Yesterday the Academy for Motion Pictures Arts and Science (AMPAS) announced their nominations for the…
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Wreck-it Ralph is the story of what happens in an arcade once it closes for the night. All the characters from different games meet up, have a chat or – in the case of Ralph – ponder about their “job”. You see Wreck-it Ralph has to play the villain in the game “Fix-it Felix jr.” and he is pretty depressed: because a bad guy cannot be a hero… can he?
Life of Pi is an adaption of the book of the same name by Yann Martel. The movie is about Piscine „Pi“ Patel (Suraj Sharma) whose father owns a zoo in India. When the family decides to sell the animals oversea they all board a ship transporting them and the animals. Unfortunately a storm causes a shipwreck and kills everyone of Pi’s family. He is now alone in a lifeboat… well not alone.
2009 was a great year for science fiction when a movie got both embraced by the sci-fi crowd and managed to get oscar nominations for best screenplay and best picture. We are of course not talking about District 9. Neill Blomkamp who was previously attached to adapting Halo for the big screen gave us an outstanding work of sci-fi firing on all cylinders to give sci-fi ideas, social commentary, emotion and fantastic action in a movie with a 30 million dollars budget (a fraction of Avatar‘s speculated 250 million)
Is „very good“ good enough for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?
This was the question of a review over at hitfix and it is an incredibly accurate description of the dilemma that Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-Earth has to face.
Set 60 years before the Lord of the Rings trilogy this first installment of the Hobbit-Trilogy tells the story of how Bilbo Baggins (a wonderful Martin Freeman) went from being a respected to an adventurous Hobbit who would join Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and his 12 fellow dwarves. Together with the ever mysterious and grumpy wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) their mission is to get to the lonely mountain Erebor to kill the Dragon Smaug and reclaim the mountain which used to be the home of Thorin’s race.
Somewhere in Southern Louisiana there is „the bathtub“ an isolated place where a little community is living. Among them lives Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father Wink (Dwight Henry). In school Hushpuppy has learned that before the ice age giant Beasts roamed the earth but the ice has killed them. With the melting of the polar caps (also a thing she learned) there is only one conclusion for Hushpuppy: the beasts who until now have been frozen will break out of the ice to return – and crush everything in their path.
And if this is the last post on this site: Happy end of the world, see you on the other side!
After delivering one of the funniest comedies in years with In Bruges (2008) Martin McDonagh returns with another black comedy featuring again Colin Farell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and many more.
If the cast list and the director is not enough to sell you the premise is a very unique one: focusing on a crime that has not received that much coverage we follow Hans (Walken) and Bill (Rockwell) who are working in the dog-kidnapping business.
Meaning they steal a dog and return it to the owner who is paying them a handsome reward for finding the lost dog. Into this story comes Colin Farell a screenwriter wrestling with his newest story. Things go haywire when Hans steals a dog belonging to the mafia-boss Charlie (Harrelson). And if you steal Woody Harrelson’s dog you are in for a messy trip.