The Invention of Lying

Starring: Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Jonah Hill, Dreama Walker, Rob Lowe, Patrick Stewart

Director: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson

Release Date: October 2nd, 2009
Release Date: 2nd October, 2009

Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: The Invention of Lying takes place in an alternate reality in which lying, even the concept of a lie, does not even exist. Everyone, from politicians to advertisers, to the man and woman on the street speaks the truth, and nothing but the truth, with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realise that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.

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Whip It

Starring: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Bell, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden

Director: Drew Barrymore

Release Date: October 2nd, 2009

Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Synopsis: In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit girl named Bliss is constantly being pressured to enter beauty pageants by her mother. However, she feels this isn’t something she’s meant to do, and joins a roller derby league instead. She feels that these girls are her new heroes. She has no idea how to skate but Maggie Mayhem, one of her team mates, tells her to be her own hero. She is determined to join their roller derby league. After she is good enough to not break her neck on skates, she tells her mom she has a pre-SAT class after school on Thursdays. Her mom believes her and is very happy she is taking some initiative in her life. When her mother finds out everything will change. Will Bliss be able to continue her true calling and win the roller derby league, or will she succumb to her mother’s wished and doomed to a world of beauty pageants?

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Zombieland

Starring: Amber Heard, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, Abigail Breslin, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mike White

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Release Date: October 2nd, 2009
Release Date: 9th October, 2009

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Synopsis: After America is ravaged by a zombie plague, a lone band of survivors fights the living dead while they cross the nation from coast to coast. Horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive the world now overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss – but when you’re afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-toting, zombie-slaying’ bad ass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies. They stop in an amusement park, where they believe they will be safe, but their haven soon turns into a zombie bloodbath as they fight for their lives in which could be the last battle of humans.

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A Serious Man

Starring: Simon Helberg, Richard Kind, Adam Arkin, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Breitmayer, George Wyner, Fyvush Finkel

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Release Date: October 2nd, 2009
Release Date: 20th November, 2009

Studio: Focus Features

Synopsis: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother is sleeping on the couch, his son has a discipline problem at Hebrew school, and his daughter is stealing money from his wallet in order to pay for a nose job. While his wife makes new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

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Capitalism: A Love Story

Starring: Michael Moore

Director: Michael Moore

Release Date: October 2nd, 2009

Studio: Overture Films

Synopsis: Capitalism: A Love Story film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown that began in 2007 and takes a comical look in what Michael Moore has described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country” – the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions. The film alternates between a fierce critique of the status quo, personal portraits of the suffering caused by the recent economic crisis, and comical social satire. Some featured stories include an internal Citibank report happily declaring the United States a “plutonomy”, with the top 1 percent of the population controlling more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent. Additionally, the film contrasts the present economic reality in America with archival footage of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt calling for a Second Bill of Rights that would guarantee all Americans “a useful job, a decent home, adequate health care, and a good education.”

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Finished with LOST

Well it was always going to happen, I shouldn’t be surprised. After my last ‘discussion’ I was willing to admit I MIGHT have been a little over the top about it. I’d followed the series since day one and realised I shouldn’t give up on LOST so easily so I went back, humility cap in hand, sat down to continue to watch the current series and it hit me – “It felt wrong.”

I was always a firm watcher of LOST. Every ‘LOST’ I would sit down when it was on and watch avidly at the escapades of the survivors, moaning at the constant breaks interrupting my viewing and the, way too loud, crescendo of violins at the end of every episode. But, as the weeks went on I began to record LOST and watch it at a later time. As the serious continued the time I got around to watching the recording began to get later and later until I was watching it at least a week later.

It dawned on me then how apathetic I had become towards the series, its plotlines, its idiosyncrasies, and in some cases I was beginning to hate the characters – Kate and her Madonna worshiping, steroid induced muscles; Jack and his annoyingly one dimensional presence whenever he is on screen; Juliette and her lack of ANY CHARACTER WHATSOEVER (don’t believe me? Watch any major moment in the current series; she never loses her ‘moronic plank’ expression).

I can’t say its all bad – although in some cases the writing most definitely is – Ben and Locke are always a good bet for an above-mediocre episode and I always seem to have a good chuckle whenever Jeff Fahey is onscreen, although I could put that down the “The Lawnmower Man” effect, but I’ve just LOST the love and I’ve moved on. Like a husband who realises his marriage is getting boring and has looked to pastures new for some excitement (”Oh Dexter, how I love you.”) I’ve asked for a divorce. I can’t take the vapid characters, the over the top fantasy, the relentless “We are going to try and fuck with your head so many times you won’t know which era you live in just for the fun of it”, I just can’t.

Believe me, I tried to give it all the love I possible could but I no longer can. Every time I watch it now I pray the Island teleports off, makes a slight miscalculation with its trajectory and ends up smack bang in the middle of a black hole. I would gladly pay a lot of money to see the sight of Jack whining his head off as his spine gets sucked through his arsehole into another dimension.

I’ll upset people with this, I know I will, but I can’t help it I’ve tried to stay interested, I really have. I’ve tried to get into the whole Miles being the son of Pierre Chang thing; I’ve tried to stop my sides from splitting at the flashbacks of Ben when he’s twenty-something and with a parting; heck, I even had a smile on my face when Hurley was writing the Star Wars script, but ultimately it’s all just me trying to paper over some ever widening cracks.

So it’s with a heavy duty machine gun in my hands, a nuclear missile pointed straight at the centre of the Island, and, with a paid assassin on the look-out for Alan Dale that I wipe a tear from my eye and bid a fond farewell to my love affair with LOST. It was fun while it lasted.

Arron.

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Star Trek – This is What the Star Wars Prequels Should Have Been

The new Star Trek movie has done that rarest of things with prequels/reboots, and has brought much-loved characters and situations into a new generation while holding onto what made the original so special in the first place. This is an incredible achievement. After the Star Trek movie franchise fizzled out with Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis, it looked as though after several decades of adventures, the Enterprise had finally run out of steam (or indeed Dilithium). Then came the news that a new start would be made. Fans had their reservations, but now we know that those worries were unfounded.

JJ Abranms has brought Star Trek back to the masses, and the end product has surpassed all of our wildest expectations. This isn’t a cynical cash-in of a reboot- this is a genuine attempt to reintroduce the Star Trek universe to a modern audience who had previously had no interest in it, while also giving long term fans something to be thrilled with. The reviews are almost unanimous in their high praise of the film and its exemplary cast, which is a wonderful thing to behold as a Star Trek fan and also a fan of film in general.

At last we have a Star Trek movie that fans and newcomers alike can enjoy and enthuse about, plus we finally have a film that it is possible to take seriously as a movie instead of an extended TV episode. This hasn’t been the case since the eighth film, Star Trek: First Contact, which has often been held in the same regard as the classic Wrath of Khan.

This is what the Star Wars prequels should have been like. As much as I love Star Wars and as much as I enjoyed the prequels (Hey, even The Phantom Menace had some great scenes in it), I have to compare the two and admit that Star Trek is the clear winner.

The Star wars prequels were too much of a mish-mash, with too many plot holes and too many lackluster explanations for things that had become science fiction legends. Couple this with uneven direction (Attack of the Clones is the weakest in that sense) and a cast that didn’t gel as much as they could have (green screens and digital characters can rob a set of atmosphere), and you have films lacking in the substance that made the originals so great.

Star Trek has clearly been made with respect for the source material on the part of every person involved with the project. The crew have done an incredible job, the cast are brilliant (the casting director deserves some serious accolades) and above all the story is compelling and well told.

With enough excitement to keep the action addicts happy and enough of the original Star Trek mythos left intact while looking to the future of the franchise, it really is the film that the Star wars prequels should have been. They were fun misfires, where this is a serious science fiction film that is fun, moving and above all, happy to go where no-one has gone before.

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Movie Releases 15th May 2009

Angels & Demons

Starring: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, David Pasquesi, Victor Alfieri, Cosimo Fusco, Allen Dula

Director: Ron Howard

Release Dates: US May 15th, 2008 / UK 14th May, 2009

Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin working for the Illuminati, have captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.

Management

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Gavin Bristol, Don Burns, Collin Crowley, Dominic Fumusa

Director: Stephen Belber

Release Dates: US May 15th, 2008 / UK 29th May, 2009

Studio: Image Entertainment

Synopsis: Management chronicles the chance meeting of Mike Cranshaw and Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike’s parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine ‘compliments of management’ jump starts the cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing, a sense of happiness

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Are Jack, Sawyer and Kate completely LOST?

I think you can guess what I am about to talk about on this occasion just by this rants title alone. Before I really start though I would just like to say that I used to like LOST. I have been watching it from the very first season and I, like many others, was caught up in the mysterious island and all of its secrets. From the very first moment that Jack woke up to find himself in the middle of plane crash I found myself unable to tear myself away from the screen. Although I would like to declare that I am not a ‘superfan’ that follows it religiously. I am not a ‘Lostie’ a ‘Lostite’ or whatever they call themselves nowadays. Even though there were a few dodgy episodes that left me a little apathetic about it all but on the whole LOST captured my imagination…up until now.

You see, the writers of this series told the viewers that they didn’t have a clue what was happening. They claimed to have an idea how the series ended but getting there…nope…not a clue; they just made it all up as it went along. That was okay though, while there was 20+ episodes to a season they had plenty of television time to play with. They also claimed they had enough material for about nine seasons (which is a downright lie in my opinion) and they could keep the viewers entertained for as long as was possible.

Then the bomb dropped. They went to the TV Company to find out how much more time they had, and were told “only two more seasons to play and with reduced episodes.” Oh dear.

You see, what is REALLY getting on my nerves at the moment is that the writers spent the first three seasons faffing around, trying to tell as many stories as possible that now, with the lack of ‘episode time’ they seem to have realised “Oh shit, what are we to do now? We’ve opened up so many different story line branches we don’t have enough time to look at them all! ”

So what are they doing? Well, they are trying to close as many storylines as possible as quickly as possible whilst at the same time trying to keep the mystery going. The story is being thrown at us so quickly that it’s hard to concentrate. A few answers have been given to us but sadly a few of the other minor, but interesting, plotlines have been chucked to the wayside.

It could be that I am jumping the gun a little, there might be answers to the question I have coming up, but when the writers themselves tell us that they have decided not to carry on with some of the characters stories, I don’t hold out much hope.

The writers have very little time to try and give the viewers the answers they want, and I can only hope that they know exactly where they are going with the few new plot threads opening up, but, as it stands, and even though I know I’ll watch all of the episodes right up until the end (I have given 4 years of my life to this series, I am not backing out without finding out the answers), I can honestly say I am not so sure I care anymore.

So long as I find out what that big, four toed foot is about. If they palm me off with another few second shot of a giant statue and say nothing else about it I’ll be most upset and they won’t like me when I am upset.

Arron.

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Clint Eastwood To Quit Acting

Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood has hinted his forthcoming starring role in Gran Torino will be his last ever acting job.

Eastwood has cut back on his acting career in recent years to concentrate on directing; his last role was in 2005’s Million Dollar Baby.

And the 78-year-old believes Gran Torino, which he directs and stars as a Vietnam veteran, will be his last turn as an actor.

He tells Ireland’s Sunday World newspaper, “It’ll (Gran Torino) probably be my last. I’ll be drummed out of it after this one. Every time you do a movie you think, ‘Aw, that’s enough of that.’

“I always feel it’s very comfortable to be behind the camera.”

Gran Torino

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Cory Hardrict, John Carroll Lynch, Geraldine Hughes, Brian Haley

Director: Clint Eastwood

Release Date: December 17th, 2008

Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possesion: his 1972 Gran Torino.

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