Archive for the 'movies' Category

December
26th 2007
National Treasure, Book of Secrets, Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones, Valley of the Kings……..

Posted under Free for All & movies & Nicolas Cage & Helen Mirren & Jon Voight

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Once again we find Nicolas Cage, in the role of Ben Gates, in hot pursuit of another lost, hidden, mislaid, whatever treasure, being led by clues steeped in wild conspiracies of US history.

With scenery that could so easily have been borrowed from every Indiana Jones movie, mechanically opening cupboards and doors that have been recycled from the screen set of the Da Vinci Code and golden caskets and staircases from Valley of the Kings, this could have been a fairly inexpensive movie to put together, all in all!

Kidnapping the President of the US, played by Bruce read more ....

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December
23rd 2007
‘Atonement’

Posted under Free for All & movies & Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor & Keira Knightley & James McAvoy & Vanessa Redgrave

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The underlying theme of this 2007 movie resembles many other well respected love stories through the ages, in which the lead couple are deceptively kept apart by the interference of others, as in Anthony and Cleopatra starring real life love crossed partners, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Maria and Tony in the 1961 movie West Side Story.

A typically 1930’s style English movie where the audience is taken through one scenario only to realize that there is actually a hidden conclusion which eventually transpires.

The beautiful Keira Knightley who plays the very ‘stiff read more ....

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October
25th 2007
Hot Mama-to-be Halle Berry

Posted under Free for All & movies & Celeb Couples & Halle Berry & Gabriel Aubry

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Halle Berry looked absolutely flawless last night at London Film Festival premiere of Things We Lost in the Fire. Too bad her yummy man Gabriel Aubrey wasn’t with her to complete the picture… though actually, that might just have been too much hotness to handle!

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October
21st 2007
Gone Ben Gone! Ben Affleck moves over for brother Casey

Posted under Free for All & movies & Ben Affleck & Casey Affleck & Morgan Freeman & Ed Harris

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Watch Out Big Brother!

Although Ben Affleck may have made a memorable move into the role of film director in his debut movie Gone Baby Gone, he has at the same time possibly relegated himself in the ‘heart throb’ stakes since placing his younger brother Casey in the lead role in the movie.

For anyone who has been a dedicated fan of Ben in his movie roles may now want to rethink their loyalties. Younger brother, Casey Affleck, who has been waiting patiently in the wings for his chance to shine like the brilliant star he is sure to become read more ....

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October
14th 2007
Michael Clayton, ‘The Truth Can be Adjusted…

Posted under Free for All & movies & George Clooney & Tom Wilkinson

… and so can the continuity and the forensic evidence by the look of this movie.

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Michael Clayton (George Clooney), is the in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York, working on damage limitation for anything from “shoplifting wives to crooked politicians.”

Suddenly he finds himself having to work his magic when Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), in a state of mental delusion, decides to get all moralistic and sabotage U-North, the company he works for, in the closing stages of a multi-million dollar class action suit.

Believing the firm has become too proficient at making read more ....

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October
13th 2007
Britannia Rules the Waves!

Posted under Free for All & celebrities & movies & Clive Owen & Cate Blanchett

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Latest Results (no not the Rugby World Cup)

Spanish Armada     0       England      Won!

‘I too can control the winds Sir, I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to cross me’, …….leaves no room for doubt as to just why Britannia Rules the Waves!

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A bit like the Titanic, we all know how it ends but still a brillaint movie. A must see. Cate Blanchett is powerful, Clive Owen romantic, Geoffrey Rush, well, excellent and King Philip II read more ....

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September
23rd 2007
Hollywood, The Land of Make Believe?

Posted under Free for All & movies & Tom Cruise & politics & Alicia Keys

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Another Win for Scientology

Tom Cruise and Hollywood have been fighting a three month battle to gain the consent of the German Government to film Cruise’s latest movie, Valkyrie, in Germany at the scene of the 1944 attempt on Adolph Hitler’s life with Cruise as the leading man.

The German Government has finally been convinced that allowing Hollywood to use Tom Cruise as the star of the movie would not be interpreted as desecration but would honour the memory of the men who almost killed Hitler in July 1944.

Surely this all begs the question, can’t Hollywood just make a read more ....

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September
16th 2007
Throwing Caution, and Her Clothes, to the Wind!

Posted under Free for All & movies & Sienna Miller

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Sienna does the ‘Hippie, Hippie Shake’

Beautiful New York born model and actress Sienna Miller has taken on the role of Maureen Cleeve with the resurrection of the 1960’s Oz Magazine’s obscenity trial, ‘Hippie Hippie Shake’.
Sienna’s co star is the very lucky Cillian Murphy and together the couple were photographed in an a Notting Hill garden in West London, romping around in the ‘Flower Power’ style of the 1960’s.The movie is due for release in 2008.Â

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August
13th 2007
Mr. Big will get more SEX

Posted under movies & Chris Noth

Mr. Big is not dead.
chris noth blogs.jpgDespite reports that Mr. Big will drop dead of a massive heart attack in the opening scenes of the Sex and the City movie, director Michael Patrick King is saying not to break out the black dress and Puffs.
“There is no need for funeral arrangements,” said King. “I assure you that Mr. Big is a very `big’ part of the Sex and the City movie.”
The aging Chris Noth, 50, will once again play patsy to Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw in the movie filming this fall in New York and set to storm read more ....

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July
30th 2007
I Know Who Killed My Friday

Posted under movies & Lindsay Lohan

Cult Potential Gone Bad

The roaring laughter pouring out of movie theaters Friday night had nothing to do with the new Simpson’s Movie, the hilarious Knocked Up, or any other comedy for that matter. In fact they were rolling in the aisles of the new Lindsay Lohan film I Know Who Killed Me. For some reason I was disillusioned into believing that the new movie would be reminiscent of Poison Ivy or even Strip Tease - in other words a cult classic. But the sheer ridiculousness of the script was hard to escape

The blatantly obvious references to the killer did not make the read more ....

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