Lovely new, vocal trailer for ParaNorman

We're very, very excited about the upcoming stop-motion animated ParaNorman, which has just released a new trailer...A little while ago we were blessed with the first, instrumental trailer for upcoming animation ParaNorman, which was pretty delightful. Now we can see a more conventional offering, and get a peak into the plot of the movie.

The stop-motion animated film tells the

Juno Temple joins Lovelace

'That' girl you've been hearing so much about has now secured a role in Lovelace, after she's finished Nolan duties for The Dark Knight Rises...

Juno Temple is an actress who has been threatening to break into the mainstream for a while, only for her to slink back into indie-land straight away. After her part in next summer’s The Dark Knight Rises though, it’s probable that she’ll tip over the edge of that fame barrier she’s been teetering on for so long.
And the role of Linda Lovelace’s best friend in biopic Lovelace is now apparently hers, and she will star alongside Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone and Wes Bentley.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman are on directing duties, as the film depicts a period of feminist revolution and sexual expression. Linda Lovelace was the world’s ‘first erotic superstar’, before later speaking out against the industry.

New Year's Eve(2011) review

Storyline

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Garry Marshall has managed to cram in even more stars for his latest holiday-themed rom-com, and this time they're celebrating New Year's Eve...

When Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day emerged a couple of years ago to scathing reviews, everyone announced the tentatively developing ensemble rom-com 'genre' dead in the water. Well, no one seems to have told Marshall, who’s now created a follow-up holiday movie, much like a child would assemble a particularly mundane jigsaw puzzle of the hottest box-office stars of the moment.
The film, which takes place over one day and culminates in New York City’s Times Square, stars the head-spinning cast of Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers, Katherine Heigl, Jon Bon Jovi, Sofia Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Josh Duhamel, Hilary Swank and Ludacris. Each is tangled in a relationship of some sort, be it familial, romantic or otherwise.

Some story threads are adequately entertaining, some extremely boring, and others nausea inducing, but put together no one comes

Vampire's Kiss


After reading so many comments who put this film down, I just had to write something to its defence. True: the film is confusing in many ways; you get confused what is real and what is not for example. But some of the hilarious scenes in this movie is more than worth it. In one of his most remarkable, over-the-top performances, Nicolas Cage transforms from an up-tight snob to a complete lunatic. This is one of the most original and unconventional movies I have ever seen. Those of you who want predictable Hollywood movies should steer away; for the rest of you this can be an enjoyable experience!

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Lord of War

A movie about a gunrunner who arms the dictators, tyrants, and genocide-perpetrators of the world should not be this deliciously funny. Lord of War is story-telling perfection. The opening scene depicts the life of a bullet, from its creation in the factory to the moment it blasts through the head of a poor African child.

Nicolas Cage is Yuri Orlov, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, who becomes the world's most successful arms dealer. Writer/director


American painter turned director Julian Schnabel loves biopics of extraordinary artists. His feature debut, "Basquiat" (1996), was an interesting portrait of the troubled painter (played by Jeffrey Wright). His second film, "Before Night Falls" (2000), was even better, and told the story of Cuban poet/novelist Reinaldo Arenas (the magnificent Javier Bardem). His new film, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", surpasses his previous efforts and is nothing short of a masterpiece, for lack of a better word. This time, though, his "artist" is a successful 43 year-old man, Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a bon-vivant who becomes a victim of the so-called "locked-in syndrome" after a sudden stroke. His mental faculties are intact, but he can't move anything but his left eyelid. With the help of a speech therapist, he struggles to write his memoirs, by blinking letter by letter and letting her write what he wants to say.

Saying more about the plot would spoil

It's a Wonderful Life

I am a film lover from 'way back, having even served a stint as a newspaper movie critic. Entries in my personal list of Greatest Films of All Time include "Fantasia," "To Kill A Mockingbird," "Casablanca," "Singin' in the Rain," "North by Northwest," and "The Sound of Music. But sitting atop all of them, as undisputed champ, is "It's a Wonderful Life."

I have seen it hundreds of times (dating back to, oh, when I was a teenager I suppose, and our local PBS station ran it as part of a pledge drive). I drive my wife and family to distraction when we watch it together because I quote all the dialogue along with the actors.

I cry every time--and this is after viewing upon viewing--when Harry Bailey toasts his big brother George as "...the richest man in town." The emotions in that scene are so true and pure that I can't help but be affected by them.

The performances are unparalleled. Stewart is brilliant as a small-town dreamer who loses and finds his way. His superlative acting abilities cause us to identify strongly with him (how many of us have lamented--even to ourselves--that no one seems to notice the sacrifices we've made?), which is, I think, why the movie bears up under so many repeat viewings. Reed is just lovely here, the epitome of sunny girlfriend, caring lover, devoted wife, dedicated mother.

Capra's talent as a screenwriter are all over this script. He knows just how hard to tug the heartstrings without becoming overblown or phony. And his technical wizardry is evident too. I've never seen--before or since--more natural-looking onscreen snow.

Watching IAWL has become a tonic, a pick-me-up when I really need one--whether it's the Christmas season or not. Its message--that each one of us is important and has *something* to contribute to the greater good--is one about which the world could use some reminding from time to time.

Scent of a Woman

Pacino's Col. Slade is a account of turmoil. Not because he's blind, but because he's never been able to acceleration aloft the amaurosis and still acquisition accord with himself and with the world. One of the abundant adverse characters of contempo years. His adventure is abundant like Hickey's in "Iceman Cometh" or Howard Beale's in "Network." They never anticipate they do acceptable in the apple with what they have, so they acquisition themselves in this aphotic aperture and they break there. No one can advice them out. No