Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Son of rambow


Set on a long English summer in the early 80's, Son Of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up.

Mister Lonely


The story, according to the Korines, is of "a young American man lost in Paris. He scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike, dancing on the streets, public parks, tourist spots and trade shows. Different from everyone else, he feels as if he's floating between two worlds. During a show in an old people's home Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe. Haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to a commune in the Highlands, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin and her daughter Shirley Temple. A place where everyone is famous and no-one gets old. Here, The Pope, The Queen of England, Madonna, James Dean and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform. Nuns fall out of airplanes and children ride ponies. Everything is beautiful. Until the world shifts, and reality intrudes on their utopian dream.

Made of honor


For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: he’s sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies, and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. It’s the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip… and Tom is stunned to realize how empty his life is without her. He resolves that when she gets back, he’ll ask Hannah to marry him – but is floored when he learns that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas. When Hannah asks Tom to be her “maid” of honor, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role… but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it’s too late.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Rogue


While doing his latest piece, cynical American travel writer Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) joins a group of tourists on a river cruise in the Australian Outback. He is immediately drawn to the feisty female tour captain Kate Ryan (Radha Mitchell), though she seems to regard him as a bit of a yuppie. After a run-in with two of the locals, Neil (Sam Worthington) and Colin, the cruise winds to a close, and Kate prepares to take the group back to shore.

When one of the passengers suddenly sees a flare shoot up into the sky, Kate believes it came from another tour boat up river, and persuades the group that they must go and offer assistance. A few miles up river, they come across the sinking remains of a dinghy, but no survivors. When something crashes into the bottom of the boat, causing water to gush in through a leak, Kate has no choice but to head for the nearest land - a small island in the middle of the river. As the group bickers about how they're going to get home, one of the tourists is suddenly pulled into the water by an unseen predator. With darkness approaching, everyone soon comes to the realisation that so is the tide. In a matter of hours, they'll be completely submerged.

With Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Stephen Curry and John Jarratt.

Then she found me


Although Bernice is exuberant, magnetic and famous, with her own TV talk show, becoming acquainted with the mother who abandoned her is the last thing that April wants to do at this point in her life. Aside from forcing her to come to terms with her own sense of abandonment, it also brings into sharp focus the absence of children of her own. As April begins a courtship with the father of one of her students (played by Colin Firth), things become increasingly complicated for her, especially when Bernice will simply not take no for an answer.

The film is directed by Helen Hunt, who also plays April.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Iron Man


When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.

With Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Swank, Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson.

The Eye


Sydney Wells, at the start of the film, is a successful classical violinist, although blind since the age of 5. She and her sister had been playing with fireworks and they had been set off too close to her face, damaging her corneas.

Now, nearly 20 years later, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant which causes her vision, albeit blurry, to begin returning. At first, she is confused and disoriented, unable to understand if what she sees is "real" or not. During her first night with her new eyes, her bedmate at the hospital dies, and Sydney, not understanding, watches her blurry figure being led away by someone else. During her stay, she also befriends a young girl named Alicia, who is there undergoing surgery for a brain tumor.

As time goes on, Sydney's vision begins to clear up and she struggles to understand the new world around her. Her therapist, Paul Faulkner, feels that her strange visions are her mind's way of interpreting what it was never able to before: including visions of fire, death, and the number '106'. Her bedroom walls keep changing to stone and back again, and she sees what appears to be the ghosts of people around her, including a young woman who walks right through her in the street just before she sees her body lying on the ground.


With Alessandro Nivola, Chloe Moretz, Jessica Alba Parker Pose.

88 minutes


Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include an angry student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

REC


REC (or [REC]) is a 2007 horror film co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. The film was released in Spain in November 2007. Balaguero and Plaza previously co-directed the 2002 documentary OT, The Movie. The camerawork and basic concept is familiar to The Blair Witch Project in that it's recorded entirely on "amateur" camera, where the cameraman is also just a character in the story. The film name, derived from the blinking text showing that the camera is recording, underlines the idea.

Fool's Gold


Fool's Gold is an 2008 adventure/romance film about a married couple who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure. The film was directed by Andy Tennant and reunites Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. The MPAA rated the film PG-13 for action violence, some sexual material, brief nudity and language.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Vantage Point


Vantage Point is a 2008 thriller film from Columbia Pictures, written by Barry Levy and directed by Pete Travis. It stars Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker with Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt. It was released on February 22, 2008. The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images, and brief strong language.

Dan in real life


Dan Burns (Steve Carell), is a newspaper columnist and a widowed father of three girls. Dan and his daughters take a trip to the home of his parents and we meet the rest of Dan's family, including his brother Mitch (Dane Cook). The morning after his arrival, Dan is encouraged by his mother to go into town for a bit to give his daughters some space. Dan visits a bookstore and is mistaken for an employee by a beautiful woman, Marie (Juliette Binoche). Dan and Marie strike up a conversation and continue their talk over coffee. They lose track of time, but both are clearly attracted to the other. Dan returns to his parents and is surprised when Mitch introduces the arrival of his girlfriend, who is none other than Marie.

With Alison Pill, Dane Cook, Juliette Binoche and Steve Carell.

Horton Hears a Who!


From the same name book, tells the story of Horton the Elephant who, on the fifteenth of May in the Jungle of Nool, hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called "Who-ville", inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos.

The Whos ask Horton (who, though he cannot see them, is able to hear them quite well) to protect them from harm, to which Horton happily obliges, proclaiming throughout the book that "a person's a person, no matter how small". In doing so he is ridiculed and forced into a cage by the other animals in the jungle for believing in something that they are unable to see or hear. His chief tormentors are Vlad Vladikoff, the Wickersham Brothers and the Sour Kangaroo, and the small kangaroo in her pouch. Horton tells the Whos that they need to make themselves heard to the other animals, lest they end up as part of "beezlenut stew", which they finally accomplish. The Whos finally make themselves heard by ensuring that all members of their society play their part. In the end it is a "very small shirker named Jo-Jo" whose final addition to the volume creates enough lift for the jungle to hear the sound,thus reinforcing the moral of "a person's a person no matter how small."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Smart People


Smart People is a 2008 comedy film starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker and Ellen Page. The film was directed by Noam Murro and written by Mark Poirier. It was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including several scenes at Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh International Airport. North American distribution rights were acquired by Miramax Films. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival[1] and is scheduled to be released on April 11, 2008.

The Forbidden Kingdom


The Forbidden Kingdom is a forthcoming martial arts adventure film which is the first film collaboration between
martial arts veterans Jackie Chan and Jet Li, with action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping.
Filming was completed on August 24, 2007 and it went into post-production on September 29.
As of April 2007 the film is officially titled The Forbidden Kingdom, before it had been often referred to as
The J & J Project.
With Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Liu Yi Fei and Li Bingbing.