Wows-a-routie! If you’ve not under any condition seen this out for-reeling schlocko sci-fi spectacular then rely on on to your brains. Adapted by Dan O’Bannon from the Colin Wilson tale The Time Vampires, it starts with something strange event to a trio of astronauts investigating the process of Halley’s Comet, and proceeds with nude in addition-earthling May turning half of London into coupling-crazed zombies. Gasp as Chancery Lane tube goes up in smoke and St Paul’s cathedral communicates with another galaxy! Wonder as Messrs Firth and Finlay confound during reams of daft expository parley without cracking up! Utter clowning, but Brobdingnagian fun.
Archive for the ‘Kategorilenmemiş’ Category
Wows-a-routie! If you’ve never…
Cuma, Temmuz 2nd, 2010Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Salı, Haziran 29th, 2010By Joan K. Widdifield, Psy.D
"Guest-house Rwanda" is the summary of foresee arrange in the midst of the 1994 genocidal slaughter in Rwanda. About a million Tutsi?s were massacred by their Hutu neighbors, mostly by machete. This is the true narrative of how complete geezer, Paul Rusesabagina, played by Don Cheadle, is a hero who uses his wiles to enlist on favors and shelter on 1,000 refugees from death by harboring them in the hotel that he manages. Paul is an inspiring character who has a fierce commitment to family and to those who rely on him. Westerners abandon the Rwandans leaving us with questions about how the rest of the world could have let this happen.
Irish-born Director/Writer/Producer Terry George received an academy award for his first produced screenplay, the remarkable "In the Name of the Father" (1993). He has written and directed other films including "A Bright Shining Lie" (1998), for HBO about the Vietnam War. He said he wanted to bring the "Hotel Rwanda" story to life because he believes that stories near political and sexually transmitted upheaval in the native populations of -Africa are actively avoided by the movie industry.
"Hotel Rwanda" doesn?t suppose a partisan statement against the Hutus, but focuses on the irrational and arbitrary variety of war, and asks how people can be so cruel to each other. It hints of the confused, incomprehensible confusion that occurs during wars, but doesn?t coerce you feel as if you?re in it want "Scraping Enlisted man Ryan," from 1998 does in its first D-Day scenes. Auteur, Alex Ho who also produced war films "Born on the Fourth of July," 1989 and "Platoon" 1986, says they purposely desert out the vivid details so that a wider audience could view it.
We see that Hutus are married to Tutsis, and that Hutus and Tutsis are friends. The differences between the two, according to the steam, are the dissimilarity in physical features that were arbitrarily determined by the Belgians. Terry George says he used the extremist Hutu radio station as another character to convey the power of propaganda and quail that drives people to think they have to murder to save themselves.
Sophie Okonedo ("Dirty Pretty Things") plays Tatiana, Paul?s self-possessed chain. Okonedo plays the role to perfection. She draws you in with her brilliant behaviour as Paul?s thriving and admirable wife. The only weak site in the film is Nick Nolte as the U.N. liaison whose uneven acting interrupted the rhythm and tone of the film. All of the other characters were cast and played to perfection. There were no caricatures; all the roles – from the humanitarian worker, the clergywoman, the orphans, refugees, and machete wielding soldiers – were believable and nuanced characters, still if only on the protect pro a short rhythm.
Don Cheadle has the finest – and most significant – face in film today. He aced the role of Paul, the hotel manager, and from at the present time on will be on Hollywood?s A list. Cheadle has acted since childhood, but as a insigne actor, has probably only bear down on into most people?s awareness in the past few years. He has a capacity for accents which chain from Cockney in "Oceans Eleven" and "Twelve," to his offer position as a Rwandan. In this role he seems to inhabit Paul?s soul. Even in the halfway point of bedlam Paul keeps to his routines and maintains his composure. Cheadle didn?t waver from his sort or indulge in trite devices or melodrama to create the kind, even for a second. He gives us a disciplined, feigned behaviour, as he again does. Cheadle?s posture, intonations, and facial expressions transform him into the educated and big-hearted Rwandan whose deep sense of humanity and devotion to his family and allied humans is summoned in a desperate outmoded.
"Hotel Rwanda" deals with the most horrifying subject; it gives a sensitive brass neck to the sad blow and offers expect. It reminds us that undivided person can walk away a adjustment.
In San Francisco, this is Joan Widdifield for Talkie Armoury.
© 2005 – Joan K. Widdifield, Psy.D – Air Companion: 1/2005
'Space Chimps' by B…
Cuma, Haziran 25th, 2010
'Space Chimps'
by
Bill Goodykoontz
- Jul. 18, 2008 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
You go into a movie called
Space Chimps
with certain preconceived notions.
Assuming that it's not a documentary about the early days of the space program – and it's not – you figure it must be a kids movie and hope that it'll at least be good, dumb fun.
Without hesitating on all counts.
Space Chimps
tells the story of Ham III (voice of Andy Samberg, doing his best Ben Stiller), the grandson of Ham I, the first chimp astronaut. But the simian apple, as it were, has fallen far from the tree; Ham III trades on his lineage by working in a cheap circus, where he's blasted out of a rocket every night. Sometimes he lands on target. Most times he doesn't. That's meant to show that he's a free spirit, though it comes off mostly as a poor sense of direction.
Meanwhile, a headline-loving senator (Stanley Tucci) wants answers as to why a probe has gone missing. The answer isn't what he expected: It has been sucked into a wormhole and has come out on the other side of the universe. Sensing a long news cycle with himself at the center, he demands that the chimps the space program has been training as a public-relations stunt be sent to find it.
They're certainly prepared. Titan (Patrick Warburton) is a by-the-book sort. Luna (Cheryl Hines) is an all-around good astronaut, and something of a chimp babe, to boot. Comet (Zack Shada) is the brains of the operation.
But they're not enough for the senator. He wants a chimp with star power.
Enter Ham, although not willingly.
Ham likes the life of an underachiever and spends the first part of the movie scheming about how to get back to the big(ish) top.
Then, suddenly, off they go, blasting into space, without further explanation. Maybe most 4-year-olds won't notice or mind the sudden unexplained leap in plot, but, uh, what? Has Pixar taught us nothing?
Anyway, the probe has wound up on a planet where it's being used by the evil Zartog (Jeff Daniels) to enslave the people, or whatever it is you'd call them. He has had a taste of Earth life and has enlisted the population to build a replica of a Las Vegas casino. Of course, that means diverting the goo that comes out of an about-to-blow volcano into the town below, which will destroy everyone's homes. But that's the kind of evil creature Zartog is.
Titan, Luna and Ham eventually show up, aided by light-bulb-headed Kilowatt (the always loud Kristin Chenoweth). Not a lot of surprises here, but there are a few good laughs aimed at grown-ups, and Ham is a big enough, well, ham to please the part of the crowd too young to have read or seen
The Right Stuff
.
Space Chimps
, then, is exactly what you think it is. Nothing more, certainly, but at least nothing less. It's not going to make you forget
WALL-E
- or even think about it – but it'll keep the kids entertained for a while and give their parents a chuckle or two along the way.
Reach Goodykoontz at 602- 444-8974 or
bill.goodykoontz@arizonarepublic.com
.
Vanguard Animation/Twentieth Century Fox
"Space Chimps" is an animated comedy about primates with all the "wrong stuff."
More on this subject-matter
'Space Chimps'
Director:
Kirk De Micco.
Cast:
Voices of Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton.
Rating:
G.
Related:
Monkey business for Cheryl Hines
Great *****
Good ****
Fair ***
Bad **
Search for a Movie
Find a Movie
As a young child, Billie (Isab…
Çarşamba, Haziran 23rd, 2010As a young child, Billie (Isabel Gomes) makes her singing launching with her mother Lillian
Direct (Valarie Pettiford), when she is singing in a small African American nightclub in
the 70s. Lillian has alcohol and medicament problems and is contrived to put an end to Billie into an
orphanage. Now it is 1983 and Billie (Mariah Carey) and friends, backup singers Louise
(rapper Da Brat) and Roxanne (Tia Texada) are trying to break into the Manhattan disco
scene. Transactions producer Timothy Walker (Terrence Howard) signs up the girls and Billie’s
talent and stunner catches the plan of disco DJ (Max Beesley).
Screamers (1996)
Salı, Haziran 22nd, 2010The nasty irony is that “Screamers” might have looked better 10
or 15 years ago. In essence it’s a slasher movie combined with a
science-fiction movie — two genres going great guns in the early ’80s. By
now “Screamers” is ripe for parody.
In fact the horror-comedy “Tremors,” from a few years back,
covered similar ground in a satiric way. That film was about huge worms that
grabbed people and sucked them underground. “Screamers” is about cyborgs
that . . . grab people and suck them underground.
FOOD PROCESSORS
There are differences, of course. The creatures in “Tremors”
were like organic vacuum cleaners, while the “Screamers” cyborgs are more
like vicious, underground food processors. These cyborgs don’t just suck a
person in: They have blades, which can chop, dice, mince or liquefy a person in the time it takes the average food processor to handle
eight ounces of Parmesan cheese.
We get a demonstration in the first scene, when a hapless soldier
in the year 2078 is attacked by screamers. His arm is cut off. He’s sliced
and pureed. Then he’s sucked beneath the earth. “No matter how many times I
see that,” a soldier from the other side observes, “it still gets me
sick.”
“Screamers” is based on a 1952 short story by Philip K. Dick,
“Second Variety.” The screamers, created during wartime, are “autonomous
mobile swords” that travel underground in search of the enemy. They’re
highly advanced robotic devices, but a little too advanced: Now they’re
replicating — and evolving — on their own.
The film takes place on an Earth colony, where Peter Weller as
Colonel Hendricksson is leading the Alliance forces against the New Economic
Block forces. After years of war, Hendricksson decides to make a separate
peace with the NEB’s commander. But to get to NEB headquarters he
has to walk across miles of open territory, populated by underground
screamers.
Why doesn’t he just ride in a tank? Hmmm. Good question.
Like 90 percent of all movies, “Screamers” is at its best in the
first half hour, before it commits to a direction. Director Christian Duguay
(“Scanners II”) builds a thick, tense atmosphere. Our first discovery that
the screamers have evolved to the point where they look like human beings is
a genuine jolt.
LOST IN TREK
But it’s the last jolt. The movie gets lost during Hendricksson’s
trek across the wasteland, and it never finds its way back. By the time
Jennifer Rubin shows up as a space-traveling black marketeer from
Pittsburgh, “Screamers” has revealed itself to be a dud: long stretches of
nothing, interspersed with scenes in which we find out somebody else is
really a screamer.
Weller, gloomy and self-assured as always, suits the picture’s
mood, and it’s always good to see Jennifer Rubin. But when the movie comes
up with a romance between them, it’s 11th-hour flailing on the part of the
screenwriters. In its last minutes “Screamers” becomes the last thing it
intends to be — laughable.
“A ringing testament to coura…
Pazar, Haziran 20th, 2010and human decency in the face of evil.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A ringing testament to courage and human decency in the face of evil.
Secret Lives is an emotionally stirring documentary about a number of Jewish
children who were rescued from the Nazis by non-Jews who, at great danger
to themselves, took them into their homes. Some children were hidden for
months or years, and this experience affected the hidden children, their
rescuers, and the children’s parents returning after the war. Incidentally,
the number of such returning parents from concentration camps was small.
Before WW11, more than a million and half Jewish children were living in
Europe. By the end of the war fewer than one out of ten had survived. Director
and producer Aviva Slesin, herself such a hidden child from Lithuania,
tells the story in a very moving and personal way. Ms. Slesin won the Academy
Award for best feature documentary in 1987 for “The Ten-Year Lunch: The
wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table.”
The hidden children, now in their fifties and sixties, return to
Holland, Belgium, Poland, and France. Through interviews we meet some of
the people who risked their lives to hide these children and learn how
this experience has continued to affect the survivors. The reunion between
child and family after losing contact for many years was touching. There
is no profile of the typical rescuer. They could be rich or poor, religious
or not. Some did it because it was the decent thing to do, others for the
money or to convert the children. Most rescuers were not paid, still they
did their best to hide and protect the hunted children. If caught, they
and their families would be executed. There was always the danger from
unsympathetic neighbors turning them in or from German soldiers searching
their homes.
In one memorable story, the youngster Fred Gat stayed in a small
closet in an apartment building in Poland for the war’s duration. After
the war he was placed in an orphanage and migrated to Israel. The Jewish
agencies did not welcome the children being adopted by their Christian
rescuers, as they were concerned by how many Jewish lives were lost and
didn’t want to lose any more of their people. Separation after the war,
became a hard reality for both the children and their rescuers to face.
All the stories were heartbreaking. Every child had a different experience,
but all were appreciative of what their rescuers did for them. As Paul
Wagner, one of the rescued children says: “There’s no payment for saving
a life.” This documentary puts a human face on the rescuers and pays tribute
to them for the courage and humanity they showed in such a time of evil.
The rescuers transcended their fears, politics, and religious beliefs to
save the children’s lives rather than to stand by and not react.
This short documentary is a warm personal history lesson and a reminder
that there are good people even in the midst of a Holocaust. I could see
this more as a PBS showing than as a feature movie but, in any case, it’s
an absorbing work that deserves to be seen by a wide audience.
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things review
Cuma, Haziran 18th, 2010
From cult author J.T. LeRoy's best-selling novel The Sensibility Is Deceitful In excess of All Things, comes Asia Argento's bold cinematic customization of the factious story of a mother and her son living hard and promiscuously in the dark fringes of America.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie dvd
Seven-year-old Jeremiah lived a placidity, comfortable life-force in the care of a loving foster home until the day his junior mother Sarah (Argento) came to take him back. Jeremiah is impel against his will into his mother?s reckless fixation of turmoil and depravity, bouncing between desolate truck-stops, flea bag motels, strip joints and cure dens. Deadbeat surrogate dads swoop in and out of Jeremiah's life story until he finds himself in the custody of his ultra-churchgoing grandparents. Soon after Jeremiah adapts to his new life as a Christian fundamentalist, Sarah returns to claim him. Back on the road and bound by a love on the other hand a mother and son could have for each other, Sarah pulls Jeremiah further and more distant into her dementia. When Sarah is ultimately and wholly consumed by drugs, prostitution and violence, Jeremiah is mannered into a desperate struggle to disposed to the madness of his surroundings.
It?s a rare thing for an Indie video like this to pan not allowed as anything other than a preachy bulletin silver screen. It sounds get pleasure from it?s more about generating questioning than good filmmaking. Who is the end here? Is this an inveigh against on Christian fundamentalists? Or are they the good guys? It?s unimaginable to reproach, but I?d be shocked if anything playing in art houses had anything encomiastic to chance about folks with Jesus fish plastered on their backs. Not that they?re by definition iniquitous if they are bashing them, but what?s the spur? They?re preaching to the converted. There?s nothing notably brave or groundbreaking in that.
Who’s Your Caddy? review
Çarşamba, Haziran 16th, 2010Who's Your Caddy?
(2007)
Director:
Don Michael Paul
1
Critics' rating
Average purchaser rating
Synopsis
A rap mogul faces off against a country club that won't accept him as a member.
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Complete sand trap. When this flick’s snobs-versus-slobs proposition debuted in the magnificently crude
Caddyshack
27 years ago, it didn’t have to bear the weight of a rush corrective.
Here, the match is all off, veering from fart jokes to inspirational
bombast that we’re expected to take seriously. OutKast’s Antwan “Big
Boi” Patton, playing a steadfast Diddy-in the manner of mogul, remains a boring lead,
though comedian Faizon Warmth does zany extremely well. A few visual
jokes, much the same as a golf cart pimped out with rims, may keep you from
slitting your wrists.
Author:
Joshua Rothkopf
2007-07-31 00:49:44
At the same time Out New York Issue 618: August 2–8, 2007
Bookmark
Features
Book of Blood movie best quality
Sin Nombre
's Cary Joji Fukunaga learned his lessons well.
404 Error We're sorry, t…
Pazartesi, Haziran 14th, 2010
404 Error
We're sorry, the page you are looking for cannot
be found or does not exist on NYPOST.COM.
Below is a list of today's stories but if you
are looking for a story that is more than one
day old, please use our search tool.
To report a technical problem, please fill out
the form to the right.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Contact Us
Today's
Stories
WORLD CUP LIVE: SERBIA 0, GHANA 1
…
Don't miss
AWARDS Denzel frenzy It’s been a big year for Denzel Washington on Broadway. The Oscar winner stars in “Fences,” August Wilson’s play about a resentful sanitation worker who alienates his wife (Viola Davis) and…
Report: Pakistani spy agency supports Taliban
Download District 9 Full Movie blu ray
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s main spy agency continues to train, fund and arm the Taliban despite U.S. pressure to sever ties with the group that Islamabad helped rise to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s, said a research…
LI house-party murder
Gunfire erupted at a Long Island house party yesterday, leaving one man dead and two injured. The shooting happened just as cops arrived because of a complaint about the noisy bash in Hempstead's Lakeview section…
O's Medicare warning
WASHINGTON — President Obama is asking GOP lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. If Republican senators don…
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn Police in East Flatbush shot a knife-wielding teen who refused orders to drop his weapon, authorities said. Police were called as Stanley Cherenfant, 19, brawled with a cousin at 221 Linden Blvd. near…
How selective are NY’s hottest clubs? Guidos and geeks brave the velvet wall
A cougar, a guido and a nerd walk up to a bar . . . And none got in. At least not at the uber-hip Boom Boom Room. To see which New York nightclub really lives up to its “exclusive” reputation, The Post hired six…
Today in Pictures
Week's best distinction photos
Week in photos
Lady Gaga's avant-garde style
Unaccompanied-sail bit of San Quentin quail Abby Sunderland
Mankind Cup Fans
Click on Each Photo
NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc.
nypost.com
,
nypostonline.com
, and
newyorkpost.com
are trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc.
Copyright 2010 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy
|
Terms of Use