By: preme | On: 20 Jul, 2008
Explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex, wife Evelyn and her brother, Jonathan. And this time, the O’Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.
Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress to spend eternity in suspended animation, China’s ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O’Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. As the monarch roars back to life, our heroes find his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force… unless the O’Connells can stop him first.
Genres:
Action/Adventure and Sequel
Release Date:
August 1st, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for adventure action and violence.
Distributors:
Universal Pictures Distribution
Production Co.:
The Sean Daniel Company, Sommers Company
Starring:
Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh, John Hannah
Directed by:
Rob Cohen
By: preme | On: 18 Jul, 2008
Mamma Mia! is the worst-directed “good” movie ever. If it wasn’t for the effervescent charms of ABBA’s sparkling songs, and the brave earnestness of the uniformly superb cast, it would be an unbridled disaster. No matter her impressive theatrical résumé, director Phyllida Lloyd is the song and dance version of Uwe Boll. Her choices behind the lens are so shockingly bad, and her grasp of cinematic language so surprisingly weak, that you wonder how amazing this movie would have been had someone with a modicum of moviemaking skill shown up to take control.
A prime example of Lloyd’s motion picture incompetence comes toward the very end, when Streep is singing her heart out to “The Winner Takes It All.” It’s an emotional moment, the pinnacle ballad in a character’s crazed, out-of-control life. As the Oscar winner delivers a knock-out performance, her delicate gestures giving way to facial expressions racked with regret, Lloyd circles the actress, her camera constantly swirling around the action. By the fourth or fifth revolution, we want the visual merry-go-round to stop, if only to give Streep a chance to connect. But instead, the audience must endure more whirling dervish nonsense before a final shot saves everything.
Much of Mamma Mia! is like this, random moments of acting/musical brilliance boondoggled by Lloyd’s aggravating designs. A pier-side chorus line of “liberated” ladies really sells “Dancing Queen,” even if our filmmaker can’t capture the moment properly for maximum impact. Our young lovers sing “Lay All Your Love on Me” with the appropriate passion, even as their director adds goofy men in scuba gear as a Monty Python-like distraction.
And remember, this is a good movie, a film buoyed by ABBA’s undeniably infectious music. The minute one of their classic kitsch hits comes cascading across the speakers, all flaws are forgiven, carried away on puffy cotton candy clouds of pop chart charms. It’s hard to maintain a sour attitude with ’70s staples like “S.O.S.,” “Super Trouper,” or “Take a Chance on Me” bouncing in your brain. And given the fact that Streep, Brosnan, and Seyfried acquit themselves admirably, we have no real qualm with the content.
Also Known As:
Mama Mia!
Mamma Mia! The Movie
Production Status:
Released
Genres:
Comedy, Musical/Performing Arts and Adaptation
Release Date:
July 18th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Distributors:
Universal Pictures Distribution
By: preme | On: 10 Jul, 2008
The frustrating asia Eddie Murphy is that even if he needs to be done terrible movies, it is not the case, because he is somehow inherently less talented than he used to be. He did not Chevy Chase, he is still something to offer, it’s just that he has inexplicably decided to use, regardless of talent, he is left of the tank is the most horrible comedy projects in Hollywood has to offer. What makes it even more strange is the fact that he has decided to do this.
It is not the case, as he has ceased to earn, and he has been forced to do anything and everything he offered in order to pay off all the back taxes he owes Uncle Sam, so he is up to the end, the cot next to Wesley Snipes. Eddie Murphy is a choice, but he has deliberately chosen to make films like Norbit and now the same director Meet Dave.
It is only because the people involved in it is really so naturally gifted that Meet Dave is not to destroy the laughter, the soul sucking, the A-bomb. It’s just blah. Cast here is much better than the film, such as this deserves. Eddie Murphy will lead a group of microscopic aliens who have entered the country riding inside the spacecraft, which seems, oddly enough, just like Eddie Murphy.
Eventually, they name their spacecraft, Dave. Dave’s crew includes a great talent such as the increasingly sexy Gabrielle Union, Office asshole Ed Helms, 30, and Rock the hat to the user’s Judah Friedlander. They are looking for our planet some sort of the probe, in which their people are sent here to steal our oceans. The probe has been held, 5th grader, whose mother, Elizabeth is played “some day I’ll regret having this film in my IMDB page” banks, accidentally hits Dave with her car and starts dating him completely oblivious of the fact that he is really an empty vehicle operated by dozens of tiny little dudes.
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Release Date:
2008-07-11
Starring:
Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Mike O’Malley, Pat Kilbane, Judah Friedlander
Directed by
Brian Robbins
Produced by
Jon Berg, Todd Komarnicki, David T. Friendly
Written by
Rob Greenberg & Bill Corbett
By: preme | On: 06 Jul, 2008
Its the year 2707, Earth’s natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and battle rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations: the Capitol, Bauhaus, Mishima and Imperial.
Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker, battle hardened Capitol soldiers, fight a desperate battle against a Bauhaus advance. When an errant shell destroys an ancient stone seal, they find themselves facing a new enemy: hideous necrmutants, with boneblades that grow from their arms. Mithc barely manages to escape. Nathan does not.
The mutants multiply by millions and they destroy all before them. The Corporations’ leader, Constantine, is about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to their desperate fate, when he is approached by Brother Samuel, leader of the Brotherhood, and ancient monastic order
Samuel is keep of the Chronicles, a book that prophesies both the rise of the Mutants, and the ‘Deliverer’ that will destroy them. Samuel believes he is that Deliverer destined to journey deep into the earth and destroy the source of the mutant scourge.
He manages to recruit Mitch, along with a handful of like-minded soldiers: Steiner, honor bound Bauhaus officer; sword wielding Severian; street fighter El Jesus; fearless beauty Duval; and stoic warrior Juba.
“Mutant Chronicle” follows Mitch and Samuel’s mission to venture into the very heart of the darkness in an attempt to save the planet from marauding hordes of deathless mutants.
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Starring:
Christopher Adamson, Devon Aoki, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Georgina Berriman, Jacqui Chan, Tim Clark, Dez Drummond, Christopher Dunne, Allan Arthur Fielding, Christopher Fosh, Benno Fürmann, Nicholas Gecks, Mark Holloway, Thomas Jane, Scott Joseph, Farhan Khan, Shauna Macdonald, John Malkovich, Luis Miguel, Neji Nejah, Andrew Nixon, Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee, Raf Richard, Serge Soric, Steve Toussaint, Curtis Walker, Anna Walton, Tom Wu
Director:
Simon Hunter
Rated:
Unrated