Friday, November 30, 2007

movies to watch out!


6 More Months to ORD!!! but technically i will be free on Apr onwards cause of clearing leave so...

watch out ppl!!! oLc is coming back!!!

k i had nv been gone in the first place. recently alot ppl keep asking me what movies to watch n look out for so just gonna share with u guys the movie i had been waiting.


Dec

Across The Universe - a musical about a guy Jude who travels to America in the 1960s to find his father and falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. The story is interesting in the way it will all compiled of Beatles songs and music to make it into a musical so expect a quirky n different show.









The Golden Compass - K i guess everybody being waiting for this no need to talk about it more.












Warloads aka Tou Ming Chuan - Jet Li salary make out of half the movie 40 million budget but the main point to watch the movie is still for director Peter Chan, who nv let us down b4. i saw the featurette and the performance all look brilliant and intense.






I Am Legend - I not a big fan of thsi type of blockbuster n will smith but the 2nd trailer of this show is really good so check it out guys.











Brick Lane - A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat, a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life in Bangladesh. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, until the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door.



In The Valley Of Elah- The next feature from the director of Crash, Paul Haggis, another Iraq politically theme movie. A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq. Starring Charlie Thezron, Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Surandon. 3 previous oscar winners. and 1 oscar winning director.







Jan






Atonement- The movie that i have been looking out for. GO read more about this n see the trailer. Set in a marvellous bg and starring the always brilliant James McAvoy and Keira Knightley. Directed by Joe Wright, dir of Pride and Prejudice.










Michael Clayton - Starring George Clooney as Michael Clayton, an in-house "fixer" at the largest law firms in New York. Though burned out and uncontent with his job , his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt left Clayton tied to the firm. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages one of his case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and life.




Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson one of my favourite director return with a film about 3 estranged siblings who have not spoken to each other going on a road trip(more of a train trip) in India trying to patch up their relationship after the death of their parents. Starring Wes regulars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Broody. B4 u watch this u might want to catch the prelogue short film starring Natalie Portman Hotel Chavelier.








American Gangster - Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington i dun need to say the plot u also will go watch. Russell as the cop and Denzel as a number one drug lord. Catch me if u can 2?
















No Country for Old Man - The Coens are back!













CJ 07 - Stephen Chow NEW MOVIE!!! OMG WAIT DAMN FREAKING LONG. out jan 31. Its sort of a ET chinese version about Stphen playing a poor guy with his young boy (which is play by a girl btw) finding a toy which turn out to be an alien.





3:10 to Yuma - A cowboy western movie starring Christian Bale and Russel Crowe.

















Kite Runner - one of the best selling book of the last few years woohoo! another must watch!













Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Brad Pitt long waited indie.














The Savages - One of the indie to watch out starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour potraying as siblings facing the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.










Gone Baby Gone - Ben Affleck directorial debut makes waves with the critics.












Feb



Juno - This is the next indie touted to be the next oscar potential film starring Ellen Page from Hard Candy and directed by Jason Reitman of Thank You For Smoking about a young underage girl faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an makes an unusual and bizarre decision regarding her unborn child.








Sweeney Todd - Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together making a musical. Wad else i gotta say. Starring Helena Boham Cater and the Borat guy. Tim Burton had won the Best Director award for the National Board Review awards ceremony so far.













Jumper - The trailer is totally kickass u all sld watch it about guys who teleport(aka like the Maki Oka from hero) touted as dangerous people in the world being monitored.









Be Kind Rewind - About 2 guy who work at a video store accidentely erase all the video and had to use budget works to remake all the movies like Ghostbusters and Boyz In the Hood. Starring Jack Black and Mos Def. Dir by Michel Gondry dir of Eternal Sunshine.






Into The Wild - Sean Penn oscar potential movie starring the new wondr Emile Hirsch.










Cloverfield 1-18-08 - The most hype teaser and movie ever. This movie cause so much tension by whacking the teaser out of nowhere without showing the title of the movie and showing the statue of liberty head dropping in New York City. Brought to u by the genius brain of J J Abrams.








Kung Fu Dunk - Jay chou movie adapted from slam dunk manga. but directed by Chu Yen Ping who is the guy that brought to us Bao Gao Ban Zhang movies and Ping Guo Yao Yi Kou. Do not expect too much.










Charlie Wilson War - Star studded cast of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymore Hoffman, Emily Blunt, Amy Adams and directed by Mike Nichols director of Closer and The Graduate i dun need to beg u, u also will go watch.