Showing posts with label Hollywood Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood Movies. Show all posts

Bolt

Bolt is a 2008 computer-animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and will be Disney's 48th animated feature. It stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Claire Holt, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman, Randy Savage and Mark Walton. The film is rated PG by the MPAA for some mild action and peril.

The film is about Bolt (John Travolta), a small white German Shepherd who has lived all his life on the set of a TV show in which he portrays a superhero dog. As a result, he thinks that his superpowers, and events on film, are real. When he is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he embarks on a cross-country journey to reunite with his owner and co-star, Penny (Miley Cyrus). Along the way, Bolt teams up with a jaded housecat named Mittens (Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (Mark Walton) that also happens to be an extreme Bolt fanboy, and eventually he discovers that he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.

Babylon AD

Vin Diesel, queerly named Toorop in this bleak futuristic story, is the mercenary reluctantly transporting a young woman Aurora [Melanie Thierry] and her loyal guardian, a nun [Michelle Yeoh] with an expertise in martial arts! Toorop escorts these two women as they travel from chaotic Russia to the Promised Land - New York. During the course of the movie we, along with Toorop, discover that Aurora is pregnant with twins who are of utmost spiritual significance, and hence there are battalions of people that Toorop and the nun have to fight before they reach New York.
The movie starts off with some rather disturbing and sombre imagery of the world in the future - hopeless and weary - reminiscent of the Children of Men. But just as you get set to be blown away with something as profound, the storyline starts to twist and turn, and confuse you. Coming from Mathieu Kassovitz, director of La Haine, the lucid urban melodrama and Gothika, a contorted horror flick, it does not surprise us that his visuals for the script at hand are quite out of the ordinary. Not exactly extraordinary, but not repulsive either.
Babylon AD is not a movie that would bore you, but it could certainly tire you. Kassovitz takes us through long endless minutes of chases on land and underwater - against fierce fighters and rains of bullets. And then, all of a sudden, the movie ends. Just when you think Kassovitz was about to explain what exactly is the spiritual significance of the unborn twins - are they carriers of religious truths or something else - the movie comes to a close. An open ending, you could say.

Changeling

Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich come together in a riveting thriller Changeling directed by actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood. Based on actual events that created quite a stir in California in the 1920's, this is the story about a single mom who is ready to walk through hell and back to find her kidnapped child.
Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) bids goodbye to her nine-year-old son and leaves for work. When she returns home that day, she realizes that her child has been kidnapped. She rushes to the police, and after several months of searching, her son returns. On instinct, Christine knows something is different about the boy and she is ready to face all odds to get the bottom of the disappearance and reappearance of her boy. This puts Christine in grave danger and her only refuge is Reverend Briegleb (John Malkovich) who helps her on her mission. Does Christine survive and succeed in her search for truth? We have to wait for Changeling to hit the silver screen to find that out!

Quarantine

Young enthusiastic reporter Angela and her cameraman are doing a story on night workers. On this particular night, they are with fire fighters when a 911 call takes them along with the fire fighters to an apartment building. When they reach the building, they are faced with complaints from the tenants about terrifying screams from within an old lady's apartment. The fire fighters break down the door and enter the apartment. They find the old lady lying semiconscious on the floor, surrounded by dozens of cats. Angela is getting all this on tape, when suddenly the old woman jumps at one of the firemen and tries to bite him. And the nightmare begins...
A strange virus is spreading through the building, infecting individuals and turning them into vicious bloodthirsty beings. Angela and the firemen soon discover that the building has been quarantined by the government and that the only exit has been blocked. They have to find a way out before the virus gets them all. With doom hanging over their heads like a dark cloud, they strive to win over the deadly virus. The camera is running the whole time.
Catch Jennifer Carpenter in this spine-chiller when it releases at a cinema near you!

Body of Lies

Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a CIA official working in Jordan. His mission is to hunt down the terrorists behind the bombing of civilians across the country. Ferris' investigation leads to information on the Islamist mastermind Al-Saleem (Alon Aboutboul).
Ferris plans to infiltrate Al-Saleem's terrorist network and seeks the help of Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), his boss in Langley. Ferris rather unwillingly and apprehensively enlists the help of Hani Salaam (Mark Strong), Chief of Jordanian Intelligence, in this operation. Given Salaam's rather suspicious demeanour, Ferris is not sure how far he can trust Salaam without putting his own life in danger. This estranges the relationship between the two men, and leads several to head-on clashes.
Does Ferris win over the evil he is combating? We are going to have to wait for the movie to hit theatres to find out!

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

As the film’s title indicates in no uncertain terms, our heroine, teenager Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett), is haunted by a tragic past that keeps coming back to torment her. Attempting to acclimate to a new school (Huntington Prep), Molly must deal with new classmates and also recurring bouts of nosebleeds and hallucinations -- particularly of her wild-eyed mother (Marin Hinkle), who had previously tried to stab her to death, claiming that she was trying to save her from some sort of birthright. “The darkness is coming for you,” said Mom before plunging a pair of scissors into Molly’s chest. What’s really going on? Are Molly’s hallucinations of a psychotic or a supernatural nature? It takes a long while to get to that point, by which time the answer should be obvious ... and long after audience interest has dwindled severely.

Role Models

Meet Wheeler (Scott ) and Danny (Rudd) -- two salesmen, who get to hawk a blue sugary caffeine-filled energy drink called Minotaur. Wheeler is a swingin’, KISS-lovin’ single guy who loves his job playing THE Minotaur, while depressed Danny has settled into a nice mid-life crisis, loathing just about anything and everyone. These two are just destined to become role models. And so after some very bad circumstances, Wheeler and Danny do just that, forced into 150 community service hours at a mentorship program. It’s either play big brother to a couple of kids or go to jail. Danny gets assigned to Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a 16-year-old obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons medieval role play, while Wheeler gets a 10-year-old, foul-mouthed troublemaker named Ronnie (Bobb'e J Thompson). After one day, jail isn’t looking half-bad.

Soul Men

In yet another variation on the shopworn road picture in which two mismatched former buddies are forced to cross the country together, Soul Men’s uneasy brand of overly broad humor and contrived situations is saved intermittently by some cool musical numbers. But alas, it’s not enough. Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) and Floyd (Bernie Mac) are part of a major musical group, led by Marcus Hooks (John Legend) who goes solo, leaving Floyd and Louis in the lurch. Fast forward 20 years, Hooks has died, and Louis and Floyd, who did not end on good terms and have not spoken since, have been coerced into appearing a tribute show for Hooks at New York’s famed Apollo Theatre. Afraid to fly, they get in Floyd’s 1971 Cadillac El Dorado, accompanied by a talented young woman (Sharon Leal) who may be Floyd’s daughter. Along the way they try to get their act up to speed by appearing in various redneck honky tonks, filling the interminable 103-minute running time with a lot of unfunny sexual encounters and unbelievable situations.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

After a brief flashback prologue where we see how the young lion Alex (Ben Stiller) is separated from his father Zuba (Bernie Mac), inadvertently ending up in the Big Apple, the story returns to present day as our favorite New York zoo denizens prepare to take off from Madagascar in a crudely constructed airplane, piloted by the penguins and propelled by slingshot. Unfortunately for Alex, lovelorn giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer), fast talking zebra Marty (Chris Rock) and svelte hippo Gloria (Jada Pinkett-Smith), instead of landing in NYC, the aircraft sputters and crash lands right in the middle of Africa, where they run into a world of exotic creatures. This also includes Alex’s long lost dad and mom. Happy reunion? Not quite. Zuba’s nemesis Mukunga (Alec Baldwin) insists they follow lion pride lore, which means Alex must go through a rite of passage -- one he is sure to fail if Mukunga has his way. Meanwhile, Marty tries to integrate into a pack of zebras; Gloria gets hooked up with a soulful hippo (will.i.am); and Melman is up to his neck looking for love. Oh, and they also all have to save the Kenya preserve from a life-threatening water shortage. No biggie!

Slumdog Millionaire

Based on the novel Q&A, this sharp adaptation tells the tale of a young man, Jamal Palik (Dev Patel), who becomes a contestant on the Indian version of the hit game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and ends up being accused of cheating. As we see him beaten into admitting that he “knew” the answers, the film darts back and forth in time to show how he came to this place and exactly where the truth lies. We see how Jamal and his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), joined by their female friend Latika (Freida Pinto), grow up in one of country’s worst slums, where they must resort to a spree of petty crimes in order to survive. Later, we catch up with them in their teens, as they conduct tours of the Taj Mahal and make up tall tales for the unsuspecting visitors. Out of desperation their crimes get more intense, as Latika gets herself into big trouble. By the time we get to Jamal’s appearance on the game show, it’s clear he has learned what really counts, as the tension-driven sequences has him answering questions at a furious pace by the dubious quizmaster (Anil Kapoor).

Quantum of Solace

'Quantum of Solace' continues the high octane adventures of James Bond from 'Casino Royale'. Picking up literally hours after the previous film left off, after being betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal.

Having captured Mr. White, and in pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and 'M' interrogate Mr. White who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper to steal Bond's casino winnings is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

Forensic intelligence links an MI6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille, a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene, a ruthless businessman and major force within the mysterious criminal organization known only as 'Quantum'.On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world's most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano.

Using his associates in the organization, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in Bolivia, giving General Medrano control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land which is, however, a main source of the South American water supply. In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists, and even 'M' herself, to unravel Greene's sinister plan and stop Quantum from getting its way.

Transporter 3

Director:Olivier Megaton
Writers (WGA) : Luc Besson (written by) & Robert Mark Kamen (written by) ...

Release Date : 26 November 2008 (USA)
Genre : Action
Tagline : This time, the rules are the same. Except one.

Jason Statham is back in the third outing of 'The Transporter'. This time he's hired by a criminal mastermind to go on a mission to deliver a 'package'. With Frank Martin now electronically rigged, he must complete his mission or die!

Fast & Furious 4

Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel. Written by Universal Studios