Results tagged “Anthony Quinn”

This week, royal bodice-ripper The Other Boleyn Girl, zombies ahoy in Diary of the Dead, multiple viewpoint assassination thriller Vantage Point and The Rock doing one for the kids in The Game Plan.

This week, Stallone takes us back to a simpler age in Rambo, Jack Black goes pretend low budget in Be Kind Rewind, Bono gets his ego blasted out in 3D in U2-3D and Norah Jones stops singing to make her acting debut in My Blueberry Nights.

After the giddy heights of last week’s reviews and the orgy of stars that it resulted in, normal service is resumed this week. We have cancer comedy The Bucket List, global action franchise to be Jumper, and a few others all reminding you that you should really be seeing last week’s releases instead.

Ladies and Gentleman, this is a once in a lifetime event, a week of movies the like of which we may never see again with hardened critics graciously bestowing stars upon worthy films. Let’s not even introduce them; let’s go straight to the reviews. Feel the critical love wash over you.

After its Statue of Liberty beheading sensation of a trailer, the internet-hyped Cloverfield finally arrives. For the uninitiated, the film follows a group of young hip New Yorkers whose loft party is rudely interrupted when a big scary monster decides to munch his (her?) way through Manhattan. The big idea is that it’s all shot as if captured on one of the characters video cameras. As everyone has noted, it’s Blair Witch meets Godzilla. Anthony Quinn in the Independent gives the film 3-stars:

As we wallow in the truly miserable news that Aliens Vs Predator made more money at the box office last week than No Country for Old Men, we sigh and turn our attentions to this week’s offerings. The three biggest releases this week are all stamped with Oscar. We’ve got Johnny Depp singing in Cockney and slicing throats in Sweeney Todd, Tommy Lee Jones revealing his soul with the barest flicker of a muscle in In The Valley Of Elah and the acting masterclass that is The Savages featuring an Oscar-nominated Laura Linney.

This week, the Coens’ masterful noir No Country For Old Men, the dire AVPR (don’t ask), a spoof musical biopic Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Good Night.

No box-office devouring monsters this week but some quality produce that’s worth seeking out – mainly Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and the Romanian film, 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days. We’ve also got Hanks and Roberts in Charlie Wilson’s War and Steve Carell in Dan in Real Life.

This week, the girls of St Trinian’s, a schizoid version of Bob Dylan’s life in I’m Not There and the vile evil Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Kidman plays with her monkey in The Golden Compass, The Rock gets confused in Southland Tales, a famous person gets shot in The Killing of John Lennon and Donal MacIntyre cuddles up to some naughty people in A Very British Gangster. Ever since The Golden Compass was announced, devotees of Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy have been nervously waiting to...

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Brad Pitt’s latest (with a title so long it shouldn’t be allowed) The Assassination of Jesse James etc, the alternate realities of The Nines, Vince Vaughn slumming it in Fred Claus, the video game adaptation Hitman, Kenneth Branagh directs The Magic Flute and a re-release for the classic All About Eve. If you get annoyed with trailers that give the plot...

This week – rage causes a lot of trouble in 28 Weeks Later and the memoirs of Nelson Mandela’s prison guard are opened in Goodbye Bafana. In 28 Days Later the Rage virus spread throughout Britain leaving it full of dead people and those that had killed them. Now, in 28 Weeks Later, the US Army has come to restore order, repopulate the city of London and, during the same process, also reunite families. Among...

This week - Spiderman gets into more bother (Spiderman 3) and a film that features Avril Lavigne (Fast Food Nation).

This week - Adam Sandler's family were killed in 9/11 (Reign Over Me) and Ryan Gosling is a crack addict high school teacher (Half Nelson).

This week - The pilot light's gone out... on the sun (Sunshine) and Will Ferrell goes iceskating (Blades of Glory). Don't you hate it when the sun is going out and you have to go and reignite it? First up, Sunshine Bradshaw gives it 4/5, calling it a "beautiful-looking new space adventure". All of the reviews today are impressed with the way this film looks, It's a film with some stunning sequences and gobsmacking...

This week - The Spartans resist Persian domination (300) and Carmen Electra shoots a British porno (I Want Candy).

This week - David Lynch makes another film which makes everyone say "wha...?" (Inland Empire) and Eddie Murphy dons a fat suit and makes a racially insensitive film(Norbit).

This week - Edward Norton does magic tricks (The Illusionist) and Nicholas Cage sells his soul to the devil and replaces his usual head and motorbike with burning versions (Ghost Rider).

This week - The accompanying film to Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, the 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima as experienced by the Japanese Imperial Army. (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Jim Carrey gets obsessed with the number 23 (The Number 23).

This week - Leo dodges bullets in Sierra Leone to find a pink diamond (Blood Diamond) and Peter O'Toole flirts with someone 50 years his junior (Venus).

This week - Rocky has another bite at the boxing apple (Rocky Balboa) and Cate Blanchet gets shot in the neck and all manner of problems arise (Babel).

This week - The Mayan empire collapses (Apocalypto) and Renee Zelwegger is Beatrix Potter, (Miss Potter).

This week - Denzel Washington goes back in time (Déjà Vu) and a horrible Christmas slasher, (Black Christmas).

This week - Borat visits the USA (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) and British rom-com set on Hampstead Heath, (Scenes of a Sexual Nature). When we saw the posters for this on the tube, with five star reviews from the News of the World and the Mirror, we were ready for this to be shit. Turns out it's ok though, who'd have thought? All of the reviewers...

This week - Scorsese remakes Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (The Departed) and conjoined twins become a punk band, (Brothers of the Head)

Let's just get straight into it with Bradshaw's (1/5) review of :

This week - Filth and disgustingness (Dirty Sanchez: The Movie), a dystopian look at London 2027, (Children of Men) and the sequel to Clerks, (Clerks 2).

This week - A dysfunctional family hop in a VW van and travel across the USA to take a young daughter to a beauty pageant (Little Miss Sunshine), a British comedy with Julie Walters and Rupert Grint (Driving Lessons) and some Americans join a German beer-drinking olympics (Beerfest).

This week - Michael Douglas proves he can still run unassisted (The Sentinel), a "comedy" about a midget who masquerades as a baby (Little Man) and a Speed-like film in which a man will die unless he keeps his adreniline level above a certain, very high, level (Crank).

First up, You Me and Dupree – a trademark Owen Wilson comedy, also featuring Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson and Michael Douglas. Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian does seem to like this film more than his mere three stars might suggest, asserting that