A new interesting romantic comedy was presented to viewers to judge this past Spring. 27 Dresses is directed by Anne Fletcher and is produced by Aline Brosh McKenna. The movie has an impressive cast; starring Brian Kerwin as Hal Nichols, Charli Barcena as Young Tess, Peyton List as Young Jane, Jane Pfitsch as Cousin Lisa and Judy Greer as Casey.
27 Dresses shows details from a life of a young woman, Jane, who is idealistic, romantic and completely selfless — she is a perennial bridesmaid whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. Jane wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister’s side as her sibling marries the man she’s secretly in love with.
The New York Times reports that the best thing about 27 Dresses is that the Guys are not really the point. Or rather, if getting the Right one is the point of the story, the spark of comedy is carried by the women in the picture.
Ms. Heigl certainly works hard to convince the audience of the existence of a universe in which she could be the dowdier, shyer member of a pair of sisters. The costume designer, Catherine Marie Thomas, worked at least as hard to find a dress (out of the 27 in the title) that might make Ms. Heigl look less than gorgeous. A futile effort, like most of the rest of the movie, or the attempt to find anything else to say about it.
According to /Film, the movie never gets to that point of being a classic, but Heigl hot off of, well everything, does well to keep the movie moving with decent comic ability, and a good supporting cast doing some light lifting.
It has some terrific moments, especially with Marsden (Still doing well, after being Cyclops, Lois Lane’s BF in Superman Returns, and hilarious in Enchanted) being a charming columnist chasing Jane and Judy Greer always being deliriously delightful as Jane’s scene raping buddy.
One of the most interesting and unique movies of the moment is Encounters at the End of the World set to release on June 20th although it has already been shown at several film festivals last year. What makes the film so special is that Encounters at the End of the World stars only one person, Werner Herzog, who also directed.
This film is a documentary produced for the Discovery Channel about the Antarctica and one thousand people living in difficult conditions. Accompanied only by a cameraman, Werner Herzog takes us to that remote location and more precisely to the community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation. FuncheapSF reports on the film.
Over the course of his journey, Herzog examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal, and sometimes absurd experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get.
McMurdo is a gathering place for people who want to step off the map and where everyone seem to be full-time travelers and part-time workers. Beyond the settlement, Herzog ventures from the under-ice depths of the Ross Sea to the brink of the Mount Erebus volcano.
A mergence of two completely different genres in one movie can make it very appealing to watch. The new upcoming movie of Jonathan Levine, the Wackness, is one of those movies, as it combines drama and comedy.
The movie has truly an impressive cast, starring Ben Kingsley as Dr. Squires, Famke Janssen as Kristin Squires, Josh Peck as Luke Shapiro, Olivia Thirlby as Stephanie and Mary-Kate Olsen as Union. The Wackness tells the story of Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), who spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby).
Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, The Wackness captures the spell of 1994–a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died.
According to realTVfilms, the film is also authentic in keeping up with the 1994 New York lifestyle. The characters use pagers, not cell phones, the clothing styles are accurate, and there are many humorous references to the then recently elected Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The Wackness offers a fresh, if not somewhat inane, blend of drama and comedy, sometimes within the very same scene. Written and directed by Jonathan Levine, the film boast fine performances from its excellent cast, especially from Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck, who drops his Nickelodeon persona and occupies someone real.
Before the movie is released, here is its official trailer.
Choke, both directed and produced by actor-turned-director Clark Gregg, is set for theatrical release this Fall. The movie stars Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Clark Gregg, Heather Burns, Brad William Henke, Joel Grey and Gillian Jacobs.
Choke tells the story of Victor Mancini’s life, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private mental hospital. At nights, he runs a scam where he deliberately chokes in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. However, at a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity.
RopeofSillicon.com reports that Choke, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Chuck Palahniuk, tickles the funny bone as it dives into darker areas of human behavior.
At the heart of the film is yet another staggering performance by Sam Rockwell as Victor. He fully inhabits the character and nails both the comedic and dramatic aspects with indelible timing and delivery. A delicious blend of fresh writing, juicy performances, and sharp directing, Choke is actually quite easy to swallow.
According to Cinematical, Choke is really a film for the Palahniuk fans who’ve have been waiting years to see this book come to life.
Those who didn’t read the book, but loved Fight Club, will dig the well-written voiceovers straight from the brain of Chuck Palahniuk himself. However, casual moviegoers and non-Palahniuk fanboys will probably shrug Choke off as yet another comedy with a few hysterical scenes and not much else.
Before the movie is released, here is its official trailer.
Brad Pitt fans should be ready for the upcoming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt with Cate Blanchett it will hit movie-theaters on December 19th. It’s adapted from the 1922 story with the same title written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
It revolves around a man (Brad Pitt) born during World War I in his eighties and ages backwards. Things become more complicated when he falls in love with a 30 year old woman (Cate Blanchett). Here’s what Pop Critics reports.
According to Tilda Swinton, from the MTV Movie Blog, the transformations Pitt goes through will astound us. I have to say, if the teaser was any indication, the various stages of life looked remarkable.
As BUZZSUGAR reports, people are already seeing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as an Oscar winner.
Some folks are already declaring “Oscar!” just based on this Spanish-language trailer for the eerie Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I can definitely see where they’re getting that feeling, as the trailer makes it look like the film succeeds in capturing the other-worldly atmosphere of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story on which it’s based.
Amusement, directed by John Simpson and produced by Mike Macari with Neal Edelstein, was released this past Fall. The movie boasts a rich cast starring Keir O’Donnell, Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, Jessica Lucas and Tad Hilgenbrinck.
Amusement tells the story of a traumatized woman who is questioned by a cop and a psychiatrist about three stories involving a clown, a hotel and a convoy, that involve her and two of her female friends from childhood.
Rotten Tomatoes reports that a disturbing childhood incident links the fate of three women terrorized by diabolical ordeals in Amusement.
Directed by John Simpson (Freeze Frame) from a screenplay from Jake Wade Wall (”When A Stranger Calls”, “The Hitcher”), Amusement is an anthology of seemingly unrelated vignettes shockingly tied together by a common, twisted thread from the past of three former schoolmates.
According to Spill.com, when three female strangers are brought together as part of a malevolent plan, their worst fears soon become a terrifying reality in a dark thriller from writer Jake Wade Wall and director John Simpson.
Crossing Over, both directed and produced by Wayne Kramer, is set to release this summer. The movie is a drama that stars such highly ranked actors and actresses as Harrison Ford in the role of Max Brogan, Ray Liotta as Cole Frankel, Sean Penn as Chris Farrell, Cliff Curtis as Hamid Baraheri, Ashley Judd as Denise Frankel, Alice Braga as Mireya and Summer Bishil as Taslima Jahangir.
Crossing Over tells the story of immigrants from around the world who enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that their new life may cost. Different desperate scenarios in the movie show the real humanity of immigration.
Spill.com reports that Crossing Over shows how every day a new group of immigrants come to US in their search of the American dream.
Every day, a new batch of immigrants comes flooding into Los Angeles in search of the American dream - and every day the price of that dream rises exponentially. As the desperation of these newcomers continually tests the humanity of Los Angeles immigration enforcement officers, the face of a 21st Century L.A. gradually begins to take form.
According to Empire Movies, all the immigrants in this movie share a common bond; they all are desperately trying to get a legal status in the States.
Judd will play an immigration defense attorney who is trying to arrange the adoption of a Nigerian girl. Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Sean Penn and Cliff Curtis also star. Shooting is set to begin later this month in Los Angeles.
If historical films are your thing, then Mongol is one for you to watch. The film about Genghis Khan will be released on June 6th and is directed by Sergei Bodrov. It stars Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun and Odnyam Odsuren.
Mongol has been nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. The film is a collaboration between four companies based in Germany, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia. The official website reports more details.
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, MONGOL transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad’s landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (ZATOICHI, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror.
Mongol is more impressed with its own olden days ready-to-rumble attitude and flesh-ripping Far Eastern beatdowns, than fleshing out with any depth or reflection just who these characters were and how they struggled to exist back then. History as a scenically breathtaking but dramatically sparse guided tour.
New movie of James Marsh, Man on Wire, is set to release this summer. The movie is produced by Andrea Meditch, Nick Fraser and Lenny Crooks and stars Ardis Campbell as Annie, David Demato as Jean Louis, David Roland Frank as Alan (as David Frank), Aaron Haskell as Jean Francois and Paul McGill as Philippe Petit.
Man On Wire revolves around a young man named Philippe Petit, who steps out on a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Petit dances on this wire for an hour with no safety net before he gets arrested for what has become to be known as the “artistic crime of the century.”
Moviefone reports that James Marsh’s documentary, Man on Wire, revisits and recounts this chain of events some 34 years after they occurred.
On August 7, 1974, a 24-year-old French high-wire artist named Philippe Petit committed one of the most astonishing performance stunts of the late 20th century: he strung a thin cable in-between the two towers of the World Trade Center and not only walked across, from one building to another, but did a nerve-wracking series of knee-bends and acrobatic movements on the cable, some 1,350 feet above the ground, before turning himself in. This occurred to the consternation and chagrin of Port Authority policemen, who immediately arrested Petit for the act - prompting many to dub Petit’s stunt “the artistic crime of the century.”
According to cinematical, the plot of the Man on Wire is based on Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds.”
But his obsession, ever since the plans were first announced in the late sixties, was to walk between the Twin Towers in New York. The movie is mainly concerned with that journey, his motley crew of Frenchmen, Americans, and an adventurous Aussie, and how the obsession affected his relationship with his girlfriend Annie and best friend Jean-Louis. All the principles involved in the planning and execution of the incident speak for the film.
Fly Me To The Moon is an animated 3D film which was released in Belgium this January, but will only hit U.S. movie-theaters this August. Besides being an interesting film, it’s the first animated film designed and created exclusively in 3D. Moreover, it will be available only for 3D capable theaters.
Directed by Ben Stassen, it stars the voices of Trevor Gagnon, Philip Daniel Bolden, David Gore and others. This fully 3D animation film revolves around three adventurous flies whose dream is to be the first insects landing on the moon. It’s the year 1969 when everyone was waiting for the launch of the Apollo 11 rocket. Our three heroes called Nat, IQ and Scooter finding a way to enter the rocket before liftoff. Everything seems to be going smoothly until the flies find out that the journey will last longer than the few minutes they initially thought.
When a N.A.S.A. Ground Control official catches sight of the three winged stowaways, he instructs the astronauts to store them in a test tube for later study. But after an electrical short causes the ship’s engine to malfunction, the three intrepid insects manage to escape from their glass mini-brig just in time to discover the wiring problem and fix it.
Till the release you may look for screens, videos and info on the official site.
A new interesting romantic comedy was presented to viewers to judge this past Spring. 27 Dresses is directed by Anne Fletcher and is produced by Aline Brosh McKenna. The movie has an impressive cast; starring Brian Kerwin as Hal Nichols, Charli Barcena as Young Tess, Peyton List as Young Jane, Jane Pfitsch as Cousin Lisa and Judy Greer as Casey.
One of the most interesting and unique movies of the moment is Encounters at the End of the World set to release on June 20th although it has already been shown at several film festivals last year. What makes the film so special is that Encounters at the End of the World stars only one person, Werner Herzog, who also directed.
A mergence of two completely different genres in one movie can make it very appealing to watch. The new upcoming movie of Jonathan Levine, the Wackness, is one of those movies, as it combines drama and comedy.
Choke, both directed and produced by actor-turned-director Clark Gregg, is set for theatrical release this Fall. The movie stars Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Clark Gregg, Heather Burns, Brad William Henke, Joel Grey and Gillian Jacobs.
Brad Pitt fans should be ready for the upcoming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt with Cate Blanchett it will hit movie-theaters on December 19th. It’s adapted from the 1922 story with the same title written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Amusement, directed by John Simpson and produced by Mike Macari with Neal Edelstein, was released this past Fall. The movie boasts a rich cast starring Keir O’Donnell, Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, Jessica Lucas and Tad Hilgenbrinck.
If historical films are your thing, then Mongol is one for you to watch. The film about Genghis Khan will be released on June 6th and is directed by Sergei Bodrov. It stars Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun and Odnyam Odsuren. 
Fly Me To The Moon is an animated 3D film which was released in Belgium this January, but will only hit U.S. movie-theaters this August. Besides being an interesting film, it’s the first animated film designed and created exclusively in 3D. Moreover, it will be available only for 3D capable theaters.