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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
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Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
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Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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- Garth Franklin
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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- Garth Franklin
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Reese Witherspoon Learns Rule #1
29 October 2009 11:20 PM, PDT
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Mini-mogul Reese Witherspoon has signed on to produce and star in Rule #1, a new film from the writer of One Fine Day. She of the pointy chin and perky everything has added this tale of a New York woman who befriends a Puerto Rican girl with attention defecit disorder to her very, very long To Do list.In this case, we don't know if writer Terrel Seltzer's script is a comedy, drama, science-fiction action movie or something in between, just that it's about a woman and a girl with Add. Given Witherspoon's background, comedy's possible, but it seems more likely on the bare bones description that it's a drama more in line with her Just Like Heaven moments than her Legally Blonde ones.There's no word yet on where this will fit in on the Witherspoon To Do list: she's also got an untitled James L. Brooks film out next December,
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Blu-Ray Review: Phony ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ Deserves to Be Dumped
21 September 2009 7:59 AM, PDT
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Chicago – Here’s a perfect example of Hollywood filmmaking at its laziest. It’s difficult to imagine anyone in front of the camera or behind it breaking much of a sweat in their half-hearted attempt to satisfy a mainstream audience equipped with the lowest possible expectations. It’s doubly difficult to imagine a time when star Matthew McConaughey didn’t just act with his abs. His last film was named “Surfer, Dude,” and this one could easily be called “Cheater, Douche.”
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
Alas, his latest vehicle has the ungainly title “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” which alone would scare off most serious cinephiles. It’s the latest rip-off (sorry, “retread”) of Charles Dickens’ holiday perennial “A Christmas Carol,” and it’s the worst to hit Blu-Ray since “Scrooged.” There’s nothing redeemable about this film’s protagonist, or the film itself.
McConaughey lends his predictable brand of seductive sleaze to the role of Connor Mead,
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Tyler Perry 'Can Do' Good at the Box Office
13 September 2009 5:30 PM, PDT
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Tyler Perry's Madea swung her weight at the box office again, handily topping a modest weekend at the box office with her latest appearance in Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself. The weekend also saw a passable start for the animated 9 and the failures of two thrillers, Sorority Row and Whiteout. Overall business was off seven percent from the same weekend last year, when Burn After Reading and Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys opened. I Can Do Bad All By Myself yanked an estimated $24 million out of approximately 3,200 screens at 2,255 sites. It was the third highest-grossing debut for a Tyler Perry movie, though slightly above average in terms of attendance, and a new high for one of his Fall releases, topping The Family That Preys ($17.4 million) and Why Did I Get Married? ($21.4 million). Though not named in the title like Perry's biggest hits, Madea was
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- Brandon Gray
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[DVD Review] Almost Heaven
23 August 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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Why do good actors insist on starring in bad movies? I realize roles are probably pretty scarce for relative unknowns, but you wouldn't pounce upon a pile of shit just because you were sort of hungry, would you? Almost Heaven is a prime example of such desperate shit-eating. You might remember Donal Logue from the kind-of-amusing Grounded for Life and, um, the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven (I only watched it for Mark Ruffalo, I swear!) I actually think Logue is a good comedic actor, even if he does at times give off a douchy Dane Cook-esque vibe, but if he keeps deciding to take on roles in films as mediocre as Almost Heaven, he won't have much of a career.
The film concerns washed up, recently-divorced TV director Mark Brady (Donal Logue), who gets somewhat of a professional break when he lands a job shooting a Scottish wildlife program about fish.
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- Inna Mkrtycheva
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Haunts Your Love Life on DVD and Blu-ray on September 22nd
16 July 2009 1:26 PM, PDT
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You can watch Matthew McConaughey in every man's nightmare on DVD and Blu-ray this September. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 22. The barebones DVD will be priced at $28.98 Srp while the Blu-ray will be priced at $35.99 Srp. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas.
Connor Mead is the kind of guy who dumps three girlfriends. At the same time. By teleconference. So when he attends his brother's wedding he has a single goal: score with the only bridesmaid he somehow missed. But the ghost of his departed Uncle Wayne -who taught him to love 'em and leave 'em - has another goal in mind: restore Connor's lost faith in true love, a tough assignment requiring the services of many, many Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas and director Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Just Like Heaven
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HSM: Where They Are Now!
25 June 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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As the graduation checks pile high on your bedroom nightstand, you reflect back on a time that was perfectly innocent and you ponder the unknown. What will college be like, what will work be like, will I still keep in touch with my high school friends in five years? All very valid questions and depending on each circumstance, they will vary. There is one group of high school students we fell in love with a few years back and today we are checking in on them to see where their lives have gone and if they still stay in touch with one another. The students of East High changed the way we looked at clicks, changed the way we looked at musicals, and changed the way we looked at ourselves. For three consecutive years, High School Musical ruled the airwaves and the box office as it broke records, set records,
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- cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
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HSM: Where They Are Now!
25 June 2009 10:59 AM, PDT
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As the graduation checks pile high on your bedroom nightstand, you reflect back on a time that was perfectly innocent and you ponder the unknown. What will college be like, what will work be like, will I still keep in touch with my high school friends in five years? All very valid questions and depending on each circumstance, they will vary. There is one group of high school students we fell in love with a few years back and today we are checking in on them to see where their lives have gone and if they still stay in touch with one another. The students of East High changed the way we looked at clicks, changed the way we looked at musicals, and changed the way we looked at ourselves. For three consecutive years, High School Musical ruled the airwaves and the box office as it broke records, set records,
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- cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
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Reese Witherspoon as a Bad 'Pharm Girl'?
18 June 2009 4:03 PM, PDT
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Drugs could make a good girl go bad. Reese Witherspoon, who rose to stardom as a good girl in bubbly comedies Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama before winning an Oscar for the dramatic Walk the Line, will star in and produce Pharm Girl for Universal Pictures. Here's the "bad" part: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, responsible for I Love You Philip Morris but best known for writing the acerbic Bad Santa, "are writing the screenplay and in talks to direct," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It's hard to believe it's been 18 years since Reese debuted as a spunky young teen in Robert Mulligan's evocative The Man in the Moon. In the decade before Legally Blonde, she gave a scorching performance as an incredibly foul-mouthed, rebellious teen in Matthew Bright's super-dark Freeway (which had a biting comic edge), and eventually won wide acclaim in Alexander Payne's superb Election.
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Movie Review: “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past”
2 May 2009 9:50 AM, PDT
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Seen on: May 1, 2009
The players: Director: Mark Waters, Writers: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Robert Forster
Facts of interest: Mark Waters also directed "Mean Girls," "Freaky Friday" and "Just Like Heaven."
The plot: Connor Mead is a famous photographer who despises love and marriage, until he's visited by three ghosts who show him just how big a prick he really is.
Our thoughts: Trust me, you can certainly live happily ever after without seeing Mark Waters’ latest comedy “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.” I wouldn’t go as far and say I hated the film, but its lack of an original story line and the absence of laughs really made it hard for me to fall for this one.
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- Franck Tabouring
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True Blood soundtrack on the way; Bob Dylan promotes Season Two
1 May 2009 11:49 PM, PDT
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On May 19th, HBO will unleash the original soundtrack for their hit series, True Blood. The True Blood soundtrack includes the show theme song 'Bad Things' by Jace Everett and features artists such as C.C Adcock, Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Allen Toussaint, The Legendary Shack Shakers, The Watson Twins and more, all as heard in the show's first season.
In addition, HBO.com has just premiered a new Season Two promo featuring the new single "Beyond Here Lies Nothin" by the legendary Bob Dylan. See that clip, along with full details on the upcoming soundtrack after the jump!
The Season One Soundtrack features the following tracks:
1. Bad Things - Jace Everett
2. Bleed 2 Feed - C.C. Adcock
3. Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams
4. Give It Up - Lee Dorsey
5. Swampblood - The Legendary Shack Shakers
6. Play With Fire - Cobra Verde
7. Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins
8. Christine's Tune (A.
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Movie Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
1 May 2009 12:45 AM, PDT
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Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Photo: New Line Cinema
No, Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past is not a masterpiece and to think it is anything more than a cliched romantic comedy with a silly premise is ridiculous. It is what it is and it isn't trying to be anything more. Matthew McConaughey has become a punch line for his shirtless performances, but as folks make fun of him he is laughing his way to the bank as there is obviously an audience for his films and let's face it, he isn't half-bad considering what we are talking about.
In his latest outing his conquest is deemed to be Jennifer Garner as Matt plays Connor Mead, a playboy professional photographer who is best known for lovin' 'em and leavin' 'em -- Garner's character obviously being one of those ladies that has been "left." To kick start the
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Reese Witherspoon eyes dead-boyfriend flick for Fox
21 April 2009 6:48 AM, PDT
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Reese Witherspoon has never quite fallen into the typical rom-com trappings. Her vehicles aren’t necessarily unconventional, but she usually plays a self-starter whose interest in men can be nominal, at least at first (Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, Just Like Heaven). If the deal comes through for her proposed new flick Nice, though, she’s poised to take that to another level.
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Reese Witherspoon finally a superhero in 'Monsters vs. Aliens'
23 March 2009 3:53 AM, PDT
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There is no doubt that after seeing her wade expertly through rough waters for "Rendition," "Just Like Heaven" and "Four Christmases," Reese Witherspoon is the queen of studio press conferences. Yet, unlike other stars who try to cram their media requirements into a packed thirty minutes and act as though just sitting on the dais is causing them some sort of physical discomfort, Witherspoon is always as charming as can be. She may be more guarded about her personal life because of the paparazzi attention she’s received since her break up with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe and her tabloid friendly romance with
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Twilight Saga Daily Dosage - 03/07/09
7 March 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Not everything is about Robert Pattinson or Kristen Stewart. Today, the buzz has clearly been the announcement by Summit Entertainment that Dakota Fanning is officially playing Jane in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. At this point, few of us are surprised. And the reaction from Twilighters, though mostly pleasant, have also come with some naysayers. With our resident Twilight Saga expert away on vacation, I'm going to take this opportunity to really introduce everyone to Dakota Fanning, who is by far one of the most talented actresses ever to hit the big screen. With blockbusters such as Uptown Girls, Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, Push, Coraline...you just can't go wrong with Dakota! I was first introduced to Dakota when she played a young Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama. Reese is one of my favorite actresses, ever. I love her in Legally Blonde, Election, Fear, Just Like Heaven,
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Mark Waters Goes 'Minimum Wage'
10 January 2009 11:03 AM, PST
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If there's one thing you can't call Mark Waters -- it's "genre stuck." The man has brought us some pretty crappy romcoms, a family-friendly remake, an adventure movie, a film too often compared to Heathers, and one of my all-time favorites -- The House of Yes. And now, aside from the sequel to Mean Girls (he's listed as director on IMDb), The Hollywood Reporter posts that he's in final negotiations to helm a new comedy called Minimum Wage.
Penned by Tegan West and Scott Atkinson, the film will focus on "a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted." Now that is one heck of a unique punishment. Georgia Rule with older folks and hopefully less off-camera shenanigans? I'm sure he'll get charmed with small-town life just like Doc Hollywood. If only things like this
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Mark Waters Lines Up Next
8 January 2009 8:50 PM, PST
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Mark Waters is in negotiations to direct Minimum Wage, a timely comedy from Participant Media that tackles the effects of greed, report the trades.
The project is being developed by Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay, the producing team behind comedies such as Van Wilder, Employee of the Month and Wedding Crashers.
Wage centers on a corrupt corporate executive who is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted. It was written by Tegan West (The Cave) and Scott Atkinson.
Waters’ directing credits include Head Over Heels, Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Just Like Heaven. He ventured away from the rom-coms last year for the adventure/fantasy flick The Spiderwick Chronicles.
He recently finished work on The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a rom-com starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner which is set to open in May.
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