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Scream 4 Official Movie Prop Auction Saturday April 16th, 2011

Published by in Comedy, Horror, Movie News, Movie Props, Movies on April 10th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Scream Fans!  Don’t miss Hollywood Live Auctions Official “Scream 4″ Movie Prop Auction.  I will be hosting & it’s a blast!  Saturday April 16th, 2011. The auction starts at 11am PST & goes all day into the night! Bloody machetes, bloody hospital gowns, screen used cell phones, screen word hero wardrobe.  It’s all there!!   You do have to pre-register at www.hollywoodliveauctions.com or call (888) 761-PROP.  Be there or Beware!

Leo

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Arthur Film Freak Movie Review

Published by in Comedy, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies on April 6th, 2011 | No Comments »

I barely remember the original “Arthur” from 1981.  I honestly liked Dudley Moore because he was the dude from “10″ with Bo Derek.  That’s another story.  Flash forward 30 years to the “Arthur” 2.0 starring Russell Brand.  The movie tagline refers to Arthur as being the only lovable billionaire.  That’s up for debate.  Dudley Moore was charming & funny.  Russell Brand is British.

Here’s the story.  Arthur lives the good life in New York City not knowing the value of a dollar.  He’s kept in control by his nanny Dobson. (Helen Mirren)  As fate would have it, Arthur’s mum issues an ultimatum either marry business overachiever Susan (Jennifer Garner) or instantly be removed from the wealthy family’s power teet, AKA no millions for Arthur.  Along the way he falls for Naomi (Greta Gerwig) who’s hustling tourists with a charming little unlicensed walking tour business.

What I like about the film is Russell Brand has the chops to ad-lib within the moment.  He manages to spurt out at least a 1/2 dozen funny anecdotes, but it’s not enough.  Many supposedly funny scenes fall flat. On a physical note, I think it’s wee bit arrogant that Russell Brand will not change his look.  It’s the same from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Get Him to the Greek.” (OK, same character there, that’s not a big deal.) The Tempest & most recently “Hop.” (OK, he was just the voice, but I bet his wild hair was there in the recording booth!)

If Russell Brand wants to be a gifted actor, he’ll need to vary his characters’ looks like Daniel Day Lewis, Sean Penn or Christian Bale.  I grant you, those are today’s best actors.  Not one of them is saying, “Hey, y’see this thick mound of hair do you? It’s not to be touched. Not one luscious lock.” It’s repetitive.   At the end of the day, there’s one big difference between the original and the remake.  I can’t tell you what it is, but it works. Ultimately, the yucks in “Arthur” were too few & far between.  But the movie does have heart and a touch of charm.

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Hanna: Dead On Target! The Film Freak Movie Review

Published by in Action, Drama, DVD Review, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies on April 5th, 2011 | No Comments »

Saoirse Ronan is Hanna.  At 16 years old, this talented actress drives the film & it rests squarely on her shoulders.  Can you imagine how good she’ll be in another 16 years?  Easy prediction.  She’ll be the best 32-year old actress on the planet.   “Hanna” is a top-notch action film with layers of original spins.

Eric Bana is an ex CIA rogue operative who raises Hanna on a remote polar icecap teaching her techniques to be the world’s most efficient killing machine.  Snow scenes filmed in Finland ran anywhere from 29 to 35 degrees below zero.  So many films have taken the easy route & tried to fake snow scenes inside a warm fuzzy soundstage, ala “Red Riding Hood.”  I appreciate it when actors & film crews freeze their tushes off in the middle of nowhere to make a movie realistic.  Hats off to director Joe Wright & crew!

Saoirse Ronan also worked 6 hours a day for months on her martial arts moves.  It pays off with a swift economy of movement & a believable on-screen lethality.  As you can see in the trailer, Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett) is hunting down Hanna. Or is Hanna hunting down Marissa Wiegler?  CIA operatives are cold blooded killers & so are their buddies.

Enter Isaacs. (Tom Hollander) He’s further off the grid & will do the dirtiest of deeds for a hush-hush CIA payday.  Hollander goes with a dyed blond hair look with a seemingly summer country club attire.  This physical presence was premeditated by Joe Wright way back in the 1980′s. Growing up, Joe & other nice middle-class kids were flat out terrorized by a group of well-dressed jock type bullies they simply called, The Casuals.  As a filmmaker, Joe’s memories were summoned up & utilized in the film.

Ultimately, Hanna is a story of revenge & origin.  Who’s after her & why?  Who is she?  Why is she racing across three countries to find Marissa Wiegler?  The answers are all there.  Hanna is definitely worth checking out.

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Your Highness, You’re No Princess Bride

Published by in Comedy, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies on April 5th, 2011 | No Comments »

I was curious.  Could “Your Highness,” be the period piece comedy,  to make a run at one of my top 5 favorite films of all time,  “The Princess Bride?”  Not. Even. Close.  “Your Highness” always goes for the cheap laugh.  I get it.  I love raunchy rated “R” comedies.  “There’s Something About Mary,” kills me!  “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,”  I am one of the Sorrow Suckers! In those movies, I actually cared about the characters.  Not so much in “Your Highness.”

James Franco & Danny McBride play brothers.  McBride is jealous of his heroic, svelt sibling.  The weird thing here, Franco displays intense physical affection for his own brother.  That’s pretty messed up.  I say, who cares if two men are gay?  But brothers?  I just don’t get it.

Kudos for filming in Northern Ireland.  There’s gorgeous scenery.  On the other hand, it looked like smaller scenes were filmed inside Medieval Times.  British accents are tough.  Natalie Portman pulls hers off perfectly.  McBride & Franco flat out butcher Brit accents.

I love to laugh. Comedies are what we all need.  What you have here is a stoner comedy at its core.  Don’t over think it.  This movie tries to get laughs for all the wrongs reasons.  Hehe, they keep saying the “F” word.  Hehe there’s boobies.  Hehe there’s gay humor.  Hehe there’s a penis.    There’s an uber cringing moment when a horny pot-smoking oracle talks about  sexually abusing James Franco’s character as a child.  The bar has been lowered here.  At the very least, it’s in terrible taste to do child sex abuse jokes.  It’s a cheap shot. There’s too much other stuff to make fun of in this setting.

If you’re looking for a movie with charm, wonderment, sword fights, miracles, heroics, true love…..you’d better rent “The Princess Bride.”

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Soul Surfer Soars! The True Story of Bethany Hamilton

Published by in Drama, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies on April 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »

Back in 2003, I’d heard about the surfer girl from Hawaii who’s left arm was taken by a 14-foot Tiger Shark.  “Soul Surfer” is not a film about a shark attack.   This is the true, incredulous story of Bethany Hamilton.  There is a shark attack that lasts, at the most, about one second in the film.  AnnaSophia Robb took on the lead role  & even did some of her own surfing in the film.  The stunt surfer was Bethany Hamilton.  Would you want it any other way?

The “Soul Surfer” cast includes veterans like Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt & Craig T. Nelson. When you have actors of that caliber, it takes any film to the next level & makes everyone around them better.   In her first feature film role, Carrie Underwood holds her own playing Bethany’s youth group leader & friend, Sara Hill.

The question comes down to this: When something terrible happens in your life, something really horrible, like losing your arm to a Tiger Shark….what do you do?  Do you pack your bags & shrivel away from any new challenges  & everything you thought you knew?  Or do you pick yourself up & find a new path?

Couple that with extensive surfing coverage above & below the water.  It’s intense & really gives you an idea of just how insane & unforgiving those Hawaii waves must be.  This chick is fearless.  Cynics may turn there nose up at a film like this, but I believe the message far outweighs any superficial flaws.  Go Bethany!

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Hesher Film Freak Movie Review Bad Hair Santa

Published by in Comedy, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies on April 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »

Here’s the thing about Hesher.  Hesher was rough, but it had to be.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt played it like Bad (Hair) Santa.  (In that holiday classic, Billy Bob Thorton was extremely rough on the kid & softened up as the movie progressed.) Same exact thing with Hesher. (BTW, see Bad Santa right now if you haven’t already.)

The kid who played TJ (Devin Brochu) was really good.  You genuinely cared about his journey.  Rainn Wilson plays the grieving father zoned out on prescription drugs.  He’s really just kinda there.  Natalie Portman’s character, Nicole, is what bothered me most about this movie.  In her own way, she’s sinister, more messed up than Hesher. No spoilers here.


In my opinion, Hesher was way too hard core, sets the bar for crudeness, brutal beyond belief, unapologetic, with a touch of heart.  I said a touch of heart, not near enough of it.  I still feel like that long-haired Hesher needs a good ass-kicking.

I know some will say how cool this loner Hesher is. He’s this, he’s that.  You know what he is?  He’s a friendless douchebag.  It’s all up there on the screen.  Maybe somebody should enlighten the audience to justify this bitter behavior. (Oh & why exactly am I paying $12 bucks to see this?)

Hesher hits theaters Friday May 13th, 2011

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Source Code Film Freak Movie Review + 1st 5 Minutes

Published by in Action, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies, Science Fiction on March 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission, only he doesn’t even know it.  He awakens on a morning train commute & quickly discovers he’s taken over another man’s body.  Why is he here? Who are these people?  What the heck is-BOOOOOOM!!! Lights out.  Train explodes.  It’s a tough eight minutes & that’s the essence of  “Source Code.”  It’s a top secret military program allowing soldiers to inhabit a person’s brain & relive the last 8 minutes of their life.

Captain Stevens gets his briefing from his knockout military liasion, Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga).  Now the mission is brutal but clear:  Locate the bomber to prevent further terrorist attacks.  It really is like Groundhog Day, only it’s intensely  Sci-Fi with zero humor.

With every 8-minute failure, Stevens gets closer & closer to preventing this tragedy.  Along for the ride is, (Christina Warren) Michelle Monaghan.  The flirtations become more informative, eight minutes at a time.  But hey, in a parallel reality anything’s possible right?  No spoilers here.

Director Duncan Jones is sure to leave an abundance of clues.  If you’d like to figure it all out, all you have to do is watch seemingly random shots ordinary objects & normal passengers.  There’s mostly information with little disinformation to throw us off track.

In an effort to re-create a different explosion experience on film every time, the special effects grew more & more fake. This type of time-travel film has a polarizing effect on the audience.  I loved “Groundhog Day,” but I could watch Bill Murray be funny all day, that’s just me.  As for “Source Code,” it just seemed like 8-minutes of film spread out & regurgitated over 2 hours.  Not all of  it was nail-biting, there was a lot of looking at my watch thinking one thing: After this is over, should I pick up Chinese take out or pizza?

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Insidious Film Freak Movie Review

Published by in Horror, Movie News, Movie Review, Movies on March 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

As a four year old kid, there was this song that always freaked me out.  At that time, the artist, Tiny Tim was, at the very least, a musical oddity.  He resembled, an impossible to fathom, a more sinister version of Rock n’ Roll icon, Alice Cooper. Tiny Tim turned up the creepiness strumming his ukulele to administer his  signature song, “Tip Toe Through the Tulips.”  It takes me right back to a feeling of being helpless & scared. This guy was my childhood Freddy Krueger.  It gave me nightmares.  Kudos to James Wan for recognizing the strangest slice of  pop culture music & infusing it into his latest film, “Insidious.”  The is the scariest PG-13 movie since, “The Ring.”

Finally, a horror film cast with good actors.  Everyone at the top of their game, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne & Lin Shaye, who’s always on point.   “Insidious” tells a story of possession.  A young family confronts trauma as their son lies in a coma.  The “Insidious” video clip here will shed light.

Over the last decade or so, horror movies by & large have remained flat. “Insidious” was done with sheer cleverness.  The musical score taunts & elevates to the point of distress.  The sound design terrorizes.  The plot keeps driving forward.  It’s all right there, everything you want in a scary movie.  As for me, from now on, I’m gonna be suspicious of anybody who goes out of their way to NOT have their picture taken.

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Limitless Film Freak Movie Review + Very Cool Fight Scene

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What if there was a pill that allowed you to access 80% of your brain’s capacity instead of the usual 20%?  Would you do it?  That’s the burning question for Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper).   Of course he does.  “Limitless” tells the story of a writer who doesn’t write.  He really doesn’t do anything else for that matter.

While walking down a New York City street, you can’t help but see it.  Eddie’s on a downward spiral.  All the usual suspects are here.   Bearded stubble, long freaky dirty hair, bloodshot eyes, cigarette dangling from the mouth, shoddy clothes.  At the moment you think to yourself, geez this guy needs a makeover, Boom!

He runs into his ex brother-in-law & they go for a drink.  It’s here when Eddie gets his hands on NZT.  It’s the said drug allowing full brain capacity.  You can guess what happens next.  Eddie Morra cleans up & cleans up very well.  Writer’s Block be damned.  This man’s on a role.  The super jazzed brain effects begin.  Our point of view becomes a low-flying guided missile through the crowded streets (one too many times throughout the film).   NZT side effects include, dizziness, nausea, loss of appetite, hyper awareness, blackouts, paranoia & murder. No spoilers here.

Robert DeNiro is solid as always, but grossly under utilized.  If I was directing “Limitless,” I’d get 80% more usage out of DeNiro.  You don’t need a miracle pill to figure that one out.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – Sneak Peek’ Coming Soon to Disneyland Park

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If you’re looking forward to the new adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” then you won’t want to miss the exciting new pirate experience coming to Disneyland park. Beginning March 25, you can join Captain Jack and a crew of rowdy pirates for a Disneyland park-exclusive, extended 3D film sequence – a sneak peek of the new movie (opening May 20).

'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Exclusive 3D Sneak Peek

It’ll be “all hands on deck” as park guests take on the role of pirates and enter Festival Arena to “set sail” for high adventure with Captain Jack and many of the new Pirate stars in the unique, immersive 3D film experience, featuring a scene from the new movie. Look for “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – Sneak Peek” on weekend nights from March 25 to May 30, and seven nights a week from April 15 through May 1.

Check the Disneyland park Show Times Guide for nightly sailing times, and get ready for a rollicking good time filled with action, suspense and laughter.

It’s fun for the whole family – and it’s only at Disneyland park!

Are any of you scallywags out there excited to join Jack’s crew?

You can follow the film on Facebook and Twitter to find out more about the upcoming Disney Pictures release “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”

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