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Here are some posters from the 3rd part of the Pirates of the Caribbean (At World’s End).

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300 has topped the box office charts for this weekend, pulling in a whopping $70 million. That is bigger than the top opening of 2006 (Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, $68 million) and places it as the third highest opening weekend for a R-rated movie.

300 is based on the graphic comic by Frank Miller (Sin City) which in turn was “inspired” by the battle of Thermopalye, where 300 Spartans blocked the advance of a million-man Persian invasion army. Needless to say, since the movie is based more on the comic than the actual events, artistic liberties abound.

If you have seen the trailer, it’s pretty obvious why it was so successful. If you haven’t, you need to right now (click on the link above). The movie looks absolutely fantastic. It was shot in a similar way to Sin City, where nearly all of it was shot in front of a blue screen, making it feel like the comic has come to life. Everything is absolutely over the top - from the hypermasculine Spartan soldiers to the massive battle scenes. Words can’t do it justice. Watch the trailer and judge it for yourself.

Rated R for all sorts of bad things. In theaters now.

Spartans drive the Persians off a cliff. Visually stunning.

When I first saw the poster for Nanny Diaries, I imagined it to be similar to the show Nanny 911 on Fox, where a British Nanny is brought in to straigten out some bratty kids. It’s a fun show to watch, especially when the British Nanny yells at the parents for being horrible people.

After viewing the trailer, however, I’ve realized it’s nothing like the show we love so much on fox. It’s a story of love between people of different social status. Scarlett Johansson is a lowly nanny and her neighbor is the son of someone rich and evil (who will undoubtedly disapprove of the love affair). In the end they fall in love and all of the men who were dragged to the theatres for this movie by their wives or girlfriends sprint for the exit before anybody sees them.

I’d wait for this movie to come out on video.

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 This movie includes:

 Clarinet playing frogs …

 … cloud surfing …

 … fairies …

… and butterflies exploding out of a guy with two heads.

Words fail me.  I know anime tends to get a little weird, but this really takes the cake.  Probably not one for the kids either - rated R.

 Coming to theaters May 25, 2007.

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 Contrary to what the title suggests, this not a movie about group of women hanging out and man-hating at the local coffee shop.  Instead, it stars Adam Brody (TV’s The O.C.) as a guy who suffers a quarter-life-crisis after he gets dumped by his longtime girlfriend.  Desperate for a change of scenery, he moves out of town and in with his grandmother.  Brody is soon befriended by the mother next door and develops a relationship with her high-school daughter.  In the process, he discovers himself, learns to love again, finds meaning in life, etc etc.  Typical Zach Braff fare, only with a younger and more annoying version of Zach Braff.

I thought Meg Ryan was to be the love interest at first, but five seconds later she’s relegated to the role of “asexual, friendly mom.”  Nice to see her still making movies though.

 Coming to theaters April 20, 2007. 

Adam Brody busy finding himself.

Penelope is a woman with a pig nose, no friends, and a concerned mother (played by the mom from Home Alone). This seems to be basically Beauty and the Beast in reverse. This time the beast is a woman, and the beauty is a guy with a British accent. Here’s my prediction for how this movie will end: Instead of Prince Charming falling in love with Penelope’s inner beauty, he’ll hire a plastic surgeon and make Penelope get a nose job.

Reese Witherspoon is also in this movie, she plays a wisecracking drunkard. Every good romance movie needs a wisecracking drunkard who helps the ugly betty through tough situations.
Overall I think it’ll be a very watchable movie, especially with the mom from Home Alone making her patented KEVIN! face.
Check out the trailer: http://www.reelnow.com/play.php?video_id=336

Hollywoodland explores the suicide of “Adventures of Superman” star George Reeves, which quickly became one of Hollywood’s most controversial deaths. Was it a suicide of a troubled actor whose career was fading? Or did somebody want him dead?

Reeves’s mother believes her son was murdered, and hires a private detective, Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), to discover the truth behind Reeves’s death. The movie interleaves Simo’s investigation with flashbacks to Reeves’s (Ben Affleck) life and career. As Simo uncovers Reeves’s tangled personal life, he discovers tensions between the star and his fiance (Robin Tunney), his jilted lover (Diane Lane), and her powerful studio-boss husband (Bob Hoskins). Meanwhile his investigation is drawing bad publicity to the studios, and somebody is making sure that Simo is blocked at every turn.

Hollywoodland combines elements of film noir with the retro glamour of the 1950s Hollywood. The acting is top notch, with Brody as the dogged private eye, Affleck as the troubled star, and Lane as his longtime patron giving stellar performances. Unfortunately, the movie does not really take a stand on the question of “Who really killed George Reeves?”, instead opting to present an array of theories without espousing any particular one. This really puts a damper to the flow of the movie, as there are no AH-HA moments when Simo finally figures out the truth: instead we leave him simply wondering what actually did happen. In that sense, the movie stays very true to the history of George Reeve’s death.

Coming to DVD this Tuesday, February 6.
Adrien Brody looking for some answers.

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Ever play astronaut when you were a little kid, with your cardboard box “rocket ship” and your aluminum foil “astronaut suit”? Well, apparently somebody made it into a movie, but instead of a little kid, we get a 50-year old Billy Bob Thorton. Thorton plays a retired astronaut who never made it into space, so one day he decides to build a rocket ship on his family farm to achieve his life’s dream. Of course, he has to face all sorts of doubting naysayers and for whatever reason NASA is out to stop him as well - wouldn’t be an inspiration tale without the man holding you down.

Thought I saw this a few years ago when it was called October Sky. But kidding aside, seems like a rather charming and positive story concept.

Rated PG. In theaters February 27, 2007.

FIRED
http://www.firedthemovie.com/

Featuring: Tim Allen, David Cross, Andy Dick, Tate Donovan, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Garlin, Richard Kind, Anne Meara, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Reich, Jeffrey Ross, Harry Shearer, Ben Stein, Sarah Silverman

Opens: This Friday February 2nd @ City Cinemas, Village East, NYC

If you spend any time at all in the workplace you’re going to get laid off, down-sized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canned, cancelled, dismissed…FIRED!

When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen she wondered how she would cope with being fired by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business she was assured she was not alone. Once the subject had been broached, everyone she knew from her rabbi and gynecologists to her colleagues had advice and their own accounts of getting the boot to offer. This set her off on a journey to answer the question: was being fired going to be the best thing or worst thing that had happened in her working life.

Gurwitch began researching and traveling the country, interviewing people as diverse as Tim Allen, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Garlin, Anne Meara, David Cross and GM workers in Lansing, Michigan whose perspectives ranged from the tragically comedic to proving that old adage when one door closes another door opens, to the just plain tragic. Annabelle attended job fairs, received “outplacement services”, interviewed human resource directors, downsizers, and the downsized who were seeking new jobs.

Fired! reminds us that her that all great success come out of failure and being fired can be a part of the growth process, that humor helps, and that if you’re employed in America today your firing may be the best and the worst thing that can happen in your working life.