Men’s Group is a cleverly crafted film by Australian’s Michael Joy, Director, and John L Simpson, producer. It is the result of a collaboration that started between Joy & Simpson when they tragically lost dear friends. They reaslised that many men in their relationships as partners, sons and fathers faced many dilemmas and situations that usually went unvoiced.
The perspective they have come up with is a group of seven men from different walks of life who are all facing their own dilemmas and situations in a solitary fashion.
The scenario begins when these men meet for the first time in the suburban Sydney home of paul who facilitates the meetings. It would appear that the majority of them are there are under duress and can’t see the point of the seemingly unstructured meetings.
The environment that the men meet in tells its own story, along with the snippets of their own lives that is intertwined between the meetings. This creates a relationship and empathy for the audience with each of the characters. Read the rest of this entry »
Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese have “demanded the immediate release” of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge.
The Reader is a complex film that grapples with an array of moral, ethical and social issues. Presented in three parts, it starts off slow with a story of the sexual conquest of a young boy by an older woman. This initial act, seems to go on for a little too long, seemingly crossing over the line into the realms of gratuity with it’s stark depictions of nudity and sex. It’s only in acts two and three that we realise that far from being gratuitous, act one was only setting up our emotions and preconceptions for the remaining parts of the film.
I think it’s fair to say up front that I’m not a big Halo fan. I’m not a hater either; I’ve just never got into Halo as much as some other FPS. I think I prefer my games (and I know I’m going to get mocked for saying this) to be grounded in some degree of reality. If it’s a FPS, I want to be using a gun that actually exists, even if it’s not in general use quite yet. I really would rather have an obsolete World War 2 rifle than a plasma gun any day. If it’ a racing game I don’t want to be able to bounce off walls with on damage – there has to be consequences. 
How do you start a review for what Microsoft would likely call ‘One of the most anticipated games of the year’, a game which got a name change and went from being a stand alone expansion to a full retail game not to mention a halo game without a halo, mention of a halo and indeed no Master Chief. Probably with a big sigh and a gritting of teeth. 
Mortimer “Mo” Folchart has dragged his thirteen year old daughter Meggie across the world after loosing his wife. He restores books for a living, but this only hides his true goal; to find a rare copy of a book titled Inkheart. Aftre locatinga copy in an antique bookshop in some European town, he is approached by a shady character named Dustfinger. Meggie overhears Dustfinger calling her father ‘Silvertongue’and soon discovers that her father has the ability to bring characters out of the books and in to the real world. They escape from Dustfinger heading to Italy to see Meggie’s aunt Elinor Loredan’s, But the evil men of the Capricorn (from the book) abduct them with the intention of forcing Mo to bring the most evil Inkheart character – The Shadow – to Earth. 
Powerhouse producer Jerry Bruckheimer has a thing for rodents, apparently. Well, at least cute little guinea pigs if G-Force is anything to go by. The Government is training a top-secret team of talking guinea pigs; to go where normal agents just can’t go (like drain pipes). Of course, their first mission goes south and they are marked for termination – in the lateral sense – so they escape and embark on their own mission, to prove their worth, and safe the planet from rogue killer household appliances! 
Summit Entertainment announced today that it has tapped the filmmaking team behind this spring’s hit film Fast & Furious – director Justin Lin and producer Neal H. Moritz – to direct and produce respectively the studio’s re-imagination of the cult film Highlander. Summit’s Highlander is being written by Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Peter Davis, long time producer of Highlander, will also produce the film. Summit acquired the rights to remake the cult classic from Davis – Panzer Productions, Inc. in May of 2008.
Book ended by scenes of physical transformation in transit stations – our hit man protagonist simply entitled ‘lone man’ changing into and then out of his professional attire – it is clear that Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature The Limits of Control (hereafter: Limits) is all about the journey rather than the destination. A measured and meditative piece Limits is a beautifully realised ode cinema.
