Saturday, August 11, 2007
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Redline is a 2007 action film starring an ensemble cast. The film's plot is centered on a drag racing circle founded by a group of rich men in order to test their high-powered supercars. It is based on a story by Daniel Sadek, who also allowed his own automobile collection to be used in the film. Redline was released in North America on April 13, 2007, and has been given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA.
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 Freedom Writers is a 2007 American film starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey. It is based on the book, The Freedom Writers Diary, by teacher Erin Gruwell. The title is a play on the term "Freedom Riders", the black and white civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961.
Freedom Writers is inspired by a true story and the diaries of real Long Beach, California teenagers after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, during the worst outbreak of interracial gang warfare. Set in and around Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California during the mid 1990s, two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank stars as English teacher Erin Gruwell. After a few days of class, Gruwell and her students get into a debate about racism during which she compares a caricature of a black student with big lips, drawn by another student, to the Nazis' caricatures of Jews with big noses. She then takes her students on a field trip to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance to teach them about the Holocaust. An exterior view of the museum is shown, and there are scenes inside the museum, showing simulated entrances to gas chambers in Nazi death camps.
Friday, August 10, 2007
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 Inland Empire (billed INLAND EMPIRE, in uppercase feature film, written and directed by ) is a 2006 surrealistic-experimentalDavid Lynch. It is his follow-up to 2001's Mulholland Drive, and shares many similarities with that film. It premiered in Italy at the Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2006. The feature took two and a half years to complete, and was shot entirely in digital video. The cast includes Lynch regulars such as Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie, as well as Jeremy Irons, Diane Ladd, and special appearances by Nastassja Kinski, William H. Macy, Laura Harring, Jordan Ladd and Ben Harper.
 A once-great basketball star is hired as a coach by a city high school in a bad neighborhood, and sets about turning dream into reality in this heartwarming drama that's also an inspirational slice-of-life thriller. The coach soon teaches a group of six girls some valuable lessons both on and off the court. A dramatic feature about an inner city girl's high school basketball team who, though personal struggle fight to save their program from being eliminated and with the help of a dedicated coach, learns the meaning of the word Winner, on and off the basketball court.
 The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 film based loosely on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel of the same name. A sequel to The Bourne Supremacy, Matt Damon stars once again as Ludlum's signature character, amnesia-suffering CIA assassin Jason Bourne. Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen co-star. Paul Greengrass directed the film from a script by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi and Tom Stoppard who went uncredited. The film producers were Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg and Doug Liman who directed the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity. The film continues the saga of Jason Bourne after he survives the harrowing car chase in Moscow from the The Bourne Supremacy and follows the character as he travels to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier and New York City to uncover his real identity, while the CIA continues to send assassins to kill him. The cast reprises their roles from the previous Bourne movies with new additions such as David Strathairn playing a CIA department head, Paddy Considine as a British journalist and Edgar Ramirez as a new assassin to terminate Bourne. The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007 in North America, where it grossed $69.3 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release, making it the all-time highest August opening in history. The film is scheduled to be released on August 16 in the UK and Ireland. Bourne Ultimatum Sample
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
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 This remake of Lewis Gilbert's 1966 film of the same name features Jude Law filling the shoes Michael Caine once wore in the title role of Alfie. As with the original, Law occasionally speaks directly to the camera while his character talks of the opposite sex. Under the direction of Charles Shyer, Alfie follows a charming, if morally lacking, womanizer from one bed to the next. While his actions arise more from nonchalance than malice, Alfie nonetheless faces a moral dilemma when considering that he's impregnated one of his latest girlfriends. Alfie also includes performances from Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, and Nia Long.
 The film was announced on May 15, 2006, when MGA Entertainment, Avi Arad Productions, and Crystal Sky Pictures teamed up. Under the deal, Crystal Sky Pictures will finance the film, Avi Arad and MGA will executive produce. John Doolittle and Susie Singer Carter penned the screenplay. The shooting of the film was completed on March 24, 2007, and was released to theatres for its first-run showing on Friday, August 3, 2007. Paula Abdul was dropped from the production before the completion of the film due to unknown reasons. She was originally enlisted to provide wardrobe designs, choreograph the film, executive produce, as well as hold a role in the film. This was revealed on Hey Paula, her own reality show on her personal life. It has been speculated her erratic behavior may have been a reason behind her involvement in the film being cut.
 Reign Over Me is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Mike Binder. The film stars Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Saffron Burrows and Binder himself.Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) has completely shut himself off emotionally from the outside world. During the attacks that occurred on September 11th, he lost his wife, three daughters, and family dog. By chance, Charlie is reunited with his old college roommate, Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle ). Alan, a successful but unhappy dentist, recognizes Charlie's grief and attempts to rekindle their friendship and bring Charlie out of his depression.Charlie uses noise-cancelling headphones and a disheveled, Dylanesque appearance (poofy hair and an unstylish long jacket) to insulate himself from any contact or reminder of the upper middle-class world where he enjoyed life with his adoring family (a wife; daughters age 5, 7, and 9; and a poodle). He tools around Manhattan on a motorized scooter which he uses for quick getaways from unpleasant encounters.
 Ocean's Deadliest is the final nature documentary made by Steve Irwin before his death, which occurred during filming. It aired in the United States on January 21, 2007, on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel as a simulcast event. It also aired in Australia on January 29, 2007 on the Nine Network. It later on aired in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2007 on ITV Terri Irwin, Steve's widow, stated in an interview with Access Hollywood aired on January 11, 2007, that no footage shot the day he died will be used, and that the footage of his injury and death has been destroyed. The show's co-host, Philippe Cousteau, filmed the remainder of the documentary weeks after Irwin's death.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
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 Jim Carrey as a schizophrenic murderer isn't convincing, in this melodramatic film about a man obsessed by the Number 23. Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever, St. Elmo's Fire) has unintentionally managed to make a comedy of horrors that really is quite humorous in parts. Walter Sparrow (Carrey) becomes engrossed in a homespun novel about Detective Fingerling, whose life degrades into mayhem because of his obsession with 23's esoteric numerical puzzles. Sparrow's preoccupation with the book follows his botched attempt to catch a nasty dog that bites him, leading one to believe that Sparrow's contraction of rabies might be the cause for his mental degradation. As the story progresses, Sparrow retreats further into Fingerling's world, rife with suicidal sexpots and hardboiled detective sleuthing. His wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), also plays Fingerling's girlfriend, sex-crazed Fabrizia, who taunts Fingerling until he stabs her. Back in reality, Walter aims to solve the unresolved crimes in the book, taking it as a murderer's diary rather than as an imagined work. The story is half-baked, though Carrey's portrayal of a mentally disturbed person is what makes The Number 23 comedic. Long, contemplative stares, and over-dramatized acting renders Sparrow a clichéd character, rather than one odd enough to engage viewers. For a better version of almost the exact plot but with a terrorist's twist, see Thr3e instead.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
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 Ambitious Westport High School senior, Matthew Kidman (Hirsch), dreams of a career in politics. He plans to attend Georgetown University if he can get a big upcoming scholarship. He is distracted by his new 19 year old neighbor, Danielle, and they begin to have a relationship. He soon discovers by his porn-addicted friend, Eli (Chris Marquette), that Danielle is actually a porn star, though she shelters resentment and disdain for what she does.
Previous to this, his Student Council organization raised $25,000 to bring a Cambodian boy, Samnang, a genius that taught himself Calculus without any textbooks, to the US to study at Westport High.
Following poor advice from his friend, Eli, Matthew goes on a date with Danielle and takes her to a cheap motel room. Watching his behavior, she guesses that Matthew had seen her on tape, and concludes that all he wants to do is "fuck a porn star in a cheap motel room", so she storms out. Later Matthew finds out she is leaving for Las Vegas. Matthew and his friends follow Danielle to Las Vegas and find her performing at an adult movie convention. Once there, they discover that her old porn director/producer boss Kelly (Timothy Olyphant) is unwilling to let her go without trouble. When Matthew convinces Danielle not to rejoin the industry, Kelly only cares that he has lost his best actress and $30,000 in business. Kelly leads him into Hugo, his rival producers house, and reports Matthew for robbery after he convinces him to break in and steal an award. After Matthew manages to escape the house and the police, Eli picks him up and takes him to the awards dinner, where he has to give a speech to win the scholarship. High on ecstasy he unknowingly took from Kelly, he blows the speech and loses the scholarship. Kelly then gets his money back by stealing the money Matthew raised to get Samnang, the Cambodian genius to study in the U.S. Matthew and Danielle get back together and devise a plan for him to get the money they need to set things straight by making a Sex-Ed video with rival producer Hugo (James Remar), which would be set in the school library on prom night. The sex-ed video features real, topless, porn stars who "show you how to put a condom on the real thing---no bananas or cucumbers in this movie." In the end, all the public schools adopt the tape, and Hugo and Matthew make millions off the video---more than enough money to get Samnang to the U.S. and to pay for Matthew's tuition to Georgetown. However, Matthew wanted to be anonymous, being referred to as Hugo's "silent partner."
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