heated the pair exchanged blows in a corridor until security intervened.

An onlooker said: "The screams and crashing from their room were heard all over the hotel."

"They spilled out into the hallway at 11am on New Years day, kicking and punching each other."

"People were watching. They were going for it - it was scary. Lindsay seemed unstable."

"At one point she dropped to her knees and cried, 'Why are you doing this to me?' Sam just said, 'I don't know you.'"

The couple are also said to have destroyed their hotel room during the fight, with security guards reportedly taking photographs of the damage.

Lindsay was still visibly upset at the airport as she and Samantha, 31, prepared to return to Los Angeles.

Another source said: "Lindsay was so inconsolable the flight attendants asked if she'd like to disembark."

A spokesperson for Lindsay denied the couple had split, saying: "There was an argument - I don't know the details - but they left for Los Angeles together and it's fine."

Tara Reid leaves Rehab

2009-01-05T16:43:00.000-08:00

The 33-year-old actress - who checked herself into Malibu's Promises Treatment Center last month for undisclosed reasons - left the rehabilitation facility on Saturday (Jan 3, 2009).

A source said: "She's doing well. The whole family is very positive about this being the new beginning for her."

The "American Pie" star had been receiving intensive treatment, believed to be for alcoholism, and her friends and family are optimistic about her future.

The source added: "They are taking steps to do everything they can to help Tara keep on the right track."

Tara claimed she was a "social drinker" last year, saying she enjoyed an occasional glass on wine with friends but her infamous partying days were over.

It has not yet been confirmed what the actress has been treated for.

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2009-01-04T06:04:00.000-08:00

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Disturbia (2007) - Personal Opinion and Review

2008-12-12T06:44:00.000-08:00

The plot:

Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is sentenced to 3 months of house arrest for punching his Spanish teacher. His parole officer recommends to use his time constructively, so for a while he destroys buildings in XBox Live game, but eventually boredom overwhelms him.

Fortunately, a hot 18 year old Ashley (Sarah Roemer) moved in to neighboring house. Soon, however, Kale finds evidence linking his next door neighbor Mr. Turner (David Morse) serial killer and enlists his friend Ronnie (Aaron Yoo) and Ashley to spy on him.

But their suspect is very clever, since their snooping didn’t go unnoticed. Sarah Roemer is cute.

The good:

This movie could have been a good PG-13 teenage TV flick. It’s got enough suspense to qualify as a thriller. It even has got a pool filled with dead bodies - for a moment you’d think this movie is directed by Spielberg.

Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer looked like a compatible couple. Descent acting by the small crew - really looked like everybody was trying to do their best with poor material.

David Morse was great - he looked really scary and creepy - excellent murderer who enjoyed doing it.

The story is character-driven and most of the things characters do seem reasonable. Musical score by Geoff Zanelli was not bad - thrilling.

The bad:

Cheap teenage thriller. The plot is almost identical to Hitchkock’s Rear Window, but of course it was set in modern days (cameras, youtube, cellphones etc.) and sexed up (horny teens). No explanation why David Morse’s character was killing people.

It was also too neat that Kale found and linked all the evidence in newspaper and TV to his neighbor.

The scene where Kale is fly-fishing with his father seemed like a rip-off from that movie with Brad Pitt.. As River Runs Through It.

I haven’t seen Carrie-Anne Moss on film since The Matrix, and even here her role was episodic. She was fantastic in Memento and Matrix - I wish I could see her in a really dramatic role again.

Considering there were two writers, the screenplay sucks.

The summary:

This movie is a rip-off from Hitchcock’s Rear Window, designed for teenagers by the choice of the actors, the plot, the music and the gags. This is how classics are destroyed.

I am Cuba (1964) - Personal opinion and review

2008-12-09T18:30:00.000-08:00

The good:

This movie is all poetry - from camera work and choice of lenses and angles, to beautiful music, expressive acting and ballet-like choreographed plasticism and gorgeous locations.

That a film is black and white makes sense for two reasons - Soviet studios seldom had enough money to buy color film - especially on expensive international projects, but it also amplifies life contrasts between rich and poor in the movie.

The bad:

Not only it’s made in the 60s after Castro’s revolution and on Soviet money, it is certainly not without propaganda and agenda.

But it’s by no means a movie for the sake of propaganda - it’s a movie showing desire of people for justice, freedom, independence and self-determination.

It’s too slow - almost as much as Andrei Tarkovski’s movies were.

The summary:

Although a child of its time, this movie is amazing. It’s a piece of art that should be studied in art schools and film institutes. Great performances and great music non-stop.

Body of Lies (2008) - Review and my personal opinion

2008-10-24T10:27:00.000-07:00

The good:

Certainly interesting and intelligent plot - a real spy game with deceit and tretury, although it’s not hard to follow. Each of the sides seems to make plausible and believable case for their actions.

There’s a lot of suspense in the movie for many reasons. First, spies can’t trust each other. DiCaprio’s character doesn’t trust his own boss, doesn’t trust his Jordanian colleague and vice versa.

Secondly, terrorists have their own counter-intelligence.

Besides, they are so paranoid they don’t trust anyone, which doesn’t make infiltrating their network.

The bad:

The movie is longer then it should have been. At least in the beginning, the CIA agents are cliche. From the start of the movie I could tell DiCaprio would be caught and either beaten or tortured or both.

The scenes where both Crowe and DiCaprio appear together have zero chemistry between them.

The summary:

A well-made spy action/thriller with Iraq war and American foreign policy as a background, which makes it a socially/politically-conscious drama. Flawed but clever and entertaining.

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (1984) - My opinion and personal review

2008-10-24T10:26:00.002-07:00

The good:

I never heard a live concert of Talking Heads and knew very little about the band. From the first song I was captivated by the staging concept, and I could not take my eyes off the screen till the end of the movie. I always appreciated shows made with simplicity, where band members just sing their hearts out.

Great extras on the DVD. The movie also looks good when streamed from Netflix, but you don’t get DVD extras this way.

The bad:

Almost no shots of the audience. I wish I can see and hear more of the audience’s reaction. No backstage footage.

W - My opinion and personal review

2008-10-24T10:26:00.001-07:00

The good:

All actors have been chosen to resemble the looks of actual people, and everybody does an excellent, fantastic job playing these characters. Josh Brolin - I don’t know who could have played Dubya better.

Elizabeth Banks has done well as Laura Bush. Her role is short, but it’s interesting to see an insight into a character like her because I know so little about what kind of person she is.

Technically, this was one of the easiest movies to make: everything is shot in three or four rooms, or superemposed on the archival documentary footage. It only took 46 days to shoot this movie on the budget of less then $30 million.

The bad:

Is based on memoirs of former Bush associates and obviously all the TV footage out there. The movie is well made, but lacks one thing that other Stone’s movies always had - a point of view. He’s just going over the most talked-about incidents in his life. There’s a lack of moral compass.

Jebb Bush is practically not present in the movie. There’s no 9/11 in the movie. If this is a biography, then wouldn’t president’s reaction to the biggest tragedy in recent history be an important factor in describing who he is?

I’m also tired of Cromwell playing The President.

The summary:

Quickly runs through the biography of the living president and portraying him as a dramatic, if not tragic, hero. Many comical and satirical elements in the movie, but the fact that people like him can become ones in charge of a country like ours, and the way the “Bushies” took advantage of 9/11 to go after Iraq and make a joke out of the Constitution is really scary. At the same time I doubt the movie will be controversial.

I'm Not There

2008-09-27T07:42:00.002-07:00

They had not chosen better actors who these, all were excellent in the representation of bob dylan. I still found better in the interpretation of the Cate Blanchet, it I am a bonanza actress!

Its characters were the face of Bob Dylan, same inconfundível! Pra that is fan of Bob Dylan as I, I recommend the film.

The film is good, but nothing it is compared with the interpretation of Christian Bale, could not be better… It is perfect… As well as in all the films that it makes!

The Da Vinci Code

2008-09-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

Tracks behind tracks that, seeming very difficult, Hanks and company they discover with relative easiness. The accomplishment of Ron Howard is not nothing of espcial, as well as the interpretations…

" The Code Of the Vinci" it is to thriller interesting and pleasant, with the argument of Dan Brown to be a little twisted, it lacked a little of suspense in the film, for who the film read the workmanship of Dan Brown does not please with certainty, and for who it did not read worse still.

The interpretation of Tom Hanks was for the satisfactory one.

Dwayne Johnson To Enter Tomorrowland

2008-09-23T11:11:00.001-07:00

What with his starring roles in The Game Plan and the upcoming Race To Witch Mountain, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is Disney’s golden boy at the moment. Yes, even more so than that mouse fella.

The section in question is Tomorrowland, which plays home to a host of sci-fi-themed attractions, including Space Mountain – however, Disney is denying, for now, that this is the case, or that the film in question will be called Tomorrowland. Maybe they’re just being cautious, or maybe they remember how The Haunted Mansion turned out. Either way, they’re calling this project an original script.

Oh, and that reminds us of a joke that we just made up: Did you hear about the plane that was remodelled as a Scottish theme park? Yeah, it flies pretty well but it Disneyland.

Gil Kenan To Direct Eoin Colfer's Airman

2008-09-23T11:09:00.003-07:00

Gil Kenan – the precociously-talented director of Monster House – may have entered the realm of live-action with his upcoming City Of Ember, but he must have missed the possibilities afforded to him by performance capture animation.

For the 31 year-old director (see what we mean about precocious?) has signed on to direct Airman, based on a kids’ book by Eoin Colfer.

Kenan so far has displayed a wonderful capacity for conjuring eye-catching visuals, allied to an impish sense of humour, so let’s hope that Airman brings out the best in him. But it’s early days yet, as no writer is currently attached.

LaBeouf And Burger Make Dark Fields

2008-09-23T11:09:00.001-07:00

It's impossible for us to express how happy it makes us that Shia LaBeouf is making a film for The Illusionist director Neil Burger this winter. LaBeouf and Burger? It's a pairing that's been written in the stars for decades, albeit usually spelled "beef burger". But we're pretty sure that all those meat patties were merely trying to prepare us for the day that the star and director would sign up to make

The script's being adapted by Leslie Dixon, who's also writing The Birds remake (continuing LaBeouf's Hitchcock connection by proxy) and Burger says that despite the slightly sci-fi premise, this won't be handled in a sci-fi way - for more details on that, head over to our friends at ComingSoon.net. It will shoot in New York this winter, after LaBeouf finishes Transformers 2 and Burger finishes promoting his new road movie The Lucky Ones.

LaBeouf sounds like a good fit for the lead, and we're sure that he and Burger will work their buns off on this one - which mayo turn out to be the best thing either has ever done. Let's hope they hold the cheese, and that the final product cuts the mustard. We'll ketchup with more details on this as they're revealed, but we're anticipating this one with relish

The notebook

2008-09-23T11:07:00.003-07:00

I was really impressed when seeing the film.I never thought that it was so good, that it portraied a history of two people so well whom if they love of truth (: Género was optimum film of this that some time vi, I must say that is one of my preferred ones.

For who already it saw the film and it liked, it advised to read the book, it has many details, he is fantastic. I taste very since film but find that he does not represent a history of true love, but yes a love history.

If it was true love never if they would trairiam, could tar separate but never they would go with other people. It is without a doubt a pretty film on the love, an impressive history. Valley the penalty to see this film with our love because it ties makes to cry.

Closer

2008-09-23T11:07:00.001-07:00

It is of those 4 cases where great actors and a ccomplishing nothing ineperiente form a great film. Luxury, erotismo, cynicism, lie, the love finally, one of the great workmanships of year 2004. How much to brilliant, magnificent the dialogues, estao, I adored I satiated myself to laugh, exactly that

The representations are very good, clive owen and natalie portman is brilliant, of the joy ve them. The argument is very good same.

This film is something is serial due to the dialogues! They are different of the habitual one and therefore it becomes this film in a great film. Excellent installment of Clive Owen and Natalie Portman

Schindler's List

2008-09-23T11:06:00.001-07:00

History is impressive, counted of a shining form, with incredible details as the scene where some Jews ingest some of its more valuable goods so that the German army is not with them. Great interpretations of Read Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. It is without a doubt, optimum film of Steven Spielberg.

You don't mess with Zohan

2008-09-23T11:05:00.001-07:00

Very good this film.Adam Sandler, each time surprises more =) One of the best comedies of the year, Since the excellent installment of the Adam to a truily original history. It never looks at I attended a film that you laugh at the start to the end and look at you do not exist a part if she wants that she is not bad… Of congratulations who created this film… Very legal film! I did not obtain to stop to laugh one minute! People… He is serious, I I recommend!

Nim's Island

2008-09-23T11:03:00.000-07:00

I find that this film until could obtain a positive note, but finishes for being a failure, it does not have much substance, it finishes for being a little basic.

Perhaps either exactly indicated only for children… but with the cast of actores that have, and same with this argument it could have been done something more obtained.

Heroes Season 3 Preview Goes Live

2008-08-15T15:54:00.001-07:00

One of the main problems about the super-powered TV show, Heroes, thus far has been the lack of real bad guys. Sure, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) has been doing his nefarious thing since day one, but since losing his powers in season two and with the recent addition of the immortal - and annoying - Adam Monroe (David Anders), the series has been lacking in effective Big Bads.

That’s all set to change, however, with season three. Subtitled "Villains," we’re told to expect a whole new bunch of evildoers and unexpected character turnarounds.

Tom Cruise Is The Tourist

2008-08-15T15:52:00.000-07:00

For a man whose career is apparently not what it once was, Tom Cruise is making plenty of headlines.

Be it for his wonderful cameo in Tropic Thunder, or his attachment to Working Title’s Food Fight, or the news that Valkyrie has changed release date again, or that his long-term producing partner Paula Wagner is stepping down as CEO of their studio, United Artists, or that Angelina Jolie is taking the role in Edwin A. Salt that he had been umming and aahing over, you can’t keep Little Tommy out of the news.

Oh, and by the way, this is not to be confused with that other thriller called The Tourist – the one that George Clooney is attached to. Nor is it to be confused with the Radiohead song from OK Computer. Glad we cleared that up.

iPhone 3G's Sluggish 3G Could Be Caused By Lousy Chipset

2008-08-12T12:10:00.001-07:00

GigaOm quotes Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura Securities, in saying that the sluggish 3G performance of the iPhone 3G seen globally (not just with AT&T) could be a result of a lousy chipset.

He says, "we believe that these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain Infineon is the 3G supplier." Is this true?

AT&T has stated that problems are not on their end in the US, and European countries also stated that they've seen slowness with the iPhone on their network where every other phone was fine. Forums everywhere have been complaining about lousy reception compared to other phones in their network—even in Japan—which secures that it's a hardware issue.

Our guess is that Apple will somewhere down the line either run an update to the protocol stack via an upgrade, or quietly swap out the chipset for a more mature one that may or may not be made by Infineon.

iphone Apps Could Get Influx of VOIP Functionality

2008-08-12T12:08:00.000-07:00

While AT&T terms of service don't allow customers to use their 3G internet to provide voice over IP, iPhone users could still save minutes utilizing VOIP over Wi-Fi. And a company named Global IP Solutions plans to release a VOIP software development kit for the iPhone that will not only allow developers to more easily create simple VOIP programs, but add VOIP functionality to the programs we already know and love. And the possibilities are really cool:

Imagine, for instance, playing Pac-Man where the ghosts are other players strategizing in realtime. Or picture Yelp or Urbanspoon packed with a GPS-triangulated chatroom, allowing you to ask others in the area where they like to eat—and if they'd like to meet up for a spontaneous date.

Global IP Solutions is certainly not the only company working on such ideas, but by offering a VOIP SDK to developers, it should make VOIP integration easier for the smaller developer who only has knowledge in one specific area.

The only problem is that even if these VOIP functions are within AT&T's Terms of Service, the resulting applications still need to be approved for the Apps Store. And if AT&T or Apple gets paranoid about VOIP competition, who knows what we'll actually see released.

Iron Man DVD & Blu-ray Details

2008-08-10T19:04:00.001-07:00

Iron Man is hitting DVD and Blu-ray on September 30th, and The Hollywood Reporter now has more details:

Paramount is releasing "Iron Man" as a two-disc "Ultimate Edition" on DVD and Blu-ray. Each includes a seven-part making-of documentary and a six-part feature on the origins of the Marvel superhero.

Other extras include a documentary on the film's visual effects; Robert Downey Jr.'s original screen test; deleted and extended scenes; a photo gallery of concept art; and behind-the-scenes images on the set.

A single-disc "Iron Man" DVD also will be issued, with just the movie and the deleted and extended scenes.

Stiller, Black & Downey Jr. on Tropic Thunder!

2008-08-10T19:03:00.000-07:00

Tropic Thunder is about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny R. McBride, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Matt Levin, Andrea De Oliveira, Reggie Lee, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise co-star.

Brad Pitt Officially Joins Inglorious Bastards

2008-08-10T19:02:00.000-07:00

Brad Pitt has closed his deal to star in Inglorious Bastards, the WWII drama that Quentin Tarantino will direct for the Weinstein Company and Universal, reports Variety.

Additionally, Nastassja Kinski is in early talks to play one of the sole female roles in the film. Kinski would play a German movie queen.

The trade says much of the dialogue is in French or German, and subtitles will be used, though Pitt will speak English in his role as a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take on the Nazis.

Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz and B.J. Novak are also in talks to join the project. Pegg would play a British lieutenant, while Krumholtz and Novak would play Pitt's underlings.

The film begins production on October 13 in Germany. Tarantino, who wrote the script, is aiming to complete the film and have it ready for next year's Cannes Film Festival. Lawrence Bender is producing, with Erica Steinberg and Harvey and Bob Weinstein as executive producers.

Eli Roth will play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, and Tarantino is locking in the other actors to play the soldiers who make up the Bastards team. Tarantino regular Tim Roth had been in contention to join the cast but couldn't work out the scheduling because of his upcoming TV series "Lie to Me."

Source: ComingSoon

Mimi Leder To Direct World War II Flick

2008-08-09T19:34:00.000-07:00

Remember Mimi Leder, who had the privilege of directing DreamWorks’ first movie, The Peacemaker, then went on to make Deep Impact before dropping the ball with the awful Pay It Forward?

Well, perhaps to show that it’s harder for a woman director to make it in Hollywood following a flop, it’s taken Leder almost eight years to get back behind the camera again. But she finally did it and The Code – or Thick As Thieves, depending on what you read – a heist thriller starring Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas is currently awaiting release.

And clearly now that Leder has the bit between her teeth again, she doesn’t want to slow down. So she’s lined up Remember Their Names, a WWII movie featuring Woody Guthrie in more ways than one.

Not only will the film feature many of the folk singer and activist’s songs, but Guthrie himself will be a major character, as the film will focus on his time in the U.S. Merchant Marine, when he, Cisco Houston and Jim Longhi toured and sung their way across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Sicily and Normandy.

The film will be based on Longhi’s memoir, Woody, Cisco & Me, which was adapted for the screen by Leder and her brother, Reuben. Leder hopes to make this her next project. We wish her well – she did a good job with Deep Impact, especially, and it’s been too damn long.

Mark Ruffalo Has Sympathy For Delicious

2008-08-06T11:21:00.001-07:00

Mark Ruffalo is joining the ranks of actors-turned-directors with a film boasting the intriguing, and not unappealing, title of Sympathy For Delicious. He'll also star, along with James Franco and Chris Thornton.

Thornton wrote the script and will play a wheelchair-bound DJ, 'Delicious' Dead O'Dwyer who, through dabbling with faith-healing, acquires the power to cure the sick, but not himself. Ruffalo will play a Jesuit priest who helps Delicious come to terms with the limits of his gift, while Franco will play a rock star whose band exploits the man.

Sympathy For Delicious begins filming in LA this autumn.

Helena Bonham Carter On Terminator 4

2008-08-06T11:20:00.003-07:00

As movie news goes, this is but a crumb. But since news stories in the movie world today are rarer than glowing Mummy 3 reviews, we thought we'd bring you what we can.

Sci-Fi Wire recently spoke with Helena Bonham Carter and prodded her for news of who she'll be playing in the upcoming Terminator: Salvation. Her reply was, "I kind of play a baddie, definitely a baddie...I don't know how much I'm allowed to say, but I'm a very bad person."

And that's about it. We don't know what kind of baddie, but feel free to speculate away. In the meantime, we'll be off to give Hollywood a kick up the backside and see if they can come up with something more exciting tomorrow.

Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock to Start Production

2008-08-06T11:20:00.001-07:00

Focus Features will begin production late this month on Taking Woodstock, written by James Schamus and to be directed by Ang Lee.

The film is an adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm.

Demetri Martin ("The Daily Show with Jon Stewart") had already been set to play Tiber, an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run the family business, a Catskills motel. In summer 1969, he found himself at the center of a generation-defining experience when he volunteered the motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers after his neighbor, Max Yasgur, made his farm available for the event.

Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber's parents, and Jonathan Groff will play Woodstock organizer Michael Lang; Emile Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play Yasgur, and Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is in talks to play a transvestite named Vilma.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) is set as a closeted married man having an affair with Tiber, while Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan play a hippie couple attending the concert. Dan Fogler will play a local theater troupe head, and Mamie Gummer will play Lang's assistant.

Eagle Eye to Get Simultaneous IMAX Release

2008-08-06T11:19:00.001-07:00

Scooper 'Streets' alerted us today that DreamWorks/Paramount have prepared an IMAX trailer for Eagle Eye that will be attached to Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight in IMAX theaters shortly. It is to announce that the D.J. Caruso-directed film will get a simultaneous IMAX DMR release along with its 35mm opening on September 26th.

In the fast-paced race-against-time-thriller, Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.

The movie co-stars Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton.

Don't miss the teaser, trailer and extended clip from the film here!

John Carpenter Set To Team With Nic Cage

2008-08-05T09:13:00.002-07:00

It’s been seven years – seven long years – since John Carpenter, one of the true greats of American cinema, last directed a movie. Well, it’s about bloody time that he got back behind the megaphone, and so it’s with delight that we can report that Carpenter is in final negotiations to direct Nicolas Cage in a thriller called Scared Straight.

Cage would star as a life prisoner who is forced into action when a riot breaks out in his prison, and a young inmate – sent to jail as part of the Scared Straight program which temporarily imprisons juvenile delinquents in order to put the willies right up ’em – is taken hostage.

Although there are no supernatural elements that we know of, this seems to be right up Carpenter’s street. The man has admitted that he’s been remaking Rio Bravo for years now (Assault On Precinct 13, The Fog, The Thing, Prince Of Darkness, and even the film which seemed like it may be his last, Ghosts Of Mars, all owe some debt to the Howard Hawks classic), and this seems like a nice little twist on your typical siege movie.

We’re also excited about the combo of Carpenter and Cage. Kurt Russell aside, Carpenter hasn’t worked with an A-list actor before, and it’ll be fascinating to see how he handles Cage and his penchant for quirks.

There’s no word yet on any other casting, but with an October start date planned for a project that has been knocking around for a couple of years now (Rob Cohen was once attached to direct; he’ll now merely executive produce), things will be moving pretty fast on a movie that we hope will see a return to form for Carpenter.

Prince Of Persia Pushed Back To 2010

2008-08-05T09:13:00.001-07:00

Prince Of Persia, Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s big tentpole for the summer of 2009, has just become Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s big tentpole for the summer of 2010.

Yes, the Mike Newell-directed videogame adaptation, which started shooting last week in Morocco, has been pushed back by nearly a year, from June 19, 2009 to Memorial Day weekend in 2010. For those of you who don’t know when Memorial Day, don’t worry – it’s at the end of May.

The reason for the delay? To finish the thing and to get the special effects absolutely right, which is very commendable. Then again, it’s hard not to sympathise with the caution shown here by Bruckheimer and Disney, for whom the hope is that the Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer will be another Pirates Of The Caribbean-style cash cow.

The move into 2010 takes Prince Of Persia away from Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, which would have opened a week later. In its place, though, Disney has moved up its Ryan Reynolds-Sandra Bullock rom-com, The Proposal – or The Counterprogrammer, as it perhaps should now be known.

It will now open, in 2010, one week after Shrek Goes Fourth, with nothing currently scheduled to go up against it. We must say that it seems strange for movies to be staking out release dates two, sometimes three years in advance, but the stakes are higher than ever these days (God, we sound old), so you can’t blame studios for indulging in what Kurt Cobain would have referred to as territorial pissings (and that reference really makes us sound old).

What do you think, readers? Excited about this? Dismayed that you’ll have to wait another year to see Jakey boy fling himself off buildings and whatnot? Or are you slightly cynical about the reasons for the delay? Vent your spleens below.

Keanu Reeves Stars In Cowboy Bebop?

2008-07-31T08:59:00.000-07:00

Cowboy Bebop movie rumors are nothing new. We’ve heard for years now that Hollywood is making a live action version of the popular anime cartoon. Nothing ever happens with it. The latest round of Bebop rumors seem a little more solid though. Last month word started circulating around that 20th Century Fox was finally making it happen, and now the guys over at FirstShowing.net claim to know who is starring in it.

Their source tells them that Keanu Reeves is attached to play the lead in the Cowboy Bebop movie, as a character named Spike. What’s more he’s been attached to the project for more than 8 months. That’s either good or bad, depending on how you look at it. I tend to look at it as bad, since normally a studio who is serious about making a movie like this would run right out and announce a big casting score like that. Fox meanwhile, still hasn’t even officially announced that they’re making the movie, much less that they have Keanu Reeves starring in it.

Don’t know what the hell this Cowboy Bebop thing is? Well that’s because it’s anime and you’re into things like, oh I don’t know, movies about three-dimensional people with a normal eye to face ratio. Me too, so rather than trying to bumble my way through an explanation, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it: “In the year 2071 AD, the crew of the spaceship Bebop travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. Nation-states have collapsed, and various races and peoples live throughout the solar system. In the slang of the era, "Cowboys" are bounty hunters. Most episodes revolve around a specific bounty, but the show often shares its focus with the pasts each of the four main characters and of more general past events, which are revealed and brought together as the series progresses.”

Hey I like outer space! But I hate anime. Worlds… colliding.

First Look: Eagle Eye

2008-07-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

Earlier this week, ComingSoon.net got the chance to travel to Amblin Entertainment, where producers Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman and director D.J. Caruso showed us the first 30 minutes of Eagle Eye and answered questions about the Paramount/DreamWorks thriller, opening in theaters on September 26.

In Eagle Eye, Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed. Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton co-star.

The nail bitting thriller starts off with Michael Chiklis at the Pentagon trying to determine the idenity of a terrorist the U.S. has been tracking. The President gave him the green light to attack, but Chiklis is apprehensive because there is only a 51% probability that the man is who they think it is.

We then see Shia LaBeouf Jerry playing poker with a couple of his friends --well, more like scamming them out of their money. We soon learn that his lovable and charming character works at the Copy Cabana and isn't too financially stable. He dropped out of Stanford because he just didn't want to go anymore and struggles to pay rent. He doesn't have money in his account, which isn't the case for long.

As he deposits a check, his account, which had insufficient funds before, now mysteriously has $751,000. The ATM begins spitting money at him and he's so freaked out by what's happenning. As he runs back to his apartment, he pays his landlord the rent was behind on and she tells him she had to go inside his place to help with the boxes. Of course he has no idea what she's talking about, so she opens the door and he sees dozens of boxes which contain weapons and bomb-making materials.

He's freaking out when he gets a phone call from an unknown number. A woman tells him he has 30 seconds to get out of the apartment because the FBI are on the way. He's on the verge of a breakdown and begins asking the woman what is going on. She calmly tells him he now only has 24 seconds and he has to get out.

He refuses to listen and the FBI break through a window and tackle him to the ground. He's arrested and interrogated by Billy Bob Thorton, who believes he's a terrorist based on the evidence found in his apartment. LaBeouf has no idea as to why he's being set up, but nobody believes him.

Meanwhile, Michelle Monaghan is out having drinks with a couple of girlfriends. She is a single mom and her son has just left for band camp. She gets a call and thinks it's her son. She goes outside the bar to hear him better and it's the same woman who called LaBeouf. She tells her to look up at a digital sign and Monaghan sees a video of her son.

The woman asks what she's willing to do to save her son. She's told if she doesn't do what she is told, the train her son is on will be derailed and he'll be killed. She's told to steal a car and drive to a location. Little does she know she's about to pick up Shia's character who has been busted out of jail.

When the two meet, she thinks he's responsible for this and begins hitting him. He tells her he got the same call and then the woman's voice is heard commanding them what to do next.

Billy Bob is mad as hell at Shia's character for escaping and has called for every police unit in the city to track him down. With the police pursuing them, an intense and fast paced car chase unfolds which is one of the best we've seen in awhile.

Darren Aronofsky Confirmed For Robocop

2008-07-30T09:08:00.001-07:00

Putting to end weeks of online rumour, it's been confirmed today that Darren Aronofsky will direct a new installment in the Robocop series, with David Self (Road To Perdition) writing the script.

There are no suggestions of what the plot might be, but the wording of MGM's press release suggests that this won't be a remake of the 1987 movie about a crime fighter who is part man and part machine – "and all cop" – but "a new installment". There are whispers that it will take place in modern day, but those whispers aren't coming from any mouth that we can consider 100% reliable.

So, what do you reckon, is Aronofsky the right guy to bring Robocop back to the streets? Do you want to see Robocop back?

Sherlock Holmes Update

2008-07-30T09:07:00.002-07:00

Last summer, Empire was lucky enough to visit our favourite London building – the Battersea Power Station – where Guy Ritchie was overseeing his latest film, Rocknrolla. During interviews on set, Ritchie and his producer, Joel Silver, hinted that they were working on something pretty special.

Fast-forward a couple of months and it became clear that that they weren’t kidding, with the announcement that Ritchie was set to direct a big-screen version of Sherlock Holmes, with Silver producing and Robert Downey Jr. starring as Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant master detective.

But details have been scarce on the ground, so we jumped at the chance to quiz Ritchie and Silver about the movie when they were doing the rounds earlier today at Comic-Con. First, Silver confirmed that Sherlock Holmes, and not the rumoured Dirty Dozen remake, had been the special project he had hinted at last year.

“We had talked about it then,” he admitted. “We wanted to work together on a number of things but this came together very quickly. Robert Downey said he wanted to do it and we start shooting in October!”

Although the film is based on a forthcoming comic book series by Lionel Wigram, Ritchie was adamant that his Holmes will be more faithful than most people might expect.

“To a degree, we’re being as authentic as we can to the original books,” he told Empire. “He [Holmes] was more of an action man originally and I didn’t think it was possible to manifest in an efficient way previously in the productions they have. Now we have money and we have the technology so it seems like we should put it to the test. It was just a natural fit.”

Brideshead Revisited Trailer Online

2008-07-30T09:07:00.001-07:00

As you'd imagine, it all looks terribly classy and British and boasts a stellar cast of UK talent, including Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw and Michael Gambon. Based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, the story tells of Charles Ryder, a man who goes to stay at the grand Brideshead Castle during World War II and enters into a tangled relationship with the family that lives there.

First Look At Rose McGowan As Red Sonja

2008-07-30T09:06:00.000-07:00

Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan will be promoting their remake of lady warrior curio Red Sonja, which will be produced by the former and star the latter, at ComicCon, but two posters for the film have already turned up. One is very eye-catching and quite stylish, while the other is extremely odd and makes McGowan look like she's had the misfortune to suffer a stroke at exactly the same time that her hair takes on a life of its own and tries to devour her. We're not entirely sure her boobs, which are racing toward her chin, aren't complicit in the attack too. It's all most unfortunate and enough to put her off her snack of blood.

Witness The Terror Of The Twilight Panel

2008-07-30T09:05:00.002-07:00

This isn't really news about the Twilight panel at Comic-Con, which happened yesterday, but something that has to be seen to be believed. Unusually for a Comic-Con event, the hall was filled with young women desperate for a glimpse of the stars of the adaptation of the first book in Stephenie Meyer's teenage vampire series.

The poor cast try to answer questions, but their puny male larynxes are powerless against 10,000 lungs powered by teenage lust. Oestrogen is LOUD!

Wolverine Unveiled

2008-07-30T09:05:00.001-07:00

ne of the biggest surprises today at Comic Con came at the end of the Fox panel when, unscheduled, a very special guest appeared. Coming straight from filming in Australia, Hugh Jackman leapt onstage to introduce the first footage from Gavin Hood’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Needless to say the crowd went absolutely mental.

What was shown was a sizzle reel of footage that will likely form the basis of the first trailer. Action-packed isn’t even the word for it and several scenes, including appearances from other well known mutant characters, drew forth a storm of applause.

The footage begins with Jackman’s Logan and Liev Schreiber’s Victor Creed (aka Sabertooth) huddled in a prison cell in army fatigues (Creed’s fingernails are noticeably claw-like). Danny Huston’s William Stryker stands before them.
Stryker: “You were sentenced to death for decapitating a senior officer. Your sentence was carried out by a firing squad at 10:00 hours. How did that go?”
Cut to the two tied to stakes and a squad of soldiers opening fire.
Cut back to the cell.
Logan: “It tickled.”
Logan and Creed are seen escaping, followed by a shot of Logan silhouetted by a huge explosion as he walks towards the camera.
Stryker: “My name is Major William Stryker. Tired of denying your true nature?”
Creed: “What do you care?”
Stryker: “Oh I care. I care because I know how valuable you are. I’m putting together a special team. With special privileges. So tell me, how would you like to really serve your country?”

As this is said a variety of images flash across the screen, including Logan with bone claws, an acrobatic Taylor Kitsch as Gambit with his staff glowing at both ends, Silverfox, The Blob and a very brief shot of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool – although he looked more like a normal Ryan Reynolds in a red t-shirt than the masked/scarred Deadpool of the comics.

Cut to: Images of the adamantium injection tank from X2.
Creed: “We didn’t sign up for this.”
Creed: “Who do you think you are?”
Creed: “This is what we do.”
Stryker: “Become the animal.”
Stryker: “Embrace the other side.”

Cut to: a series of images of Logan undergoing the Weapon X experimentation, being submerged in the tank and having adamantium bonded to his skeleton. We see an x-ray image of the metal going into his skull. His claws pop out – now metal-coated – and he springs from the tank in a classic Weapon X look with the adamantium injection spikes still protruding from his body. He attacks everyone around him.

Unidentified Voice: “We’re making him indestructible.”
Cut to: Logan as a boy, bone claws extended.
From there the action heats up with Wolverine clashing several times with Sabertooth in some impressive action sequences (Creed flies through the air, claws first, in one). There are also more images of The Blob and Gambit. Logan in a jeep, which explodes, flinging him into the air where he latches onto the front of a helicopter with his claws.

Cut to: a close up of Logan facing off against Sabertooth
Logan: “I’m gonna cut your god damn head off. See if that works”
He pops his claws.

Jackman went on to say that they’ve just wrapped so nothing’s finished yet but he did say that fans can expect a large amount of “berserker rage” from the film and thanked geeks everywhere, without whom he “wouldn’t have a career.” He also singled out Wolverine creator Len Wein (who happened to be sitting next to Empire) for a very special thanks.

Now, whatever misgivings fans may hold over the film, there’s no denying they saw an impressive sequence, and if the rest of the film is as good as what was shown today then Wolverine may turn out to be a worthy X-sequel after all.

Exclusive: Christopher Lee On The Hobbit

2008-06-05T08:17:00.000-07:00

Speaking to Christopher Lee earlier this week, as you do, we discovered that the venerable 86-year-old has hopes of dusting off his wizard’s robes to play Saruman again in Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of The Hobbit.
Now you’re probably asking how the evil white wizard could possibly show his face again when he’s not even featured in The Lord Of The Rings prequel. Well consider the fact that the mooted two-film adaptation will probably be forced to add plenty of new material and Lee’s encyclopaedic knowledge of his character could fill in the gaps.

“I’ve read the books time and again,” said the 86-year-old. “Originally Saruman The White and the rest of the wizards, or the Istari as they call them, were immortal. There were five of them, two of them never appear, I know their names but they never appear, and the only three that are mentioned are Saruman The White, Gandalf The Grey and Radagast The Brown who you never see – so basically it’s two wizards.

“They lived for thousands of years and they were sent to the earth and they are virtually immortal. When it all started, Saruman was the noblest, the finest, the bravest, the most dependable and reliable of them all, he was number one. But somewhere, somehow, and it was never actually explained, he turns and it’s probably the Palantír (the wizard’s crystal ball thingy) that makes Saruman realise that if Sauron can do this, why can’t I do it and Saruman wants to become The Lord Of The Rings himself.”

“I’d be interested in seeing how that transition from good to evil occurred and, yes, of course I would return to the role if I was asked.”

So there you go, assuming Guillermo’s not the kind of guy to hold a grudge (apparently Lee turned down the role of King Balor in Hellboy II: The Golden Army) and assuming he’s got some space to fill in The Hobbit parts one and two, he could do worse than to get a willing Christopher Lee back in the robes again.

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2008-06-05T08:12:00.000-07:00

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The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

2008-05-27T07:26:00.000-07:00

At first glance “Forbidden Kingdom,” the first movie to unite the martial arts action stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li, might be mistaken for a pastiche of its genre. Its main character, a Boston teenager named Jason (Michael Angarano), is obsessed with kung fu cinema, and the ways of modern Hollywood might lead you to expect the filmmakers to mock, travesty or wink at this obsession.

Filmed on Chinese locations and studio sets, the movie shows the lavish artificiality that is, in the currently booming Chinese film industry, a sign of authenticity. Mr. Chan made his name in scruffier, scrappier Hong Kong entertainments, but as he has aged into an international superstar, he has come to seem at home just about everywhere. Here he plays two roles: an elderly junk dealer in 21st-century Boston and an itinerant fighter, specializing in the “drunken fist” style of combat, in a mythic ancient China.

Still, the film works well enough as a primer for latecomers and a fix for insatiable martial arts lovers. If you’ve never seen a movie like this, it might satisfy your curiosity; if you can’t get enough of this kind of movie, nothing I say about it would keep you away.

Sex and the City: The Movie

2008-05-27T07:25:00.000-07:00

Review

For many women in their late twenties/early thirties, Sex And The City is the equivalent of The Phantom Menace. From its debut in 1998, the six-season sexploits of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte on the Manhattan singles scene became a quasi-religion, something women cherished as their own and geeked out about to each other.

In many respects, Sex And The City has more in common with an old-school George Cukor “woman’s picture” than, say, The Devil Wears Prada or 27 Dresses, interweaving female centric tales of fidelity, heartbreak and forgiveness rather than relying on mad-dash-for-the-airport antics. What it misses, though, is Cukor’s grace as a storyteller. Writer-director King, a stalwart of the TV show, makes little of the opportunities offered by the big screen - a detour to Mexico lacks visual flavour - where a more courageous choice might have reflected the high style of the fashions in the filmmaking. And surely it’s unrealistic to expect any more?

Verdict

If you are immune to the charms of Carrie and co., this will do little to convert you. Still, it has more than enough sass, style and sentiment to keep the faithful satisfied. Add a star if you’re a fan.

Adam Brody On Justice League Collapse

2008-05-14T16:59:00.003-07:00

Unless you've been abstaining from the internet for the past year – in which case, well done on falling off the wagon – you'll know that one of the big movies for 2009 was supposed to be Justice League, which would have brought together Batman, Superman and a number of other DC superheroes in one super-film.

I always associated the most with Peter Parker". If Spider-Man 4 happens, there could, of course, be an opening for that role, if Tobey Maguire declines to return. "Yeah, I kinda know..."

Cage Is The (New) Bad Lieutenant

2008-05-14T16:59:00.002-07:00

Nicolas Cage is Harvey Keitel – well kinda. The superbly coiffured Ghost Rider star has been announced as the titular naughty copper in Werner Herzog’s updated version of 1992's The Bad Lieutenant, reports Variety.

The original film (which infamously featured Keitel masturbating furiously on the side of a car driven by a pair of nubile teens) was directed by Abel Ferrara and, thanks to its shit storm-stirring content, grabbed itself an NC-17 rating.

Whether or not the remake will follow the same route remains to be seen but the recent mellowing of both Cage and Herzog (the former all but being a fully-fledged family star now) implies that the content could well be toned down – which is good news for those who aren’t hot on the idea of witnessing Nicolas doing a Harvey against an automobile, so to speak.

Is Bruckheimer Getting Serious?

2008-05-14T16:59:00.001-07:00

What’s this? Jerry Bruckheimer latest acquisition is a geopolitical thriller? What no treasure hunts or salty sea dogs? Has the time finally come for the bearded mogul to put away childish things?

Nah, probably not, but it’s still interesting to discover that Bruckheimer’s next project (after the talking guinea pig comedy G-Force and the video-game adaptation Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time) is likely to be The Increment, a politically charged flick based on the upcoming novel by David Ignatius.

As befits the conspiratorial nature of the movie, there’s little in the way of plot details available yet but we do know that the title refers to an elite group of British undercover intelligence operatives who are conscripted by a CIA agent to help a weapons scientist defect from Iran.

So, as we said, the story may be a little more grown up but don’t go thinking that Don Simpson’s old sparring partner is putting away his big box of explosives just yet.

Why 'Iron Man' will outmuscle the 'Hulk'

2008-05-03T10:16:00.000-07:00

On Friday, Marvel Entertainment releases "Iron Man," the saga of Tony Stark, a hard-drinking, amoral war-profiteer who redeems himself by donning high-tech armor and trouncing bad guys. Marvel is in the midst of a similar redemption.

Now the company is producing its own movies, and "Iron Man" is the first. The good news for Marvel is that "Iron Man" is likely to be a smash. Steve Mason, a theater owner and oft-quoted pundit, predicts a $103 million opening weekend for the film. "Marvel stockholders should be very happy in the near-term," he wrote on Thursday. "Numbers like that will certainly guarantee a couple of Iron Man sequels."

By contrast, the Hulk became an iconic comic book character when he first appeared in 1962. Few comic book fans could resist the tale of scientist Bruce Banner, whose overexposure to gamma rays cause him to become a raging green monster even stronger than the Fantastic Four's rocky-skinned Thing. The Hulk went on to appear on Saturday morning cartoons and a campy network television starring Bill Bixby as Banner and bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno as his frightening alter ego.

The big screen hasn't been as kind to the green monolith. In 2003, Universal released "The Hulk," a stylish, but gloomy movie directed by Ang Lee, who later won an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain." The film, which cost $150 million to produce, took in a mere $132 million in U.S. ticket sales and fared even more poorly internationally. Now Marvel has to draw disappointed Hulk fans back to the theaters.

That's going to be difficult. "The Incredible Hulk" has been plagued by infighting. Marvel hired the famously temperamental Edward Norton to play Banner and to rewrite the script. By all accounts, the star clashed with the higher ups at Marvel. Now he isn't participating in the company's publicity drive for the movie.

Meanwhile, "Iron Man" is getting ready to enjoy the kind of adulation he never received in comic land. The movie's director, Jon Favreau of "Elf" and "Swingers" fame, has turned Tony Stark from a cold warrior to a conflicted participant in America's war on terror. He discovers his company's weapons are being used by the bad guys against American troops and changes his ways.

If only Norton was doing the same. He's not helping The Hulk's latest movie bid.

Next year, Marvel plans to make one superhero movie. It hasn't announced the character yet. But Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan, strongly suspects it will be "Captain America," the former Nazi fighter. Most comic book lovers would probably agree that "Captain America" is an even better character than the Hulk. Uh oh.

Iron Man (2008)

2008-05-03T10:11:00.000-07:00

After Tobey Maguire's gawky boyishness and Christian Bale's glower, the ''offbeat'' casting of comic-book films is now the new normal. (The trend really started back in 1989, when Tim Burton turned a saucer-eyed noodge like Michael Keaton into Batman.)

Yet it's still bracing to see Robert Downey Jr. redefine what it takes to be a superhero in Iron Man. As Tony Stark, a high-living celebrity weapons magnate who is wounded on a trek through Afghanistan, only to transform himself into a hulking mechanical rocket man, Downey doesn't dial down his eager narcissistic wit.

The fun of Iron Man, a Marvel adaptation in which a routine arc has been burnished with great elegance and skill, is the way that it heals the split, soldering the two halves of its hero into a single organically driven figure.

On that fateful Afghan jaunt, Downey's Stark is wounded by one of his own bombs, then kidnapped and taken to an insurgent lair, where a magnetized gizmo is surgically implanted in his chest, all to keep the bits of shrapnel from heading toward his heart.

To fool his captors, he pretends to construct the cluster bomb they demand, but instead he builds himself a mechanical alter ego and flies to freedom.

Back at his hillside mansion (one of many clever details — it's out of vintage Bond), Stark then erects a new, improved version, with a two-toned shell and computerized mask. His desire? To destroy the weapons that he once created. He becomes a rock-'em sock-'em robot for peace.

Yet Favreau's direction never feels rote, even during the sky-zipping, metal-smashing action scenes, and the casting is aces. Jeff Bridges, as Stark's corporate partner, looks as scary as a cult leader in his shaved head and bushy beard, but he underacts, benignly; Bridges uses that wry, trust-me voice to create a timely portrait of stylish power.

New Australia Featurettes

2008-04-17T09:16:00.000-07:00

Baz Luhrmann's epic romance Australia has had a suitably epic production – it's been in development since 2005 and won't be seen until November – but now promotion is gearing up for a film that is looking more amazing the more we see of it.

Baz Luhrmann has just begun a series of video podcasts for Apple, called the Set To Screen Series. You can download the first two here. The first is a primer for the film's story, but the second concerns the role of the on-set photographer and it contains some absolutely stunning imagery. If the film measures up to the stills work then this is going to be the kind of movie you want to chop up and stick on your wall.

More of these podcasts will be released every few weeks up to the release of the film. They look like they'll be worth keeping up with.

Stan Lee Kicks Off New Super Franchise

2008-04-17T09:15:00.000-07:00

When not playing walk on parts in superhero films – which really takes up a very large amount of his time – Stan Lee also does some work on comic book characters. The man who co-created Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk has a new superhero franchise up his sleeve. He's planning something called Legion of 5 and he wants it to take over your life.

Details of the project are being kept secret (but we'll speculate that it has something to do with a group of five people with special powers, like The Osmonds). Lee, along with Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Entertainment, is planning a series of computer-animated movies, plus video games, mobile content and online gubbins. Injectable Legion of 5 is also in the works. Maybe.

Shia LaBeouf Signs For Dark Fields

2008-04-15T10:37:00.001-07:00

Shia LaBeouf has signed up to star in the distinctly strange sounding Dark Fields, based on the book by Alan Glynn.

The film, written by Leslie Dixon (Hairspray) and to be directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), is described by Variety as a 'techno thriller' and will put LaBeouf in the role of a young man who finds a pill that makes him extraordinarily smart and leads to a series of unusual events. We think it's some kind of veiled promotion for cod liver oil.

Dark Knight Viral Mini-Update

2008-04-15T10:36:00.000-07:00

There was a little more action in the Dark Knight viral campaign yesterday. At 3pm EDT (8pm in the UK) on Sunday, the ibelieveinharveydent.com website streamed a 'live press conference' with Harvey Dent, which was hijacked when Gotham Police Sergeant Francis Notaro, a vocal opponent of Dent in the viral mythos, took a woman hostage. Dent, being a square-jawed hero, then negotiated to trade places with the hostage. It was at this point that the audio (there was no video, don't panic) on the site cut out. You can hear the audio here.

We had been hoping, after receiving email reminders to listen to the press conference, that a new trailer might follow. But it seems we're going to have to wait a little longer.

International Speed Racer Trailer Online

2008-04-15T10:34:00.000-07:00

The official Speed Racer site has a new international trailer for the movie, which you can see here. This trailer's quite lengthy (about 2 minutes long) and it's the best thing we've seen on this so far. At the very least, we doubt this is going to be boring. Some of the dialogue is very cheesy, but the action is looking more spectacular the more we see.

New images of Dragon Ball Z: The Movie

2008-04-15T10:31:00.001-07:00

Dragon Ball Z: The Movie will be released in April, 2009.

New images of Iron Man

2008-04-13T14:39:00.000-07:00

Iron Man will be in the teathers in April, 2008.

New images of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

2008-04-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

The Movie Hellboy II: The Golden Army, will be in the teathers in July 2008.