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As the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom and a key player in 1980s world politics, Margaret Thatcher deserves a tough-but-fair biopic shedding light on her strengths and weaknesses as a person and as a leader. Until such a movie arrives, we have The Iron Lady, a standard, surface-level biopic that’s orderly and clean [...]
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron Director: Ridley Scott U.S. Opening Date: March 9, 2012 THEY SAY Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a [...]
It is easy to see why Steven Spielberg wants to make a movie out of this novel about a future revolt by robots . . . After all, the book – by robotics engineer Daniel H. Wilson – comes across as 28 Days Later meets Terminator Salvation; or World War Z rewritten with robots instead [...]
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, Martin Freeman Director: Peter Jackson U.S. Opening Date: December 14, 2012 Based on JRR Tolkien’s novel of the same name, The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins, who is seen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Hobbit follows Bilbo as he first encounters [...]
STARRING: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård, Brady Corbet 2011, 136 Minutes, Directed by: Lars von Trier This art house science fiction movie is one of those genuine love it or hate it affairs . . . If you’re the type who likes, let’s say, Transformers 3 [...]
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could take a bunch of characters out of Greek mythology, totally ignore most of the details, and turn them into a video game? That, in a nutshell, is what is going on with Immortals, a mash-up of ancient myth and CGI that often looks very impressive, but doesn’t make [...]
STARRING: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Billy Burke 2011, 117 minutes, Directed by: Bill Condon There will be no denying fans of the Twilight series. They will swoon over the wedding of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson). They will ooh and aah over their exotic honeymoon. They will not complain that an hour has gone [...]
Remember how Hollywood sometimes manages to churn out two very similar movies in the same year such as for example the two Earth-about-to-get-hit-by-an-asteroid flicks in 1998 (Armageddonand Deep Impact) and the two computer-animated-flicks-about-bugs, also in 1998 (A Bug’s Life and Antz)? Well, 2012 is going to see two “re-imaginings” of the familiar Snow White fairy tale, namely Snow White [...]
Cast # Prinya Wongsilp # Chumporn Teppitak # Suchao Pongwilai # Pisarn Srimunkhong # PanuDet Wattanasuchat Summary After TSUNAMI on 26 December 2004 people over 300,000 were dead and 1,000,000 were homeless… cost of losses could not estimate. In Thailand … 6 provinces in the southern part such as : PHUKET … PANGA…KRABI … STUL [...]
Ace vampire slayer Reeve (Ekin Cheng) tracks his arch-enemy, the Duke Dekotes to Hong Kong. The Duke is hunting for Kazaf (Edison Chen), the fifth prince of the vampire nation. With Kazaf’s blood and the ancient vampire bible, the Duke will bring a new age of darkness. On arrival, Reeve learns that he has a [...]