Release Date: September 18, 2009
Director: Steven Sodenbergh
Producer: Gregory Jacobs
Starring: Scott Bakula, Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Joel McHale
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
The Steven Soderbergh directed mole thriller, ‘The Informant’, is a jesting caper concerning a ham-fisted office employee who staggers into corporate corruption, eventually becoming a bungling infiltrator for the Federal governance. The Kurt Eichenwald novel adapted movie is speckled with some truly hilarious moments making for some fine jolly viewing.
Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is a biochemist swiftly garnering success and rising up the corporate ladder at the agri-industry heavy-weight, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), when abruptly he metamorphoses into a turncoat of sorts, pulling the lid off the malicious price-falsification transgressions within the organisation. He even approves to don a wire to...
The ‘Saturday Night Live’ season premiere is slated for a humongous kick-start to its 35th season on September 26, with none other than the sultry Megan Fox as the host. Megan would be seen doing the promotion rounds for her upcoming Diablo Cody-helmed, horror comedy film, ‘Jennifer’s Body’ to be released on 18th September and additionally taking centre stage hosting the SNL show.
To add to the hype, the musical guest of honour would be U2 bracing the stage on 26th September. The band would be performing merely two days subsequent to the Dublin based rockers hauling in their 360° Tour to two fully packed nights at the venue of East Rutherford, New Jersey’s Giants Stadium.
U2’s forthcoming show on SNL would be the third performance that Bono, the Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton have belted out Rockfeller Center’s ‘Studio 8H’. The group ‘No Line on the Horizon’...
A pronouncement noticed on the web page of LeAnn Rimes stated that she was taking a divorce, though her hubby’s name had been wrongly spelled out there. However, the CNN news station was unsuccessful in promptly getting in touch with the spokespersons of Rimes in order to corroborate the proclamation, the posting for which was observed on Tuesday.
The declaration making reference to Dean Sheremet stated that subsequent to a great deal of thought and joint contemplation, the duo have come to a conclusion of going ahead with annulling their marriage. The couple had been married for seven long years. It does seem like the seven-year-itch did finally take its toll on this lovey-dovey couple.
The note mentioned that the conclusion was a totally harmonious one and that the two had decided to continue to have a committed and considerate camaraderie, with continued utter approbation for each other.
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Release Date: October 9th, 2009
Starring: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Faizon Love, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell
Directed by: Peter Billingsley
Produced by: Victoria Vaughn (II), Guy Riedel, Vince Vaughn
Distributors: Universal Pictures
Genre: Comedy
‘Couples Retreat’ is a mirthful take at the ground-zero level nuances of quandaries that couples stumble upon. The Iron-man director, Jon Favreau has penned down the comical, helmed by novice director Peter Billingsley and musical extravaganza dished out by none other than Academy award winner, genius composer, A.R. Rehman of Slumdog Millionaire fame, sees the pairing of the duo ‘Made’ teammates on-screen alongside co-actors like witty Jason Bateman and Faizon Love.
The humorous movie sheds light on the lives of four couples paired as Vince Vaughn with Malin Akerman, Faizon Love alongiside Kali Hawk, Jason Bateman with Kristen Bell, and...
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Kenneth Williams, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall
Director: John Hillcoat
Studio: Dimension Films
Genre: Drama
The movie adapted from McCarthy’s book beckoned as a masterwork of rare, overwhelming straightforwardness, is a wonderful story with the potential to become a magnum opus. Idyllically, the audience would be able to cogently and effectively gaze through the apparent, external viciousness of the story to perceive the quivering core of belief, adoration and frantic humankind that it masks.
Hillcoat definitely seems the ideal pick to direct ‘The Road’ on the basis of the potency of his past unforgiving movie ‘The Proposition’. John Hillcoat’s entrancing and shattering adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy’s book par excellence ‘The Road’, delves into the intensely profound bond...
In a latest revelation, the organisers have made a surprising announcement that states that no Oscar would be presented in the best category during the subsequent year’s ceremonial function if none of the songs are considered as being fine enough for that group.
New-fangled regulations would signify that each song that becomes an entry would necessarily need to gather at least a scoring of 8.25 on a rating range of six to ten, during the voting procedure undertaken by the music associates of the Academy.
The chief of the Academy’s music section, music composer Bruce Broughton has stated that they have undertaken this stance as a means to enhance the quality standards that would make the song entries worth their while. The 230-strong crew of the music section of the Academy is believed to give a rating to every song entry.
In yet another revolutionary step, the Academy has decided to move...
Ardent fans celebrated Michael Jackson’s birthday with utter fervour, hailing in what would have been his 51st birthday. There have been revelries and collective dances all round the globe marking the King of Pop’s birthday.
In the city of Mexico, event organisers have exclaimed that they had smashed a colossal record of the largest number of individuals boogying to the famed tunes of Thriller, with a reported near 13,000 turning up for the occasion.
In the city of New York, Spike Lee who formerly helmed Jackson’s hit ‘They Don’t Really Care About Us’ in 1996, staged a party held in the Prospect Park, Brooklyn that he expressed as a merry, joyful and commemorative event and intends to make it into an annual event. The carnival-like celebrations drew in nearly ten thousand fans in spite of the torrential downpour, with a disk jockey spinning out Jackson’s numerous hits.
In Jackson’s...