I’ve waited YEARS for the box office king and queen to unite and finally it’s happened and the film has arrived. Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this war drama about a congressman’s covert dealings in Afghanistan.
The movie comes out on Christmas day.
I’ve loved Freddie Highmore ever since I saw him in one of my favorite movies Finding Neverland, and of course Jonathan Rhys Myers and those hypnotizing eyes are enough to get my ass in the theater seat.
Looks like a good movie, too.
Bennifer 2.0 were caught making a stop at Starbucks with their daughter Violet recently. I’m not sure what Jennifer’s up to at the moment, but Ben just directed a movie called Gone Baby Gone based on a novel–starring Morgan Freeman and Casey Affleck (his brother).
I have a soft spot in my heart for Ben, so I’ll probably end up seeing it, even if the accents are going to drive me nuts.
Trailer and more pics after the jump. (more…)
I love Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart so hopefully this movie will be pretty good. It comes out July 27th.
Tomorrow A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie’s new film about Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, comes out in theaters. It’s been getting a lot of buzz obviously because of the Brangelina craze, with Brad Pitt being one of the producers of the film, also because of the tragic story the film is based upon, and Jolie’s hypocritical actions toward the press as of late.
Either way, the movie looks like it’ll be some good, and her performance is getting good reviews, even if her accent in the trailer sounds horrendous.
Here is a synopsis of the film from the official Paramount press release:
On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband
Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story
on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had
promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane
he might be late for dinner. He never returned.In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the
power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort
to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and
Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was
carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam
to the father he would never meet.Transcending religion, race and nationality,
Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues
to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life
she and Danny shared.
The Rock is no Sean Penn, but I have a soft spot for him. He’s sexy and charismatic, and I generally enjoy him in his movies–even if the movies themselves aren’t that great. And who can forget his hilarious portrayal of a gay man in Be Cool?
