Archive for November, 2008

Confessions of an Shopaholic

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping – a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can’t quite get her foot in the door – until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future
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Revolutionary Road

This movie is a first reunion of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio since Titanic. Revolutionary Road is a romantic drama movie adapted from the revealing novel by Richard Yates. The story is about an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (Kate Winslet) Wheeler. Yates’ story of 1950’s America poses a question that has been reverberating through modern relationships ever since: can two people break away from the ordinary without breaking apart? [...] »

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Bride Wars

Bride Wars is a comedy movie starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson. They play as two best friends who are pitted against each other when their wedding dates clash. They compete for venues, services and guests, once it’s clear that neither will step aside. [...] »

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Notorious

This movie is based on biography of the famous rapper Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. In just a few short years, The Notorious B.I.G. rose from the streets of Brooklyn to become one of the most influential hip hop artists of all time. B.I.G. was a gifted storyteller; his narratives about violent life on the streets were told with a gritty, objective realism that won him enormous respect and credibility. His stories were universal and gave a voice to his generation.
The film stars multiple award winner Angela Bassett as Christopher’s mother Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Combs, Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur and introducing Jamal Woolard as The Notorious B.I.G. [...] »

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Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

One more movie from Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail. This comedy movie centers on Madea (Perry), whose penchant for trouble-making lands her behind bars. She comes to the rescue of Candy (Pulliam), a fellow inmate preyed upon by a large woman named Big Sal. [...] »

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Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories is an adventure comedy movie starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman. His life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it’s the kids’ unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter’s life upside down. [...] »

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Soul Men

Soul Men is a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac. They will play two former backup soul singers who are part of a famed group. They haven’t spoken to each other in 20 years but reluctantly agree to travel together for a tribute performance in honor of their recently deceased band leader. [...] »

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Nothing Like the Holidays

Nothing like the holidays is a Christmas theme movie about a family reunion during the holidays in the Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park. Alfred Molina plays as a father who owns a bodega, and Hernandez plays a friend of the family who works there. Diaz is a former lover of Rodriguez’s character and friends with the clan’s daughter (Ferlito). Ruehl is the matriarch. [...] »

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Four Christmases

When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation–and unable to escape–they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised, adolescent wounds reopened… and their very future together uncertain. As Brad counts the hours to when he can get away from their parents, step-parents, siblings and an assortment of nieces and nephews, Kate is starting to hear the ticking of a different kind of clock. And by the end of the day, she is beginning to wonder if their crazy families’ choices are not so crazy after all. [...] »

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The International

The plot centers on an obsessive Interpol agent (Owen) who spearheads an investigation into one of the world’s most high-profile and powerful banking institutions in an attempt to expose them for worldwide arms brokering, corruption and murder. Watts will play a Manhattan assistant district attorney who partners with the agent to take down the bank. [...] »

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The Soloist

The Soloist is a drama movie starring academy award winner Jammie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The story is about a journalist named Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) who found Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. He tried his best to help the homeless man find his way back. [...] »

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Milk

Sean Penn stars in a movie about California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. This movie is base on the true story of Harvey Milk himself. He is a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. [...] »

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Friday the 13th

This is the remake of the famous slasher movie, Friday the 13th. The story is once again about Jason Voorhees. A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake. They encounter Jason and they have to face him, and once again terror begin. [...] »

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