From director Steven Spielberg comes “War Horse,” an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land.
The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. “War Horse” is one of the great stories of friendship and war— a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.
This is the third movie from the chipmunks. Always fun for the kids, this comes at a good time during the holiday season.
On vacation aboard a luxury cruise ship, Alvin, Simon, Theodore and the Chipettes are up to their usual antics, turning the ship into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a desert island. As Dave Seville frantically searches for his AWOL charges, the 'Munks and Chipettes do what they do best – sing, dance and wreak havoc. But they're in for a surprise when they embark on an island adventure with their new friend – a castaway who's more than a match for Alvin and the Chipmunks.
The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.
This is David Fincher's version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" based on the novel by Stieg Larsson.
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
We Bought A Zoo is a funny, inspiring and true story about the magical power of family to persevere in face of extraordinary challenges. When Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home—a dilapidated zoo where more than 200 exotic animals would be their new neighbors—his friends and colleagues thought he was crazy. Mee’s dream was to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. The grand reopening was scheduled for spring, but there was much work to be done and none of it easy for the novice zookeepers. Tigers broke loose, money was tight, the staff grew skeptical, and family tensions reached a boiling point.
Then tragedy struck. Katherine (Scarlett Johansson) Ben’s wife, had a recurrence of a brain tumor, forcing Benjamin and his two young children to face the heartbreak of illness and the devastating loss of a wife and mother. But inspired by the memory of Katherine and the healing power of the incredible family of animals they had grown to love; Benjamin and his kids resolved to move forward, and today the zoo is a thriving success.
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
Around the globe, headlines break the news: a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon; a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose; bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna; the death of an American steel magnate… No one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random connective thread between these seemingly random events—no one, that is, except the great Sherlock Holmes, who has discerned a deliberate web of death and destruction. At its center sits a singularly sinister spider: Moriarty.
Holmes' investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany and finally Switzerland.
But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead, and moving perilously close to completing his ominous plan. If he succeeds, it will not only bring him immense wealth and power but alter the course of history.
Filmmaker Guy Ritchie returned to direct “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” the follow-up to the smash hit “Sherlock Holmes". The sequel also reunited producers Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram reunited producers Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. Bruce Berman and Steve Clark-Hall served as executive producers.
In her first English-speaking role, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, who gained international attention in the Swedish film “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” plays a mysterious Gypsy named Sim, who becomes allied with Holmes and Watson in their quest to stop Moriarty. Jared Harris (TV's “Mad Men,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) joins the cast as the notorious Professor Moriarty. Stephen Fry (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) plays Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's decidedly eccentric older brother.
Returning from the first film, the cast also includes Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler; Kelly Reilly as Watson's bride, Mary Morstan; Eddie Marsan as Watson's bride, Mary Morstan; Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade; and Geraldine James as Holmes's long-suffering landlady, Mrs. Hudson.
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” was written by Michele Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and appear in stories and novels by him.
Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt who is disavowed with the rest of the agency after the bombing of Kremlin. He is blamed for the bombing and therefore the President activates "Ghost Protocol". However, Hunt and his members are allowed to clear their names. Thus begins their chase from Russia to Mumbai to San Francisco.
The movie includes high speed chases, bombings and andrenalin-pumping actions that will make you be at the edge of your seat. Bollywood star Anil Kapoor joins the cast as a rich businessman who buys a defunct Soviet military satellite from Kurt Hendricks, the person the agency is trying to track down.
There are so many big names in this film. Academy Award winner, Halle Berry and Robert De Niro, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Academy Award nominee, Abigail Breslin and Michelle Pfieffer and other make this an ensemble of sort.
There are 8 short stories, one of them Michelle Pfieffer plays Ingrid who quits her secretary job to fulfill her lifetime dream. Then we have Robert De Niro as a patient on his death bed persuading his doctor (Cary Elwes) and his nurse (Halle Berry) to let him see the countdown from the rooftop of the hospital. Jessica Biel and Seth Meyers play a couple who are expecting their child, and are in competition with another couple played by Sarah Paulson and Til Schweiger to produce the first New Year's baby to walk away with 25 thousand, engaging the help of Carla Gugino's spiritual doctor. Leaving the hospital and into the hottest party in town, there's food caterer Laura (Katherine Heigl) who has to contend with rock star Jensen (Jon Bon Jovi) who is trying his utmost to win her back after walking out on her a year ago.
With so many stars and stories, you can bet you will get yourself entertained with the celebration of love, forgiveness, second chances and starting over again.
Filmed in Oahu, Hawaii, this film stars George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller. Clooney is Hawaiian land baron Matt King whose wife met with a boating accident and is now in a coma. This workaholic of a man now has his life in disarray not only because of his wife's condition but also he discovers that his wife is having an affair before the accident.
He also has to deal with his daughters Scotti (Miller) who is 10 years old and teenager Alexandra (Woodley) who are both rebellious and hard to talk to.
As a family man, Clooney gives a superb performance showing his vulnerability, strength, anguish and anger.
This film is not the typical I-have-to-connect-with-my-family but instead it throws in different perspective that makes a drama. Director Alexander Payne has done an great job in making this film a must see.
British artist, Steve McQueen, directs this film about Brandon (Michael Fassbender) who is a sex addict. Outwardly charming and confident, Brandon is soon exposed as a casualty of a bull-market culture where sex has been traded so heavily, so easily and in so many exotic flavours that the consumer has gorged himself sick.
Then his sister, Sissy (Carey Mulligan) moves in with him and had a stand with Brandon's boss, Dave (James Badge Dale). Sissy is a club singer and is in the same bad club as his brother.
This show is provocative, sensual, something which tugs at your emotion.
Martin Scorsese directs Hugo and it's available in 3D. This movie got raving reviews from reviewers at IMDb and Roger Ebert himself.
Hugo (Asa Butterfield) is a boy who lives at a Paris train station after his father passed away. His father (Jude Law) was a clock maintenance guy in this train station. After his death, his uncle (Ray Winstone) made him work there. Abandoned by his uncle to live – literally – inside a gigantic clock beneath an ominously large pendulum, Hugo steals in order to survive, which brings him into conflict with one of the station’s stallholders, bad-tempered toymaker Georges (Ben Kingsley), though Hugo manages to make friends with Georges’ orphaned niece (Chloe Grace Moretz).
Hugo now wants to finish his father's work of a robot-like mechanism. Together, he and Chloe go through his father's notes and also her library to get it done.
This movie with is a must watch as it mixes brilliance, happiness, somberness and nostalgia under one roof.
If a theme has been played again and again in more movies than you can count, then it's overplayed and the movie will be not entertaining. This is what happens in Arthur Christmas where it's about Santa who has to deliver presents at super sonic speed to kids all over the world. This CGI suggests that Santa has lots of elves on a military plane commandered by his elder son Steve. His younger brother Arthur, however, is kept in the mailroom as he tends to be not much of an organiser.
So, it happens that all kids must get their presents on Christmas eve except for this particular day where a girl has been missed out. Then it's up to Arthur, his grandfather and an elve to show that Santa cares.
I think this is a great story only if you don't tire of santa and his elves.
The Muppets opened in the theatres at $29.5m and currently standing at number 2 in the movies' list. (IMdB Chart: Top Movies). It stars Kermit the Frog, Gonzo the Great, Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Animal. Now, they have disbanded for many years each living their own lives. Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, Fozzie performs with a tribute band called The Moopets , Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab.
Their fans, Walter, his brother, Gary and Gary's girlfriend finds out that an oilman Tex Richman is going to tear down the Muppet Theatre. Walter being a very avid Muppets fan wants to stop Tex's plan. He comes out with a plan for the muppets to come together again to perform in order to raise funds to buy back the theatre. Hence, Kermit the Frog is sought with this goal in mind.
This is a very entertaining show as those who had seen the muppets on television ages ago will relive the entertainment each muppet brings to him or her. Their singing and dancing make you want to join along.
So, what are you waiting for? Head for the nearest theatre!
After Trespass, Nicholas Cage yet again star in this thriller about his wife who has been assaulted and he is seeking to get the bad guy. Cage plays Nick Gerard, a school teacher and a loving husband to Laura (January Jones). In the hospital after the attack, Nick is approached by Simon (Guy Pearce) who will deal with the perpetrator in a way that the justice system can't. In return, Nick has to help Simon's group back.
So, Nick now learns that the group actually dispenses their own kind of justice as the authorities are too busy doing the nitty gritty. Will Nick be satistifed with the work he has to do for the vigilante group?
Happy Feet returns with the son of Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood), Erik (voiced by Ava Acres having problems with dancing. See, Mumble is also the Master of Tap. So, Erik ran away and met The Mighty Sven (voiced by Hank Azaria), a penguin which flies. Son naturally prefers the penguin that can fly to his dancing father. All the other penguins are looking up to The Mighty Sven as he is persuasive talkative nature.
Robin Williams voiced hippy penguin Ramon, who now takes a backseat to just trying his best to romance fellow penguin Carmen (Sofia Vergara). There's also Brad Pitt and Matt Damon voice overs for Krills, Will and Bill respectively. They provide good jokes for the show besides the dancing and singing from those Happy Feet.
Harry Potter has done it, now the Twilight Saga is following suit. This is the first part of a 2-parter which will see the end of the Twilight Saga franchise.
Edward and Bella, played Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, have decided to get married. Bella has made her decision. She will go into the bridal ceremony, one that she has kept off for so long.
The wedding reaches a fever pitch of romance when Jacob (Taylor Lautner) shows up secretly at the ceremony and he and Edward have one of their burning-eyed confrontations on the subject of Bella's wellbeing. But the bride and groom head off happily enough for their honeymoon, in what appears to be a luxury hotel bungalow near Rio. Then, incredibly, the angstiness continues. The couple appear not to have considered the matters of condoms and birth control. Soon Bella is pregnant with a baby girl, and inevitably this brings Jacob and Edward closer together. Bella sweetly says she'll mix their moms' names to call her Renesmee. But Jacobward is the real story here.
Jacobward gets more and more stressed as the demi-vampire inside Bella grows at an alarming rate. Bella gets thin and gaunt. Then the wolf pack decide this vampire child is an intolerable future threat.
Fundamentally, this Twilight movie is yet another fantastically trying drama on the now very boring subject of wolves versus vampires and the consequent crisis of identity.
There are many great battles scenes in this movie. King Hyperion (Mickey Rouke) is on a vengeance trail to destroy the Gods of Olympus and the mortals. This he aims to achieve by freeing the Titans so as to unleash their power and destroy those mighty Gods. So on his quest to do that, he and his army battles villages after villages.
It seems like nobody can stop them until a stone mason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) stands up to the King for having killed his mother. Thesus has actually been chosen by Zeus to stop King Hyperion and at the same time prevent the battle of the Titans again.
Adam Sandler plays Jack Sadelstein and Jill Sadelstein in this comedy. Adam is a well-known comedian and he has given us much laughter. However, to act as his own sister and to fake his voice 2 pitches higher will make watching this movie a bit annoying. Just like how annoying his sister is who decides to visit him during the Thanksgiving holidays. Adam tries to entertain his sister as best as he could. Some witty remarks, sexist as well as racist jokes thrown in to make this show funny. And later who tries to court Jill, none other than Al Pacino who plays himself!
11.11.11 gets all the hype because this date happens once in a century and the producer must have concocted the story based on the catching date itself. It started with famous US author Joseph Crone (Timothy Gibbs) losing his wife and child. Soon he discovers that strange events always occur at 11:11 a.m./ p.m. Later he receives a call from his pastor brother Samuel (Michael Landes) that their father is dying. and he flies to Barcelona, Spain to be reunited with his brother and father.
As the day of 11-11-11 approaches, events get weirder and weirder until the finale where a huge revealing twist is attempted but comes off looking incredibly incredulous.
See this show just to say you have watched 11.11.11 on 11.11.11.
Oscar winning producer, Peter Jackson, grew up with Tintin. He reads all its comic books. Enter Steven Spielberg another Oscar winning producer and together they directed and produced this French origin comic into a 3D movie.
Tintin (voice by Jamie Bell) buys a handmade ship in the market. As soon as he buys it he gets a number of offers from people willing to buy it from him, which Tintin rejects. When he gets home his dog, Snowy, breaks the ship and a hidden clue rolls out, which prompts Tintin to work out what it means. Tintin then gets kidnapped by the evil Ivanovich Sakharine (Daniel Craig), who is after the clue. This is where Tintin meets up with Captain Haddock as they try to work out the meaning of the clue.
