Monday, May 31, 2010

Fear Is Reborn On The Planet Predators

Initial critical reaction to the 1987 sci-fi action “Predator” was generally negative with critics focusing on the lack of story and excitement. But reaction to the film has warmed with time. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly named it the #22 greatest action movie of all time. The magazine also ranked the film 14th on their "The Best Rock-'em, Sock-'em Movies of the Past 25 Years" list. Now, the
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Prince of Persia The Sand of Time: Popcorn Fun

“Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time” has come a long way from just being a favorite computer game. Now on the wide screen, the team that brought the booming "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy tries to make live the action, adventure and fantasy set in the mystical lands of Persia. The exotic setting and fantasy tale itself surely have the ability to attract moviegoers, but this latest Jerry Bruckheimer production still added with
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Letters to Juliet

PG | 1 hr 45 mins | Comedy, Romance Movie
Letters to JulietLetters to Juliet is romantic comedy movie starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave.
Synopsis:
When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) journeys to the city of Verona, home of the star crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After replying one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined and romance starts to blossom all around.

Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero

Movie Trailer Letters to Juliet

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

One Destiny For The Last Airbender

A popular Emmy Award-winning animated show, “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, was ran on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons from 2005 to 2008. It’s very popular with both audiences and critics, garnering 5.6 million viewers on its best-rated showing and receiving high ratings in the Nicktoons lineup, even outside its 6–11-year-old demographic. Each season of the show also comprised
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Korean War Resurrected Into The Fire

There are not many movies depicting the Korean War, but one film that still consider by many people as the best Korean War movie ever made and also one of the biggest successes in Korean film history, is absolutely “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War”. Spending US $12.8 million on production, the film earned $68.7 million worldwide to finish as the
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Total Eclipse For The Third Twilight Saga

A little more than half a year after the series’ second movie, “New Moon”, fuelled with bucks by its massive fanbase of women, the third film in "The Twilight Saga" is ready to drain them once again. The first two films in the “Twilight” franchise have been outsize successes. “Twilight” grossed $380 million in combined domestic and foreign box office, while “New Moon” has hit $500 million worldwide in only three weeks. Summit found
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Robin Hood (2010)

PG-13 | 2 hr 28 mins | Adventure movie
Robin Hood 2010Russell Crowe stars as the legendary heroes as "Robin Hood," Directed by Ridley Scott and Screenwriter: Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, Brian Helgeland, Paul Webb, Tom Stoppard
Synopsis:
"Robin Hood" the life story of an expert archer, previously only interested in self preservation, of service in the armies of King Richard against the French. After Richard's death, Robin's trip to Nottiangham, emphasizing the city of tyranny and corruption of a sheriff's crippling taxation, where he falls for spirited widow Lady Marion (Oscar winner Cate Blanchett), a woman is skeptical about the identity and motivations of these crusaders from the forest. Hoping to gain hands Maid Marion and saved the village, Robin assembles a gang of deadly skills are matched only by paid appetite for life. Together, they begin to erode the upper class eager to correct the injustices under the sheriff.

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle, Danny Huston, Max von Sydow

Movie Trailer Robin Hood

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Robin Hood: Stand Out As A Different Telling Of The Legend

From the very start, I wasn’t expecting anything great from this Ridley Scott’s new take on “Robin Hood” account, not even think it would be much better than the already great “Gladiator” which also came from Scott and the main actor Russell Crowe. One of the reasons is absolutely because this one is again another remake from the lazy
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Babies

PG | 1 hr 19 mins | Culture & society, Documentary movie
BabiesFilmmaker Thomas Balmes express how much we all have in common, though born to different parents and raised in a different culture.
Synopsis:
Everyone loves a baby. This amazing new film shows four babies around the world (Ponijao, Pay, Mari, and Hattie) - from their first breath to the first step. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, BABY joy of capturing on film the early stages of a humanitarian trip at once unique and universal for all of us.

Director: Thomas Balmes
Starring: Ponijao, Bayar, Mari, Hattie

Movie Trailer Babies

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

A Summer Shiny Star(k)t with “Iron Man 2”

The first weekend of May - which marked as the start line for summer fiesta by movie distributors - this year finally brings an answer to the big question about how “Iron Man 2” manages to boost up the box office revenue and could it really
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Lena...

I know I haven't lived up to my promise of posting, but I just haven't had the energy to do so lately. I had to pay my respects to the alpha mother of Black film, Lena Horne. I used this pic cause she looks almost exactly like my grandmother here--something I didn't notice until googling her picture. She looks so naturally beautiful, inside and out.

While I don't speak much on early Black cinema such as "Cabin In The Sky", etc. (though I really should), I have talked about Lena a few times. Like how sexy she was in that Gap commercial in 1997, though she was like 80, and wishing that if I'm blessed to live that long to be even half that sexy. I hope I am even half that sexy now!

Also, I talked about a biopic (which was supposedly confirmed by Oprah), that was to start filming in '08 with Alicia Keys playing Horne. Thank the most high that travesty didn't happen; sassy Lena was absolutely no joke, and didn't suffer fools easily, and to me, Keys would just not be the one for the job. But like I said back then--at least it wasn't Halle Berry.



I'm gonna sum up this tribute to "The Horne", as Fred G. Sanford of the respected Sanford And Son put it, by putting up the post from "D-Listed"

If you witnessed a tiny crystal bubble floating through Manhattan last night, it was Lena Horne gliding off to the Emerald City in the sky. Lena passed away on Sunday at the age of 92. Lena's rep wouldn't give anymore details.

Lena kicked down racial barriers when she became one of the first black performs to sing with an all-white orchestra in the 1940s. She was also the first black actress to land a long-term contract at a major movie studio. Lena starred in Panama Hattie, Stormy Weather, Cabin in the Sky and of course as Glenda the Good Witch in The Wiz. In the early 1960s, Lena became a prominent civil rights activist. If you haven't yet, you should read her obit at The New York Times.

Lena's Gap commercial:



And cause I'm a lover of Lena and Flip (TV Land, please bring back the Flip Wilson Show again!) here is another of her; singing a Kris Kristofferson song of all things:

Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Third Toy Story Adventure Takes Off!

Pixar-Disney union represents an interesting maneuver. “Cars” nearly became the final co-production between the two animation studios and “Toy Story 3” originally announced by Disney as a project to be made without the involvement of character creators, writers, producers, artists or animators of the original two features, Pixar Animation. However,
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Iron Man 2: Only Half Of What Its Prequel Was

Blockbuster season blasts off, and after the massive box office success of its predecessor, “Iron Man” which is a minor-property superhero flick based on a Marvel character that was arguably never in the same league as say “Spiderman” or “X-Men”, I think there are nothing that will stop the masses from galloping headlong to their closest cinemas for another dose of Robert Downey Jr and his “Iron Man” entourage, though, people often say that
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Shrek Forever After

PG | 1 hr 33 mins | Comedy, Fantasy, Children's/family movie
Shrek Forever AfterThe wise cracking green-tinged ogre returns in Shrek Forever After, the newest installment in the successful DreamWorks Animation series. This will be the first time that the franchise will be presented in the IMAX format in addition to a normal big-screen rollout.
Synopsis:
Shrek is feeling over domesticated in the fourth installment. He has lost his roar. It used to send villagers running away in terror. Now they run to him and ask him to sign their pitchforks and torches. To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin. The pact goes awry and Shrek must face what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed. That translates into Donkey being forced into cart-pulling duty, fat and lazy Puss in Boots trading his sword for a pink bow and the underhanded Rumpelstiltskin ruling the kingdom.

Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Jon Hamm, Kathy Griffin, Kristen Schaal

Movie Trailer Shrek Forever After

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Ip Man 2: Definitely Worth The Wait

This is the week where two action films with an almost similar name are releases into big screen, both are anticipated sequel of its successful predecessor, though one of them is probably more popular in Asian territory. Yes they were “Iron Man 2” and “Ip Man 2”, but if you ask me to compare between them, I would say that “Ip Man 2”, a semi biographical martial arts film as well
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The Last Song

PG | 1 hr 47 mins | Drama Movie
The Last Song Based on best selling novelist Nicholas Sparks' ("A Walk to Remember," "The Notebook") forthcoming novels and second chances.

Synopsis:
The Last Song" is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) has a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (Miley Cyrus), who'd rather be home in New York. He tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common; music in a story of family, friendship, secrets and salvation, along with first loves and second chances.
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Movie Trailer The Last Song

Buy The Last Song Novel:
The Last Song
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