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Romance is in the air in 2010 with tons of romantic movies for anyone from the most sentimental to the least. Whether you like your romance movies filled with comedy, sentiment, or mythological creatures, this year has the perfect movie for any romantic. Of course, you'll have to get to the theaters at the start of the year because the romance tends to taper off after the summer.
Coming on January 8 is Amy Adams's new romantic comedy Leap Year, about a young woman used to getting just about everything she wants. When her boyfriend leaves for Dublin, she decides to propose to him on Leap Day since he hasn't proposed her yet. Of course, her plans end up derailed and she ends up seeking the help of a Welshman (Matthew Goode) to get her to Dublin in time. But by the time she gets to Dublin, she has a real change of heart.
Kristen Bell stars in another international romantic adventure, When in Rome. Unlucky in love, Beth (Bell) goes to Rome for her sister's dream wedding and there meets the best man Nick (Josh Duhamel). Tired of her sucky love life, she steals coins out of the Trevi Fountain, hoping that the good luck from others' wishes will pass on to her. What ends up happening, however, is all of the guys who's coins she collected end up falling for her. It becomes hard for Beth to tell if Nick loves her for herself or just because she stole his coin. The movie is set to premiere on January 29.
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Garry Marshall's film Valentine's Day is coming to theaters on February 12. The film follows several couples and singles across Los Angeles on Valentine's Day as they break up, make up, and come to certain truths about life and love. This film as too much of an all-star cast to list them all, and the film is already garnering buzz.
Already released in Japan, director Udayan Prasad's film The Yellow Handkerchief is coming to the US on February 12 as well. The independent fim is about two teenagers, Gordy (Eddie Redmayne) and Martine (Kristen Stewart), who end up picking up Brett (William Hurt), a man recently released from prison. The film has already garnered critical success when it was in limited release and is coming to theaters in a major release in February.
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The sequel to his acclaimed film, Tyler Perry returns with Why Did I Get Married, Too?. All of the original characters from the first movie return, this time on a tropical vacation to analyze their marriages and work on them. However, Sheila's (Jill Scott) ex-husband Mike (Richard T. Jones) is threatening her remarriage to Troy (Lamman Rucker). Not much of the plot is revealed except for the fact that this time, one of the marriages featured in the film will not survive. The film is set to be released on April 2.
The romantic comedy Date Night, featuring Tina Fey and Steve Carell, is set to premiere on April 9. Fey and Carell play a bored married couple who are mistaken for another couple and end up adding some spice into their marriage through glamour and excitement in New York City. The cast also includes Mila Kunis, James Franco, Mark Wahlberg, Olivia Munn, Leighton Meester, Mark Ruffalo, and Ray Liotta.
Coming out on April 16 is the film The Back-Up Plan, starring Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin. The film is about a woman (Lopez) who conceives twins through artificial insemination only to meet her dream man while leaving the clinic.
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The plot has been kept long underwraps and much anticipation has surrounded the release of Sex and the City 2 on May 28. In addition to the original cast members, the new film will include cameos by Miley Cyrus, Penélope Cruz, Liza Minnelli, and others.
If you don't like Eclipse (premiering on June 30), you can go see the werewolf romantic comedy Beastly, which comes to theaters on July 30, a month later. Neil Patrick Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, and Mary-Kate Olsen star in this retelling of Beauty and the Beast, where a modern day New York girl helps reform a wandering werewolf.
Based on the memoir of Elizabeth Gilbert, the film Eat, Pray, Love is scheduled for a 2010 release, though an official date has not been given. The film is about a woman (Julia Roberts) who decides to travel the world in search of herself after a bitter divorce. The film also stars James Franco, Billy Crudup, and Javier Bardem.
There will be plenty of options for the hopeless romantic in 2010. Next up will be the comedies coming to theaters in 2010.
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War of the Worlds tells the familiar tale of hostile aliens attempting to wipe out humanity and take over Earth. It is based on the book of the same name by H. G. Wells. The book was adapted to film in 1953, with that adaptation cited as a “classic” (whatever that means anymore.)
Steven Spielberg’s latest take on the story updates it to modern-day New Jersey. The main character is now a divorced dock worker with two kids to take care of over the weekend. They must survive an alien attack, while along the way growing together as a family. It’s not as corny as it sounds, as the “growing together” aspects are played as a second-hand result of the attack, and is not given front and center placement.
The film is quite scary, and features excellent acting from all the cast concerned. Dakota Fanning (as Tom Cruise’s daughter) is wonderful. She is among the best child actors ever, and is better than most adults. This and her amazing work in Man on Fire really cemented her as a real talent in my opinion. Tom Cruise himself is at the top of his game here, even though it could be said he just plays an extension of all the characters he always plays. However you look at it though, he is very natural on-screen, and can portray a surprising variety of emotions. Couch-jumping or not.
Despite being a premise ripe for a horror movie treatment (or rather, what people think is horror nowadays, i.e. blood and guts), Spielberg keeps the bloodshed in War of the Worlds low. However he ratchets up the tension to a very high degree, which in my opinion is where real horror comes from. We don’t get scared by people being ripped apart, we are scared by thinking they might get ripped apart. This tactic is put to effective use many times throughout the film. The design of the aliens also works in favor of the movie, as they are slender, yet sturdy; graceful but menacing. One scene in particular where they rise out the water is very chilling.
The movie is strongest when it focuses on Cruise and family as they survey the mass destruction caused by the aliens. Planes crash, flaming trains roar past (an EXCELLENT scene), and we are immediately placed in their shoes. The camera is almost always at eye level, which keeps us with the characters very effectively.The movie does go off track in the ending of the movie, and does sometimes come across as too “Hollywoodized”. The ending itself is dealt with as best as possible though, and as it was the ending of the book we shouldn’t nitpick too much. I just wished it fit better cinematically. There are a couple moments as well that seem pandering to the audience, as when Tom Cruise yells out to the soldiers a vital piece of information regarding the alien “walkers” near the end of the movie. It is something they should have been able to see for themselves, yet it felt like we needed Tom Cruise to get his moment in the spotlight. We didn’t need Tom to take action and save the day. The whole movie is all about things happening to him, and thus focuses on his reactions to those things. Thematically, it would have been better I think to have ditched that particular spot, and had the soldiers realize that piece of information for themselves.
OVERALL
War of the Worlds is a solid alien-invasion movie, with wonderful performances. The great acting and special effects are unfortunately let down by a slightly weak script. I do recomend this however, as it is very solid and features an excellent Dakota Fanning.
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It’s day 2 of sci-fi week at Movie Loner. If you suffer from claustrophobia you may want to avoid Cube, a gripping nightmare of a movie that is certain to freak you out. You could easily include this in the horror genre but a dystopian setting and the integral role of math/science to the plot firmly positions Cube in the sci-fi category. It was filmed in Canada and directed by Vincenzo Natali, who believe it or not is from Detroit.
Seven strangers wake up inside a cubical labyrinth. Each person is there for a specific reason: the cop, the architect, the math student, the doctor, the fugitive, the autistic, and one man who falls victim before we learn his identity. The six remaining prisoners convene to find a way out. Each cube is a different color with a set of engraved numbers. Some are harmless, others are armed with wicked traps designed to kill.
Utilizing their combined knowledge and skills, the six devise a formula to navigate the deadly maze. Their ability to work together and maintain sanity is the key to survival. The longer they stay incarcerated the more desperate they become. Panic takes hold. Some seek personal preservation while the rest adhere to the group mentality. Can they reach the outer shell of the monstrous catacomb or will they destroy each other along the way?
