Waiting shed.

To TWILIGHT or not.

Two more nights 'till twilight opens in movie houses everywhere (except that one along Claveria) and I'm still in doubt if I will go catch it. Wasn't able to read the book. Wasn't enticed by the trailer and, wasn't a fan of vampire after the infamous Maria Lobo (with accent) came out.

But I have this eagerness and curiosity to watch and judge the movie myself. It had mixed reviews in the US, and a rotten status in rottentomatoes.com, but the box-office receipts are somewhat contradicting. (Go check out box office listing). They said that you wouldn't appreciate the film if you haven't read the book, which is of course not in line with my expertise.(reading)."The movie turned out to be nothing but a chick flick of fake fangs", says someone in the forum, "The chemistry of the two leads is undeniably vibrant and affectionate", says another one. The latter turned out to be an avid fan of the book, while the former is a certified macho who loves blood bathe and R rated films. Whose side are you in favor now?

Anyway, I have my own analysis. I loved Perfume: The Story of a Murderer though it was inferior in reviews and I haven't read the novel first. I love Interview with the Vampire, and Underworld which in fact is something about creatures with emphatic tooth. So, I'll go watch it on wednesday, and if this turn out to be good, Thanks. And if it isn't, well Bolt might save my day.

Ice Age 3 Teaser Trailer

Moviefone has the first teaser for Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,This was leaked on the interweb a week or so ago, but this one won't give you vertigo with its handheld wobbliness.

As is tradition, this one features little fang-toothed squirrel thing Scrat (what is he, actually?) and his never-ending quest for a giant acorn. Scrat's always the best thing in the movies, so it's as gently amusing as you'd hope.

However, dinosaurs? Dinosaurs? In an Ice Age movie? We're all for suspension of disbelief and have little truck with pedantic whining about fiddled facts in movies, but that's some major scientific revisionism there. And Dawn of the Dinosaurs? By the time mammoth were lolloping across the icy plains, the dinosaurs were well past dawn. They were several million years past dawn. Even late evening was a distant memory to their poor, extinct, walnut-sized brains. We're not well-respected pre-historians, but isn't there somewhere in the region of 60 million years between the existence of T-rex and mammoth? They're not even in the same geological period, and those things are big.

What about the children who'll be watching this movie and wondering why their teacher has been lying to them about history? They might turn to creationism for answers. Do we want that? Oh, the children. Won't someone think of the children?!

First Look

New Bond Film Pics and Details

USA Today and IGN recently took a trip to Chile to the set of the still-filming Bond movie QUANTUM OF SOLACE, and returned with some new snaps and a few scraps of info about what 007 is dealing with now.

The shadowy organization at the center of Bond's investigation is called Quantum, which helps explain the title that so many people seem to dislike. Being the total bastards they are, this Quantum network is zeroing on "wounded nations" to achieve their goals of domination. The villain (played by Mathieu Amalric of MUNICH) is an "eco-friendly tycoon" named Greene (that's subtle) who is secretly planning to control the world's water supply (Muahahahaa!).

Bond also isn't just doing his job -- Daniel Craig says his spy is taking things personally: "He has his heart broken. The love of his life is killed, and he finds out she's not who she said she was. He's out for revenge." Foxy ladies Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurlyenko will no doubt help him recover from his loss... Hit either source link up there to get more details on his second turn as the old-but-new super agent

Jumper (2008) DVD

One day, Davey (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has an amazing ability. He can teleport himself to any location at will. Using his newfound power to find the man who killed his mother, Davey unwittingly becomes a target of National Security Agency officers and another person with the same exact power. Based on the popular young adult novel by Steven Gould.

LINKS:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

Official!

Hot damn, who knew a third film in the ICE AGE franchise, DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, was even in production?? Of course, when a franchise makes billions cumulative, you can bet your ass there'll be sequels till those prehistoric bastards start carrying cell phones and riding hovercrafts. Check out the dino action below. The dinosaurs appear July of next year.

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Joblo review on "Dr.Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!"

Plot: Based on Dr. Seuss' classic children's story, HORTON HEARS A WHO! is the story of Horton the elephant (voiced by Jim Carrey). Horton lives in the jungle, and leads a happy, uncomplicated life until one fateful day when he hears a cry from what seems to be a speck of dust. It turns out that the speck is actually a tiny city called Whoville- home to millions of Who's, who are blissfully unaware that they've been living their whole lives in a world which is actually only a speck of dust in another world. The voice that Horton hears belongs to the Mayor of Whoville (voiced by Steve Carell), who is unable to convince the other Who's of the danger they are in. Realizing that the jungle is too dangerous a place to keep the speck, Horton takes it upon himself to find a safe place to house the speck. Meanwhile, the other inhabitants of the jungle think that Horton has lost his mind, and will stop at nothing to get him to admit that the speck is only that- a speck.

Review: Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodore Geisel) has not been treated well by Hollywood in the last few years. The Ron Howard directed butchering of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS was bad enough, but as bad as that film was- it was a masterpiece compared to the next Seuss adaptation- THE CAT IN THE HAT. That film was so bad that Seuss's widow, who owns the rights to all of the Seuss books, declared that she would never allow a live action version of one of his books to be made again.

So how does the CGI animated HORTON HEARS A WHO! fare? Sadly not much better than the last two Seuss films. For some reason, the filmmakers decided to fill what could have been a charming family film full of silly pop culture references that seem better suited to a SHREK film than a Dr. Seuss story. Granted- it's been a while since I've read HORTON HEARS A WHO!, but I'm pretty sure the book didn't end with an REO Speedwagon sing-a-long (friggin' REO Speedwagon! Were the rights to the Air Supply catalogue too expensive?).

Granted- the filmmakers (who were also behind the ICE AGE films and ROBOTS) couldn't have really done a straight adaptation as the film would have only been about twenty minutes long. Still- it would have been nice if the film took itself seriously, as the original story actually tackled some pretty heady subject matter. First printed in 1954, the original book was viewed by many as a reaction to the McCarthy "Red Scare" hearings that saw many Americans being stripped of their civil liberties in a frenzy of paranoia which seemed to consume large parts of the country. In a way, Horton the elephant represented the victims of the McCarthy hearings, who stood by their convictions despite the ridicule and threats being lobbied against them. The villain in the story- the Sour Kangaroo (voiced here by Carol Burnett) was a very McCarthy-ish figure in the way she whipped up the other jungle inhabitants into a frenzy of paranoia.

Horton's motto- "a person is a person, no matter how small" had a lot of resonance to many readers, and the book is considered to be one of Dr. Seuss' finest. Sadly- the film does not do it justice. I think one of the big problems with the film is Jim Carrey. I consider myself more or less a fan of his, but his zany antics do not lend themselves well to this story. He basically plays Horton the same way he played the Grinch, meaning that after about 10 minutes of his antics, you're praying for the film to end, Steve Carell, as the mayor of Whoville, fares better. He's way less over the top than Carrey, and his brand of humor actually works quite well in the Dr. Seuss universe. The rest of the voice cast is filled with a lot of big names (Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Jamie Pressley, Will Arnett, etc.) but Carrey so completely dominates as Horton that the rest completely fail to register on any level.

I saw this film at a Saturday morning sneak preview full of screaming children, and I was surprised by the fact that the kids for the most part did not seem all that entertained. If you've ever sat through a SHREK film, or anything made by Pixar in an auditorium full of kids- you'd know that if they're enjoying the film they're practically bouncing off the walls. Here- most of the kids seemed pretty bored. If the film can't impress an auditorium full of kids on a Saturday morning, you can imagine what sitting through the film must be like for an adult. While I have no doubt it'll make a lot of money, I doubt this film will go down as a family classic, and it doesn't hold a candle to the book- which still entertains generations of children more than half a century after it's debut.

Their Rating: 3/10

My rating: 5/10 (I love Animated Films and I think this one had my attention)

Freakin' Rock

Billboard reviews Janet Jackson's brand new song "Rock With U".

After relentless servings of humble pie, Janet Jackson at last earned her just desserts as full-length "Discipline" launched atop the Billboard 200 last issue. But where was radio with its support of ingratiating first single "Feedback"? Can you say, "Doink"? Island now takes two admirable steps forward with release of a duo of follow-ups: first, dreamy "Rock With U," a breathy dance ditty in which Jackson conjures her upper register amid cool production ticks and a persistent eight-cylinder beat kicking out hooks. The tad more aggressive "Luv" features persistent synths at the helm, again with a sugary, multilayered harmonic vocal. All said, Jackson delivers a couplet of highly styled signature pop tracks. Now if only radio would remember that listeners like to sing along with songs—there's even a name for it: hit. —Chuck Taylor

Listen to the song here.

Ashlee Simpson sets a date

Ashlee Simpson has set an April 22 release date for her third Geffen album, "Bittersweet World," which, as previously reported, features production from Timbaland and the Neptunes' Chad Hugo.The first official single, "Little Miss Obsessive," boasts guest vocals from the Plain White T's Tom Higginson. The track has yet to land on any Billboard charts.

Released digitally in December, album track "Out of My Head (Ay Ya Ya)," also failed to chart but has sold 117,000 digital downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.Simpson indulges her '80s fetish throughout the project. The sassy "Boys" imagines the Cardigans' "Lovefool" atop a Chic rhythm, and there's a "Beat It" vibe on the chugging "Rag Doll." "I almost wish I lived my 20s in the '80s," says Simpson, who was born in 1984. "A lot of the record is a bit cheeky. Sometimes I'm writing about something serious, but it was fun for me to kind of goof around as well.

Simpson put in a fair share of 14-hour days in the studio; often she'd leave at night and return the next morning to find that Hugo had crafted a song based on conversations from the previous day. "Everybody really had their hands in this album," she tells Billboard.

In recent weeks, Simpson has been busy with radio promo stops, in-store appearances at Wal-Mart and midnight club shows. Upcoming appearances include Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards on March 29, "Today" on April 18 and "Dancing With the Stars" on April 22. A summer tour is in the planning stages.

Listen to "Little Miss Obsessive" in Youtube here.

I am Legend(DVD Rip)(2008)

A man-made virus called KV (originally created as a cancer vaccine) wipes out the population of world in 2009, leaving virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) the last human survivor in the city and possibly the world. The virus immediately killed 90% of the people on the planet, roughly 5.4 billion. Less than 1% of humans are immune, leaving roughly 12 million people unaffected. The remaining 588 million people were infected but did not die; they instead lost all normal human behavior and degenerated into a primal state driven by cannibalistic hunger. Neville is watched by these "infected" people. Sunlight kills the infected, so they hide in the dark underground and in buildings (called hives by Neville) then swarm out at night. Three years after the virus's destruction, Neville has not seen another normal human being and suspects that the infected have succeeded in killing the remainder of the survivors. Neville finds himself outnumbered by the infected and running out of time. Neville is also haunted by the intense psychological trauma not only of having everyone he ever knew die, but also being completely isolated from all human contact for three years; his only companions are his dog, Sam, and various department store dummies he has set up and assigned names. Neville eventually comes up with a treatment for the virus, but it doesn't appear to work. When his dog companion dies from an attack by the Infected, he nearly commits suicide by attacking a large group of Infected, but is rescued by a former Red Cross member, Anna, and a child named Ethan. When the Infected attack his home and overrun it, he sacrifices himself, allowing them to escape. Three minutes before his death, he realizes that his treatment was successful. He gives Anna the cure (the patient's blood) and they eventually travel to an isolated community of survivors in Vermont where the two give the cure to the guards.

Cloverfield (2008)

On the night that five friends throw a going-away party, a giant monster attacks Manhattan. The film depicts their attempts to survive the attack, all of which is recorded and then replayed on a handheld video camera. Rob (Michael Stahl-David) records Beth (Odette Yustman) after sleeping with her for the first time. The video, being recorded over, then cuts to one month later, where Rob's brother Jason (Mike Vogel) and his girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas) are planning a surprise going-away party for Rob, who has accepted a job in Japan. Jason gives "Hud" (T. J. Miller) the task of documenting Rob's last night in the United States and recording farewell messages to Rob from party guests. Hud also attempts to attract the attention of Marlena (Lizzy Caplan), his love interest. A confrontation occurs between Rob and Beth after it is revealed that the two friends had sex with each other, and Beth leaves the party with her date. The building suddenly shakes, a loud noise is heard, and large parts of the city briefly lose power. From the roof, the friends see a large explosion in the distance and they flee to the street, where the head of the Statue of Liberty lands as further explosions and a gigantic creature is glimpsed in the distance. As the friends attempt to leave Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge, they stop when Rob receives a phone call from Beth, who is trapped in her apartment. Jason is killed when the creature destroys the bridge. U.S. Military ground forces arrive to battle the creature, while Rob and his remaining friends resolve to rescue Beth. As they make their way to Beth's apartment, they are attacked by smaller insect-like creatures in the subway tunnel. During the scuffle, Marlena is bitten by one while saving Hud. Eventually the group finds shelter and reaches a US Army field hospital. Marlena begins to bleed through various orifices and is dragged off behind a screen where her stomach then explodes. The surviving friends resolve to continue to Beth's apartment, but before they leave, a soldier warns them of the government's "Hammer Down" policy: if the military cannot contain the creature, the entire island of Manhattan will be bombed. After receiving information regarding the ongoing evacuation of the city, the remaining three friends continue to Beth's apartment, which has nearly toppled. Finding Beth alive, but injured, they make their way to the evacuation site, where Lily is placed in the last seat of a departing helicopter. Rob, Beth and Hud board another helicopter, which is damaged by the creature during a military assault, and crashes in Central Park. They survive the crash, but Hud is killed by the creature after inadvertently filming it close up. Taking the camera, Rob and Beth take shelter under a bridge, where they each briefly address anyone who might find the film. Air-raid sirens sound, and an explosion collapses the bridge, partially covering the camera with debris. Rob and Beth proclaim their love for each other before a second explosion completely covers the camera in rubble. The final scene returns to the recorded-over footage from the month before, where Rob and Beth are enjoying a date at Coney Island. Something splashes into the water on the horizon, hinting at the monster's origins.

Links:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

Dusty and Covered
Resident Evil:Extinction (review)

I have been a fanatic of this movie franchise since it started with the first one. It has the innards that i love (if not to die) to gaze in a movie. The blood spills party, outrageous zombies and gory-themed thrills. I have seen the 2nd movie "Apocalypse" for like 5 times? And still would'nt get jaded of watching my fair-haired building scene, the one where a girl lurched out of the building because she can't flee the troop of flesh-eating brainless creatures, conspicuously known as Zombies. Yum!

The third outing of the movie is quite enthralling but not satisfying. It did have a lot of gory and loathsome scenes which I pant for in a movie plus the nifty VFX they did in the crow-burning part. That was like the most frantic, jaw-droppin fire scene I've ever seen. But the flick is not as collosal and intensifying than the 2nd (the best of its series), it did surpassed the intoxicating underground scenes of the first film, but it lacked the intensity and thrills that the 2nd film offered, the creatures (other than zombies) in this 3rd installment is shlep outmatched compared to the creatures in the 2nd film.. who would be scared of crows? I mean they're just birds.

It is also alarming to note that some scenes are a little folly and off. The part where they mounted a ruined, grubby, and deserted Vegas started as convincingly lavish with all the burried buildings and road signs but twists the scenario by showing a weathered Statue Of Liberty and partly sand-drowned Eiffel Tower, since when did those transferred in Vegas? If their trying to flabbergast the audience by showing impressive CGI replica of those landmarks,
then they were a dead-duck. Its disturbing.

The climactic duel between Alice and the mutated Scientist is not captivating and riveting, its very dark (no points for lighting) and the CGI is weak, it's like Doom. And the scientists' character was not acted well, the actor who played the role was ineffective in convincing the audience that he is fearsome. (not even a short-lived momentum he did)

I hate the fact also that Ashanti appeared only for 25 minutes(?). I'm not a prodigious fan of her but It was exciting to know that she's part of the film. But sadly she was killed too early before she could even establish her own character.What was her name in the film again?

The movie, I shall say is not generally platitudinous or a waste of money, it also has effectiveness in creeping the viewers. And some scenes are also bodacious and impressive. (i.e. the crow scene). But for me who have been an avid follower of this movie, I found it disappointing. Apocalypse is still my favorite.

The movie is still showing in theaters. If you'd like to see it.

Kim & Gerald lost to Zombies

The ostentatious launching of the touted most "promising" and "hottest" (if not boiling) loveteam in their first movie starrer failed to evoke the viewers as they favor the last installment of the movie rendition of the hit Sega computer game "Resident Evil: Extinction" over KimGerald's "I've Fallen for you" by almost $80,000 difference.

Extinction posted a total $390, 810 five-day gross vied with I've Fallen for you's scant $309,212 posting. It's also disappointing to note that "I've Fallen.." opened with 50 screens all over the Philippines compared to Extinction's 35, which expected to give "I've Fallen.." a greater leeway in leading the local box-office but the results tell otherwise.

In terms of esteem, I've Fallen for you was lucidly given much advertisements, the movie's teasers are shown almost every commercial gaps of ABS-CBN's TV shows, compared to Extinction which was publicized only through posters in the malls, newspapers, and minimal advents of teasers on TV's.

The previous movie offering of Star Cinema "A Love Story" did well in the local box-office with an opening of almost $1.5 milllion 5-day gross. The last flick KimGerlad appeared in "First Day High" was also a ho hum in the box-office.

Well, It's a stupendous news to the makers of Resident Evil specially Milla Jovovich and the zombies who beat the hell out of the country's most bankable loveteam. The least thing they can do to buttress their sweep is to never make another installment of the flick. And for the Star Cinema why say that the movie is a "mega-blockbuster-hit" when the number tells the contrary?

Milla Jovovich and the zombies latest tie-up made a tremendous victory , enough in making them today's hottest screen gems and the country's #1 loveteam, placing Kim and Gerald in #2! Peace.

Here is the box-office result from boxofficemojo, Sept. 26-30

Weekend Box-Office Estimates (US)
sept. 28 - 30 Weekend

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Being silent for almost a quarter, my comeback offering Is this coolest upcoming movies!!

Laugh Hard!
Enchanted ( Walt Disney) - The tale follows the beautiful princess Giselle as she is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land--and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid--even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home--she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Cast :

Amy Adams, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Dempsey

Release Date :
November 21st, US

Trailer :


CRY !! CRY !!! CRY !!
August Rush (Warner Bros.) - August Rush" tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams), August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.

RELEASE DATE: November 21st, US

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