Race (2008) Movie Review

Race (2008) Movie Review - Race was the most-awaited release this year but the movie review does not seem to be that exciting. I’ve surfed through many ‘Race movie reviews‘ but couldn’t find one which really lives up to the hype, the movie had generated prior to it’s release.

You know I don’t write about many movie reviews… only the ones which I think everyone is anticipating about.

Race is a typical Abbas-Mustan Bollywood masala movie with a star-cast to be jealous of. Though the critics have slammed the movie by giving it anything between 2-3.5 stars, user reviews have been exciting.

Race is the story of two brothers Ranvir Singh (Saif Ali Khan) and his alcoholic younger brother Rajiv Singh (Akshaye Khanna). Their life revolves around horse racing – from owning a stud farm to betting huge money on them, the two millionaires can’t see beyond the thrills of fast cars and fast horses.

The first half of the movie is made very well, you don’t get bored or anything as such but the 2nd half was kind of weak, specially the character of RD (Anil Kapoor), which was sketched on the lines of the famous investigator, Karamchand.

On the acting front, Saif was good, Akshay was better, really liked the way his character was shaping up throughout the movie. Bipasha Basu was in kind of confused state of mind all the time. Katrina was at her worst (shockingly!) and Sameera Reddy should go back to the South-Indian films.

Overall the film is not bad but a large amount of credit for that goes to the editor and to Allan Amin – the man behind all the action. Abbas Mastan will draw in fans to the box office largely because of the multi star line up and for the infamous Bipasha Basu – Saif Ali Khan lovemaking number (which let us warn you isn’t all that much!).

In my opinion, the movie, driven by it’s cast and action-scenes will do a reasonably good business. And I would give it a three star rating.

Race (2008) Movie Trailer:

Race is reasonable enough to win a ‘not bad’ stamp. But isn’t imaginative enough to gain a ‘good’ tag.

Cast

Saif Ali Khan
Akshaye Khanna
Katrina Kaif
Bipasha Basu
Anil Kapoor
Sameera Reddy

Director : Abbas-Mastan
Musician : Pritam

That's Race (2008) Movie Review

Body Of War

Body Of War - "Nothing is too good for our vets. And nothing is what they will get."

Body of War
See the Pain. Don't Sanitize the Iraq War
The Thomas Young Story
Independent Film by
Co-Directors:
Ellen Spiro and Phil DonahueSEE THIS FILM
FOR ALL WHO SERVED,
BLED AND DIED
FOR US

For more information about the film and where you can see the film go to this link:
http://www.bodyofwar.com/

A related program:

PBS: FRONTLINE: Bush's War - March 23, Monday 8pm central

And That's on Body Of War

The Cutting Edge 1, 2 And 3

The Cutting Edge 1, 2 And 3 - The Cutting Edge your all-time favorite movie quotes franchise is basically taking over ABC Family this weekend. The reason: the opening of the third (yup, third) movie in the sequence, The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream, which airs Sunday nighttime.

By now, you know the basic story. This time, it's hot skating bachelor Zack Conroy (Matt Lanter) who brings a hockey player Alejandra "Alex" Delgado (Francia Raisa) into the figure-skating fold after his former partner — and, naturally, ex-girlfriend — breaks her leg. I assume gold medals and whiffs of romance ensue. Oh, and their coach this time is none other than Jackie Dorsey (Christy Carlson Romano), star of The Cutting Edge 2 and the daughter of the couple from the first Cutting Edge. Way to keep it in the family!

Like all Cutting Edge movies, I'm expecting the third installment to be awesomely over-the-top. The original airs tonight at 8 p.m. EDT and PDT, with The Cutting Edge 2The Cutting Edge 3 at 8 p.m. following at 8 p.m. Saturday. They'll also air back-to-back starting at 4 p.m. on Sunday, leading into the premiere of

I've got the trailer for the new movie, plus clips from the previous two for old time's sake, if you just read more.

The Cutting Edge 3:

The Cutting Edge 2:

The original:

And that's latest on The Cutting Edge 1, 2 And 3

Incredible Hulk Trailer

Incredible Hulk Trailer - The first official trailer of the Incredible Hulk, upcoming movie starring Edward Norton, should be released on Wednesday. To help us wait till then the production team has kindly released a 15-second promo teaser trailer.

Here below the promo trailer of the Incredible Hulk:

I'm damned teased: I want to see the official trailer of The Incredible Hulk right away! But well, I'll have to wait too....

That's latest Incredible Hulk Trailer

Model Behavior

Model Behavior - Model Behavior is a 2000 TV movie so as to air on The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC. The movie starred Maggie Lawson and was directed by Mark Rosman. The film as well stars Justin Timberlake and co-stars Kathie Lee Gifford. It is originally based on the book by Michael Levin Janine and Alex, Alex and Janine.

Alex Burroughs is an introverted, unconfident girl who, though helping her father with his catering business at a festivity, meets Janine Adams, the teenager model of the time.

in the meantime, Janine is fed up with her mother Dierdre not being home while she have her first book signing, as her brother Max is going on a publicity tour. Through a strange coincidence the two girls understand they look so much alike that they make a decision to swap places for a while. Alex gets to date Jason Sharp (Justin Timberlake), a stylish male model, but she has to deal with Janine's dictatorial mother, Deirdre (Kathie Lee Gifford).

And that's a little review of Model Behavior

Jodhaa Akbar Get Clearance From Censor Board

Ashutosh Gowariker’s ballsy affair Jodhaa Akbar has been austere by the Censor Board with a UA affidavit and after any cuts.

Scheduled to absolution on February 15, the Board has asked Gowariker to put a abnegation on the assorted names of Jodhabai, and asked him to absorb alone the name Jodhabai. The administrator has already amid a abnegation in English but he has been asked to put it in Hindi too.

It maybe recalled that there has been a agitation over the name of Akbar’s queen. Some historians accompaniment that she was alleged Harkhabai, Shai Bai and Man Mati, but Ashutosh Gowariker, reportedly, antiseptic that he consulted the aristocratic ancestors of Jaipur who gave him a approval to use the name Jodha.

Vinayak Azad, the bounded administrator of the Censor Board, said, “We accept brash Ashutosh Gowariker to put an added abnegation advertence that the actual facts apparent in the blur are aloof one adaptation of history and there may be addition version.”

When asked about the approval from the Animal Welfare Board as there are a lot of activity scenes in the blur involving animals like elephants and horses, Azad said, “We accept accustomed all the clearances from the Board. We had to affair a UA affidavit because of assertive action scenes which showed elephants crushing people,” he added.

The Russell Girl (2008) Preview

THE RUSSEL GIRL is continues today, Jan 27th, with completely original film. Amber Tamblyn, the film superstar, who roles Sarah Russell, a 23 years older aspire medical school pupil who visits her caring household to present some pressing word, but instead discovers herself attempting to eventually face a difficult period from her past. Besides Amber Tamblyn, The Russell Girl as easily stars Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jennifer Ehle, Tim DeKay, Henry Czerny, and Paul Wesley. Below much pictures and trailer, and recall to see The Russell Girl January 27th at 9 pm on CBS.

Nicholas Braun: Beveling Time in "Minutemen"

Call it retaliation of the nerds: in the Disney new film "Minutemen" three higher school nerds, including the enormously favorite Nicholas Braun, produce a moment car to get backwards and violin with previous events to color downward their oddball quotient and get more chilly at school. But these moment travelers aren't changing story like Bill and Ted; obviously they can simply get backwards in moment two days at the almost, and can simply remain in the past for 10 minutes.

One of the classmates of the Nicholas Braun role and his buddies is 19-year-old player Steven R. McQueen, who plays a football musician. If that figure sounds conversant, it should: he is the grandson of fabled player Steve McQueen. (Along with Nicholas Braun, the new creators of the moment car are Luke Benward and Jason Dolley. ) Nicholas Braun is an active human (yes, at 19 years older, he's no longer a child): you may recognize him from 2001's "Walter and Henry" or from "Sky High" (2005), or from his guest stints on "Law & Order: SVU," "Without a Trace," and "Shark. " You can discover his comprehensive filmography on his page at IMDB. Nicholas Braun's formal Web place too notes that he's doing two brief films and has signed with a broker to make commercials.

The Pleasure of Six: the Worst Sports Movies of All Time

From Rocky Balboa to When Saturday Comes,
the most cringe worthy sporting movies ever

1) Rocky Balboa
As if the best 63 Rocky movies didn't drive the boundaries of wet sentimentality enough - though in equity the new Rocky's not terrible in a Saturday Night Fever wrong-side-of-the-tracks kind of manner - the closing installment in Sylvester Stallone's Balboa tale crashes manner over the cable. (And that's rather an accomplishment, since Sly single-handedly place a conclusion to the Cold War in Rocky IV by informing Dolph Lundgren that "if I can alter, and you can alter, so everybody can alter. ) Stumbling around apparently higher on botox, Stallone spends his moment mulling over snippets of cod doctrine - "The reality ain't all sunlight and rainbows, it's a really nasty and unpleasant spot" - and comes to the decision that, by losing, one can really get. waiting for it. a winner.Having this robust prospect on living is just as easily, because in this career-wrecking shambles, Stallone appears to conflate his own living with that of his almost renowned on-screen role to such an extent you can't truly say if it's Rocky or Sly who is spouting about how he used to be a challenger.

2) The Football Factory
Some critics have suggested that this yob cavort was a worthy enterprise as it took a non-judgemental feel at the realities of football vandalism. Those who really bothered to see it with their eyes available saw the customary boring glorification and glamourisation of alpha-male posturing and senseless violence. "S'it worf it, Tommy?" asks a none-more-cockernee sound in none-more-cockernee Danny Dyer's lead role's vacant chief. The response being, of class, you must be effing joking, this here is absolute pap. The movie did get one matter going for it, however, in that it spawned the accidentally humorous Sky One documentary series The Real Football Factories, which saw gloriously deluded middle-class player Dyer pretending to have away on, and have on with, firms of thugs partaking in "mass offs" and "decent propah nawty rumbles. You couldn't book the fact that somebody scripted it.

3) When Saturday Comes
Sean Bean (ticking) stars as Jimmy Muir, a working-class (ticking) Sunday-league (ticking) striker (ticking) made better. Muir is haunted (ticking) by the specter of his buddy (ticking) who died downward t'quarry (ticking) and goes away the rails (ticking), as indicated by a flirtation with a stripper (ticking) who has Sheffield United tattoo on her jacksie (ticking. But it all ends easily (ticking) because Muir gets his act jointly (ticking) after being told some house truths (ticking) and facing upward to his responsibilities (ticking); he comes off the terrace (ticking) to grade a hat-trick (ticking) against Manchester United (ticking) in the semi-final of the FA Cup (ticking) with the last a slow-motion punishment (ticking. What much do you need? Mel Sterland as the squad hooligan? Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick

4) Any Given Sunday
MOR jazz noodlings swell in the backdrop. Al Pacino, sporting hair like Ted Bovis from Hi-De-Hi, bangs on about how living - and so gridiron - is "just a game of inches. Goons with necks thicker than their heads nod and yell and whoop and shriek. "Hell! Yeah!" "The six inches is in face of your cheek," hollers Pacino. Eh? Y'what? Hold on, sad: Hell! Yeah! "When we make upward all those inches, that's going to have the fucking disagreement between WINNING and LOSING, between LIVING and DYING. " Despite this address being perhaps the almost trite always, some going in the circumstance of the Hollywood blockbuster, up-and-under tacticians Jake White and Sam Allardyce have used recordings and transcripts of it to gee their own teams upward - a country of affairs which gives original significance to the idiom "motivational tools".

5) Escape to Victory
During the German occupation of Ukraine in the second reality warfare, a position mainly comprising players from Dynamo Kiev took on German army teams and thrashed them out of view moment and moment again. Nazi patience snapped after Start, as the squad were known, recorded a 8-0 triumph, and the players were rounded upward by the Gestapo and tormented, sent to labour camps, or shot. By the moment this horrific story had been filtered through the Hollywood scriptwriting procedure, however, Sylvester Stallone was saving a punishment in the last hour and everyone escaped to survive merrily always after. Utter pish, simply partly redeemed by Russell Osman's half-time squad speak, an acting masterclass upward there with Ryan Giggs's early 90s appearances in the Quorn adverts.

6) Tin Cup
There are two good movies about ball - Bull Durham and Field of Dreams - and both superstar Kevin Costner. Every massage parlor's favorite player too stars in this golfing movie, but woefully this specific Costner sports vehicle doesn't take the class. In equity, it's a top-notch slice of feelgood Hollywood fluff - salvation, a passion stake, a brief comedy buddy, what's not to enjoy - but the real golfing tale is risible. A hard-drinking, crowd-pleasing waster who rocks upward out of nowhere and almost wins the US Open? It's not that terrible a thought; trouble is, living is alien than fable, and we all know that what happened in the 1991 USPGA at Crooked Stick knocks Tin Cup into a cocked hat.

Johnny Depp to Substitute Heath Ledger in 'Dr. Parnassus'?

Missing their leading player Heath Ledger payable to his abrupt death last Tuesday, January 22, it was reported that the helmer of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" Terry Gilliman chose Ledger's supporter Johnny Depp to supplant him. According to reports, the unconventional Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean" series was hand picked by the manager for the character.

A studio origin told The Sun, "Johnny's not working at the time then everyone is praying he will make it. " Still, it was mentioned that though the character would be given to the player, Ledger's go on the movie won't be re-shot. The insider explained, "There is a level in the movie when Heath falls through a magical mirror. He could alter into another role after that and that is where Johnny would go in. It's a strange, illusion, time-travel film then Heath's role could well alter show. It would be a touching time. "

Depp, whose latest film "Sweeney Todd" nominated for Academy Award, is presently involved with Michael Mann's crime play "Public Enemies" alongside Christian Bale, while his two new projects "Shantaram" and "The Rum Diary" are place on grip because of the writers' hit. On the word related to Ledger, The Sun reported that three days before his passing, the "A Knight's Tale" superstar had an angry bust-up with the movie's bosses because they refused to reshoot a picture which he was miserable with.

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Synopsis

In this fact-based wire TV play, Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, the girl of a caring but exceedingly dysfunctional Bronx household. Weighed downward with a coke-addict father and a HIV-infected mother, Liz spends her earlier years shuttling from seedy flat to national protection and backwards again. At 15, she breaks off from her house living (what there is of it) and takes to the streets. Only after the death of her mother does Liz produce the decision to best her plenty in living. Virtually begging her manner backwards into higher school, she becomes a superb pupil, and at 19, with financing from a scholarship and a temporary work with the New York Public Interest Group, "born also-ran" Liz enters Harvard University. The genuine Liz Murray co-produced the movie and plays a cameo character as a cultural worker. Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story premiered April 7, 2003, on the Lifetime web. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Never Back Down (2008) - Preview

Set against the action-packed reality of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the tale of Jake Tyler, a difficult child who leads with his fists, and, frequently, with his eye. Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the original child in township with a distressed past. He has newly moved to Orlando, Florida with his household who has relocated to back his younger buddy's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star jock on the football squad at house, but in this original metropolis he is a foreigner with a reputation for being a fast tempered brawler. Making an effort to equip in, at the invitation of a sexy schoolmate, Baja (Amber Heard) Jake goes to a company where he is inadvertently pulled into a battle with a hooligan named Ryan McDonald (Cam Gigandet. While he is defeated and humiliated in the battle, a schoolmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the athletics known as Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA. He sees a superstar in Jake and asks that he play with his mentor, Jean Roqua, played by Djimon.

It is instantly obvious to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but quite an artwork kind he wants to overcome. Roqua will go Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to discover the patience, discipline, willingness and cause within him to win. For Jake, there is often much at interest than simple triumph. His resolution will not just resolve a grade; it will determine who he is.

Movie Review: Young@Heart

Young@Heart is a documentary about a Massachusetts Senior Citizen’s chorus that rocks out to everything from the Clash, Ramones and Sonic Youth, to Coldplay and James Brown. The film follows the chorus members and their director, Bob Cilman as they learn new songs, cope with illnesses and deaths of their close friends, and prepare for a concert performance, dubbed “Alive and Well”.

Label me mean, but the “old people are so cute” sappiness drives me insane (hence the fact that I almost wanted to smack the two annoying girls sitting next to me that kept loudly aww-ing during the movie). I don’t normally see the charm in grandmotherly types, but I must grudgingly admit, this film won me over, and actually almost drew a few tears. Young@Heart is a great film that shows seniors who enjoy music more than anything. They’re singing their hearts out, and doing something that makes them happy all the way until the very last days of their lives. It is so refreshing to see these elderly characters, alive with so much energy, as opposed to the often seen images of them wasting away in nursing homes. These are old people that sing loud music, stay out late at gigs, and travel the world to perform. They’re not dead until the day they really die, and that is so inspiring to see.

A scene that I found particularly moving was one where the chorus performs for convicted felons at a prison. The positive reactions of the prisoners after the show are absolutely tearjerking. The film is also humorous at times, like the scene where two of the chorus members are trying to learn how to play a CD that chorus director, Cilman has handed them (they can’t figure out which side should face up in the player).

The narration in the film is a little excessive, and director Stephen Walker chose to fill the film with cheesy music videos starring the elderly chorus members, which cuts into the pacing of the film, but overall, Young@Heart is a great movie that shows charming seniors who are living their lives to the fullest by doing something that they love.

Film Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Cloverfield Movie Review

I saw it! It’s alive! It’s Huge! I just got home from a screening of Cloverfield, the JJ Produced monster film which has hogged the online hype since July. I don’t have the time to do an extensive review of this movie, as I need to catch a plane to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival in just seven hours. But here is my first take.

The potential problem with a movie like Cloverfield is that the hype can wear thin reallt fast, especially when you’re subject them to near-pointless online viral storylines (what was the point of Jamie’s videos anyways?). But things ramped up these last few weeks, and I feel like I’ve seen more of this movie online than I ever wanted to beforehand. It’s a difficult balance to keep the hype going without giving away too much. And sure, they didn’t show the monster, but seeing too much beforehand was my second biggest concern going into the film. Maybe I had already seen all the cool sequences from the film in the advertising?

Friends, I am here to tell you that there is nothing to be concerned about. There is a lot in this movie that was not shown in the marketing. There is more monster than I originally believed there would be. And yes, you do get to see him very very very close-up. He’s unlike any movie monster I’ve ever seen before. A very cool and unique design, and I think you’ll be pleased. The sound design is incredible, I seriously wouldn’t be shocked if this got nominated for some sound related awards, possibly an Oscar (yes, seriously).

My biggest concern going into the film was about the characters. Would I really care about Rob and Beth and all the characters briefly shown running around in the trailer?

Surprisingly, I was wrong again. The characters are very relatable, even though you don’t get too much background information on any of them. The first 20 or so minutes are monster free. It’s all background, getting to know some of the characters, and it’s all a slow build for the monster’s first reveal. Because when the shit hits the fan, you feel like you’re stuck in the middle of this horrific situations with a group of new friends. Of course, the story follows Rob, a young many who has just gotten a job in Japan. His goodbye party is interrupted by the monstrous scream we’ve all seen a billion and a half times in the teaser trailer. While everyone is trying to get out of New York City, Rob is trying to reconnect with Beth, who is trapped in midtown. But the true shining star in this film is a guy named HUD, who appears on camera just a few times. But you will get to know him very well. HUD is the man behind the video camera, documenting the whole thing as it goes down. His running commentary is hilarious, and you will quickly grow to love him. HUD is one of the reasons that Cloverfield works so well. He’s the funny best friend comic relief character that makes most romantic comedies bearable. But instead of being employed to a few funny appearances, the love-able comic relief character is front and center. He is more you than Rob, and maybe it’s better that way. But its so interesting to see a story from the point of view of this type of character. Refreshing even.

Does the handheld format get annoying? Surprisingly, no. Blair Witch used the first person idea as a gimmick. Cloverfield takes the idea, and uses it to tell a story. I really don’t want to give-away any spoilers, even though enough of the film is already online for you to piece together.

Cloverfield is not shakespeare. It’s not a masterpiece. It has flaws (mostly having to do with little conveniences throughout the story (The “they just happen to be there sort of stuff, or the that guy would never let them do THAT sort of stuff. You’ll see what I mean), but it isn’t anything that takes away from the big picture.

Cloverfield is a fun movie. Plain and simple. It’s sit back, relax and go. It’s a roller coaster ride. JJ Abrams wanted to make an American monster movie, and he has done just that. Cloverfield is not a Godzilla rip-off, it’s the reinvention of the monster film. This is the story about characters trapped in a monster film. They aren’t the characters that would be in the big Hollywood blockbuster version, or even an D-level take by The Asylum or Troma. These characters are the people running away from Godzilla. They have no urge to defeat the monster, they just want to get away and reconnect with their loved ones. This is a human story which just happens to take place during this gigantic moment of fear.

Film Rating: 8 out of 10

It's Official: Cast Returns for High School Musical 3

All six of the High School Musical stars have officially signed on for High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Productions announced Monday.

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel will star in the third and final installment, a feature film. The first two movies aired to a record number of viewers on The Disney Channel.

Director Kenny Ortega tells PEOPLE he's excited about working one last time with the cast, a group of virtually unknown actors before the first HSM movie's January 2006 debut.

"I am the luckiest guy in the world and I know it," Ortega says. "This will be our last time together and I love working with these kids so much. It's going to be great."

Tisdale, who will reprise her role as school diva Sharpay, says she looks forward to returning to East High set in Utah one last time.

"I'm excited," Tisdale tells PEOPLE. "But it's going to be sad. It seems like it will be graduation and I'll be crying while we're filming."

According to the studio, HSM 3: Senior Year finds high school seniors Troy [Efron] and Gabriella [Hudgens] facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcat crew, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

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Jodhaa Akbar - New Poster - Exclusive

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