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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Upcoming Reviews
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li
When it comes to IThe Legend of Chun LiI, regardless of what ever you think of this production or the games on which its based, its hard not to keep coming back to one inescapable question: Why is this movie happening? Or rather, why is this movie happening when its happening? Fifteen years ago, it absolutely would have made sense. Back then Americas teenagers were piling into arcades to beat up their friends with Chun Lis spinning kicks.
O' Horten
The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten Bard Owe aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. Horten has been forced to retire after 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore.
Dance Flick
In this spoof of dance movies, aspiring professional dancers Megan and Thomas try and help one another realize their dreams.
Assassination Of A High School President
High School. Four of the most important years of your life. But it isnt always dances and keg parties and sucking face in your parents mini-van. Sometimes its ugly and hard and complicated. As complicated as a conspiracy to overthrow the president
Nothing But The Truth
A Washington DC reporter Kate Beckinsale, writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent Vera Farmiga. When a special government prosecutor Matt Dillon demands she divulge her source she refuses and is sent to jail. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family. Nothing But the Truth is about the struggle to maintain ones principles and dignity in the most dire of circumstances.
Up
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell gives him a new lease on life. iUpi takes audiences on a thrilling journey where the unlikely pair encounter wild terrain, unexpected villains and jungle creatures. When seeking adventure next summer look Up.
The Soloist
In iThe Soloisti, an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr. discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. iThe Soloisti is directed by Joe Wright Golden Globe winner for Best Drama and Oscar nominee for Best Picture Atonement.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the the race of aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers, and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
Star Trek
For J.J. Abrams IStar Trek XII to re-energize Trekdom, he needs to get back to that. The franchise needs to shake free all the baggage that comes with being a IStar TrekI movie, and simply focus on being a great science fiction movie, in a broader sense. That doesnt mean he needs to toss out continuity or resort to bringing in hot, young, Dawsons Creek actors to put in his spaceships. Far from it. Instead, this is an opportunity to make something great...
Leaves of Grass
In iLeaves of Grassi, Bill Kincaid, a college classics professor Norton is lured home from the Ivy League to the backwoods of Southeastern Oklahoma by his identical twin also Norton, a hedonistic, pot- smoking career criminal. Kincaid finds that Plato and Marcus Aurelius have ill-prepared him for dealing with a gang of homicidal yokels.
Ciao
Synopsis available soon.
Extreme Movie
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.
The Reader
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Burk is reunited with his former lover Winslet as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Good
The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of good people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Notorious
The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. a.k.a. Christopher Wallace, who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.
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