30 Mar 2009

Baby Mama – Out on DVD now

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Directed by Michael McCullers this film revolves around a successful single career woman Kate Holbrook played by Tina Fey (the comic who so successfully appeared as Sarah Palin before the US elections) and her increasingly loud biological clock. As well as being single and ordering sperm from a menu she finds out that her uterus is a T shape, and it would be 1 in a million if she did conceive. In increasingly desperate attempts to have a child she finds a surrogate mother Angie Ostrowiski played by Amy Poehler who is straight out of a trailer park. Angie moves out of her house and then and moves in with Kate as she has no where else to go – and so begins an odd couple senario.


I rented this film as I had read some good reviews, and this isnt the sort of film I would normally choose but I am open to being surprised amused and won over. On viewing though I was disappointed. Both leads are played well and the script is fine I just didn’t find it original enough and although amusing in a light hearted way I didnt find it laugh out loud funny either. I found the set ups and situations in the movie rather predictable – a messed up loud chaotic person moves in with controlled neat freak to ‘hilarous’ consequences when they both learn how much they have in common. Even the star turns of Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin who both play ridiculious characters could have benefited with being more extreme and comical and could have taken their characters to the exteme.


It’s a decent film but for me it didn’t have enough humour or originality to make it stand out from any other film of this genre.

24 Mar 2009

Burn After Reading

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Burn After Reading …. Out on DVD now.

Heres the cast and character breakdown for the Joel & Ethan Coen Brother’s follow up to the Oscar winning No County For Old Men; John Malkovich plays a CIA agent Osborne Cox who is forced to quit his job because of an alohol problem he is married to Katie played by Tilda Swinton whos character is having an affair with US Marshall Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney). Thrown into the mix is Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt two misguided gym workers one driven by getting her need to get her plastic surgery paid for and one who believes he is in control when the two stumble across a secret CIA dossier lost at the gym where they work.

This is about as far removed from No Country For Old Men as you can get, its a spoofed up twisting funny crime caper from the Coen stable, full of ridiculous self important characters who stumble through the film largely unaware of anything other than themselves. The characters In Burn After Reading are more like those in Oh Brother Where Art Thou? rather than the serious brooding atmosphere of the recent Oscar winner. Part of the pleasure for me watching the film was the way the movie ‘A’ listers happily make fools of themselves and do it with such style.The movie contains spys, bingo wings, internet dating, goofy dancing and a great lines. Its not a movie that is going to be groundbreaking but it will make you laugh out loud and keep you entertained as the main characters stumble from one farcial situation to the next stumbling their way through the clever and funny script right down to the last line. Its well worth a view and available on DVD now.

23 Mar 2009

Where the Wild Things Are - Photo Gallery

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USA Today have just released a new set of Where the Wild Things are photographs - follow the link!


The movie isn't released in the UK until December from the photographs though it looks great - heres hoping it is!

17 Mar 2009

Where the Wild Things Are Directed by Spike Jonze

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Just released is an incredible poster from the forthcoming Where the Wild Things Are a film directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) which is due out in December this year (2009), its the film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak's classic children's story which was one of my favourites from my childhood.


The poster looks fantastic!

Terminator: Salvation

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Im not sure wether to belive this or not but theres a will she / wont she rumour going around about Linda Hamilton appearing in the soon to be released Terminator Salvation movie which opens in the UK on the 5th June. At the moment she WILL be attending …. although of course this might change, if I hear anything I will let you know. There are rumours that she only appears in a voice over – guess we are going to have to wait for a few months to see if this is true or not but this seems more realistic than an actual appearance in the movie.

15 Mar 2009

The Watchmen

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Adapted from the classic and much loved Alan Moore mini comic series from 1987 the Watchmen arrives at the screen with the huge weight of fan anticipation (including mine). I loved the comic – it’s a classic and my thoughts were that if it wasn’t done well in a movie then really there was no point touching it at all. I would rather have just the comic than a messed up dumbed down version of the Watchmen on the big screen, so I took myself off to the cinema and really hoped that The Watchmen was going to be good, going to do the comic justice…. I’m very happy to report that it did. I loved the movie in lots of ways – which is also a big relief! It luckily transpires that Zack Synder the director is also a huge fan and in his movie has created a loving homage to the original comic. For anyone who loved the book they will see scenes reconstructed almost straight off of the page, I sat there in the cinema smiling at the rendition.

The Watchment is a complex comic story dealing with an alternate future reality set in 1985, a world where America won Vietnam, where Nixon has just won his 3rd term of office and where the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war. Into this mix are the 2nd generation of now disbanded superheroes The Watchmen, they are a mix of sociopaths, psychopaths, reluctant heroes, and one true superman – Dr Manhattan. Once a physicist who due to a laboratory accident now has limitless powers, which has cost him his humanity and ultimately detachment from the human race.

The story begins when one of the Watchmen; The Comedian is killed and his old team member and the only Watchmen still operating against crime, the vigilante Rorschach suspects foul play and a vendetta against ‘the masks’. What then transpires over the next few hours is a great intelligent superhero movie. Visceral and wordy, gritty and realistic, honest and thought provoking all mixed in with action, fights and graphic violence. As you can tell I loved it but wonder how the non ‘Watchmen’ viewers will find it, there are long passages of dialogue when Dr Manhattan ponders humanity for instance, and if you are not expecting a comic book movie to tackle some very weighty and serious issues this might work against it. There is also the violence, which some people may object to, which is not like the usual PG13 comic book movie violence, all suggested and not seen, in this movie you get the front row seat and actually at times feel that you have been splattered with the red stuff!

I think Zack Synder has created a very honest and true recreation of the Watchmen universe, which must have been no easy task as there are so many subplots and story threads in the original comic and I even liked the altered ending. There won’t be another movie, there are only 6 comic books but I will be watching the Watchmen again and again on DVD… and also… sssh don’t tell anyone but weirdly I kinda fancy Dr Manhattan!

11 Mar 2009

Let the Right One In - New Trailer

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Theres a new trailer poster and a release date - April 10th


I will be off to see the Watchmen this weekend which Im very excited about - review to follow.
Ruby Rokococo

10 Mar 2009

Old Boy

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Revenge is a dish best served cold, or maybe raw would be a better way of putting it as confirmed by the infamous octopus scene in this movie.

This is a classic Korean movie released in 2003 but as it’s the latest DVD I’ve watched I’m going to give you my views on it.

It’s a story based on revenge, but with a many twists that keeps you transfixed until the final frame. A man Ho Dae-su (Min Sik Choi) is kidnapped off of the streets and held without any obvious motive for fifteen years in a shabby room. After numerous attempts at escape and suicide he is released suddenly on a rooftop in a suit given cash and a phone again all without a word of explanation, just when he thinks his ordeal is over it transpires that his fifteen years imprisonment was just the start of a twisted game of revenge.

To get revenge Ho Dae-su must uncover some very dark secrets and confront his past with the help of Mido (Hye-jeong Kang) a sushi chef that serves him the infamous raw octopus, which triggers a series of events.

The director Chan-wook Park has uses some clever camera shots to create his movie, in one particular scene the fight is played out like the comic that spun off from this film. The film does have great black humour running through it but also has strong suggested violence and a twist that walks a moral grey area which might not satisfy some viewers. It is though a clever and twisted tale with some great fight scenes that keeps the viewer interested until the end.

5 Mar 2009

Let the Right One In

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A future film Im looking forward to is ‘Let the Right One In’ a low budget Swedish vampire movie with a trailer that’s scarier that anything Ive seen in a long long time – I hope it lives up to expectations. Its supposed to deliver new twists on old mythology. The trailer reminds me of the spooky Shining (the original) or Ringu … bring it on I want to be scared!

 

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