Screenwriters: John Orloff (Band of Brothers) and John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
Director: Zack Snyder (Watchmen)
Actors: Emilie de Ravin (Public Enemies), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), Jim Sturgess (21) and Sam Neill (Event Horizon)






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Labels: Emilie de Ravin, film, Geoggrey Rush, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, movie trailer, Sam Niell, Zack Snyder

Hey, it has Helen Mirren in it. Even if it is an annoying, melodramatic wad of self-indulgence, I still say, hey, it's got Helen Mirren in it.





Screenwriters: Michael Hoffman
Director: Michael Hoffman (The Emperor's Club)
Actors: Helen Mirren (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover), James McAvoy (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Christopher Plummer (Dragnet), Paul Giamatti (Lady in the Water), Patrick Kennedy (Munich) and Anne-Marie Duff (Notes on a Scandal)

Labels: Anne-Marie Duff, Christopher Plummer, film, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, movie trailer, Patrick Kennedy, Paul Giamatti

Screenwriters: Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) and Billy Ray (Breach)
Director: Kevin McDonald (The Last King of Scotland)
Actors: Russell Crowe (American Gangster), Rachel McAdams (The Notebook), Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Jason Bateman (The Kingdom), Robin Wright Penn (Forrest Gump), Helen Mirren (Excalibur), Viola Davis (Disturbia) and Jeff Daniels (The Crossing)

Labels: Ben Affleck, film, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels, movie trailer, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright-Penn, Russell Crowe, Viola Davis

A nearly unwatchable follow up to the less than impressive original National Treasure. This film suffers from not having a real purpose for being made. The original film ended on a conclusive note. Reviving the characters for another adventure seems unnecessary other than for the hopes of making a few more bucks. The original was irrational enough, this outing involving the secrets of John Wilkes Booth's diary that shows the hero, historian Ben Gates' (Nicholas Cage) great grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The plot then weaves a path utilizing historical references, treasures and locations at every turn.

Ultimately this is a hollow movie with a bunch of plot contrivances and historical pseudo-facts thrown in to make it look like there's something going on.


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Labels: film, Helen Mirren, Jon Voight, movie review, Nicholas Cage, sequel

Could be good...then again it does have Brendan Fraser so that's a knock against it. He hasn't picked a good project in years.

What would happen if you could make a book come alive by simply read it aloud? Well, I know of at least one of my friends who would scramble to find a collection of Penthouse Forum Letters. I'd just read the book this movie is based on. I'd like to see what happens when you read a book out loud about making books come alive by reading them out loud. That would have to do some weird "don't cross the streams", avoid seeing yourself in Back to the Future destruction of the universe thing.

Labels: Brendan Fraser, film, Helen Mirren, movie trailer, Paul Bettany