Cinema and Popcorn

THE 3 BEST FILMS: 1. The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring Directed by: Peter Jackson Genre: Drama; Action/Adventure; Fantasy; Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies and Christopher Lee " And I follow quickly by saying that The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is thrilling -- a great picture, a triumphant picture, a joyfully conceived work of cinema that (based on this first installment, with two more ready for release in the next two years) would appear to embrace Tolkien's classic with love and delight, and rewards both adepts and novices with the highest compliment of all: an intelligence and artistry as a movie independent of blind fidelity to the page. The Middle-earth of this ''Fellowship'' -- as directed by Peter Jackson with all the graceful inventiveness hoped for from the maker of ''Heavenly Creatures...

THE 3 BEST FILMS 1.  Almost Famous Directed by: Cameron Crowe Genre: Drama; Comedy; Starring: Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Frances McDormand " Almost Famous has a lingering, indulgent rhythm that emerges from the flow of the era but results in some structural awkwardness (especially in the final third). Yet the performances by Crudup, Hudson, Lee, McDormand, Hoffman, and newcomer Fugit have a beautiful, unforced naturalism, and the movie is laced with memorable moments: Russell the heartland rock god threatening to jump off a roof during a messianic acid trip; a slick new manager making his pitch to take over the band, his mercenary cynicism only a beat away from Stillwater's own desire to be on the cover of Rolling Stone; and the band on stage, performing with exuberant shamelessness — the last time, perhaps, that boogie-down male rock stars could truly believe that the world belonged to them. " by Owen Gleiberman in Enter...

D23 expo revealed some interesting things: the announcement of the following Pixar movies or the logo of  Tim Burton 's Frankenweenie , but the best was Joss Whedon's The Avengers footage that was shown. Some cast members like Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye), Colbie Smulders (Maria Hill) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) were present during the event. I can see The Avengers trailer and footage being revealed around Christmas or January, so, by now, we must get happy with the footage's description. Here it is according to SlashFilm : " It begins with Loki being locked in a large, circular glass room that's very technologically advanced. Nick Fury walks in, presses some buttons on a touch screen and warns him: "In case it's unclear, if you try to escape, you even scratch on the glass, it's 30,000 feet straight down." We see t...

Roman Polanski 's Carnage got a movie trailer and let me say it looks awesome to me! The plot takes place in a flat and it reunites two couples who are discussing about their children and... well, I think they talk about everything! Let me say that Jodie Foster ( The Silence of the Lambs ) seems terrific, Kate Winslet  ( The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind ) looks like an outstanding scene-stealer, Christoph Waltz ( Inglorious Basterds ) looks a bit like the Devil and John C. Reilly  ( Chicago ) seems more than holding himself alongside its Academy Award winners co-stars. Hope Carnage  puts Foster's career back on track. Carnage will release in this year's edition of Venice Film Festival. Here's the movie trailer: While Machine Gun Preacher looks like a Jason Statham 's action movie title, the reality is that, behind a bad movie title, there's a true story, Marc Foster (the director of Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland ), Gerard Butler (who ...

According to Collider, " Author Rebecca Serle has a book coming out in May called Before You Were Mine. The novel is a spin on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet by looking at the story from the perspective of Romeo’s prior love, Rosaline and then seeing her fall in love with Romeo’s cousin, Benvolio. Fox 2000 picked up the rights, Shawn Levy (Date Night) came on to produce, (500) Days of Summer screenwriters Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber were brought on to adapt, and Michael Sucsy (HBO’s Grey Gardens) will direct the adaptation, now called Rosaline. Now that we’ve cleared that up, Vulture reports that Keira Knightley is Levy’s top choice to play Rosaline and that early discussions are happening with her reps (read: Shawn Levy has a list of actresses and there have been some phone calls). Vulture also hears that rising star Lily Collins (Priest) is also a contender for the lead". I don't know what are you thinking about, but I'm getting a bit tired of great cl...

Genre: Drama; Action/Adventure; Science Fiction/Fantasy; Director: Rupert Wyatt Starring: James Franco; Freida Pinto; Andy Serkis; John Lithgow; Brian Cox; Tom Felton; Release date: 5th August, 2011 " Making the most of special effects breakthroughs pioneered on Avatar as well as on the extensive ape performance background of Andy "King Kong" Serkis, Rise closes the door on the makeup-and-hairpiece monkeyshines of the original Apes sequels once and for all. (...) Serkis invests Caesar with a full measure of personality through the indelibly human look in his eyes. The ape cast is rounded out not only by chimps but by a memorable gorilla and orangutan, both of them fine supporting players. The special effects are most convincing and involving, particularly as the apes move through San Francisco and across the bridge in their attempt to take over George Lucas territory up north. " by Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter " Anyway, what I'm saying is that...

The French poster for Roman Polanski 's upcoming comedy/drama Carnage was released a couple of days ago. I thinks it is a very appelative/attractive poster due to the colors, but mainly due to the actors' variety of mood expressions, which give us a clue about the movie's tone (love Kate Winslet's b**ch face!). The movie will be released in this year's edition of Venice Film Festival and it stars Jodie Foster , John C. Reilly , Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz . There's a lot of Oscar buzz around this movie, including for the Best Picture category, but mainly for the acting categories' race. Here's the poster: Ralph Fiennes directorial debut, Coriolanus is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name but with a different/more contemporany scenario... The trailer shows what seems to be a meaty movie about war, politics and family and I kind was impressed by the movie's look after watching the trailer: I was expecting someth...