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Long in existence, "A Christmas Carol" has been played out in a number of varying budget film productions but thanks to Robert Zemeckis this is probably the most expensive, and thus, it is visually spectacular. Even if you are not an expert on Charles Dickens’ 1843 tale, you can clearly estimate which parts have been updated and freshened for a new generation, and for the most part, Zemeckis’ instincts are right on....(more)
Are Robert De Niro and Jude Law joining "Thor"?...(more)
Movies about isolated, withdrawn and misunderstood kids can either affect similarly young kids in the audience that feel that way. Or they can affect adults that are able to look about twenty or thirty years or so and understand what it was like creating a fantasy adventure on their own in order to escape reality....(more)
The three dimensions of Drew Barrymore: That’s what can be found in her new movie "Whip It" which marks her directing debut and also features her in a small role. The starring role belongs to Ellen Page whose character Diablo Cody – I mean, Bliss Cavendar – is everything like we’ve seen before by Page except it’s not old yet, at least it won’t be to all, because she is a young actress with undying spunk and a sharp tongue....(more)
Somewhere in the range between supercool and cool, Surrogates has a constant slick Magna comic look and brisk, dashing storytelling involving a futureworld where humans let their humanoid robot counterparts do everything for them in the real world. Bruce Willis is the perfect action rogue for this kind of picture, out to smash in some robot heads – which he does a couple of times....(more)
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Colm Feore and Jaimie Alexander will join the cast of "Thor," the bigscreen adaptation of the Marvel comic book. Chris Hemsworth has already been cast in the lead hero role of Thor....(more)
Steven Spielberg collaborated with the late Michael Crichton with "Jurassic Park" and the TV series "E.R....(more)
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo penned the screenplay. "Bioshock" is available on the XBOX 360 and PS3 platforms and tells a fantasy story well the player enters the lost underwater city of Rapture where its residents were left to do crazy, mad experiments on each other....(more)
The out of sequence structured "The Time Traveler’s Wife" has us wondering about the paradoxes of two different versions of the traveler – one young and one old – arriving approximately in the same space and time. The time travel movie always gets you thinking about such paradoxes....(more)
Catalina Sandino Moreno will join the cast of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" as the vampire character Marina. The Hollywood Reporter reports that in "Eclipse," Moreno will play a woman who tries to create a newborn army of vampires....(more)
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