Wednesday 22 August 2007
Men In Black II
MEN IN BLACK II
Genre : Sci-fi
Genre : Sci-fi
Director : Barry Sonnenfeld
Star : Rosario Dawson, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Will Smith
story line:
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are back in black as the scum-fight super-agents kay and Jay – regulators of all things alien on planet earth. Their lastest mission: to save the world from a total intergalactic disaster!
When a renegade Kylothian monster disguised as a lingerie model threatens the survival of the human race, the boys of the MIB get the call to step up and get busy.With their headquarters under siege and time running out, Agents kay and Jay enlist the help of frank the pug and a posse of hard-living worms to help them kick some seriously sexy alien butt!
Mr.Bean's Holiday
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Caffeinated comedy from a French Bean
Distributor: Universal
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes, Jean Rochefort and Willem Dafoe
Director: Steve Bendelack
Screenwriters: Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll
Producers: Peter Bennett-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG for brief mild language
Running Time: 88 min.Release Date: August 24
Atkinson (Love Actually) once again brings his awkward athleticism to the iconic comic character he created almost 20 years ago in this sequel to 1997’s Bean. This time around, his essentially mute misfit Mr. Bean (prat)falls for the French Riveria—where, on vacation in Cannes, he is alternately mistaken for an infamous kidnapper and a famous filmmaker.
The Invasion.
The Invasion
Despite alien action sequences, latest take on The Body Snatchers is surprisingly stylish
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica
Cartwright, Josef Sommer, Celia Weston, Roger Rees and Eric Benjamin
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenwriter: David Kajganich
Producer: Joel Silver
Genre: Science fiction thriller
Rating: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and terror
Running time: 93 min. Release date: August 17, 2007
Sitting on the stoop of a suburban row house, two boys keep their eyes on the screens of their handheld video games but whisper urgently out of the sides of their mouths.
“Something’s wrong with my dad,” hisses Oliver (Jackson Bond).
“Yeah, mine, too,” replies his best friend Gene (Eric Benjamin).
And they aren’t the only ones. Ever since the space shuttle broke up while reentering the atmosphere during an unscheduled landing, scattering debris across the country, something’s been wrong with a lot of people’s dads—and moms. What’s particularly alarming in Oliver’s case, however, is that his father Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) is a high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the government agency that should be taking the lead in efforts to contain an alien epidemic some scientists have begun to believe was carried to Earth by the contaminated shuttle shrapnel. Instead, the suddenly—and strangely—emotionless Tucker proposes nationwide inoculations that seem anything but innocuous.
All of which makes his ex-wife, Dr. Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), think it might be about time to cut short Oliver’s visit to Tucker’s—especially when she and her hunky “best friend,” Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), begin to suspect that her son may possess a natural immunity needed to fend off The Invasion.
Despite truly alien action sequences written by the Wachowski Brothers and shot by their prot?g? James McTeigue (all uncredited here) that were added after director Oliver Hirshbiegel wrapped principal photography, this take on The Body Snatchers is surprisingly stylish. Working with his Downfall collaborator Hans Funck, Hirshbiegel has created elegantly edited sequences that economically encapsulate the emotional and physical exhaustion that Carol must overcome in order to save her son. It’s a testament to the strength of their work that The Invasion more or less manages to shoulder the additional weight of a ridiculously over-the-top climactic car chase sequence and a clumsily on-the-nose expository press conference—both of which rely too heavily on a character who has been strictly secondary up until riding in on a white horse (or, more accurately, a Black Hawk) to save the day and explain it all away.
And there are a few other twists in this sci-fi thriller more likely to induce chuckles than chills. It’s very thoughtful, for instance, of the body-snatched to all wear black, thereby instantly informing the uninfected who is and is not under alien control. And there’s more than a bit of irony in the fact that the key to survival for any character played by Kidman is to act like an emotionless femme bot.
But in the current political climate, there’s no denying that the idea that the government agencies meant to keep us safe could be so stealthily subverted and become the most direct threats to an all-too-apathetic public is incredibly creepy.
“All you have to do is nothing,” Tucker tells Carol in a particularly scary scene. “That’s all we’re asking.”
Hirschbiegel, however, has managed to do something here.
Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider
Genre : Action
story line:
story line:
Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) was only a teenaged stunt biker when he sold his soul to the devil (Peter Fonda). Years later, Johnny is a world-renowned daredevil by day, but at night, he becomes the Ghost Rider of Marvel Comics legend.
The devil’s bounty hunter, he is charged with finding evil souls on earth and bringing them to hell. But when a twist of fate brings Johnny’s long lost love (Eva Mendes) back into his life, Johnny realizes he just might have a second chance at happiness—if he can beat the devil and win back his soul.
To do so he’ll have to defeat Blackheart (Wes Bentley), the devil’s nemesis and wayward son, whose plot to take over his father’s realm will bring hell on earth— unless Ghost Rider can stop him.
Death at a Funeral.
Death at a Funeral
You'll laugh yourself to Death
Distributor: MGM
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan, Kris Marshall,
Andy Nyman, Jane Asher, Ewen Bremner and Peter Dinklage
Director: Frank Oz
Screenwriter: Dean Craig
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Laurence Malkin, Diana Phillips and Share Stallings
Genre: Comedy drama
Rating: R for language and drug content
Running time: 95 min.Release Date: August 17, 2007
In the first scene of Death at a Funeral, the wrong coffin arrives at the pastoral home of a widower where the funeral of her now-dead husband will be held amidst a large eccentric family wherein there is a secret that will come out before the box goes in the ground. And things only spin out of control from there.
After the Stepford Wives debacle, director Frank Oz comes back strong with this absolutely uproarious British comedy of no manners. Funny in all the right ways and for all the right reasons, Death at a Funeral is technically constructed from all the same material of like-minded big American comedies (read: Wedding Crashers), including everything from slapstick to pratfalls, but there is a wit in the language that is undeniably English. Still, the British are in fact well-versed in the more rude modes of humor as any watcher of BBC America will know, but somehow (perhaps it's the accent) it all seems more sophisticated and less embarrassing when they do it.
Particular note should be made of the hilarious work by Alan Tudyk (Dodgeball), who is hell-bent on outing the family secret.
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