| Nanny McPhee - movie review | | Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:26:15 PM by Alex Molin | After their mum died, Colin Firth (Cedric Brown) has given up finding any more nannies and tells this to his horrible children who managed to drive away 17 nannies already.
 In spite of his decision he is giving up and frantically trying to find a nanny for his six difficult children.
As much as Cedric wants to find the right nanny, it seems Nanny McPhee is the one found him or found a way to penetrate the family's life in a strange and frightening way.
Nanny McPhee reminds a bit Mary Poppins in her dressing manners, how ever it seems there is a big difference. Although she seems rather gentle and definitely not the cruel or dangerous type you would recognize instantly each time you turn around, she is there, waiting behind your back starling you (she will say she knocked, of course).
The film was directed by Kirk Jones. Screenplay by Emma Thompson and based on the Nurse Matilda books by Christiana Brand.
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| | | 'Flushed Away' is just good, clean fun | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:26:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | ''Flushed Away,'' the latest animation from those folks at Aardman who made the ''Wallace & Gromit'' movies, is about rats, the World Cup, the Queen and toilets, four obsessions in its country of origin, Great Britain. It's also funny. Quite. At times. A simple story, acted with as much ham as Ian McKellen, Kate Winslet, Billy Nighy and Andy Serkis can manage, ''Flushed Away'' takes us down the ''loo'' and into the sewery London underworld, which is where the real inventiveness kicks in, because the Aardman clay animators have a gift for turning the commonplace into the fanciful. .... | |
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| | | Recuperating Ebert to write occasional movie reviews | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 1:05:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Famed film critic Roger Ebert is slowly getting back to work, with his first review since he underwent surgery this summer set to appear Friday. "For 40 years, I didn't miss a single deadline, but since July, I have missed every one," he said in a letter published Thursday by his employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, and posted on his website Wednesday. Though Roger Ebert, shown in 2005, has been more interested in reading than watching movies during his recovery, after receiving a DVD screener for The Queen, starring Helen Mirren, 'I knew I wanted to review it.' (Associated Press) "An update is in order," Ebert began. In addition to revealing details about his ongoing rehabilitation and praising his doctors and medical caretakers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic said he was disappointed he missed the Telluride and Toronto film festivals this year.... | |
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| | | Calgary playwright shuns sex, violence | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:02:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | It seems theres so much raunchy sex and violence in movies, television and on the stage, that its become virtually impossible to see a production without enduring those annoying warnings about the coarse language and graphic sexual content. Besides, we all know those warnings are there not to scare viewers off, but to turn them on. Playwright Stephen Massicotte, however, is taking a different tack. The Calgary-based writer and actor is ditching the salty language and X-rated plots to tell more traditional stories that have a good heart. A lot of modern plays can be a little on the nasty side. They can be very angsty, almost traumatic, says Massicotte during rehearsals for the world premiere of his latest play, The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion, which runs until Oct.... | |
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| | | Morefield reviews movies for Christian audiences in online column | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:06:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Why did Dr. Kenneth Morefield give a thumbs-up to the foreign film, Requiem, based on the life of the same individual who was the subject of The Exorcism of Emily Rose; but wasnt all that charitable to Left Behind? An assistant professor of English at Campbell University, Morefield reviews newly-released films in a monthly column for the online literary journal, The Matthews House Project. He not only screens movies for Christian viewers, but analyzes their content as well. Left Behind, the movie based on the bestselling fiction novel by authors Tim LeHaye and Jerry Jenkins, was an exciting film but lacked depth and character development, Morefield said. Im interested in talking about films in terms of theme and substance, rather than how many swear words a movie contains.... | |
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| | | CBn Reviews 'Tomorrow Never Dies' | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:03:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Over the last several months, members of the CBn Forum have been reviewing all the James Bond 007 films in the "Countdown Threads". If you wish to join in on the forum discussion all you have to do is register. Now here are some selected reviews, varying in opinion, of the eighteenth official James Bond film: Tomorrow Never Dies… 'Tomorrow Never Dies' by Double-Oh Agent Tomorrow Never Dies and neither does James Bond in this action-packed film—the most action-packed film of the series. But as troubled a production as this was (constant re-writes that often went clear to the last moment before filming a scene), it is amazing that Roger Spottiswoode and company were able to make such a good film. The bad: Possibly too much action. I don't mind it, but it probably could have had a bit more story added to it.... | |
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| | | Video reviews: Laughs not along for the ride in 'RV' | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 7:08:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Remember those Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road movies of the '40s, where the operative word was goofy? That approach doesn't work nearly so well in RV, a mediocre comedy starring Robin Williams as a harried soda company executive who rents an RV and takes his family on a cross-country drive from California to Colorado. Things start on a decidedly sour note: Mom and the kids are expecting to go to Hawaii. Now Dad wants to have some "quality time." What they don't know is that Dad is being dispatched to Boulder to win over the owners of a small soft drink company. While the rest of the family is asleep, he works on his presentation in RV park restrooms. What could go wrong? Well, there's the family of raccoons living in the RV oven. There's the annoying family of fellow RV travelers (Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth) that keeps showing up.... | |
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| | | School days: Book reviews by Joyce Deming | | Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:07:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's hard to believe school will be starting up again this month. Didn't Labor Day used to signal the official start of the new school year? Well, whenever it starts, here are a few books to put you in a back-to-school mood. Books about British schoolmasters seem to be perennial favorites. Two titles come immediately to mind: Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton and To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield. Both are touching accounts of the positive influence each teacher had on several generations of students. Goodbye, Mr. Chips was the inspiration for the movies "Dead Poets Society" and "Mr. Holland's Opus." Don't forget To Sir With Love, E.R. Braithwaite's memoir of his experiences teaching in the London slums of the 1950s. You may have seen the movie with Sidney Poitier, but the book is even better.... | |
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| | | Historybased Movies To Premiere At Venice Film Festival | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:06:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | Movies based on historical events will take front and center at this year's Venice Film Festival -- and the stars that appear in them will be on hand for the screenings, festival officials indicated today (Thursday). Nicolas Cage will attend the premiere of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. Sharon Stone will appear for the screening of Bobby, a film about the hours leading up to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. Scarlett Johansson will fly in for the festival's opening film, Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia, about the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short. And Helen Mirren is due to arrive in Venice for the screening of The Queen, in which she portrays Queen Elizabeth II during the days following the death of Princess Diana. 27/07/2006 .... | |
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| | | Road House | | Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:11:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | Mike Nelson, in his fantastic book of reviews of awful movies (Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese), calls Road House "the single finest American film. Certainly it stinks, but I believe the filmmakers meant it to, and succeeded grandly." Road House also made its way into Bad Movies We Love, Edward Marguiles and Stephen Rebello's fine rundown of the worst movies ever made. As a movie lover, I feel it's important to see the clunkers so I can appreciate the classic stuff. Part of me felt incomplete for not seeing Rowdy Herrington's 1989 anti-classic. When the time came to review it — so that watching the movie felt somewhat legitimate — I jumped at the chance. The verdict: In terms of sheer awfulness, I think 13th Child, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, and House of the Dead beat it.... | |
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| | | THE REVIEWS ARE IN FOR MICROFILMS | | Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 7:01:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | Microfilmmakers often make their low-budget movies on the side, when they're not working day jobs. The people behind Microfilmmaker magazine can empathize. Assistant editor Kari Ann Morgan works on the online magazine when she's not busy at a Curnow Music Press, a school-concert music publisher. Her husband, Jeremy Hanke, the magazine's editor-in-chief, works at a bank. While it might seem a little odd to find a film publication sharing desk space with a music publisher in Nicholasville (Morgan emphasizes she doesn't work on Microfilmmaker magazine on company time), it might be more appropriate than a slick suite in Manhattan or Beverly Hills. Microfilmmaker was launched in October as an online resource for people making movies for $50,000 or less, many of whom max out credit cards and take out second mortgages to make their dreams of auteur-ship come true.... | |
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