Title:Mamma Mia!
DVD Release Date:December 16, 2008
Genre::Musicals,Comedy
Director:Phyllida Lloyd
Actors: Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Amanda Seyfried
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Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Bringing the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences, Summer 2008 is the season for Mamma Mia!
2.The Duchess
Title:The Duchess
DVD Release Date: December 27, 2008
Genre:Drama,Love & Romance
Directors: Saul Dibb
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Simon McBurney, Charlotte Rampling, John Shrapnel, Dominic Cooper
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A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal lives. She is a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. But she is trapped in an unhappy triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt into a scandal.
3.Eagle Eye
Title:Eagle Eye
DVD Release Date: December 27, 2008
Genre:Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure
Directors: D.J. Caruso
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie
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“Eagle Eye” is a race-against-time thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations – using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country’s most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening – and more importantly, why.
4.Ghost Town
Title:Ghost Town
DVD Release Date: December 27, 2008
Genre:Romantic Comedies
Director:David Koepp
Actors: Joe Badalucco, Dana Ivey, Téa Leoni, Alan Ruck, Brian Tarantina
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In the comedy "Ghost Town," Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).
5.Horton Hears a Who
Title:Horton Hears a Who
DVD Release Date: December 9, 2008
Genre:Animation
Director:Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell
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A new CG animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of the “Ice Age” films, based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Seuss books are among the defining works of family literature, have sold over 200 million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages. The “Horton” series (“Horton Hears a Who,” “Horton Hatches the Egg”) are consistently among the top-selling of all Seuss titles — generation after generation. HORTON HEARS A WHO is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.
Review:Of Time and The City
By Paul Brenner from Filmcritic.com
"We love the place we hate/We hate the place we love/We leave the place we hate/Then spend a lifetime trying to regain it."
Director Terence Davies recites these words as his camera moves across a church edifice like an incantation in his moving and emotional paean to the lost Liverpool of his youth, the impassioned documentary Of Time and the City.
Davies' films (Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Long Day Closes) have always looked to the past as both memory and memory's sometimes distorted recollections. Much like last year's MyWinnipeg of Guy Maddin, Davies looks at both the past of a city and his own past there, twisting both into a funhouse mirror. Maddin, of course, barely gets out of his childhood alive, but for Davies, his Liverpool is a state of lost innocence killed when modernity and puberty set in. He quotes Shelley in the opening shot, an image of a slowly opening curtain in a movie house, "The happy highways where I went and cannot come again." Davies is already placing Liverpool as a mythic town of his childhood and boldly states, "If Liverpool did not exist, it would have to be invented."
Davies covers his formative years 1945 to 1969, liberally quoting not only Shelley, but also a collection of quotables from Joyce to Chekhov to Jung as he interweaves archival clips and newsreel footage of Liverpool and post-WWII England around it. Davies' narrative voice is mildly sarcastic and heavily melancholy as he recalls his golden youth, peppering the film with Mahler, Sibelius, and Bruckner, along with The Hollies, The Spinners, and Peggy Lee.
The film is divided into two sections, the first section outlining the wonderful childhood days in his city and the second section showing the inevitable destruction of his youthful wonders. Linking the sections are film clips of children in strollers pushed around the Liverpool sidewalks as the backgrounds change from one era to the next.
Davies introduces his childhood recollections by saying, "Here was my whole world -- home school and the movies." Of Time and the City offering a wonderful collection of footage from the 1950s as Davies recalls his trips to the cinema with an evocative series of theater marquees and television footage of movie premieres ("At seven, I saw Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain and loved the movies and swallowed them whole."), Liverpudlians on the beaches and partaking of the amusement piers, clips of British football games (Davies remembering his mother in the kitchen listening to the games on the radio and shouting out the scores), his love of wrestling with clips of games from Liverpool Stadium and his burgeoning homosexuality (his interest in wrestling making him aware of "dark desires which thrilled and compelled"), and the oppressive church, which tipped him to a lifestyle decision ("Caught between canon and carnal law, I said goodbye to my girlhood").
Of Time and the City is a longing tone poem of Liverpool, not bracing like the original, impressionistic city documentaries like Berlin: Symphony of a City or A propos de Nice, but infused with a smoldering undercurrent of time lost and a churning, haunted passion for that lost time. It's a time not only for Davies, but for us all: "Come close now and see your dream. Come close now and see mine."
"We love the place we hate/We hate the place we love/We leave the place we hate/Then spend a lifetime trying to regain it."
Director Terence Davies recites these words as his camera moves across a church edifice like an incantation in his moving and emotional paean to the lost Liverpool of his youth, the impassioned documentary Of Time and the City.
Davies' films (Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Long Day Closes) have always looked to the past as both memory and memory's sometimes distorted recollections. Much like last year's MyWinnipeg of Guy Maddin, Davies looks at both the past of a city and his own past there, twisting both into a funhouse mirror. Maddin, of course, barely gets out of his childhood alive, but for Davies, his Liverpool is a state of lost innocence killed when modernity and puberty set in. He quotes Shelley in the opening shot, an image of a slowly opening curtain in a movie house, "The happy highways where I went and cannot come again." Davies is already placing Liverpool as a mythic town of his childhood and boldly states, "If Liverpool did not exist, it would have to be invented."
Davies covers his formative years 1945 to 1969, liberally quoting not only Shelley, but also a collection of quotables from Joyce to Chekhov to Jung as he interweaves archival clips and newsreel footage of Liverpool and post-WWII England around it. Davies' narrative voice is mildly sarcastic and heavily melancholy as he recalls his golden youth, peppering the film with Mahler, Sibelius, and Bruckner, along with The Hollies, The Spinners, and Peggy Lee.
The film is divided into two sections, the first section outlining the wonderful childhood days in his city and the second section showing the inevitable destruction of his youthful wonders. Linking the sections are film clips of children in strollers pushed around the Liverpool sidewalks as the backgrounds change from one era to the next.
Davies introduces his childhood recollections by saying, "Here was my whole world -- home school and the movies." Of Time and the City offering a wonderful collection of footage from the 1950s as Davies recalls his trips to the cinema with an evocative series of theater marquees and television footage of movie premieres ("At seven, I saw Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain and loved the movies and swallowed them whole."), Liverpudlians on the beaches and partaking of the amusement piers, clips of British football games (Davies remembering his mother in the kitchen listening to the games on the radio and shouting out the scores), his love of wrestling with clips of games from Liverpool Stadium and his burgeoning homosexuality (his interest in wrestling making him aware of "dark desires which thrilled and compelled"), and the oppressive church, which tipped him to a lifestyle decision ("Caught between canon and carnal law, I said goodbye to my girlhood").
Of Time and the City is a longing tone poem of Liverpool, not bracing like the original, impressionistic city documentaries like Berlin: Symphony of a City or A propos de Nice, but infused with a smoldering undercurrent of time lost and a churning, haunted passion for that lost time. It's a time not only for Davies, but for us all: "Come close now and see your dream. Come close now and see mine."
I think I see a Beatle.
Valentines Movie
Valentines Movie
From indobase.com
Well when the time is to tie the knots of lovebirds, then I guess the most romantic idea is a special candle light dinner, light music, dim lights but don't you think still something seems to be missing. There has to be lots more fun, thrill and romance on this day, what say? In my opinion, a perfect valentine day is incomplete without watching a valentines movie that has the capability to boost up the mood for romance.
The reservoir of Valentine's Day romantic movies is a comprehensive one and consists of multiple options to choose from. To name a few top romantic valentine day movies we have Titanic, Sleepless In Seattle, Romeo And Juliet, City Of Angels, Love Story, Sixteen Candles, Pretty Woman and Endless Love etc. But if you want to have some cheerful moments of laughter and joy then there are some real funny romantic comedy films like 20 Dates, About Last Night, Breakfast at Tiffany's, An American in Paris & Butterflies Are Free.
Well when the time is to tie the knots of lovebirds, then I guess the most romantic idea is a special candle light dinner, light music, dim lights but don't you think still something seems to be missing. There has to be lots more fun, thrill and romance on this day, what say? In my opinion, a perfect valentine day is incomplete without watching a valentines movie that has the capability to boost up the mood for romance.
The reservoir of Valentine's Day romantic movies is a comprehensive one and consists of multiple options to choose from. To name a few top romantic valentine day movies we have Titanic, Sleepless In Seattle, Romeo And Juliet, City Of Angels, Love Story, Sixteen Candles, Pretty Woman and Endless Love etc. But if you want to have some cheerful moments of laughter and joy then there are some real funny romantic comedy films like 20 Dates, About Last Night, Breakfast at Tiffany's, An American in Paris & Butterflies Are Free.
If your loved one is an adventurous kind of person, then the perfect kind of film would be an action oriented type like Back draft, Crimson Tide, Mask Of Zorro, Point Break & Batman Forever. If you like mystery stuff then you can go in for one or more of these thriller valentine movies: Dead Again, Spellbound, Jaws, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle & Psycho. If you are fond of drama, then you can check out one of the following films: Bed Of Roses, Great Expectations, About Last Night, Just the Way You Are, Happy Together & When Harry Met Sally.
If you are a happily married couple and wish to watch a movie that your kids can also enjoy then you can buy a video CD of Beauty and the Beast or Heaven Can Wait. Other good options are Night Tide, Like Water for Chocolate & Celestial Clockwork. By now you must have decided which movie would you be watching with your sweetheart and guys do not forget wine because it acts as a stimulator in creating the atmosphere for lovebirds to go crazy. So, this valentine day, try out these ideas and see the effects. Trust me it will spice up your love life.
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