December 2008 Archives

ADAM SANDLER stars as many different heroes in his new movie, Bedtime Stories, due out in cinemas on Boxing Day.

The Wedding Singer actor stars along side Kerri Russell (Wonder Woman, Scrubs), Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand and Guy Pearce, star of Christopher Nolan's Memento.

But they're not the only stars in this video feature, there's also the wide-eyed hamster 'Bugsy'.

Click on the video below to see interviews and clips from the upcoming movie.

The international bestseller finally arrives on the big screen!

Bella Swan is the lonely misfit who moves to a smalltown in the middle of nowehere to start a new life with her Father after her mother remarries.

Bella soon meets Edward Cullen, who make just be the man of her dreams. There's only one small problem though...he's a vampire...

It's Christmas time once again and once again the animated feel-good movies are being rolled out.

The Tale of Despereaux has is one such CGI flick which will be tugging at your heart string this cold, festive season.

A ban on soup is enforced in the make-belief land of Dor after the Queen dies having spotted a rat in her bowl of broth and consequently all rats and mice are banned from the kingdom as well.

Despereaux is a small mouse with big ambitions to fight the ban and restore hope to the kingdom once more.

If you liked Ratatouille or your kids love rodents then this will be a winter must-see.

Still together. Still making us laugh.

Madagascar returns to the silver screen this week after three long years.

The sequel to the often underrated 2005 catches up with Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller) and his furry friends where the last film left off.

Desperate to go home to their zoo in New York Alex, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo and Melman the Giraffe board a plane built and piloted by four psychotic penguins...as you will have already guessed that spells trouble right from takeoff, the result of which sees the animals crash landing on an African nature reserve.

Alex makes the highly improbable revelation of finding his parents from whom he was separated as a cub before washing up in New York, Marty finds a million Zebras who are all exactly identical to him, Gloria falls in love, Melman thinks he's going to die and the penguins run amok stealing jeeps and abandoning tourists in the savanna...

Kids may be left a little disappointed by the lack of visual gags in Dreamworks latest offering but they will be too mesmerized by talking animals to even notice. And the older kids, namely the adults will not be disappointed either.

Although a million Zebra's all possessing the same voice as Chris Rock does get quite unbearably after a while and you may end up wishing that you were deafer than a dead parrot.

But if you want to take your kids to a film that even you will enjoy this winter holiday then this is definitely one of the few even adults will enjoy.

Starring DiCaprio and Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott, you would assume that this film has all the makings of great movie.

And you would assume right, because it does.

The plot centres around DiCaprio's character, CIA Agent Roger Ferris's dealings with his handler, Ed Hoffman (Crowe) and their hunt for the elusive terrorist Al Salim.

Far aflung from your derived, standard terrorist plot, Ridley Scott takes the standard and turns it on its head showing modern covert war from the inside out.

The directing is spot-on with strong performances through-out.

Brutal, hard hitting and unlike any other spy film you'll see this year, Body of Lies is out in cinemas nationwide.

So it's the festive season and we've got a tonne of holiday movies coming out, mostly they're just the same old, tried garbage and nothing like the classics.

Four Christmases unfortunately falls into that category of tried garbage.

Starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, Four Christmases tells the story of a couple and their attempts to visit their divorced parents' four respective families on Christmas day.

They book a holiday and give phoney excuses for not being able to see their families on Christmas Day, however their flight gets cancelled and as luck would have it their families find out.

There is some laughs to be had, but the story in run-of-the mill and both actors seem out of place in this piece of badly written, poorly directed, Christmas cash-in.

Four Christmases is out in cinemas nationwide, but a movie like this is best left under the Hollywood tree.