TOMMY GUNS AND TOYS

July 2, 2009 |13:46 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

TOMMY GUNS AND TOYSMichael Mann’s “Public Enemies” is a ravishing dream of violent gangster life in the thirties—not a tough, funny, and, finally, tragic dream like “Bonnie and Clyde” but a flowing, velvety fantasia of the crime wave that mesmerized the nation early in the decade. The scowling men in long dark coats and hats, led by the fashion-plate bandit John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), march into a grand Midwestern bank with marble floors and brass railings, take over the place, throw the cash in bags, and make their getaway, jumping onto the sideboards of flat-topped black Fords—beautiful cars with curved grilles and rounded headlights that stand straight up from the cars’ bodies. It’s the American poetry of crime. Throughout the movie, blazing tommy guns emit little spearheads of flame, just as in a comic book. Men get their skulls bashed with gun butts, and get thrown out of cars, but, despite all the violence, the movie is aesthetically shaped and slightly distanced by the pictorial verve of gangland effrontery—the public aggression that Mann makes inseparable from high style. He keeps the camera moving, and the editing (by Paul Rubell and Jeffrey Ford) reinforces the speed without jamming ragged fragments together in the manner of hack filmmaking. As a piece of direction, “Public Enemies” is often breathtakingly fast, but it’s always lucid.
The high-definition digital images are crisply focussed, and much of the movie (in contrast to the usual shock-and-awe thunder of action films) is on the quiet side.

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Bollywood borrows southern spice for 'Kambakkht Ishq', 'Short Kut'

July 1, 2009 |15:08 | Bollywood movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

The Hindi film industry is infamous for lifting Hollywood movies, but it has often been inspired by cinema content from southern India as well. With forthcoming movies like "Kambakkht Ishq", "Short Kut - The Con Is On" and "Wanted", Bollywood seems to be on a spree of remaking films made down south.

Releasing Friday, Akshay Kumar- Kareena Kapoor's romantic comedy "Kambakkht Ishq" is the remake of Kamal Haassan's 2002 Tamil hit "Pammal K. Sambandam".

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ANXIETY TESTS

June 30, 2009 |12:37 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

ANXIETY TESTSThe Iraq war has been dramatized on film many times, and those films have been ignored just as many times by theatre audiences. But Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” is the most skillful and emotionally involving picture yet made about the conflict. The film, from a script by Mark Boal, has a new subject: the heroism of the men who defuse improvised explosive devices, sloppily made but lethal bombs planted under a bag or a pile of garbage or just beneath the dirt of a Baghdad street. Bigelow stages one prolonged and sinister shoot-out in the desert, but the movie couldn’t be called a combat film, nor is it political, except by implication—a mutual distrust between American occupiers and Iraqi citizens is there in every scene. The specialized nature of the subject is part of what makes it so powerful, and perhaps American audiences worn out by the mixed emotions of frustration and repugnance inspired by the war can enjoy this film without ambivalence or guilt. “The Hurt Locker” narrows the war to the existential confrontation of man and deadly threat.

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Transformers blows away weekend box office

June 29, 2009 |11:11 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

Transformers blows away weekend box office“Transformers” surprised media analysts with a $201.2 million performance in its first four days, and today is reported to have achieved the second-best five-day opening total in Hollywood history.

The Paramount/Dreamworks collaboration opened Wednesday and sold $112 million on the traditional three-day weekend, Hollywood.com estimated.

“The Proposal” entered its second weekend with $69 million banked in 10 days, and the Disney movie is estimated to deal $18.5 million this weekend. In third place this weekend is “The Hangover,” a Warner Brops movie that is on track to sell $17.2 million on its third weekend of release. The breakout comedy has a $183.2 million gate in four weeks.

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The top ten most offensive movies

June 27, 2009 |16:37 | Hollywood Movie  By : Team X

The top ten most offensive movies

So the secret is out. Brϋno, the new comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen, is offensive. But hilariously so. The film (released on July 10), say the reviews leaked online, “pushes boundaries further than Borat ever did” (according to the BBC). With the aim of exposing hypocrisy, the movie sends a straight man (Baron Cohen) under cover as a gay man (Brϋno) into the heart of the American psyche, armed with rubber vibrators, PVC hotpants and campy putdowns. Hilarious, yes? Well, not according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation which, after a private screening of the movie, issued a statement saying that it had “mixed emotions about the movie,” which often “hit the gay community” instead of defending it.

What makes a movie offensive? The well-noted irony is that from within the parody comes the validation of the very stance that was originally up for ridicule. And Baron Cohen is not alone in falling into this trap. For decades, movies from Pink Flamingos to Life of Brian, have toyed with offensive material. And yet today, from the constant stream of gay jokes in the comedies of Judd Apatow, to the daring racial gag in Tropic Thunder (Robert Downey Jr goes black!), the free-for-all aesthetic is proving increasingly problematic. When, for instance, does a gay caricature stop being inherently laughable and become a vehicle for exposing hypocrisy? And why do racist jokes cease to be racist jokes just because we know they’re racist jokes?

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Wii Getting Hollywood Movies (In Japan)

June 26, 2009 |14:50 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

Wii Getting Hollywood Movies (In Japan)Nintendo is getting closer to a streaming Wii video service that would translate well to Western audiences.
In Japan, where the Wii’s video channel launched in April, Hollywood films will be available through the same service that powers Blockbuster’s on demand offerings. Sonic Solutions, with its Roxio CinemaNow service, will partner with Fujisoft, which handles Nintendo’s “Minna no Theater Wii” (”Everyone’s Theater Wii”) channel.
It’s no stretch of the imagination to see this video service coming to the US and Europe. In addition to Blockbuster, CinemaNow is already available in the West through LG Blu-ray players, Dell PCs and Archos portable media players.

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Capsule movie reviews

June 25, 2009 |12:37 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

NEW MOVIES "Merry Gentleman" (R). Michael Keaton and Kelly Macdonald star in this thematically ponderous story about the friendship between a suicide-prone hit man and a troubled woman. Grade: C+ Opens Friday, June 26."My Sister's Keeper" (PG-13). Not reviewed. Abigail Breslin stars in this drama as a young girl who is conceived by mom Cameron Diaz to provide a donor match for her leukemia-stricken sister. Opens Friday, June 26."Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (PG-13). Not reviewed. In this sequel, Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf again battle against evil forces under the direction of Michael Bay. Opens Wednesday, June 24.NOW PLAYING

"Angels and Demons" (PG-13). Tom Hanks returns for this sequel to "The Da Vinci Code," in which the papal succession plot plunges into preposterous twists. Among the many things to wonder about is how the Hanks character can be an expert on Vatican history and yet be unable to read either Italian or Latin. The frantic story does hold your attention, though, and there are effective supporting performances by Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Grade: B-

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

June 24, 2009 |10:48 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

Transformers-Revenge

The creative people behind the cretinous “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the second blockbuster inspired by the popular Hasbro toys, have segmented their demographic into four discrete categories:1. Young teenage boys who still play with Transformer toys (or keep them under the bed).

2. Older teenage boys who identify with the professional doofus Shia LaBeouf.

3. Somewhat older teenage boys who would like to play with the professional hottie Megan Fox.

4. Boys of all ages who think it would be cool to go to war and run around the desert shooting guns.

Of course, viewers can embrace several categories at once; say, those who collect toys and liked Mr. LaBeouf in the last “Indiana Jones” movie. Or those who fantasize about having sex with Ms. Fox while shooting guns, a vision that distills the auteurist ambitions and popular appeal of the movie’s director, Michael Bay.

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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Movie Revie

June 23, 2009 |16:17 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

Transformers-Revenge-Of-TheTransformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Jaw!!!I'll begin by saying that I expected the film to be inferior to its 2007 original. I couldn't have been more wrong as Michael Bay has created something that is more action packed, emotional and funny. The runtime at almost 2.5 hours never felt too long, I could have watched it all night.

The CGI has improved and there really are some staggering set pieces, namely Optimus Prime's intense forest fight with three Decepticons including Megatron, the Shanghai set opening and the finale in Egypt to name but a few. You would be forgiven for thinking that the novelty of the transformations themselves would wear off after the first film but they are just as spellbinding in this sequel.

The film's beating heart still lies in the bond between Sam Witwicky(the excellent Shia Lebouef) and his loveable Autobot guardian Bumblebee. Their relationship is put to the test as Sam is heading off for college with the intention of leading a normal life. Sam's parents are used more in Revenge Of The Fallen and add teriffically to the human element of the film. In a film about giant alien robots battling it out, it's still very important to have human characters that you can really care about and the two parents are not only consistently funny but in one of the later scenes with their son, Sam very dramatic and emotional, said scene gave me shivers.

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Year One Movie Review

June 22, 2009 |10:29 | Hollywood Movie | Movie Previews  By : Team X

Year-One-Movie-ReviewYear One is best described as Nacho Libre meets SuperBad. It has all the elements of a Jack Black movie while still interjecting some of the values of a Judd Apatow film while taking itself much less serious. Its funny, its well written and it mixes two of my favorite comedic actors in Jack Black and Michael Cera.

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world in 'Year One'.

Jack Black plays the typical character of hero who really should know better then call himself a hero and Michael Cera delivers as the feminine ackward guy trying to make it in a primitive world. The dynamics between the two definitely work and combined with some good writing it makes for a lot of laughs. Admittedly it wont win any awards and does not break new comedic ground but it is fun!

The film is a Judd Apatow produced project but the bar is much lower on this film then some of his higher thinking projects like Knocked up. Where knocked up has alot of deep thinking and comedic wit, Year One delivers simple light hearted laughs. It has fart jokes, jokes about lesbians, homosexuals and just about every christian religious act you can imagine. That said it is done light heartedly and is fun and entertaining.

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