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Sep
29
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Posted by Movie_Maven
September 29, 2007 | 3 Comments
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Official Kingdom Site
Trailer
Action/Crime-Drama/Thriller
Starring:Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman
Rated R (for graphic violence, language)
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Released:September 28th, 2007
(beware: some of the following may be a plot-spoiler)
The Kingdom makes an effort to enthrone itself as a tightly compact, quasi-political statement on the storied and troubled US-led Western involvement in Middle Eastern affairs. [...]
WHY: It’s directed by Peter Berg, an understated, under-credentialed director (he DID make 1998’s very bad, Very Bad Things after all). The topic itself may make or break it, depending on the currently “terror-weary” the populace is.
WHAT ELSE MAY BREAK THIS: Jamie Foxx. Can we be sold another Jamie Foxx cop/FBI character [...]
George Clooney, (self-professed past “flavor of the month” and perennial collector of sexy man awards- 2006 People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive) and girlfriend Sarah Larson seemingly escaped more serious injury when the motorcycle Clooney was driving was hit by a car. That flavor may now smack a bit of asphalt.
Fortunately, he only suffered road [...]
Official Brave One Site
Trailer
Crime/Drama/Thriller
Starring:Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen
Rated R (for graphic violence, brief nudity, language)
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Released:September 14th, 2007
(beware: some of the following may be a plot-spoiler)
If you reckoned with what you perceive your greatest fear to be, what would it be? That all you value and [...]
Official Balls of Fury Site
Trailer
Action/Comedy/Sport
Starring:Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, Robert Patrick, Jason Scott Lee
Rated PG-13 (for language, sexual humor, mild violence)
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Released:August 29th, 2007
If you see/saw this dim-bulb of a movie, you HAVE to know why you’re going/went:
You either have played ping pong enough with someone to the point [...]
What do Tom Cruise, Scientology, an upcoming flick about the assassination move in Hitler’s Nazi Germany and present-day Germany have in common?
Not a thing, Herr or Fraulein Blog Reader. That is, if the German government would have had it’s way.
The Associated Press reported on Friday that Cruise- a devoted Scientologist- was set to begin [...]
Official 3:10 To Yuma Site
Western
Starring:Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Dallas Roberts, Peter Fonda
Rated R (for language, violent gunfight sequences)
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Released:September 7, 2007
My wife and I took our very first trip out West this past summer, spending time in small, quaint towns like Kemmerer, Wyoming while being mesmerized by the whole beauty of the [...]
They love him! They reeely love him! Enough to land him for the host role at the Oscars coming February 24th, 2008.
According the the Associated Press, the 2007 show which featured Ellen Degeneres, drew in 40.1 million viewers versus the 38.9 million by Stewart.
Known mainly, of course, for his fake political newscast on [...]
Released: June 28, 2005
Official War of the Worlds Site
Sci-Fi Thriller
Starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto, Tim Robbins
PG-13 (for violent and disturbing thematic sequences and language)
Running Time: 117 Minutes
When I saw a rerun of Byron Haskin and George Pal’s 1953 version of War of the Worlds in 1981 (which won an Oscar for [...]
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Sep
12
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Posted by Movie_Maven
September 12, 2007 | 1 Comment
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Dim your own lights, please, and familiarize yourself with your state and local Fire Marshall’s exits at either your right…..or left, in the event of a blog emergency. I hope you won’t have to utilize either.
Although currently just a spindly skeleton, this blog will endeavor to entertain you about the things that, well, entertain [...]
