| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| Nacho Libre |
 Starring: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera Director: Jared Hess
Nacho (Jack Black) is a young man who was raised in a Mexican monastery in Oaxaca and now works there as the cook, and takes it upon himself to rescue the holy place from financial ruin by joining a local Lucha Libre tournament and becoming one of the 'Luchadores'. Naturally, Nacho isn't acting out of purely altruistic measures, as he wishes to help Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera), a beautiful Mexican nun who has recently arrived at the monastery, as well as the gaggle of young orphans who live there.
source:www.amazon.com |
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| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
The third "Fast and the Furious" takes place on the streets of Tokyo, where drag racing requires more than just speed. Lucas Black stars as an ex-pat who is sent to live with his estranged father but discovers the underground Tokyo racing scene instead.
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| Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| THE LAKE HOUSE |
STARS: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Shohreh Agdashloo, Dylan Walsh, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Willeke van Ammelrooy
WRITER: David Auburn, based on the motion picture IL MARE
DIRECTOR: Alejandro Agresti
RATING: PG
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros
The premise for THE LAKE HOUSE sounds so resolutely uncinematic that it’s rather remarkable how well it actually works. Doctor Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), on moving out of the Illinois lake house she has loved into Chicago, leaves a letter for the next tenant, asking that any stray mail be forwarded. Kate briefly describes a few details of the lake house. When architect Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves) moves in, he’s a bit puzzled, because the details don’t exist until they occur as he watches. After a bit of bemused correspondence back and forth, it becomes increasingly clear to both of them that – incredible as it may seem – Alex is in 2004, while Kate is in 2006.
While a description of how the characters come to this realization would sound convoluted, screenwriter David Auburn, adapting the Korean film IL MARE, does a graceful and succinct job of handling the supernatural plot twist, allowing the characters the right balance of astonishment and fascination that gradually (at just the right pace) gives way to romantic attraction over a distance. The storyline is crafted very well, letting us get to know the characters and the people in their lives with just enough emphasis to make us care without lingering too long in any one period. The narrative also cleverly brings Kate and Alex together for us so that we can root for the relationship as a real thing, rather than as an abstraction. There’s also joy in nuances, including a speech by Christopher Plummer as Alex’s master architect father about the quality of light that serves as an unforced metaphor for many of the film’s themes as well.
Director Alejandro Agresti gets beguiling chemistry out of leads Reeves and Bullock, who demonstrate that they don’t need a speeding bus to bring out the best in each other. Reeves’ slightly hesitant manner – as though he’s watching and waiting to determine when he ought to step up – is ideal for a man who finds his greatest emotional fulfillment in an odd form of long-distance romance, while Bullock tamps down her usual ebullience to strong effect, still vibrant but with a lived-in quality that suits Kate very well.
Agresti and production designer Nathan Crowley have come up with a stunning title element – the lake house is so incredible-looking that we can just about take in stride that it has its own magic.
On the upside, the plot doesn’t go where we might imagine it’s going. On the downside, the story eventually encompasses one of those time-warp paradoxes that would cause STAR TREK characters to reach for Excedrin. If one can get past this, THE LAKE HOUSE is a pleasing diversion.
source:www.ifmagazine.com - ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
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| 'Twelve' trips toward adulthood |
"Twelve and Holding" is an imperfect movie about an embarrassing age: that horrible middle-school period when children do their first awkward flirting with adulthood. Director Michael Cuesta and writer Anthony Cipriano put three 12-year-olds through this hormonal horror show as they react to a real tragedy. Two bullies (Michael C. Fuchs and Martin Campetta) firebomb a treehouse -- only to find that two boys were sleeping inside. One of the kids, Rudy, burns to death. The other, an obese dork named Leonard (Jesse Camacho), falls on his head and survives. The bullies cut a deal to spend a year in juvvie -- leaving the victims' friends and families stewing in incoherent rage. And it's here that the movie thrusts three barely pubescent kids into three arenas of adulthood, even as their negligent parents are getting on with their lives.
Leonard, robbed of his sense of taste by his injuries, turns into a fitness fanatic -- then tries to force his newfound discipline on his equally obese mother (Marcia DeBonis). Rudy's birthmark-scarred brother, Jacob (Conor Donovan), visits the bullies in prison, and bonds with one of them even while plotting his revenge. And Malee (Zoe Weizenbaum) laser-focuses her embryonic sexuality on a former firefighter (Jeremy Renner) who's a patient of her therapist mother (Annabella Sciorra). It's a lot of drama to pack into just more than 90 minutes, and Cuesta's low-key visual approach plays nicely against the film's roiling passions and over-the-top (some might say too over-the-top) final act. Each kid's story takes on a different aspect of adulthood -- sexuality, justice, personal responsibility -- with a differing tone to match. Leonard's story is the most bombastic, but Camacho anchors it while undergoing a total physical transformation. Meanwhile, Donovan captures the anguish of a kid who takes his mother's vengeful words literally, even as his visits with his brother's killer add troubling moral nuances to his bloodlust. But my favorite performance is actually in the story with the lowest life-and-death stakes: Weizenbaum manages to be both poignant and slightly creepy as the fatherless, stuttering girl acting out her "soul mate" fantasies on the first daddy figure at hand. Cuesta and Cipriano walk a fine line here, exploring Malee's psychology without diving into Lolita ickiness. Weizenbaum breaks your heart when she brightly tells Renner, "You've got to take chances, get crazy . . . I play the flute!" or when she sings a flat rendition of Blue Oyster Cult's "Burning for You" to him during a school recital. If I have one problem with "Twelve and Holding," it's probably of the "they didn't make it the way I would have!" variety: It struck me that the melodramatic endings sort of betray the film's built-up psychological complexity. (The resolution of Leonard's story in particular felt a little too TV-ready.) The filmmakers probably would argue it's in keeping with the overheated world views of our protagonists, or in the service of suburban satire, or something. I'd argue that a very good movie could have been great if it had kept to subtler psychological tones.
source:www.oregonlive.com
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| Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| The Break-Up (2006) |
Pushed to the breaking-point after their latest, "why can't you do this one little thing for me?" argument, art dealer Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend, Gary, who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves. But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, the dirty clothes stacked in the kitchen cupboards and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of the night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn't so much the place but the person.
source:www.hollywood.com/ |
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| Cars |
| Set in a world inhabited only by motor vehicles, Cars is sort of a cross between Michael J. Fox's Doc Hollywood and NASCAR. The main hero is a hotshot rookie race car named Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson)--an obvious homage to the late fast-driving Steve McQueen--whose one goal in life is to win the Piston Cup and bask in fame and glory. Yet, on his cross-country trip to the Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros (real-life legendary racer Richard Petty voices the reigning champion The King), Lightning finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy--and forgotten--Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. There he meets its colorful denizens--including Sally (Bonnie Hunt), a snazzy 2002 Porsche, who owns the local “rest” stop; Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), the town’s rusty but trusty tow truck; and Doc Hudson (Paul Newman), a 1951 Hudson Hornet, who rules the town with a steady hand, er, wheel. Together, they all help the cocksure Lightning realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame and sponsorship. |
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| Monday, June 12, 2006 |
| X-Men - The Last Stand (2006) |
 Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry Director: Brett Ratner- Genres: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Tagline: Take a Stand
- Plot Outline When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart), and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto (McKellen).
Plot Synopsis: The X-Men, mutant heroes sworn to defend a world that hates and fears them, are back! This time, with the help of new recruits The Beast and Angel, they must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. To stave off this imminent threat to humanity, a potential cure is discovered and processed to treat -- and ultimately eliminate -- genetic mutations, once and for all. Now, as the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, must contend with both Jean Grey's world-consuming powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
source:www.amazon.com |
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| Superman Returns (2006) |
 Starring: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey Director: Bryan Singer- Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
- Plot Outline After a long visit to the lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane.
Plot Synopsis: Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic Superman Returns. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has she? Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space.
source:www.amazon.com |
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| Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| Official Work Begins On "24" Movie |
It's now official - work is underway on "24: The Movie". Variety reports that Twentieth Century Fox has closed a deal with series creators Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow, as well as showrunner Howard Gordon, to bring the Kiefer Sutherland real-time thriller to the bigscreen.
Surnow and Cochran will write the script, with Gordon working on the story - a rough sketch of the plot has already been drafted. No talent deals are yet in place, though Sutherland -- an exec producer of the hit Fox series -- has made it clear he's interested in starring in the film should it snag a greenlight.
It's understood the work on the script will begin late this summer, just as production on the sixth season of the show gets under way. Once execs see the script and look at ratings for the first few episodes of season six, they'll be able to make a decision on greenlighting production of the film very early in 2007.
Shooting will then take place next spring and summer during the hiatus between season six and seven. The plan is then to abandon the real-time conceit of the TV show which allows scribes much greater plot possibilities, most notably international travel. The film is not expected to be tied too heavily to the "24" mythology, allowing those who haven't watched the series to understand the movie's action.
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| Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| An American Haunting (2006) |
 Based on true events that took place in Tennessee during the 1800s, where an unrelenting demon haunts and torments a teenage girl and her wealthy family. It is based on the alleged only documented true case in U.S. history of a spirit causing a person's death. | | Production Status: | Awaiting Release | | | Genres: | Drama | | | Running Time: | 90 min. | | | Release Date: | May 5th, 2006 (wide) | | | MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for intense terror sequences and thematic material. | | | Distributors: | Freestyle Releasing | |
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| RV |
 An overworked Bob Munro, his wife Jaime, their 15-year-old daughter Cassie and 12-year-old son Carl are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a family vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans without telling them. Instead of a week in a tropical paradise, they're going on a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle. Dragging his wife and kids kicking and screaming into the RV, Bob's togetherness plan (which is partly a ruse to keep him from losing his job) almost immediately hits a major speed bump. Everything that can go wrong, does. Bob's lame attempts to navigate the unwieldy, oversized vehicle are met with silence and scorn from his resentful family. The RV life is a far cry from their comfortable life in Los Angeles, and every attempt Bob makes to get them into the spirit of the vacation threatens to tear them further apart. At an RV camp, the Munro family is befriended by the Gornicke family--an irritatingly endearing happy-go-lucky clan of full-time RVers. The more they try to elude the Gornickes, the more their paths seem destined to cross. But adversity has a way of uniting even the most dysfunctional family members and each setback the Munros experience inadvertently helps them become a true family again. | | Production Status: | In Production/Awaiting Release | | | Logline: | A family spends 2 weeks couped up together in a motor home. | | | Genres: | Comedy and Kids/Family | | | Release Date: | April 28th, 2006 (wide) | | | MPAA Rating: | PG for crude humor, innuendo and language. | | | Distributors: | Sony Pictures Releasing | | | Production Co.: | Red Wagon Entertainment | | | Studios: | Columbia Pictures | | | Filming Locations: | Los Angeles, California, USA Vancouver, Canada | | | Produced in: | United States | | |
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| Pirates of the caribbean 2 |
 Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) discovers he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Jack must find a way out of his debt or else be doomed to eternal damnation and servitude in the afterlife. Sparrow's problems manage to interefere with the wedding plans of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), who are forced to join Jack on yet another misadventure.
Starring:
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Naomie Harris, Jack Davenport, Stellan Skarsgård
Directed By:
Gore Verbinski |
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| MI 3 |
 uper-spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from active duty to trains new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell (Ving Rhames), transportation expert Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), background operative Zhen (Maggie Q), and fresh recruit Lindsey (Keri Russell) - to travel the globe pursuing Davian and rescue Hunt's love, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). | | Also Known As: | MI 3 MI3 MI:3 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THREE Mission Impossible Three | | | Production Status: | Awaiting Release | | | Genres: | Action/Adventure and Sequel | | | Release Date: | May 5th, 2006 (wide) | | | MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for intense sequences of frenetic violence & menace, disturbing images & some sensuality. | | | Distributors: | Paramount Pictures | | |
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| Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
| V For Vendetta |
 Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression.
| Genres: | Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation | | | Release Date: | March 17th, 2006 (wide) | | | MPAA Rating: | R for strong violence and some language. | | | Distributors: | Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International | |
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