Runtime : 117mins
Rated : PG-13
Cast : Josh Duhamel, Julie Andrews, Hilary Swank, Zac Efron, Carla Gugino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Robert De Niro, Lea Michelle, Katherine Heigl, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin
Director : Garry Marshall.
Plot : New Year's Eve celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve (like Valentine's Day before it) is a romantic comedy, Which i really want to call the disaster comedy .Nearly two dozen A-list stars and releasing right around the namesake holiday - a can't miss proposition that will lead to box-office gold.The cast is like a who's who of modern-day Hollywood, and just watching these actors is generally diverting.
Fairy tale setting aside, the acting isn’t all that bad, and thankfully some of the actors appear to be in on the joke.Robert De Niro makes an unintentionally hilarious appearance as a cancer-stricken former Vietnam photojournalist who’s not long for this world.Michelle Pfeiffer (doing her uptight Selina Kyle role from Batman Begins), Zac Efron in a weird May-December thing; a chemistry-free Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele stuck in an elevator,Russell Peters spouting the cheesiest Indian accent.Garry Marshall, clearly still convinced quantity is quality.
You may observe that the setting has shifted from L.A. to New York, and it’s December 31 instead of February 14, but the premise is the same.A dumb , Unromantic Valentines day is what i would call the New Year's Eve.It's a movie pretending to party,forced jollity, oversize proportions and crass superficiality as the very holiday it so wanly exploits.Behind all the noisemakers and funny glasses, "New Year's Eve" - and everyone in it - is dead behind the eyes.It is loud, obnoxious, overstuffed with people trying too hard to have a good time.
Movie Name : The SitterRated : R
Cast :Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, J.B. Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender
DIRECTOR:David Gordon Green
Plot : A college dropout agrees to babysit three kids, but finds them more than a handful as the evening quickly gets out of control.The movie basically shows what happens When the world's most irresponsible babysitter takes three of the world's worst kids on an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of New York City, it's anyone's guess who's going to make it home in one piece.
Hill already showed us his potential range playing opposite Brad Pitt in “Moneyball” so this is just slumming.Given his impressive weight loss, one wonders just how long ago this movie was Sitting on the shelf's.The Sitter becomes very predictable. The three kids constantly clash with their babysitter throughout the film until they eventually warm up to each other and go from there. Jonah Hill spits out a few semi-entertaining one-liners amongst all the mayhem. There are several weird bonding scenes between the kids and Noah though.The script is a mixture of stupidity and coincidence, in which cars are stolen, a jewelry store is robbed, people are beaten, and all these activities are by the good guys.It's predominantly a lame and not particularly funny, clever or imaginative update on the old babysitting flick.I recommend sitting out on this one.
Movie Name : Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyRuntime : 128mins
Rated : R
Cast : Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, David Dencik, Svetlana Khodchenkova,
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Plot : Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.
The cast is uniformly excellent, but as the ringleader of the Circus, Oldman owns the proceedings.The subplots, strong performances, and spotless technical craft, the movie produces a series of gorgeous puzzle pieces.Director Tomas Alfredson plays things sedately. There is one nicely metaphoric touch early on, just before the scandal breaks, when we follow Smiley to get a new pair of glasses; he doesn’t know it yet, but clearly he is about to start seeing things in a brand-new way.“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” was a big book ,it took up six episodes of “Masterpiece Theater,” and ran even longer, in England -- so the new filmmakers have had to do some pruning.The movie is admittedly a bit difficult to follow at times, it’s not because the story is overly complicated, but rather because so much information is crammed into the movie’s 128-minute runtime that it's a lot to digest.This is not a movie for fans whose only preferences are amazing stunts, or dizzying edits, or breakneck car chases. There isn’t even a fistfight.But what actually sells is the dirty business, the spy game.
Good review. I was pleasantly surprised by New Year's Eve because I had actually enjoyed myself with this flick, even though I do feel like Garry Marshall didn’t really try to do anything with all of these stars instead of just have them show up and do something. Still, a fun film that is a crowd-pleaser for sure. Check out my review when you get the chance.
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