The Best Movie Review

Straczynski Pens Forbidden Remake

TBMR — 2008-11-20 01:45:28

Babylon 5 creator and Changeling scribe J. Michael Straczynski will pen a long-in-the-works update of 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. Pictures and Joel Silver says The Hollywood Reporter.

The original was a sci-fi spin on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and tells the tale of an expedition sent from Earth to check on a colony of scientists on a far-off planet.

They crew find two members, a man who has found alien technology that doubled his intellect, Dr. Morbius, and his daughter, both of whom have managed to survive an unseen monster roaming the planet.

Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie

Tollin Explores The Space Left Behind

TBMR — 2008-11-20 01:06:20

Mike Tollin Prods. has acquired screen rights to Off the Map scribe Joan Ackermann's comedic coming-of-age novel In the Space Left Behind reports Variety.

The story follows a teenager in an eccentric family who has his life upended by the return of his absentee father.

While his mother heads to Vegas for her third honeymoon, dad offers his son the opportunity to collect the $70,000 bounty on his head.

The author will adapt the script which Tollin, Sam Weissman and Todd Dagres will produce. Tollin and Ackermann worked together on the HBO series Arliss.

David Heyman Talks Potter Delay

TBMR — 2008-11-20 01:05:16

Harry Potter producer David Heyman was recently out doing press for Holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and spoke extensively with Coming Soon about the now infamous delay of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 2008 to July 2009.

The most interesting comment though confirms that despite the delay, the film would've been ready to go next month - The film's done. We're just mixing and there's a slight tweak we're going to do but actually, if the film was coming out tomorrow, we'd have done it but we have the time.

Don't expect early screenings though

The Tempest

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:51:43

Based on William Shakespeare's play about a sorcerer named Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, who reigns over a magical island. In this version, the lead character has been changed to Prospera so that Helen Mirren can take on the role.

Director: Julie Taymor
Writer(s): Not Available
Cast: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Ben Wishaw and Felicity Jones, Geoffrey Rush

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Miramax Films
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

The Thirteenth Hour

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:51:23

A man, accused of brutally murdering his wife, is given a chance to save her by going back in time in one-hour increments. He puts together clues to figure out not only who killed her but why.

Director: Not Available
Writer(s): Not Available
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: Not Available

The Trial of the Chicago Seven

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:43:10

The Trial of the Chicago Seven follows protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democrat party convention with an anti-Vietnam war carnival that turned nasty. Demonstrators threw bricks, police responded with tear gas and the center of Chicago was engulfed in flames. Curfews only escalated the violence.

After the clashes, independent investigators blamed eight police officers and eight protesters including Hoffman, who had already disrupted the New York Stock Exchange with showers of fake money.

The police were not charged but the protesters were accused of inciting a riot. One was jailed for contempt, leaving the seven to fight the charges.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer(s): Not

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:42:43

An adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel about a daring girl who makes a transatlantic crossing in the 1830s from England to America, and finds herself caught between a ruthless captain and a mutinous crew.

Director: Danny DeVito
Writer(s): Danny DeVito
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Todd Solondz Project

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:29:51

A dramatic comedy about family against the backdrop of a war.

Director: Todd Solondz
Writer(s): Todd Solondz
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Paris Hilton, Paul Reubens, Ciaran Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Eric Wareheim, Chris Marquette

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Three Stooges Project

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:29:28

A modernization of the Three Stooges courtesy of The Farrelly Brothers.

Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Writer(s): Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: November 20, 2009
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: MGM
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Nickelodeon Safari Adventure

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:29:01

A family goes on safari in Africa, gets lost and has to battle wild animals and bad guys to get back home.

Director: Not Available
Writer(s): Jeff Lowell
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Miley Cyrus Disney Film

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:28:43

Miley Cyrus will star in an untitled Disney film that is being tailor-made for the Hannah Montana star by author Nicholas Sparks.

Director: Not Available
Writer(s): Nicholas Sparks
Cast: Miley Cyrus

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Marc Lawrence Romantic Comedy

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:28:22

An estranged high-powered New York couple witness a murder and are placed in a witness-protection program in a small Wyoming town.

Director: Marc Lawrence
Writer(s): Marc Lawrence
Cast: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Liberace Film

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:28:04

Steven Soderbergh's biopic about Liberace starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant pianist. Matt Damon is in discussions to play Scott Thorson, who sued Liberace in 1982 for $113 million in palimony, claiming he was the entertainer's companion for five years. Even though Liberace never wavered from career-long denials that he was gay, Thorson reportedly settled for $95,000 in 1986. Liberace died in 1987 of complications from AIDS at age 67.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer(s): Richard LaGravanese
Cast: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

Untitled Jack Black Action Comedy

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:27:40

Jack Black stars as an American who finds himself washed up the shores of Cuba with no idea of who he is and how he got there. He comes to the conclusion that he must be a superspy, though in reality he is far from one.

Director: Not Available
Writer(s): Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Cast: Jack Black

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action, Comedy
Rating: Not Available

Untitled George A. Romero Zombie Film

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:27:22

An all-new original story in Romero's zombie series. The plot involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.

Director: George A. Romero
Writer(s): George A. Romero
Cast: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti, Athena Karkanis

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Rating: Not Available

Under the Sea 3D

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:27:00

Explores the impact that global climate change has had on ocean wilderness.

Director: Howard Hall
Writer(s): Not Available
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Available

The Unborn

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:20:30

The Unborn

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The Unborn

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The Unborn

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The Unborn

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The Unborn

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The Unborn

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The Unborn

TBMR — 2008-11-20 00:13:27

Casey Bell (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spirtual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.

With Sendak's help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany—a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a

Virgin on Bourbon Street

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:34:34

Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan and Brianne Davis star in this sex comedy that sees a night of debauchery threaten the university career of a sexually abstinent female student.

Director: Clare Kilner
Writer(s): Not Available
Cast: Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan, Brianne Davis

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Available

World War Z

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:32:35

Based on the Max Brooks best-selling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies. A researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map.

Director: Marc Forster
Writer(s): J. Michael Straczynski
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: Not Available

What a Wonderful World

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:28:48

Forest Whitaker directs and stars in the Louis Armstrong biopic What a Wonderful World . The story starts during the musician's impoverished early years in New Orleans and will primarily chronicle his career as a trumpet virtuoso and improvisational singer.

Director: Forest Whitaker
Writer(s): Ron Bass
Cast: Forest Whitaker

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

Water for Elephants

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:28:29

Based on Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's best-selling historical love story. The book centers on a 90-year-old man reminiscing about his life and is set during the Depression, when he found work at a B-level circus taking care of the animals. He sees the brutality of circus life while falling for the wife of an abusive animal trainer.

Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer(s): Richard LaGravenese
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Fox 2000
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

Walter the Farting Dog

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:28:06

Based on the series of best-selling books by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray about a fat dog with severe flatulence. The Jonas Brothers star as musicians whose parents are asked to care for the dog by an aunt just before she passes away. While his brothers play music, Frankie and the gaseous hound get involved in a plot that involves liberating a koi fish and thwarting jewel thieves.

Director: Not Available
Writer(s): Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen
Cast: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Rating: Not Available

Wall Street Sequel

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:27:46

The modern-day story will center on Gordon Gekko, who has recently been released from prison and re-emerges into a much more tumultuous financial world than the one he once lorded over.

Director: Not Available
Writer(s): Allan Loeb
Cast: Michael Douglas

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Available

The Winning Season

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:15:25

An indie comedy centering on a high school girls basketball coach. The film tracks a divorced, down-on-his-luck coach (Sam Rockwell) who makes a bid for redemption by coaching his daughter's team.

Director: James Strouse
Writer(s): James Strouse
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: Not Available

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

TBMR — 2008-11-19 23:15:05

A CG-animated adaptation of L. Frank Baum's original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz .

Director: John Boorman
Writer(s): John Boorman, Ron Mita, Jim McClain
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Not Available
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Rating: Not Available

xXx: The Return of Xander Cage

TBMR — 2008-11-19 22:12:50

Director Rob Cohen and Vin Diesel reteam for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage .

Director:
Rob Cohen

Writer(s):
Michael Ferris, John Brancato

Cast:
Vin Diesel

Release Date:
To Be Announced

Official Site:
Not Available

Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Genre:
Action

Rating:
Not Available

Lindsay-Abaire Pens Spider-Man 4

TBMR — 2008-11-19 22:10:37

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire ( Inkheart ) is in final negotiations to write Spider-Man 4 for Sony Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.

Lindsay-Abaire takes over for James Vanderbilt who previously wrote a draft of the script. Plot details are being kept top secret.

Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are back as director and star, respectively, as are series producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad. Kirsten Dunst also is expected to return.

Yogi Bear

TBMR — 2008-11-19 22:05:58

A feature version of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Yogi Bear .

Director: Ash Brannon
Writer(s): Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Cast: Not Available

Release Date: To Be Announced
Official Site: Not Available
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Rating: Not Available

TBMR — 2008-11-19 21:07:52

You want a piece of me? I feel like you're eyeballin' me, dawg!
Warren - Smokin' Aces (2007)

Studios Battle For Dante's Inferno

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:54:27

Universal, Paramount, New Regency and MGM are in a major bidding battle for film rights to a new and as-yet-unannounced video game from Electronic Arts reports Variety.

The game, expected to be released late next year, involves a journey through the depths of hell and is likely to be called Dante's Inferno as it's said to be a modern interpretation of the first part of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'.

Warner Bros. Pictures was also in the running but dropped out early yesterday.

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:50:07

Lois Einhorn: Listen, pet dick. How would you like me to make your life a living hell?
Ace Ventura: Well, I'm not really ready for a relationship, Lois, but thank you for asking. Hey, maybe I'll give you a call sometime. Your number's still 911? All righty then.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Quantum of Solace

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:49:23

Review (-/10)(By Garth Franklin)Following up one of the best Bond films made with one of the worst, 'Quantum' is nothing less than a crushing disappointment - a barely plotted, poorly filmed, hyper-edited and most of all utterly flat vehicle that commits a crime far worse than even Roger Moore's outlandish last few films - it makes James Bond dull.

It's interesting in the way that this new incarnation of Bond is mirroring a pattern created by one of his predecessors, Timothy Dalton, two decades ago. Like Daniel Craig, Dalton came onto a franchise that had become a punch line and in

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:48:48

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)Like any improbable sequel, “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” is a more potent creation when acting as a carefree joke blender than a believable sample of storytelling.

As good-naturedly hilarious as the 2005 original film, the sequel suffers only in the freshness department, with filmmakers who really show lackluster confidence on where to take this unexpected franchise. It s a fine family diversion, but it fails to improve on its predecessor, and there s something mildly disappointing in that missed opportunity.

The time has come for Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith),

Role Models

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:48:11

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)“Role Models” is not a product that needs much effort to be funny. Not only does the comedy troupe “The State” more or less reunite here, but there s Paul Rudd, the world of LARP, and Mc Lovin also stealing screentime. Coming dangerously close to self-parody at times, “Role Models” remains a light but heartily funny diversion, best served with a raucous audience who appreciate a masterful KISS joke when they see one.

As a spokesman for a rancid energy drink, Danny (Paul Rudd) is feeling defeated by life. Recently dumped by his longtime girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) and

Soul Men

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:47:33

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)While not his last feature film, the late Bernie Mac is served well by the comedy “Soul Men,” putting in a feral performance that brings out the old Mac we all fell in love with long ago. It s a shame the movie can t live up to his spirit, trading comedic momentum for a story nobody is going to care about. Still, the laughs are plentiful for 45 minutes, and that s all this movie needs to please.

As 1970 s R&B sensation The Real Deal, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) and Floyd (Bernie Mac) ruled the radio

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:47:05

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)I imagine “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” will become required viewing for junior high schools just beginning to explore the history of the Holocaust.

The film is an emotional experience highlighting the tragedy of innocence, using the point of view of an eight-year-old German boy to expose the raw psychological devastation of the era. It s an unnerving film with a knockout punch for an ending, but it feels more acceptable as an educational piece than a profoundly rewarding work of drama.

Bitter toward the relocation of his military family to the German countryside, young Bruno (Asa

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:45:20

Austin Powers: Shall we shag now, or shall we shag later? How do you like to do it? Do you like to wash up first? You know, top and tails... whore's bath? Personally, before I'm on the job, I like to give my undercarriage a bit of a 'how's your father'!
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:44:30

Thanks God, A dog pile of piss poor physique on top of a small cock and hereditary alcoholism, I appreciate it!... I'm babbling. I do that drunk.
Rip Reed - Smokin' Aces (2007)

House

TBMR — 2008-11-19 20:42:31

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)A Christian horror film? Well, I suppose every person with access to plenty of money wants in on the spooky genre these days. Unsurprisingly, “House” fails to supply a sufficient level of fright; the picture seems content to wallow in confusion and convention, removing the novelty of faith to roll around in tired terror clichés and dreadful direction.

On their way to a marriage counseling session, bickering couple Jack (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) find themselves in the backwoods of Alabama, forced to take refuge at the Wayside Inn when car troubles arise. Run by eerie caretakers

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:33:28

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)From the studio that brought the world “In the Name of the King” and “Dragon Wars” comes “The Haunting of Molly Hartley.” Perhaps Freestyle Releasing isn t concerned with producing a competent film for their growing library of titles, which makes their latest effort quite a rousing success.

A high school drama with colorless demonic overtones, “Hartley” is a last-minute Halloween stab at box office gold and a resoundingly idiotic one at that.
A new face at a private school, Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett, “Music and Lyrics”) is having trouble fitting in, battling headaches, nosebleeds, and mysterious voices

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:20:43

Review (-/10)(By Paul Fischer)Iconic director Kevin Smith returns behind the feature film camera for the first time since Clerks II in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and this could be his best film in a decade.

Lifelong platonic friends Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) look to solve their respective cashflow problems by making an amateur porn film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begins to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

Smith's latest script crackles with verbal and visual hilarity, taking risks in some areas, yet showing

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:20:00

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)Presenting a movie like High School Musical 3: Senior Year to film critics is a bizarre situation. Let's be real here: nobody who wants to see the feature will care what other people think about it, and most strangers to the HSM franchise wouldn't be caught dead watching it. It's an either ya do or ya don't proposition.

It's the senior year for the East High Wildcats, and futures beyond high school hallways and lunchroom gossip are being planned. For Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), and Chad (Corbin Bleu), the road to adulthood is complicated, involving painful

Pride and Glory

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:19:18

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf) Pride and Glory is undeniably routine, wading into murky New York police drama waters with little hesitation. However, it takes only a minute to shake off the convention and welcome what director Gavin O'Conner is constructing here: a pummeling story of corruption and relations, spread across the battlefield of the unforgiving city. Glory is a marvelous installment of the psychologically tortured cop genre, and whatever it lacks in innovation it makes up in emotionally searing, superbly smashmouth execution.

When four New York City police officers are found dead in an apartment with criminal ties, a task force

Saw 5

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:18:31

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)There's a certain part of me that's envious of the average Saw fan. I truly wish I could appreciate this horror franchise on a more visceral level, screaming along with the rest of the crowd as mayhem arrives, lives are ended, and Jigsaw's legacy is twisted further into a mind-bending puzzle only the most patient out there have kept up with.

It's criminal that I refuse entrance into the club, but, then again, when I view a Saw movie all I can see are bargain-basement production values, abysmal acting, and a soggy narrative that's spun completely out

Sex Drive

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:17:59

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)The curse of American Pie strikes again with Sex Drive, a dreary teen comedy that attempts to pass off an endless series of bodily function jokes as a screenplay. It's dated, humorless, and miscast all around, not to mention homophobic, ineptly written, and on top of all that holds great disdain for its characters. It's the latest in a long string of teen sex comedies where the audience just might find themselves rooting for the STDs.

Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a high school loser, unable to lose his virginity while watching his slovenly friend Lance (Clark Duke, officially

The Secret Life of Bees

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:17:09

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf) The Secret Life of Bees is really Oprah Book Club: The Movie. A sluggish attempt to marry histrionic behavior best left in soap operas with a route story of discrimination and abuse in 1964 South Carolina, the picture is an admirable effort to articulate compassion, but remains lost to a sticky mess of melodrama that devours anything close to a sincere moment.

Living under the tight control of her alcoholic father T. Ray (Paul Bettany), young teen Lily (Dakota Fanning) is dealing with her own guilt over her mother's death and the questions left behind. Leaving T.

What Just Happened?

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:01:22

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)Barry Levinson has returned the fun in making fun of Hollywood, and that's saying something if one takes into consideration the last decade of motion pictures the once miraculous filmmaker has churned out. What Just Happened turns the tables on the industry, mounting a satire of egos, box office returns, and panic attacks without the cluster of winks typically associated with Tinseltown razzing. It's specialized product, but it plays broadly and cleverly.

A super-producer, Ben (Robert De Niro) is facing professional ruin when his latest film, the dog-killing Sean Penn opus Fiercely, tests poorly, and the studio honcho

W.

TBMR — 2008-11-19 16:00:25

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)A George W. Bush bio-pic in the calloused hands of filmmaker Oliver Stone provides so much promise, it'll make your head throb to simply consider the potential. Would W. be flat-out character assassination? A screwball farce? A diseased ode to the haunted mind of a controversial president?

Turns out, after all the hand-wringing anticipation and peanut gallery predictions of malicious liberal content, W. is total and utter kitten play; a softball portrait of Bush that resembles more of a nutty community theater production than a typical scorching Stone project. Nevertheless, the unnervingly ordinary path taken by Stone

City of Ember

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:54:24

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf) City of Ember is a sci-fi fantasy film with forbidding apocalyptic overtones, extravagant set design, and an edge that mixes high-flying questing with significant ecological worry. It's a film Terry Gilliam used to make before his artistic abilities flatlined: a striking adventure for families that dares to challenge the senses with atmosphere that isn't always sunny, backstory that isn't neatly cubed for mass consumption, and youthful performances that attain dramatic weight. Even housed in an imperfect cut, City of Ember is one of the best family films of the year.

While the world neared the end of

An American Carol

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:44:39

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)Liberal? Conservative? Our nation has been split in two; a gangland of citizens who love to bicker over political minutiae, choosing sides with the sort of venom typically reserved for pro wrestling or the finer points of KISStory.

However, I think our brittle populace can all agree on one thing: the searing, unyielding pain of an atrocious comedy. An American Carol is such a beast, hoping to be the first Conservative-angled production to break free from assured ridicule and enjoy a rich box office life, yet comes staggering to the screen crippled with an absurd agenda, farcical

Blindness

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:43:55

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)To shamelessly purple nerple a popular catchphrase: What happens in depressing, unfilmable novels stays in depressing, unfilmable novels. Blindness is a great candidate for the annual did we really need this? awards; it's a dreary jumble of social criticisms and fear mongering that seems perfectly suited to the limitations of a short film. Instead the picture is elongated to a punishing two hours of suffering, infuriatingly slavish screenwriting, and a director who should be gifted the miracle of a tripod this upcoming holiday season.

Out of nowhere, a pandemic of blindness has struck a major city, turning the

Flash of Genius

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:43:15

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)Behold, the sordid, twisted tale of...the intermittent windshield wiper! While a kindly underdog story, Flash of Genius is digging pretty low for a concept that could sustain the inspirational cinema treatment, and the picture shows unmistakable fatigue trying to scrounge up a roller coaster ride concerning underhanded automobile industry practices.

College professor and inventing enthusiast Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) has come up with a motor that runs windshield wipers automatically, removing the aggravation of drivers forced to control the rain-clearing action on their own. Excited about his invention, Robert, with friend Gil (Dermot Mulroney), takes the wipers to

Rachel Getting Married

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:42:05

Review (-/10)(By Paul Fischer)Director Jonathan Demme's work has always been nothing if not original, and his Rachel Getting Married , written by Jenny Lumet [daughter of Sydney] is certainly compelling, due to the film's central performance by Anne Hathaway.

The actress stars as drug addict Kym currently in rehab, who returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel [Rosemarie DeWitt], bringing with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along.

The wedding Party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym --

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:41:27

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is based on the novel by Rachael Cohn and David Levithan, a fact that is constantly reinforced to the audience through the film's near total absence of narrative consistency.

A flighty, poppy dream factory posing as an articulate teen diversion, Playlist is caloric with whimsy but lacks distinctive dramatic weight, to a degree that it ceases to be a movie and transforms into something resembling a tiresome Diet Coke commercial.

Fresh from a gig with his band, Nick (Michael Cera) reluctantly spends a night in New York City with his friends, trying

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

TBMR — 2008-11-19 15:40:15

Review (-/10)(By Brian Orndorf)As a comedic performer, there are few as sharp as Simon Pegg these days. However, Pegg was introduced to American audiences through witty, intelligent productions such as Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz.

Now established as something of a leading man, Pegg's career has swayed toward more predictable fare, lacking the assured punch expected from such a talent. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People joins the recent Run Fatboy Run as material below Pegg's capability, but nevertheless held together by his growing starpower.

Running a mean-spirited entertainment magazine in London, Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is

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Sita recieved important news from Jagawana post Saragan montain, montain with full of scary place , that already two days, his brother, Ganjar and his several friends, not yet shown and give their confirmation in post one, their worried they were lost in the middle of climbing. This incident made Sita shocked, in that time, Sita with Oji hurried following his brother to find them.
Without Sita and Oji, Bagus came to Tito, his old friend isolated himself because of trauma with the past that destroyed their friendship. Beforehand Norman and Tito were lost in the Sarangan mountain. At that time

Beyond the Gates

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Empress Chun Chu

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The drama is about the third empress of the Goryeo era who fought against the Tungustic people of Manchuria in order to achieve their dream of reclaiming their old land.
Title: 천추태후 / Cheon Chu Taehu / Empress Chun Chu
Also known as: The Iron Empress
Chinese title: 千秋太后
Genre: Historical
Episodes: 60+
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: November 22, 2008 to 2009
Air time: Saturdays & Sundays 21:30

Cast
Chae Si Ra as Empress Chun Chu
Kim Suk Hoon as Kim Chi Yang
Choi Jae Sung as Kang Jo
Lee Duk Hwa
Shin Ae as Hwang Bo Seol
Kim Ho Jin
Kim Min Ji
Kim So Eun as (Chun Chu s daughter)
Yang Geum Suk
Hong

General Hospital Season 2

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Lee Jae Ryong will reprise his role from the first season which aired 14 years ago. This time around he will be a resident working in a hospital instead of an intern.
Title: 종합병원 2 / General Hospital 2
Chinese title: 总医院 2
Genre: Medical, drama
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: November 19, 2008 to January 22, 2009
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Cast
Lee Jae Ryong
Cha Tae Hyun
Kim Jung Eun
Ryu Seung Soo
Do Ji Won
Lee Jong Won
Ryu Jin

Extended Cast
Go Joon Hee
Kim Byung Man
Lee Hwi Hyang
Oh Wook Chul
Jo Kyung Hwan

Production Credits
Director: Roh Do Chul (노도철)
Screenwriter: Choi Wan Kyu, Kwon Eum

I Love You, Don�t Cry

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Han Young Min and Min Seo Young were supposed to get engaged but on their engagement day, Young Min s ex, Jae Hee, dumped their son, Jun, on him. Seo Young broke up with Young Min afterwards. Jo Min Soo, who is jobless, was hired by Young Min to take care of his son because he couldn t take care of him himself. Young Min is an architect and lectures at a local university in his spare time.
Title: 사랑해, 울지마 / I Love You, Don t Cry
Chinese title: 我爱你,不要哭
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: November 17, 2008 to December 22,

Temptation of Wife

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A serious accident left Jung Gyo Bin believing that his wife, Eun Jae, drowned and died. However, Eun Jae survived the accident only to return to find that her husband has another woman and a child.
Title: 아내의 유혹 / Temptation of Wife
Chinese title: 妻子的诱惑
Genre: Family, Melodrama
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: November 3, 2008
Air time: Mondays to Fridays 19:20 (7:20 Korean time)

Cast
Jang Seo Hee as Goo Eun Jae (33)
Byun Woo Min as Jung Gyo Bin (35, Eun Jae s husband)
Kim Suh Hyung as Shin Ae Ri (33)
Lee Jae Hwang as Jo Kang Woo (31)
Im Chae Moo as Goo Yooung Soo

The World That They Live In

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This drama is about the process of a television drama producton. Jung Ji Oh is a charismatic drama PD whereas Joo Joon Young is a PD who is direct and confident.
Title: 그들이 사는 세상 / The World That They Live In
Chinese Title: 他们生活的世界
Also known as: Worlds Within……
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS
Broadcast period: October 21, 2008 to December 26, 2008
Air time: Mondays and Tuesdays 21:55

Cast
Hyun Bin as Jung Ji Oh (Director)
Song Hye Kyo as Joo Joon Young (Director)
Uhm Ki Joon as Song Gyu Ho (Director)
Seo Hyo Rim as Jang Hae Jin (Rookie Actress)

Extended Cast
Bae Jung Ok as Yoon

Four Christmases

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Lake City

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When a young man gets into trouble with a local drug dealer, he hits the road running with a young companion and heads to the last place on earth he wants to go - his childhood home.

Academy Award-winner Sissy Spacek and Troy Garity star in Lake City, a searing Southern drama about a mother and son who reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy drove them apart. Once together, they are forced to sort out their past and escape a dangerous situation in the present.

Director: Hunter Hill, Perry Moore
Writer(s): Hunter Hill, Perry Moore
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, Rebecca

Badland

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Bolt

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Outlander

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How About You

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How About You

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Ellie (Hayley Atwell), a free-spirited and headstrong young woman, is left in charge of a retirement home over the Christmas holidays. Her youthful inexperience brings her into bitter conflict with the four grumpy old residents known as the Hard Core : retired screen beauty Georgia (Vanessa Redgrave), spinster sisters Hazel (Imelda Staunton) and Heather (Brenda Fricker), and a reformed alcoholic judge, Donald (Joss Ackland). How About You follows the hilarious antics of these uncivilized seniors, the gradual close of the generation gap, and an unlikely romance. Based on a short story by Maeve Binchy.

Director: Anthony Byrne
Writer(s): Jean Pasley
Cast: Hayley Atwell,

The Dukes

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In the 1960s, Doo Wop group The Dukes topped the charts, but in 2007 they've faded from the spotlight with occasional gigs that don't pay the bills and waiting tables at their Aunt Vee's restaurant to make ends meet. In an attempt to reclaim their former glory and with it some self respect, they stumble upon the heist of a lifetime -- but one laden with a number of unexpected results.

Director: Robert Davi
Writer(s): Robert Davi, James Andronica
Cast: Robert Davi, Chazz Palminteri, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank D'Amico, Elya Baskin, Miriam Margolyes, Eloise DeJoria, Melora Hardin, Bruce Weitz, Joseph Campanella

Release Date: November 14,

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

TBMR — 2008-11-04 07:54:22

Review (7/10)(By Erin Cullin)

Of all of the screenings at this year�s Toronto International Film Festival, I must admit that the North American premiere of "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" seemed to be the odd man out.

Sure, TIFF has had its share of "avant garde" films, and has never been afraid of a bit of controversy, or nudity, or coarse language - but to take on Kevin Smith, one of the masters of potty-mouthed comedy - seemed to me to be a bit of a stretch, even for the Toronto International Film Festival.

After doing a bit of research I discovered,

We Are Wizards

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Most people might not be aware that there is a raging Wizard Rock scene going on in this country. We Are Wizards profiles some of the power players in the underground Harry Potter creative community. The film offers a look at a seven-year-old rock star and his teen pop idols, hilarious audio-commentary set to the movie and online creative writing sites waging war with corporate agents.

The books' themes of good versus evil and using inner strength to overcome challenges serve as a catalyst for many who face personal obstacles, or just to meet like-minded folk and have fun. It is

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Man On Wire Tops Tomato-Meter

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Magnolia Pictures documentary Man on Wire has become the best reviewed film ever on Rotten Tomatoes famous Tomato-meter.

From 129 reviews, the film has scored a 100% approval rating which puts it just ahead of the 100% positive approval from 125 reviews that Toy Story 2 received.

Man on Wire tells the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who snuck up to the top of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974, strung a wire between the buildings and walked across, an unprecedented wire walk that has never been repeated or attempted since. The

Gary Oldman Reads From Book of Eli

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Gary Oldman will join the Denzel Washington-led post-apocalyptic action film Book of Eli for Warner Bros. Pictures' reports Variety.

The story revolves around a lone warrior (Washington) who must fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.

Oldman has been set to portray the despot of a small makeshift town who's determined to take possession of the book Eli's guarding.

Allen and Albert Hughes direct while Joel Silver, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Washington himself will produce.

Shooting begins in February in New Mexico with a release set for January 15th 2010.

Sam Mendes Helms Preacher Film

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Sony Pictures and Original Films have landed the film rights to the popular 1990's comic book series Preacher with Sam Mendes ( Jarhead, Revolutionary Road ) set to direct says The Hollywood Reporter.

Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the story followed a down-and-out Texas preacher possessed by Genesis, a supernatural entity conceived by the unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon.

Given immense powers, the preacher teamed with an old girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire and set out on a journey across America to find God -- who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven -- and hold

Millar's Superman Trilogy Plans

TBMR — 2008-11-04 05:15:13

Since the success of the film Wanted , which bared little relation to his original comic, Mark Millar has been boastful in interviews about his pitch for a new take on Superman that he and a 'big-Hollywood action director' will shortly be making to Warner Bros. Pictures.

Now, talking with Empire Online, he revealed some new details about his ambitious eight-hour screen story which will follow the entire life of Kal-El.

Millar says the plan will be one saga in three parts, each film released a year apart. Millar says It's gonna be like Michael Corleone in the Godfather films, the

Gabaldon's Outlander Becomes Franchise

TBMR — 2008-11-04 05:13:35

Essential Pictures is turning Diana Gabaldon's Outlander fantasy novel series into a potential franchise reports Variety.

Gabaldon's series of six novels center on an 18th century Scottish Highlander and his time-traveling wife.

Randall Wallace ( Braveheart ) penned an adaptation which is currently out to directors with the aim to start production next spring.

Essential is also developing romantic comedy Bronwyn and Clyde with Barry Sonnenfeld ( Men in Black ) in negotiations to direct.

Sam Jackson In Last Dragon Remake

TBMR — 2008-11-04 05:12:08

Samuel L. Jackson will play the villain in Sony Pictures remake of the 1985 cult classic The Last Dragon says The Hollywood Reporter.

Berry Gordy's original centered on young martial arts student Leroy Green in his quest through the streets of New York to achieve the highest level of martial arts accomplishment, known as the Last Dragon.

Those who achieve the high ranking possess the Glow, making them the greatest fighter alive. Jackson will play Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, a role played in the original by the late Julius Carry.

Dallas Jackson is penning the screenplay as well as producing alongside

David Tennant Leaves Doctor Who

TBMR — 2008-11-04 05:09:06

David Tennant is set to stand down as Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular incarnations of the character in the British sci-fi series five decade history reports BBC News.

Tennant made the announcement after winning the outstanding drama performance prize at the National Television Awards saying When Doctor Who returns in 2010 it won't be with me...Now don't make me cry, I love this part, and I love this show so much that if I don't take a deep breath and move on now I never will, and you'll be wheeling me out of the Tardis in my

Paramount Acquires Agnes Quill

TBMR — 2008-11-04 05:06:40

Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to Dave Roman's graphic novel Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery says Variety.

The story follows 16-year-old Agnes who inherits from her grandfather an estate and an ability to see and communicate with the dead.

Thor Freudenthal ( Hotel for Dogs ) is attached to direct from a script by Evan Spiliotopoulos. Steven Gilder and Jason Clark will produce.

McDermott, Saldana, Stahl Into Burning

TBMR — 2008-11-04 05:04:40

Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, Paz Vega and Shannen Doherty will star in Burning Palms says The Hollywood Reporter.

Christopher Landon's satire makes fun of Los Angeles stereotypes as told through five interlacing stories - specifically skewing views of people who live in West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Westwood and Holmby Hills. Each of the characters confronts taboos and an uncertain, often darkly humorous fate.

The sextet join a large ensemble cast that also includes Adriana Barraza, Colleen Camp, Jamie Chung, Robert Hoffman, Peter Macdissi, Emily Meade, Anson Mount, Rosamund Pike, Austin Williams and Tom Wright.

Oren Segal,