Wednesday 7 September 2011

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Movie : Courageous

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : TriStar Pictures (Sony)

Director : Alex Kendrick

Screenwriter : Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick

Starring : Alex Kendrick, Kevin Downes, Ben Davies, Matt Hardwick, Ken Bevel

Genre : Drama

Official Website : Not Available

Honor Begins at Home. Four men, one calling: To serve and protect.  As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, David Thomson, and Shane Fuller are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood.


While they consistently give their best on the job, good enough seems to be all they can muster as dads. But they’re quickly discovering that their standard is missing the mark.

When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a new found urgency help these dads draw closer to God … and to their children?

Filled with action-packed police drama, COURAGEOUS is the fourth film from Sherwood Pictures, the movie making ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Riveted moviegoers will once again find themselves laughing, crying, and cheering as they are challenged and inspired by everyday heroes who long to be the kinds of dads that make a lifelong impact on their children.

Protecting the streets is second nature to these men. Raising their children in a God-honoring way? That’s courageous.

Let me start by letting you know that shortly after I became a Christian, I found myself unable to enjoy the comedy clubs, music and movies that I had once loved. It hit me one day that I had to put all those things away that were not glorifying to God…the crude humor, immoral innuendo, blasphemy and lyrics that promoted sin. Although I was dedicated to my new Lord, (I did put the stuff away), I reacted like Lot’s wife, turning back and looking…somewhat lamenting the loss of “fun” in my life. I resigned myself to the fact that I would never again enjoy jokes, movies or music.

Leave it to the Kendrick brothers to blow away that notion! One of the highlights of the movie, Courageous, is the side splitting humor sprinkled throughout, all of it clean and gentle. No one’s feelings have to be hurt by sarcasm for a joke to be funny, and gross vulgarities are not only unnecessary, but they truly ruin a good time.

In Courageous, we join a group of 4 sheriff’s deputies and a manual laborer named Javier. These men face daily dilemmas related to job and family and learn to rely on each other and God in this inspiring, but humorous flick. How will they respond when the ultimate tragedy befalls one of them?

But this review is not just about the entertainment value of Courageous, but rather the spiritual value. Let’s use three measuring sticks (you could pick several others, I’m sure), to try to judge the merit of this movie. Ultimately, the question is, should you spend the resources God has provided you with to see this flick? Or would your money be better spent elsewhere…there is certainly need all around us.

On Tuesday, May 10th, together with two co-workers, I headed down to Menomonee Falls, WI to attend a promotional screening of the movie Courageous.  Courageous is the fourth production of Sherwood Baptist in Albany, GA.  Sherwood’s previous productions are, “Flywheel,” “Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof.”

Facing the Giants was Sherwood’s first big hit, followed by the largely successful Fireproof.  Each movie has a particular emphasis and Courageous is no different.

Courageous endeavors to present in an attractive manner the theme of fatherhood.  The main plot surrounds five men, four of whom are cops.  Most are a combination of being mediocre dads, poor husbands or lukewarm followers of Christ.  An unthinkable horror strikes one of them, Adam Mitchell, forcing him into a six-week study of God’s design for fatherhood.  Mitchell shares the fruits of his study with his friends and unveils a “resolution” he created.  All five men agree to live out this resolution and are tested in their resolve.

Accompanying the central plot are various sub-plots that come together to demonstrate the concerns and desires of a father’s heart for his family and society.  This message reflects a larger ideology and movement that calls upon men to be authentic witnesses to manhood in Christ, though there is no clearly discernible link made in the movie with this larger movement.

As a Catholic, I must note the lack of a sacramental economy that pervades the movie.  Understandably, Sherwood sees through the lens of Protestant theology on sin and grace/faith and works and this intimately affects the plot of the movie.  Mercifully, this choice is not as prevalent as it could be and is primarily demonstrated in one scene, though undertones persist throughout the entire film.  This danger to faith and good morals might deter some viewers; however a well-catechized Catholic can easily identify these and ward others away from them.

Theological deficits aside, this movie has a lot of potential to arouse noble sentiments within the hearts of men and communicates many valuable conceptions on life and manhood.  Personally speaking, I laughed, I cried (sometimes back to back) and at the end, I felt in my own heart that the message had been received.  It is said that our culture has largely neglected or forgotten the true meaning of fatherhood.  I can say that as I truly felt edified after watching Courageous, I believe that other men will likewise be inspired to seek Christ more profoundly.


Overall, I would give Courageous 4 out of 5 stars as the story is well-written, moving seamlessly between gravity and levity, but the theological deficits are a cause for concern.
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Movie : Tucker & Dale vs Evil

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : Magnet Releasing (Magnolia Pictures)

Director : Eli Craig

Screenwriter : Eli Craig, Morgan Jurgenson

Starring : Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowen

Genre : Comedy, Horror

Official Website : MagnetReleasing.com

The horror genre is over-saturated with killer hillbilly slasher films - ruthless psychopaths who have nothing better to do than torture unsuspecting innocents. As the horror genre progressed from B-movie terror to “torture porn,” we’ve seen plenty of vacationing families, law enforcement officials, and road-tripping college kids meet their maker in increasingly horrifying ways.


But what if all the blood and guts, all the decapitations and mutilated limbs, were just the result of an enormous misunderstanding - where a lack of communication leads to (horribly fun) disaster?

That’s the basic pitch of Eli Craig’s horror comedy, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, starring Alan Tudyk (Firefly) and Tyler Labine (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) as a pair of misunderstood hillbillies who, while vacationing at their summer home, find themselves cast as the villains in a gruesome set of events. But does newcomer Craig (fun fact: he’s Sally Field’s youngest son) succeed in delivering on this intriguing premise - or does Tucker & Dale vs Evil fail at both its comedy as well as horror aspirations?

Fortunately, Tucker & Dale vs Evil hits nearly every mark that it aims for - though it delivers significantly more comedy than horror - and plays on iconic slasher film staples as well as expectations to great effect.

As mentioned, the basic story follows the misadventures of Dale (Alan Tudyk) and Tucker (Tyler Labine), two hillbilly best friends who, while fixing-up their summer home, encounter a group of overly-anxious college kids. When the pair startle Allison (Katrina Bowden), one of the twenty-something girls, and she begins to drown in a nearby river, Tucker jumps in after her. With Allison safely inside the boat, Dale calls out to her classmates in reassurance, “We’ve got your friend!” - setting the teens into a panic and, subsequently, on an unfortunate and misguided rescue mission that results in a lot of pain and suffering for hillbillies and college kids alike.

Some moviegoers might think that the Tucker & Dale vs Evil premise sounds entirely absurd - and, to a certain extent, it is - but that doesn’t keep the film from delivering plenty of genuinely funny comedy moments as well as some palpable suspense and tension. That said, suspense should not be confused with scares - the “horror” in Tucker and Dale is more the blood and guts variety, not so much the jump scares that are used frequently in the film’s genre source inspirations. This isn’t to say that the film isn’t exceptionally entertaining - but it’s worth tempering expectations with regard to the tone of the project.

That said, Craig’s horror comedy is especially good at two things - 1) offering-up some genuinely disgusting death sequences (as any competent horror film should) and 2) presenting hilarious counter-points to each of the grisly kills by juxtaposing an iconic image (a chainsaw wielding psychopath) with an entertaining peek through Tucker and/or Dale’s perspective (a victim of a bee attack). While the stupidity of the college kids is ultimately responsible for their undoing, Tucker and Dale’s perception of, and reaction to, the unfolding events is very entertaining. As a result, the film owes a lot of credit to Tudyk and Labine’s performances, who, despite the number of people dying on their property (as a result of their inability to communicate the situation effectively), remain empathetic and likable characters all the way through.

The college kids, on the other hand, are the weakest aspect of the film - on a case by case basis. Katrina Bowden (30 Rock) is great as Allison - successfully maintaining a grounded balance in spite of the craziness that has put her at the center of an enormous and violent misunderstanding. Interestingly, with regard to her friends, and in keeping with flipping the slasher film genre on its head - the motivation of the college kids is about as thin as the motivation of most iconic slasher villains. Sure, most of the time they’re focused on rescuing Allison, but often, the way they approach a given situation is laughable and over-the-top - turning the team of polo-wearing twenty-somethings into one-note characters like Freddy Krueger​ or Jason Voorhees​. In general, they’re mostly (intentional) stereotypes that provide meat for the horror movie grinder, so the film doesn’t waste any time developing group dynamics or inter-personal relationships. Jesse Moss (Final Destination 3​) is given a bit more to work with as Chad (the group’s resident hillbilly expert) but can be a bit excessive - even for a movie that plays heavily on caricatures.

As a result, it’s fun to watch each of them create scenarios for their own undoing - especially since Tucker and Dale succeed in appearing so sympathetic. However, at times, the movie attempts to do a bit too much, tying the colored hillbilly horror past into current events as well as wrapping up Tucker and Dale’s character journeys - in favor of actually dealing with the emotional fall-out of the preceding events. Of course, Tucker and Dale vs Evil is mostly a comedy, so it’s better that it continues to offer laughs instead of deep-seated emotional complexity.

That said, it’s ultimately hard to rectify the balance of parody and resulting horror, given the number of “innocent” deaths that are presented on-screen - especially since no one, not even the surviving characters in the film, seem to care. Since there are no real scares or psychological horror in the film, these deaths don’t carry any weight or serve to build tension into the over-arching narrative - and exist only as laughable scenes from moment to moment. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but the final fifteen minutes of the movie are so tangled, that there had to be a more elegant and enjoyable way of uniting all the blood, humor, and story elements together. As a result, despite being entertaining, at times it can be unclear where Craig is flexing an expert parody muscle and where he’s just bitten off more than he can chew.


In the end, Tucker and Dale vs Evil is deliciously fun satire - and, once all the blood has been spilt, offers genuinely interesting commentary on the fine line between hero and horror villain. Sure, character motivations are unclear at times, and downright unbelievable at others points, but there’s no doubt that Craig succeeds in making some interesting observations in Tucker and Dale vs Evil - as well as delivering plenty of outrageous entertainment.
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Movie : Take Shelter

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : Sony Pictures Classics

Director : Jeff Nichols

Screenwriter : Jeff Nichols

Starring : Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker

Genre : Drama, Thriller

Official Website : Not Available

With his sad-eyed intensity and a towering physicality almost like that of Frankenstein's monster, there's possibly no more mesmerizing American actor working in any medium today than Michael Shannon. His talents are put to exceptional use in writer-director Jeff Nichols' devastating Take Shelter.


Snapped up pre-Sundance by Sony Pictures Classics, this knockout prestige picture is a masterfully controlled piece of work on every level -- from its precise modulation of mood to its piercing emotional accuracy, its impeccable craftsmanship and breathtaking imagery. Rarely have electrical storms, cloud formations and glowering skies had such an unnerving impact or expressed such dark visual poetry.

While at times it conjures suggestions of vintage Polanski-style paranoia in rural America, this haunting psychological thriller is also a quasi-horror movie firmly rooted in slice-of-life reality. An allegory for the troubles of the world bearing down on ordinary people in an age of natural, industrial and economic cataclysms, it taps into pervasive anxiety more acutely than any film since Todd Haynes' Safe.

In his second collaboration with Shannon following Shotgun Stories, Nichols has written a role tailored to the actor's particular gifts in Curtis LaForche. From cinematographer Adam Stone's first arresting widescreen view of Curtis standing outside his small-town Ohio home, staring up at an ominous sky as clouds burst and oily rain falls, it's clear this man has disturbing thoughts on his mind.

He has a loving home life with wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and 6-year-old daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart), who has lost her hearing but is scheduled for corrective surgery. He also has job security as crew manager for a drilling company, working alongside his buddy Dewart (Shea Whigham). Without belaboring the point, however, Nichols reminds us that stability these days hangs on a tenuous thread.

Dreams and hallucinations portending violence increasingly plague Curtis, some of them perhaps even real. From flocks of birds like moving ink stains overhead, to walls of thundering clouds closing in on him, to levitating furniture that comes crashing down, these frightening visions are executed with stunning effectiveness by an ace visual effects team led by Chris Wells.

Keeping his inner turmoil to himself but leaving his wife and colleague to interpret his increasingly irrational and obsessive behavior, Curtis tries sedatives and counseling. During a visit to his mother (Kathy Baker) we learn of her history of paranoid schizophrenia, which causes Curtis to suspect that may be where he's headed too.

Unable to vanquish his fears, he takes a risky loan and illegally borrows equipment from work to expand the house's tornado shelter in preparation for the apocalypse.

While Nichols doesn't stint on powerful dramatic moments, he shows equal command of intimate observations -- the tenderness between mother and daughter; the frazzled affections of marriage; the relaxed camaraderie between co-workers; the stiffness between siblings when Curtis' concerned brother (Ray McKinnon) checks in on him. In Shannon's single scene with Baker, their cautious channels of communication provide a window into years of painful distance.

Chastain is heartbreaking as a woman wondering if the person she loves has become someone else, her face dissolving into wreckage as Curtis finally explains his fears.

But every performance is of a piece with a film that never wavers in its certainty of tone, its moments of dread and jolts of terror all enhanced by David Wingo's brooding score and by a muscular soundscape.

It's hard to imagine another actor bringing such unblinking conviction to the demanding lead role. One of many gifted stage actors to come out of Chicago, Shannon's profile has shot up recently with an Oscar nomination for Revolutionary Road and a prominent role on Boardwalk Empire.

His characterization grips like a vice as he shifts from softness to menace, stillness to panic, incomprehension to crazed, purposeful illumination. When Curtis explodes and starts prophesying doom to a community hall full of locals, it's among the film's most heated moments but also its saddest, played out in the scared, bewildered faces of the people present.

The unsettling final scene is wide open to interpretation. But it's clear that Nichols is less interested in the last word on Curtis' sanity than he is in conveying how fear has become an inescapable part of our world, and how family can endure, even in the face of disaster.

The impulse to protect one’s family is strong. But what happens when that impulse becomes an addiction, when the growing sense of dread about your family’s well-being becomes so overpowering and all-encompassing that you risk losing the very family you’re trying to protect? That’s one of the questions at the heart of Take Shelter. I have started this review at least half-a-dozen times. Some versions of the review delved right into a discussion of the plot, which focuses on Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon), a man who begins acting in a way increasingly perplexing to his family and friends because of his private visions of impending doom. Other versions began talking about the finesse with which director Jeff Nichols manages to take a thriller-type film and turn it into a study in paranoia and psychosis. And still other versions jumped into the technical aspects of the film, particularly its absolutely gorgeous cinematography. Ultimately, the problem I’m having is that there is so much I love about Take Shelter that I just don’t know where to begin or how to unpack it.

It’s been a few weeks now since I’ve actually seen the film (Take Shelter is one of the screenings that Dustin and I took in at Sundance last month). Having had time to reflect on it, many things stick with me, but what sticks with me most is the overall performance of Michael Shannon. Although it’s only February, and we won’t even know who will take home the Oscars from last years slate of films for another few-odd days, I have no problem predicting that Shannon is a lock for a best actor nod next year, and any actor will be hard-pressed to deliver a performance this year more deserving of taking the prize home. Because Shannon’s performance is fantastic. As the film opens, Shannon’s Curtis is having darkly disturbed dreams, which appear to border on visions, of a coming Storm. Curtis wants nothing more than to protect his family, wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart), and as his dreams become more realistic and begin to bleed into his waking life, he begins to take action. This eventually leads to him putting his family into a precarious financial position as he starts building a shipping-container-based shelter under their backyard.

But the thing is, Shannon’s family has a history of mental illness. Is there really doom, which Curtis is somehow having premonitions of, or is he simply succumbing to a genetic predisposition? Curtis, himself, is unsure of the answer, yet he is unable to stop himself from moving forward, and it’s in this murky internal conflict that the film lives and breathes. And Nichols offers an amazing insight into Curtis’ perspective — the thrill of this thriller isn’t any action, but in absorbing and feeling Curtis’ own growing paranoia. It’s both riveting and stifling.

Shannon is, of course, this hulk of a man, and he is fully capable of using that to his advantage, portraying Curtis in a way way that absolutely terrifies. But Shannon’s performance offers so much more, particularly when he plays against his build, portraying this beast of a man who feels so afraid and broken because he’s not sure he can even trust his own mind anymore, nor is he sure he can do the one thing he cares about, keep his family safe. And speaking of that family, Jessica Chastain is lovely as Curtis’ wife. Samantha could have been written simplistically, taking the easy way out, but the movie makes her much a stronger, loving character — Chastain believably portrays a wife who is afraid yet resolved and understanding, and she may very well garner some award attention of her own this time next year.


As I’ve said, Nichols manages to toe the line between actual thriller and psychological thriller splendidly. The writing is deceptively complex, and visually, the film is both as wide and expansive as the farm plains of Ohio, and as narrow and taught as a collapsing mind. The cinematography is particularly gorgeous, especially during the repeated rain storms that may or not actually be taking place over the course of the film. Some may find Take Shelter’s intensely ambiguous ending a disappointment, but it’s really the perfect and only way to end the film. I can’t really say more about that ending, but it’s great, as is the film as a whole. Take Shelter is simply a stunning film.
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Movie : Margaret

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : Fox Searchlight Pictures

Director : Kenneth Lonergan

Screenwriter : Kenneth Lonergan

Starring : Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, J. Smith-Cameron, Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno

Genre : Drama

Official Website : Not Available

A 17-year-old New York City high-school student feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.


A young woman (Anna Paquin) wrestles with powerful emotions after witnessing a catastrophic bus accident in this drama from Academy Award-nominated writer/director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me). Though production on Margaret wrapped in late 2005, the future of the film came into question when Lonergan's original edit clocked in at approximately 180 minutes and Fox Searchlight executives balked at the titanic runtime. Lawsuits ensued, and eventually a series of filmmakers including Martin Scorsese came aboard to help produce an edit that would both preserve the filmmaker's artistic vision and satisfy the studio's demands for paring the story down

Margaret movie trailer has made sure to highlight the best of drama element and when looking at this amazing and striking Margaret movie trailer viewers feel this motion picture will be an engaging and haunting cinematic venture. One of the most interesting highlights of this movie had been the leading lady Anna Paquin. She will be starring in such a fine role and her performance can expect to be convincing and believable. The former mentioned actress starring in the key role of will be joined by Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo and in addition to that this motion picture will also make sure to deliver some wonderful and marvelous piece of acting to entertainment of audience. 30th of September has been set as the release date of this venture and when looking at Margaret movie trailer viewers feel this latest addition to the genre of drama movies is going to be a crowd puller of a flick. Rest assured this will be a remarkable theatrical venture to watch out and look forward with wide eyed awe.

Margaret is a film that we were really starting to think wouldn’t ever see the light of day. Despite boasting a quality cast in front of the camera and a talented filmmaker in You Can Count On Me’s Kenneth Lonergan behind it, the drama has been caught up in legal issues and release date delays for years. But now the trailer has arrived online over at Apple.

Lonergan began making the movie for Fox Searchlight back in 2005, and while the shoot seemed to go smoothly, nothing has since then. The movie got bogged down in the editing room and sparked two lawsuits about costs and delivery.

The wrangling has overshadowed the movie itself, which features Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick and more, and tells the story of Lisa, a 17-year-old school girl whose life starts to fall apart when she witnesses a fatal bus accident and deals with the guilt of lying to the incident inspectors. Her fears that she’s partly responsible for the accident bubble to the surface and start to take their toll. Eventually, she comes into conflict with the bus driver (Ruffalo) and tries to soothe her feelings by kicking off an affair with a teacher (Damon).

Martin Scorsese and his usual editor Thelma Schoonmaker have been working on a final cut for the film, which hits US cinemas on September 30. There’s no word on when – or even if – it’ll arrive on screens over here.

Six years ago, an all-star cast got together to feature in Kenneth Lonergan's second film, a teenage legal drama about a girl who believes she's responsible for a deadly bus accident. Unfortunately, editing issues, creative disagreements and its own legal wrangling buried the film on a dusty shelf.

And so the public never got to see Anna Paquin, 23 at the time, playing the 17-year old girl, or Mark Ruffalo as the endangered bus driver, or Matt Damon as the understanding teacher who takes advantage of his position.

Dakota Fanning has been cast as Princess Margaret in upcoming movie Girls' Night Out, reports Variety.

The Ecosse Films project takes place on V.E. Day in 1945 and sees princesses Margaret and Elizabeth sneak out of Buckingham Palace to join the celebrations.

The Last Station's Michael Hoffman is directing the film from Trevor De Silva's script, which is inspired by actual events.

Producers are still searching for an actress to take on the role of Margaret's elder sibling Elizabeth. The princess ascended to the throne in 1952 as Queen Elizabeth II following the death of her father King George VI.

Fanning recently starred as Cherie Currie in The Runaways and can next be seen in Breaking Dawn.

This month, the Mead Program continues its celebration of diversity and awareness with the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the Museum of Natural History. The annual festival features documentaries that share the stories of people around the world, and this year, for the first time, a Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award will be presented to the documentarian who captures this diversity with creativity.

One of the award contenders is Boris Bertram, the Danish filmmaker behind Tankograd, a documentary about the dancers of the Contemporary Dance Theater of Chelyabinsk, a Siberian city suffering the after effects of the Soviet Union’s nuclear program during the Cold War. The film captures the beauty life has to offer, even in such dismal settings. It captures hope for a brighter future through interviews with those who have been told that things will only get worse, medically. My only qualm is that we never get to see the finished piece that the dancers have been practicing and preparing throughout the documentary. Nonetheless, Tankograd was an eye-opening experience that will give you a new perspective on life.

With new power, comes new responsibility…The canvassing is over, the campaign trail has finished, and we are now presented with our first coalition government since World War II. The timing of Margaret on DVD is therefore unexpectedly fortuitous, looking back on another political milestone, the career of the Iron Lady herself, Ms Thatcher, just as a new era begins.

The drama itself begins at the start of the 90s, with Lindsey Duncan’s Maggie under fire from dissenters in her own Conservative party. Desperate to hold onto the power she has gained by clawing her way up the ladder, the nail in the coffin would seem to be the resignation of Geoffrey Howe (John Sessions). A hilariously beetle-browed Michael Heseltine (Oliver Cotton), almost a stand-in for the traditional Hollywood villain, establishes himself as Margaret’s biggest threat, but can she even trust her closest advisers, namely foreign advisor Charles Powell (James Fox) and Philip Jackson’s press secretary, Bernard Ingham? Jumping neatly back and forth in time, we soon establish Thatcher’s drive as she worked her way to the top of a male dominated environment. The only constant is her loyal husband Denis (sensitively played by Star Wars’ Ian McDiarmid).

Rather than taking the dry, reverential route, scriber Richard Cottan (Wallander) and director James Kent paint instead in brooding, shadowy tones, full to the brim of (surely exaggerated) skulduggery; a caption at the outset advises that although the public events depicted are real, licence has been taken with the more intimate details. Yet this works to its favour, dramatically enhancing the power-play that went on behind the doors of Whitehall during an especially difficult time in British politics. It’s not so much history as historical impersonation, putting a cinematic face on real characters and situations, Dominic Muldowney’s agitated score driving it along at a fair old clip. Not all of it works: the decision to reduce John Major (Michael Maloney) to a whispering, Gollum-esque figure waiting in the wings is certainly an odd one.

Yet with those parameters in mind, it becomes much easier to enjoy the excellent performances from a jaw dropping ensemble cast, chief amongst which is, of course, Duncan’s commanding, ball-busting central performance, bringing to life the girl amongst the boys who (for better or worse) showed how women could grab the reigns of politics. Yet it’s the quieter moments that are more arresting: Thatcher’s neglect of daughter Carol (Olivia Poulet) or admitting that entering the testosterone-fuelled House of Commons ‘has always frightened her’.


Her increasing difficulty in hiding any display of weakness from McDiarmid’s devoted husband is ultimately extremely moving, reminding us ever so slightly that the Iron Lady was indeed a fallible beast herself. It’s something to be reminded of in our cynical modern climate of spin and media heckling.
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Movie : What's Your Number?

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : 20th Century Fox

Director : Mark Mylod

Screenwriter : Jennifer Crittenden, Gabrielle Allan

Starring : Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Zachary Quinto, Joel McHale, Andy Samberg, Dave Annable, Ed Begley Jr., Thomas Lennon

Genre : Comedy, Romance

Official Website : WhatsYourNumbermovie.com

What’s Your Number is about a woman who has had 20 relationships in her life, and suspects that one of the men she’s been with is her true love, and now she has to figure out which one is.


Anna Faris plays the lead character of Ally Darling, who decided that her limit on number of men she would sleep with in her life is 20. After banging her 20th dude, she has to go back through her list of conquests and figure out if one of them is her one true love. As these films often go, she revisits he all of her previous boyfriends, and they’re all nightmares, except for one guy, with whom she has chemistry but could never see herself with. But, with a little Hollywood magic, they see past their differences and realize that they’re made for each other.

And the crowd goes mild.

Parents need to know that although What's Your Number? is a romantic comedy, it promises to include plenty of raunchy sexual content and strong language. Anna Faris stars as a twentysomething woman who's been unlucky in love and wonders whether one of the guys she wrote off in the past could have been her soulmate. So she attempts to track them all down, giving each a second chance and trying to fix past mistakes along the way. Because the film's plot centers on relationships, the sexual content is likely to be strong; the main character's neighbor is also a ladies' man who apparently has several one-night-stands. Expect a lot of adult language and dialogue as well.

For a beleaguered, seemingly hopeless romantic, Anna Faris has a pretty enviable dating record. But then, even the most dysfunctional guys are Hollywood stars in the world of romantic comedies.

Faris stars in the new rom-com "What's Your Number?," a flick about a woman long on relationships but short on anything meaningful. As she goes through a string of her exes -- from the likes of puppeteer Andy Samberg to a gay Anthony Mackie to real-life husband Chris Pratt -- in search of The One, she finds that she may have what she's looking for just across the hallway.

Of course, most ladies don't have Captain America living in their apartment building.

Coincidentally, Faris met husband Pratt on the set of "Take Me Home Tonight," an 80's-set comedy that they shot three years ago but just recently hit theaters. Pratt plays an ultimately failed love interest for Faris in that film, as well.

The movie is about a woman who looks back at her past twenty men she’s had an affair with and tries to find whether she did not miss the Mr. Right of her life.

This is the story of Ally who tries to find the Mr. Right but is too scared to go for new relations so she looks back at her twenty odd boyfriends whom she had dated to find the Mr. Right.

Well the plot seems to be simple but the teaser promises that the movie is going to be one hell of a comic flick. So check out the teaser and tell us about the movie, whatever you feel about the movie.

Scripted by Gabrielle Allan & Jennifer Crittenden, this is based on Karyn Bosnak's “20 Times a Lady”, and focuses on Ally Darling (Anna Faris) who embarks on a quest to find the best “ex” of her life...by any means necessary, when she reads a magazine article warning that people who have had 20 or more relationships have missed their chance at true love.


What's Your Number? — the not-your-average-rom-com rom-com spotlighted in The New Yorker's recent Anna Faris feature about the lack of opportunity for funny women in Hollywood — isn't trying to completely burn down the genre-trope farm. (Wait, is "burning down the farm" an expression anywhere other than in our heads? Sorry, let's just move on.) For one: You know in the first ten seconds whom Faris's unlucky-in-love character will end up with, and that person is a flawed-but-easily-redeemable really, really handsome guy with a big heart. But mostly everything else about this, admirably, feels new, most of all that Faris comes off as truly odd; not cutesy and appropriately eccentric, but fully weird in an occasionally unsettling way (as in: "My British accent was rusty and I went full Borat"). More important: This thing is actually funny! So funny, in fact, that we're going to try to figure out a way to work "I'm marrying a scientist, too; he doesn't look smart either" into casual conversation by this afternoon. And most important: If this thing makes Anna Faris a big-time star, are we retroactively forgiven for totally loving both Scary Movie 1 and 2?
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Movie : Dream House

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : Universal Pictures

Director : Jim Sheridan

Screenwriter : David Loucka

Starring : Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Marton Csokas, Elias Koteas, Jane Alexander

Genre : Suspense Thriller

Official Website : DreamHousemovie.net

Dream House is a relatively familiar horror story. A man moves his family to an idyllic ‘dream house’ only to discover that it is the site of a few grisly murders.


Don’t you hate how that always happens? It’s his own fault though. The first thing you check anytime you move somewhere new, or stay in a hotel, or buy a car, or take a bath in a new tub, is whether or not a murder has taken place there.

Anyways, Daniel Craig is playing Will Atenton, a publisher who moves his family from the big city to enjoy a quiet life. After moving in, the family discovers that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the killer has not been apprehended, though the whole town thinks that the woman’s husband, who survived, must have killed them. As the family unravels the whole of the murderous history, they find that it may not be safe for them in the house, as the killer may have them in his sights.

Some say that all houses have memories. For one man, his home is the place he would kill to forget. A family unknowingly moves into a home where several grisly murders were committed...only to find themselves the killer's next target. Successful publisher Will Atenton (Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived. When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann Paterson (Watts), a neighbor who was close to the family that died. As Will and Ann piece together the disturbing puzzle, they discover that the story of the last man to leave Will'sdream house will be just as horrifying to the one who came next.

Thrilling, was the reaction when I got to see this trailer. Yes when you see the trailer you feel that it is a bit on the lines of the masterpiece from Martin Scorsese “Shutter Island”. But that’s what you don’t expect from the Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan who gave us the very good movie In The Name of the Father and many others.

The movie has to have something more than Shutter Island. And if it does that then surely it will be a success. And Jim has great cast in his hands with Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Naomi Watts in the lead. The trailer really gives you a vibe that its going to be an exciting thriller movie. The Dream House comes to the theatres this year on September 30th.

Watch the trailer below and also read the Plot synopsis of this movie:

As we know all Houses have memories, some sweet some bitter and some of the haunted past. But when you shift in a new house you expect any of the above, but what you don’t expect that your past resurfaces from that home.

Dream House is the story of a man who soon after moving into his new seemingly idyllic new home, with his family. He learns that a brutal crime had been committed in their house and was done by the former residents of the dwelling. But what he doesn’t know is that he was the former resident of this house. What will he do when his dark past gets revealed?

First look at the intense thriller Dream House, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Naomi Watts.  The suspense film centers around one man who would kill to forget about his previous home.

Will Atenton (Craig) moves his family to the small New England town, but they soon discover that their perfect home is a murder scene of a mother and her children.  Everyone believes it was the husband, who survived.  Will starts to investigate and uncovers some very strange information.

His primary source of information is a neighbor, Ann Paterson (Watts) who knew the people shot.  As they try and piece together the puzzle, they realize things are very different than they seem.


The trailer show a story wrought with inconsistencies and very strange occurrences. It looks like a psychological thriller at its best.

Dream House is set to hit theaters on September 30, 2011.
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Movie : 50/50

Release Date : September 30, 2011

Studio : Summit Entertainment

Director : Jonathan Levine

Screenwriter : Will Reiser

Starring : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston, Philip Baker Hall

Genre : Comedy, Drama

Official Website : 50-50themovie.com

When I first downloaded the just-released poster for the upcoming movie 50/50 (left), the image came up on my phone screen jumbo-sized. The only thing I could see was Seth Rogen’s face/classic stupid expression. It made me chortle. But when I zoomed out and saw Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays a 20-something cancer patient struggling with his diagnosis, shaving his head and clearly having an emotional moment, my face fell. I think that’s pretty representative of what my reactions will be throughout the entire movie.


Tackling cancer with humor requires a tricky balance. The Big C does it very elegantly, but what particularly interests me about 50/50 is that Gordon-Levitt and Rogen are going to attract a younger crowd, who, much like the characters in the movie, don’t often view cancer as a threat to their age group.

Prior to working at EW, I was writing feature stories for a newspaper near my home town. One day, I found myself working on a story about an uninsured 20-something guy who was battling Leukemia with the help of his family and closest friends. In the time I spent with them — in particular, his knuckle-headed group of buddies — they often swapped stories about their many adventures before their friend was sick, the time when they thought they were invincible. But after his diagnosis, they had to learn how to grow up and help their friend with sometimes awkward tasks like going to the bathroom or bathing. The best way to get through it was with humor, they said.

I was reminded of these guys and their late friend upon looking at the poster today. The moment captured here happens more often than I once realized, and it never hurts to make people more aware of illnesses that can plague anyone of any age. The fact that 50/50 comes with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bonus — that’s awesome.

Summit Entertainment has released the first trailer for the dramedy 50/50.  Screenwriter Will Reiser based the story on his own battle with cancer. The trailer is fantastic and does a great job of balancing some funny jokes with the gravity of a guy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) dealing with cancer.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer and the first images along with Steve’s thoughts on the film.  50/50 is directed by Jonathan Levine (The Wackness), also stars Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Angelica Huston, and Phillip Baker Hall star.  It opens September 30th.

Steve recently saw the film and while he’s embargoed from writing a full review, he thought all the performances were great and said “the film does a fantastic job telling a realistic story about cancer.  Also, 50/50 never tries to Hollywoodize the story, which makes everything more powerful.  Finally, like The Wackness, Levine uses some great music including one of my favorite Pearl Jam songs.  Definitely recommended.


Inspired by personal experiences, 50/50 is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humor in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis. Rogen also serves as producer, along with Evan Goldberg and Ben Karlin. Jonathan Levine directs from a script by Will Reiser. “We worked with Will on Da Ali G show, and it was shortly after that we learned he was sick.” Rogen recalls. “As shocking, sad, confusing and generally screwed up as it was; we couldn’t ignore that because we were so ill-equipped to deal with the situation, funny things kept happening. Will got better, and when he did, we thought the best way to pull something good out of the situation was to get him to write a screenplay. Ideally we wanted to make a film that would be as funny, sad, and hopefully as honest as the experience we went through. As soon as the script was completed, it quickly became a passion project for all of us. It helped us come to terms with Will’s struggle as well as our own experiences.” 50/50 is the story of a guy’s transformative and, yes, sometimes funny journey to health. 50/50 draws its emotional core from Will Reiser’s own experience with cancer and reminds us that friendship and love, no matter what bizarre turns they take, are the greatest healers.
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