Monday, December 1, 2008

QUANTUM OF SOLACE


Daniel Craig returns as 007 in this electrifying follow-up to the critically acclaimed CASINO ROYALE. The film opens with two gripping, back-to-back chases, as James Bond (Daniel Craig) tries to heed the orders of M (Judi Dench) and, at... Daniel Craig returns as 007 in this electrifying follow-up to the critically acclaimed CASINO ROYALE. The film opens with two gripping, back-to-back chases, as James Bond (Daniel Craig) tries to heed the orders of M (Judi Dench) and, at the same time, track down the people who blackmailed his love, Vesper. Bond is still struggling with Vesper's death, displaying a new, ferocious violence in his work, and a recklessness that M would very much like to get under control. When Bond discovers a massive, secret organization called Quantum, he believes it might have been a part of the scheme that killed Vesper. He follows the clues to Haiti, where he meets Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a mysterious, driven woman, whose motives seem unclear. Camille leads Bond to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Almalric), a cold-blooded businessman who appears to be working within Quantum. Greene wants control of a valuable piece of land in Latin America, and is part of a massive plan to overthrow the government. Bond knifes, shoots, and kick-boxes his way to the center of the sinister scheme, and discovers that the plot reaches even higher than he imagined, forcing him to abandon M's orders and step out on his own. Director Marc Forster (STRANGER THAN FICTION) has crafted some truly memorable fight scenes, setting them in the most elegant of locales. Everything is beautifully shot, from Bond racing across the rooftops of Italy, to his showdown at an Austrian opera house. As for Craig, he is once again all cold precision and steely blue eyes. His 007 is positively riveting. He struts determinedly into every scene, ready to display his near superhuman fight moves, or bed a bombshell with merely a glance. Yet, just as in CASINO ROYALE, Craig never lets us forget Bond's humanity. He may fight like a ninja and smirk like Steve McQueen, but beneath his impeccable Tom Ford wardrobe, Bond is still but an ordinary man, wearily battling his own inner demons.


Cast

Daniel Craig ... James Bond

Olga Kurylenko ... Camille

Mathieu Amalric Dominic Greene

Judi Dench ... M

Giancarlo Giannini Mathis

Gemma Arterton Strawberry Fields

Jeffrey Wright ... Felix Leiter

David Harbour ... Gregg Beam

Jesper Christensen Mr. White

Anatole Taubman Elvis

Rory Kinnear ... Tanner

Tim Pigott-Smith Foreign Secretary

Joaquín Cosio ... General Medrano

Fernando Guillén Cuervo ... Colonel of Police

Jesús Ochoa ... Lieutenant Orso


Director: Marc Forster

Director: Marc Forster

Screenwriter: Paul Haggis

Composer: David Arnold

Studio: MGM

MOVIE’S RATING: 6.8 ON 10

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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






































Sunday, September 7, 2008

DEATH RACE


Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop. A penitentiary full of felons has inspired the jailers to create a grisly pastime ripe for lucrative kickbacks. Now, adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for televised violence and a spectacular arena come together to form the Death Race. Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames (Statham) is an expert at survival in the harsh landscape that has become our country. Just as he thinks he has turned his life around, the ex-con is framed for a gruesome murder he didn't commit. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein -- a crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill -- Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's warden (Joan Allen): suit up or rot away in a cell. His face hidden by a metallic mask, one convict will be put through an insane three-day challenge. Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in the country's toughest prison to claim the prize of freedom. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, one desperate man will destroy anything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth. --© Universal Pictures

CAST

Jason Statham ... Jensen Ames

Joan Allen ... Hennessey

Ian McShane ... Coach

Tyrese Gibson ... Machine Gun Joe

Natalie Martinez ... Case

Max Ryan ... Pachenko

Jason Clarke ... Ulrich

Frederick Koehler ... Lists

Jacob Vargas ... Gunner

Justin Mader ... Travis Colt

Robert LaSardo ... Grimm

Robin Shou ... 14K

Benz Antoine ... Joe's Navigator #1

Danny Blanco ... Joe's Navigator #2 (as Danny Blanco Hall)

Christian Paul ... Joe's Navigator #3


Genre: Action/Adventure

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Screenwriter: Paul W.S. Anderson

Producer: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson, Paula Wagner

MOVIE'S RATING: 6.5 ON 10

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

TROPIC THUNDER


Ben Stiller. Jack Black. Robert Downey Jr. Comedy fans can start drooling immediately at the thought of these three funnymen joining forces in TROPIC THUNDER. The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the characters they play to get out of a crisis


CAST

Jeff Kahn ... Snooty Waiter

Robert Downey Jr. ... Kirk LazarusAnthony Ruivivar ... Platoon Sergeant Shot in Head

Jack Black ... Jeff Portnoy

Jay Baruchel ... Kevin Sandusky

Brandon T. Jackson ... Alpa Chino

Ben Stiller ... Tugg Speedman

Eric Winzenried ... Chop

per Pilot

Steve Coogan ... Damien Cockburn

Valerie Azlynn ... Damien's Assistant

Matt Levin ... Cameraperson

David Pressman ... First Assistant Director

Amy Stiller ... Script Supervisor

Danny R. McBride ... Cody (as Danny McBride)

Dempsey Silva ... Special Effects Assistant


Genre: Comedies

Director: Ben Stiller

Screenwriter: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen

Story: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux

Producer: Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Eric McLeod



MOVIE'S RATING: 8.1 ON 10

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