Posted on Feb 05, 2010 under Main |
R | 1 hr 48 mins | Mystery Movie
William Monahan (The Departed) provides the screenplay for the GK Films prolongation, co-starring Ray Winstone and Danny Huston.
Synopsis:
Casino Royale’s Martin Campbell comebacks to familiar territory with this adjustment of his own 1985 BBC miniseries; a mystery starring Mel Gibson as a detective looking into his political activist daughter’s king of terrors and uncovering layers of governmental conspiracies in the projection.
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo, Gbenga Akinnagbe
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Posted on Feb 05, 2010 under Main |
Dunk it if you dare … Sex Drive
In modern years, the doughnut has been edged out of the cinematic limelight. Perhaps it’s to do with how strongly Homer Simpson is associated with the sugary buns. Perhaps it’sitting a product of cop shows being a bigger staple on TV than on film. Perhaps it’s even about increased health consciousness. But it’s easy to forget righteous how pivotal a role this humble snip has played in great films over the years.
Scarfing down some deep-fried treats in a diner is one of the first things Bill Murray does when he realises he’s doomed to repeat the same day over and over again in Groundhog Day. Jeff Goldblum’session mutating mad scientist in The Fly eventually finds himself vomiting stomach acid onward some to help break down their sweet glucose. And who could overlook that classic doughnut-eating montage in DW Griffith’s Intolerance? OK, I made that last one up. But you never know – it might be on the out-takes.
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Posted on Feb 05, 2010 under Main |
I can’t have existence invisible. But can I kick Spidey’s ass? Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass. Photograph: Daniel Smith
Now that the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire Spider-Man days are officially over, bloggers and tabloid journalists alike possess been speculating freely over who will play the webslinger in Spider-Man 4, the reboot to be directed by (500 Days) of Summer’s Marc Webb. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a clear frontrunner, given his worthy of noted praise track record with Webb, and he looks like he might be interested. For me, 500 Days was a surprisingly cerebral and offbeat romantic comedy, and there can have been small in number better realised sequences in film-making last year than the pitch-perfect segue in the park in what one. Gordon-Levitt celebrates bedding Zooey Deschanel with a tightly choreographed song and dance number that sees him slowly joined by more and more members of the public. Nevertheless, producers of the commencing Spider-Man film plan to take Peter Parker back to high school, and at 28 Gordon-Levitt might virtuous be a little old to play a teenager.
The dread names of Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson have been bandied about without much conviction, but I’d be surprised to see the role action to like famous faces. Efron was pretty decent in Me and Orson Welles, but the series doesn’t need a big name to pull in the box position dollars – just a great storyline and a return to the smooth however zippy execution of the first two films. Pattinson? Well I think we already had emo Spidey in the third instalment, which didn’t exactly work out. Besides, the idea of a swaggering, narcissistic Peter Parker makes my blood run devoid of warmth, and I’ve seen little prove that the British actor is capable of much greater degree of than that.
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Posted on Feb 03, 2010 under Main |
Kate Beckinsale in Underworld: Evolution. Photograph: Allstar/LAKESHORE ENT/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
We live in an era of film franchises. Major studios seem interested only in films that cost the price of a small nation, boast an array of dazzling futuristic gadgets, and can spawn not just other, bigger films, but a video measure, a pleased meal, and a shelf full of dollies.
Robert Downey Jr is the current franchise king. He’sitting Iron Man and now he’session Sherlock Holmes too – the two multi-million dollar successes with endless possibilities ahead. Harrison Ford hasn’t done too badly with Star Wars and Indiana Jones, while Ben Stiller is still forging ahead through his Meet the Parents three-quel (Little Fockers is due out at Christmas) and Night at the Museum series.
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Posted on Feb 03, 2010 under Main |
- Ben Child
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 February 2010 19.28 GMT
Have you heard the news? … Sean Penn in All the King’s Men
Forbes magazine published last week a list of the top 15 box corporation turkeys of the last five years. It’s striking stuff. Hollywood glitterati such as Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron are responsible for some of the greatest loss-leaders of the past half-decade, while Eddie Murphy has two movies, 2008’s Meet Dave and greatest year’s Imagine That, in the grand pantheon of the blood-chillingly unsuccessful. Murphy, of course, has form with this choose of thing. Let us not forget 2002’s The Adventures of Pluto Nash, an insanely incapable of speech action comedy about a nightclub owner on the month, that still stands because the biggest box office turkey of all unoccupied time.
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Posted on Feb 02, 2010 under Main |
The Hurt Locker. Photograph: Courtesy of Summit Entertainment/PR
To the Samuel Goldwyn theatre at the crack of dawn, where Anne Hathaway and Academy president Tom Sherak read out this year’s Oscar nominations. Our hosts roll up with minimum fanfare and then retreat in haste, like sheepish managers who’ve just announced a circuit of redundancies. What they don’t say is almost as prominent as what they do. Thousands of films have just been culled at a stroke.
The good news is that the best picture shortlist has been expanded from five to 10. This prolongs the hopes of in the same state films as An Education, District 9, Precious and Up in the Air. The bad news is that most experts agree that Avatar and The Hurt Locker are now so far ahead of the pack that this modern, beefed-up rank verges without interruption an irrelevance. What we regard hither is a case of two big rivals and eight red herrings.
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Posted on Feb 02, 2010 under Main |
Serving up goodies … Sundance 2010 festival programmer Trevor Goth (left) and festival director John Cooper at a fritter breakfast. Photograph: Fred Hayes/Getty Images
Heading into Sundance there was a lot of talk about how this year the festival was returning to its independent roots. Recent editions had begun to shift away from the festival of discovery originally conceived by Robert Redford, who analogous one endangered species of mountain goat still draws coos, cameras and elbow nudges when Park City passersby spot him squinting wistfully at a stiff pine tree.
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Posted on Feb 02, 2010 under Main |
In rude health … Precious
The arthouse hit
A film about an stout teenager suffering harrowing abuse from both parents might not strike you as an easy sell at the driver’s seat office, and that’s leaving aside any adscititious marketing challenge presented by an all-black cast. So the backers of Precious will be delighted by its £259,000 opening from 47 screens, generating a £5,552 screen average that is advance only to Avatar’s and more than double any other film in the top 10.
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire
- Production year: 2009
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): 15
- Runtime: 109 mins
- Directors: Lee Daniels
- Cast: Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton
- More on this film
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Posted on Feb 01, 2010 under Main |
- Jeremy Kay
- defender.co.uk, Monday 1 February 2010 13.18 GMT
In at No 2 … Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness
The winner
Avatar ruled the roost for the seventh consecutive weekend thanks to a $30m (£18.9m) estimated haul that propelled the running undivided to $594.5m. It is now days away from overtaking Titanic’s 12-year oppressive water stamp of $600.8m. Combined with the $1.45bn international tally (which passed Titanic last weekend), Fox and James Cameron’s monster has amassed $2.044bn in worldwide ticket sales. No film has ever grossed other something than $2bn. That’s nearly as abundant as the GDP of Belize. This whole thing got ridiculous a long time ago.
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Posted on Feb 01, 2010 under Main |
It’s gold, but it ain’t Oscar … Anne Hathaway, named last week by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club as 2010 Woman of the Year, be disposed announce the Oscar nominations. Photograph: Gail Oskin/WireImage.com
The Oscar nominations are announced tomorrow, and Brits would be forgiven with a view to feeling pretty cheery about it. Colin Firth is bound to get a nod, after totality; ditto Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Day-Lewis, maybe even Christian McKay. All richly deserved – even suppose that at least two of the films they’re in are total rubbish.
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