, nicknamed B Rabbit, can't pull himself together to take the next step with his career--or with his life. Angry about his alcoholic mother (Kim Basinger) and worried about his little sister, Rabbit lets out his feelings with twisting, clever raps admired by his friends, who keep pushing him to enter a weekly rap face-off. But Rabbit resists--until he meets a girl (Brittany Murphy) who might offer him support and a little hope that his life could get better. Under the smart and ambitious direction of Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) and ably supported by the excellent cast and the burnt-out environment of Detroit slums, Eminem reveals a surprising vulnerability that makes 8 Mile vivid and compelling&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JLQE.01._PE35_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg){kind=link}
. But the changes--sometimes whole scenes, sometimes merely a few seconds--make for a richer film. There's more of the spirit of J.R.R. Tolkien, embodied in more songs and a longer opening focusing on Hobbiton. There's more character development, and more background into what is to come in the two subsequent films, such as Galadriel's gifts to the Fellowship and Aragorn's burden of lineage. And some additions make more sense to the plot, or are merely worth seeing, such as the wood elves leaving Middle-earth or the view of Caras Galadhon (but sorry, there's still no Tom Bombadil). Extremely useful are the chapter menus that indicate which scenes are new or extended&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CWT6.01._PE25_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg){kind=link}
 in his quest for a mother-and-child reunion. Parallels to Pinocchio intensify as David reaches %22the end of the world%22 (a Manhattan flooded by melted polar ice caps), and a far-future epilogue propels A.I. into even deeper realms of wonder, just as it pulls Spielberg back to his comfort zone of sweetness and soothing sentiment. Some may lament the diffusion of Kubrick's original vision, but this is Spielberg's A.I., a film of astonishing technical wizardry that spans the spectrum of human emotions and offers just enough Kubrick to suggest that humanity's future is anything but guaranteed.&size=576+MB&boxpic=images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RDOQ.02.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
. Having said all that, it's worth seeing, if only to see Cameron Diaz in her knickers.&size=636+MB&boxpic=images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000059513.02.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
, and the comedy has devolved into a grossfest including deep-rectal extraction of alien insects, fire-hose enemas into a giant alien sphincter, and a full-moon display of David Duchovny's naked posterior.&size=584+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005R874.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity.&size=652+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005R87Q.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 is a cocky young car thief working with a crew to steal 50 cars for a very bad man whose nickname is %22The Carpenter.%22 Being young and cocky, Kip messes up, so it's up to his big brother, Randall %22Memphis%22 Raines (Nicolas Cage), to come out of car thief retirement and save him.&size=532+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Z4WR.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it.&size=536+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXSP.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
.&size=626+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXKD.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams.&size=615+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXTG.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 about innumerable bodily functions, there are slyer jabs at Thomas Jefferson and Raging Bull.&size=683+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CY57.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 the early '70s action classic, picking up where Richard Roundtree's legendary Shaft left off.&size=610+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Z1FX.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
, Scream 3 takes the three surviving characters from the first two films--beleagured heroine Sidney (Neve Campbell), ruthless TV journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox Arquette), and hapless deputy Dewey (David Arquette)--and transplants them to the environs of Hollywood.&size=598+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/6305903182.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 copes with a dual dilemma: his girlfriend Samantha (Roberts) has just dumped him to pursue solo ambitions in Las Vegas, and a manipulative mobster has ordered Jerry to Mexico to retrieve a coveted antique pistol (the %22Mexican%22 of the title) that carries a legacy of legend, death, and danger. Jerry soon has his hands full with bandits, bloodshed, and a grizzly hound dog that vanishes and reappears with amusing regularity. En route to Vegas, Samantha's taken hostage by a burly assassin (James Gandolfini) who's attached to the gun-fetching scheme and is, in more ways than one, not who he seems to be.&size=593+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXRY.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 pushes his boat the Andrea Gail out to the waters of the Flemish Cap off Nova Scotia for what will be a huge swordfish haul. While his crew is gathering fish, three storm fronts (including a hurricane) collide to create a %22perfect storm%22 of colossal force, and Billy's path back to Gloucester, Massachusetts, takes them right smack into the middle of it. Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of Sebastian Junger's seafaring bestseller is a faithful if by-the-numbers true-story account of a monster storm that rocked New England in 1991, specifically Tyne's commercial fishing boat and its crew. Junger's tale fashioned a compelling if staid narrative out of seemingly disparate events, but this film adaptation tends to flatten out the story into a conventional if absorbing story of man vs. nature, as the crew fights for survival against the awesome waves the storm kicks up. The central part of the film, which cuts between the Andrea Gail's fight to stay afloat and the attempts of the Coast Guard to rescue a yacht in peril, is suspenseful action of the first degree, aided by some awesome computer-generated waves.&size=627+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXJD.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
, and Robert Rodat's screenplay offers the same balance of epic scale and emotional urgency that elevated his earlier script for Saving Private Ryan. Unfortunately, Emmerich embraces clichés and hackneyed melodrama that a more gifted director would have avoided. Instead of attempting a truly great film about the most pivotal years of American history, Emmerich settles for a standard revenge plot with the Revolutionary War as an incidental backdrop.&size=602+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004XPPG.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 who realizes after he's accepted the job that he may have gotten into a no-win situation. Not only that, his teenage daughter (Erika Christensen) is herself quietly developing a nasty addiction problem. In San Diego, a drug kingpin (Steven Bauer) is arrested on information provided by an informant (Miguel Ferrer) who was nabbed by two undercover detectives (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzmán). The kingpin's wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), heretofore ignorant of where her husband's wealth comes from, gets a crash course in the drug business and its nasty side effects. And south of the border, a Mexican cop (Benicio Del Toro) finds himself caught between both his home country and the U.S., as corrupt government officials duke it out with the drug cartel for control of trafficking various drugs back and forth across the border.&size=512+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXN4.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 that normal rules don't apply on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Caught in a web of deception, Jake watches with escalating horror as Alonzo uses his badge (and the support of his superiors) to justify a self-righteous policy of corruption. In stark contrast to most of his previous work, Denzel unleashes his dark side with fearlessness and fury, and the result is excellence without compromise. Director Antoine Fuqua (The Replacement Killers) won't score any points for subtlety, but gritty details (including actual L.A. gang members as extras) and Hawke's finely tuned performance are perfectly matched to Washington's frightening volatility.&size=519+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JKED.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
 tells an intense, economical tale, reminiscent of the best classic war films, while infusing it with modern sentiments.&size=577+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXHJ.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
, Vertical Limit attempts to translate man-against-the-mountain adventure into compelling, albeit fictional, drama. And while the climbing action is pretty darn breathtaking, somebody forgot to put the brakes on the cliché machine while penning the screenplay. Two siblings (Chris O'Donnell and Robin Tunney) are mentally scarred by a climbing accident in which their father died to save them. She becomes a famous mountain climber (catch that Sports Illustrated cover?); he never climbs again, and becomes a National Geographic photographer.&size=539+MB&boxpic=images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXQG.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg){kind=link}
This site is ©
copyright by New Horizen Media -
http://www.fullversion.com All rights reserved
Designed and
programmed by Erik@Newhorizenmedia.com. Disclaimer
This site is ©
copyright by New Horizen Media -
http://www.fullversion.com All rights reserved
Designed and
programmed by Erik@Newhorizenmedia.com. Disclaimer