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zipil 29.11.08 - 06:57pm
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zipil 29.11.08 - 07:30pm
NEWS
James Bond's Quantum Of Solace was the international No 1 movie for the fourth week in a row. Its now the highest earning movie outside the US this year. Among 007 films it only trails Casino Royale.
Taxi Driver and Raging Bull writer Paul Schrader is defecting from Hollywood to write and direct for Bollywood in Mumbai. Hollywood he said had become ''a barren, barren place.''
Leonardo DiCaprio is delighted that his tabloid lure has started to dwindle. ''The mere fact that these, I.ll use the word piles, are earning money from exploiting my image is the only reason I hide myself or am not a photo friendly person.'' he said.
It's not even in Britain yet, but the cast of horror movie Twilight have already signed up for a sequel - well the ones that survive have.
Hugh Jackman has promised not to drag the life out of the latest Marvel comic-book film. Wolverine is out on May 1st, the X-Men star is conscious not to outstay his welcome. ''I'm not going to flog a dead hors *
zipil 29.11.08 - 08:04pm
REVIEW
Director Clint Eastwood has created something that feels so emotionally true is a tribute to him and a cast of a very rare brilliance.
We're in a suburb of LA, and its March 1928. Christine is a telephone supervisor on rollerskates. A pair of blood red lips announce Angelina Jolie as Christine, lipstick is very 20's, but on Jolie it also looks like a marker of trouble.
Alone she has raised son Walter 9, until the day he disappears. The police are worse than useless. Then a boy is returned to her, the police insist its her son, but she knows its not.
When she refuses to bend to th police, she is placed into a mental hospital.
Running parallel to Collins tragedy is the story of paedophile serial killer Gordon Northcott.
With a stealth unusual i modern directors, Eastwood merges the two narratives through the testimony of various boys who escaped Northcott's ranch, and one decent, alert detective. *
zipil 29.11.08 - 08:12pm
Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins *
zipil 29.11.08 - 08:36pm
REVIEW
He proved he could do subtle comedy in Meet The Parents, but here Robert De Niro's willing to clown it up as Ben, an ageing A-list schmoozing movie producer.
A top-drawer cast joins him - Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, playing themselves, John Turturro and Robin Wright-Penn.
The film cover 2 weeks in Ben's life as he juggles the demands of Hollywood egos, ex-wives, teen daughters, all washed down with espresso and Red Bull.
It opens with a sleek ensemble of Hollywood muscle at the preview of Fiercely, Ben's latest project, starring Sean Penn.
But when the preview audience expresses disgust at the film's ending, Ben's in no doubt he's in big doo doo.
As his future becomes more uncertain he attempts damage control while clinging to the comfort of his past, the ex-wife he still loves, even the old sofa that needs recovering.
The film is based on the memoirs of Art Linson, the real life producer of Heat, Fight Club and This Boys Life. *
zipil 30.11.08 - 09:15am
NEWS
Sir Michael Caine has revealed what happened in The Italian Job after the coach was left hanging over a cliff.
At the movie's climax, Charlie Croker says ''Hang on a minute lads. I've got a great idea.''And now explaining his character's plan, Sir Michael said, ''In the coach I crawl up, switch on the engine. . .until the petrol runs out, the van then bounces back up so we can all get out, but then the gold goes over.'' *
zipil 30.11.08 - 09:48am
REVIEW
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn play a pair of unwed lovebirds who've dodged spending Christmas with their clans for years by taking foreign holidays.
But this year a thick San Francisco fog puts paid to their plans. Then a TV crew films them live at the airport so their folks know they're not abroad.
They have no choice but to pay festive visits to their four families, four because of remarriages both sides.
Well you can imagine. Vaughn's Brad, has a pair of psychotic brothers, and Witherspoon's Kate gets to beat up loads of brats in a bouncy castle.
Director Seth Gordon's debut feature is a mutant meringue of a movie, wit the sugar icing oddly squashed beneath the bitter lemon filling curdling on top. The result being, an unpleasant goo thats neither sweet nor sour. *
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