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New Year’s Movies To Watch Out For!
When the holidays are over, and affordable, indoor entertainment is called for, watch out for these winter warmer movies, coming your way next month.
If horror is your thing, in the first week of January, The Devil Inside, in theaters from January 6, tells the tales of a woman inItaly who becomes involved in a string of unauthorized exorcisms, as she attempts to find out what happened to her mom, alleged to have killed three people during her own exorcism.
More of a drama fan? The Roadie, which has a limited release on the same day, is the story of musician Jimmy Testagros, who returns to his hometown after two decades on the road with Blue Oyster Cult to care for his sick mother. Things get complicated when he falls in love with an old friend, now married to his long-time nemesis.
There’s another thriller in store with Beneath the Darkness, starring Dennis Quaid, in which a group of teenagers works to expose a local man as the vicious killer of their best friend, and avoid becoming his next victims.
Action drama Contraband, starring Kate Beckinsale and Mark Wahlberg, opens the following week. It takes a look at the underground, cutthroat world of global smuggling, and is a story of desperate criminals, corrupt officials, big payoffs and high stakes.
For something a little lighter, Joyful Noise also has a January 13 release, and is a musical comedy starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as two choir members with different views on how to grab the top prize in a nationwide choir competition.
With Beauty and the Beast, a 3-D re-release of the Disney classic, and Meryl Streep’s much hyped The Iron Lady also to look forward to, January looks set to be a great month for movie lovers!
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Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Don’t Take The Kids!
Daniel Craig plays investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the latest Hollywood adaptation of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s best-selling thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The book sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, and, in 2009, was made into a Swedish film.
The movie has already had its global premiere in London.
Craig, 43, is stressing that this is a grown-up flick (it has an R rating), which pulls no punches. “This is one where you pay the babysitter,” he told reporters. “Don’t take the kids.”
But the James Bond hunk has also insisted that the graphic scenes were true to the blockbuster novel’s theme of violence against women. Craig, who normally likes to work out to maintain his finely honed physique, had to skip the gym and put on a little weight for the role, but says he didn’t mind!
Directed by David Fincher, the story follows Blomkvist as he retreats to an isolated northern Swedish island, where he becomes drawn into researching the killing of a young girl some four decades previously.
He is thrown together with Lisbeth Slander, a tattooed, loner punk character played by Ronney Mara, and whose job is as an investigator at a high-tech security company.
Mara, 26, who dazzled and looked gorgeous at the premiere, told journalists: “I think everyone can relate to that feeling of being outcast or misunderstood at some point in their life.”
This adaptation is the latest in a string of Scandinavian crime fiction doing incredibly well in the English speaking world.
See it and decide for yourself! The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is in theaters from December 21st
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Tagged adaptation, book, crime, drama, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, remake, Stieg Larsson, thriller
Firth In The Frame For Villain In “Oldboy”
When it was announced that Park Chan-Wook’s cult revenge thriller Oldboy was being remade, there were some initial qualms among diehard fans of the original.
But now movie legend Spike Lee’s take on the tale is getting some heavyweight talent on board. It’s being reported that British actor and The King’s Speech star Colin Firth has been offered the part of Adrian, the villain of the piece. Reliable sources say Firth has been approached about the role.
Adored for his performances in heroic lead roles in movies from Bridget Jones to Nanny McPhee to Love, Actually, so far Firth has shown but limited capacity for villainy. So fans will be intrigued to see how he does as a wrong ‘un.
If he signs on for this project, he’ll be a nasty sort who imprisons Josh Brolin’s characterthe actor signed on the dotted line to do this movie back in this summer. And this will undoubtedly lead to some pretty unpleasant retribution…
Lee has been building his cast list for this project slowly and with great care. It seems he will settle on nothing less than great actors for the various roles. He had his eye on Rooney Mara for one of the leads, but it appears she’s said no.
Of course even if Firth signs for this picture, it’ll be a while before it’s released. Meanwhile, you can catch the actor in The Railway Man, about a survivor of the Second World War’s “death railway” in Burma, who makes a decision to track down those who captured him.
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Tagged action, cult classic, Old Boy, Park Chan-Wook, Railway Man, revenge, Spike Lee, thriller
Michigan Woman Sues Makers Of “Drive”… For Having Too Little Driving
Released in the USlast month, crime drama Drive stars Ryan Gosling as aHollywood stunt driver who is never named, and who moonlights as a getaway driver. He becomes involved with a neighbor, played by British actress Carey Mulligan, and her young son: that is, until her husband returns from prison.
The movie received critical claim and a standing ovation at its premiere at theCannesfestival earlier in the year, where it took the best director award. Reviews website rottentomatoes.com gave the flick a 93% ‘fresh’ rating.
Now Sarah Deming, who lives in Oakland, Michigan, is suing the movie’s makers for an allegedly ‘misleading’ trailer, saying there wasn’t enough actual driving in the picture. She says it was billed as a Fast & Furious-style action movie.
She is taking to court the Emagine movie theater inNovi,Michigan, and distributor FilmDistrict, both of whom are expected to energetically contest the case. Her case centers on the claim that the Nicolas Winding Refn movie “bore very little relation to the trailer, and was not a chase, or race action film with very little actual driving” in the movie.
Deming also attacks Drive for what she perceives to be anti-Semitic leanings.
The cinema has already apparently agreed to give Ms Deming back the price of her film ticket. But she insists her case is more about banning misleading trailers.
Deming also intends to turn her suit into a Class Action lawsuit, meaning that others can join her cause. We wish her luck with that …
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Tagged Drive, lawsuit, Ryan Gosling, thriller, tickets
Best Movie Car Chases!
Watching two or more automobiles careering after each other is often one of the thrilling high points of a picture. But which are the best film car chases of all time? Here are a few to choose from.
The stylish red, white and blue Mini Coopers of 1969’s The Italian Job (that’s the original, not the remake) must surely come near the top of any film auto chase list. It provides the suspense which some would say is lacking elsewhere in the movieeverything seems to go a little too much according to plan.
Then there’s the chase in The Blues Brothers, in which a Ford Pinto drops from the sky so that the heroes’ own motor falls apart.
Bond flicks regularly give grand chase auto. In 2006’s Quantum of Solace, Daniel Craig’s Aston Martin takes on an Italian police car. Or perhaps you prefer The Man in the Golden Gun, which sees 007 and Sheriff JW Pepper chase Scaramanga acrossBangkok?
The Moscowchase in 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy is also pretty cool, with Bourne pouring vodka into a bullet wound as he races around in a stolen cab.
Alternatively, Robert de Niro famously pursues his former partner-in-crime in a brilliantly edited chase in Ronin, from 1998. Five years later, downtown Miami is all but destroyed in Bad Boys 11, thanks toMichaelBay.
An early car pursuit scene, and arguably still one of the best, is from 1968’s Bullitt, which sees Steve McQueen flinging himself acrossSan Francisco to the roar of a Ford Mustang GT.
Or perhaps you prefer the glorious cop chase at the end of Thelma and Louise, in which the girls, played of course by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, finally realise their game is up?
Three years later in The French Connection, Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle pursues his enemies is a spectacular chase. Finally, in the same year, Dennis Weaver flees a murderous petrol-tanker in Duel, a film from a then-unknown director. His name is Steven Spielberg.
All these scenes and move have given us so many unforgettable movie moments. Which one’s your favorite?
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Tagged car chase, fast cars, James Bond, Jason Bourne, The Italian Job, thriller