August 17, 2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Casts:

Ron Perlman as Hellboy
Selma Blair as Liz Sherman
Doug Jones as Abe Sapien
Luke Goss as Prince Nuada

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 film based on the fictional Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy. The film is directed by Guillermo del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, which del Toro also directed. Ron Perlman reprises his role as the titular character. The film was commercially released on July 11, 2008 in the United States and Canada.

The story runs about Prince Nuada who declare a war on human. He collects all the three parts of the crown to awaken the countless golden soldiers that his father used during the war long time ago.Nuada kidnaps his sister and mortally wounds Hellboy with his spear. Unable to remove the spear shard, Johann, Liz, and Abe take Hellboy to the location of the Golden Army, hidden in Northern Ireland. They encounter the Goblin that oversaw the creation of the Golden Army, and he brings them before the Angel of Death, who has been waiting for their arrival. Though told that Hellboy would doom humanity if he lives, and that she’ll suffer the most from it, Liz pleads for Hellboy not to die. Amused by her choice, the Angel removes the spear shard from Hellboy’s chest and tells Liz to give him a reason to live. She reveals to Hellboy that he’s going to be a father. Hellboy recovered his strength and chllenged Nuada for a battle.

 

 

July 13, 2008

Flight Plan (2005)

 

casts:

Jodie Foster: Kyle Pratt
Peter Sarsgaard: Carson
Sean Bean: Captain Marcus Rich
Kate Beahan: Stephanie
Michael Irby: Obaid

Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005. It features many plot similarities with the films Bunny Lake is Missing, in that a mother has to convince the authorities that her child is not a figment of her imagination, and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
A variation on the locked room mystery, the movie depicts what happens after Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) boards a fictional Aalto Airlines flight from Berlin to New York with her six-year-old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston). After falling asleep and waking up about three hours into the flight, Kyle discovers her daughter is missing. She searches the plane for her daughter, but is then told that according to the passenger manifest her daughter never boarded the flight. None of her fellow passengers remembers having seen her either.
Because of her increasingly erratic, panicked behavior, Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) the air marshal, is ordered by the captain to guard her.

Because Kyle is an aeronautical engineer and had helped to design the engines used on the aircraft, a fictional Elgin E-474 commercial aircraft, she is able to make use of her knowledge of the aircraft’s layout and escapes to hunt for her daughter. Finding her way down to the freight deck, she even opens her late husband’s casket, which she is transporting back to the United States. Carson finds her, puts her in handcuffs and escorts her back to her seat, leaving the casket open.

At this point it is revealed that Carson and a coroner in Berlin are the true villains. having devised a complicated scheme to con the airline into transferring $50,000,000 to a bank account, claiming that Kyle has revealed herself to him to be a hijacker and is threatening to blow up the aircraft with explosives hidden in the un-x-rayed casket unless her demands are met. In fact, the villains have previously killed Kyle’s husband and have now abducted Julia to create this situation so they can frame Kyle as the hijacker and extortionist.

July 8, 2008

(2008) The Happening

 

casts:

Mark Wahlberg as Elliot Moore
Zooey Deschanel as Alma Moore
John Leguizamo as Julian
Ashlyn Sanchez as Jess

The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. Production began in August 2007 in Philadelphia. In France and the French-speaking part of Belgium, it was released under the name Phénomènes (Phenomena) on June 11, 2008. In Spain, the film is known as El Incidente (The Incident). In most Latin-American countries, it is known as El Fin de los Tiempos (The End of Times). In Italy, it is known as E venne il giorno (The Day has come), in Hungary the title is Az esemény (The Event).In Bulgaria the title is Явлението (The Event).

This film has been taken off the screens in South Wales, Bridgend, due to the recent hangings.

July 6, 2008

L : change the world

 

casts:
L: Ken’ichi Matsuyama
Near : Narushi Fukuda
Maki Nikaido : Mayuko Fukuda
Kimihiko Nikaido : Shingo Tsurumi

L: change the WorLd, directed by Hideo Nakata, is a spin-off film of the Death Note movie series. The series is based on the manga Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, but follows an original storyline. The film was released in Japan on February 9, 2008, Hong Kong on February 7, 2008 and Singapore on February 21, 2008.

Ken’ichi Matsuyama reprises his role as L Lawliet from the previous Death Note films. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L’s life, as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a virus with ten times the infectiousness of Ebola, taking a boy, the sole survivor of its use in a village in Thailand, and a junior high schooler named Maki Nikaido under his wing. Shunji Fujimura also reprises his role as Watari, though he dies early in the film as per the events of The Last Name. The characters Misa Amane, death god Ryuk, and Light Yagami also all have brief cameos in the film.

June 28, 2008

Eager to watch: WANTED

 

casts:

James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson
Morgan Freeman as Sloan
Angelina Jolie as Fox
Common as The Gunsmith
Konstantin Khabensky as The Exterminator
Marc Warren as The Repairman

Wanted is a 2008 action film loosely based on the comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie. Production began in April 2007. Wanted was released in the UK on June 25, 2008 and June 27, 2008 in the US.

June 24, 2008

Hilarious Superhero Movie

 

Casts:

Drake Bell as Rick Riker / Dragonfly
Sara Paxton as Jill Johnson
Christopher McDonald as Lou Landers / Hourglass
Leslie Nielsen as Uncle Albert
Kevin Hart as Trey
Marion Ross as Aunt Lucille
Ryan Hansen as Lance Landers
Keith David as Chief Karlin

Superhero Movie is a 2008 spoof comedy film that mocks the superhero genre, following in the footsteps of the Scary Movie series of comedies, with which the movie’s poster shares a notable resemblance. The film is written and directed by Craig Mazin, and produced by David Zucker and Robert K. Weiss. Production began in September 2007 in New York. The film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for crude and sexual content, comic violence, drug references, and language. After being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high school loser Rick Riker (Drake Bell) develops superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armored skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as "The Dragonfly." However, standing in the way of his destiny is the villainous Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald). After an experiment gone wrong, Lou develops the power to steal a person’s life force and in a dastardly quest for immortality becomes the supervillain, "The Hourglass."

June 20, 2008

The Incredible Hulk

 

Casts:

Edward Norton as Bruce Banner / Hulk
Liv Tyler as Dr. Elizabeth "Betty" Ross
Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky
William Hurt as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross

The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk, which was released on June 13, 2008. It is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk, Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, William Hurt as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky. The film follows Banner as he flees the pursuit of General Ross while attempting to find a cure to rid himself of the Hulk. When Blonsky personally volunteers to be injected with Banner’s gamma formula to aid Ross in his capture, he becomes an even greater monster, and Banner must accept his inner beast to defeat Blonsky. After the 2003 film Hulk, Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to the character, and writer Zak Penn began work on a loose sequel that would be much closer to the comics and the television series. Norton rewrote the script after he signed on to star, severing all ties to its predecessor by retelling the origin story in flashbacks and revelations, thereby establishing the film as a reboot. Leterrier’s direction aimed to make the monsters look more realistic and frightening. He redesigned Blonsky’s monstrous gamma-irradiated form — called the Abomination in the comics — from a reptilian humanoid into a mutated man with bony protrusions. Filming mostly took place in Toronto, Canada in 2007, where the production attempted to be environmentally friendly.

 This should be another hit movie for people who enjoy marvel characters!