Posted on Jul 04, 2009 under Main |
PG-13 | 1 hr 48 mins | Comedy, Family, Romantic movie
A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.
Synopsis:
When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her trusting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The improbable leash heads to Alaska to congregate his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation afterwards another. With an offhand wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the represent despite the precarious consequences.
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Akerman, Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Denis O’Hare, Betty White
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Posted on Jul 04, 2009 under Main |
Planet Disney has posted some new habitual conduct photos from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which appear to be scanned from a magazine. I have cleaned up the images a bunch, and included the cleaner versions after the jump. The photos contain Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice with The White Rabbit. No characters that we haven’t care in quest of previously, but either photo gives us a preferable look at the make-up and wardrobe of Burton’s Wonderland. Thanks to /Film reader Jason for the tip.
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Posted on Jul 04, 2009 under Main |
The line-up according to this year’s August Bank Holiday Film 4 Frightfest has been unveiled and it looks like a bumper crop for the gorehounds of London. After the make tractable I’ll post the full list of which’s planned, point out my top five picks and share some new images from a couple of the most keenly anticipated horror pictures of the year. All that, and distinct parts on Andy Nyman’s 100 Best Kills coming right up…
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Want to know when new trailers for Where The Wild Things Are, Sherlock Holmes, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Jennifer’s Body and District 9 are scheduled to hit? We have some updates afterwards the skip.
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Exotic birds … Werner Herzog upon the set of Fitzcarraldo. Photograph: Jean Louis Atlan/Sygma/Corbis
“Caracas, 21 June 1979: No one came to meet me. My passport was confiscated immediately because I had no visa.”
- Fitzcarraldo
- Release: 1980
- Country: Rest of the cosmos
- Cert (UK): 15
- Runtime: 158 mins
- Directors: Werner Herzog
- Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski
- More on this pellicle
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Michael Bay with actors Isabel Lucas and Ramon Rodríguez. Photograph: Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images
Michael Bay really ought to be preserved for posterity. Not for his movies, which - almost universally - are mindless, loudly trash. And not for his ability to pour vast sums of gold bullion into Hollywood’s coffers, though no distrust Paramount, the studio behind his current mega-hit Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, would disagree.
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Release: 2009
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 149 mins
- Directors: Michael Bay
- Cast: Hugo Weaving, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Matthew Marsden, Megan Fox, Rainn Wilson, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson
- More on this thin skin
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Just a week ago we reported on Buried, the indie thriller about a civilian contracter in Iraq who is kidnapped and buried alive, to be played by Ryan Reynolds. Now The Playlist got quotes from an Autralian TV interview with Reynolds, who says the movie is quite him, all the time. One supply with hands, one coffin, one crazy thriller.
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Jonah Hill evidently really digs the movies by Mumblecore auteurs Jay and Mark Duplass. Their film The Puffy Chair, through two brothers on a road catch to pick up a replica of an odd family heirloom, is one of his favorites. So the three did a movie in company, and according to MTV the project condign finished a six-week LA shoot. In the untitled pellicle (formerly called Safety Men) Hill is the son of Marisa Tomei, who has just begun a affinity with John C. Reilly.
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Thirty minutes into Visioneers—a high concept indie dramedy that is, well, brand renovated to the public—I was consumed by the supposition that I, most likely, will never see the movie for sale in a really choice record store. (Don’t annoyance, this movie review will not serve as a wistful rant on the music industrial art courtesy of a wannabe Nick Hornby or Chuck Klosterman.) The realization got me down for a half-a-second. Nevertheless, calling Visioneers a “prized would-be staple of the ‘choice record store movie genre’” is a tidy complement that sums up how I be excited nearly it.
In the mid/after the proper time ‘90s and early ‘00s, one could find a softly-curated section of DVDs in numerous independent record stores. Browsing the small selection was a welcome, habitual cool-down after hours worn out listening to and considering albums. Generally, the selection amounted to: concert films like Ziggy Stardust, The Show, and Bill Hicks Live. Drug movies like Easy Rider and Neco z Alenky. Godzillas. Tromas. “OG”-flicks like New Jack City and Fresh. Usually a movie starring Natasha Lyonne that wasn’t American Pie. Docs like Grey Gardens and The Corporation. And odd movies starring great comedians allied The Magic Christian and The Razor’s Edge. Right, Visioneers would be bunched in with those two.
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Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under Main |
Right after this, geeks are having difficulty formulating their conflicted emotions about pics of a 15-year-old Dakota Fanning on the set of The Runaways, the 2010 girl-punker biopic. At times like this, I think the guttural proclamation, “Um, that’s racist like a robot!” will suffice. But yeah, Just Jared by way of Chud has posted a bevy of publicity-stunt pics of Fanning, for the reason that jail-bait lead-singer Cherie Currie, tangling around with Kristen Stewart, as leather-clad guitarist Joan Jett. Like a bearded Michael Musto, writer Devin Faraci predicts the movie could spark a fashion revolution amongst teen girls. I could see that happening. Maybe. I mean, the cover of Nylon magazine and exposure in Urban Outfitters is prob a lock-up. And Warped Tour would definitely be up for a lame “interactive” fitting and greet. A new, recommended pic of Stewart, in a Stooges tee no less, after the jump…
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