Posts belonging to Category 'Entertainment'
August 30, 2010 | Posted by admin
The Film Movie Critic Review – The Informant! (2009) While gathering evidence against his institutional employer to help the FBI build a price-fixing conspiracy case, affable agribusiness executive Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) begins to piece together a fantasy world of his own. Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey co-star in Steven Soderbergh’s dark comedy, [...]
Categories: Entertainment | 
Tags: Corporate America whistle-blower, Joel McHale, Kurt Eichenwald, Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Steven Soderbergh | 
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August 20, 2010 | Posted by admin
The Film Movie Critic Review – Avatar (2009) Disabled Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) travels to planet Pandora to become an avatar, ingratiate himself with the natives and help Americans mine lucrative unobtainium. But he finds himself in an interstellar conflict after falling for Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). James Cameron writes and directs this [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Avatar, Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist, Jake Sully, James Cameron, Na'vi, Neytiri, Pandora, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, unobtainium, Zoe Saldana | 1 Comment »
August 19, 2010 | Posted by admin
The Film Movie Critic Review – Up in the Air (2009) Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) racks up miles flying around the country firing employees on behalf of companies. But he faces losing the job he savors to recent college grad Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) — and losing the ability to escape emotional ties to anything. [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Alex Goran, Anna Kendrick, George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Natalie Keener, Rason Reitman, Ryan Bingham, Vera Farmiga | 1 Comment »
July 1, 2010 | Posted by admin
The Film Movie Critic Review – Aberdeen (2000) Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together – at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favor: to bring back to her Kaisa’s estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set out [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Charlotte Rampling, Kaisa, Lena Headey, Stellan Skarsgard | No Comments »
June 29, 2010 | Posted by admin
Exiled to a branch office for six weeks, two white-collar middle managers (Matt Malloy and Aaron Eckhart, in his breakout role) come up with a way to kill time: Find an insecure woman, independently romance her and then simultaneously dump her to squelch her self-esteem. Writer-director Neil LaBute’s powerful, amoral look at office politics and [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Neil LaBute | 1 Comment »
June 25, 2010 | Posted by admin
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen co-star in this curveball-throwing thriller as a pair of romantically involved corporate operatives who are entangled in a bitter rivalry between two mammoth pharmaceutical companies. Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson convincingly round out the heavyweight cast as warring big pharma CEOs in this intriguing espionage effort from writer-director Tony Gilroy [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti, Pharmaceutical Companies, Tom Wilkinson, Tony Gilroy | 1 Comment »
June 9, 2010 | Posted by admin
After coming within one question of winning it all on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” 18-year-old Mumbai “slumdog” Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is arrested on suspicion that he cheated his way to the top. While in custody, he regales a jaded inspector (Irfan Khan) with remarkable tales of his life [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Cidade de Deus, City of God, Danny Boyle, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irfan Khan, Jamal Malik, Mumbai, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | 2 Comments »
June 4, 2010 | Posted by admin
Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons (Adam Sandler) doesn’t give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor (Torsten Voges) delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira (Seth Rogen). Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) writes and directs this moving comedy that also [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Adam Sandler, Aubrey Plaza, George Simmons, Ira Wright, Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Seth Rogen | 5 Comments »
May 27, 2010 | Posted by admin
Charlie Kafuman (Nicolas Cage) is a Los Angeles screenwriter battling enormous feelings of insecurity and impotence as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief, a book by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) whose main character, John Laroche (Chris Cooper), searches for love. Add to the mix Charlie’s twin brother, Donald (also played by Cage), and you [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: Charlie Kafuman, Chris Cooper, John Laroche, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, Susan Orlean | 3 Comments »
May 13, 2010 | Posted by admin
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes aim at the corporate giant that’s come to symbolize big business in America Wal-Mart blasting the box store Goliath for allegedly paying substandard wages, skimping on employee benefits and gutting communities. This hard-hitting, emotional documentary profiles the struggle of everyday folks from around the country who’ve committed themselves to fighting the [...]
Categories: Entertainment | Tags: employee benefits, Robert Greenwald, Wal-Mart, Walton Family | 1 Comment »
