Who would have thunk it? Well, anyone in Hollywood really. If they can remake The Hulk twice in just about 5 years, why not a remake of the once popular, easily spoofable, 80s macho TV series starring Mr. T and about a bunch of ex-military men on the lamb for war crimes they didn’t commit. I think, if this film does finally get made in the next year or so (it’s been in the makes since at least 2002), it would be good timing given the current war climate. The plot potentials are a plenty…with the right writers and director.
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March 25th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

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March 16th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

After she is dismissed from her job, a middle-aged London governess (McDormand) gains new employment with American actress and singer Delysia Lafosse (Adams) — a move that catapults her into a glamorous and dizzying new life.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is absolutely a fun, smart, moving and eventual classic comedy. Francis McDormand (Miss Pettigrew) and Amy Adams (Delysia Lefosse) have fantastic chemistry and superb in their roles. The film starts hitting the ground running while still melodically revealing a smart plot and engaging list of well performed characters without missing a step. Miss Pettigrew is a light film with heavier undertones about identity, dreams, reality and love. Though you get a sense that all will end well in the “happily ever after” sense, the film was a smartly acted, well directed roller coaster ride if emotion, antics and well placed humor. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is definitely a film worth seeing in the theaters and buying on DVD when it’s released. Love it!

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March 16th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

Yay, another possibly wonderful comic book film adaptation! “In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?” –from Yahoo! Movies

March 14th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a stunning visual feast along the lines of Terrence Malick’s Thin Red Line. I was interested in seeing this film since I heard about it almost 18 months before it was released. I didn’t get a chance to see it in the theaters so I rented it. This is definitely an epic film worth viewing on the big screen. It’s also an unexpected film in that when you hear Jesse James is going to be portrayed ina  film you expect showdowns at high noons and gunslinging up the ying-yang. But this film was a departure from the typical western film based on a gunslinging legend in that it only captured the short period leading up to and the very short period right after his death.

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March 12th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

Why is it that so many of the best films about Hollywood show Hollywood in such bad lighting. (Yes, that was a pun) It’s probably just like celebrity obsession, the ugly is more interesting, the beautiful just breeds envy, which turns into jealousy which makes you want to see the ugly. A vicious circle with nothing in between. Oh, but there is…in the real world. But, we all know the real world and Hollywood are poles apart, that’s why we love Tinseltown, no? But seriously, what’s there to love about constant fame? I’ll take the fortune without the fame please! Until I hit it big, take a gander at my list below while I daydream about my future riches.
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March 12th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

Based on one of the biggest crimes in British history, a group of unseasoned criminals are lured into a heist, thinking they are going to rip off the safety deposit boxes of some of London’s wealthiest citizens. Instead, they are unknowing recruits on a top-secret mission to steal photos of a Royal princess who was snapped in some compromising situations.

It was strange to see a film set in 1970s London where militant black pride criminals, prominent white politicians, MI-5 or MI-6 operatives and your run of the mill low-level criminals intermix on screen whether in bar settings, parties or back alleys. The setting of the 1970s usually bore me to tears in American films, but woke my senses in The Bank Job, probably because the film is based on a true story of a bank job gone very wrong.
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March 12th, 2008 / Want to Comment?

Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks.

My sister and I were going to go see Will Ferrell’s Semi-Pro but decided instead, randomly, to watch Colin Farrell in In Bruges at the AMC in Emeryville. What a bloody treat! I always liked Colin Farrell and was not at all surprised how engaging and hi-lari-ous his character and acting were in the film. Ralph Fiennes too was just unsurprisingly brilliant. His role as a very intimidating and surprisingly likeable boss of hitmen was comparable in brilliance to ben Kingsley’s very unsurprisingly unlikeable mob boss Don Logan in Sexy Beast.
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March 3rd, 2008 / Want to Comment?