Archive for March, 2008

Dennis (Simon Pegg) has a problem with committing to anything. So much that he leaves his wife-to-be, Libby (Thandie Newton), on the day of her marriage while she is [obviously] pregnant with their child. Five years pass and Dennis and Libby remain in contact for the sake of the child, Jake (Matthew Fenton). Libby has become involved with a new man, Whit (Hank Azaria), and the relationship seems very serious. In order to win Libby back Dennis decides to show that he is finally ready to commit fully to something by running a marathon alongside Whit, or against him depending on how you see it. (more…)

Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) is the one of the members of the James crew on the last train robbery before Frank James (Sam Shepard), Jesse’s older brother, quits the crew. Jesse (Brad Pitt) seems to take an unusual liking to this new outlaw who doesn’t seem too fit for this ruthless job. However, after a while Robert must part with his childhood idol and this is when the real tale begins. This film is not really about the assassination of Jesse James, or about how Robert Ford accomplishes this feat, but rather about the degeneration of Jesse James until he becomes so paranoid that he can’t trust even his longest standing crew members, and at the same time Robert Ford’s disillusioning his childhood idol [Jesse James] to make him no longer into a hero but a villain. (more…)

First let’s start with the expanding movie, Snow Angels which is written and directed by David Gordon Green. The film has been doing well so far as a limited release, making $44,898 from 3 theatres after two weeks (figures as of 16.03.08). Giving the film an average of $8,476 per theatre in the last weekend, which is a little less than double the average of the epic “10,000 B.C.” did in its second weekend. (more…)

After graduating from University, Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) mails a certified cheque for the amount of twenty-four thousand dollars to a charity, he pockets the remaining five hundred dollars and sixty-eight cents, that he had remaining in his college fund, so he can begin his great Alaska Adventure.  Chris leaves everything behind, he destroys all trace of his material self, burns and throws out all of his money, identification and any link he has to this advanced civilized world.  Along the way he learns many things and meets many people.  He teaches himself, and is taught, things most people would never learn in their civilized lives, and learns the purity of life in the wild. (more…)

The producers of the highly anticipated sequel to the James Bond film, Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig has announced that the film’s release date has been moved forward from the original November 7 of this year to October 31. (more…)

When this reinvention of the Batman story began in 2005 Christian Bale signed on for a three-movie contract with Warner Bros. Christian Bale spoke about the possibility of a Batman 3 with Entertainment Weekly the other day and this is what he had to say: (more…)

This weekend there were three big releases:

1. Dr. Suess’ Horton Hears a Who!
2. Never Back Down
3. Doomsday

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It is the year 2008, and World War III has broken out. America is in a heightened state of security. One must use fingerprint identification to cross from state to state. And you are constantly being monitored by this new surveillance branch of the government known as US-IDENT. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) has woken up in the desert suffering from amnesia. He makes his way into Los Angeles and is researching for a role as a police officer in his newest film. He rides alongside police officer Roland Taverner (Sean William Scott) and he ends up in a very confusing story about a lot of confusion.

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