Thursday, March 25, 2010

You cant take it with you.

A very symbolic movie about how money does not make everything better and how family and friends are the true measure of someones happiness. Grandpa Vanderhof was a high ranking businessman in his life and gave it all up because he wasnt having fun. He has a house hold of people who just are carefree and very fun and enjoy each others company. Well Alice Sycamore his granddaughter works for the Anthony P. Kirby Bank and is his Son Tony Kirby's secrotary and they fall in love of course the Kirbys dont want anything to do with it and protest it till Anthony P. Kirby talks to Grandpa Vanderhof about his life and his values and it wears down Mr Kirby. But Kirby buys up all the houses in the neighborhood and Alice Runs away because of the whole arrangement and Grandpa sells his house to go be with Alice. Anthony goes to the board meeting to merge all the buys of the houses and instead has change of heart and goes talks to Grandpa who has him play harmonica and lightens his heart up and everything comes togther Tony and Alice are gonna get married and the families get along. the picture looks like it was remastered Digitally. Allot of long shots which made the movie flow same angle shots through the movie not many panning shots or angle shots but the flow of the movie was really good...
Director: Frank Capra
Writers:George Kaufman and Moss Hart (play) Robert Riskin ( Screenplay)
Release Date: November 3rd 1938
Genre: Comedy Romance
Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1939 Won Oscar Best Director
Frank Capra

Best Picture

Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Spring Byington

Best Cinematography
Joseph Walker

Best Film Editing
Gene Havlick

Best Sound, Recording
John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)

Best Writing, Screenplay
Robert Riskin

Jean Arthur ... Alice Sycamore

Lionel Barrymore ... Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

James Stewart ... Tony Kirby
Edward Arnold ... Anthony P. Kirby
Mischa Auer ... Boris Kolenkhov

Ann Miller ... Essie Carmichael
Spring Byington ... Penny Sycamore
Samuel S. Hinds ... Paul Sycamore
Donald Meek ... Poppins
H.B. Warner ... Ramsey
Halliwell Hobbes ... DePinna
Dub Taylor ... Ed Carmichael
Mary Forbes ... Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
Lillian Yarbo ... Rheba
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson ... Donald (as Eddie Anderson)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hancock

WAS A GOOD MOVIE ABOUT A SUPER HERO WHO IS IMMORTAL AND WHO IS A DRUNK AND JUST WANTS TO HELP SOCIETY BY HURTING AND CATCHING CRIMINALS BUT HE DOES IT WHILE DESTROYING THE CITY OF MIAMI HANCOCK IS PLAYED BY WILL SMITH. THE CITY TURNS ON HIM ALITTLE AND THEN HE SAVES JUSTIN BATEMAN WHO PLAYS RAY EMBERY A PR DIRECTOR WHO IS TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD BY GETTING COMPANYS TO SEND FREE MEDICINE TO KIDS IN AFRICA.HE GETS STUCK ON RAIL ROAD TRACKS IN HIS CAR WHICH HANCOCK COMES FLIPS HIS CAR OVER AND STOPS THE TRAIN BY LETTING IT RUN INTO HIM AND DESTROYS THE FRONT OF TRAIN.RAY SEES THE OUTLASH BY THE PUBLIC SO HE TRIES TO CLEAN UP HANCOCKS REP. HE TAKES HANCOCK HOME TO MEET HIS WIFE AND KID AND TELLS HE SHOULD TURN HIMSELF INTO THE COPS GO TO JAIL AND WAIT TILL THE CITY NEEDS HIM. THE CITY CALLS AFTER 2 WEEKS AND HE HELPS THEM WITH A BETTER ATTITUDE TELLS COPS GOOD JOB AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WELL RAYS WIFE PLAYED BY CHARLIZE THERON WHO IS REALLY IRRATED WHEN HE BRINGS HANCOCK HOME. IT TURNS OUT SHE IS HANCOCKS WIFE FROM BACK IN THE 20S AND 30S AND SHE REMEBERS HE DOESNT. BEST PART OF THE STORY IS END THEY STAY CLOSE TOGTHER LONG ENOUGH THEY BECOME MORTAL SO THEY HAVE TO STAY AWAY FROM EACH OTHER THEY ARE BOTH BEING KILLED BY PEOPLE WHO HANCOCK PUT AWAY IN JAIL WHO BROKE OUT OF JAIL.SO HANCOCK GETS AWAY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER KILLING THE CRIMINALS SO SHE LIVES AND HE LIVES AND BOTH GET THERE POWERS BACK.. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OF HIM FLYING AND THINGS LIKE THAT ARE DONE REALLY WELL. WILL SMITH IS AN AMAZING ACTOR WHO CAN PLAY ANYTHING.
DIRECTOR: PETER BERG
WRITERS: VINCENT NGO AND VINCE GILLGAN
GENRE:ACTION CRIME FANTASY
RELEASE DATE: JULY 2ND 2008

awards for
Hancock (2008) More at IMDbPro »

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actor
Will Smith

Best Fantasy Film

Best Supporting Actress
Charlize Theron

Golden Trailer Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2008 Nominated Golden Trailer Summer 2008 Blockbuster

Kids' Choice Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won Blimp Award Favorite Movie Actor
Will Smith

National Movie Awards, UK
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2008 Nominated National Movie Award Best Performance - Male
Will Smith
Also for I Am Legend (2007).
Best Superhero

People's Choice Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Nominated People's Choice Award Favorite Superhero
Will Smith
As John Hancock.
Teen Choice Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2008 Won Teen Choice Award Choice Summer Movie: Action Adventure


Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

Will Smith ... John Hancock

Charlize Theron ... Mary Embrey

Jason Bateman ... Ray Embrey

Jae Head ... Aaron Embrey

Eddie Marsan ... Kenneth 'Red' Parker Jr.

David Mattey ... Man Mountain

Maetrix Fitten ... Matrix

Thomas Lennon ... Mike

Johnny Galecki ... Jeremy

Hayley Marie Norman ... Hottie
Dorothy Cecchi ... Woman in Dive Bar

Martin Klebba ... Convict #12
Akiva Goldsman ... Executive #1

Michael Mann ... Executive #2
Brad Leland ... Executive #3

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges plays a washed up country singer named Bad Blake who is traveling around the southwest playing bowling alleys, Saloons, and Washed up Bars to hang on to his career. He meets a girl in Santa Fay New Mexico (Maggie Gyllenhall) who is writing a story about him and the fall in love keep in touch and he cant shake his drinking problem he goes back home to Houston. She comes sees him with her kid and he loses the kid and she leaves once they find him and tells him she dont wanna see him ever again.. He gets togther with Tommy Sweet ( Collin Farrell) who is a big time country singer and Sweet wants Blake to write some songs for him. Blake when he was big took Sweet under his wing and got his career off ground. So Blake takes his problems with the girl and her kid to write an amazing song named Crazy Heart and Tommy Sweet makes it a big time hit. The End of the movie is very good when she comes up at the end of his show when he is opening for Tommy Sweet and Blake has become sober and they start talking with a great view of Grand Canyon in the back ground. Bridges just won Oscar for best Actor which he is an amazing actor in this movie and deserved it in my honest opinion.
Director: Scott Cooper
Writters : Scott Cooper Wrote Movie. Thomas Cobb Wrote Novel
Release Date: Feb 25th 2010
Genre: Romance, Country, Music, and Drama
Notable Cast:

Jeff Bridges ... Bad Blake

James Keane ... Manager
Anna Felix ... Barmaid
Paul Herman ... Jack Greene

Tom Bower ... Bill Wilson
Ryan Bingham ... Tony

Beth Grant ... Jo Ann

Rick Dial ... Wesley Barnes

Maggie Gyllenhaal ... Jean Craddock

Debrianna Mansini ... Ann
Jerry Handy ... Cowboy

Jack Nation ... Buddy

Ryil Adamson ... Ralphie

J. Michael Oliva ... Bear

David Manzanares ... Nick

Awards
Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won Oscar Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Ryan Bingham
T-Bone Burnett
For the song "The Weary Kind".
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges

Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Maggie Gyllenhaal

BAFTA Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Leading Actor
Jeff Bridges

Best Music
T-Bone Burnett
Stephen Bruton

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won BSFC Award Best Use of Music in a Film

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won Critics Choice Award Best Actor
Jeff Bridges

Best Song
T-Bone Burnett
Ryan Bingham
For the song "The Weary Kind".
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Nominated CFCA Award Best Actor
Jeff Bridges

Most Promising Filmmaker
Scott Cooper

Costume Designers Guild Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won CDG Award Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Contemporary
Doug Hall

Golden Globes, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won Golden Globe Best Original Song - Motion Picture
T-Bone Burnett
Ryan Bingham
For the song "The Weary Kind".
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jeff Bridges

Independent Spirit Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won Independent Spirit Award Best First Feature
Scott Cooper (director/producer)
Robert Duvall (producer)
Rob Carliner (producer)
Judy Cairo (producer)
T-Bone Burnett (producer)

Best Male Lead
Jeff Bridges

Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best First Screenplay
Scott Cooper

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won Sierra Award Best Song
Ryan Bingham
T-Bone Burnett
For the song "The Weary Kind".
London Critics Circle Film Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Nominated ALFS Award Actor of the Year
Jeff Bridges

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won LAFCA Award Best Actor
Jeff Bridges

Best Music/Score
T-Bone Burnett
Stephen Bruton

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Music in a Musical Feature Film

Online Film Critics Society Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actor
Jeff Bridges

Palm Springs International Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing
T-Bone Burnett

Desert Palm Achievement Award
Jeff Bridges

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won PFCS Award Best Original Song
For the song 'Weary Kind'.
Satellite Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won Satellite Award Best Original Song
T-Bone Burnett
Ryan Bingham
For the song "The Weary Kind".
Nominated Satellite Award Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Jeff Bridges

Screen Actors Guild Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges

Writers Guild of America, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2010 Nominated WGA Award (Screen) Best Adapted Screenplay
Scott Cooper

Saturday, March 6, 2010

A player to be named Later

A very good story of the Indianapolis Indians of the International League which is a AAA team of the Milwaukee Brewers. Follows a couple players who are struggling and on the verge of making the majors. Kenny Peterson is a right handed pitcher who was a 1st round overall pick who gets injured and is left off the 40 man roster. Marco Scutaro is a 2nd baseman who they get from Cleveland in a trade who plays great baseball and is the mvp of the league but yet don't get called up at end of the year and it shows how he gets used to the United States as he is from Latin America. there is a couple other players who are career minor leaguers. Brad Tyler is 32 never been to the majors is released during the season. Goes to Mexico and plays a couple weeks down there and gets a call from the Louisville bats the AAA team of the Cincinnati Reds and actually goes 2-4 vs the Indians when they play them later. A good Documentary of what they go through in the minor leagues and how hard it is to make it to the majors.
Director: Brad Stephens.
Genre: Sports Documentary
Marco Scutaro

Micah Franklin

Kyle Peterson

Brad Tyler