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No Country For Old Men Is Best Picture Of The Year

2008-02-24T21:07:00.000-08:00

No Country for Old Men won four of it's eight Academy Awards nominations. Javier Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; the Coen Brothers won Achievement in Directing (Best Director) and Best Adapted Screenplay, and the film won Best Picture.

The Academy Award-winning 2007 film, No Country for Old Men, was written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It was produced by Scott Rudin, Joel and Ethan Coen and stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

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Adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.

Llewellyn Moss, played by Josh Brolin, comes upon a corpse-strewn drug-deal-gone-wrong in the middle of the barren West Texas range. He takes the bag of cash he finds at the scene and soon draws the attention of the county sheriff investigating the crime. Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) will become Llewellyn's best hope for survival, however, when he finds himself the object of a relentless pursuit by hired killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a murderous sociopath.
Critical review The film has been highly praised by critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "as good a film as the Coen brothers…have ever made."

A Guardian journalist said the film proved "that the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors."

The film was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and won two at the 65th Golden Globe Awards. Javier Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and the Coen Brothers won Best Screenplay – Motion Picture. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and Best Director (Coen Brothers).

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Screen Actors Guild gave a nomination nod to the cast for its "Outstanding Performance".

The film won top honors on January 26, 2008 at the Directors Guild of America Awards for Joel and Ethan Coen.

Other awards include: Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA's) in 2008; Best Director - Joel Coen/Ethan Coen; Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem.won best film in the 2008 academy awards.

80th Academy Awards and Nominations

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - won
Achievement in Cinematography
Achievement in Directing - won
Achievement in Film Editing
Best Motion Picture of the Year - won
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Adapted Screenplay - won

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2008-02-24T17:01:00.000-08:00

The 2007 Academy Award nominated Western drama film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, is an adaptation of the Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik. It stars Brad Pitt playing Jesse James and Casey Affleck as Robert Ford.
The film received two Academy Award nominations for the 80th Academy Awards.

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The Assasination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

The film tells the story of Robert Ford, a cowardly, insecure man who has grown up idolizing the outlaw Jesse James. With his exploits already immortalized in popular dime novels, the outlaw Jesse James has come to represent a romanticized vision of the renegade spirit of the West when he first meets nineteen-year-old Robert Ford. The younger brother of one of the members of James's gang, Ford harbors an obsessive idolatry toward James that will take a deadly turn as their relationship progresses.

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Academy Awards Nominations

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role -Casey Afleck
Achievement in Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was named by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as one of the top ten films of 2007. Casey Affleck was also awarded the Best Supporting actor in the film.

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle called The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as the Best Picture of 2007 and went on to award actor Casey Affleck best supporting actor for the film.

Casey Affleck was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for the 65th Golden Globe Awards

American Gangster

2008-02-24T15:43:00.000-08:00

The Academy Award nominated 2007 crime film, American Gangster , was written by Steve Zaillian and directed by Ridley Scott. The movie stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington plays Frank Lucas, a real-life drug kingpin from Harlem who smuggled heroin into the US on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War. Richie Roberts, a New York City detective played by Crowe, attempts to bring down the Lucas' drug empire. Filming was done on location in New York City.

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Movie Plot

Ambitious Harlem drug dealer, Frank Lucas, climbs to the pinnacle of the criminal underworld with a scheme to smuggle heroin directly from Thailand to the streets of New York City; a plan made easier by the extensive corruption within the city's police department. Threatening his operation, however, is Richie Roberts, a pugnacious cop unafraid to take on both Lucas and his own dishonest colleagues.

Academy Awards Nominations

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Ruby Dee
Achievement in Art Direction

In its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, American Gangster grossed $43,565,115, placing first in the weekend box office. Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo reported that the film is the first crime saga to gross over $30 million its opening weekend and the film also had the best opening weekend for Denzel Washington as well as Russell Crowe. As of January 31, 2008, American Gangster is estimated to have grossed $130,164,645 in the United States and $114,842,654 in other territories for a worldwide total of $245,007,299.The film inspired the rapper Jay-Z to create a concept album, also titled American Gangster. Jay-Z had been shown the film at an early screening, which had a great impact on him.

Across The Universe

2008-02-23T17:42:00.000-08:00

The 2007 Academy Award-nominated musical film, Across the Universe, was directed by Julie Taymor and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
The story is set against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s where an American girl,Lucy, falls in love with a young Englishman,Jude, who has moved to the U.S. The lives of Lucy and Jude and their circle of friends are reshaped by a decade marked by social rebellion and the Vietnam War. The script is based on an original story credited to Taymor, Clement and La Frenais that incorporates 34 compositions written by members of The Beatles. The film stars Jim Sturgess,
Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio

Cameos appearances by:

Bono as Dr. Robert
Eddie Izzard as Mr. Kite
Salma Hayek as Singing Nurses
Joe Cocker as Bum/Pimp/Mad Hippie

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80th Academy Award Nominations

Achievement in Costume Design - Albert Wolsky

All Beatles songs were written between 1963 and 1970 by the members of The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) and recorded by The Beatles. Thirty of them are compositions that are officially credited to the songwriting partnership of Lennon-McCartney. Three are credited to George Harrison. One title ("Flying") is a 1967 composition credited to all four members of the Beatles (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey).

Listing of the thirty-four compositions written by members of The Beatles that are heard on the soundtrack, in the order featured in the film. Plus three compositions that are heard twice in the course of the film, forming a total of thirty-seven individual music cues.

"Girl" Performed by Jim Sturgess
"Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (brief extract over film montage - presaging later sequences in the film) Longer version performed later in film.
"Hold Me Tight" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood and Lisa Hogg
"All My Loving" Performed by Jim Sturgess
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" Performed by T.V. Carpio
"With a Little Help from My Friends" Performed by Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess and "Dorm Buddies"
"It Won't Be Long" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood and "Students"
"I've Just Seen a Face" Performed by Jim Sturgess
"Let It Be" Performed by Carol Woods, Timothy T. Mitchum and church choir
"Come Together" Performed by Joe Cocker with Martin Luther McCoy performing the final verse
"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Performed by Dana Fuchs
"If I Fell" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Performed by Joe Anderson, "Soldiers", Dana Fuchs and T.V. Carpio
"Dear Prudence" Performed by Dana Fuchs, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood and Joe Anderson
"Flying" Instrumental - brief extract performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)
"Blue Jay Way" brief extract performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)
"I Am the Walrus" Performed by Bono (accompanied by the Secret Machines - not seen on-screen)
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Performed by Eddie Izzard
"Because" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T. V. Carpio and Martin Luther McCoy
"Something" Performed by Jim Sturgess
"Oh! Darling" Performed by Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy
"Strawberry Fields Forever" Performed by Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson
"Revolution" Performed by Jim Sturgess
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Performed by Martin Luther McCoy (joined by Jim Sturgess for one verse and coda)
"Across the Universe" Performed by Jim Sturgess (the performance of this song is interwoven with the next song Helter Skelter)
"Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (the performance of this song is interwoven with the preceding song Across the Universe)
"And I Love Her" (brief extract incorporated into the orchestral score during the 'Across the Universe/Helter Skelter sequence)
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Performed by Joe Anderson, "Patients" and Salma Hayek
"Revolution" Brief extract performed by Evan Rachel Wood
"A Day in the Life" Performed by Jeff Beck (instrumental version of the song recorded in 1998 for George Martin's In My Life album)
"Blackbird" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood
"Hey Jude" Performed by Joe Anderson (joined by Angela Mounsey for one verse)
"Don't Let Me Down" Performed by Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy
"All You Need is Love" Performed by Jim Sturgess, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio and Martin Luther McCoy
"She Loves You" Performed by Joe Anderson (chorus sung during the last part of the "All You Need Is Love" sequence) (see note below)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Performed by Bono (with backing vocals by The Edge), played over the beginning of the end credit sequence (performance not seen on-screen)
"Flying" Instrumental - extended version performed by The Secret Machines played over the latter portion of the end credit sequence (performers not seen on-screen)

There Will Be Blood

2008-02-23T12:10:00.003-08:00

There Will Be Blood is nominated for eight Academy awards including Best Actor,Best Director and Best Picture. The Oscars will air on ABC on February 24,2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET

There Will Be Blood, is a 2007 film directed, written, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (1927), and tells the story of Daniel Plainview's quest for power in Southern California's oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis,Paul Dano and Dillon Freasier.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Daniel Day-Lewis
Achievement in Art Direction - (Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson)
Achievement in Cinematography - (Robert Elswit)
Achievement in Directing - (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Achievement in Film Editing - (Dylan Tichenor)
Best Motion Picture of the Year - (Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, & P.T. Anderson)
Achievement in Sound Editing - (Matthew Wood)
Adapted Screenplay - (Paul Thomas Anderson)

"There Will Be Blood" received significant critical praise and numerous award nominations and wins. It appeared on many critics' "top ten" lists for the year,taking the number one position on more than twenty of lists including the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Daniel Day-Lewis has won many Best Actor Awards for his performance including a BAFTA, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors' Guild.

No Country for Old Men

2008-02-23T12:10:00.001-08:00

No Country for Old Men received eight Academy Award nominations. The Oscars will be held on February 24, 2008 on ABC - 5pm PT/8pm ET

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Adapted from the well-received Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - (Javier Bardem)
Achievement in Cinematography - (Roger Deakins)
Achievement in Directing - (Coen Brothers)
Achievement in Film Editing - (Roderick Jaynes)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Adapted Screenplay - (Coen Brothers)

The film has been highly praised by critics.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "as good a film as the Coen brothers…have ever made."

A Guardian journalist said the film proved "that the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors."

No Country for Old Men won Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Screenplay.

Michael Clayton

2008-02-23T12:09:00.001-08:00

The Academy Awards
February 24, 2008 - 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC

Michael Clayton receives seven Academy award nominations.
The film is a dramatic law thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy and co-produced by George Clooney. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton, played by Clooney, to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and corruption within a major client of his law firm. It also stars Tom Wilkinson,Tilda Swinton.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - (George Clooney)
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - (Tom Wilkinson)
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - (Tilda Swinton)
Achievement in Directing - (Tony Gilroy)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) - (James Newton Howard)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Original Screenplay - (Tony Gilroy)

Critical Reviews

The film received favorable reviews from critics. As of January 5, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 171 reviews.

Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 82 out of 100, based on 36 reviews.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it an 'A' saying that it was "better than good, it just about restores your faith."

Roger Ebert gave it a 4-star review and Richard Roeper named it the 'best film of the year.'

It was Richard Schickel's top film of 2007, who called it “a morally alert, persuasively realistic and increasingly suspenseful melodrama, impeccably acted and handsomely staged by Tony Gilroy."

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007 reaching number one on the following:

1st - Claudia Puig, USA Today
1st - Richard Roeper At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper
1st - Richard Schickel, TIME magazine

Juno

2008-02-23T12:08:00.000-08:00

The film, Juno, has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews as well as making many the top ten on many of the critics lists. It has received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The Oscars will be held on February 24,2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC

Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the main character. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman also star. Juno is a sharp-tongued teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy.When the smart, outspoken sixteen-year-old, finds herself pregnant, she decides to give the baby up for adoption. As her pregnancy progresses, she spends time with the baby's prospective adoptive parents, Mark and Vanessa Loring. But her growing bond with Mark begins to take a turn that could throw everyone's plans into chaos.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Ellen Page
Achievement in Directing - Jason Reitman
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Original Screenplay - Diablo Cody

Screenwriter Diablo Cody says any similarities to Korean film "Jenny,Juno" is merely cosmic coincidence in her blog:

"Unbeknownst to me, we had another spiritual cousin out there, a Korean movie called "Jenny, Juno", This time, the cousinry goes one step further and the movie is about – seriously – a pregnant teenager and her cute, sweet boyfriend. (The guy character is named Juno, not the girl.) There's no adoption subplot and apparently the film is otherwise dissimilar to mine, but how f--ked up is that? I bring this up because a journalist drilled me about it recently – awkward! – and also because I saw someone on our IMDb board wondering if Juno was a remake of the K-flick. So for the record, 1.) it isn't a remake 2.) I haven't seen 'Jenny, Juno,' though I want to now, and 3.) I don't think anyone would even bat an eye about this if my film was called Jenny. The name Juno is just so darned distinctive that confusion is inevitable."

Atonement

2008-02-23T12:07:00.000-08:00

On January 22, 2008, Atonement received 7 Academy Award nominations.
The Oscars will take place on February 24,2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC

Atonement

Atonement and is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It was directed by Joe Wright, and is based on the screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It is about how a series of events in the summer of 1935 and the ways in which they are interpreted change the lives of sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the housekeeper's son, Robbie. Overseen exchanges between Cecilia and Robbie, a careless mistake, and an act of violence provoke an escalating tragedy of misunderstandings that center on Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer from an upper-class English family, and her innocent view of the adult world. Atonement was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in Great Britain/France, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.

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80th Academy Award Nominations

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Saoirse Ronan
Achievement in Art Direction - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Achievement in Cinematography - Seamus McGarvey
Achievement in Costume Design - Jacqueline Durran
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) - Dario Marianelli
Best Motion Picture of the Year - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
Adapted Screenplay - Christopher Hampton

Critical Acclaim

The film has received positive reviews by the vast majority. As of January 18, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records that 82% of 171 critics gave the film positive reviews, with a consensus that the film's "strong performances, brilliant cinematography, and lovely score make for a very successful adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel."

Roger Ebert gave it a four star review saying that the movie was "one of the year's best films, a certain for best picture nominee." The film was listed as number 3 on Empire Magazine's top 25 films of 2007.

Time magazine's Richard Corliss named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #4. Corliss praised the film as "first beguiling, then devastating", and singled out Saoirse Ronan as "terrific as the confused 12-year-old."

February 4, 2008: It received the Evening Standard British Film Award for Technical Achievement in Cinematography (Seamus McGarvey), Production Design (Sarah Greenwood) and Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran).

January 16, 2008: the film received 14 BAFTA nominations for the 61st British Academy Film Awards including Best Film, Best British Film and Best Director.

December 13, 2007: It received 7 Golden Globe nominations, more than any other film nominated for the 65th Golden Globe Awards.

January 13, 2007:The film won 2 Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture Drama.

Academy Awards: Best Picture

2008-02-23T10:40:00.000-08:00

The Oscars - February 24, 2008 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC
The Academy award nominees for Best Picture

Atonement

Atonement and is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It was directed by Joe Wright, and is based on the screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It is about how a series of events in the summer of 1935 and the ways in which they are interpreted change the lives of sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the housekeeper's son, Robbie. Overseen exchanges between Cecilia and Robbie, a careless mistake, and an act of violence provoke an escalating tragedy of misunderstandings that center on Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer from an upper-class English family, and her innocent view of the adult world. Atonement was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in Great Britain/France, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.

Juno

Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the main character. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman also star.

Juno is a sharp-tongued teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy.When the smart, outspoken sixteen-year-old, finds herself pregnant, she decides to give the baby up for adoption. As her pregnancy progresses, she spends time with the baby's prospective adoptive parents, Mark and Vanessa Loring. But her growing bond with Mark begins to take a turn that could throw everyone's plans into chaos.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is a dramatic law thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy and co-produced by George Clooney. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and corruption within a major client of his law firm. It stars George Clooney,
Tom Wilkinson,Tilda Swinton.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Adapted from the well-received Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood, is a 2007 film directed, written, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (1927), and tells the story of Daniel Plainview's quest for power in Southern California's oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.

Superman Returns:Superman's Secret and Christian Symbolism

2008-01-27T09:33:00.000-08:00

Superman Returns is based on Superman's return to earth after a five year absence from planet earth. It makes me wonder what Superman was doing in those five years especially since we all know that Krypton was destroyed. And you do not spend all that time in outer space just floating around doing nothing especially if you are a superhero. What did he find? Who did he meet. I get the feeling from the Movie Superman Returns that he found another planet got married and has two kids. I say this because in the movie I did not see that kind of connection between Lois and Superman that they usually have. I think Superman is missing his sweet little alien wife on Planet "Only Superman Knows." I mean I do not want to ruin the movie but in the end he says "See you around Lois" and drifts away into outer space where he gets that aura of contentment. I say Superman is hiding something out there in space.

After spending 5 years in outer space, looking for the remains of planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth. He returns to find Lois Lane, living with Richard White and has a son. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor plots an evil plan, using crystals and Kryptonite he stole from the Fortress of Solitude, to create a new land and submerge the USA.

Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Superman. It was directed by Bryan Singer and stars Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey. The screenplay was written by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris.

Superman Returns is the first Superman film to be released in twenty years. The last Superman film was Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

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Superman Returns has Christian parallels and symbolism.

In the latest installment of the Man of Steel, the story is presented as a Christian parable. After leaving Earth for 5 years to visit his home planet, Superman returns to find that Earth has lost hope in him as its savior. We are reminded that Jor-El has sent his only son to Earth because people are basically good. We get to see Superman rekindle his relationship with Lois Lane, who now has a son of questionable paternity; could it be Superman's son being raised by another man. Superman fights the evil in the form of Lex Luther. Can Superman save humanity? Does humanity have faith in him?

Bee Season

2008-01-27T09:31:00.000-08:00

Bee Season is a 2005 feature film based on the 2000 novel written by Myla Goldberg starring Richard Geer, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella and Flora Cross. The film was directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and written by Naomi Foner.

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The mind is a terrible thing to waste. This is what religious studies professor and Kabbalah enthusiast Saul Naumann (Richard Gere) believes. He encourages his family to go that extra step, both in academics and in spirituality. But he also often alienates them as he is only able to shine his light on one of them at a time. When 9-year-old Eliza (Flora Cross) turns out to be a spelling bee prodigy, well, it's just the icing on Saul's cake, but it further tears at the family's delicate fabric. As Saul spends more and more time with Eliza, her older brother, Aaron (Max Minghella), rebels by experimenting with other religions, while their mother, Miriam (Juliette Binoche), sort of goes off the deep end. With her family disintegrating before her young eyes, it's up to Eliza to put the broken pieces of her world back together with the power of letters and words. - Yahoo movies

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton

2008-01-27T09:25:00.000-08:00

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is a 2004 romantic comedy film, directed by Robert Luketic and starring Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, and Josh Duhamel.

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Plot

The plot focuses on who work together at a Piggly Wiggly supermarket in West Virginia. Pete secretly pines for Rosalee's affections, but he is too shy to confront her. One day Rosalee wins a contest to meet Tad Hamilton, a major Hollywood movie star. She travels to California for one date with Tad. The actor begins to yearn for a better direction for his life, and so he visits West Virginia to hang out with Rosalee. This leads to a romance with Rosalee and a rivalry with Pete. Will Rosalee move away with Tad? Or will she learn about Pete's love for her?

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Main Characters

Rosalee Futch (Kate Bosworth) - A sweet, ordinary girl who works at a Piggly Wiggly store, in West Virginia, with her two best friends Pete and Cathy. She is madly obsessed with Tad Hamilton, and her life is turned upside-down when the two begin dating.

Pete Monash (Topher Grace) - Rosalee's best friend and work-mate. He is secretly in love with Rosalee and is desperate to protect her from Tad Hamilton. He is sometimes seen with his pet dog.

Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel) - A famous, heartthrob, Hollywood actor. He goes on a date with normal town girl, Rosalee for a publicity stunt and ends up falling in love with her.

Cathy Feely (Ginnifer Goodwin) - Rosalee's female best friend. She too, is madly obsessed with Tad Hamilton.

Richard Levy the Driven (Nathan Lane) - Tad Hamilton's agent. He constantly worries over Tad's actions.

Richard Levy the Shameless (Sean Hayes) - Tad Hamilton's agent. He also worries over Tad's actions but is much more concerned with himself.

Angelica (Kathryn Hahn) - The barmaid at the bar that Rosalee and her friends often go to. She has a crush on Pete and sometimes gives him advice.

Charlie Chaplin: City Lights

2008-01-26T16:15:00.000-08:00

Charlie Chaplin Movies

City Lights is a 1931 silent film starring Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin who wrote and directed the film also composed the musical score for the entire film which is the only sound heard in the film since the picture has no dialogue.

The Circus, released in 1928, was Chaplin's last silent film to debut before "talkies", which are motion pictures with sound, took over.

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The Plot: City Lights

Chaplin's Tramp, who is broke and homeless, meets a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) selling flowers on the streets and falls in love with her. The blind girl mistakes him for a millionaire. Since he wants to help her and doesn't want to disappoint her he keeps up the charade.

As the story goes along he saves a millionaire from committing suicide and the running gag throughout the film is when the millionaire is drunk he is the best of friends with the tramp right until he sobers up and can't remember him. Meanwhile the tramp works small jobs such as street sweeping and enters a boxing contest, all to raise money for an operation to restore the blind girl's sight.

In the end it is a casual gift of a thousand dollars from his drunken millionaire friend that eventually pay for the operation that restores the blind girl's sight. Unfortunately like many of the tramp's efforts things go wrong and he is mistakenly accused of stealing the money when the millionaire sobers up. But the tramp manages to get the money to the blind girl, telling her that he is going away on a trip shortly before he is arrested and sent to jail for several months.

The ending is widely acclaimed as one of cinema's most touching. Released from jail, the tramp ends up on the same street corner where the flower girl, her sight restored, has opened up a flower shop with her grandmother; every time a rich man comes into the shop she wonders if this is her mysterious benefactor. The tramp spots a flower in the gutter and as he goes to pick it up is tormented by a couple of kids as the flower girl laughs. Then he turns around, sees her, and stops. She laughs and tells her grandmother she has made another conquest. Seeing the flower fall apart in his hand, she goes out to give him a flower and a coin - and then she touches his hand and stops when she realizes it feels familiar. Slowly her hand goes up to touch the face of the tramp. 'You?' she says as she realizes that the tramp before her is the reason she can see. 'Yes' replies the nervous tramp, his face a map of shame, pride, love and devotion. 'You can see now?,' he asks. 'Yes. I can see now,' she replies (in later prints Chaplin removed the last title card since it was obvious what she is saying). The film ends with an unusual close up of the tramp and the music continues to swell for some time after the shot fades to black.

Charlie Chaplin: A Dog's Life

2008-01-26T13:52:00.000-08:00

A Dog's Life (1918) is a silent film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.

Chaplin plays opposite an animal as 'co-star'. 'Scraps' (the dog) is the hero in this film, as she helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, the tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother) had a small role in this film; this was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.

Other films where dogs appeared on screen with Chaplin were The Champion (1915), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), and Modern Times (1936).

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Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi

2008-01-26T12:32:00.000-08:00

Dracula is a 1931 horror film starring Bela Lugosi playing the infamous Count Dracula. The film was produced by Universal Pictures Co. Inc. and was based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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On Walpurgis Night, after a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Jack Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from becoming one of the undead.

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Charlie Chaplin - The Kid

2008-01-26T12:02:00.000-08:00

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The Kid is a 1921 Charlie Chaplin film featuring Jackie Coogan as Chaplin's adopted son and sidekick. The film was a huge success, and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The Kid is about a Tramp (Chaplin) that finds an abandoned baby in an alley and takes care of him. As the baby gets older, they are perfect together and they form little schemes to scam people in order to survive.

Chaplin and Coogan both give remarkable performances in The Kid. The film made Coogan, who was a vaudeville performer, into the first major child star of the movies.

Charlie Chaplin, The Kid (3 Sheets)

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The Magnificent Seven

2007-11-28T18:09:00.000-08:00

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 western film directed by John Sturges about a group of gunmen who are hired to protect a Mexican village from bandits. It is the remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

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The Americanized remake of ''The Seven Samurai'', stars Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter and James Coburn as The Magnificent Seven. They get hired to guard a Mexican village from Banditos who periodically come to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit.

When they get to the town they teach the villagers how to defend themselves. When the leader of the bandits come they successfully fight him and his men off. But on the second visit the villagers give up and hand over the seven to them, due to a heated argument. The leader of the bandits take their guns and throw them out of town. Their horses and their guns are returned to them when they get beyond the town limits. The seven decide that they won't run, and return to the village for a final showdown.