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The Fighter Movie Review By: Sandwichjohn Let's start with how Amazing this film was, I was expecting great things from this movie but the performance by Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund was Oscar worthy for sure. This guys just seems to amaze me with his acting skills and how serious he takes his craft. Mark Wahlberg did a great job portraying "Irish" Micky Ward in the film. If you want to see a real life " Rocky " film then this one is for you. To me The Fighter rivals any Rocky films out there. And being based on the real life story of Ward even make it more interesting. All the issues he went threw to live this real life Cinderella story. There were a few spots in the film I had trouble with but nothing that would deter me from going to watch it again. Yes the film is based on a boxer and if your a boxing fan your going to love this film the action is great but what really carries this film is the acting and story. And yes this movie is also for peo

Not Just A Pretty Face Anymore Robert Pattinson has booked his first major lead for when he completes The Twilight Saga . Pattinson will star in Cosmopolis , the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that David Cronenberg wrote and will direct. Pattinson, who just starred with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in Fox 2000's Francis Lawrence-directed adaptation of the Sara Gruen novel Water For Elephants . Pattinson will play Eric Packer . A financial wunderkind, Packer risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day. His deed puts him in the crosshairs for assassination in a drama that is a study of capitalism in a slightly futuristic metropolis. Most of the scenes in the book take place in the limousine that transports Packer from place to place. Marion Cotillard and Paul Giamatti are also reportedly doing the film, but those same reports had Colin Farrell poised to take the lead role. As Pattinson and his Twilight Saga castmates plan their careers a

Be Careful Of Paul Universal Pictures has delivered the first domestic trailer for their upcoming film Paul . Paul is an upcoming science fiction comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost . Featuring Seth Rogen as the voice of the title character. Watch the trailer after the Jump.. Pegg and Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) play two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town — a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally

Another Star Wars Box Set. Don't I already Own 5 Different Sets? The most anticipated Blu-ray release ever -- the Star Wars Saga -- emerges from light speed this September 2011. For the first time, all six of George Lucas' epic films (Episodes I-VI) are united in one complete set. Fans worldwide are able to pre-order now with online retailers. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release Star Wars in three distinct sets to meet the needs of every Star Wars fan: * Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray (9-disc Set includes all six films) * Star Wars: Prequel Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes I-III) * Star Wars: Original Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes IV-VI) Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films utilizing the highest possible picture and audio presentation, along with three additional discs and more than 30 hours of extensive special features including never-before-seen dele

Run The studio behind Hangover, 300 and The Dark Knight have announced that they will be creating a new Godzilla movie. Special effects juggernaut " Godzilla " has a director with British helmer Gareth Edwards on board for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. "Godzilla" would be Edwards' second film. He wrote and directed low-budget sci-fier " Monsters ," for which he won trophies for best director and best technical achievement last month at the British Independent Film Awards. Read more after the Jump.. "Monsters," set in Mexico, focused on an alien-monster infestation in a quarantine zone. Legendary had announced in March that it had closed the rights deal for "Godzilla" with Japan's Toho Co., which has overseen more than 25 "Godzilla" films. It also announced at that point that it was aiming "Godzilla" for a 2012 release. In addition to Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, producers on

Busy Man He Is While it’s not exactly Pulp Fiction , it sounds a lot like it — beginning with the title. Sources confirm to me exclusively that J.J. Abrams ’ Bad Robot is developing Pulp, an hour-long crime drama set in a slightly heightened reality, a-la Pulp Fiction. Longtime Abrams collaborators Monica Breen and Alison Schapker penned the script and would serve as exec producers. The former Brothers & Sisters showrunners previously worked with Abrams on Alias, Lost, and most recently, Fringe. Bad Robot will begin shopping Pulp to the networks as early as next week. It caps a busy development season for Abrams’ Warner Bros.-based company, which currently has projects in contention at CBS (crime thriller from Jonah Nolan), Fox (the drama Alcatraz), and NBC (the Michael Emerson-Terry O’Quinn comedic drama Odd Jobs). Please Leave A Comment- Source- TVLine

  Joe Carnahan To Re-Team With Liam Nesson Sacramento's own  Director Joe Carnahan has gotten a green light to start production next week on The Grey , a thriller that stars Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo (Warrior), Nonso Anozie , and Joe Anderson . They play oil-rig roughnecks left stranded by a plane crash right in the hunting zone of a pack of rogue wolves on the frozen Alaskan tundra. Coming off the Fox film The A-Team, Carnahan said he was glad to be making a down and dirty indie, even though the locations in Vancouver in the Northern British Columbia region are numbingly cold. “It gets to be 30 below, and when we went out the other day, I took off my hat to see how long I could last, and my skin was burning with frostbite in a little over a minute,”  Read more after the Jump.. Carnahan said . “In a way, it’s great, because it beats the shit out of the cast and that suits the storyline.” He said cold and an indie budget

Watch Out Ghost! The Ward is an upcoming film directed by John Carpenter . The screenplay is written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen. It stars Amber Heard (Zombieland Drive Angry), Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass,Nikita) Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem (Blue Crush), and Jared Harris (Mad Men). The story revolves around a young institutionalized woman named Kristen (Amber Heard) who is haunted by a mysterious and deadly ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost might be darker than anything she ever could have imagined Watch the trailer after the Jump.. In John Carpenter’s THE WARD, Kristen, a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of a Psychiatric Hospital. She is completely disoriented, with no idea why she was brought to this place and no memory of her life before being admitted. All she knows is that she isn't safe. The other patients in the ward, four equally

Is That A Camera? From the guys behind Step Brothers comes THE VIRGINITY HIT , an outrageous mockumentary about trying to lose your virginity while the whole world watches. The Virginity Hit was produced by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell , and directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland. It stars Matt Bennett, Zack Pearlman, Jacob Davich, Justin Kline and Nicole Weaver. THE VIRGINITY HIT which will be available on DVD January 18th, 2011 . Watch the trailer and DVD Information after the Jump.. Special Features: Commentary with Filmmakers' and Cast Screen Test with Matt and Zack Zack's Online Audition for FunnyorDie Line-O-Rama Jersey Girl Actor: Matt Bennett Zack Pearlman Director: Andrew Gurland Huck Botko Please Leave A Comment-

Is It Dangerous? On behalf of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, we are pleased to announce that the film LEBANON , which will be available on DVD and Blu-ray January 18th, 2011 . In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, a tank manned by a novice crew of Israeli soldiers are led into a town previously bombed by the air force. Young men who have never fought before are now placed inside of a killing machine and thrown into a situation that quickly spins out of control. Watch the trailer and information on the DVD after the Jump.. SYNOPSIS: In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, a tank manned by a novice crew of Israeli soldiers are led into a town previously bombed by the air force. Young men who have never fought before are now placed inside of a killing machine and thrown into a situation that quickly spins out of control, testing the mental toughness of the men inside of a confined space, with only the lens of a periscopic gun sight to see the madness outside. In LEBANON, wri