Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Children of Huang Shi

Starring: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat

Directed By: Roger Spottiswoode

Released By: Sony Classics

Genre: Drama

Grounded on real events, ‘The Children of Huang Shi ‘ are wide, but close typing against the China torn by war in 1930. The film is centered on the young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), the American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the leader of the Chinese biassed group (Meal Adeps Yun) who meets under desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they salvage 60 deserted children, carrying on them by extraordinary trip through hundreds miles of a treacherous landscape, through snow-covered mountains and relentless desert. On path they detect value of true of love, responsibility and bravery.

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War, inc.

Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei

Directed By: Joshua Seftel

Released By: First Look

Genre: Comedy, Drama

War, Inc ‘ is safely amusing and surprisingly acute film in a vein ‘ Grosse Item Blank. Co-written Mark Leyner, Jeremiah Pikser and producer/star John Cusack, a film also stars Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, John Cusack, sir Ben Kingsley and Dan Aykroyd. ‘ War, Inc ‘ - a political set of satire in Turaqistan, the country occupied with the American private corporation, fulfilled by the former American Vice-president (Dan Akroyd). To monopolise possibilities the sentences of the nation torn by war, the president of corporation employs the concerned hired killer who is started by John Cusack, to delete the Near-Eastern minister of a petroleum industry. Now, struggling with its own demons of growth, the murderer should represent from itself the Producer of the Exhibition of corporation to carry out this last call, supporting its cover, organising high quality wedding Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) a shocking Near-Eastern star of pushing out, and saving a report generator of a sex left wing (Marisa Tomei) under the control.

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Mongol

Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Hong-Lei, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren

Directed By: Sergei Bodrov

Released By: Picturehouse

Genre: Drama

Russian film director Sergei Bodrov deserving the award (’Prisoner of the Mountains’) shines a life and a legend about the Genghis Khan in its stunning historical epopee, ‘ the Mongol ‘. Grounded on a leading of the academic accounts and written Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, ‘ the Mongol ‘ goes deep into drama and excruciating first years of the bar who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows for Temudgin from its risky childhood before battle which has sealed its destiny, the film colours a many-dimensional portrait of the future conqueror, opening it not as malicious cattle of an ancient stereotype, but as enthusiasm, the fearless and illusive leader. ‘ the Mongol ‘ shows us creation from the extraordinary person, and the organisation on which the most part of its greatness has had a rest: its ratios with his wife, Borte, its lifelong love and enjoying greatest confidence the adviser.

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The Incredible Hulk

Starring: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson
Directed By: Louis Leterrier

Released By: Universal

Genre: Action and Adventure

The Incredible Hulk” starts the epopee of one all-new, explosive and limited in operation of the most popular Superheroes of all time. In this new beginning scientific Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a resource to gamma of radiation which has poisoned its cells and releases rampant force of anger within it: The Hulk.

Living in the shadows–cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)–Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. 

As all three are hooked to secrets which have led to Hulk creation, they push together with the monstrous new opponent known as Disgust (Tim Roth) which destructive force exceeds even an own Hulk. And on June, 13th 2008, one scientist should make agonising finite choice: accept a peace life as Bruce Banner or find heroism in creation which it holds inside

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Saturday, May 3, 2008

Kung Fu Panda

Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman
Directed By: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Released By: Paramount
Genre: Comedy, Animation

Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working every day in his family’s noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five–Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey–under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it’s up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

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Sex and the City

Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Directed By: Michael Patrick King

Released By: New Line

Genre: Comedy, Romance

The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring for. Sarah Jessica Parker returns once again as Carrie Bradshaw, the style-maven journalist whose romantic exploits were the key focus of the show. Also reprising their roles are Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon, with the series’ executive producer Michael Patrick King taking on writing and directing duties. Dreamgirls’ Jennifer Hudson co-stars as Carrie’s assistant.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

‘Potter’ Star Seeks Mystery Aussie Lass

Daniel Radcliffe, the actor behind the boy wizard Harry Potter, is hunting for a mystery Australian girl who cast a spell on him at a film awards party, local media reported on Monday.

Radcliffe, who started playing Potter in the popular Harry Potter movies when he was 11, has often spoken about not being able to find a girlfriend.

But Sydney’s Daily Telegraph Newspaper said Radcliffe, 18, now wanted help to track down a woman he met briefly at a film event in Australia.

“She stared at me all night and I was going to get her number and then I couldn’t find her,” Radcliffe told the newspaper.

“I must have walked around that party for an hour trying to look for this girl, like some sad pathetic dweeb, but it would have been worth it.”

The Daily Telegraph has started its own search for the mystery beauty, asking the young woman to contact the newspaper.

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James Bond Car Plunges Into Lake

The car being used in the latest James Bond film plunged into a lake in northern Italy while being driven to the set.
Producers say the driver of the Aston Martin was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. They say James Bond’s iconic car was being delivered to the filming unit in heavy rain on Saturday morning when it went off the road and plunged into Lake Garda.

Italian state TV has shown footage of the smashed, black car being hoisted out of the water.

“Quantum of Solace,” the newest film in the 007 series, stars Daniel Craig and is due for release this year.

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Ewan Reveals Cancer Scare

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, best known for his role as the Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi in the “Star Wars” movie series, revealed Tuesday that he had a cancerous mole removed from just below his right eye.

The actor said he had to be careful of his pale skin because he spent so much time in the sun.

“I had a little skin cancer under my eye,” the 37-year-old star told BBC Television in an interview to promote his latest film, the erotic thriller “Deception.”

“I just went to have them (the moles) checked … I went to to see a specialist who thought they were better to be removed, and indeed he was correct.”

McGregor said: “It’s all good now. But it was something that was best to be looked at and kept in check.”

The actor played the young Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in the second trilogy of “Star Wars” films — “Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith.”

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Ruins

Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey

Directed By: Carter B. Smith

Released By: Paramount

Genre: Horror

Based on the novel by A Simple Plan author Scott Smith, director Carter B. Smith’s Yucatan-set thriller follows four American tourists as they unwisely venture off the beaten path while vacationing in Cancun. When a friendly German tourist implores the Americans to help search the jungle for his missing brother, the group becomes hopelessly trapped in a nightmare scenario that seems too strange to be true. Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, and Shawn Ashmore star.

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