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The Book Of Eli

27 May

The Hughes Brothers, directors of From Hell and Menace II Society among others, have created an interesting and thoughtful action movie, that also carries a message of faith and hope.

The action set-pieces are well handled, and the photography of the movie, is very well done.

While the setting itself isn’t particularly new, along similar lines to Mad Max and other movies of this kind, they still get some pretty impressive visuals.

They are also helped by having two of the best actors around in this movie.

Denzel Washington carries the movie easily and is also very convincing in the action sequences.

Gary Oldman as Carnegie gives a performance more in line with some earlier work, such as Leon than some recent performances but he is always worth watching.

The rest of the cast, led by Mila Kunis all give good support.

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Eli (Denzel Washington) has been on a journey for 30 years, walking west across America after a cataclysmic war that turned the earth into a total wasteland.

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The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed.

The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a pair of shoes, a lighter, or just for fun.

Eli is a peaceful man who only acts in self defense, and becomes a warrior with unbelievable killing skills when he is challenged.

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Fire And Ice

29 Nov

The acting is okay in this, John Rhys-Davies and Arnold Vosloo were the strongest, and the rest of the cast were ho-hum.

The special effects are predictably terrible, however, that only applies to the stingray-like dragons because the landscapes are quite enjoyable to look at. ;)

The dragons do not look good, and it was quite a letdown to be honest.

All in all, Fire & Ice has an overall okay production value, making it seem like an expensive project, but with a mediocre story, all it really adds up to is a snooze-fest. :)

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Director
Pitof

Writers
Michael Konyves
Angela Mancuso

Release Date
18 September 2008 (USA) 

Genre
Fantasy | Adventure | Drama 

Tagline
When danger strikes from above, either burns your soul or freeze you to death.

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Shrek The Halls

29 Nov

This is what Shrek the third should have been.

High on comedy, magic soundtrack and a nice little moral at the end.

This is a wonderful holiday special that will no doubt be added to our family holiday rotation. In the plus column it was completely family friendly. nice ;)

A Shrek-style Christmas, as funny as it gets! The Christmas  tree isn’t the  only thing green  in this  new holiday classic. :P

Shrek is back and trying  to get  into the spirit of the season.

After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they’ll remember, he  is forced to take a  crash course in the holiday.

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Director
Gary Trousdale

Writers
Gary Trousdale
Sean Bishop

Release Date
24 December 2007 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Space Chimps

28 Nov

Every scene was so rushed that the characters and their dynamics with each other lacked any real development, and every attempt at making the audience feel what was going on in the moment (or even caring at all) was murdered by this fact.

Obviously, I don’t need to say much more about the writing quality than I already have; it was just lazy, lazy, lazy.

Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator.

Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand: Rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader.

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Director
Kirk De Micco

Writers
Kirk De Micco
Robert Moreland

Release Date
1 August 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi

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City Of Ember

20 Nov

Easily the most impressive piece of the City of Ember puzzle is the delightfully ominous science-fiction visuals.

The massive sets were built in Northern Ireland in the shipyard-turned-soundstage of the location the Titanic was actually constructed in (now the largest soundstage in the world) and it’s never more apparent than in the beautiful crane shots through the underground city.

The CG elements are also top-notch, but the practical effects flawlessly immerse the audience in the fantasy world of pipeworks and generators.

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights.

But Ember’s once powerful generator is failing … and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Something needs done.

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Director
Gil Kenan

Writers
Caroline Thompson
Jeanne Duprau

Release Date
10 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Adventure | Family | Fantasy 

Tagline
Discover The Secret

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Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

12 Nov

When it started up I was immediately sucked in, and I never became uninterested and it never stopped entertaining, because they did an excellent job at keeping your attention.

There were some parts in the movie where I felt as if they tried too hard to please the audience and then others it got a little dumb and boring, but overall I laughed I almost cried and when it was over I wanted to watch it again. ;)

It’s a great sequel to a great movie and I enjoyed watching it as much as the first.

It’s fantastic ;) , you must see it.

The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island.

All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa.

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Directors
Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath

Writer
Etan Cohen

Release Date
5 December 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family 

Tagline
The crate escape

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Quantum of Solace

11 Nov

After the critically acclaimed and much successful ‘Casino Royale’ I had hopes that ‘Quantum of Solace’ could rival this years best movie so far: ‘The Dark Knight’.

Well… it doesn’t even come close. :P

There use to be a time when Bond movies where trendsetting…

On paper Quantum of Solace may be a Bond movie.

But many of those things that people use to associate with Bond movies are gone.

And what’s up with this new style of filming and editing?

Quantum of Solace’ continues the high octane adventures of James Bond from ‘Casino Royale’.

Picking up literally days where the previous film left off, after being betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal.

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Director
Marc Forster

Writers
Paul Haggis
Neal Purvis

Release Date
31 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Action | Adventure | Thriller

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Tropic Thunder

06 Nov

posterThe main reason Tropic Thunder works so well though is it’s down to the cast.

The likes of Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Steve Coogan, and Nick Nolte all turning in terrific comedic performances that they had fun with.

In the action-comedy “Tropic Thunder,” Ben Stiller plays pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman, who is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced.

He sets out to Southeast Asia with a “Who’s Who” of celebrity co-stars.

Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they’re portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.

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Director
Ben Stiller

Writers
Ben Stiller
Justin Theroux

Release Date
19 September 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Action | Adventure | Comedy 

Tagline
The movie they think they’re making… isn’t a movie anymore.

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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

05 Nov

The film moves along at a steady, exciting pace, with skillfully staged action and suspense that will have audience members on the edge of their seats

In general it stays very faithful to the source material, there is quite a bit of added embellishment to make for a grander and more spectacular epic, with added battle and chase sequences that are deftly handled and add to the story and the level of excitement, where in less skilled hands they could have easily overtaken it.

The level of action, and violence, is really quite a bit stronger than in the first film, and the film has a darker, grittier tone, which makes it something of a surprise that the filmmakers got away with a PG rating :P

A year after their first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back in by Susan’s magic horn.

They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile.

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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

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Director
Andrew Adamson

Writers
Andrew Adamson
Christopher Markus

Release Date
26 June 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller 

Tagline
A New Age Has Begun.

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Wall-E

04 Nov

The best way to describe the film is as a science fiction, comedy, dramatic love story.

Wall-E, as a character, has dimension, personality, and heart.

Pretty impressive given that he is essentially a trash compactor.

It is true that there is little dialogue in this feature, but personally I did not feel it detracted from the story at all.

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve.

Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans.

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Wall-E

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Director
Andrew Stanton

Writers
Andrew Stanton
Pete Docter

Release Date
18 July 2008 (UK)

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi 

Tagline
An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E

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