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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Is The Most Action Packed MI Movie Yet

Posted on 2011-12-21 22:21:19, by Opal Cain in Arts & Entertainment → Movies

Tom Cruise is at it again, and the latest edition of the "Mission Impossible" series. In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, has assembled a brand-new team in order to assist him to enlist a plethora of new recruits, which include Simon Pegg. These new recruits have been assembled in order to clear the IMF's name after it has been wrongly blamed for a plot that has released a number of bombs around the globe. As the organization goes into a complete shutdown, Ethan Hunt and his team are forced to go undercover, without any help, without any contacts and definitely no limits in their most difficult assignment that they have ever had. Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol is a continuation of the incredibly successful saga of ... Read More

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Entertaining Kids With Thomas The Tank Engine Movies and Books

Posted on 2011-10-24 23:32:35, by Cory Dugan in Arts & Entertainment → Movies

Thomas the Tank Engine Books and Movies Have Kept Kids Entertained for DecadesIn the 1940s, in England, the Reverend W. Awdry was trying to entertain his son who was bedridden with measles.  What resulted was a story of locomotives, later to become the stories of Thomas the Tank Engine.  Throughout the years, Thomas has entertained children the world over as the Thomas and Friends brand has expanded into all areas of a child's life, such as games, toys, books, and movies.Thomas the Tank Engine BooksEventually, the Reverend recorded his stories in a series of Thomas the Tank Engine books.  Today, those books have branched out into books that reach kids of all ages.  For starters, you can purchase the entire collection - 26 stories - of Reverend Awdry's stories.  At ... Read More

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Bridesmaids (2011). Film Review

Posted on 2011-07-06 05:21:14, by Jason Day in Arts & Entertainment → Movies

Director: Paul Feig COMEDY ****/***** Producer: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend. Writers: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo. Camera:  Robert D. Yeoman. Music: Michael Andrews. Sets: Jefferson Sage. Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd, Jill Clayburgh, Jon Hamm, Terry Crews, Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS Annie (Wiig) is bankrupt and lovelorn, so she is thrown into turmoil when her BFF Lillian (Rudolph) announces she is getting married and that Annie is to be her Matron of Honour. Irking Annie even more is Lillian’s new good friend Helen (Byrne), pretty, slim, rich and with great contacts. The two quickly become nemeses and thwart each others efforts at every turn. REVIEW Co-writer and leading star Wiig proves that the girls can be just as low-down and dirty in the gross-out comedy stakes as the boys ... Read More

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Attack the Block (2011). Film Review

Posted on 2011-05-17 16:17:59, by Jason Day in Arts & Entertainment → Movies

Director: Joe Cornish ACTION/ADVENTURE ****/***** Producer: Nira Park, James Wilson. Writer: Joe Cornish. Camera: Thomas Townend. Music: Steven Price. Sets: Marcus Rowland. Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega, Leonn Jones, Alex Esmail, Danielle Vitalis, Paige Meade. SYNOPSIS A gang of teenage hoodlums take on a group of bloodthirsty aliens whom invade the London council estate they live on, whilst simultaneously avoiding a violent drug dealer who claims to ‘run’ the block. REVIEW Director Cornish’s (from TV’s The Adam and Joe Show) first feature film is a nang debut, that is shower in several areas. Check it. Filmed on the Stockwell Gardens and Stockwell Park estates in South West London, just a few streets away from where Cornish grew up, there is a grimy, authentic twang and quick urban wit to the dialogue that dazzles the ears. “I’ve ... Read More

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Fitzcarraldo (1982). Film Review

Posted on 2011-05-14 12:32:40, by Jason Day in Arts & Entertainment → Movies

Director: Werner Herzog DRAMA ****/***** Producer: Werner Herzog, Willi Segler, Lucki Stipetic. Writer: Werner Herzog. Camera: Thomas Mauch. Music: Popol Vuh. Sets: Ulrich Bergfelder, Henning von Gierke. Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez. SYNOPSIS Irish adventurer Fitzgerald (Kinski) has one dream – to bring grand opera, in the form of tenor Mario Caruso and actress Sarah Bernhardt, to the natives of South America. Bankrolled by lover Molly (Cardinale), he buys a huge steam ship and plot of inhospitable jungle and attempts to fulfil this vision. REVIEW Herzog and Kinski had a notoriously tempestuous working relationship, Herzog threatening to kill the actor during a more heated moment on set, but their collaborations certainly produced the most fevered, intense dramas of the New German Cinema in the 70’s and 80’s. This film ... Read More