Movie Review- Juno

This a great movie about teen pregnancy. Ellen Page is awesome as Juno, a smart, funny, witty high school student. Micheal Cera, yes that kid from Arrested Development, is great as the baby daddy. After being disappointed with him in Superbad, this was a great role for him. The whole film is a great look at relationships varying from Page and Cera to Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman who play the couple who will adopt Page's child. In addition to Page, Cera, Garner, and Bateman, J.K Simmons and Allison Janney are great as the parents of Juno. Raine Wilson has a great little role at the beginning. So basically the entire cast is amazing. This is a hugely funny movie and one that I recommend to everyone. It kind of reminded me of a Todd Soldonz film, but not quite as messed up. It had that same honesty and reality that seems to be missing from many of the movies that are being made. Sure, Juno is really smart and witty, which may not seem like a typical 16 year old, but she could be a typical 16 year old, many are articulate and are not totally annoying. There is also a maturity that is nice to see as it seems most films treat teens as just interested in sex and drugs and alcohol.So go see this film. No, you do not need to see it on the big screen, sure you can wait till it comes out on DVD, but if you want to get out of the house and see a good movie for a date night or a family outing, than see this film. DISCLAIMER: This is not a typical family movie, but would work really well if your kids are older and/or mature enough to handle a movie about teen pregnancy even with the humor it is still about teen pregnancy. It also would be a great jumping off point for the discussion of teen pregnancy the different options available from abortion to adoption to keeping the baby.

Movie Review: "I Am Legend"

Many of you may have seen Will Smith's new star vehicle already; in case you haven't, here's a quick review of this holiday-time action film. This is the third time that a film has been made based on Robert Matheson's 1954 novel: "The Last Man On Earth", starring Vincent Price (about the last actor I'd think of when I think of this role), was made in 1964, and the 1971 film "The Omega Man", with the <i>second</i>-to-last guy I'd want in that role (Charlton Heston). The basic story, if you have been avoiding entertainment shows, trailers and magazines for months: a scientist (Emma Thompson, who is uncredited) has found a viral cure for cancer. Unfortunately, it backfires and three years later it has killed off 90% of humanity, and 99% of the rest (along with many animals) have been turned into pale, hairless zombies that jump around every corner and yell like lions (how else would you make this a horror/action flick, without loud noises at unexpected times?). Smith plays Robert Neville, a colonel in the military whose wife and child are being evacuated from Manhattan before it is quarantined (I won't ruin the method if you haven't seen the movie -- the scenes of evacuation and quarantine are shown in multiple flashbacks that Neville has in dreams). He winds up as the last living human in New York -- every single other being has been infected. The rest of the film shows various fights he has with the zombies, his attempts to find a cure for the infection, and most affectingly, his relationship with his dog, who is also immune -- mostly. The two of them ride in various vehicles through a New York covered with weeds and with buildings half-destroyed. That's the coolest part of this film -- the CGI effects, both how they made NYC look abandoned (apparently, they got permission to shut down streets for long periods of time, and actually imported weeds from Florida -- those aren't CGI), and the zombies. The rest of the movie -- not so much. There are quite a number of plot holes and questions raised that, if you got a reasonable answer to them, would make you say, "This writing is ridiculous!" But that's not why this movie is entertaining. Like many of its type, its purpose is to provide 101 minutes of escapist entertainment on a weekend evening. And it accomplished that goal quite well. Will Smith is excellent as usual; there aren't many speaking roles in this film, and one of the other ones goes to another survivor who shows up, suddenly (and if you think too much about how she gets there, you'll drive some more holes through the plot), and from there, the film drives to a relentless, and actually somewhat happy, conclusion. <b>AYRating: <img src="http://images.bleedcubbieblue.com/images/admin/3star.gif"></b>

Movie Review: "I Am Legend"

Many of you may have seen Will Smith's new star vehicle already; in case you haven't, here's a quick review of this holiday-time action film. This is the third time that a film has been made based on Robert Matheson's 1954 novel: "The Last Man On Earth", starring Vincent Price (about the last actor I'd think of when I think of this role), was made in 1964, and the 1971 film "The Omega Man", with the <i>second</i>-to-last guy I'd want in that role (Charlton Heston). The basic story, if you have been avoiding entertainment shows, trailers and magazines for months: a scientist (Emma Thompson, who is uncredited) has found a viral cure for cancer. Unfortunately, it backfires and three years later it has killed off 90% of humanity, and 99% of the rest (along with many animals) have been turned into pale, hairless zombies that jump around every corner and yell like lions (how else would you make this a horror/action flick, without loud noises at unexpected times?). Smith plays Robert Neville, a colonel in the military whose wife and child are being evacuated from Manhattan before it is quarantined (I won't ruin the method if you haven't seen the movie -- the scenes of evacuation and quarantine are shown in multiple flashbacks that Neville has in dreams). He winds up as the last living human in New York -- every single other being has been infected. The rest of the film shows various fights he has with the zombies, his attempts to find a cure for the infection, and most affectingly, his relationship with his dog, who is also immune -- mostly. The two of them ride in various vehicles through a New York covered with weeds and with buildings half-destroyed. That's the coolest part of this film -- the CGI effects, both how they made NYC look abandoned (apparently, they got permission to shut down streets for long periods of time, and actually imported weeds from Florida -- those aren't CGI), and the zombies. The rest of the movie -- not so much. There are quite a number of plot holes and questions raised that, if you got a reasonable answer to them, would make you say, "This writing is ridiculous!" But that's not why this movie is entertaining. Like many of its type, its purpose is to provide 101 minutes of escapist entertainment on a weekend evening. And it accomplished that goal quite well. Will Smith is excellent as usual; there aren't many speaking roles in this film, and one of the other ones goes to another survivor who shows up, suddenly (and if you think too much about how she gets there, you'll drive some more holes through the plot), and from there, the film drives to a relentless, and actually somewhat happy, conclusion. <b>AYRating: <img src="http://images.bleedcubbieblue.com/images/admin/3star.gif"></b>

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (2007)

Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has planned the perfect crime and just needs his brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) to execute it. However, the job means that Hank must rob his own mom and dad's (Rosemary Harris, Albert Finney) jewelry store. The younger sibling actually goes through with the crime, his mom ends up dead, and his dad swears he'll find the killer by any means necessary. Hank, meanwhile, may be able to pin the entire rap on Andy, but that means enlisting the help of Andy's wife (Marisa Tomei), with whom Hank is having an affair.



Review:
The title of the film is taken from a traditional Irish drinking toast, "May you be in heaven half an hour, before the devil knows you're dead." And in a narrative devoid of any heroes, one might assess the title as long-winded, and excessive in its brutal pessimism. The story revolves around the caustic relationship between two bad seed siblings, elder Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a shady Manhattan businessman with a secret coke habit who is living way beyond his means and desperately in need of some quick cash, and younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke), a weak-willed whining loser also drowning in debt, that includes alimony and child support due to a nagging ex-wife and a financially needy young daughter. Andy hatches what he promotes as a foolproof plan to send gullible Hank to rob their parents' strip mall mom 'n pop jewelry store in suburban Westchester. Tragic complications arise when Hank wimps out and drags a bad news ex-con buddy into the heist without Andy's knowledge or consent, and his felonious chum and elderly pistol packing Mom (Rosemary Harris) end up in a fierce, bloody shootout where they basically blow each other away.

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Prime bid leaves Mel stranded

PRIME Television has taken control of Becker Group, effectively squashing any takeover aspirations actor Mel Gibson may have had for the television producer and cinema enterprise.

Regional broadcaster Prime now owns around 70 per cent of Becker after directors Russell and Richard Becker yesterday sold their 42.6 per cent stake in the company to Prime for 47 cents a share, representing a market value of about $12.9 million.

But the father and son will have to go without Becker’s cinema assets, which were originally supposed to be sold to them for $15.5 million as part of the Prime deal.

Becker scrapped those plans after Mr Gibson’s part-owned firm Dolphete Ltd convinced the Takeovers Panel to intervene.

Dolphete recently bought a 12 per cent stake of Becker’s shares and it was widely speculated to be behind an offer for Becker of “no less than 46 cents per share” disclosed last week by the Becker board.

Dolphete wrote to the Takeovers Panel last month, accusing Prime and Becker of acting in concert and not giving Becker shareholders enough information about the cinema asset sale.

Prime and Becker have similar interests, with hospital magnate Paul Ramsay holding 41 per cent of Prime and 19 per cent of Becker.

Mr Ramsay promised to sell his Becker shares to Prime if Becker Group shareholders approved the sale of the cinema assets to the Becker family.

In its ruling, the Takeovers Panel said the planned cinema business transaction “was a benefit to Richard and Russell Becker, in which no other shareholders of Becker Group would have an opportunity to participate”.

It also said the transaction could affect the success of rival bids for the whole Becker Group, and wanted to know why Becker’s directors flagged $15.5 million as a fair sale price for the cinema business, when the asset was valued at about $30.8 million in the half-year accounts.

The panel told Becker it needed to provide shareholders with more information about the cinema business sale, and barred Prime from voting on the transaction.

The vote was supposed to be held at a general meeting next Friday but Becker announced yesterday the meeting had been cancelled.

Prime last week upped its bid for the whole of Becker to 47 cents per share, or about $30.4 million, after anticipating a rival bid from Dolphete.

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300 - The Naked Truth

The phrase “300 Spartans” evokes not only the ancient battle of Thermopylae, but also the larger idea of fighting for freedom against all odds — a notion subsequently to be enshrined through some 2500 years of Western civilization.

Even today we remember the power of the Spartans’ defiance. “Come and take them,” they tell the Persian emissaries who demand their arms. “Then we will fight in the shade,” the Spartans boast when warned that the horde of Persian arrows will soon blot out the very sunlight. “Go tell the Spartans that here we lie obedient to their commands” the tombstone of their dead reads.

In 480, an enormous force of more than a quarter-million Persians under their King Xerxes invaded Greece, both to enslave the free city-states, and to avenge the Persian defeat a decade earlier at Marathon. The huge force of ships and soldiers proved unstoppable on its way west and southward until it reached the narrow pass at Thermopylae (“The Warm Gates”) in northern Greece. There a collection of 7,000 Greeks had blocked the way. They hoped to stop Xerxes’ horde outright — or at least allow enough time for their fellow countrymen to their rear to mobilize a sufficient defense of the homeland.

Among the many Greek contingents was a special elite force of 300 Spartans under their King Leonidas — a spearhead that offered the other Greeks at Thermopylae some promise that they could still bar the advance of the vastly superior invader. And that hope proved real for two days of hard fighting. The vastly outnumbered, but heavily-armed Greek infantrymen in their phalanx — taking advantage of the narrow terrain and their massed tactics — savagely beat back wave after wave of advancing Persian foot soldiers and cavalry.

But on the third day of battle, Leonidas’s Greeks were betrayed by a local shepherd Ephialtes, who showed the Persians an alternate route over the mountains that led to the rear of the Greek position. When he realized that he was nearly surrounded, Leonidas nevertheless made a critical decision to stay and fight, while ordering most of the other various allies to flee the encirclement to organize the growing Greek resistance to the south.

Meanwhile the King and his doomed 300 Spartans, together with other small groups of surrounded Thespians and Thebans, would indeed battle to buy the Greeks time. They ranged further out from the pass on this third and last day of battle — at first with spears and swords, finally with teeth and nails —killing scores more of Persians. The last few Spartan survivors were buried under a sea of Persian arrows. The body of Leonidas was found among the corpses, his head soon impaled on a stick as a macabre reminder of the wages of resistance to the Great King of Persia.

The Greeks took encouragement from the unprecedented sacrifice of a Spartan King and his royal guard on their behalf. And so a few weeks later at the sea battle of Salamis near Athens — and then again the next year at the great infantry collision on the plains of Plataea — the Greeks defeated, and eventually destroyed, the Persian invaders. The rallying cry of the victors was Thermopylae, the noble sacrifice of the final stand of the outnumbered Greeks, and especially the courage of the fallen Three Hundred Spartans under King Leonidas.

But most importantly, 300 preserves the spirit of the Thermopylae story. The Spartans, quoting lines known from Herodotus and themes from the lyric poets, profess unswerving loyalty to a free Greece. They will never kow-tow to the Persians, preferring to die on their feet than live on their knees.

If critics think that 300 reduces and simplifies the meaning of Thermopylae into freedom versus tyranny, they should reread carefully ancient accounts and then blame Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diodorus — who long ago boasted that Greek freedom was on trial against Persian autocracy, free men in superior fashion dying for their liberty, their enslaved enemies being whipped to enslave others.

Mr. Been on Holidays – smile again!

Mr. Bean's Holiday is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, following the 1997 film Bean. News of the second movie first broke in early 2005, suggesting that it would be written by Simon McBurney, although in December 2005, Atkinson stated that the screenplay was being written by himself and longtime collaborator Richard Curtis. The screenplay was finally confirmed to have been written by Robin Driscoll, Simon McBurney and Hamish McColl. Atkinson also said that Mr. Bean's Holiday will be the last Mr. Bean story.

Unlike the 1997 Mel Smith film, Mr Bean's Holiday was directed by Steve Bendelack. The film began shooting on 15 May 2006.

It was the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money from the film going towards the charity Comic Relief . Prior to the film's release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch was broadcast on the Comic Relief telethon on BBC One on the 16th March, 2007. The movie's official premiere took place at Leicester Square's Odeon in London on Sunday, March 25th and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children's Hospital Appeal charity.

Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer in November 2006 and in December 2006 launched an official website online. The second full length trailer made it online late-January 2007.

Mr Bean has come full circle. Beginning life as an experiment by Rowan Atkinson into how funny he could be without talking, Mr. Bean quickly became a 1990s television favourite. Later, American audiences were introduced to this lovable, child-like buffoon with "Bean: The Movie" outdoing all expectation to gross more than US$230 million internationally. Now it looks like Mr. Bean has taken that final step to become 'Mr Has-bean'.

When Mr Bean wins first prize in a church raffle he is sent on a train trip to the French Riviera, video camera included. As usual, the trip does not go as expected with Bean continuously finding trouble in the most ordinary of situations. As his journey progresses Bean finds himself in the company of two unwitting accomplices: Stephan (Max Baldry), the son of Russian movie director Emil (Karel Roden); and Sabine (Emma de Caunes), an up-and-coming actress and star of the new Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe) production. Accused of kidnapping, Bean finally sneaks his way into the Cannes Film Festival where his holiday footage is aired.

While Rowan Atkinson's particular brand of physical comedy still contains some hearty laughs, this movie stinks of the $1.95 bin at your local video store. Many of the funniest moments in the movie are simply rehashed jokes from the original series. A brief stint with an overenthusiastic maitre d' (Jean Rochefort) in a French seafood restaurant will leave those who remember the steak tartare disaster of 1990 suffering a nagging sense of deja vu.

Not only is this movie tediously obvious, it is also incredibly slow. The French influence means that no one says anything remotely comprehensible for the first half of the movie, with Bean keeping to his characteristic grunts while other actors speak subtitled French. Willem Dafoe is almost a blessing as the overacted film director - for nothing more than he speaks English. Fans offended by the Americanisation of "Bean: The Movie" will find the obtuse French influence of this film grating to say the least.

From critics, Mr. Bean's Holiday has garnered mixed reviews. As of April 13, 2007 the film has a rating of 50% from 10 reviews on the film rating site Rotten Tomatoes.

However, the film has been very successful at the box office. It took an opening gross of USD$12.7 million in the United Kingdom, the biggest opening for a film in 2007 so far. As of May 3, 2007 the film has grossed USD$154.6 million globally.

Spider-Man 3

Peter Parker has finally found the balance he's longed for between his love for Mary Jane Watson and his responsibilities as Spider-Man. The city of New York and it's citizens are at last coming around and appreciating everything he has done as his crime-fighting alter ego, and Peter is in the running for a staff job at the Daily Bugle. However, everything Peter has worked for is about to unravel. Flint Marko, while fleeing prison, is caught in an accident that displaces molecules and is transformed into the Sandman, a new super villain who is able to change his body into any shape of sand he sees fit. When Peter learns of a connection between The Sandman and the murder of his Uncle Ben, he will stop at nothing as Spider-Man to capture him. But before Peter can do so he discovers a mysterious black substance has turned his suit black, and has brought forth a darker side of Parker and Spidey nobody has seen before. Peter begins to give into this new dark personality, starts to abandon the ones he loves the most and in turn his best friend Harry Osborn takes up his late father's mantle as The New Goblin. Quickly Parker begins a new romance with his lab partner, the beautiful Gwen Stacy but in doing so Peter sets off a rival Bugle photographer, a troubled young man by the name of Eddie Brock who is obsessed with Stacy. Little does Peter know the black substance has its sights set on Eddie else as well. Brock is turned into Venom, a arch-foe that mirrors everything Spider-Man can do. Peter is forced to become the strong-willed hero he has forgotten about if he hopes to defeat his greatest threat yet. Written by Phatmaster (edited by Datrius)





Peter Parker has finally managed to piece together the once-broken parts of his life, maintaining a balance between his relationship with Mary-Jane and his responsibility as Spider-Man. But more challenges arise for our young hero. Peter's old friend Harry Obsourne has set out for revenge against Peter; taking up the mantle of his late father's persona as The New Goblin, and Peter must also capture Uncle Ben's real killer, Flint Marko, who has been transformed into his toughest foe yet, the Sandman. All hope seems lost when suddenly Peter's suit turns jet-black and greatly amplifies his powers. But it also begins to greatly amplify the much darker qualities of Peter's personality that he begins to lose himself to. Peter has to reach deep inside himself to free the compassionate hero he used to be if he is to ever conquer the darkness within and face not only his greatest enemies, but also...himself. Written by Dark-Spidey

The highly anticipated final chapter of the popular Spider-Man trilogy sees Peter and Mary Jane finally together, but three new enemies, the Sandman, Venom and Spidey's old enemy, the New Goblin, his best friend, Harry Osborn, threatens the lives of people close to Peter. The greatest battle lies within May 4th, 2007... Written by Michael Anderson

Everything is lining up great for peter he has finally got the love of his life Mary Jane Watson to marry him. But one night when the strange meteor crash's it clangs on to peter bonding him with an alien symbiote suit. This changes peter once the symbiote is attached by to him he changes his life around.Once he finds out his uncle's real killer is still alive who's Flint Marko/sandman he seeks revenge as his ex best friend harry Osborn becomes the new goblin and peter deals with Eddie Brock. Once peter realizes that he is doing everything wrong he decides only one way you can make it right by getting rid of the alien symbiote suit by riping it off witch eventually leads to the birth of venom. peter now faces all the darkest demons as he also tries to win back Mary Jane Watson. Written by Anthony Nardelli
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