It will be here soon, and everyone is getting ready:

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i saw alien vs preditor on pay per view and it was good. when it comes out on dvd i'm most definitely buying it. two thumbs up. now grudge was a different matter it wasn't as scary as the previews led it to be

i liked it alot, but was slightly disappointed with one scene. The dvd claims that there is an added scene... Dont believe it!!!

Went and saw this movie...I laughed. It was funny. My poor wife. She hadn't played the text adventure game nor had she read the book. She was totally lost.

Anyone want to play the game? Click Here.

Summertop: I guess I was expecting something else from the movie. I saw it too and hadnt read the books or played any games before seeing it. Our son saw it first and said it was such a kool flick so we went to see it. Mildly dissapointed and would say its a'n ok rental rather then a theatre flick. Going to check out this game link you posted!

Normally, my department does breakfast Friday mornings (company pays). This thursday, our department is going to the movies (again, company pays) instead. Any guesses as to which movie?

Ooh, ooh, you're going to see Pooh's Heffalump Movie?!!

Oh ok, maybe not. Tell us what its like when you've seen Star Wars?! My other half wants to see it.

harley, I'll let you know...

Can't wait for the League Of Gentlemen film, out 3rd June! Anyone see them on Jonathan Ross last night? I think they're ace!

'Revenge of the Sith' is about how a republic dismantles its own democratic principles,
about how politics becomes militarized, about how a Manichaean ideology undermines
the rational exercise of power. here the full article of the Washington Post ..... ... ~*~

I work in an office complex where part of te complex it a theatre with 17 screens. Man you should have seen the people waiting in lines...IN COSTUME!. There were some really good costumes. Me? I just couldn't figure the draw to stay up to watch it at midnight...In fact, My company bought tickets for my entire department. I went golfing instead. I'll wait for the crowds to dwindle.

Summertop: Much as I want to see it no way was going tru that crowd last nite! So much hype eh. My step son it at the 6:30 screening now. He will be pretty hopped up tonite Im sure!

Rose, I decided to wait to see it with my family.

don't these movie gours know about the solar flares?

Mongoloid: that's why they went armoured ... ... ~*~

danoschek: I see ppl walking with umbrellas and there isnt a clod in the sky!

normal sun protection presumed, only radios would need umbrellas ... . ~*~

in the theatre is a MUST. But, I'm not waiting in line, no way. I applaud the good sense of those of us who aren't there with our liter of Pepsi and lawn chairs. It's just not class, you know?

However, I DID listen to Devils & Dust (Bruce Springsteen) last night, and decided it was worth buying. If for no other reason, it needs to be beside the rest of my Springsteen acousticals.

Mongoloid:
No clouds in the sky eh?
Whut a great time 2 go at nite to C this latest Awesome Star Wars movie, cause aftewards one can look up into the night sky to reflect upon the stars ~

just maybe not tonight.

Nightowl: oh sher, I could stay home and get the same fx staring at my ceiling :-P

You have an open air home?

well im up to 6x.. i hope to see it at least 4 more tiems before it is gone from theaters. In my opinion it is far better than all the others. But when i asked people what was the best starwars most still say empire strikes back. but when i ask them what did that have that sith didnt have. they have no answer. when in fact sith has everything that empire has and more! Darker, more violent, better story, better graphics, bad guys win. etc... the list goes on and on.

Nothingness: As a person who is not a "long time" star wars fan - never actually sitting down and watching all the old movies until EP I came out - I would say the new EP III is my favorite - basicly because there is just so much going on - very action packed. So many "stories" where they had to connect EP II with EP IV, they had a lot to say. NO "extra" filler story - just all action.

Anne Bancroft dies in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar and Tony Award winner Anne Bancroft, the husky-voiced actress immortalised as Helen Keller's teacher in "The Miracle Worker" and the seductive Mrs. Robinson in the iconic 1967 film "The Graduate," has died, her family said on Tuesday.

Bancroft, who was 73, died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on Monday evening of uterine cancer, according to John Barlow, a spokesman for Bancroft's husband, the comedian and director Mel Brooks.

Theaters on Broadway, where Bancroft delivered back-to-back Tony-winning performances in the late 1950s -- opposite Henry Fonda in "Two for the Seasaw" with Patty Duke in "Miracle Worker" -- planned to dim their marquees in her honor.

Speaking to Reuters by telephone, Duke, 58, described working with Bancroft as "breathtaking," adding: "What I learned from her, really, was having a sense of humour and knowing how important laughter was."

Born Anna Maria Italiano in 1931 to Italian immigrant parents in New York's Bronx borough, Bancroft went on to become a versatile stage and screen performer whose career spanned five decades. She earned five Academy Award nominations, including an Oscar for "Miracle Worker."

The sultry, dark-haired beauty evinced intelligence, yet might be best remembered for the flash of stockinged leg and cold, calculated seduction of her daughter's boyfriend in "The Graduate." The movie spawned the classic Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack hit "Mrs. Robinson" and earned Bancroft her third Academy Award nomination.

Bancroft also garnered Oscar nominations for "The Pumpkin Eater" (1964), "The Turning Point" (1977), and "Agnes of God"(1985).

She began her acting studies at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts at 17 and assumed the stage name of Anne Marno to find work in the early days of live television. After being lured to Hollywood and changing her surname to Bancroft at the urging of producer Darryl Zanuck, she worked in more than a dozen largely forgettable features.

She returned to New York seeking better roles and joined the famed Actors Studio, embracing the "Method" approach to performance popularized by such stars as Marlon Brando.

Directed by Arthur Penn, Bancroft won her first Tony for her 1958 performance in the romance "Two for the Seasaw." Under Penn's direction again, he scored a second Tony the very next year with her signature role as Annie Sullivan, the sight-impaired teacher to the blind, deaf and speechless Helen Keller, in "The Miracle Worker."

Duke, who started off in the Keller role at the age of 12, recalled the emotional moment in the play when Bancroft's character announced to Helen's parents that she has finally communicated with their daughter, yelling: "She knows!"

"And the sound that she had in her voice transported every creature in the theatre to the place where you find lost souls," Duke recounted. "It's fascinating to have had so profound an experience as a child and be 58 years old and still be able to feel it and touch it and almost smell it."

Bancroft and Duke both reprised their respective roles, and both won Oscars, in the 1962 big-screen adaptation of "Miracle Worker," which Penn also directed.

In 1964, she married comedian and director Brooks, whom she met when the struggling comedy writer attended a taping of a Perry Como TV special in which she was singing and dancing.

She teamed up with Brooks to star in a 1984 remake of the 1942 comedy classic "To Be or Not to Be," by Ernst Lubitsch.




(sent to me by a journalist friend)

Sad, huh? Thanks for the post, Nirvana.

"Rubber Johnny" is the latest creation from the UK¿s most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark. "Rubber Johnny" marks the first release from award-winning director Cunningham ( Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Portishead, Madonna et al ) in three years. This is an experimental, gritty lo-fi short film shot digitally in nightvision, featuring music from legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin ( taken from his "Drukqs" album ) , this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of eerie drawings and photographs - Cunningham¿s first published book of original artwork.

Andre Faria: that sounds very interesting!

Yes. It does. Not your ordinary run of the mill. Wonder if it will show here? Maybe in the arts theaters, I'll surely keep a watch out for it.

Mainstream cinema:
I highly recommend this film especially if you have an interest in Latin American culture.

Two 12 year old Chilenos from different social backgrounds - one living in downtown Santiago and the other in the shanty towns on the outskirts of the city where life is (still in 2005) 'squalid'. Under the Allende Social Democrat leadership, they are thrown together when a handful of shanty town kids are given scolarships to the prestigious private school, St Patrick's. They strike up a relationship and cross over into each other's worlds until the coup breaks them apart. Machuca - the shanty town kid - becomes one of the 50,000 'missing' from Chile as a result of Pinochet's dictatorship. The rich kid goes back to a world that profits from the coup and the new dictatorship but one can't help but wonder how his experiences will direct him in the future (now).

Hey, I just saw this bizarre movie called The Fearless Vampire Killers!

It's about an old bat researcher named professor Abronsius and his partner, Alfred (Roman Polanski), who go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah (Sharon Tate). However, she has been spotted by the mysterious Count Krolock who lives in a dark and creepy castle outside the village...

Directed and Co-Written by Roman Polanski, this movie is filled with twisted comedy, mayhem, surprise towering utmost to a whimsical flurry of delightful strangeousity!

This flick will lull you into complacency and then WHAMO! Make sure to bring plenty cloves of garlic with you when you watch (ya never know!)
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LuckyCat9: Haha! Is this a recently released movie?

TexasToest: No, I don't believe it is. I think it came out around 1967. It stars Sharon Tate, who later married Polanski the following year. Then in 1969, while pregnant with her first child, she was murdered by the Manson gang.

It gives this particular film an even creepier feel to it. Especially the premonition-like attributes, such as the blood on the credits, even the music is eerie! Yikes! See this one for yourself (if you dare!)

I just watched Madagascar, brilliant family film, great for the kids! Kind of like the Simpsons where theres jokes only the adults would probably get, but the kids love it too. For example, at one point one of the animals had a basketball with a face drawn on, and he was talking to it - like in the film Shipwrecked, I think it was? Funny film anyway!

harley: i have some previews .. looks like a hilarious movie ... will probably watch it soon :)

the movie you mean, with the football (the ball which is used while playing soccer) (or was it a volleyball?) is probably 'castaway' with tom hanks

Thats the one! Castaway - I forgot the name!

I really liked THAT film. But then, I think Tom Hanks is great.

I just got around to watching Team America - World Police. I thought it was a kids film! The rating is 15 (R?) but the language/content is an 18 in my opinion!

harley: Ya I wasnt impressed when I saw it at home. My 15yr old went to the theatre to see it. Had I known what was in it he never would have seen it. I was embarrassed watching the 'sex' scene. My husband said it was the directors cut and that part wasnt in the theatre version. Still not impressed. It should have been xrated.

baudrillard: there is a spanish film sub-titled in english.
it is worth watching despite the subtitles.it is called the devils backbone.
it is sort of a drama /thriller about orphans in a orphanage and a ghost who avenges his murder against his killer.there is much more to the story,a good movie.

he told me about a very cheap b-movie remake running here in the background ...
sounds a lot like the perpetual and pratty unintelligent midwest telenovella ... ... ~*~

http://www.inmyfathersden.com/

Don't miss this one!

baudrillard: seems to be faaaaar west ... good tip thus. . ~*~

danoschek: what does 'west' indicate? This is a film directed by a new, young New Zealand guy (we got to meet him last night) who is really creating waves. Seems like New Zealand is turning out some great movie makers!

... west is everwhere the sun goes ...
anyway - new zealand together with australia and
canada is well liked as creator, since long in germany ... ~*~ .

danoschek: oh that is cool! comes from east ... goes to west ... follow it!!!!!! Thanks!