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This drama stars Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen and Jude Law. Not a shabby cast, is it? We’ve updated the movie’s quotes section - and we’ve added the following photos to our site. Click on any now for a larger version…
As we get closer and closer to the May release date of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, questions about the film are buzzing.
And Entertainment Weekly is doing its best to answer a few of them. In a recent feature, the magazine responds to a few rumors, such as…
Are the Crystal Skulls alien artifacts?
Like the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Sankara Stones in Temple of Doom, the skulls (there’s likely more than one, despite the singular in the title) are the supernatural MacGuffins — the powerful thingies that everybody’s chasing. (Some think the Ark will turn up again too.)
From what little the filmmakers have spilled, the skulls sound otherworldly in origin, while fan speculation has it that those who covet them believe they grant psychic powers.
Read through other Indiana Jones questions now.
Article by Jessica Goebel
Remember that story we ran a few weeks back revealing the title of director Michel Gondry’s next flick? Well, due to communication difficulties with the French filmmaker, we must now make a minor retraction.
“It’s funny because I tell you the title, but then because of my accent it’s all over the Net with the wrong title!” the occasionally English-challenged director laughed. “It’s called ‘The Return of the Ice Kids.’ But if you say ‘Ice Kings,’ that’s cool too, I guess.”
Proving there are no hard feelings, the auteur shared with us a favorite scene from his original script of “Return of the Ice Kids,” which centers on teens who invent a kind of water that makes people hear music while drinking it. In one sequence, a teenage character describes his most embarrassing moment: “He talks about one day when he was at an exam and he made some weird noise with his mouth that sounded like a fart, and everybody noticed — so he kept making weird noises to cover up his nerves,” Gondry revealed. “But then it looked like he was covering up a fart.”
“This happened to me when I went to high school,” he blushed.
Elaborating on the movie’s themes, Gondry explained, “The kids are talking about completely unimportant matters, but at the same time they are writing a book of peace.” Along with conflict, he added that the film will feature some “completely utopian scenes.”
Complex concepts, and broken English to boot? While he’s one of our very favorite filmmakers, perhaps now you’re beginning to understand why it’s so hard to keep Michel’s statements straight.
Regardless, anything that this guy says is worth listening to closely. And these tantalizing details continue to indicate that his forthcoming project will be just as fascinatingly fun as Gondry’s past credits, which he told us were “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Nine” and “The Science of Sleet.”
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Nominated for Best Picture in 2007, Atonement also received rave reviews for the performances of its stars, James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.
What, exactly, did critics have to say about the film, which is being released on DVD on March 18, 2008? Let’s take a look…
- Epic and occasionally heartbreaking but never as powerful or cohesive as it ought to be. — Las Vegas Weekly
- The film is gorgeous to look at, well paced (especially during the first half), and by turns touching and sad. The ending packs an emotional punch, which is what one would expect from any movie developed from a McEwan novel. — Reel Views
- No sophomore slump for British punk wunderkind director Joe Wright…If anything, Atonement is even better, the tragedy of the story intensifying the romance, the novel’s unique structure providing an uncommon literary twist. — Reeling Reviews
- The movie never goes as deep as the novel (no movie could), but it’s a worthy approximation: a Merchant-Ivory movie that turns in on itself with a lucid and painful sigh. — Boston Globe
We’re embarrassed to have taken so long to do the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski justice.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy the 14 photos and 74 quotes we have for this amazing cult classic. Check out a sample of the photos we’ve added:
And that’s right, we put up a picture of the rug from The Big Lebowski. What can we say? We just felt the rug really tied the movie together.
While 300 is not a new movie, it is still one of the most popular movies still on Reel Movie News.
We decided to bring all those dedicated 300 fans who keep checking out our site some more quotes and photos from their favorite movie. Relive the battle of these brave 300 Spartans.
Check out the following sample of new pictures:
It would be an understatement to say that 10,000 B.C. has been panned by movie critics.
But it would also be an understatement to say the film isn’t raking in dough at the box office. Here’s a breakdown of just what reviewers are saying about it:
- In the realm of heroic historical loincloth adventures, 10,000 is much less than 300. — Minneapolis Star Tribune
- An atrocious waste of a perfectly good CGI budget … at least the Geico commercials make an effort to get the historical accuracy right. — ComingSoon.net
- The kind of movie that people will discover new and hilarious ways to mock for years to come. — Mark Reviews Movies
- [I] saith to you that I had a strangely good time, and whether that is from laughing at 10,000 B.C. or laughing with it I knoweth not, although I strongly suspect the former. — Boston Globe
Paul Haggis is an Oscar-winning screen writer that has penned Casino Royale, the upcoming Quantum of Solace and the 2005 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Crash.
It’s quite the resume.
Despite those credentials, though, Marc Foster will be behind the camera for Quantum of Solace. Haggis says that he ruled himself out of the running before his name could be thrown into the mix:
“Look what Martin [Campbell] did with Casino Royale, he shot for 120 days, it’s so difficult to do something like that and I’m not sure that I’m up for that Herculean feat. When I’ve made four or five films I’d like to do a Bond film, or something like that.”
For now, Haggis certainly isn’t complaining about writing for 007: “I love writing Bond, it’s fun. I get to be part of a team, who are re-exploring the classic character, reinventing something that I loved when I was young.”
Chris Pine is starring as Captain James T. Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek movie. But the actor recently told IGN that he won’t be modeling his character on the one made famous by William Shatner.
Pine will, however, use a different, well-known character as inspiration. We’ll allow him to explain:
“I would definitely say Harrison Ford in either Indiana Jones or Star Wars. What Harrison Ford is so great at doing is bringing that quality to his characters that if they could be anywhere else in the world they would be there, but he is not, he just is in the middle of s*** and he has to figure out a way of dealing with it so that he can go back to doing whatever the hell he was doing before the film started.
“I’ve always loved that quality about him in Star Wars, this sense of absolute grumpy manner; the accidental hero. Not to say that I modeled my version of James T Kirk on anything in particular but I think I definitely have wanted to bring that kind of Harrison Ford humour to Kirk.”
Sounds like a safe bet to say that Pine will be closely watching Ford and his alter-ego in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this May. As will we all.
Not only is a fifth edition of the Saw franchise in the works, but Lionsgate has already set a release date for this horror movie: October 24.
In other news related to the film, Mark Rolston (who appeared in The Shawshank Redemption and The Departed) has joined the cast of Saw V, which begins filming in Toronto on March 17.
Yes, we know this is a poster for Saw IV. But the one for Saw V isn’t out yet, even though that movie is definitely in the works now.