Saturday, October 25, 2008

Quarantine


Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. Unbeknownst to them, a woman living in the building has contracted a rare strain of rabies. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside

Cast

Jennifer Carpenter ... Angela Vidal

Steve Harris ... Scott Percival

Jay Hernandez ... Jake

Johnathon Schaech ... George Fletcher

Columbus Short ... Danny Wilensky

Andrew Fiscella ... James McCreedy

Rade Serbedzija ... Yuri Ivanov

Greg Germann ... Lawrence

Bernard White ... Bernard

Dania Ramirez ... Sadie

Elaine Kagan ... Wanda Marimon

Marin Hinkle ... Kathy

Joey King ... Briana

Jermaine Jackson ... Nadif

Sharon Ferguson ... Jwahir


Director: John Erick Dowdle

Screenwriter: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle

Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Sunday, October 19, 2008

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE


Diane Lane and Richard Gere team up for the third time (after COTTON CLUB and UNFAITHFUL) for this three-hankie romance based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Adrienne Willis (Lane) feels her life falling apart around her: her unfaithful... Diane Lane and Richard Gere team up for the third time (after COTTON CLUB and UNFAITHFUL) for this three-hankie romance based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Adrienne Willis (Lane) feels her life falling apart around her: her unfaithful husband (Christopher Meloni, LAW & ORDER: SVU) is begging to come home, and her teenage daughter (Mae Whitman, HOPE FLOATS) can't stand to be around her. When her friend (Viola Davis, ANTWONE FISHER) asks her to watch her bed and breakfast in the picturesque town of Rodanthe, Adrienne leaps at the chance to get away. But since it's late in the season, there's only one guest: the handsome Dr. Paul Flanner (Gere), who is quiet about his reason for coming to the town. Driven together by a powerful hurricane, Adrienne and Paul find love and comfort in each other's arms. Cinematic romances between grown-ups are rare, and this finely cast drama will appeal to people who love films like THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY and other adaptations of Sparks's books, particularly MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. Gere and Lane are both veterans (who look none the worse for wear), and they have perfected starring in relationship-driven films. But the North Carolina town of Rodanthe deserves plenty of praise as well, since it takes a starring role. Director of photography Affonso Beato (a frequent collaborator with Pedro Almodovar) shoots the beautiful beaches and the welcoming inn with such affection that it's hard not to see it as the perfect place to fall in love.


Cast

Diane Lane ... Adrienne Willis

Richard Gere ... Dr. Paul Flanner

Christopher Meloni ... Jack Willis

Viola Davis ... Jean

Becky Ann Baker ... Dot

Scott Glenn ... Robert Torrelson

Linda Molloy ... Jill Torrelson

Pablo Schreiber ... Charlie Torrelson

Mae Whitman ... Amanda Willis

Charlie Tahan ... Danny Willis

Carolyn McCormick ... Jenny

Ted Manson ... Old Gus

Ato Essandoh ... Jean's Lover

Terri Denise Johnson ... Medical Resident

Jessica Lucas ... Admiring Nurse


Director: George C Wolfe

Screenwriter: Ann Peacock, John Romano

Producer: Denise Di Novi

Composer: Jeanine Tesori

Studio: Warner Bros.


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Saturday, October 11, 2008

EAGLE EYE


Eagle Eye is a race-against-time thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations – using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening – and more importantly, why. --© Dreamworks



CAST

Shia LaBeouf ... Jerry Shaw

Michelle Monaghan Rachel Holloman

Rosario Dawson ... Zoe Perez

Michael Chiklis ... Defense Secretary Callister

Anthony Mackie Major William Bowman

Ethan Embry ... Agent Toby Grant

Billy Bob Thornton Agent Thomas Morgan

Anthony Azizi ... Ranim Khalid

Cameron Boyce ... Sam Holloman

Lynn Cohen ... Mrs. Wierzbowski

Bill Smitrovich ... Admiral Thompson

Charles Carroll ... Mr. Miller

William Sadler ... William Shaw

Deborah Strang ... Jerry's Mom

Dariush Kashani ... Sgt. Rourke (Translator)


Director: D.J. Caruso

Screenwriter: Dan McDermott, Travis Wright, John Glenn, Hillary Seitz

Story: Dan McDermott

Producer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Patrick Crowley

Studio: Dreamworks SKG


MOVIE'S RATING: 6.5 ON 10

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

BURN AFTER READING

With their overtly comedic follow-up BURN AFTER READING, the Coen Brothers return--about a third of the way--from the dark, dank recesses of the human psyche they traversed in their Oscar-winning NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. For those unfamiliar with the landscape of modern movie psychoanalysis, this puts the fraternal filmmakers square in the cruel, misanthropic, and farcical realm of their 1990s-era body of work, somewhere between the tragicomic crime thriller of FARGO and the disconnected noir-homage anti-storytelling of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with 2007's NO COUNTRY retroactively adding new nihilism-tinged dimensions of smart skepticism to the proceedings. In a more linear trajectory, BURN AFTER READING also stands as the third entry, after BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO, in what could be an unofficial Tragedy of Human Idiocy trilogy, wherein characters make the most outlandishly moronic moves to devastating consequences simply by adhering to true human behavior. Indeed, Carter Burwell's emotionally weighty score, which washes over biting scenes of explosive, anesthetizing belly laughs, is very reminiscent of his FARGO work. BURN is ostensibly structured and propelled by a spy-thriller plotline involving a classified CD lost by a disgraced CIA spook and found by two simple gym employees. But, in actuality, it's simply--amazingly--a collection of brilliant caricature studies interwoven by veracious, if Coenesque, social interactions, as epitomized by the pathos of the Frances McDormand character's precipitous quest for cosmetic surgery. The CIA superior who learns of the film's events (always second-hand and sometimes along with the viewer) doesn't know what to make of it, and why would he? This is the first Coen film in almost 20 years not shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins, yet the "new" guy, Emmanuel Lubezki (CHILDREN OF MEN), has created as visceral and emotionally fraught a high-definition cartoon as any since BARTON FINK



Starring: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda SwintonDirector: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Screenwriter: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Studio: Focus Feature