Saturday, March 31, 2007

Blades of Glory

Free Screening at the AMC, not many attended cause it was same day email. No line-straight into the cinema, good seats, movie starts; a poor little blonde boy was put in a helirious costume and is icesaketing on a small frosen lake... - Come on - You got to laugh. I bursted once loud when I saw a white bear carpet with head still attached being molested by one of the cast members.

Go. Laughing is good for you.

coming soon

Blades Of Glory
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Oueen.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

She's The Man (DVD)

Fun, girl in disguise.

Blood diamond

Starts so good, then DiCaprio joins to make it an even better, amazing thriller. - true, scary. amazing. "Diamonds are forever" and "Diamonds are girls best friends" - get a whole new meaning after watching this.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Letters from Iwo Jima

Wonderful, beautiful looking flick, subject - war - part two looks at the Japanese front. The crave for life of one Baker who left his pregnant wife home.

Clint Eastwood

Saturday, March 24, 2007

coming soon

letters from iwo jima
she's the man
in her shoes.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Babel

bulletes over the globe.

One of those movies that tries too much. it's good. but works against itself. young arab boy masturbates thinking about his sister. a naked Japanese girl does not help forward the story anywhere - but into a lost in space state.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Writers: Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro González Iñárritu



Brad Pitt

Cate Blanchett
Oscar noms: Mexican nannie story could have shown some more bureaucracy problems at the border, and really it's hot and sexy to see a naked Jap gal any time - but sorry, does not really belong to the story - disappointing.

Re-Birth

Created over noodle soup with David Calig and Oded Levy.

How would one deal with a life changing opportunity experience being re-born, and just like a baby - u can not speak for the next 16 months. and then the only words u can say are papa...

with child psychiatry, what goes in the heads of babies.

The Good shepard

Robert De Niro directs a long, throe, most interesting filled with amazing details, reflections, hearings, most beautiful wife to watch act, brutally painful father and son relationship, just as complex that is can get to. Patience my friends, i want to see De Niro, face to face again, on his feet. my soul flix father

Matt Damon
Angelina Jolie
William Hurt
Alec Boldwin

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (DVD)

50cent gets another chance and another and another. - what a lucky man -

In this film, based on his real life story - 50 is born, then re-born in jail and again after surviving 9 gun shots.

The Gangsta rap world. young love reunited, so many dead - in this gripping drama.

Director: Jim Sheridan

Writer: Terence Winter



50 cent.

Hotel Room (DVD)

Repeted episode in Black and White - with differnt endings.

Poor from start. Weak stories I just don't buy. Dead bride in the closet okay - but why not explore further - would a newly wed really leave his love in the closet? - What could not top the idea - is not been develpoed, another story starts, then another - What's the point? not really sure. -


Directors: Cesc Gay, Daniel Gimelberg

Writer: Cesc Gay

Salvage (DVD)

Okay. If you like horror you must watch how Claire Parker is being slashed, cut, bleed and yeah die. Then the twist begin - she dies once - but then again and again, while you are trying to figure why - you'll get to re-experience the death till you get to realize you are watching "crime and punishment" - serves you right killer.


A crook's brother's film. (Jeff /Josh )

Lauren Currie Lewis

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The Pursuit of happyness

This movie is about a man's dream. Will Smith plays a father who sticks to his dream to become a stock broker, no matter what. Like most true stories everything works against him and slows him down in his pursuit. His to love for his son and his belief in himself keep him going.

There is not one racism reference throw-out the movie, it's beyond that, relating to everyone, as human - charming. - I don't get why during one of the final scenes, in the bathroom, when the employer genuinly wishes luck before the final day, an African American in the theater called out load - "It's not going to happen, you low class nigger!" - so wrong to still see and hear the self hateread some black people have in America.

This movie is about a man's dream who just happens to be black..


Director: Gabriele Muccino

Writer: Steve Conrad



Will Smith

Sunday, March 18, 2007

dead silence

u scream u die. that's the motto of this movie. Will the lead male scream and die while searching for clues to why his wife screamed and died?


It's: "The wooden, puppet, freak show" with great sound effects and suspense that keep you glued to the back of your seat... thou you end up scaring your self more than the movie really does.

sequal?


director: James Wan


Writers:
Leigh Whannell (screenplay)
James Wan (story)
Leigh Whannell (story)



Ryan Kwanten

Saturday, March 17, 2007

coming soon

blood diamond
the persuit of happiness
get rich or die trying

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

shooter

A pro U.S. Army trained shooter is on the hunt - Deserted in the line of fire once he is tempted to re join the CIA only to be used and then eliminated.

Conspiracy in the line of action, not just talk, lots of blow ups, war fare wisdom.

With who is turning to be a fine actor Marky Mark/ Goldbreg (Is Woopie his mother?)

- Don't mess with his dog.

Directed by
Antoine Fuqua

Writers: Jonathan Lemkin (screenplay)
Stephen Hunter (novel)

Saturday, March 10, 2007

coming soon

The good sheperd
Shooter
Dead silence

Friday, March 9, 2007

Match Point (DVD)

Fantastic execution of story telling. Woody Allan has created a stylish brilliant Hitchcock flick. Not a unusual choice for Allen,( a 90 minutes comic movie.)

Set in London darling, telling a story of love, lust, money and choices one takes in life. About luck, Opera, tennis and the perfect murder?

Everyone in this movie is great - excellent casting. Loved it.

writer director: Woody Allen

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Matthew Goode
Brian Cox
Penelope Wilton
Emily Mortimer
Scarlett Johansson

Thursday, March 8, 2007

"Freedom Writers"

Writing does help you deal with issues.

It's Dengerous Minds meet Shindler's list. that's what this movie is about - a true story about a class of students in Los Angeles and their teacher who will just do anything she can to educate. Just warm, it can bring a tear to your eye at times, just magic emotional ride. So very glad I did see this one. Fantastic.

Writer Director: Richard LaGravenese

Writers: Freedom Writers (book "The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them") and Erin Gruwell


Hilary Swank

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

300

Muscle men, monsters, Persian invasion of SPARTA. Lots of blood - the color RED never looked so good. At times the screen looks just like a good old huge renaissance painting, with similar narration as "Sin City'.

A saga about a king and his 300 warriors who will not surrender and not accept any peace offers - All they know and all they will do is just keep on fighting till the bitter end.

Director: Zack Snyder

Writers:
Zack Snyder,Kurt Johnstad, Michael Gordon

Frank Miller
Lynn Varley


Gerard Butler

Lena Headey

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Urbania (DVD)

A lost soul wants to be heard, loneliness want to tell us a story about... not quite sure till we hit the slow motion effect. - A homosexual story.

Two men fall in love - Gay bashers kill one. The other is in desperate need for revange and to re-unit with his loved one.

- A great profile into the mind of gay basher - and great sound mixing.

Writer, director: Jon Shear

Writer: Daniel Reitz


Dan Futterman

The Perfect man ( DVD )

A single mother moves with her two daughters to a new town to avoid dealing with her relationships. "This' Boys Life." - Girly style following the constant search/dream for the perfect match. - All happy, romantic Hollywood movies end in perfection, or/and - an indication of perfection. - this one too. What can I say? Cute and vain all over, don't vomit.

Out-takes show us how much fun it is to shoot a movie. Also to find on the DVD a conversation between the two leading ladies about parenthood.

PS.
BTW - I am the perfect man -

Director: Mark Rosman

Writers: Michael McQuown, Heather Robinson, Katherine Torpey, Gina Wendkos


Hilary Duff

Heather Locklear

Monday, March 5, 2007

Junked (DVD)

This movie follows a group of four junkies, one leader, another who wants the leadership and two other weak followers; A sexually confused boy and a whore who dreams about going to India.

A low budget movie, based on a true story, shot in a old factory - looks to me like somewhere downtown L.A. - what makes one of the plots - ('wanting to go to California') not believable.


Writer Director:
Lance Lane

Thomas Jane
Jordan Ladd
Channon Roe
Kevin Gage

Saturday, March 3, 2007

coming soon

Babel.
300.
Junked.

The painted Vail

This movie is set in the amazing China. - I just want to get on the plane and go there; to the fields and old cities.

It starts with a promising falling in love scene followed by a very fun family conversation.
The story develops, the unsatisfied human nature wants more, hurts the good and is confronted with the truth.

A great journey, time and a great piano score can heal past love wounds, sadly they don't cure the deadly Cholera diseases the doctor is there to fight.

Directed by
John Curran

Writers:
Ron Nyswaner (screenplay)
W. Somerset Maugham (novel)

Naomi Watts

Edward Norton

Friday, March 2, 2007

Frenzy. (DVD)

Rape and kill, what a great terrifying concept. A hunt for the guilty with increasing circumstances leading the police to incriminate the innocent.
The addition of sex to the Hitch(A)cock movie is just a treat.

Set in London darling, very stylish, british, lots of suspense, black sense of humor (my favorite) and birds view of hyde-park corner or it maybe Marble-Arch.

A must see.


Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:
Arthur La Bern (novel)
Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)

Jon Finch

Alec McCowen

Barry Foster

Billie Whitelaw

Zodiac

An epic investigation without an ending. Suspense thriller, a hunt for the 60's - 70's Zodiac killer.

A few horrid killings and lots of speculation, following leads with no real results.

Jake Gyllenhaal is a cartoonist so obsessed with the killer's codes he starts his own investigation. A lovable charecter, all the girls in the theater scream sometimes for his safety.

Mark Ruffalo performance as the detective is great.

Oct. 11 (my birthday) appears twice during the movie. This date is also Claude's birthday. (The lead character in the movie HAIR) and it's Michael Douglas characters' birthday (Nicholas Van Orton) in the movie: 'THE GAME'.


Directed by
David Fincher

Writer:
James Vanderbilt (screenplay)
Robert Graysmith (book)

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Black snake moan

YES,

THERE IS A CURE FOR ALL YOU sex addicts fucks -

- Go see this movie. - It's really good. It's a very small film - euro style - but American. It's going to be a classic. - for sure. Ricci is amazing. It's shot beautifuly, funny and with great music. The Hollywood ending is not harmful.


Writer Directed: Craig Brewer


Samuel L. Jackson,
Christina Ricci
Justin Timberlake

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Intentions (DVD)

A sexually confused amateur actress falls for wannabe director who is also married and a mother of two.

My intentions are not to dish but what starts as a promising look into the 'Behind the scenes' of the theater world, develops into a not well rehearsed drama with weak performance and directing.

The music only once helps forward the story - the rest of the time just distracts. Thou the ending gives hope. I'm not sure you'll have the patience to wait and find out.

Writer Director: Luane Beck

Monday, February 26, 2007

oscar winners 07




The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese

Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)

Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)

Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)

Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)