On the plus side, I didn’t feel like I’d seen Deja Vu before.
Denzel Washington returns in Deja Vu – starring as ATF agent Doug Carlin, he is assigned to investigate a terrorist attack on a passenger ferry on the New Orleans Harbour. However, as bizarre clues and inexplicable occurences start to stack up, Carlin is recruited to take part in a top secret project with the aim of finding out exactly what happened.
Daniel Craig shows us that preconceived notions are intended to be broken.
For something like 12 months before the release of the latest Bond mega-hit Casino Royale the media was full of “the story”: Bond was Blond! Blond actor Daniel Craig stepped into the role of Bond, and was almost immediately pelted with ‘he’s too blond’, ‘he’s too feminine’, ‘he’s not going to be able to pull off the role’, ‘he’s too young’ and a million other such blatant insults.
All things considered, X Men: The Last Stand, the third instalment of the massively successful X Men franchise, has probably been one of my most anticipated films of 2006, mostly because I had many questions to be answered after X Men 2: What happened to Jean Gray? Would Rogue and Iceman ever grow up? How would the Professor control his team now? How would Cyclops and Wolverine respond to the loss of Jean Gray? These questions (and many more) needed answers, and as far as I was concerned, the sooner the better.
From the moment Dan Brown, writer of The Da Vinci Code, announced that he had sold the film rights to his novel to producer Brian Grazer and eventual director Ron Howard, its fate was sealed. This would be the most talked about film of 2006, a controversial release which would divide the audience between those who accepted the film for what it was – a fictional movie, those who watched it and believed the ridiculous claims it was making (which is really the concern behind the protest of the Catholic church), and those who would be avoiding the film at all costs.
“Why do you dress in black? You look like you’re going to a funeral,” says a random record company executive. Cash stares straight back and says “well, maybe I am.”
Let me start by saying this: The Lord of the Rings is the best movie trilogy of all time. It represents a coming together of the perfect story, the perfect script, the perfect director to make the films, the perfect cast all suited to their roles, the perfect technology becoming available (or being developed) on cue, and all coming together at the perfect time.
It’s the end of the movie when Carl Denham delivers the infamous line, saying “it wasn’t the planes; it was beauty that killed the beast.”; and with that King Kong – both the character and the movie – is finished.
There are many things the American people are renowned for. Hershey’s chocolate bars. Twinkies. War. The Bush Family. Celebrity culture. Jazz music. Arrogance and ego. Obsession with sports.
Go to Dictionary.com, and it will tell you that ‘guilt’ is defined as “self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing”. Watch The Machinist, and you might just see what extreme guilt can do to a man.
Keanu Reeves playing a hero stuck between the real world, and a world that lies just beyond the imagination, with no possible chance of going back.
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