10.1.2008 | By Mack Chico |
Rated: R for sexual content, nudity and strong language.
Release Date: 2008-04-18
Starring: Jason Segel
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Official Website: http://www.forgettingsarahmarshall.com/
09.27.2008 | By Jack Rico |
Newman died Friday only a few months after pictures surfaced of him looking frail and thin as he was wheeled from the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, where he was said to be receiving treatment for lung cancer.
During Newman’s rise to fame in the 1950s, cigarette smoking was used in the movies and on television to convey masculinity, sophistication and sex appeal.
Late in his career, Newman — who at one time was considered a heavy smoker — famously quipped, “It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.”
It’s been reported that he quit smoking some 30 years ago.
09.26.2008 | By Mack Chico |
Rated: R for language and some sexual content.
Release Date: 2008-09-26
Starring: Neil Burger, Dirk Wittenborn
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Official Website: http://www.theluckyonesmovie.com/
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I can’t believe I’m going to say this, and probably never will again, but this is one of those rare times that I found a soldier film to be ‘delightfully lovable’. Yes, I said it. It is due in part to an endearing story concocted by director/writer Neil Burger and a great group of actors who turned on the charm.
In ‘The Lucky Ones’, three wounded soldiers come back from the war cherishing to return to a life of normalcy, or at least what is left of it. With flight delays threatening to hinder their plans, they rent a car to St. Louis where they hope the city’s airport will have a batch of planes ready to depart to Las Vegas. The road trip back home is where the true journey begins for these three servicemen.
Tim Robbins is a wonderful every-man’s actor. He manages to capture the reality of daily living in all his characters. Michael Peña continues to deliver solid performances demonstrating a range of emotion in his roles, even if they are confined in lawmen and soldier characters. I mustn’t dismiss though, the unexpectedly comical, yet solemn performance of Rachel McAdams, who in my mind, was the star of the film. I would dare say, this is an Oscar nominated performance. She is not known for her comic timing, nor delivering amusing lines with deadpan expressions, but McAdams not only proved she is actually funny, she showed she can carry and steal a movie from under the nose of a proven veteran actor such as Robbins.
If you are feeling lucky and in the mood for a small, independent, but very good film in the tradition of Little Miss Sunshine, do yourself a favor and see ‘The Lucky Ones’.
09.25.2008 | By Mack Chico |
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and for language.
Release Date: 2008-09-26
Starring: John Glenn, Travis Wright, Hillary Seitz, Dan McDermott
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Official Website: http://www.eagleeyemovie.com/
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Eagle Eye has all the trademark elements of a box office hit: it is a a political thriller, it has action, car chases, explosions, sarcastic one liners, good acting and – the film begins with a great action sequence and ends on the same note. For a Friday night out with your friends, what else do you need?
Shia LeBouf has been Hollywood’s “It” boy for a year now and he has been delivering on the hype. With blockbuster after blockbuster, he is positioning himself as the A list actor of the future. Eagle Eye is his new Tom Clancyesque’ project about a kid who has been summoned to kill the president by a god-like computer owned by the government.
Even though the film is surprisingly good – Billy Bob Thornton deserves plenty of credit for that – expect the ridiculous and the absurd, a la Diehard. Most of those films were fun, in a guilty pleasure sort of way.
Nevertheless, some thought did go into the premise. Director D.J Caruso (Disturbia, Two for the Money) wants us to be aware of several key messages – to what extent does technology control our lives, the invasion of privacy by the government and the ineptitude of our political commanders.
Since most of us know how this is eerily similar to real life, the film serves as an inside look at how things would play out if someone had the “cojones” to do something about it. Eagle Eye is pure high-octane fun and exactly what going to the movies is all about.
09.23.2008 | By Alejandro Arbona |
Rated: R for sexual content, nudity and strong language.
Release Date: 2008-05-30
Starring: Candace Bushnell
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09.23.2008 | By Mack Chico |
Rated: PG-13 for some strong language.
Release Date: 2008-04-04
Starring: Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly
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Official Website: http://www.leatherheadsmovie.com/
09.23.2008 | By Alex Florez |
Rated: R for brief violence and sexuality.
Release Date: 2008-04-25
Starring: Mark Bomback
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Official Website: http://www.deception-movie.com/site/index.html
09.23.2008 | By Mack Chico |
Here are the top 5 scenes from ‘Blindness’, directed by brazilian director Fernando Mereilles. The film stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal.
In essence, the story is a psychological thriller about the fragility of mankind. Adapted from Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s masterwork, the film revolves around a plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
This week we’ll bring you the film review and our recommendation on whether you should see it or not. If you can’t wait any longer and you want to see video from the premiere, interviews with the cast, stills from the film and more, click here.
09.22.2008 | By Ted Faraone |
Rated: PG-13 for some sensuality.
Release Date: 2008-09-26
Starring: Ann Peacock, John Romano, Nicholas Sparks (novela)
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Country: USA, Australia
Official Website: http://nightsinrodanthe.warnerbros.com/
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“Nights in Rodanthe†could have been a world class chick flick on the order of “Now Voyager.â€Â It has everything going for it: Beautiful photography, a tear-jerker plot, and a great cast. Instead it barely makes the “Lifetime Original Movie†cut. The adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ eponymous novel (by Ann Peacock and John Romano) squeezes every moment of angst and despair until the audience cries “uncle.â€
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Diane Lane as Adrienne Willis, mother of two, separating from womanizing Jack (Chris Meloni), delivers a nuanced performance that aspires to Vanessa Redgrave’s territory. Richard Gere as middle-aged Dr. Paul Flanner neatly captures the emotional disconnection, impatience, and intellectual arrogance of many successful careerists. Viola Davis (Jean) as Adrienne’s sexy best friend steals her every scene. Lensing by Affonso Beato is top notch, and a hurricane, which marks pic’s turning point, is so real that one wants to run for higher ground.
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A coincidence puts Adrienne and Paul together as sole residents of a beachfront inn on the island of Rodanthe on the outer banks of North Carolina. Adrienne gave up a promising career as an artist to marry Jack. Paul abandoned surgery after losing a patient on the table. He’s at the inn because of a summons to the island from the dead patient’s husband (Ted Manson). She’s there because she promised to spell Jean, who is off to Miami. His family has fallen apart. Hers is in danger of doing so. The pair fall for each other. Paul heads to South America to re-connect with his son, a physician, who runs a clinic for the poor – after a contrived emotional showdown with Adrienne over his handling of the widower.
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The rest of the story is told through love letters and another contrived scene: Paul misses a dinner date with Adrienne on his return from South America. The next morning she answers her door to find Paul’s son (James Franco) with a box of his dad’s belongings. Franco’s voiceover of sepia tinted scenes of dad working with him in the mountain clinic (culminating in a fatal mudslide) could have ended the flick. Instead, it goes on for another agonizing reel, in which Adrienne’s despair is milked dry. Blame helmer George C. Wolfe and editor Brian A. Kates. Not even Lane can lift the platitudinous dénouement off the ground. All main characters are redeemed, but at what a cost! And it is borne by the audience.
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But wait! There’s more! A final scene appears to have been tacked on in the interest of a happy ending. It is set up by a couple of script references to wild horses on Rodanthe. They appear not a moment too soon.
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The 97 minute Warner Bros. release carries a PG-13 rating due to some sexual content.
09.22.2008 | By Mack Chico |
Where to celebrate the launch of the Sex and the City: The Movie DVD?
Why, the same place where, in the film, Carrie Bradshaw gets stood up at the altar. Thursday night, the film’s stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon reconvened at the New York Public Library, which was lit up in pink and decorated with a custom-made interlocking-C white Chanel couch.
A radiant and friendly Parker, in Alexander McQueen, said she was ecstatic that her film was one of the year’s blockbusters. “I was surprised and thrilled and gratified and shocked,” said Parker. “I think we felt very honored that people connected to the story.”
Said Cattrall: “This has been an amazing year. It’s poignant that the year after we started shooting, the DVD is coming out. It just seems to get better.”
And now, word is, there’s a sequel in the works.
If a second installment of Sex comes to fruition, Parker wants it to “be thoughtful and something that has some meaning — (we want) to tell a good story and produce it well.”
Cattrall too hopes it happens. “The deal is they’re making the deal and Michael Patrick King is writing the script. I don’t envy him that task. I’m very excited because Samantha is single and that’s real fun to play,” she said.
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