Anastasia Cartoon
Anastasia is a 1997 American animated film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman at Fox Animation Studios. The film was released on November 21, 1997 by 20th Century Fox. The idea for the film originates from Fox’s 1956 live-action film version of the same name. The plot is based around the urban legend that Anastasia, youngest daughter of the last monarch of imperial Russia, in fact survived the execution of her family, and thus takes various liberties with historical fact. The animators admitted that they had taken creative license with actual events, but hoped it would capture an essence of the royal family. Executives at Fox gave Bluth and Goldman the choice of creating an animated adaptation of either the 1956 film or the musical My Fair Lady. Read the rest of this entry »
The Other Guys
The Other Guys tells us to not be satisfied with films that “aren’t that bad” and at the very least require filmmakers give us something “good.” Sometimes it’s hard to admit you’ve spent hard earned money on a film that doesn’t live up to expectation or the money you spent. As a movie reviewer when someone tells you a movie “wasn’t that bad” after reading your negative review it feels like sweet vindication when a movie comes along proving it doesn’t benefit anyone to kowtow to a lesser product. As the second buddy cop comedy of 2010 arrives, The Others Guys proves patience is a virtue, not to mention it would appear Adam McKay can make a movie I actually like. Read the rest of this entry »
Tooth Fairy movie
Hockey player Derek “Tooth Fairy” Thompson (Dwayne Johnson) is the most violent player in the minor leagues, but when he tells his girlfriend’s young daughter the truth that there is no tooth fairy, he’s forced to perform community service as a tooth fairy himself. As much as you might want to give this moronic quote-unquote comedy a pass or write it off as a movie only for kids, “Tooth Fairy” is clearly 20th Century Fox’s attempt at replicating the success of Disney family comedies by using the same formula of a successful but imperfect man who desperately needs to be taught a lesson by being put into a situation of responsibility. At least that might have been an underlying intention for dressing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a tutu and wings and hoping for the best. Read the rest of this entry »
The Godfather
Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a “godfather” or “don,” the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero.
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The Town
Warner Bros has released the first trailer for the Ben Affleck-directed big screen adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel The Prince of Thieves which is titled The Town. Affleck stars as a career thief who falls in love with the manager of a bank he robbed. I know that might not sound like an interesting concept for a movie, but the trailer presents it as a gripping dramatic thriller.
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Inception
Inception is a 2010 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, and Cillian Murphy. The film, essentially a caper movie, centers on Dom Cobb, a thief who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. His abilities have cost him his family and his nationality, but a chance at redemption and regaining his old life is promised when Cobb and his team of specialists are hired to plant an idea in a target’s subconscious. The film’s title refers to the task of planting an idea rather than stealing one, a concept that Cobb is seemingly less acquainted with.
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Inception
Inception is sci-fi action thriller film written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, with a supporting cast that includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao and Michael Caine. Inception is scheduled to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on July 16, 2010. Inception was first developed by Christopher Nolan, based on the notion of “exploring the idea of people sharing a dream space – entering a dream space and sharing a dream. That gives you the ability to access somebody’s unconscious mind.
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Predators
“Predators” may be the first film in history to open with a deus ex machina. Yes, the entire plot and all the human characters drop into the movie from the heavens. The last thing they remember is a blinding flash of light. Now they’re in free fall, tumbling toward the surface, screaming, grabbing for ripcords on the parachutes that they didn’t know they had. A bold new chapter in the Predator universe, “Predators” was shot on location under Rodriguez’s creative auspices at the filmmaker’s Austin based Troublemaker Studios, and is directed by Nimród Antal. The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold blooded killers
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SAW VI
Director Kevin Greutert (who was editor on all of the previous Saw movies and is now succeeding to David Hackl for helming Saw 6), Saw VI concludes the second trilogy of the series that focused on the posthumous effects of the Jigsaw Killer and the progression of his successor, Mark Hoffman. In the film, Hoffman sets up a new trap for an insurance executive, William Easton while the FBI trails the last living Jigsaw accomplice suspect, Peter Strahm. The film’s plot has a heavy emphasis on the 2009 economic struggle of the U.S. government attempting to regulate healthcare.
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Daybreakers
Daybreakers (2010 Movie) is a vampire film directed and written by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig. The film was produced by Chris Brown, Sean Furst and Bryan Furst. Daybreakers is distributed to us by Lionsgate and was budgeted $21 million. This January, Lionsgate and Screen Australia takes vampires in a new direction with the futuristic sci-fi thriller, DAYBREAKERS. The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world’s population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species – forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. Read the rest of this entry »
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