http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/movies/ en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:55:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2281913/posts Is American mega pop star Britney Spears set to return to the big screen, seven years after starring in the box office flop Crossroads? According to reports, Spears has been offered a part in the upcoming Holocaust film The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton, which integrates time travel, concentration camps and a love story. Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2281913/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:55:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278446/posts Dear AMERICA,This Friday the film "The Stoning of Soraya" will open in selected cities around the country. Given the current events in Iran this film is not only timely but we understand very moving and compelling. We wanted to make sure our members in selected states were aware of the film and, if there is a showing anywhere near you, we urge you to take it in this weekend. (Click here to open a PDF image with a list of the cities and theaters). THE STONING OF SORAYA M. Release Date: NY/LA - June 26, 2009 Distributor: Roadside Attractions and... Act.org (Email) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278446/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:49:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277757/posts In no particular order here are my favorites: Friday Night Lights Hoop Dreams Bang the Drum Slowly Raging Bull When We Were Kings Hoosiers Breaking Away SlapShot Honorable Mention Field of Dreams The Natural We Are Marshall Rocky Semi ToughI am sure I left a lot out. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277757/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:40:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276666/posts >>Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch to get beyond the camera and bring a new Ripley to the big screen. Who is Carl Rinsch? I'm being told he's a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake. In the original, the terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet, and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. One by one, each crew member is slain until only Ripley... Bloody-Disgusting.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276666/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:50:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276383/posts Oliver Stone doesn't do comedy, intentionally. But perhaps he should: The half-baked, hayseed "Hamlet" he's created in " W." -- his very speculative biopic about our current president -- feels alive only when it ventures into the comically absurd. Despite Josh Brolin's genius and the fully realized portrayal he gives this character called George W. Bush, the movie operates at a paradoxical, dramatic disadvantage: It spends more than two hours trying to interest us in the fact that its subject isn't interesting. It could have been a public service announcement. The Stanley Weiser screenplay fails by attempting too much --... KPMT-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276383/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:35:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276140/posts Why I Walked Out of ‘Year One’ Crying by Victoria JacksonI had a date with Judd Apatow. It was around 1991 and I was between husbands: the out-of-work-Jewish-Gypsy-fire-eater-musician, and the high-school-sweetheart-Baptist-helicopter-police-pilot. I needed a date to a premiere. I knew the rules of engagement for a Hollywood career, and I tried to follow them. It’s difficult to do this when you carry the burden of ethics around with you, but I tried to do it and stay within the bounds of morality. 1) Go to the right places. I went to the Playboy Mansion to find an agent, and I... Andrew Brietbart Presents Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276140/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274551/posts On the heels of yesterday's casting announcements, Latinoreview has exclusively learned that Tony Gilroy, the oscar nominated writer/director of Michael Clayton (and one of my top five favorite all time screenwriters) has come aboard to rewrite MGM/UA's remake of RED DAWN! Not surprising considering that Dan Bradley, the director of the remake, was the 2nd unit director of the Jason Bourne films which Gilroy penned. Gilroy has recently delivered a 107 page draft dated 06-01-09. The remake was penned by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore and based on the 1984 Cold War-era film co-written and directed by John Milius. We... Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274551/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2268734/posts Simply put, do you watch movies that have profanity in them? Movies like, "My Cousin Vinny" or "Four Brothers?" I personally don't feel the above movies (or those like them, viz. repeated use of the 'F' word) are fit for human consumption. But where do you draw the line? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2268734/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268555/posts After a year of nasty infighting, members of the Screen Actors Guild decided by a large margin that the show must go on. The Guild said Tuesday that 78 percent of voting members decided to ratify a two-year contract covering movies and prime-time TV shows made by the major Hollywood studios. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268555/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:09:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2267797/posts I like the b-movies of the 1950's and 1960's the best. Little or no foul language, not too much violence, and the wacky cheesy monsters they created. Today it is all femminazi superbimbos in charge, tons of CGI effects, and they are all produced in Canada :-Z Last night I watched a sci-fi flick from 1962 called: Journey To The Seventh Planet, that had some really hokey monsters- one of which was a one-eyed dinosaur creature with rat-like features and big three fingered claws. This film was created by the same team that made ANGREY RED PLANET of 1959. Ib... Osnome http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2267797/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 05:56:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266292/posts Cast members promote the upcoming film "Jian Shi Chu Ji" ("J-10's Sortie") in air force uniform at a press conference in Beijing on June 1, 2009. Picture 5: China's homemade J-10 fighter. [sina.com.cn] One year after its world-stunning public debut, China's homemade J-10 fighter jet will make head onto a new battlefield - the silver screen. "Jian Shi Chu Ji" (literally "J-10's Sortie"), a star-studded film depicting the lives of J-10 pilots, began filming on Monday in Beijing. It is scheduled for release this November, exactly one year after the J-10 aircraft wowed international audiences at the 2008 Zhuhai Air... CHINA.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266292/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2265594/posts PITY the unwitting par ents who take their kids to see "Land of the Lost," Will Ferrell's terminally stupid, sloppy, campy and cheesy -- and thoroughly unexciting and unfunny -- experiment in "family entertainment." Those parents will surely be cringing as: * Ferrell reaches into his pants to pleasure himself. * A half-man, half-ape repeatedly fondles Anna Friel's breasts. * Ferrell, under the influence of a hallucinogenic substance, strokes the aforementioned creature's hair and contemplates kissing him. * Ferrell, out of nowhere, blasphemes about Jesus. Nominally based on Sid and Marty Krofft's innocuous '70s TV show, "Land of the Lost,"... Ny Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2265594/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:32:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262530/posts It seems OneVike is reading a book written by a friend about movies. He was asked to read it and write a book review for him. He would like to get an idea of where we fellow Freepers stand as to what we think about today's movies. So he set up a blog specifically to ask a poll question of us fellow Freepers. YOU! Here is a link to the poll. Whats Your Opinion of Today's Movies? He is leaving the poll up until June, 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM, at which time he will use the results of the... Blogspot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262530/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:58:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261939/posts I am currently reading a book written by a friend about movies. He has asked me to read it and write a book review for him. While I am reading his book, I would like to get an idea of where my fellow Freepers stand as to what you think about today's movies. I have learned in my 11 years as a member of Free Republic, to trust and respect the opinions here more than anywhere else I could go to on the WWW. I guess I would have to say that your opinions reflect the truest conservative points... Inquiring Minds http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261939/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:24:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2260976/posts While Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" (and the movie version) wasn't as poorly written as The Da Vinci Code, it still has a lot of whoppers. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18IQD8xTuQ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2260976/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 01:44:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2255644/posts Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has agreed to take on the starring role in a film about a retired musician who sets out to find his father's Nazi executioner, according to media reports. Penn is to play an ageing wealthy rocker who grows bored of his retirement and goes on a quest to find his father's killer, an ex-Nazi war criminal taking refuge in the U.S. The screenplay of "This Must Be the Place" was co-written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello, and marks Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's English-language feature debut. Penn will take on the new role once he has completed... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2255644/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 17:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248351/posts The stars will still turn up and the movie line-up looks good but the tone of the Cannes film festival will be more black and white than technicolor in 2009. The credit crunch means Hollywood studios are tightening their belts and conspicuous consumption is temporarily out of fashion. Deal-making will go on but is likely to be more circumspect. "You can feel people are more conservative, more selective," said Helen Lee Kim, president of Mandate International. "They are being more careful and not taking those big jumps as they might have last year." The annual celebration of cinema in the... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248351/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 05:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247314/posts Crowds are swarming to see the new, "rebooted" Star Trek movie. But there are many facts about the popular epic that most casual fans don't know: * Star Trek had several incarnations. The most popular series of the franchise was Star Trek: SG1. The least popular? Star Trek: 1999. * The first interracial kiss on American television was between Capt. Kirk and Lt. Sulu. * The original show only broadcast 13 episodes before it was canceled by Fox. * The starship "Enterprise" was named after the first Space Shuttle. ExurbanLeague.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247314/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 00:41:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2247168/posts This is simply a great movie. For those of us who grew up first on the television series, then the series of motion pictures, then "The Next Generation," this is the TV series on special-effects steriods, and in my opinion the second best movie of all Star Trek movies, next to "The Wrath of Khan." The first 20 minutes is jarring, and you have to pay attention. It runs the viewer from Capt. Christopher Pike (played by a one of my favorites, Bruce Greenwood), to the evil Romulan Nero (Eric Bana, sans Hulk get-up), to the young Spock, to the... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2247168/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 20:26:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2244674/posts Last night’s Costume Institute Gala was probably the biggest red carpet event of the year, as it gathered all of the fashion elite including designers, models, and celebs in a stylish symphony of luxurious glamour and elegance. Dream dresses, radiant attendees, more beauty than ones eyes could safely behold, together in glorious aesthetic reverence. If only they could stage such a magnificient soiree every day! The Fashion Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2244674/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 18:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2244199/posts In tribute to stogie lover Wolverine, we rundown five other action heroes that are smokin’ hot – literally Cinema’s archives are dusted in the ash of burnt out cigars. Meatier than cigarettes and less fussy than pipes, the stogie has become cinematic shorthand for manly strength, very rarely to be found in the delicate paw of the fairer sex. They’re a favourite with those bastions of masculine ruthlessness, the gangster flick and the western. In the former they famously gave Tony Montana (Al Pacino) something to chew on in Scarface while Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name in the Dollars... boxwish.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2244199/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 00:39:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2243328/posts When celebs like Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Demi Moore and Eva Mendes gather at one location, they literally take turns outshining each other. This is what happened at last night’s Cartier 100th Anniversary in America Celebration. Anne Hathaway appeared wearing a modified version of a Jill Stuart Fall 2009 lacy dress. The Fashion Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2243328/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2009 20:27:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240397/posts Why are Christian Movies So Bad? Posted By Dallas Jenkins On April 29, 2009 @ 5:03 am In Entertainment, Story, Religion | As I mentioned in [1] my last article, Hollywood is more interested in Christian, or “faith-based,” films than ever. The mind-blowing success of “The Passion” got it started, but then it waned as studios couldn’t quite figure out how to match that success. It heated up again recently with the success of the micro-budget, church-produced “Fireproof,” which was the highest grossing indie of 2008.[2] These trends beg a few questions. What took Hollywood so long to discover... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240397/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234569/posts This is what would happen if Hollywood decided to recut "The Shining" and release it as a romantic comedy. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234569/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2236305/posts It's a thriller, not an attack on the Howard's By Jeff Miller on April 23, 2009 I am producing a movie on Ron Howards family. In the movie based on my research I say his father was a drug pusher and his mother is a prostitute and that Ron Howard engages in S&M. All of the portrayal of Ron Howard and his family in my movie and the prequel I am doing later will be highly negative. I will present the Howard family as something totally based on lies and question whether his parents really were his parents in the... Curt Jester http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2236305/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:54:19 GMT