Released: 2010-09-01 Genre: Thriller Plot:Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of this suspense thriller. As an assassin, Jack (Clooney) is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside. He relishes being away from death for a spell as he holes up in a small medieval town. While there, Jack takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact, Mathilde (Reuten). Savoring the peaceful quietude he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Bonacelli) and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara (Placido). Jack and Clara\'s time together evolves into a romance, one seemingly free of danger. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.
Released: 2010-08-15 Genre: Drama, Thriller Plot:As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.
Released: 2010-09-03 Genre: Documentary, Drama Plot:A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 200 other million peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world\'s next super power.
Released: 2010-09-10 Genre: Comedy Plot:Four guys, one camera, and their experience chronicling the exhilarating and terrifying rite of passage: losing your virginity. As these guys help their buddy get laid, they\'ll have to survive friends with benefits, Internet hookups, even porn stars during an adventure that proves why you will always remember your first.
If you've seen The Karate Kid (1984), the memories will come back during this 2010 remake. That's a compliment. The original story was durable enough to inspire three sequels, and now we have an entertaining version filmed mostly on location in China, with 56-year-old Jackie Chan in the role of Mr. Miyagi.
The original was one of its year's best movies. The new one lacks the perfect freshness of that one; there aren't many surprises, as it follows the 1984 version almost point by point. But here is a lovely and well-made film that stands on its own feet. The Chinese locations add visual interest, there are scenes of splendor in mountains and on the Great Wall, and the characters are once again engaging.
The original film's greatest asset was the Oscar-nominated performance by Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi. Jackie Chan is so famous that it can come as no surprise here when his Mr. Han, a reclusive janitor, reveals a hidden talent for the martial arts. But Chan has never been a strutting, macho fighter onscreen; his charm comes from a self-kidding quality. Here he does a good job of cooling down his usual cheerfulness and keeping his cards hidden.
In the role of his young pupil, Jaden Smith, son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, has a natural screen presence. Dre Parker is calmer than the skittish kid played by Ralph Macchio, but so much smaller than his opponents that we can well believe his fear of a bully at school. And when that happens, we can forget obsessing about the 1984 film and enjoy this one. That was then, this is now.
The story once again involves a kid being packed up by his divorced mom and forced to leave his hometown and friends and move far away — from Detroit to Beijing, this time. He hates it. Then a cute young violinist named Meiying (Han Wenwen) smiles at him, and life looks more promising — if it weren't for the school bully Cheng (Wang Zhenwei). This creature is so hateful and sadistic, it's hard to explain, until we meet his brutal kung fu coach, Master Li (Yu Rongguang Yu). The monstrous Li teaches a new form of child abuse: Kids beating up on each other.
The story proceeds, as it must, with Dre slowly softening the heart of Mr. Han, who saves him from a beating by Cheng and agrees to teach him the secrets of kung fu. Training goes well, and Dre and Meiying make a pact to attend each other's big days: his kung fu tournament, her recital. There's the usual nonsense about her parents disapproving of him. Gee, why in the world would the parents of a world-class classical musician disapprove of a kung fu student from Detroit who doesn't speak Chinese?
Luckily for Dre and the movie, everyone in China who needs to speak English can do so, even the little monster Cheng. Many Americans not only have little interest in learning another language, they have little interest in reading subtitles of their own. We believe, as Mark Twain put it in The Innocents Abroad, that any foreigner can understand English if it is only spoken slowly enough and loudly enough.
It goes without saying that the whole film leads up to a climactic kung fu tournament, and that Dre is pitted against Cheng for the championship. The lineage of the film is distinguished; the 1984 version was directed by John Avildsen, director of Rocky. This film's climax is unusually well-handled; the tension is constructed in a careful way, the characters are developed, and use of a scoreboard makes it seem orderly, not rushed. It's one of the better obligatory fight climaxes I've seen.
The director, Harald Swart, has not been one of my favorites; he made last year's The Pink Panther 2. But here, with a robust script by Christopher Murphey and cinematography by Roger Pratt (who filmed two Harry Potters), he makes a handsome, absorbing movie. It runs a little long, but during the championship, that's the last thing you're thinking of.
About as unremarkable as a film about talking animals organized into competing intelligence agencies can be, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore overcompensates for its preschool premise (I don't know if you've heard, but these house pets — they don't like each other) with a steroidal story line. Using a combination of live action and CGI that will give some audience members PTSD flashbacks to the recent Marmaduke, director Brad Peyton has been charged with following up the 2001 original with the sequel no one was hoping for — in pointless 3-D. The usual pop-culture allusions are meant to keep moms and dads grimly entertained, but their kids will be a casualty of the overcrowded whiteboard of a plot. A hapless police dog named Diggs (James Marsden) is recruited into a doggy underground to help stop Kitty Galore (Bette Midler), a hairless cat embittered by the industrial accident that uglified her, from taking over the world. Cats and dogs must work together to deliver every pet-related groaner imaginable within 85 minutes.
It's big, loud, ludicrous and edited into visual incomprehension. But pity the fool who lets that stand in the way of enjoying The A-Team, the super-caffeinated movie version of the series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987. Mr. T, who starred on the TV series as B.A. Baracus, reportedly thought the PG-13 movie leaned too hard on the violence and sex. Today's audience, hard-wired to the bloodlust of video games, would laugh at the TV ballets that managed to kill no one. Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin Aces) doesn't so much direct as shamelessly show off his skills at blowing shit up. But his affection for the crass material is undeniable. The actors follow suit.
Liam Neeson steps in for the late George Peppard as cigar-chewing Army Ranger John "Hannibal" Smith. Bradley Cooper has the looks and impish humor to overshadow Dirk Benedict as Templeton Peck, the Face Man. South Africa's Sharlto Copley (so good in District 9) channels Dwight Schultz's manic energy and then ups the ante as pilot Howling Mad Murdock, and mixed martial arts champ Quinton "Rampage" Jackson brings the bling and the bluster as the Bad Attitude Baracus, flashing smiles Mr. T would never have considered.
All you need to know about the updated plot is that the team members are no longer dishonorably discharged Vietnam vets but good American soldiers in Iraq getting framed for a crime that, of course, they didn't commit. It's all an excuse for the stunts — watch for that flying tank! — and the macho banter. Copley and Jackson score best on that front. The Hollywood suits figure you'll overlook a movie's faults as long as the action has juice. Isn't it great when a plan comes together?
The American, a movie as coiled as a snake and as still as a sleepy villa, is the rare grownup thriller that knows the link between peace and danger and the tension that comes from both.
Director Anton Corbijn lets us know absolutely nothing when we're plunked down with Jack, a world-weary assassin in the middle of what turns out to be a brief break from the violence in his life.
Yet since Jack is played by George Clooney, most people won't mind a little quiet time with the guy, no matter his profession.
Jack's past may be nonexistent, but as his present comes into view, this meditative, nearly music-free movie takes shape.
On the run from people who want to kill him, Jack heads to a picturesque Italian town.
But his distinct talents are still in demand, and he agrees to construct a rifle for a mysterious client named Mathilda (Thekla Reuten).
As Jack pieces together Mathilda's weapon, though not her intentions, he falls for a local prostitute (a heartbreaking Violante Placido) and befriends an old priest (Paolo Bonacelli), and his solitude starts to turn toward engagement. Which may or may not be a survival instinct, and even if it is, it may not matter anymore.
The American is filled with an irresistible Old World, old-movie appeal. While avoiding Bourne-style kinetics in an adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel A Very Private Gentleman, Corbijn, a photographer-turned filmmaker (2007's Control), expertly rewinds us to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s - with some Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Greene and stylish '60s cool thrown in.
Like Julian Schnabel and Tom Ford, he's a filmmaker whose visual and narrative sense, honed in other art forms, fits perfectly with out-of-the-ordinary work.
"Captain America: The First Avenger" will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Toby Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci, Neal McDonough this blockbuster will be sure to bring excitement to next summer's box office.
Dustin Hoffman, 73, is reportedly set to reprise his role as Bernie Focker, the father of Ben Stiller's character in Little Fockers, the third film in a comedy series about family shenanigans that began with the movie Meet the Parents in 2000.
Hoffman will film four scenes for Little Fockers, Deadline.com said. The movie also stars returning actors Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson and singer-actress Barbra Streisand, who plays a sex therapist who is Bernie Focker's wife and mother of Stiller's Greg Focker. Newcomers include Jessica Alba and Harvey Keitel.
In Little Fockers, set to be released on December 22, the Focker family and in-laws the Byrnes await the arrival of a baby.
Aside from the "Fockers" series, Hoffman has also starred in films such as The Graduate in 1967, Rain Man in 1988 and Hook in 1991. He recently voiced a character in the Kung Fu Panda animated film series and also reportedly has parts in a 2011 television show about horse racing called Luck, which stars Nick Nolte, and in the 2011 movie The Song of Names.
The story so far: Following the release of Jaws, legendary exploitation-movie producer Roger Corman hired fledgling director Joe Dante to direct a rip-off movie about small, killer fish. The result was 1978′s gore-drenched, but tongue-in-cheek Piranha, which cost less than $1 million to make and grossed around $14 million in the U.S. alone. The sequel, 1981′s Piranha II: The Spawning, was directed by first-time film-maker James Cameron. The future Avatar and Titanic auteur was fired midway through the film’s shoot in Jamaica, and the movie was not a commercial success. But this disappointing experience did inspire Cameron to write his breakthrough movie, Terminator.
To say James Cameron has enjoyed more success over the past three decades than has the Piranha franchise is putting matters very mildly indeed. The only “new” Piranha movie made between 1981′s Piranha II and this week’s Piranha 3D was a Mila Kunis-starring remake of Joe Dante’s original which Roger Corman produced for cable in 1995. “Roger embarked on a series of remakes of his pictures for Showtime,” relates Dante. “This was a smaller budget than I had. The kid who was directing called me up and said, ‘Do you want a cameo in the movie?’ I said, ‘Well, no, I don’t think so, thank you. But I’m curious, where are you going to shoot?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, we’re going to shoot it [in LA].’ And I said, ‘Well, where are you going to find the lakes and rivers?’ And he said, ‘Oh, those are all from your picture.’ The entire thing had been done around our piranha footage.” Dante was unimpressed by the result. “There was one key ingredient missing,” he says. “Which was that they didn’t notice that it was supposed to be funny. So it lost its charm, I’m afraid.”
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