A science fiction film District 9 is directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. This movie is produced for $30 million and it’s in a style of documentary with fictional interviews, news and videos.  It was released in 14^th August 2099 and managed to earn $37 million on its premier weekend.

The movie is a work of science fiction. In 1982 alien spaceship landed above Johannesburg South Africa. After that there was a massive fear of interstellar war between human and Aliens. The whole world was very anxious and in high alert. But on the total contrast Aliens themselves were seeking shelter on Earth. They came to Earth in search of shelter because their home planet was completely destroyed. Humans were preparing for the war but in total contrast they were forced to give asylum to millions of Aliens in Johannesburg South Africa. The area where the Aliens were habituated was called District 9. The story of the movie revolves around this area.

The main character in District 9 is Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley). He is a worker at the Multi national Union (MNU) Department of Relations with Extraterrestrial Civilizations. MNU is managing the situation of Aliens in District 9. During his work in District 9 he gets infected by alien DNA and his body starts to change like an alien. The story revolves around his situation.

The reception got by District 9 was good in United States and Canada. Critics received this movie positively. A very popular movie review site Rotten Tomatoes gave an score of 7.8 out of 10 for this movie and the site wrote “Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic.”

So I say that you have to watch this movie once. It’s great.

World premiere of Inception was done on July 8, 2010 at Leicester Square London. This flim grossed $23.7 million during its opening on July 16, 2010. In total inception made $823 million worldwide. This is Leonardo’s second movie which highest grossing film right behind Titanic.

Movie Inception received a strong positive response from all critics as an innovative and smart story as well as nicely chosen star cast and memorable scenes and visual effects. Rotten Tomatoes reported 87% positive review from critics based on 272 reviews with an average score of 8 out of 10.

Rolling Stone magazine’s Peter Travers commented this movie as “widely ingenious chess game and the result is a knockout.” David Roark commented as “Visually, intellectually and emotionally, Inception is a masterpiece.”       

Empire magazine gave inception a five star rating saying “it feels like Stanley Kubrick adapting the work of the great sci-fi author William Gibson … Nolan delivers another true original: welcome to an undiscovered country.”

Not all reviews were positive however. New York magazine’s David Edelstein was reported to “have no idea what so many people are raving about. It’s as if someone went into their heads while they were sleeping and planted the idea that Inception is a visionary masterpiece and—hold on … Whoa! I think I get it. The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype—a metaphor for itself.”

In the end all I have to say is Inception is a great movie to watch and I highly recommend it.

Tell me how you got started in the entertainment business. What inspired you to pursue acting?
Well, actually, I literally tripped and fell at my brother Nate’s audition when I was 9 years old. I was just tagging along and I ended up getting the attention of the casting director. I just basically ended up at this “cattle-call”, cross-country search for this young girl in the independent film That Night and I ended up getting the part in that by sort of luck. And, then it kept finding me. Nineteen years later I’m still trying to work with people I love and pick up and go when these opportunities present themselves. It just keeps growing and changing. It’s been a wild ride.

I’ll say. Well, when you take breaks from the wild ride, when you’re on location for a film somewhere, how do you like to spend your down-time?
I love travelling, but obviously I can’t do that on my down-time. Lately, I try to get a little rest in when I find time. (She chuckles.) I love big dogs. I usually have them on set with me. They hang out with me and the crew. I’ve also been working a lot on my production company and on putting together these films that we have coming up. My brother and I work together, finding and acquiring new materials and stories. Now, sitting in the seat of producer has added a whole new line of work.

What inspired you to get behind the scenes as producer and what has been one of the biggest challenges for you?
Just having done this for so long, knowing so many fine producers and film-makers, I’ve learned what it takes to get a movie made. One thing that has always attracted me to this business is sharing people’s stories. To go from the initial germ of an idea and build it has always been something I’ve wanted to do. Then, when I started to do it, it got my brain firing and me, with my Type A, control-freak personality gives me a lot to do, putting pieces together. I really enjoy it. I love collaborating with people and networking. All the people and resources that have built up over the years…I mean, it’s definitely been challenging, but it’s been also easy in a lot of ways because of my experience.

Well, I know you’re on set right now for the Dollhouse series finale. How was it working with Joss Whedon again after working with him on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series? And, how do you feel now that Dollhouse comes to a close?
The show’s had its ups and downs, but for me it’s been mostly up. It’s been two of the most amazing years of my life being on this with him. He made this happen and I don’t think he’ll ever know how really grateful I am, how life-changing this has been. He’s a dear friend and he’s just a nice soul, like a brother, a mentor…really extraordinary. We’ve had just as much fun this time around as we’ve had in the past as teammates.

I hear you always take the back of your director’s chair home after a shoot. Are you planning on taking anything away as a souvenir or memento from the Dollhouse set?
Well, we’re under surveillance from Fox. (She chortles.)

Oh no! (I laugh.)
I know! There’s so much cool stuff on this set that everyone sort of wants a memento of some sort, but I hear Fox wants to keep it, so…

In any case, you’ve played a variety of characters that possess edgy or tough qualities. What do you think draws you to these roles?
Well, I guess there’s a side of me that’s edgy and tough that I like to tap into pretty organically. You know, I never really grew up as the “girl next door”. I had a feminist mother and three older brothers. I was always sort of this outspoken and precocious little girl. I mean, anything the boys could do, I could do better if not just as well. I mean, I first started playing these roles as a teenager, whether it was that daddy/daughter relationship that was under those pressures of divorce or abandonment or just the roles dealing with teen angst. Eventually, having Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I took a leap into the bad girl where nothing was just black or white. Even though I was playing this girl who did these horrible things, it was from her painful experiences and really amazing when fans would find that they really empathized with her despite that she killed people and tortured people. She was dealing with redemption and identity. And, it’s just been presented to me in roles that have been really deep and layered, definitely with this tough fighter behind it.

Well, one role in particular was your rebellious part in the movie True Lies as daughter to Jaime Lee Curtis. Having said in the past that this talented actress was an idol of yours, how did it feel to play opposite your idol as her daughter?
I came to know her on that movie. I was twelve years old, so she was really the first example of an actress, of a woman that I looked up to in my new field and life as a professional actress. I admired her professionalism and her fearless way of showing up in a room full of guys while holding her place, holding her ground. She’s provocative and also just fiercely sharp, intellectual, caring, just the whole package. I remember even my mother saying, “Watch this woman. She’s who you might become and aspire to be in this business. 

Looking to the present, I know you have a project in development called The Perfect Moment. Can you give me a little glimpse into the film?
Yea. It’s a biopic on the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and it’s a project that I’m doing with my brother. We’ve had the project in various forms of development and story for about seven years now. It came to Nate through a writer he was working with in New York who noticed a physical resemblance between my brother and Robert Mapplethorpe. Then my brother started to look into his life and his story to see parallels in between their lives. He and I also just started to realize what a fascinating man, story, and identity this man was. We’ve met and teamed up with this filmmaker Ondi Timoner who had a few incredible films at Sundance and has predominantly done documentaries. He really has captured the dark and the light, the essence of the subjects in these documentaries. We’ve proposed our ideas and are really thrilled, terrified, and excited with this project where we try to shed some light or some dark, provocative insight into this man’s life, his work. We want to show beyond what people know of him, not just this controversial, often perverse artist.

Eliza Dushku
MF Magazine

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Portrayal of Zuckerberg in the Movie
The Social Network portrays Zuckerberg as a greedy, ruthless and backstabbing business person that puts success ahead of his friends and relationships . In more than many ways, this portrayal of Zuckerberg seems not to be far fetched. Facebook has come under criticism for failing to protect it’s user from the various security threats that are found on the Web. It would seem, according to most critics, that Facebook is a thriving gold mine for identity thieves, stalkers, spammers and all sorts of cyber criminals. Could it be that Facebook’s business model is reflective of it’s founders business and personal ethic? Could it be that Facebook is placing financial success ahead it’s five hundred million friends?

Zuckerberg’s Reaction to the Movie
In what appears to be a public relations stunt Zuckerberg has announced a new Start-Up Education Foundation that will initially fund public schools in Newark, New Jersey. To this end, he has committed $100 million. Apart from that, Zuckerberg invited Oprah to his rented and modest house in what appears to be a desperate attempt to burnish his image as just the ordinary billionaire next door. For a while, one is tempted to think that The Social Network has made Zuckerberg realize that “the social network” so to speak, has to be lived and experienced not only in cyberspace, but also in the communities where we spend our day to day lives. Maybe its better to have 50 friends in your community that to have five hundred million friends in cyberspace!
Given the movies harsh characterization of Zuckerberg, it takes no great effort to see why Zuckerberg dislikes the movie. The boyish billionaire has this to say about the movie ‘It’s a movie, it’s fun, you know, a lot of it is fiction but even the filmmakers will say that…I promise you, this is my life, so I know it’s not that dramatic….the last six years have been a lot of coding, and focus, and hard work, but you know maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.’
Some Personal Reflections.           
While the The Social Network Movie explores the story of the founders of Facebook, it also highlights some of the challenges associated with social networking sites. There is no doubt that a considerable number of users of social-networking sites have found themselves compounded by both legal and personal complications. In more than many ways, The Social Network invites all of us to re-interrogate the value of social networks.
As implied by the tag line “you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”, we indeed need to re-examine the concept of friendship in the context of social networks. Is it possible to have 500 million friends or followers? Is it really possible to know 500 million persons? What are the benefits and risks of availing our personal information to potentially five hundred million friends? Is there room for privacy in such an environment?
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The usual story of Rapunzel involved a beautiful princess with magical long hair who is locked up in tower and is finally rescued by a charming prince. With Tangled also the directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard have made sure to keep up with old story but they have also made sure to add a modern touch to it by doing minor alterations along with a twist here and a turning point there. Nonetheless the movie appears to be retaining its quality by being equally enchanting and appealing at the same time.

Instead of the timid and damsel in distress kind of Rapunzel who greeted the audience in the traditional story this time they meet is a rather combatant kind of a princess who takes pride in performing action stunts. And the charming knight in the shining armor kind of prince is somewhat unconventionally replaced by a bandit who is top of the kingdom’s most wanted list. As the most unlikely pair take on the ultimate adventure what else the audience can expect other than an endless and unlimited amounts of fun and fancy filled joy ride that brings action and adventure along with a number of escapades.                         
The creators are making the right choice when they settle on the voice of Mandy Moore because her voice sounds ideal to the character of Rapunzel with soft undertones and sing song quality in her voice. Her fans sure must have felt a bit disappointed when she did not make any big screen appearances recently but their wishes are being answered to a certain extent as she comes forward with vocalizing the lead role if Tangled. And it is not an overstatement to say that as Rapunzel she does justice to the beloved by much fairy tale character.

The hero Flynn Rider is voiced by Zachary Levi who is also making himself visible to his faithful big screen fans after a little while. He is actually being very wise by marking his come back with an animation because he is the perfect choice for the vocalization of dashing bandit’s character with his deep and high tuned voice. Other than matching vocal talents Tangled is armed with some high level efforts by the cinematography department who are delighting the highly anticipating audience with yet another masterpiece.

As Tangled covers the theaters on 24th November the audience is sure to find themselves taken to the fairy land drawn by Grimm Brothers as another classic in their collection of all time favorite stories comes alive. This is sure to become top on the list of family entertainment movies of this year.

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The movie illustrates this as the heroes fall from an exploding airplane while inside an armoured tank. As the tank hurtles to the ground (cf. Newton’s Law of Gravity), the team leader, Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson), looks out an opening and barks out commands for the tank’s gun. I am paraphrasing: ‘Turn 45 degrees to the left! Fire! Twenty-five degrees to the right! Fire!’ In this way, he is able to direct the fall of the tank and save their lives. This is very funny.”

But Brian Salisbury says, “Instead of assaulting us with non-stop action and then having the audacity to mask itself as being high art, The A-Team embraces just how ludicrous the action sequences are and makes absolutely no apologies for it. That’s not to say, though, the movie has nothing to offer beyond the explosions and mid-air collisions. In fact, what makes The A-Team such a damn good film is the clever underscore that complements every moment of mesmerising destruction. Joe Carnahan, along with the other writers, gives us moments that subtly poke fun at the outlandishness of what we are seeing.

Carnahan recognised that, given the tone of both the series and his last film (Smokin’ Aces), the action scenes needed to flow uninterrupted, and here it’s very streamlined, only pausing briefly to give us hilarious interactions between the larger-than-life characters before diving head-first back into the explosive fray. Until the very end of the film, each plan is carried out before our eyes as it is being hashed out to neutralise any lacking in the pace. It would be easy to then accuse The A-Team of being front-loaded, given the slow build to the final sequence, but I would argue that is merely a nod to the evolution of Face’s character as a leader and that it never really loses steam.

What really sells this film, however, is its cast. Like the original quartet of chaos, each actor brings something fantastic to the table. Bradley Cooper, as Face, has that inescapably charming swagger and confidence we have come to expect from him; Neeson, unsurprisingly, is the perfect blend of in-the-trenches badass and cool-as-ice leader. Even Rampage Jackson, in the role made famous by a guy donning the entire payload of Ft Knox around his neck (that’d be Mr T), turns in a respectably tough performance with a few moments of decent hubris. But it’s Sharlto Copley who really steals the show as Howlin’ Mad Murdock. True to his character’s moniker, Copley cranks up the lunacy and plays Murdock with a hilariously reckless abandon that mirrors the tone of the entire film.”

My own opinion and, I am allowed one, is that The A-Team was written by one of my favourite thriller authors, Stephen Cannell whom I dote on who despite dyslexia not only has written hit after hit TV shows but hit after hit books. You are advised not to smoke Hannibal Smith’s cigars or go over the top like Copley or wear a Mohawk like Jackson otherwise have a ball even if you don’t understand what’s going on which I didn’t, sticking to the basic principle of, it moves fast, it’s in colour and lots of thing go boom.

Movie review: 2012

Director: Roland Emmerich

Produced by:

Roland Emmerich

Mark Gorden

Harald Kloser

Larry J. Franco

Ute Emmerich

Written by: Harald Kloser and Roland Emmerich

Star Cast:

John Cusack

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Amanda Peet

Music by: Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander

2012 is a disaster based movie released in 2009. The basic story is that the solar flare bombards the core of the Earth and its temperature begins to rise exponentially. This makes Earth’s core unstable and this in turn results in displacement of outer core of Earth. This movie features every disaster events imaginable from California falling into Pacific Ocean, Yellowstone Eruption, Mega Tsunami, massive earthquake and many more. This movie is all about John Cusack running for his life along with his family i.e., his ex-wife, son and daughter. The most interesting part is that he manages to escape from death by a mere two to three feet from disaster area and this trend continues throughout the movie making it a bit tedious and “What the Hell” moment for me. Had it been for just 2/3 times then it’s acceptable but the frequency of such close escape is totally crap if you ask me.

Visual effect wise, its one great movie and you must watch it. Some really heart pounding scenes created for this movie. Some effects that I liked were the massive Tsunami and California going under the Ocean bed.

Critical Response

Overall: Mix Negative review.

Rotten Tomatoes: 5.1 out of 10

Metacritic: 49 out of 100

Here is one thing that I would like to quote: Peter Travers of Rolling Stone criticized the film by comparing it to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: “Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity.”

What about my view?

You should watch this movie but forget about the craps that has been shown and Just enjoy some thrilling visual effects.

Movie review into the wild (one of the best movie i have ever seen)

Into the Wild movie was released in 2007. This movie is based on a non fiction book. It was a best seller book based on the adventure of Christopher McCandless. Into the Wild was directed by Sean Penn and screenplay was also written by himself. This movie was premiered during Rome Film Feast and released on October 19^th 2007.

Movie Into the Wild is based on the life of Christopher McCandless a student. As he was growing up he felt detached with the conventional life that most people live. He feels their life as too materialistic. Christopher McCandless cuts his credit cards and burns all of his identification documents. He also donates $24,000 which was his life saving to Oxfam. He then sets off for country travel driving his Datsun. His final goal was Alaska and along the way he hopes to experience the wild side of nature. He never tells his family where he was going and never communicates with them then after. When he reaches Alaska, he sets up camp in an abandon school bus and he plans to stay there for 3 month without any human contact.

Movie Into the Wild received a very positive review. Rotten Tomatoes reported a 83% positive review and this movie is rated 7.3 out of 10. Chicago Sun Times gave this movie a 4 star out of four and described it as “spellbinding”.  This movie won 65^th Golden Globe Awards for best original song, Gothem Awards for best feature film. This movie was also nominated in 80^th Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and best film Editing.

This is a great movie. You have to watch this.

The Illusionist is a 2006 release drama movie directed by Neil Burger. This movie is about a magician Eisenheim who is in a mission to get his love. The Illusionist was first released at 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Now, let’s talk about the story of the movie. Eisenheim was born in Austria – Hungary and a son of a cabinet maker. During his childhood he meets a traveling magician who performs various tricks in front of him. Eisenheim becomes obsessed with magic after this. In the mean time he falls in love with Sophie (Duchess von Teschen) who is above his social class. They start to meet each other very often in their secret hideout chamber. Eisenheim is planning to go to chin to learn magic tricks and Sophie want to go with him. The day they plan to leave, police come looking for Sophie and they are separated. After 15 years Eisenheim returns to Austria to perform his magic tricks and to get his childhood lover back. To get his lover back he faces the Crown Prince who is engaged with Sophie. The movie revolves around this scenario.

This movie is produce with a budget of $17 million. It has already earned $44 million and counting. Taking about the review, this movie received mostly a positive one. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie 7.5 out of 10. Rotten Tomatoes reviewed this movie as a fresh one with a good story. This movie was also nominated in Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

This is a really good movie. It has drama, excitement, surprise and some shocking truth in the end. I would say you have to watch this movie.