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Synopsis

Each year, on the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol, the ruthless nation’s capital of Panem, requires each of its twelve districts to send one boy and one girl – the”tribute” – compete the Hunger Games. At a time penalty to the people for trying to rebel and strategy of intimidation from the government, the Hunger Games are a nationaltelevised event in which the taxes have to fight to the death. The last survivor wins. The young Katniss finds himself facing opponents who are overtrained prepared to play all their lives. Its only assets instinct and mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, a former winner of theHunger Games but that sank in alcohol. To hope to return one day to her, Katniss will have, once in the arena, make impossible choices between survival and humanity,between life and love …

Critique

The new millennium has imposed a film taken from literary adaptations usually in ray youth libraries. After the boxes of international franchises such as Harry Potter or Twilight , it was the turn of Hunger Gamesto join the dance. With a marketing winded, the buzz continues to expand on the canvas. Is primarily intended for young audiences, communication around the film magnetizes fans of novels designed bySuzanne Collins and tries to charm the same time the fans of Twilight , to name just this franchise. Continue reading “The Hunger Games (2012)” »

Josh Hutcherson talks ‘Journey 2′, ‘The Hunger Games’ and more!

After her separation from husband Marc Antony last July, singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is going all public with her newly found love that is her boyfriend Casper Smart. The couple has been spotted together cuddling up at many-a-places and recently JLo got her new toyboy introduced to her American Idol co-stars over dinner.

As per the sources

According to sources, JLo had invited fellow judges Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest to dinner along with her new boyfriend Casper Smart, where the two were spotted getting mushy. It seems through the public appearance of the couple that JLo is getting quite serious about Casper Smart, who has also bonded with JLo’s twins recently. However, the news of JLo’s getting closer with Casper has made her ex-husband Marc Antony go green. If sources are to be believed, Marc is now getting ready to challenge JLo over the custody of their twin babies.

Just read the synopsis for this Brake instantly think of Buried and crying plagiarism. However, it would be fair to put the record straight right away so that we are clear. Blake was shot before Buried, this is a fact. Another fact many seem to forget the double episode of CSI directed byTarantino as one of the agents found himself buried alive, and broadcast on TV long before these two feature films. Now that everything was cleared up, what is this movie? Simply put, it surpasses – barely – Buried. Point diverge, the psychology of the two characters is completely different becauseRyan Reynolds played a truck driver desperate and whiny, while Stephen Dorff meanwhile portrays a special agent who has the nerves much stronger. The differences also do not stop there, because Buried was based on a single concept of telephone harassment in order to crack the protagonist, while Brake hand to a completely different angle, our victim has a motive, but also a CB by contact with other agents also retained their prisoners, and finally a clock that displays incessant countdowns that often lead to nothing, but sometimes the worst, all elements in place to destabilize most faithful defender of his country, his nerves as strong as they may be. It does not get bored, the twists are linked to high gear , there are doubts, we think we know how it will end, and then crashes, as many good points that make this small production something quite entertaining . Continue reading “Brake (2012)” »

Synopsis

The Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton JOHN CARTER sign with a great adventure film that takes place on the planet Barsoom (Mars), inhabited by warlike tribes and extraordinary creatures.Taken from the first book “Cycle of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the film tells the fascinating journey of John Carter, who finds himself inexplicably transported to Barsoom, the heart of a mysterious war between the inhabitants of the planet. Of all the strange beings that inhabit this universe, he made the acquaintance of Tarkas Tars and Dejah Thoris the captivating princess. In this world about to disappear, Carter discovers that the survival of Barsoom and its people is in his hands …

Critique

These past months have been those of a revolution. Indeed, the circle of the gods of animation at Pixar, has seen from two of its best and brightest film in live action. Brad Bird first, that with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has not only managed to control his superstar Tom Cruise but has mostly delivered a great action movie, and now Andrew Stanton . With John Carter , originally John Carter of Mars , as he should have kept beautiful, the director of Finding Nemo is tackling a project of any magnitude, the kind of movie you can not see once every 10 years, with luck. Like Avatar , the saga as Star Wars , like many others, John Carter is a film-world. Filming Titanic, a crazy project, and ultimately a film that Disney does not know what to do and been trying for months to sell it as a vulgar tale of science fiction for children, then it is a film of a magnitude that the studio will not return anytime soon. Anyway, John Carter there, John Carter will be seen, and John Carter is an outsized movie … if not the great film as expected. Continue reading “John Carter (2012)” »

Fantasy is a mysterious island life. When we dare to leave our facilities and our beliefs and rational common sense normal worlds to travel to those islands, we entered a region where all the definitions and feelings are challenged and altered. The colors are combined and mixed saturating our ability to wonder and description, forms glide along odd angles and impossible to penetrate maintaining balances. The spaces enlarge and reduce, by allowing the infinite vacuum, which are mixed provocatively. The landscape stretches uniting in one the most comprehensive range panorama, giving reality to dreams and desires. The myths seem close, everything can be explained, everything can be done, there are no limits to heroism or pain sufficient to exhaust the energies.

This is the world that the film dares to put before our eyes in so many films that could be called fantastic. To enjoy it requires a special state of mind in which we are carried away, without putting too much resistance. Things happen according to the laws of fantasy, so it is entirely impossible to close and inviting, so we can enjoy, exciting our senses to achieve harmony with the new reality that is being proposed. The laws extend the operation of fantasy from reality into the impossible, so that big becomes small and small infinite weariness and fatigue disappear mitigated by the will, desire and fantasy, the constraints are transformed in magical powers and the laws of nature are suspended to accommodate the miracle appear the perpetual motion of all classes, encouraged by the invincible power of intent and humans behave as heroes or as villains ends, with no room for mediocrity. Continue reading “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)” »

Unfortunately there is little comedies dealing hockey (except Tooth Fairy), and from this observation Jay Baruchel has said we should address this problem, and what better than to adapt the story Doug Smith, unlikely and leaving a lot of doors open to a barrage of gags. Even if we use an athlete, as an actor accustomed to take such a role, especially one with a head of andouille, and this is obviously Seann William Scott was chosen, it having been captain of Lacrosse team in American Pie and tennis player in offside.
Particularly silly, hence the title of the film, our character does not fit into a family of Jewish intellectuals, and aside from a job as a bouncer, nothing suits him, and it was by chance he will find himself embroiled in a hockey team. He can not slide, but no matter, all that is asked to use his unique talent, breaking mouths like nobody else, that in order to defend the attackers, and of course, win the games. A legend was born, one of the worst hockey player, but also the best hitter ever experienced this sport. It’s fun, it’s been pretty good laugh, knocking it as it is not allowed and the multitude of battles will be a good opportunity to impose some replays all the more pleasurable than the other to provide us with the Rocky orgasms while we baffre of popcorn . Continue reading “Goon (2011)” »

Oscar-nominated four, and winner of Best Animated Film of the Year, The Incredibles is one of the best animated films ever produced. A cross between Toy Story, Superman, and office space, it offers endless action sequences, visual creativity, humor and well delivered. Brad Bird, director (who directed some episodes of the Simpsons) not only creates a memorable film, but also expresses one of the characters star of The Incredibles, Edna Mode. And later in the rich tradition of animated classics such Bambi (1942), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and The Lion King (1994), Walt Disney Pictures teams up again with Pixar Animation Studios (with whom he collaborated on Finding Nemo) to produce a film both children and adults will love with equal passion and panache …

The Incredibles is located in the canton of cartoon fiction Metroville (a hybrid of two houses of Superman, Smallville and Metropolis). Metroville home to a number of miraculous superheroes who do everything to track down the killers of evil to save cats stuck in trees. Foremost among the superheroes is Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) who resembles Superman in both strength and style. Shortly after Mr. Incredible’s marriage to the vivacious Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), a wave of civil lawsuits and other unwarranted offenses were laid against the super-hero by the people they save, who cite numerous damage to their person as a result of being saved. The rash of legal action, and the strain it puts on the local governmental budget, turns the tide of public opinion against the superheroes and forces underground. Continue reading “Movie review: The Incredibles (Directed by Brad Bird, 2004)” »

After Lord Valdemort ( Ralph Fiennes ), the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand and one of the three Deathly Hallows has been found, it burns more than ever on being at last Harry Potter ( Daniel Radcliffe ) to defeat. But that still hunts with Hermione ( Emma Watson ) and Ron ( Rupert Grint ) Horcruxes to destroy them. Only search leads them into the most guarded Gringotts in the dungeon of Beatrice Lestrange Helga Hufflepuff cup too. Then they must find in the diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw Hogwarts.But where there is now Professor Snape ( Alan Rickman ). But Harry’s arrival brings new power in the oppressed students and teachers, and they can return to power by force.
As Lord Voldemort, this course also uprising unaware of this, gets the final showdown between him and Harry Potter has to battle for Hogwarts, the school for all sorts of unexpected summon to the forces of the Dark Lords to resist. In the middle of this fray Harry finally gets a cryptic message from Professor Dumbledore ( Michael Gambon ). Finally, he understands the whole context and is now ready, the former Tom Riddle in a final duel to face …
The fact that David Yates , the last film was staged, the series is doing remarkably well. In particular, the last three films thus provide a coherent whole, and you find yourself as a spectator and fan, despite the abrupt entry into the story straight away. Also an honorable mention was Alexandre Desplat deserves. . The evidence for the music manager a happy knack for a clever mix of familiar themes of the other series parts and new compositions, both scene by scene wonderfully appropriate and consistent now that the series is completed, it can highlight final: Never before in the history of film was taken in a similar way to have continuity. Each role has once occupied by the first occurrence in the previous seven films to keep their finals this occupation. The only exception is Professor Dumbledore, which in view of the death ofRichard Harris , the first performer, between the second and the third film but did not avoid it. For many students of Hogwarts, the performers developed over the years, the production is also much further.Apparently this is the three main characters, the performances are once again improved, but also inMatthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom and Alfie Enoch as Dean Thomas. Even teachers like Professor Sprout ( Miriam Margolyes ), who appeared in several films have not, in the finals again a brief appearance (but not Imelda Staunton in the role of Dolores Umbridge). Continue reading “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2(2011)” »

In his eyes , winner of this year’s Oscar for best foreign language film, certainly not only belies the reputation of meticulous sagacity of the current Argentine cinema. It is surprising indeed that Juan Jose Campanella, born in Argentina, trained in the United States (University of New York along with Cedric Klapisch), nationalized Spanish, either, despite its formal precision and scenarios as powerful, well-maintained, as little known in France – it is already the author of a half-dozen feature films (made with alternating episodes of U.S. series to success, including the famous House) which earned him a nice number awards, including El mismo amor, the misma lluvia (1999), El Hijo de la Novia, Oscar-nominated in 2002, and Luna avellenada (2004). What is interesting in this Oscar-here is that not content to escape the White Ribbon Haneke and Prophet by Jacques Audiard, he distinguishes a work deeply rooted in the genre film (and genre literature, the film was adapted by writer Eduardo Sacheri’s thriller of the same name, his first novel after several new football), which earned her eyes In the Grand Prix Festival of Beaune International Thriller Film last month. The hero Benjamin Espósito (Ricardo Darín, accustomed Campanella), a former official with a judge in Buenos Aires named Irene (Soledad Villamil), there began, in fact, helped by it, to enjoy his retirement to write a novel about a murder case that occurred twenty-five years earlier, in 1974, and again seized with both hands, the audience at his side, the thread of the investigation.

It is also necessary, before beginning to unfold, to find the end. After a first stage in fuzzy dream where still flashes as the parting of two lovers on a train platform, the eye of the camera settles on the different opening paragraphs Esposito began just before the crease page and start over. Undecided despite the notes he applies to take the middle of the night as an exercise of automatic writing, he returned to see Irene after years away from the capital and asked about the start to give his story. Continue reading “The Secret in Their Eyes(2009)” »