| After dispensing with former colleagues
O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in Kill Bill Vol. 1, the
Bride resumes her quest for justice. With those two
down, she has two remaining foes on her Death List to
pursue – Budd (Madsen) and Elle Driver (Hannah)
– before moving on to her ultimate goal, which
is to kill Bill (Carradine).
***
|
About a Boy is a comedy-drama
starring Hugh Grant as Will, a rich and irresponsible
Londoner who invents an imaginary son and starts attending
single parent meetings. As a result, he meets Marcus,
an odd 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually,
Will and Marcus become friends. Will teaches Marcus
how to be a cool kid; Marcus helps Will to finally grow
up.
*** |
Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, and
David Duchovny star in this romantic comedy about Connie
and Carla, who accidentally witnessed a mafia hit. They
assume new identities and new careers. With the mafia
zeroing in, Connie and Carla refuse to compromise, decide
to fight the good fight, and discover the transformative
power of cosmetics.
*** |
In the year 1193 BC, Paris, a
prince of Troy stole Helen, Queen of Sparta, away from
her husband, Menelaus, setting the kingdoms of Mycenaean
Greece at war with Troy. The Greeks began a bloody siege
that lasted over ten years. Achilles was the greatest
hero among the Greeks, while Hector of Troy embodied
the hopes of the people of his city.
***** |
Ten months after the murder of
Yan (Tony Leung), Ming (Andy Lau) is relegated to mundane
office work, pending internal investigation. His wife
having left him, Ming is running on empty, but soon
a new star has emerged in the police force. Wing (Leon
Lai) has already risen to the top. As the two of them
become friends, Ming discovers a dark side behind Wing’s
suave façade.
*** |
| Set in the Caribbean Sea in the
17th century, this is the story of a gentleman rogue
of a pirate, Jack Sparrow, who teams up with the daughter
of a governor to stop the evil plan of a ship of dangerous
pirates who are trying to reverse an ancient curse that
leaves them stuck between life and death, with the light
of the moon revealing their skeletons, like some kind
of undead monsters.
*** |
Hal (Jack Black) dates only pretty
girls. Intrigued by Hal’s shallowness, Tony Robbins
hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty of ugly women.
Hal is smitten after meeting the morbidly obese Rosemary,
who is transformed into the physical perfection that
is Gwyneth Paltrow. After Mauricio (Jason Alexander)
undoes the hypnosis, Hal must face an unrecognizable
Rosemary and make a fateful decision.
*** |
Two police detective
partners, Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson, and Dave
Starsky, who seem to get all the toughest cases from
their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street
informer Huggy Bear. They race to the scene of the crimes
in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod,telling
the story of their first big case, which involved a
former college campus drug dealer.
*** |
The enemy is
nature itself. An abrupt climate change has cataclysmic
consequences for the planet. Jack Hall predicted the
coming of another ice age, but never expected it to
happen during his lifetime. Jack has to convince the
President to evacuate the country in order to save millions,
including his son Sam. Jack must make a perilous trek
against the clock to save his son.
*** |
The Whangara
people believe they descended from a single ancestor,
Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by
riding to shore on the back of a whale. Thus, Whangara
chiefs, considered
Paikea’s direct descendants, have always been
the first-born, and male. Pai, an 11-year-old girl,
must fight a thousand years of tradition to become the
leader.
** |
In
2035 there is a murder at U.S. Robotics and a robophobic policeman,
played by Will Smith, believes robots are responsible. I,
ROBOT, is a takeoff from the world of Isaac Asimov’s
robot world, but it is not a film the futuristic writer would
have enjoyed. The film falls flat in its portrayal of a conspiracy
involving robots. The robots’ behavior is examined and
anlyzed in terms of Asimov’s laws of robotics, but not
very convincingly. Nevertheless, the mix of live action and
animation is almost seamless, and that is the main draw.
