Public Enemies Reviews

Here are a couple of excerpts from reviews.

Seduction by Machine Gun

When not in pirate drag, Mr. Depp can be a recessive, even inscrutable screen presence, which is crucial to his strengths and performative limits. He’s a cool cat, to be sure: veiled and often most memorable when he’s staring into space while the camera soaks in his subdued but potent physical charms. He might have made a great silent star, as earlier roles suggest. Part of his initial appeal was that he seemed almost Garboesque in a movie world that increasingly makes no room for sacred idols.

Mr. Depp looks good as Dillinger â€" few contemporary actors can wear a fedora as persuasively â€" but the performance sneaks up on you, inching into your system scene by scene...

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By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: July 1, 2009
New York Times


Depp unleashes inner outlaw in 'Public Enemies'

Depp goes all the way with the role of a wry, wily Midwesterner; he gives a performance equally alert and emotional. He really nails this character -- the scion of an age of speed who says he wants "everything" and wants it "right now." According to Raoul Walsh's terrific old crime film High Sierra, which starred Humphrey Bogart as a Dillinger-like bandit, the real Dillinger once said that he and his fellow criminals were all "rushing toward death."

Even after Depp's Dillinger sees that he's racing toward the grave, he can't change course. Depp has become as great an actor-star as Bogart. He conveys the calculation of a self-made celebrity who won't do kidnappings because he knows his public wouldn't like it. But he also brims over with the romance of a folk hero who tries to practice honor among thieves and hands bank c! ustomers back their petty cash (he wants only "the bank's money"). He risks everything for his true love, a Chicago hat check girl, Billie Frechette ( Marion Cotillard), who's tired of rich people judging her by her clothes and men rejecting her because she is half Indian.

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By Michael Sragow
9:16 AM EDT, June 30, 2009
The Baltimore Sun


Public Enemies opens in theaters in the US today. Enjoy, everyone.

GI Joe Trailer

A second explosive trailer of GI Joe Rise of Cobra has been released:

GI JOE Trailer 2
This new GI Joe lift some doubts I may have had: I'm convinced it's gonna be great. Not only a lot of action but also great CGI (except for the suits...) and some humor.

Hope that the next footage will give a better look at Cobra, love the GI Joe but I do feel some empathy for Cobra too!
;-P

Trailer Watch: Zombieland

Ok...so the first thing I thought when I heard about this movie...Shaun of the Dead?...of course I've never actually watched Shaun of the Dead...but it sure seems similar...whatwith it being a comedy with zombies.

The trailer, I like it. Its looks like the movie is going to be a lot of fun...with hopefully a decent amount of laughs in store...That guy Jesse Eisenberg...he doesn't look like as if he's grown since I last saw him in the Squid and the Whale a few years ago...and a quick search reveals that he's actually 25...yeah...I know! He looks 18 doesn't he?

So now I'm wondering when will we see the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film adaptation? The Bennet girls in their empire dresses fighting zombies...oh what a sight that would be! Word is the book has already been snapped up by a film company...which? Who knows?...But I guess we'll see it very soon.

'Mission Impossible IV'

Just last week we ran a rumor that J.J. Abrams would return to produce "Mission: Impossible 4" with Tom Cruise. It came from a very small blurb in TV Guide - but it looks as if they just beat the Hollywood Reporter to the punch. Now THR is officially reporting that Paramount has put "M:i:IV" on the fast-track for a 2011 release. It's not a surefire prospect - both Cruise and Abrams have so many other projects in the works, that neither will confirm what they're doing next.

What the THR article does say is that there are two different scenarios that Abrams and Cruise will choose from: 1) they "could reconceive it in a way that is closer to the ensemble approach of the TV series", or 2) they "could reconfigure Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a less front-and-center role, as some kind of mentor to the new M:I crew." This is all very early speculation and no writers have been hired.

Is the "Mission Impossible" franchise on its last legs and is it too soon to reboot it with a fresh crew?
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
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Trailer: Fame

The first full length trailer for "Fame" has hit the net and I have it here for you below. "Fame" is a remake/update of the 1980 film and television series of the same name and follows a group of young students at a New York based Performing Arts Academy. I have always been a huge fans of musicals and stage production and was a fan of the original series and film. The update looks to have nailed the tone of the original series while updating the film to modern day. I am sure for many out there "Fame" looks like a waste of time, but I for one, am hopeful it will be an pleasant surprise in 2009. "Fame" is set for a September 25th release date and is directed by music video director Kevin Tancharoen. Checkout the trailer below...

What say you? Will you be seeing Fame come September 25th? Or will you be dragged by your girlfriend come September 25th? Strikeback...

Frightening: 'Indiana Jones 5' Could Be A Reality

"Steven [Spielberg] just said that he cracked a story on it before I left and I think they're gearing that up," Shia LaBeouf told the BBC today.

Unfortunately, he's not talking about Planters Peanuts, he's talking about that long-discussed 'Indiana Jones 5' film. C'mon, when even the geek sites are like, 'what the F is the point?' Then seriously, what the f is the point? Wasn't Indiana Jones And The Crystal Alien Headskull Thingy bad enough? "Nuking the fridge" entered the cultural parlance as the new "jump the shark," for crying out loud. Don't you guys, Lucas, Spielberg and Harrison Ford -- the highest paid actor in Hollywood thanks to his backend participation on that shitbomb 4 (wait, who's the idiot now?) -- want to just walk away, count your money and move onto more serious projects and forget all this nonsense?

Was the critical and fan roasting not enough to tell you to quit while you were ahead (though we've said it more than once, even 'Indy 3' is kind of shit)? So yeah, apparently Spielber! g has fi gured out how to make the fifth Indiana Jones film and by that we assume that means going online and entering random plot points into a random screenplay movie generator. We can't dignify this anymore. Let it go. [via /film]

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Liam Neeson And Bradley Cooper Join Joe Carnahan's 'The A-Team'

Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper are reportedly in talks to respectively play Col. John "Hannibal" Smith and Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck in Joe Carnahan's adaptation of the "The A-Team," TV show according to the Variety.

Cooper previously revealed his affiliations with the Tony and Ridley Scott produced project before futilely attempting to deny it. Neeson's casting, however, comes completely from left field although it may be that, in search of a tough, experienced actor to lead their project, 20th Century Fox may have simply turned to the star of their sleeper hit "Taken."

Neeson and Cooper's cas! ting lea ves two roles left: B.A. Baracus and H.M. Murdoch. Actor slash rapper Common has previously talked with optimism about the prospect about stepping up to the role made famous by Mr. T while "Star Trek" star Chris Pine has revealed discussing the role of Murdoch with Carnahan. Thus far, their links to the project are relatively thin though it must also be noted that both actor have previously worked with Carnahan in "Smokin' Aces." Pine has even been cast a second time by the director in the now-defunct "White Jazz" which crippled after the young actor left to do 'Trek' with Carnahan's blessing.

Interestingly, the two trades have conflicting credit for the script of the project. While Variety reports that Carnahan will direct from a Skip Woods ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine") script revised by Carnahan and Brian Bloom, the Hollywood Reporter are of the opinion that the film's script has come from "Wanted" scribes Derek Haas and Michael Brandt. IMDB evidences for the latter whi! ch, afte r 'Wolverine,' may be the lesser of the two evils.

Production is set to begin this August for a June 11, 2010 release. Let's take this opportunity to remind Hollywood about the 1999, "The Mod Squad" remake which was a disastrous bomb no one wanted to see. Smells a lot like the same spirit.

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