Agreeing With Peter Howell

The following is part of a review of Harrison Fords new movie Crossing Over. It is nice to see someone finally agrees with me on the talent of Harrison Ford...

Harrison Ford has been phoning it in for so long now, it's almost a trivia quiz question to guess the name of his last really good movie.

Do we have to go all the way back to Air Force One in 1997? Last year's Indiana Jones adventure doesn't really count, since Ford was just repeating himself, and even that movie gets by on goodwill alone.

His losing streak continues with Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over, a muddled multi-strand immigration drama that makes Crash look like some kind of masterpiece.

Full Review Here

Erins Audition

Indiana Jones Sux, but I'm not gloating. Actually, I am.

From Yahoo.ca:
Once you get past the initial reintroduction, though, it's obvious that this fourth film in the Indy series really has no idea where to go. Except for the opening - which literally starts the film off with a bang - and a couple of dazzling chase sequences, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is about as unfocused and meandering as the title itself.

Oscar Movie Posters, sort of....

The Oscars are Sunday night. To celebrate I made my own movie posters.

Montreal case first test of new anti-piracy law

The first charges ever laid under Canada's new anti-piracy law have been filed in Montreal, CTV News has learned.
The city is known among police and Hollywood studios as a hotbed of film piracy, where movie premieres are routinely recorded using digital camcorders and later sold on the black market or shared on the Internet.
At Guzzo Cinemas in the east-end of the city, management only keeps a single copy of each film they screen. During a recent premiere of "Dan in Real Life," police arrested an audience member allegedly recording the movie.

Read the full story from CTV news here.

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

From IMDB.com:
Reprising the roles they originated in seven-time Academy Award®-nominated Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and romance--Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Joining them in the epic is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing seafarer and newfound temptation for Elizabeth.Elizabeth: The Golden Age finds Queen Elizabeth I (Oscar®-winner Cate Blanchett) facing bloodlust for her throne and familial betrayal. Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late 16th century Europe, Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla) with his powerful army and sea-dominating armada determined to restore England to Catholicism.Preparing to go to war to defend her empire, Elizabeth struggles to balance ancient royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her love for Raleigh. But he remains forbidden for a queen who has sworn body and soul to her country.

Official Film Site: http://www.elizabeththegoldenage.net/

No End In Sight

Deliver Us From Evil

From the Toronto International Film Festival site:

Director Amy Berg has been a producer for CBS News and CNN. Her first feature documentary delivers a shattering and revealing account of the human cost of this issue. She tells the story of Father Oliver O’Grady, a notorious pedophile who used his position – as well as his Irish charm – to rape and abuse members of dozens of Catholic families across northern California over a twenty-year period. His victims ranged from a nine-month-old infant to the middle-aged mother of another adolescent victim. Astonishingly, despite ample signs and warnings as to his proclivities, the Church moved him from one parish to another, covering up the reality of what was going on from both the unsuspecting members of each new community and from the police. Church documents prove that, beginning in 1973, his evil deeds were done with their full knowledge.

The Queen

The Queen is a behind the scenes look at the Royal family's response (or lack of) to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

I found it to be entertaining and even funny at times. Helen Mirren seems to be getting all the praise for her wonderful portrayal of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, although James Cromwell was excellent as the pompous Duke of Edinburgh. In fact the entire film has an excellent cast and some wonderful moving scenes. How can anyone forget the masses of flowers outside Kensington Palace?

Overall the pictures does a good job of showing the reaction of the Royals and the new Prime Minister, Tony Blair in a fair and dignified way. It doesn't really show us anything from inside the Spencer household, which might have been nice.

If this isn't nominated for an Academy Award or two I will be surprised.